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Reading that, I was wondering how they then knew the Avatar would be an Airbender by the time of the first episode. I suppose after attacking the Water Tribes for so long and not seeing a new Avatar appear, they realised that they were still looking for an Airbender who must have escaped.
'I'm afraid I'm not taking prisoners today' has always been an impactful line to me. It's so dark, even with restrictions on saying what that means outright
People complain about them not saying kill. But how much less cool is "I'm going to kill you now." compared to "I'm afraid I'm not taking prisoners today."
There were never restrictions on saying the word "kill" in ATLA, it happens multiple times. This like many other instances were just more impactful ways of saying it
22:24 the "ME" gets me everytime😍 Katara is my absolute favourite character. And southern raiders is my favourite episode. The music in those emotional episodes is always chosen so well
It's sad realization that katara's love and pain for her mother doubled the moment she got to know her mother died for her. And even after that she showed restraint.
Fun Fact: When Azula is fighting Zuko at the start, you start to see her fire bending subtly shift from a blue to a more purplish tone, signifying her slowly losing her composure
I love that in the end, the message of this episode isn’t “forgive no matter what”, it’s “it’s okay not to forgive those who have grievously hurt you, but don’t allow those feelings to consume or warp you”. Of course Katara can’t forgive Yon-Rah… he murdered her mother, and even worse, Katara rushed into that tent in the direct aftermath and he is a firebender so… that poor little girl probably had to see her mother’s burnt corpse straight on 😞So of course she’ll “never forgive him”. In the end though, Katara chose to stay true to herself, and let her anger at those who might not deserve it go. I love that for her❤
This may be my favourite episode, I love it when ATLA goes dark (especially the ending here). And Zuko's shocked look when he sees Katara bloodbending is my favourite moment in the whole show.
Wow, watching Spartan get emotional over this episode was a treat. Its nice when you can see a man letting go a bit, even though I still haven't seen him cry haha, its nice to see that this show can get him close. This is a lot of people's favorite episode or at the very least a very highly rated episode from the show. There's just so much in it, and they really make you feel Katara's rage and pain.
Katara is the most emotional member of the group by far: for good and for bad. The deep love she had for her mother was turned into a hatred and that hatred has been left to burn for a decade. Its so strong that she still can't shift it after she has confronted it and nearly killed her mother's murderer. Even if Aang lost more, he never let the anger consume him for years as she did, and thats why he cant relate to her. But yknow who can? Zuko.
Wtf yall talking about aang never like anger consume him? We gonna forget when he lost appa? Or when he thought katara was hurt in the first ep of season 2? Or the beginning of the show?
@@spiritwolf5539 @BornInsane0 i did say YEARS guys, he defo was hurt and defo lashed out, but shes been sitting with it for (assuming its been a decade since the southern raid) 10 times longer than Aangs. That pain has festered for waaaay longer and she has lived in a world destroyed by the fire nation for her entire life on top of that.
Aang and Katara processed and internalized their grief differently. Aang actively made sure to let his hatred go, while Katara continued to actively hate the Fire Nation. They’re different characters with a lot in common, but they were affected differently emotionally. That’s all Danielle was saying.
Katara being an epic bender in this episode, knocking everyone off the ship with the huge wave, then blood bending the guy, and finally when she just up snd turns off the rain.
I like this episode for how unusually dark and serious it is, and for the wisdom it gives on both sides : Aang is right when he warns Katara about the path she wants to walk down, because she could easily become the same monster as the one she wanted to chase, and she nearly did like Hama by giving in to the sadistic pleasure and ferocity of bloodbending someone (and she nearly killed an innocent because she let her anger almost blind her). But Zuko is also right because it is the only way for Katara to get closure, seeing how much her mother's death left her wounded so many years later and that Aang's pacifist philosophy is hard and unrealistic to apply in real and serious situations like this.
It always made sense to me why katara didn’t trust zuko at first , the fire nation , especially the royal family , are the reason why her mom died and this war exists in the first place , so all her life she , like everyone else , saw them as the enemy and now he’s with the team , as the royal prince and as someone who fought them many times , she’s projecting the fire nations horrible decisions into him plus their history together , she can’t just change that overnight
I love Katara in this season, she is just so powerful. What I also really love aside from Zukos character development, is his bending development. He’s grown into a pretty skilled bender and his fight with Azula shows
10:00 My slow self always thought she dug her nails into the concrete. I never realized she took her hair pin out, and that's why her hair was out 🤦🏾♂️😅
Also Zuko’s style became more relaxed but Azula’s was more aggressive. She had a relaxed confidence in her fighting in the earlier seasons and she used open fingers to fight. Here she uses closed fists. She was slipping but she was still better than Zuko here
I’m of the opinion that after learning the circumstances of Katara’s mother’s death and hearing Yon Rha readily offer his own mother’s life, Zuko wanted to and would have killed him right there, had he not just watched Katara let him live.
Zuko understood she needed to find her own peace, no matter what that meant, because Iroh allowed him that journey. Aang wanted her to do what he would do and judged her for not immediately following that path. But I love that she chose the path that was true to herself not forgiveness, but closure.
Aang was not judging her for choosing another path, he was simply trying to speak through the pain she was feeling & she ended up following his advice somewhat. He understands what she went through and how he feels, Katara never let him rage out & seek vengeance even when he was tempted to do so and he didn’t want her to lose a part of herself chasing revenge. They’re both there for each other
@san6984 I respectfully disagree. He tended to judge the use of violence very harshly and refused to accept that sometimes it WAS the answer, even when the show made it clear that his own people did not take that viewpoint. Yang chen was very clear about that, and those fire nation soldiers who came to the air temple to kill definitely met with lethal force. Throughout the show, she was there for him, yes, but not really the other way around. I have no beef with Aang. Honestly, he's a child, and he was written in a realistic way. But Katara had the right to determine how she got her closure against one man without being compared to a guy who was willing to murder a village of innocent people and more to stop the fire nation.
One underrated thing in this episode I absolutely love is the immorality of bloodbending being reinforced. Like the first time using it since katara got the power was against the wrong person and any blood bender could easily target the wrong person and essentially torture them for no reason
The reason the fire nation wasn't taking anymore prisoners might have been due to Hamas escape from the prison. So they just decided to kill and not capture every subsequent water bender to prevent another like Hama situation. I'm not positive if the timeline lines up perfectly for this but it's just always been my understanding of why.
That Spartan pout in the intro was so adorable!! Pudgy always cracking up when she wants to talk about something makes it for me 😂 I remember a similar moment happening in game of thrones when she wanted to talk about Robb and Talisa 😂 You guys are part of the handful or reactors that make me laugh in your intros, they’re always worth watching.
I think one of the scariest things is that Katara really walked into seeing her mom’s body burning. It’s implied that he killed her mother on the spot, then Katara runs into the home with her dad afterwards. Meaning that she walks in and sees her mother dying and burning. And what does that mean about Katara’s necklace? How did that not burn unless Katara pulled it off her mother’s body?
I think when you really think about it, Sokka needed the 2 parter the most because he, if it makes sense, had the least one on one interaction with him and up until then was maybe 0. Aang had the blue spirit episode, the north pole episode, Katara had moment with the necklace and ofc the thing where they were both locked up there sharing that moment before Zuko ultimately betrayed them. Sokka never had any kind of real moment together so them getting 2 parts of a big mission like that was cool and i think needed
So i think (or its been theorised) that, the firebenders used to to take water tribe prisoners, but after Hama brokeout using her bloodbending waterbenders were deemed too dangerous to live by the fire nation. So when they heard of another waterbender in the south they killed her instead of taking her prisoner. 😢 It sad that if hama hadn't escaped katara's mother might have been alive possibly.
@@DwaynesWorld007 idk i think the timeline could line up! when Hama escaped she was still young enough to have black hair and she had an adult frame. which means she has been out of prison for years considering she’s now an older woman possibly in her 80’s with fully greyed out hair and a back hump. Katara’s mother had been killed like 10 years prior, so she very likely could’ve broke out of prison before then.
@@DwaynesWorld007Keep in mind that Hama is around Gran Gran's age so she broke out when both of them still looked relatively young. Considering Kaya died around 10 years ago Hama was likely out by that time
Battle of the Bastards and this episode being dropped so close to each other is like music. I love this episode so much. Katara freezing the rain around her is one of my favorite moments of hers.
I could write a 12 page essay, double spaced, MLA format on why this episode is my absolute favorite. Especially for Katara. But I can’t blow up the comment section with all the things I’d love to say. I am RESTRAINING!!!😭
I like to think that Kya's death was in part the result of Kama's escape. Imagine hearing of this water bender from the southern tribe escaping your water bender prison by controlling the guards and then hear later of there being another bender at the southern water tribe. Best to take that bender down before such techniques can be used against you in the on-going war.
They were always going to hunt/kill water benders because they couldn't be sure the avatar cycle hadn't moved one over, it's why after the extermination of the air nomads eventually the water benders became such targets - but I do like the idea that Hamas escape was one of the reasons they stopped taking prisoners and just go straight with extermination.
@@oq1106My impression was that after wiping out the Air Nomads, they went to wipe out the Water Tribes, but the Fire Nation found out warriors with water were a much tougher opponent than pacifists with air. Their momentum suddenly stopped, and they weren’t certain whether they’d killed the Avatar yet or not, so they started capturing waterbenders specifically to monitor that. At some point they had caught all the waterbenders from the south but the north was affectively pushing back. By then, the Avatar should have come out of the Water Tribe or Earth Kingdom to fight back, but they didn’t, so that meant an airbender must have survived. Nearly 100 years later with no Avatar, they were still capturing benders and invading lands, but waterbenders were uniquely dangerous while their land offered no appeal, hence what we know surrounding the Southern Water Tribe, but it was no longer about the Avatar.
I noticed some new things from you guys reaction. How you edited this I realized how Katara was being separated from her dad by the fire nation at the onset of the episode. I also don't think ever noticed how Katara was crying at the ship attack. Choked me up a little as well.
You can really see how much learning from the dragons has empowered Zuko because while he was still just producing his normal orange fire he was somewhat bending and dissipating Azula's blue fire which is something we haven't seen him able to do before now.
This is hands down one of the top five episodes of the show. I just wish they had made a fourth season, seing them together is so awesome, I really wanna see more of this, even little moments like the one beside the fire, where they are just joking to each other
"she got de-flowered" that sounds so weird and creepy lmao also I like that Sokka is the one wearing the necklace turning the point on him having his first time rather than Suki. Also don't get why they think it was suki's first time lol
There's a fan theory that the reason the Fire Nation launched one more raid on the Southern Water Tribe - even though it had been years since the last one - was because of Hama's escape from prison. Her bloodbending scared the Fire Nation enough that they wanted to be extra-sure that there were no more Southern Waterbenders, hence why they killed Kya instead of taking her prisoner.
This episode touches on the topic of The Banality of Evil... Or the idea that it doesn't take anything great or special to do great evil... It's a topic even adult shows tend to avoid... So that this aimed at kids show decided to touch on it, and do it so well.... It's amazing.
2 things. 1 if the first captain they found was actually the dude who killed her mom she would have actually killed him. She was so angry that she went full on on bloodbending 2 Katara's feelings towards her mom are actually stronger than Zoka's. For once she felt responsible for her death, her mom dying to protect her and not only that she saw the men who killed her and then found her body. And Zokas has said it himself "I don't even remember my mom's face whenever I think of her I have Katara's face in my mind" Zoka really took Katara as a replacement for his mom. That was his way of coping with it and he clearly is well past the grieving however Katara was not. Speacially since she still carries the necklace of her dead mom on her neck lol She never stoped grieving her mother so that's why she was so dead on in getting revenge and Sokka not agreeing with her led her think he really did not loved their mom as her.
This a different Katara showed. She was the first person who trust in zuko out there in Ba Sin Ze. This is my favorite reaction from you guys. This is one of my favorite chapters.
One of my favorite parts is Zukos response to how much power she has now.. The WTF look on his face when she blood bends but the maturity to not call it out is new for zuko.. He has grown so much.. She has grown so much..
This is a top 10 episode for me for sure, maybe a top 5. I love the character payoffs with Katara and Zuko so much, and her final line is probably my favorite in the entire series.
I knew you would like this one. I love the ways that Aang and Katara support each other when they are hurting. When Aang lost it over Appa in the desert-becoming angry enough to destroy everyone-Katara saw his pain and held him until he found himself again. That was what he needed. In this one, Aang helps Katara not to lose herself to revenge and anger either. He allows space for her to confront her pain/anger (letting her take Appa, telling her she needs to face this man, etc), but also counsels her not to do something that would damage her more. Sometimes holding on tight is what someone needs, and sometimes it’s stepping back (which can honestly be harder sometimes!) and giving them the space they need to work through it. I just think it is beautiful how these two can do both for each other.
Kids ages 5-6 often have anxiety surronding death, which can often last for months, the reason is that they are smart enough to comprehend it, losing a parent during this stage is the worst timing possible. Not only that it is also likely that Katara saw her mother's burn corpse as they stormed into the igloo, ON TOP of her possibly blaming herself for it as she did not get her dad there in time and the sacrfice was to procect her. Real bad.
Hama is actually the reason why they killed Katara's mom. Because she was the last waterbender there at the time, like Kaya said- they took them all. But Hama was the last one they took... And she did bloodbending and escaped- which is why now they don't let the waterbenders live. Because they know they can hurt the fire nation and escape.
Another great reaction!! I was waiting for your reaction to this episode as well. Of course for all the expected reasons but also since you said something like “zuko is the face of the fire nation to Katara” way back toward the beginning.
Hell yeah! i checked your channel for the new reaction right before i hoped in the shower and it wasent there 😢 got out went on youtube and its uploaded !!! Awesome!
Katara has been leveling up the entire series. In the first episode she was strong but didn't know how to channel her powers. She trained under a master, she figured out a lot of stuff on her own, she practices whenever they have downtime, she's been fighting almost daily since she met Aang, and very dedicated and intelligent. Zuko realizes that the threat Katara made towards him earlier wasn't an idle threat. She could kill him anytime she wanted.
It’s also theorized they went to kill any waterbender since the whole situation with Hama escaping. They didn’t want more blood benders from there to appear
Best bit about avatar, is the attention to detail the writers/animators put in. Like how the morning after, Sokka is making a "laid" out of flowers! - fast forward to legend of korra, you see aang and katara with their kids in a photo, their daughter in waterbending cloths you can see air bender arrow hairpins in the side of her hair
One of the best episodes of Avatar. They managed to pack so much into one episode. I feel like anyone else would've made this a 2-parter; but they managed to put it all in one. I really appreciate concise writing.
Katara has every right to be mad at everyone, she has been enduring the pain of her lost mother and passively blaming herself ever since she lost her mom. She might have had so many break downs before even start of the show. Not to mention that she’s the caretaker of their group so she never even spoke about it with anyone so she could help others and not to big others.
@@jjminn95 I don’t see a problem with that, Zuko constantly kept saying my honor through out the series. Zuko annoyed me a lot at least the first two season.
AHHH, after watching the last episode on my console and trying to go to the channel to see if any other episodes were uploaded I accidentally clicked "don't recommend channel" when trying to scroll to "go to channel" and I've missed the past few episodes in my sub box! AHHHH! Well, time to binge what I've missed, even if it's only a few episodes
Looks like you missed some great lines while you commented: Forgiveness... "It's the same as doing nothing!" "No, it's not. It's easy to do nothing... but, it's hard to forgive."
Sokka and Sukki definitely bent something that night, oh also Toph could hear everything. I dont what she might have felt considering she had crush on Sokka.
A lot of people feel that Katara acted out of character in this episode, but for me it makes sense since her mother's death was such a huge part of her identity. Then Zuko, the person who she admitted was the embodiment of the Fire Nation in her mind and the person who tried to kill Aang, is now a regular part of her life. Of course all that rage is going to finally bubble up when she gets the chance to find the murderer. I'm surprised that Pudgey thought for a second that maybe Kya was still alive. This show uses a lot of different ways to describe death/murder (result in permanent end, destiny ends permanently, sleep just like mother!, etc) but there were multiple times that Katara said "died" and "killed" when talking about her mother throughout the seasons. The prevailing theory why the raiders decided to just murder the waterbenders is because they learned from Hama's escape. It seems like when the show is trying to directly reference murder, they had to use a different way to describe it for the ratings. That's why Katara says that when they got back to the hut her mother was "gone." When you think about it a little more, and depending on how dark you want to think about it, as a five or six year old Katara saw her mother's charred body. That was so traumatic that remembering it fully in that moment would be just too painful to say "she was dead." Also, when you see Katara bloodbending, the camera quickly moves to Zuko's expression. You can tell that there's fear there and he definitely realizes in that moment that that is how he would die if Katara murders him for betraying Team Avatar again. We know he wouldn't, but seeing that definitely helps keep him on the honorable path. Then after the shock his expression turns to determination because he knows they can handle the situation.
Never tire of this great episode. Always enjoy your reactions. Looking forward to your take on the ATLA's most meta episode and, of course, on the finale. Also looking forward to Korra.
1) Zuko was counting all the ways Katara can and will kill him if he tried anything. 2) Katara hated bloodbending but hated her mother’s killer even more. 3) I didn’t disagree with Katara saying Sokka loved her differently- he was able to speak to Zuko about it and then quickly go back to his intentions with Suki. 4) I love how they deal with this with so many shades of gray. Forgiveness isn’t easy, sometimes you can’t forgive.
I think the water tribes were very traditional and subscribed to traditional gender roles. This means while Sokka spent a lot of time with his father, Katara did, and would have continued to, spend a lot of her time with her mother. Plus, she likely has some terrible mental images that Sokka doesn’t because he didn’t find out what happened until later.
You're doing Sokka a bit dirty here. Having processed a death poorly is not a sign of loving someone more. People often have this misconception that not being able to move on is somehow a testimony to how much (more) they cared and thats such a bad, bad idea to spread about grief, that if you can't deal with it, your emotions must have been more profound. Katara has clearly more trauma around her mothers death, because she had a front row seat to some of it, and because Kya protected her specifically. But having more trauma is not the same as having more love. And Sokka is 15? 16? You're competing with the power of boner in a guy that just made the most heroic rescue of his girlfriend on the first night his dad isn't hanging over his shoulder. Frankly, that kid has his priorities straight thinking "I choose third base, not violence."
Just bc katara processed her death differently doesn’t mean she loved her more. Plus she obviously felt guilty over it since her mom was protecting her
One of many great things about the writing of A:TLA is that people can understand and/or relate to everyone's perspectives, whilst there may be the morally right viewpoint it's also understandable why a character may feel a certain way. It's not a simple black/white situation.
I love how the four characters have their own perspectives: Aang - as an air nomad, he is very spiritual and preaches outright forgiveness. To be fair, he lost his entire culture to genocide, admittedly to a faceless army that probably died of old age by now Zuko - the most morally dubious of the group having just been a villain, is Aang’s opposite and preaches vengeance Sokka - as a warrior, he probably saw his mom’s death as a war casualty. He also uses humor to deal with it. Katara - unlike Sokka, she knows her mother’s death was not random. She saw the killer and looked him in the eye. He was having a conversation with her defenseless mother and killed her. So unlike Sokka, she has a face to connect her pain with.
5:58 once again, Spartan's "stellar" memory displaying itself at its strongest. 19:02 I found it hard to believe that Kara did a complete 180 and became a vengeful person just a few episodes after crying because she used bloodbending against someone that was using it to get revenge on people. Totally didn't make sense for me. I liked the bonding with Karara and Zuko but they didn't need to go that route to get there, but I'm just a first time viewer of the animated series.
There is a theory that the fire nation switched from capturing water benders to killing waterbenders because of Hama after realizing what waterbenders could do they decided that they were too dangerous to leave alive and began exterminating them.
Theres a running theory that Hama was the ultimate reason for their return which resulted in Katara's mom's death. We know Hama was contained for a decent time while perfecting her skill, and when she escaped - where would you think she went? The firebenders probably assumed she returned to the southern tribe. Considering Hama's power to control people and how she on her own, managed to escape - she would be considered too dangerous to imprison - Meaning they had to destroy her. "Im not taking prisoners today' was because their order was to find the escaped waterbender and take her out - which was Hama. It's why I assume he didn't question Kaya when she said it was her. Roughly the same age at the time, gender etc. Least that's the theory. Surely if their sources said there was a waterbender left they would at least know something more general like age group? If it was a child id assume them to take them all or find out - but instead they seemed to be interrogating the adult women or whoever they found that might be Hama. It's supposed that their intel simply said/assumed that its likely she returned to the southern tribe and thats y they said there was one left.
You could argue Zuko is stronger than Azula by this point. When they clashed, Zuko was thrown off the side of the airship they were on, but Azula was thrown up and over the other side. Meaning he blasted her further than she did him.
Na Azula still is stonger than him. That's the cannon, she's the fire prodigy as Katara's water toph earth and aang air. However Sukko is controlled and Azula already started her decline on madness. Just like in their final battle
My opinion on azula and zukos relationship. I think when zuko came home a part of azula was happy. She liked being with her friends and her brother, even if shed never admit it. But when zuko left, it caused her friends to turn on her cause of zukos actions. I think after she lost her friends, any care she had for zuko dissapeared, and she wanted him dead. But then again, if she was succesful and killed him, mahbe shed lowkey regret it . Its hard to tell if she xares for zuko at all or not
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They went for the waterbenders because assuming they just missed Aang, the next avatar would be a waterbender
Ohhh good point
Idk how I never put that together
Reading that, I was wondering how they then knew the Avatar would be an Airbender by the time of the first episode. I suppose after attacking the Water Tribes for so long and not seeing a new Avatar appear, they realised that they were still looking for an Airbender who must have escaped.
Nah I’m pretty sure it was cause of Hama
@@nicholassmith7984in an episode it’s mentioned sozin knew that’s why he destroyed the air temples
Fun Fact: Kya (Katara’s and Sokka’s mum) is voiced by Azula’s voice actress, Grey DeLisle.
Such a talented voice actor. She also voices actress katara
@@hellogoodbyeandallinbetween Katara is voiced by Mae Whitman.
@@Joe-cm5kl when I say actress katara, I'm referring to the ember island players
Tearbending 😂
@@hellogoodbyeandallinbetweenHer voice just gave us so much hope. 😂
'I'm afraid I'm not taking prisoners today' has always been an impactful line to me. It's so dark, even with restrictions on saying what that means outright
People complain about them not saying kill. But how much less cool is "I'm going to kill you now." compared to "I'm afraid I'm not taking prisoners today."
@@lyrebirb83 they say a lot of "kill" in the show tho^^ but yeah they find much better ways to phrase it
@@overdev1993 Limitation breeds innovation.
@@lyrebirb83true much more drama in that line 💯💯
There were never restrictions on saying the word "kill" in ATLA, it happens multiple times. This like many other instances were just more impactful ways of saying it
Iroh’s absence is to show Zuko is a reflection of all the lessons uncle has taught us throughout the show.
This really felt like a movie. They fit so much into a 22 minute episode.
i love this episode because of zuko scarily being impressed by kataras bending abilities, and motivation..
22:24 the "ME" gets me everytime😍 Katara is my absolute favourite character. And southern raiders is my favourite episode. The music in those emotional episodes is always chosen so well
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It's sad realization that katara's love and pain for her mother doubled the moment she got to know her mother died for her. And even after that she showed restraint.
The episode that redeemed Zuko in Katara's eyes and Zuko gained respect for her and they became friends and not just co-masters for the Avatar.
Fun Fact: When Azula is fighting Zuko at the start, you start to see her fire bending subtly shift from a blue to a more purplish tone, signifying her slowly losing her composure
Also, she's attacking with a closed fist instead of her usual precise firebending with two fingers.
@@Fr0zenPeanutit ain't wrong to say she went from fingering to fisting
@@WanMemeTongSlippery slope
I love that in the end, the message of this episode isn’t “forgive no matter what”, it’s “it’s okay not to forgive those who have grievously hurt you, but don’t allow those feelings to consume or warp you”.
Of course Katara can’t forgive Yon-Rah… he murdered her mother, and even worse, Katara rushed into that tent in the direct aftermath and he is a firebender so… that poor little girl probably had to see her mother’s burnt corpse straight on 😞So of course she’ll “never forgive him”. In the end though, Katara chose to stay true to herself, and let her anger at those who might not deserve it go. I love that for her❤
This may be my favourite episode, I love it when ATLA goes dark (especially the ending here). And Zuko's shocked look when he sees Katara bloodbending is my favourite moment in the whole show.
Yeah, he probably thought “that could’ve been me.” 😨
For the first time, he's scared of her and realizes how strong she really is
@@CortexNewsService Exactly.
Wow, watching Spartan get emotional over this episode was a treat. Its nice when you can see a man letting go a bit, even though I still haven't seen him cry haha, its nice to see that this show can get him close. This is a lot of people's favorite episode or at the very least a very highly rated episode from the show. There's just so much in it, and they really make you feel Katara's rage and pain.
Katara is the most emotional member of the group by far: for good and for bad.
The deep love she had for her mother was turned into a hatred and that hatred has been left to burn for a decade. Its so strong that she still can't shift it after she has confronted it and nearly killed her mother's murderer.
Even if Aang lost more, he never let the anger consume him for years as she did, and thats why he cant relate to her. But yknow who can? Zuko.
Wtf yall talking about aang never like anger consume him? We gonna forget when he lost appa? Or when he thought katara was hurt in the first ep of season 2? Or the beginning of the show?
@@spiritwolf5539 yea lol saying that aang couldn't relate is pretty silly.
@@spiritwolf5539 @BornInsane0 i did say YEARS guys, he defo was hurt and defo lashed out, but shes been sitting with it for (assuming its been a decade since the southern raid) 10 times longer than Aangs. That pain has festered for waaaay longer and she has lived in a world destroyed by the fire nation for her entire life on top of that.
Aang and Katara processed and internalized their grief differently.
Aang actively made sure to let his hatred go, while Katara continued to actively hate the Fire Nation. They’re different characters with a lot in common, but they were affected differently emotionally.
That’s all Danielle was saying.
@@tariqthomas9090 ☝️❤
Katara being an epic bender in this episode, knocking everyone off the ship with the huge wave, then blood bending the guy, and finally when she just up snd turns off the rain.
I like this episode for how unusually dark and serious it is, and for the wisdom it gives on both sides : Aang is right when he warns Katara about the path she wants to walk down, because she could easily become the same monster as the one she wanted to chase, and she nearly did like Hama by giving in to the sadistic pleasure and ferocity of bloodbending someone (and she nearly killed an innocent because she let her anger almost blind her). But Zuko is also right because it is the only way for Katara to get closure, seeing how much her mother's death left her wounded so many years later and that Aang's pacifist philosophy is hard and unrealistic to apply in real and serious situations like this.
It’s this episode where Zuko realizes Katara was not kidding. She can and would kill him. He’s probable relived he switched sides when he did.
It always made sense to me why katara didn’t trust zuko at first , the fire nation , especially the royal family , are the reason why her mom died and this war exists in the first place , so all her life she , like everyone else , saw them as the enemy and now he’s with the team , as the royal prince and as someone who fought them many times , she’s projecting the fire nations horrible decisions into him plus their history together , she can’t just change that overnight
I love the insinuation that Sokka and Suki got it on. Also. Poor toph. We know she has a crush on Sokka. She felt the entire thing!
As a Child, I don't think she even knows what's going on lol
@@fireball1249 Aint she 12? And I'm sure she's figured it out from feeling her parents do it
@@rexibhazoboa7097 Brave of you assume her parents do it anymore
@@mrEduardo354 More brave they assume the 12 year old who has mastered a fighting technique on her own doesn’t know the concept of sex
@@rexibhazoboa7097 Good point
I love Katara in this season, she is just so powerful. What I also really love aside from Zukos character development, is his bending development. He’s grown into a pretty skilled bender and his fight with Azula shows
10:00 My slow self always thought she dug her nails into the concrete. I never realized she took her hair pin out, and that's why her hair was out 🤦🏾♂️😅
Also Zuko’s style became more relaxed but Azula’s was more aggressive. She had a relaxed confidence in her fighting in the earlier seasons and she used open fingers to fight. Here she uses closed fists. She was slipping but she was still better than Zuko here
I love Katara in this episode so much. Such a badass queen
I’m of the opinion that after learning the circumstances of Katara’s mother’s death and hearing Yon Rha readily offer his own mother’s life, Zuko wanted to and would have killed him right there, had he not just watched Katara let him live.
Zuko understood she needed to find her own peace, no matter what that meant, because Iroh allowed him that journey. Aang wanted her to do what he would do and judged her for not immediately following that path. But I love that she chose the path that was true to herself not forgiveness, but closure.
Aang was not judging her for choosing another path, he was simply trying to speak through the pain she was feeling & she ended up following his advice somewhat. He understands what she went through and how he feels, Katara never let him rage out & seek vengeance even when he was tempted to do so and he didn’t want her to lose a part of herself chasing revenge. They’re both there for each other
@san6984 I respectfully disagree. He tended to judge the use of violence very harshly and refused to accept that sometimes it WAS the answer, even when the show made it clear that his own people did not take that viewpoint. Yang chen was very clear about that, and those fire nation soldiers who came to the air temple to kill definitely met with lethal force.
Throughout the show, she was there for him, yes, but not really the other way around. I have no beef with Aang. Honestly, he's a child, and he was written in a realistic way. But Katara had the right to determine how she got her closure against one man without being compared to a guy who was willing to murder a village of innocent people and more to stop the fire nation.
One underrated thing in this episode I absolutely love is the immorality of bloodbending being reinforced. Like the first time using it since katara got the power was against the wrong person and any blood bender could easily target the wrong person and essentially torture them for no reason
The reason the fire nation wasn't taking anymore prisoners might have been due to Hamas escape from the prison. So they just decided to kill and not capture every subsequent water bender to prevent another like Hama situation. I'm not positive if the timeline lines up perfectly for this but it's just always been my understanding of why.
That Spartan pout in the intro was so adorable!! Pudgy always cracking up when she wants to talk about something makes it for me 😂 I remember a similar moment happening in game of thrones when she wanted to talk about Robb and Talisa 😂 You guys are part of the handful or reactors that make me laugh in your intros, they’re always worth watching.
I think one of the scariest things is that Katara really walked into seeing her mom’s body burning. It’s implied that he killed her mother on the spot, then Katara runs into the home with her dad afterwards. Meaning that she walks in and sees her mother dying and burning. And what does that mean about Katara’s necklace? How did that not burn unless Katara pulled it off her mother’s body?
I think when you really think about it, Sokka needed the 2 parter the most because he, if it makes sense, had the least one on one interaction with him and up until then was maybe 0. Aang had the blue spirit episode, the north pole episode, Katara had moment with the necklace and ofc the thing where they were both locked up there sharing that moment before Zuko ultimately betrayed them. Sokka never had any kind of real moment together so them getting 2 parts of a big mission like that was cool and i think needed
So i think (or its been theorised) that, the firebenders used to to take water tribe prisoners, but after Hama brokeout using her bloodbending waterbenders were deemed too dangerous to live by the fire nation. So when they heard of another waterbender in the south they killed her instead of taking her prisoner. 😢 It sad that if hama hadn't escaped katara's mother might have been alive possibly.
Hama was in prison for years I think the timeline says hama would have broke out years after kitaras moms death
@@DwaynesWorld007 idk i think the timeline could line up! when Hama escaped she was still young enough to have black hair and she had an adult frame. which means she has been out of prison for years considering she’s now an older woman possibly in her 80’s with fully greyed out hair and a back hump. Katara’s mother had been killed like 10 years prior, so she very likely could’ve broke out of prison before then.
@@xtw1995 it could be ... idk it's close either way
That has nothing to do with this show. It is idiotic garbage that people like you spam on every ATLA reaction of this episode.
@@DwaynesWorld007Keep in mind that Hama is around Gran Gran's age so she broke out when both of them still looked relatively young. Considering Kaya died around 10 years ago Hama was likely out by that time
Battle of the Bastards and this episode being dropped so close to each other is like music. I love this episode so much. Katara freezing the rain around her is one of my favorite moments of hers.
"The Boiling Pot" 😂 idk why this lil thing set me off on a laughing tangent at work AHAHAHA
I could write a 12 page essay, double spaced, MLA format on why this episode is my absolute favorite. Especially for Katara. But I can’t blow up the comment section with all the things I’d love to say. I am RESTRAINING!!!😭
We all know how that night ended for Sokka and Suki 👀
There's a visual joke about it in the episode. After that night, Sokka has a flower necklace. He got lei'd.
Poor toph. She felt the whole thing.
@@DragonMoth34 that's why she had so little scenes this episode. She was sick for most of it 😂😂😂
Sokka, a legendary backbender.
@@Reedstilt hi, i'm learning english. please tell me what "lei'd" mean. i can't understand a joke without it🙏
It’s implied that kya (kataras mother) was left in the house and katara and her dad walked in on her corpse
I like to think that Kya's death was in part the result of Kama's escape. Imagine hearing of this water bender from the southern tribe escaping your water bender prison by controlling the guards and then hear later of there being another bender at the southern water tribe. Best to take that bender down before such techniques can be used against you in the on-going war.
That has nothing to do with this show. People like you just spam that stupid thing on every ATLA reaction of this episode
They were always going to hunt/kill water benders because they couldn't be sure the avatar cycle hadn't moved one over, it's why after the extermination of the air nomads eventually the water benders became such targets - but I do like the idea that Hamas escape was one of the reasons they stopped taking prisoners and just go straight with extermination.
@@tsogobauggi8721How do the events of the show have nothing to do with the show?
@@oq1106My impression was that after wiping out the Air Nomads, they went to wipe out the Water Tribes, but the Fire Nation found out warriors with water were a much tougher opponent than pacifists with air. Their momentum suddenly stopped, and they weren’t certain whether they’d killed the Avatar yet or not, so they started capturing waterbenders specifically to monitor that. At some point they had caught all the waterbenders from the south but the north was affectively pushing back. By then, the Avatar should have come out of the Water Tribe or Earth Kingdom to fight back, but they didn’t, so that meant an airbender must have survived. Nearly 100 years later with no Avatar, they were still capturing benders and invading lands, but waterbenders were uniquely dangerous while their land offered no appeal, hence what we know surrounding the Southern Water Tribe, but it was no longer about the Avatar.
Idk what this says about me, but given the chance to be in this world, I'd definitely choose to be a water bender, and yes, for that ability.
If it weren't a kids show, most of the bending abilities could get real scary real fast.
You are probably either a scientist or an edgy kid
i would 1000% be a water bender and not even just for the possibility of being a bloodbender but i just love their culture and abilities
Katara & Sokka's mom, Kya was played by Grey Griffin, the voice actress for Azula.
Spartan just got hit with all the feels this week with GoT and ATLA, the entire reaction journey accumulating and almost coming full circle.
"Suki got her SOUTHERN part RAIDED in this episode" -- someone i can't remember
If you look closely, the next morning, you can see Sokka "deflowering" a flower... damn adult jokes flew over my head as a kid
and we didn't see toph in the morning, I think she feel/heard what happened last night and feel embarrassed😅
nice
I'm pretty sure that someone is you.
@@archmaester6594also, that flower necklace is called a "lei".
So... one could say Sokka got lei'd 😂😂
I noticed some new things from you guys reaction. How you edited this I realized how Katara was being separated from her dad by the fire nation at the onset of the episode. I also don't think ever noticed how Katara was crying at the ship attack. Choked me up a little as well.
You can really see how much learning from the dragons has empowered Zuko because while he was still just producing his normal orange fire he was somewhat bending and dissipating Azula's blue fire which is something we haven't seen him able to do before now.
This is hands down one of the top five episodes of the show. I just wish they had made a fourth season, seing them together is so awesome, I really wanna see more of this, even little moments like the one beside the fire, where they are just joking to each other
Suki gave Sokka a lei, implying the he got lei'd. Since a lei is made of flowers, it's implied that she got de-flowered. That's pretty much canon.
"she got de-flowered" that sounds so weird and creepy lmao also I like that Sokka is the one wearing the necklace turning the point on him having his first time rather than Suki. Also don't get why they think it was suki's first time lol
There's a fan theory that the reason the Fire Nation launched one more raid on the Southern Water Tribe - even though it had been years since the last one - was because of Hama's escape from prison. Her bloodbending scared the Fire Nation enough that they wanted to be extra-sure that there were no more Southern Waterbenders, hence why they killed Kya instead of taking her prisoner.
This episode touches on the topic of The Banality of Evil... Or the idea that it doesn't take anything great or special to do great evil... It's a topic even adult shows tend to avoid... So that this aimed at kids show decided to touch on it, and do it so well.... It's amazing.
cannot WAIT for the reaction to the next episode. they really said “here’s a breather before the final straw” the last season is a ride !
15:00 When seeking revenge, dig two graves.
Revenge is like a poison you drink expecting someone else to die.
2 things.
1 if the first captain they found was actually the dude who killed her mom she would have actually killed him. She was so angry that she went full on on bloodbending
2 Katara's feelings towards her mom are actually stronger than Zoka's. For once she felt responsible for her death, her mom dying to protect her and not only that she saw the men who killed her and then found her body. And Zokas has said it himself "I don't even remember my mom's face whenever I think of her I have Katara's face in my mind" Zoka really took Katara as a replacement for his mom. That was his way of coping with it and he clearly is well past the grieving however Katara was not. Speacially since she still carries the necklace of her dead mom on her neck lol She never stoped grieving her mother so that's why she was so dead on in getting revenge and Sokka not agreeing with her led her think he really did not loved their mom as her.
This a different Katara showed. She was the first person who trust in zuko out there in Ba Sin Ze. This is my favorite reaction from you guys. This is one of my favorite chapters.
One of my favorite parts is Zukos response to how much power she has now.. The WTF look on his face when she blood bends but the maturity to not call it out is new for zuko.. He has grown so much.. She has grown so much..
I always forget how wise Aang becomes by the end of the show 🔥
omg every flashback is always so shady towards spartan but no shade... they're always right lmaooo Love you guys!!
This is a top 10 episode for me for sure, maybe a top 5. I love the character payoffs with Katara and Zuko so much, and her final line is probably my favorite in the entire series.
I knew you would like this one. I love the ways that Aang and Katara support each other when they are hurting. When Aang lost it over Appa in the desert-becoming angry enough to destroy everyone-Katara saw his pain and held him until he found himself again. That was what he needed. In this one, Aang helps Katara not to lose herself to revenge and anger either. He allows space for her to confront her pain/anger (letting her take Appa, telling her she needs to face this man, etc), but also counsels her not to do something that would damage her more. Sometimes holding on tight is what someone needs, and sometimes it’s stepping back (which can honestly be harder sometimes!) and giving them the space they need to work through it. I just think it is beautiful how these two can do both for each other.
Kids ages 5-6 often have anxiety surronding death, which can often last for months, the reason is that they are smart enough to comprehend it, losing a parent during this stage is the worst timing possible. Not only that it is also likely that Katara saw her mother's burn corpse as they stormed into the igloo, ON TOP of her possibly blaming herself for it as she did not get her dad there in time and the sacrfice was to procect her. Real bad.
Hama is actually the reason why they killed Katara's mom.
Because she was the last waterbender there at the time, like Kaya said- they took them all.
But Hama was the last one they took... And she did bloodbending and escaped- which is why now they don't let the waterbenders live. Because they know they can hurt the fire nation and escape.
Then they should’ve thought about that before they started this war.
Another great reaction!! I was waiting for your reaction to this episode as well. Of course for all the expected reasons but also since you said something like “zuko is the face of the fire nation to Katara” way back toward the beginning.
Zuko and Soka have the same zword master.. they are both disciples, Zuko is a senior discple. and in the comics they have a duel to see who is better
Hell yeah! i checked your channel for the new reaction right before i hoped in the shower and it wasent there 😢 got out went on youtube and its uploaded !!! Awesome!
Zuko missions are the best! Can’t believe next week we’ll be finishing Sozins comet😢 but I can’t wait for Korra
This episode remains one of my favorites. For the Zutara fans out there, if you know you know.
Zutara fans are literally insane.
The real ship
As a delusional zutara shipper i pretend this is an episode about their first date
@@khedaingush2285 you saw that hug. If Aang wasn't there she would have kissed him.
@@L0stwitn0nam3 Wow wow wow! Keep it PG man!
Katara has been leveling up the entire series. In the first episode she was strong but didn't know how to channel her powers. She trained under a master, she figured out a lot of stuff on her own, she practices whenever they have downtime, she's been fighting almost daily since she met Aang, and very dedicated and intelligent.
Zuko realizes that the threat Katara made towards him earlier wasn't an idle threat. She could kill him anytime she wanted.
There is a theory out there, that the Fire Nation killed Katara's mother, instead of capturing her like normal was because of Hama's escape.
It’s not a theory, it’s real
@@balkanbaroque no, it’s only a theory
@@mranima748 “I’m afraid I’m not taking any prisoners today” he literally says it
Highkey this show taught me lessons when I was a kid
It’s also theorized they went to kill any waterbender since the whole situation with Hama escaping. They didn’t want more blood benders from there to appear
You knew shit would get real when you saw that full moon as Katara and Zuko approached their first target ☠️☠️☠️
Best bit about avatar, is the attention to detail the writers/animators put in. Like how the morning after, Sokka is making a "laid" out of flowers! - fast forward to legend of korra, you see aang and katara with their kids in a photo, their daughter in waterbending cloths you can see air bender arrow hairpins in the side of her hair
One of the best episodes of Avatar. They managed to pack so much into one episode. I feel like anyone else would've made this a 2-parter; but they managed to put it all in one. I really appreciate concise writing.
Katara has every right to be mad at everyone, she has been enduring the pain of her lost mother and passively blaming herself ever since she lost her mom. She might have had so many break downs before even start of the show. Not to mention that she’s the caretaker of their group so she never even spoke about it with anyone so she could help others and not to big others.
Never even spoke about it? Lmao she’d bring it up multiple times
@@jjminn95 I don’t see a problem with that, Zuko constantly kept saying my honor through out the series. Zuko annoyed me a lot at least the first two season.
@@lihofman5928 that was also annoying too. Iroh needed to slap him
AHHH, after watching the last episode on my console and trying to go to the channel to see if any other episodes were uploaded I accidentally clicked "don't recommend channel" when trying to scroll to "go to channel" and I've missed the past few episodes in my sub box! AHHHH! Well, time to binge what I've missed, even if it's only a few episodes
Looks like you missed some great lines while you commented: Forgiveness... "It's the same as doing nothing!" "No, it's not. It's easy to do nothing... but, it's hard to forgive."
why would you do the thard thing tho lol it makes no sense
Sokka and Sukki definitely bent something that night, oh also Toph could hear everything. I dont what she might have felt considering she had crush on Sokka.
Let your anger out, then let it go 💯
This is the episode where Zuko finds out just how serious Katara’s threat to kill him was.
“The boiling pot” 😂 1:03
Love this episode. My dad shot himself next to our house when I was 8. I remember what he looked like on his last day. Katara's story helps me a lot.
I am so so sorry that happened to you. I'm glad this episode has brought you some comfort.
@@StardustSymphony4607 Thank you for saying so, friend. We've all been through rough stuff, and great stories like Avatar are great for processing.
Remember when Sokka said he couldn't remember what his mother looked like?
It hits harder when you realize,
she looked a lot like him.
A lot of people feel that Katara acted out of character in this episode, but for me it makes sense since her mother's death was such a huge part of her identity. Then Zuko, the person who she admitted was the embodiment of the Fire Nation in her mind and the person who tried to kill Aang, is now a regular part of her life. Of course all that rage is going to finally bubble up when she gets the chance to find the murderer.
I'm surprised that Pudgey thought for a second that maybe Kya was still alive. This show uses a lot of different ways to describe death/murder (result in permanent end, destiny ends permanently, sleep just like mother!, etc) but there were multiple times that Katara said "died" and "killed" when talking about her mother throughout the seasons. The prevailing theory why the raiders decided to just murder the waterbenders is because they learned from Hama's escape.
It seems like when the show is trying to directly reference murder, they had to use a different way to describe it for the ratings. That's why Katara says that when they got back to the hut her mother was "gone." When you think about it a little more, and depending on how dark you want to think about it, as a five or six year old Katara saw her mother's charred body. That was so traumatic that remembering it fully in that moment would be just too painful to say "she was dead."
Also, when you see Katara bloodbending, the camera quickly moves to Zuko's expression. You can tell that there's fear there and he definitely realizes in that moment that that is how he would die if Katara murders him for betraying Team Avatar again. We know he wouldn't, but seeing that definitely helps keep him on the honorable path. Then after the shock his expression turns to determination because he knows they can handle the situation.
The waterbenders have a strong familiar bond
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
"What a dumb quote. I'm killing way more than two people, idiot."
Never tire of this great episode. Always enjoy your reactions. Looking forward to your take on the ATLA's most meta episode and, of course, on the finale. Also looking forward to Korra.
1) Zuko was counting all the ways Katara can and will kill him if he tried anything.
2) Katara hated bloodbending but hated her mother’s killer even more.
3) I didn’t disagree with Katara saying Sokka loved her differently- he was able to speak to Zuko about it and then quickly go back to his intentions with Suki.
4) I love how they deal with this with so many shades of gray. Forgiveness isn’t easy, sometimes you can’t forgive.
I think the water tribes were very traditional and subscribed to traditional gender roles. This means while Sokka spent a lot of time with his father, Katara did, and would have continued to, spend a lot of her time with her mother.
Plus, she likely has some terrible mental images that Sokka doesn’t because he didn’t find out what happened until later.
@@PelafinaLievre I think you’re right!
You're doing Sokka a bit dirty here. Having processed a death poorly is not a sign of loving someone more. People often have this misconception that not being able to move on is somehow a testimony to how much (more) they cared and thats such a bad, bad idea to spread about grief, that if you can't deal with it, your emotions must have been more profound. Katara has clearly more trauma around her mothers death, because she had a front row seat to some of it, and because Kya protected her specifically. But having more trauma is not the same as having more love.
And Sokka is 15? 16? You're competing with the power of boner in a guy that just made the most heroic rescue of his girlfriend on the first night his dad isn't hanging over his shoulder. Frankly, that kid has his priorities straight thinking "I choose third base, not violence."
@@oq1106 firstly, great analysis. The end.
Just bc katara processed her death differently doesn’t mean she loved her more. Plus she obviously felt guilty over it since her mom was protecting her
One of many great things about the writing of A:TLA is that people can understand and/or relate to everyone's perspectives, whilst there may be the morally right viewpoint it's also understandable why a character may feel a certain way. It's not a simple black/white situation.
Since Hama (The Bloodbender) escaped, fire nation search again 'remaining' water bender (they assume she will go home)
El mejor episodio de esta temporada me encato verlos disfrutarlo
I love how the four characters have their own perspectives:
Aang - as an air nomad, he is very spiritual and preaches outright forgiveness. To be fair, he lost his entire culture to genocide, admittedly to a faceless army that probably died of old age by now
Zuko - the most morally dubious of the group having just been a villain, is Aang’s opposite and preaches vengeance
Sokka - as a warrior, he probably saw his mom’s death as a war casualty. He also uses humor to deal with it.
Katara - unlike Sokka, she knows her mother’s death was not random. She saw the killer and looked him in the eye. He was having a conversation with her defenseless mother and killed her. So unlike Sokka, she has a face to connect her pain with.
5:58 once again, Spartan's "stellar" memory displaying itself at its strongest. 19:02 I found it hard to believe that Kara did a complete 180 and became a vengeful person just a few episodes after crying because she used bloodbending against someone that was using it to get revenge on people. Totally didn't make sense for me. I liked the bonding with Karara and Zuko but they didn't need to go that route to get there, but I'm just a first time viewer of the animated series.
Incredible episode
There is a theory that the fire nation switched from capturing water benders to killing waterbenders because of Hama after realizing what waterbenders could do they decided that they were too dangerous to leave alive and began exterminating them.
Theres a running theory that Hama was the ultimate reason for their return which resulted in Katara's mom's death. We know Hama was contained for a decent time while perfecting her skill, and when she escaped - where would you think she went? The firebenders probably assumed she returned to the southern tribe. Considering Hama's power to control people and how she on her own, managed to escape - she would be considered too dangerous to imprison - Meaning they had to destroy her.
"Im not taking prisoners today' was because their order was to find the escaped waterbender and take her out - which was Hama. It's why I assume he didn't question Kaya when she said it was her. Roughly the same age at the time, gender etc. Least that's the theory. Surely if their sources said there was a waterbender left they would at least know something more general like age group? If it was a child id assume them to take them all or find out - but instead they seemed to be interrogating the adult women or whoever they found that might be Hama. It's supposed that their intel simply said/assumed that its likely she returned to the southern tribe and thats y they said there was one left.
What Katara did to Ron Yha in this episode is basically the PG version of what Ellie did to Abby in The Last of Us: Part II.
"This is not a kids show."
Sokka and Zuko become homies and i love it
This show so good that its hard to believe theres so many more amazing episodes left lol it gets better and better.
You could argue Zuko is stronger than Azula by this point. When they clashed, Zuko was thrown off the side of the airship they were on, but Azula was thrown up and over the other side. Meaning he blasted her further than she did him.
Na Azula still is stonger than him. That's the cannon, she's the fire prodigy as Katara's water toph earth and aang air. However Sukko is controlled and Azula already started her decline on madness. Just like in their final battle
No azula is still way stronger she was just emotional screwed
My opinion on azula and zukos relationship. I think when zuko came home a part of azula was happy. She liked being with her friends and her brother, even if shed never admit it. But when zuko left, it caused her friends to turn on her cause of zukos actions. I think after she lost her friends, any care she had for zuko dissapeared, and she wanted him dead. But then again, if she was succesful and killed him, mahbe shed lowkey regret it . Its hard to tell if she xares for zuko at all or not
Love this episode! Y’all’s reactions are so real and insightful! Great job!