Hama is a prime example of what happened when someone who has suffered extensive trauma feels emboldened to seek revenge. Her trauma is her justification for exacting vengeance on innocent people. Which is what the cycle of war inevitably leads to no matter what.
Going through the war in Ukraine right now - are there really innocent people out there? I mean, the fire nation is still attacking other nations, the war is going on and all those 'innocent' people are actually helping Ozai to achieve his goals. They do not rebel against what fire nation is doing. Well, some do, Iroh for instance and his white lotus, but most just simply accept the things and keep it quiet just like russians currently do. I do not say that people deserve the fate Hama was forcing on them, but you can kinda get an idea of destroying the enemy from the inside, starting with its people. Though, there are always multiple ways of doing things, like you can try to persuade them into rebellion.
@@ribottostudio yeah, it's all cool and all in fiction and when you have no experience of your own to compare to. But once you go through some shit yourself, you start to look at things at a different angle. You start to relate to characters you opposed before. I am not hateful, and I really love the main theme of the show which is kindness and forgiveness, but we aren't living in Avatar's world where you can simply take one's bending away and all is good, the whole war is over. Things are complicated, people are hateful on both sides, and it is a circle of violence where we are facing the real monsters that do not simply kill, but torture and enjoy the torturing. I just wish you and your close ones never experience stuff that would make you relate to Hama more than Aang.
when Toph says: *I cheated the cheater* it reminds me of that time katara attempted some *high risk trading* back in season 1 and involved sokka and aang in a big mess. She knows what shes talking about
I have some head cannon for when Katara says that Hama’s bending is useless on her. Hama was already bloodbending Katara, but Katara began bloodbendong herself, and because she is stronger, she regains control of her body.
I think this was jjst the episode that brought out katara's full confidence as a master. I dont think shes dueled with a formidable water bender since paku
I don't think its even a theory, it's just implied. I always assumed this. How else could she counter the bloodbending imposing in her own body? EDIT: I think you say she actually was maneuvering like she was her own puppetmaster. I don't think this was the case, I think she just used the hydrokinesis to counter the influence of Hama, so she focused her powers in the water inside her body to reject Hama's hydrokinesis. Not quite bloodbending herself, just rejecting the powers of another waterbender. Similar with two waterbenders trying to bend the same body of water. Who would win? Obviously the most powerful. Interesting theory though. But like I said highly unlikely. Also think that bloodbending isn't that accurate. Their movements are very rigid and robot-like. While Katara was moving with grace and precision. That's not her bloodbending herself, that's her breaking free of Hama's influence. And you can't argue she was so powerful as waterbender master that her bloodbending was ultra accurate but that's bullshit because when she bloodbends later in the show (when she escapes with Zuko on the sidequest to avenge her mother) it looks exactly like Hama's own work.
To this day I love how, in episode 8, when Hama is taking the cone out of the box, everyone in the gaang is following the movement except for Toph who has the most dead expresion while looking straight ahead 😂
What’s terrifying was that Hama was going to blood bend them into the cave, but she heard them talking about the southern water tribe and spared them 😭
One thing most people tend not to realize about blood bending: the target has his blood moving in ways and directions it's not supposed to. It ptobably hurts a lot. Blood bending, as the name implies, moves blood. Not your muscles or bones. It's an external force moving your circulatory system, abd your body moved trying to adapt.
If you want to look that far, the moment you start bloodbeding someone, you are going to give him/her a muscle infarction or even a stroke, the more time you bloodbend, the more damage the body is going to receive.
It's so grim that the episode ended with Hama giving props to Katara for blood bending. She got captured yet she still won in a sense in the end which is so dark
That was the episode that really pushed how dark the show could get. Also just imagine Aang taking air out of someones lungs. Or filling them up until they explode.
ahhahahaha really? Never actually watched it. fear of it being bad and ruining the main franchise. Sounds cool that they explore this tho @@No_one_has_any_enemies
That's still child's play sanitization for a kids cartoon network. He could create an instant vaccuum, collapse both lungs. He could create air bubbles in your blood. He could explode both ear drums. He could specialize in air pressure control and effectively employ telekinesis to crush people with several metric tonnes of weight, or launch them into the stratosphere and have them suffocate and freeze to death. Katara could instantly dessicate/mummify people/animals. She could reverse the blood flow in your body. She could instantly flash freeze all the cells in your body. She could bring the 80% of your body that is water to a boiling point and live boil you like a lobster. Many many applications.
19:47 Katara deflects the incoming water with an earthbending stance and it's one of my favorite details in the show showing our characters becoming masters.
13:03 The detail in this shot is amazing. Toph is blushing and giving a thumbs up when she is pressed up against Sokka, but when Katara gets inbetween them to look at the box too, Tophs expression gets disinterested and annoyed and stays like that while everyone else is shocked when Hama comes in. Looks like Toph just wanted to cuddle up to Sokka.
nah...i mean toph probably did hv a crush on him, but in this particular scene, she was blushing even before sokka got next to her. she was blushing because she opened the box and was probably feeling proud of it. when sokka comes squeezing in to take a look inside the box, she looked annoying af cuz she got pushed to the side by him and then katara.
Now that you guys have made it to this episode, perhaps it is time to think back to Monk Gyatso and the way they found him, a single airbending master, alone, surrounded by remarkably well preserved and unmarred fire-nation military members around him? Fans have theorized that in his last moments, when he was gravely wounded, Gyatso used airbending to suck the air out of the fire nation soldiers lungs, killing them in a horrifying display of Airbending mastery.
@@judahforshey1865in the Yangchen novels she used an even more advanced version of this technique than what Zaheer does, like SIGNIFICANTLY more powerful and grander in scale. And I won’t spoil but the benders she used it against were NO JOKE 👀
@@ipapermint654 I mean, I didn’t really wanna spoil for people who haven’t read them but sure haha. Although I’ll just say right now upfront that I highly recommend anybody who’s a TRUE fan of the franchise and the world as a whole to read these books. They’re all SO GOOD, I’ve learnt a BUNCH about the world, each nation and it’s specific cultures which is EXTRRA COOL considering by ATLA’s time we’ve lost most air and fire nation culture and history. Plus it’s got some really awesome stuff in terms of understanding how bending works and operates on a more personal level, what it’s like to PHYSICALLY feel bending and sense it being used or sensing an element around you. It’s super neat. Plus the way it depicts kyoshi and yangchen is 10/10, both are easily two of the best avatar EVER. 👏
@@ipapermint654 SPOILERS AHEAD 🙌🙌 In the first and second Yangchen novel it deals with the very FIRST combustion benders EVER. Here’s a REALLY interesting fact, Chi-Blocking, Combustion bending and the brainwashing we see in Ba Sing Se AND the Korra comics were all developed at the same time, at the same place for the same purpose. The firebenders were forced to train underwater CHAINED. Super interesting to think it was developed by placing firebenders in a condition where they were unable to produce flames, and the pressure of the water forced them to make a concentrated “combustion” blast and break the chains. And if you couldn’t do it you just drowned there 🤷🏻♂️ the quote I believe is made is “you can only do the technique if you truly believe your going to die”. The non Benders were forced to study air nomad energy pathway and acupuncture diagrams and forced to train against each other. When one would be injured it was suggested they would be killed and they were forced to train hard as possible with each other to develop the technique, having a crap ton of bone healing medicine to help with all the broken bones. What’s ironic tho is that the people in charge actually discarded the chi-blocking program in favor of focusing SOLEY on the combustion benders. They basically disposed of them all except for one young girl becuase they thought that the “history of the four nations would NEVER be seriously effected my hand to hand combat” 😭🙌 which like, Korra and aang would disagree. 💀 Interesting tho this young girl was taken into the air temples, taught it to the air nomads who then in turn taught it to Fire lord Sozins SISTER which is how it ends up in the fire nation for Ty Lee to later learn. The threadS that connect everything are AMAZING in these books. But anyways to answer ur question Yangchen actually ends up ambushing two of the three combustion benders in their individual hiding places and just stands in an adjacent room removing ALL the air inside of the room without even having to go inside for a DIRECT confrontation. It’s super fast, like 10 seconds before the air is gone and the people inside passed out like IMMEDIATELY when she stared using it. It was epic, but even more impressive was in the second novel not only did she accidentally DESTROY a guys lungs and eardrums by using a more powerful version of the technique to stop a combustion blast from Killing a friend in a panicked state, then later healing this same friends lungs with water but when she faced the last combustion bender she was basically just turning his technique OFF when he fired by removing ALL the air between them. And they were like 10 ft apart which is NOT where you want to be with a combustion bender. But Every time he would go to fire it off she PERFECTLY timed it and used her airbending to basically make an air vacuum around the little stream of energy and “flower” that comes from the forehead between them at the EXACT moment he fired snuffing it out like candle almost. And she was doing it on reflex alone, he was firing faster than she thought he could and she STILL reacted to his blasts point blank. It was seriously one of the coolest things in the franchise, yangchen deserves the reputation she’s earned as one of the avatar GOATS 😭🙌 all the novels also put into perspective how dangerous Aang in the avatar state can be 💀
Fun fact: The reason Hamma is so shocked when Katara straight up stops the water is because blocking so abruptly is not a common waterbending technique. Waterbenders use the flow of energy and water to turn their enemies attacks back against them. What Katara does is more of an Earthbending fighting style, hence the look of shock and awe!
Far more disgusting is the horrors the fire nation inflected all all the people of the world for 100 years in their active concentration camps, ethnically cleansing them all. They effectively "took out" the southern water benders and the entire air nomad civilizations.
@@hayleybartek8643 they've had that for centuries already. "The healing huts with the women". Healing water would also include coagulation of blood, etc. I'm not sure how bending actual blood as we have seen would serve any medical purpose?
but the water nurses r just doing with water not blood. Katara could add bloodbending to healing bending and heal enjuries faster or helped korra when she loses the bendings due to a bloodbending @@RecoveringChristian
She didn't let any other water benders out because she was the only one left, all of the rest already died. Remember that she was the last water bender to be captured in a raid on the Southern Water Tribe so by the time she was captured most if not all the water benders they captured over the years were dead
i mean it takes mathematicians years and years to develop a formula or an algorythm, but we learn it in like a 2 hour lesson. Once something is built, people are able to mimic it, but it's hard to build something. So I can definitely see how Hama could take 10 years to perfect her technique and make it usable. We can research batteries for 10 years but only when it becomes an actual battery it becomes a real thing.
Blood Bending is one of the many examples of how deadly bending can be. Like, imagine controlling the electricity in someone's body or sucking the air right out of them
That's still child's play sanitization for a kids cartoon network. He could create an instant vaccuum, collapse both lungs. He could create air bubbles in your blood. He could explode both ear drums. He could specialize in air pressure control and effectively employ telekinesis to crush people with several metric tones of weight, or launch them into the stratosphere and have them suffocate and freeze to death. Katara could instant dessicate/mummify people/animals. She could reverse the blood flow in your body. She could instantly flash freeze all the cells in your body. She could bring the 80% of your body that is water to a boiling point and live boil you like a lobster. Many many applications. But you can't do that on Nick
waterbenders fight by redirecting the flow of water just like what they were doing in the first fight scene, hama was expecting katara to redirect her attack but katara didn't, and blocked it instead. katara might have learned and used earthbending technique since she was also watching while aang and toph are training and toph always telling aang to stand his ground. so she also did, surprising hama and abling her to send hama to the ground while screaming. like what uncle iroh told zuko before to draw knowledge from other elements and way of life to become a powerful bender.
I think it's heavily implied that all of the other waterbender captives died in prison because all of the cages around Hama were empty when and even before she escaped. In regards to Hama's long sharp nails. I think it's part of Fire Nation fashion. Azula has them and Ursala (her and Zuko's mother) had them as well.
I've seen some people actually BLAME Katara for not embracing Bloodbending but this form of bending just goes against all of Katara's morals and everything she stands for as a character. Some people forget that the characters in this show are written with their own personalities and sense of ethics and it's not just about simple powerscaling.
If people actually blame or hate Katara for crying and not embracing this technique, then they never understood Katara as a character in the first place. This literally goes against everything Katara stands for...not to mention the traumatizing component of being forced to do something you never wanted to do.
Also apparently people don't pay attention and think she can do it whenever she wants. They literally lay out the rule that it needs to be under a full moon when she's at full power.
19:46 The moment here has some big significance it's easy to miss. Through the whole show we see water benders using 'flowing' martial arts where they keep water in motion and redirect etc. Here Hama looks shocked when Katara uses earth bending style to stand her ground directly blocking a wall of water.
Aang is the young the youngest airbender in history to become a master and receive his airbending tattoos (he even invented a new technique). Only Toph equals him for achievements at that age - surpasses him tbh cause metalbending is a wild invention, But yeah, those 2, Katara and Azula are the GOATs of their elements. FOr Azula, she's probably just the GOAT for her age because Ozai and Iroh are more experienced.
A neat note is that part of the reason why Katara was able to learn Bloodbending to quickly compared to Hama was also because 1. Hama was barely kept alive as a prisoner, 2. Katara was able to get a more intimate understanding of the technique from when Hama bent her blood => she was able to 'feel around' how to keep her blood from being bent => go one step further, rather than developing the steps through mice first.
Addie keeps interrupting Hama's epic moments by saying well why didn't you free the others then x 3. First of all we don't even know if any prisoners were left and second we don't know if Hama didn't free them, all we see is her leaving the cage. Just saying you know that it's as Brig said, granny wasn't alright in the head after decades of torture. By the way I hope y'all are doing Korra right after this that show is much more mature and relatable age level for most of us and you guys as well.
While you brought up some good point, I'll have to let you know that if you follow the story closely, your questions answer themselves Firstly, yes there were still waterbenders present when hama escaped, remember before her escape, they all just kept them restricted and confined but after she left, they were most likely executed to prevent another escape like that from happening Secondly, she was the only one that escaped, she even said so herself, plus if you think abt it, when the Fire nation came to attack the southern tribe(the time Katara's mother was killed) they said their "source" told them there was still one more waterbender, but there wasn't, they just thought that hama may have gone back to them so they kept terrorizing them, katara was just unlucky to have been a waterbender when it happened
I love how as soon as he says "i genuinly dont see the problem with scamming someone whos scamming" you see one of the worst consequences of successfully scamming someone lol. God this show is so damn good and i love these reactions. Everything starts off innocent til u just take it a little too far and it just happens to be working well, vicious cycle
2:01 if there's anything team avatar is, it's committed to the bit. I mean they had freaking appa doing sound effects for the painted lady a few episodes ago😭
I was waiting to see Maddie react to The Puppetmaster, since it's one of the best episodes, while also being the darkest. Not sure if you guys will answer this, but since the next episodes are Nightmares and Daydreams, followed by the 2 parter, then is the 2 part episode going to be split up for the reaction vids? Also, I'm curious, with JJK's season ending next week, are you guys finally gonna start posting your FMAB reactions on TH-cam?
From what I've seen so far, they'll probably react to ep 9 alone and then to the 2-parter. I wouldn't mind if they went for the 2-parter right away though, Nightmares and Daydreams has a couple of iconic moments but is very skippable otherwise.
One thing I REALLY love about Bloodbending is the SOUND design of the BONES twisting and blood swishing around and ligaments being pulled every which way. It is straight up HORROR worthy.
Imho Katara is easily the best Waterbender we’ve ever seen in current canon and that’s even after considering ALL the novels and comic books. She knows every type of sub-bending like Blood, plant, healing etc. plus ALL the different region styles. She’s easily a top 5 waterbender EVER. Her PEAK would still be DECADES after ATLA, by then her raw power and INSANE skill would be enough to rival any other water bender who’s lived FULL STOP. She’s the ONLY person outside of an Avatar I’d say has a chance at going 1v1 with Amon or Tarlok ESPECIALLY considering she’s legit the ONLY other person in existence with experience fighting against it. The fight with Hama made it very clear all that matters is you have more RAW POWER than the other waterbender. Going off PURE FEATS, looking just at the pure SCALE and mass of what she can move with her waterbendings raw power WITH all the knowledge/skill she has. Look at some of her crazy feats in book3. Combined with her INSANE adaptability and resourcefulness then alltogether and it’s undeniable she’s the overall best and well rounded in the franchise. Nobody else’s feats come close in overall examination 🤷🏻♂️ After reading all the novels I can say confidently that Legit out of like, 4 or 5 generations of avatars before Aang AND even after inside of korras era they ALL have weaker companions than Aang. Aangs friends BODY every other “team avatar” we’ve seen in canon and it’s NOT CLOSE💀
@@chainsawboy2388 top 5? I’d have to think about it honestly. 4 of the top 5 are bloodbenders so 🤷🏻♂️ but know that I’m remembering her feats if we’re talking like PURE SKILL tho than YEAH she EASILY is one if the most SKILLED we’ve seen in terms of raw talent and combat ability. Her versatility is crazy and She’s super powerful too. So she’s Def a strong contender for the list haha, but Pakku And Unalaq have some really good feats on their side too. Ming Hua may just edge them out with pure maneuverability and creativity tho 🤔 it’s hard not to put Hama on the list over them just becuase bloodbending is cheap tho and overpowering aang effortlessly the way she did is no joke 😬but like Toph , Ming gets EXTRA credit for turning her disability into her MAIN Advantage in combat 😭🙌
@@AustinSamson1999 She was great on her time, but she can´t revert the chi blocking of Amon even when she was the best healer in the world, without mentioning she still needs the full moon to bloodbending. I´m not detractor from Katara, but the times changes and on every new era has arrived a great new master, Unalaq created an amazing way to bending spiritual energy among the water, Korra was a prodigy on waterbending from her childhood and Ming Hua so spectacular even without arms...
@@daveraven1821 listing other good achievements from these waterbendersr is cool, but legit NONE of it disproves ANY of my points. If we look at the pure skills Katara has, the age and rate at which she learned them, her maximum raw power and how much mass of water she can move, such as blasting two GIANT metal ships apart causally and creating a GIANT whirlpool generating a steam cloud so massive it covers a GIGANTIC area. Or flooding an entire fire nation factory with one motion. These other masters have done amazing and impressive things, all could put up amazing fights but Katara has the OVERALL best and most CONSISTENT feats in the ENTIRE franchise outside an avatar for a waterbender. I’ve read every comic, novel and seen every episode MULTIPLE times. I have no bias here, these are just the facts 🤷🏻♂️ and Katara couldn’t revert the chi blocking Amon did…. Becuase it WASNT a physical problem. He essentially destroyed the chi pathway in a benders brain blocking them from accessing it anymore. It wasn’t a physical ailment, that’s like bringing somebody who has brain damage to her and telling her to jsut “fix it! Your the BEST healer in the world right?!” She can’t just rebuild what’s essentially a spiritual neuron when the body’s physically fine. That’s why ENERGY BENDING was needed. Katara has the skills to contend with ANY waterbender in the franchise FULL STOP. She claps Unalaq and Ming Hua even if they’d put up a great fight. She legit has mastered EVERY sub bending type in her element, seen EVERY style and had more raw power than AANG who couldn’t resist hama AT ALL. And aang was a powerhouse of a bender. Katara became the best waterbender on the PLANET at age FOURTEEN and brought down charcaters like Azula who’s one of the greatest firbenders EVER. That’s easily more impressive than waterspirit bending from unalaq, which is completely useless agaisnt katara. Or Ming Huss water arms. Ming Hua lost to MAKO, Katara blocked, dodged and matched bending shots with a SUPERCHARGED Azula and then WON the fight. She clears them.
Remember what the swamp guy said “everything is connected” Hama was friends with kataras grandmother when she was taken from the fire nation. Everyone knows everyone in this show
This episode and Southern Raiders are one of the most epic episodes in the series! We are finally shown how op waterbending is amongst all the elements. I can't wait for you guys to watch Southern Raiders!!
The thing that waterbenders are so overpowered if they learn bloodbending. You can literally see that in 2 seasons of Korra the main villains are waterbenders and in 3rd season we met Ming Hua She doesn't have hands but she is an excellent waterbender
Finally having the gang catch up to one of the most notorious episodes of Last Airbender, for bloodbending it opens many many doors and not just for waterbending but all the bendables ie, combustion bending, sand and metal bending etc. It makes me really excited to see how you all react to the end of the series and if you decide to water Korra.
Imagine the use of bloodbending. You could literally stop the flow of blood in someone and they would literally be dying a horrible way. Or like the flowers in the episode, pull the water/blood out of someone's body and use it like a regular weapon. Or if there is no water around you, cut yourself and use your blood as a weapon and if you can seal it back once you are done. If ATLA was a rated R show they would definitely explore more on bloodbending.
A lot of the questions about how brutal bending can be are answered in the Avatar novels. Avatar Kyoshi and Avatar Yang Chen both have two novels and Roku is getting one
Episode seven gets over shadowed by the two next to it but i love it. Toph is such a good character. She struggles with being venerable but she does have good emotional intelligence. Her apology to Katara before Katara invites her to pull another scam is sincere. She doesn’t expect an apology back and she takes responsibility. It is good.
Metal bending, blood bending, and lightning bending are like subclasses/unique bending abilities. Korra actually covers a few others as well which are great
I have watched this series a million times, and I still haven't figured out what they did with Hama after they took her away. Like, what do you do with someone who you can't put in jail? Surely they'd have to end her, right?
I don't recall which of you mentioned Katara in relation to Azula, but I do agree. They are on the same level with one caveat: Azula, as good as she is, has been given instruction by top-notch royal teachers for years. Katara has had access to a water-bending scroll and a master for perhaps 4-6 weeks. Over the course of a year she goes from self-taught bare ability to world class master level. Azula is a prodigy, yes. But what does that make Katara? I dare say that as she gets older and fully into her prime, she would be hands down the greatest waterbender in the world. Spending so much time with benders of other disciplines would likely add a LOT to her repertoire also.
I saw this episode when I was little, but personally, I was more HYPED than I was terrified XD The visuals were so cool, the presentation was amazing and besides, it's my favorite characters winning the day as always xD So it wasn't that scary to me personally... because honestly, I was too young to really try and understand the prospect of the blood inside your body being pulled around and making you do things. I was 10 😂
In some situations, blood bending could actually be a companionate way to solve a problem. A situation that immediately comes to my mind is if someone strong is hallucinating for some reason and is attacking people, most shows have someone knock them out by hitting them over the head with a large blunt weapon. I think using blood bending to subdue them is a much better solution, as bashing someone's head with a club could kill them. There's probably other situations it can be used for good as well.
You could also potentially help prevent strokes and heart attacks and such by removing blockages from the bloodstream. Or help with phantom limb syndrome. Or if someone has poor circulation. Or if someone is bleeding out you could stop the bleeding until they can be stitched up. There's a TON of practical, medical uses for blood bending
I hope they continue with the legend of Korra cause the way the bending just elevates like now knowing that bloodbending exists. Not to mention a new bending is introduced 🤌🏽
Blood bending sounds like a curse spell in Harry Potter, there are the wide variety of good spells, then the spells to torture and skin people alive or just straight up cast death on them.
"If they were {Hama's} 'brothers and sisters,' then why didn't she free them?" Simple, murder. The scene implies (and if you were honest with yourself, after decades of imprison and shackling, you'd do it too) that Hama immediately went to escape. Which means the only ones she could've freed would be the ones between her and the exit. Except: 1) It's been DECADES. Meaning some probably died due to the conditions. And 2) It would only take one guard to decide to warn the others, rather than try and fight, and they would IMMEDIATELY start slaughtering the other prisoners. If a single prisoner had escaped, and you learned that they were singlehandedly breaking your men. While also making them kill each other, WHY would you let the other prisoners with that same capability live?? It would only allow the possibility of them killing every single guard, out of nowhere.
I like how in Four Elements Trainer, Katara uses blood bending to make your character's [REDACTED] to become [REDACTED]. And she also practices another art called ****bending to force the remaining [REDACTED] out of your [REDACTED]. No, I won't elaborate. you can play the game for yourself. You'll figure out what the game's rating is very quickly.
You guys NEED to watch Legend of Kora after. I know you haven't because of certain comments you've made, like bending questions/theories that are addressing in Kora. Season one is very good; season two is less good, but season 3 will blow your mind.
@@g.t2231 I don't want to spoil something, but some specific things that they have theorized about possible ways to utilize a type of bending are either confirmed or addressed in Kora. Sorry if that's not a satisfying response; I just don't want to spoil anything.
I'm pretty sure all the Water Benders that got kidnapped died because Nickelodeon had strict guidelines when it came to using words Ike Death or using Blood which is why they had to tiptoe around it
Let me tell you this ending discussion has me EXCITED to see yall get to future episodes and hopefully Legend of Korra. Welcome to the Dark Side of the Avatar series
Heres the thing. Every bending art has very dark techniques. I wont spoil the others, but in korra and the novels they go into details of some really advanced but really dark forms of bending.
Always loved this episode but something that occured to me after rewatching this scene is Hama outs Katara as a waterbender in front of fire nation villages and nothing comes of it.
I just have one question: since when does Carter wear glasses? Also side note: the blood bending episode is one of my favorites of the whole show. It's a little dark but fantastic.
As the ep showed Bloodbending is Bending the Blood/Water within our very own bodies, and that gave us all numerous questions on what else could Benders bend within a body? Could Air Benders, potentially, bend the oxygen out of our lungs? Could Earth/Metal Benders bend the Iron within our bodies? Could Fire Benders raise and/or lower a persons body temp to dangerous levels?
All this talk about balance, but Waterbending is clearly the most OP element 😂. Healing, Freezing, and Bloodbending…. Not to mention the power to purify spirits or destroy a person’s soul 🫢
every element has abilities from being spiritually connected. air can make vacuums that KO or kill peoples. it can also just make a gust of air to fling people around. fire has lightning and combustion and earth and a plethora of possibilities
I was guessing the blood blending at one point yet the execution was even more messed up. Using any means necessary is understandable, but it's still f*ck up the way that lady forced Katara into using it. The tear bending scene gave me goosebumps though.
Hama is a prime example of what happened when someone who has suffered extensive trauma feels emboldened to seek revenge. Her trauma is her justification for exacting vengeance on innocent people. Which is what the cycle of war inevitably leads to no matter what.
Hama would make a fine Jaegerist
@@SomeTH-camTravelerwhat the water nation needs is a devil
Going through the war in Ukraine right now - are there really innocent people out there?
I mean, the fire nation is still attacking other nations, the war is going on and all those 'innocent' people are actually helping Ozai to achieve his goals. They do not rebel against what fire nation is doing. Well, some do, Iroh for instance and his white lotus, but most just simply accept the things and keep it quiet just like russians currently do. I do not say that people deserve the fate Hama was forcing on them, but you can kinda get an idea of destroying the enemy from the inside, starting with its people. Though, there are always multiple ways of doing things, like you can try to persuade them into rebellion.
Her and Aang are good parallels. They both suffered immensely. But one choose to forgive rather than hang onto hate.
@@ribottostudio yeah, it's all cool and all in fiction and when you have no experience of your own to compare to. But once you go through some shit yourself, you start to look at things at a different angle. You start to relate to characters you opposed before.
I am not hateful, and I really love the main theme of the show which is kindness and forgiveness, but we aren't living in Avatar's world where you can simply take one's bending away and all is good, the whole war is over. Things are complicated, people are hateful on both sides, and it is a circle of violence where we are facing the real monsters that do not simply kill, but torture and enjoy the torturing.
I just wish you and your close ones never experience stuff that would make you relate to Hama more than Aang.
when Toph says: *I cheated the cheater* it reminds me of that time katara attempted some *high risk trading* back in season 1 and involved sokka and aang in a big mess. She knows what shes talking about
Definitely, she knows that it isn't the way
Hehehe good one katara
Many people use this as an example of "why I dislike/hate Katara".
@@TheMrPeteChanneland its stupid asf bc its not hypocrisy, its her learning from her mistakes
ohhh yeah i totally forgot about that! now it makes a lot more sense
I have some head cannon for when Katara says that Hama’s bending is useless on her. Hama was already bloodbending Katara, but Katara began bloodbendong herself, and because she is stronger, she regains control of her body.
I think this was jjst the episode that brought out katara's full confidence as a master. I dont think shes dueled with a formidable water bender since paku
@@letsgobrandon1906that’s what they’re saying pretty much
I didn't even think of that. That's a crazy theory
I don't think its even a theory, it's just implied. I always assumed this. How else could she counter the bloodbending imposing in her own body?
EDIT: I think you say she actually was maneuvering like she was her own puppetmaster. I don't think this was the case, I think she just used the hydrokinesis to counter the influence of Hama, so she focused her powers in the water inside her body to reject Hama's hydrokinesis. Not quite bloodbending herself, just rejecting the powers of another waterbender.
Similar with two waterbenders trying to bend the same body of water. Who would win? Obviously the most powerful.
Interesting theory though. But like I said highly unlikely. Also think that bloodbending isn't that accurate. Their movements are very rigid and robot-like. While Katara was moving with grace and precision. That's not her bloodbending herself, that's her breaking free of Hama's influence. And you can't argue she was so powerful as waterbender master that her bloodbending was ultra accurate but that's bullshit because when she bloodbends later in the show (when she escapes with Zuko on the sidequest to avenge her mother) it looks exactly like Hama's own work.
I don’t think that’s a head canon, I thought it was pretty heavily implied
To this day I love how, in episode 8, when Hama is taking the cone out of the box, everyone in the gaang is following the movement except for Toph who has the most dead expresion while looking straight ahead 😂
i just realized her expression and im literally dying rn XD
What’s terrifying was that Hama was going to blood bend them into the cave, but she heard them talking about the southern water tribe and spared them 😭
I saw this episode like a week after it came out and I never realized that until now. Jeez that’s a chilling thought that they were that close.
but it wasnt a full moon when they camped out
plus that wouldn’t have been a problem bc toph would’ve just metalbended all of them out
@@matt-tb6gt facts
@@matt-tb6gt She didn't knew (it's the correct form?) about Toph's bending
One thing most people tend not to realize about blood bending: the target has his blood moving in ways and directions it's not supposed to. It ptobably hurts a lot. Blood bending, as the name implies, moves blood. Not your muscles or bones. It's an external force moving your circulatory system, abd your body moved trying to adapt.
If you want to look that far, the moment you start bloodbeding someone, you are going to give him/her a muscle infarction or even a stroke, the more time you bloodbend, the more damage the body is going to receive.
I believe it also bends other bodilly fluids too, but bloodbending sounds more sinister than "body fluid bending"
@@sporeman1331 other fluids eh 😏
i bet u like bending other fluids out huh big boy 😎😎🤣🤣 @@sporeman1331
ok mega nerd
It's so grim that the episode ended with Hama giving props to Katara for blood bending. She got captured yet she still won in a sense in the end which is so dark
That was the episode that really pushed how dark the show could get.
Also just imagine Aang taking air out of someones lungs. Or filling them up until they explode.
I mean…. The legend of korra explores the dark side of the avatar verse even further…. I am just gonna say it was breathtaking….
ahhahahaha really? Never actually watched it. fear of it being bad and ruining the main franchise. Sounds cool that they explore this tho @@No_one_has_any_enemies
It was also a Halloween special so it fit thematically when it aired.
*zaheer enters the chat*
That's still child's play sanitization for a kids cartoon network. He could create an instant vaccuum, collapse both lungs. He could create air bubbles in your blood. He could explode both ear drums. He could specialize in air pressure control and effectively employ telekinesis to crush people with several metric tonnes of weight, or launch them into the stratosphere and have them suffocate and freeze to death.
Katara could instantly dessicate/mummify people/animals. She could reverse the blood flow in your body. She could instantly flash freeze all the cells in your body. She could bring the 80% of your body that is water to a boiling point and live boil you like a lobster. Many many applications.
19:47 Katara deflects the incoming water with an earthbending stance and it's one of my favorite details in the show showing our characters becoming masters.
And it’s right after the episode where she starts to understand and aprechiate toph and starts working with her in a team!
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The detail in this shot is amazing.
Toph is blushing and giving a thumbs up when she is pressed up against Sokka, but when Katara gets inbetween them to look at the box too, Tophs expression gets disinterested and annoyed and stays like that while everyone else is shocked when Hama comes in.
Looks like Toph just wanted to cuddle up to Sokka.
Tokka is real!
nah...i mean toph probably did hv a crush on him, but in this particular scene, she was blushing even before sokka got next to her. she was blushing because she opened the box and was probably feeling proud of it. when sokka comes squeezing in to take a look inside the box, she looked annoying af cuz she got pushed to the side by him and then katara.
Now that you guys have made it to this episode, perhaps it is time to think back to Monk Gyatso and the way they found him, a single airbending master, alone, surrounded by remarkably well preserved and unmarred fire-nation military members around him?
Fans have theorized that in his last moments, when he was gravely wounded, Gyatso used airbending to suck the air out of the fire nation soldiers lungs, killing them in a horrifying display of Airbending mastery.
It was pretty much confirmed in Korra, when what's his name did it to the earth queen.
@@judahforshey1865in the Yangchen novels she used an even more advanced version of this technique than what Zaheer does, like SIGNIFICANTLY more powerful and grander in scale. And I won’t spoil but the benders she used it against were NO JOKE 👀
@@AustinSamson1999 can you tell me 👀
@@ipapermint654 I mean, I didn’t really wanna spoil for people who haven’t read them but sure haha. Although I’ll just say right now upfront that I highly recommend anybody who’s a TRUE fan of the franchise and the world as a whole to read these books. They’re all SO GOOD, I’ve learnt a BUNCH about the world, each nation and it’s specific cultures which is EXTRRA COOL considering by ATLA’s time we’ve lost most air and fire nation culture and history. Plus it’s got some really awesome stuff in terms of understanding how bending works and operates on a more personal level, what it’s like to PHYSICALLY feel bending and sense it being used or sensing an element around you. It’s super neat. Plus the way it depicts kyoshi and yangchen is 10/10, both are easily two of the best avatar EVER. 👏
@@ipapermint654 SPOILERS AHEAD 🙌🙌
In the first and second Yangchen novel it deals with the very FIRST combustion benders EVER. Here’s a REALLY interesting fact, Chi-Blocking, Combustion bending and the brainwashing we see in Ba Sing Se AND the Korra comics were all developed at the same time, at the same place for the same purpose. The firebenders were forced to train underwater CHAINED. Super interesting to think it was developed by placing firebenders in a condition where they were unable to produce flames, and the pressure of the water forced them to make a concentrated “combustion” blast and break the chains. And if you couldn’t do it you just drowned there 🤷🏻♂️ the quote I believe is made is “you can only do the technique if you truly believe your going to die”.
The non Benders were forced to study air nomad energy pathway and acupuncture diagrams and forced to train against each other. When one would be injured it was suggested they would be killed and they were forced to train hard as possible with each other to develop the technique, having a crap ton of bone healing medicine to help with all the broken bones. What’s ironic tho is that the people in charge actually discarded the chi-blocking program in favor of focusing SOLEY on the combustion benders. They basically disposed of them all except for one young girl becuase they thought that the “history of the four nations would NEVER be seriously effected my hand to hand combat” 😭🙌 which like, Korra and aang would disagree. 💀 Interesting tho this young girl was taken into the air temples, taught it to the air nomads who then in turn taught it to Fire lord Sozins SISTER which is how it ends up in the fire nation for Ty Lee to later learn. The threadS that connect everything are AMAZING in these books. But anyways to answer ur question Yangchen actually ends up ambushing two of the three combustion benders in their individual hiding places and just stands in an adjacent room removing ALL the air inside of the room without even having to go inside for a DIRECT confrontation. It’s super fast, like 10 seconds before the air is gone and the people inside passed out like IMMEDIATELY when she stared using it. It was epic, but even more impressive was in the second novel not only did she accidentally DESTROY a guys lungs and eardrums by using a more powerful version of the technique to stop a combustion blast from
Killing a friend in a panicked state, then later healing this same friends lungs with water but when she faced the last combustion bender she was basically just turning his technique OFF when he fired by removing ALL the air between them. And they were like 10 ft apart which is NOT where you want to be with a combustion bender. But Every time he would go to fire it off she PERFECTLY timed it and used her airbending to basically make an air vacuum around the little stream of energy and “flower” that comes from the forehead between them at the EXACT moment he fired snuffing it out like candle almost. And she was doing it on reflex alone, he was firing faster than she thought he could and she STILL reacted to his blasts point blank. It was seriously one of the coolest things in the franchise, yangchen deserves the reputation she’s earned as one of the avatar GOATS 😭🙌 all the novels also put into perspective how dangerous Aang in the avatar state can be 💀
Fun fact: The reason Hamma is so shocked when Katara straight up stops the water is because blocking so abruptly is not a common waterbending technique. Waterbenders use the flow of energy and water to turn their enemies attacks back against them. What Katara does is more of an Earthbending fighting style, hence the look of shock and awe!
The fire lilies scene is very telling of how far the creators wanted to take bloodbending.
Katara learning about bloodbending was so crazy! Such an insane application of water bending 😮
No periods anymore isn't insane.
It is crazy and honestly so disgusting that Hama forced bloodbending upon Katara who by nature is a fighter but most importantly she is a HEALER
Far more disgusting is the horrors the fire nation inflected all all the people of the world for 100 years in their active concentration camps, ethnically cleansing them all. They effectively "took out" the southern water benders and the entire air nomad civilizations.
katara is more of a fighter than a healer be fr
I'm still waiting for the character or group that uses bloodbending for good, like a medical corp. Maybe the in the next cycle.
@@hayleybartek8643 they've had that for centuries already. "The healing huts with the women". Healing water would also include coagulation of blood, etc. I'm not sure how bending actual blood as we have seen would serve any medical purpose?
but the water nurses r just doing with water not blood. Katara could add bloodbending to healing bending and heal enjuries faster or helped korra when she loses the bendings due to a bloodbending @@RecoveringChristian
She didn't let any other water benders out because she was the only one left, all of the rest already died. Remember that she was the last water bender to be captured in a raid on the Southern Water Tribe so by the time she was captured most if not all the water benders they captured over the years were dead
i mean it takes mathematicians years and years to develop a formula or an algorythm, but we learn it in like a 2 hour lesson.
Once something is built, people are able to mimic it, but it's hard to build something.
So I can definitely see how Hama could take 10 years to perfect her technique and make it usable.
We can research batteries for 10 years but only when it becomes an actual battery it becomes a real thing.
Remember what the swamp guy said “everything is connected”
Young Hama was friends with kataras grandmother when the fire nation took her
Blood Bending is one of the many examples of how deadly bending can be. Like, imagine controlling the electricity in someone's body or sucking the air right out of them
none of it works on the avatar tho. Really goes to say how powerful the avatar is.
That's still child's play sanitization for a kids cartoon network. He could create an instant vaccuum, collapse both lungs. He could create air bubbles in your blood. He could explode both ear drums. He could specialize in air pressure control and effectively employ telekinesis to crush people with several metric tones of weight, or launch them into the stratosphere and have them suffocate and freeze to death.
Katara could instant dessicate/mummify people/animals. She could reverse the blood flow in your body. She could instantly flash freeze all the cells in your body. She could bring the 80% of your body that is water to a boiling point and live boil you like a lobster. Many many applications.
But you can't do that on Nick
@@calebjacobs1171no he got bloodbended in legend of korra 😮
Firebenders can't control lighting, they just direct it at a target
waterbenders fight by redirecting the flow of water just like what they were doing in the first fight scene, hama was expecting katara to redirect her attack but katara didn't, and blocked it instead. katara might have learned and used earthbending technique since she was also watching while aang and toph are training and toph always telling aang to stand his ground. so she also did, surprising hama and abling her to send hama to the ground while screaming.
like what uncle iroh told zuko before to draw knowledge from other elements and way of life to become a powerful bender.
I think it's heavily implied that all of the other waterbender captives died in prison because all of the cages around Hama were empty when and even before she escaped.
In regards to Hama's long sharp nails. I think it's part of Fire Nation fashion. Azula has them and Ursala (her and Zuko's mother) had them as well.
I've seen some people actually BLAME Katara for not embracing Bloodbending but this form of bending just goes against all of Katara's morals and everything she stands for as a character. Some people forget that the characters in this show are written with their own personalities and sense of ethics and it's not just about simple powerscaling.
If people actually blame or hate Katara for crying and not embracing this technique, then they never understood Katara as a character in the first place. This literally goes against everything Katara stands for...not to mention the traumatizing component of being forced to do something you never wanted to do.
Also apparently people don't pay attention and think she can do it whenever she wants. They literally lay out the rule that it needs to be under a full moon when she's at full power.
The "oh, they're just giving me my mending and unbreaking 3" killed me xD
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19:46 The moment here has some big significance it's easy to miss. Through the whole show we see water benders using 'flowing' martial arts where they keep water in motion and redirect etc. Here Hama looks shocked when Katara uses earth bending style to stand her ground directly blocking a wall of water.
La venganza de Hama es que Katara se vengue por ella... por eso reía...y Katara lloraba... quería que fuera como Jet
Exacto, Hama ni siquiera quería herir a Katara, quería que aprendiera sangre control
Como dijo; su intención era heredar su legado, cumplió su misión...
Aang is the young the youngest airbender in history to become a master and receive his airbending tattoos (he even invented a new technique). Only Toph equals him for achievements at that age - surpasses him tbh cause metalbending is a wild invention, But yeah, those 2, Katara and Azula are the GOATs of their elements.
FOr Azula, she's probably just the GOAT for her age because Ozai and Iroh are more experienced.
A neat note is that part of the reason why Katara was able to learn Bloodbending to quickly compared to Hama was also because 1. Hama was barely kept alive as a prisoner, 2. Katara was able to get a more intimate understanding of the technique from when Hama bent her blood => she was able to 'feel around' how to keep her blood from being bent => go one step further, rather than developing the steps through mice first.
Addie keeps interrupting Hama's epic moments by saying well why didn't you free the others then x 3. First of all we don't even know if any prisoners were left and second we don't know if Hama didn't free them, all we see is her leaving the cage. Just saying you know that it's as Brig said, granny wasn't alright in the head after decades of torture. By the way I hope y'all are doing Korra right after this that show is much more mature and relatable age level for most of us and you guys as well.
While you brought up some good point, I'll have to let you know that if you follow the story closely, your questions answer themselves
Firstly, yes there were still waterbenders present when hama escaped, remember before her escape, they all just kept them restricted and confined but after she left, they were most likely executed to prevent another escape like that from happening
Secondly, she was the only one that escaped, she even said so herself, plus if you think abt it, when the Fire nation came to attack the southern tribe(the time Katara's mother was killed) they said their "source" told them there was still one more waterbender, but there wasn't, they just thought that hama may have gone back to them so they kept terrorizing them, katara was just unlucky to have been a waterbender when it happened
I love how as soon as he says "i genuinly dont see the problem with scamming someone whos scamming" you see one of the worst consequences of successfully scamming someone lol. God this show is so damn good and i love these reactions. Everything starts off innocent til u just take it a little too far and it just happens to be working well, vicious cycle
2:01 if there's anything team avatar is, it's committed to the bit. I mean they had freaking appa doing sound effects for the painted lady a few episodes ago😭
I was waiting to see Maddie react to The Puppetmaster, since it's one of the best episodes, while also being the darkest. Not sure if you guys will answer this, but since the next episodes are Nightmares and Daydreams, followed by the 2 parter, then is the 2 part episode going to be split up for the reaction vids? Also, I'm curious, with JJK's season ending next week, are you guys finally gonna start posting your FMAB reactions on TH-cam?
From what I've seen so far, they'll probably react to ep 9 alone and then to the 2-parter. I wouldn't mind if they went for the 2-parter right away though, Nightmares and Daydreams has a couple of iconic moments but is very skippable otherwise.
One thing I REALLY love about Bloodbending is the SOUND design of the BONES twisting and blood swishing around and ligaments being pulled every which way.
It is straight up HORROR worthy.
I love 8:33 as he was training with sensing vibrations but didn’t have it down pack yet.
I imagine Katara being as powerful as Unalaq as she grows into her prime, she's so resourceful with water!
Imho Katara is easily the best Waterbender we’ve ever seen in current canon and that’s even after considering ALL the novels and comic books. She knows every type of sub-bending like Blood, plant, healing etc. plus ALL the different region styles. She’s easily a top 5 waterbender EVER. Her PEAK would still be DECADES after ATLA, by then her raw power and INSANE skill would be enough to rival any other water bender who’s lived FULL STOP. She’s the ONLY person outside of an Avatar I’d say has a chance at going 1v1 with Amon or Tarlok ESPECIALLY considering she’s legit the ONLY other person in existence with experience fighting against it. The fight with Hama made it very clear all that matters is you have more RAW POWER than the other waterbender. Going off PURE FEATS, looking just at the pure SCALE and mass of what she can move with her waterbendings raw power WITH all the knowledge/skill she has. Look at some of her crazy feats in book3. Combined with her INSANE adaptability and resourcefulness then alltogether and it’s undeniable she’s the overall best and well rounded in the franchise. Nobody else’s feats come close in overall examination 🤷🏻♂️
After reading all the novels I can say confidently that Legit out of like, 4 or 5 generations of avatars before Aang AND even after inside of korras era they ALL have weaker companions than Aang. Aangs friends BODY every other “team avatar” we’ve seen in canon and it’s NOT CLOSE💀
@@AustinSamson1999Ming-Hua has gotta be up there too
@@chainsawboy2388 top 5? I’d have to think about it honestly. 4 of the top 5 are bloodbenders so 🤷🏻♂️ but know that I’m remembering her feats if we’re talking like PURE SKILL tho than YEAH she EASILY is one if the most SKILLED we’ve seen in terms of raw talent and combat ability. Her versatility is crazy and She’s super powerful too. So she’s Def a strong contender for the list haha, but Pakku And Unalaq have some really good feats on their side too. Ming Hua may just edge them out with pure maneuverability and creativity tho 🤔 it’s hard not to put Hama on the list over them just becuase bloodbending is cheap tho and overpowering aang effortlessly the way she did is no joke 😬but like Toph , Ming gets EXTRA credit for turning her disability into her MAIN Advantage in combat 😭🙌
@@AustinSamson1999 She was great on her time, but she can´t revert the chi blocking of Amon even when she was the best healer in the world, without mentioning she still needs the full moon to bloodbending. I´m not detractor from Katara, but the times changes and on every new era has arrived a great new master, Unalaq created an amazing way to bending spiritual energy among the water, Korra was a prodigy on waterbending from her childhood and Ming Hua so spectacular even without arms...
@@daveraven1821 listing other good achievements from these waterbendersr is cool, but legit NONE of it disproves ANY of my points. If we look at the pure skills Katara has, the age and rate at which she learned them, her maximum raw power and how much mass of water she can move, such as blasting two GIANT metal ships apart causally and creating a GIANT whirlpool generating a steam cloud so massive it covers a GIGANTIC area. Or flooding an entire fire nation factory with one motion. These other masters have done amazing and impressive things, all could put up amazing fights but Katara has the OVERALL best and most CONSISTENT feats in the ENTIRE franchise outside an avatar for a waterbender. I’ve read every comic, novel and seen every episode MULTIPLE times. I have no bias here, these are just the facts 🤷🏻♂️ and Katara couldn’t revert the chi blocking Amon did…. Becuase it WASNT a physical problem. He essentially destroyed the chi pathway in a benders brain blocking them from accessing it anymore. It wasn’t a physical ailment, that’s like bringing somebody who has brain damage to her and telling her to jsut “fix it! Your the BEST healer in the world right?!” She can’t just rebuild what’s essentially a spiritual neuron when the body’s physically fine. That’s why ENERGY BENDING was needed. Katara has the skills to contend with ANY waterbender in the franchise FULL STOP. She claps Unalaq and Ming Hua even if they’d put up a great fight. She legit has mastered EVERY sub bending type in her element, seen EVERY style and had more raw power than AANG who couldn’t resist hama AT ALL. And aang was a powerhouse of a bender. Katara became the best waterbender on the PLANET at age FOURTEEN and brought down charcaters like Azula who’s one of the greatest firbenders EVER. That’s easily more impressive than waterspirit bending from unalaq, which is completely useless agaisnt katara. Or Ming Huss water arms. Ming Hua lost to MAKO, Katara blocked, dodged and matched bending shots with a SUPERCHARGED Azula and then WON the fight. She clears them.
I love it when Aang and Sokka share a single brain cell
16:50 Okay the Minecraft villager trading joke got me
Remember what the swamp guy said “everything is connected”
Hama was friends with kataras grandmother when she was taken from the fire nation. Everyone knows everyone in this show
All old people know each other
I can't wait when they watch korra how dark it gets
when will they wath korra
@@g.t2231 Hopefully never.
@@CRAZEH247Why not just let them watch and decide for themselves if they like or don't like it? You obviously don't so...
@@lalalalisa41Nah.
This got me TERRIFIED when I was younger, literally had nightmares about it.
I love all the side eyes and wide eyed stares in this upload 😂
This episode and Southern Raiders are one of the most epic episodes in the series! We are finally shown how op waterbending is amongst all the elements. I can't wait for you guys to watch Southern Raiders!!
"Oh they're just giving me my mending and unbreaking 3" 😂😂😂
Someone bloodbeding you is theoretically more painful than a bullet wound.
I love the sound of combustion bending, the *Took* *Took* *BOOM*
The Hama story legit made me cry. The horrors of trauma.
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The thing that waterbenders are so overpowered if they learn bloodbending. You can literally see that in 2 seasons of Korra the main villains are waterbenders and in 3rd season we met Ming Hua She doesn't have hands but she is an excellent waterbender
Finally having the gang catch up to one of the most notorious episodes of Last Airbender, for bloodbending it opens many many doors and not just for waterbending but all the bendables ie, combustion bending, sand and metal bending etc. It makes me really excited to see how you all react to the end of the series and if you decide to water Korra.
Bloodbending is so OP but so violating too. Losing your will is one of the worst things that can happen to you.
Imagine the use of bloodbending. You could literally stop the flow of blood in someone and they would literally be dying a horrible way. Or like the flowers in the episode, pull the water/blood out of someone's body and use it like a regular weapon. Or if there is no water around you, cut yourself and use your blood as a weapon and if you can seal it back once you are done. If ATLA was a rated R show they would definitely explore more on bloodbending.
The second guy from the left: what is your shoesize?
A lot of the questions about how brutal bending can be are answered in the Avatar novels. Avatar Kyoshi and Avatar Yang Chen both have two novels and Roku is getting one
Ah yes, Sparky sparky boom man
Episode seven gets over shadowed by the two next to it but i love it. Toph is such a good character. She struggles with being venerable but she does have good emotional intelligence. Her apology to Katara before Katara invites her to pull another scam is sincere. She doesn’t expect an apology back and she takes responsibility. It is good.
24:57 Brig going Eren mode
🤣😈
Metal bending, blood bending, and lightning bending are like subclasses/unique bending abilities. Korra actually covers a few others as well which are great
I have watched this series a million times, and I still haven't figured out what they did with Hama after they took her away. Like, what do you do with someone who you can't put in jail? Surely they'd have to end her, right?
Also think abt the fact that ozai was using the power of the comet when we really saw him
I don't recall which of you mentioned Katara in relation to Azula, but I do agree. They are on the same level with one caveat: Azula, as good as she is, has been given instruction by top-notch royal teachers for years. Katara has had access to a water-bending scroll and a master for perhaps 4-6 weeks. Over the course of a year she goes from self-taught bare ability to world class master level. Azula is a prodigy, yes. But what does that make Katara? I dare say that as she gets older and fully into her prime, she would be hands down the greatest waterbender in the world. Spending so much time with benders of other disciplines would likely add a LOT to her repertoire also.
Its a GOOD day when you guys post
When I was a kid I remember this episode scared me 😂
Carter and Addie’s look when Hama tells Katara “I want to teach you everything I know” 😂😂👌🏼
whats crazy is that in the episode where katara blood bends the ship guy, she immobilizes him exactly how hama did her...
It’s a good day when studio gek reacts to your favorite show. I CANT wait for the finale 🔥🔥
I saw this episode when I was little, but personally, I was more HYPED than I was terrified XD The visuals were so cool, the presentation was amazing and besides, it's my favorite characters winning the day as always xD So it wasn't that scary to me personally... because honestly, I was too young to really try and understand the prospect of the blood inside your body being pulled around and making you do things. I was 10 😂
In some situations, blood bending could actually be a companionate way to solve a problem.
A situation that immediately comes to my mind is if someone strong is hallucinating for some reason and is attacking people, most shows have someone knock them out by hitting them over the head with a large blunt weapon. I think using blood bending to subdue them is a much better solution, as bashing someone's head with a club could kill them.
There's probably other situations it can be used for good as well.
You could also potentially help prevent strokes and heart attacks and such by removing blockages from the bloodstream. Or help with phantom limb syndrome. Or if someone has poor circulation. Or if someone is bleeding out you could stop the bleeding until they can be stitched up. There's a TON of practical, medical uses for blood bending
I've been waiting for the bloodbending episode.
Episode 47-48: of appreciating the ladies of Studio Gek. (Respectfully)
Homie what
@@VanagloriaVT can I not respect the ladies?
@@VanagloriaVT also based profile pic
Party question: What element do you think you are?
Blonde homegirl: I'm a bloodbender
Cannon: „Aang is by default the most powerful Airbender ‘cuz he’s the only one.”
EXCUSE YOU?!… Appa is an Airbender too bro! 😁
Toph and Katara are GOATs
Wish you guys a nice time with your loved ones for the coming days!
Decades plural, she was young when they caught her
I hope they continue with the legend of Korra cause the way the bending just elevates like now knowing that bloodbending exists. Not to mention a new bending is introduced 🤌🏽
Blood bending sounds like a curse spell in Harry Potter, there are the wide variety of good spells, then the spells to torture and skin people alive or just straight up cast death on them.
"If they were {Hama's} 'brothers and sisters,' then why didn't she free them?"
Simple, murder.
The scene implies (and if you were honest with yourself, after decades of imprison and shackling, you'd do it too) that Hama immediately went to escape. Which means the only ones she could've freed would be the ones between her and the exit.
Except:
1) It's been DECADES. Meaning some probably died due to the conditions.
And 2) It would only take one guard to decide to warn the others, rather than try and fight, and they would IMMEDIATELY start slaughtering the other prisoners.
If a single prisoner had escaped, and you learned that they were singlehandedly breaking your men. While also making them kill each other, WHY would you let the other prisoners with that same capability live??
It would only allow the possibility of them killing every single guard, out of nowhere.
At 16:50 great minecraft joke Cannon😂a fellow sweatshop supporter I see
Yue really did give katara a lil boost on this one
I like how in Four Elements Trainer, Katara uses blood bending to make your character's [REDACTED] to become [REDACTED]. And she also practices another art called ****bending to force the remaining [REDACTED] out of your [REDACTED]. No, I won't elaborate. you can play the game for yourself. You'll figure out what the game's rating is very quickly.
What they didn’t explain in the show is that all of hamas prisoners were on creatine
You guys NEED to watch Legend of Kora after. I know you haven't because of certain comments you've made, like bending questions/theories that are addressing in Kora. Season one is very good; season two is less good, but season 3 will blow your mind.
I second this, they need to watch Korra
what comments did they make
@@g.t2231 I don't want to spoil something, but some specific things that they have theorized about possible ways to utilize a type of bending are either confirmed or addressed in Kora. Sorry if that's not a satisfying response; I just don't want to spoil anything.
I'm pretty sure all the Water Benders that got kidnapped died because Nickelodeon had strict guidelines when it came to using words Ike Death or using Blood which is why they had to tiptoe around it
People often forget how many times the show actually use those exact words. They don't actually tiptoe around it that much...
They used the d word a handful of times. Otherwise, it was "taken out, took them out, defeated, etc"
They also gloss over the genocide and concentration camps.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEES, Hama episode!! 🩸
Finally I've been waiting so excited.
Let me tell you this ending discussion has me EXCITED to see yall get to future episodes and hopefully Legend of Korra. Welcome to the Dark Side of the Avatar series
One of my favorite episodes from season 3z. That’s why Katara is my favorite character! ❤
Heres the thing. Every bending art has very dark techniques. I wont spoil the others, but in korra and the novels they go into details of some really advanced but really dark forms of bending.
Always loved this episode but something that occured to me after rewatching this scene is Hama outs Katara as a waterbender in front of fire nation villages and nothing comes of it.
They prob just think hama is crazy
I just have one question: since when does Carter wear glasses?
Also side note: the blood bending episode is one of my favorites of the whole show. It's a little dark but fantastic.
As the ep showed Bloodbending is Bending the Blood/Water within our very own bodies, and that gave us all numerous questions on what else could Benders bend within a body?
Could Air Benders, potentially, bend the oxygen out of our lungs?
Could Earth/Metal Benders bend the Iron within our bodies?
Could Fire Benders raise and/or lower a persons body temp to dangerous levels?
All this talk about balance, but Waterbending is clearly the most OP element 😂. Healing, Freezing, and Bloodbending….
Not to mention the power to purify spirits or destroy a person’s soul 🫢
Freezing is less effective against skilled firebenders though. The only downside though. Also, Bloodbending is morally draining
Gotta be a master before waterbending becomes op.
This is a big spoil, dude! They are not watching The Legend of Korra at the moment! Don't forget about it!
There's nothing about souls.
Amon only completely closed the chakras with the help of blood
every element has abilities from being spiritually connected. air can make vacuums that KO or kill peoples. it can also just make a gust of air to fling people around. fire has lightning and combustion and earth and a plethora of possibilities
Yo imagine if the Katara now knew about Blood bending in the season 1 finale lol. This series would of been over long time ago
It's tough to pick which is scarier in this show, between Koh the Face-stealer and bloodbending.
i wanna see the reaction of 86
86 is anime
I was guessing the blood blending at one point yet the execution was even more messed up. Using any means necessary is understandable, but it's still f*ck up the way that lady forced Katara into using it. The tear bending scene gave me goosebumps though.
Been loving these reactions… but the Starbucks cup… girl…
Thank god someone said it
@@give_me_spACE cant be watching ATLA and then go support the oppression and cleansing of minorities… math aint mathing
The insurance scam went way too far. It was fine when they were just scamming the scammers.
Woaaah your haircut 🤌
16:55 That was goated 😂😂
I really hope you guys are planning to watch The legend of Korra next with the same crew, that's all I'll say!
As much as I love toph, her and iroh are my favorite characters, i definitely think katara would beat her in a fight