Overanalyzing Korra: Skeletons in The Closet

Skeletons, blood bending, sounds like a Halloween episode.
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[@overanalyzingavatar]

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[@camman11100]

The point you made at 2:10 is kinda interesting. I think it would have been cool if the United army had an equalist spy. It could show that Amon's influnce isn't just spreading past republic city but that others in this world would eventually come to similar conclusions.

[@Bentijon]

I'll expect that cookie by next Tuesday

[@Tornadica]

the one time i need a good fortune cookie its arriving snail mail and will be too late

[@adap3]

If I leave 2 comments will I get it overnight?

[@adap3]

Well I did anyway

[@arcvigaming8198]

"My grandfather would respect the avatars instinct..." sir I could make a comprehensive list of all the times Zuko did not in fact respect Aangs instincts...

[@ShaunakDesaiPiano]

Very true. But Iroh Junior never knew that Zuko.

[@אביבעזר]

My mother used to respect the avatar's instincts

[@jasonbarry3301]

Aang put a stupid convenient wood flap door in his own building because aang is the single most likely character in the series to end up using a stupid convenient flap door in his own building. Dude looked at a solid wall and said I’ve seen enough of my own show to know I’m going to need this one day.

[@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131]

Yeah, that sounds like something Aang would do ngl. There's probably a lot more and that's just the closest one they could use.

[@mattgreen5800]

Or he prepped the temple for an invasion that he feared would eventually come again. Fool me once.

[@unkindled6410]

@@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131 or the one that korra knew or that lead more directly to where they wanted to go.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Also worth considering that if air nomads are traditionally non-violent, they would likely have hidden escape passages. Which is something Aang would know about and probably want to integrate into newly built temples.

[@originalname.mp47]

@@PhoenicopterusRI thought maybe it was just there in case someone tried to wipe out the air nomads again, Aang saw what happened at the air temples (that being isolated and open) and wanted a secret way out

[@maskofthedragon]

8:01 Tenzin has been "repopulating" the airbenders a little harder than we were first lead to believe

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

That must be what the hatch is for, it's how he sneaks out to further make animated Shinzo Abe proud

[@battlesheep2552]

I'm suprised he doesnt have a harem. He's certainly got an excuse, and with air being the element of freedom i would think his culture would be okay with polygamy.

[@hatman9609]

@@battlesheep2552 yeah thats odd to me, but it is still a semi kids show

[@ralexcraft990]

@@battlesheep2552technically the culture never has direct parents so it might be

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

@@battlesheep2552 That's a vaguely implied idea. Aang doesn't know his parents and if he DOES know who his mother is, in the very least, it's never mentioned.

[@namenamename390]

8:55 really hope "you should've been briefed about this" turns into the Korra version of "He's right"

[@michaeld7945]

That's good!

[@panpolypuff]

re: firebending cannons, I'd think that the cannon allows less-precise firebenders to funnel a lot of power into their end while allowing the barrel to focus and direct it. Basically this would allow the bender to focus entirely on power and speed while a partner or crew can focus on the aiming. Especially for something as fast-paced as anti-aircraft defense, this seems like a good division of effort.

[@DarkDyllon]

in that sense it's kinda like a sniper spotter duo, sure the sniper can technically do the spotting, but that would make him/her inaccurate since you then gotta switch between zoom levels and where you're aiming. I liked that they had a fire bending cannon powered by 1 fire bender just pumping out fire, concidering it's also a funnel, it concetrates the fire, since if you just fire bend it disperses quite quickly, you rarely see them have a thin stream of pure fire, generally a wide stream of fire that can be maintained, or when Ozai did the comet part from his ship, it started small but then quickly fanned out to a massive area of effect, basically the opposite of water since water can be more focused as it can exist without it's source. so concetrating fire through a funnel would concetrate the firepower, while you can then also have certain recruits focus on power and speed instead of accuracy, all the person gotta do is bend their hardest and maybe bend fire fast.

[@icantnotthink3282]

I really do wish that Korra hadn't gone SO hard into new tech. Because I love the idea of doing all these things with bending instead of tech, but still providing an argument for the mistreatment of non-benders.

[@spence8920]

I’ve really been enjoying your Korra videos, almost as much as I enjoyed your ATLA ones, so I definitely hope you continue on with the next 3 seasons. Definitely gotta say mentioning that you’re gonna use “you should’ve been briefed” and then immediately using it for the Tarlok reveal scene was some of your best in video jokes so far. Keep up the good work and I’m glad I finally decided to get two videos ahead!

[@jalapenoofjustice4682]

I wouldn't knock the show for having Amon's dad claim bloodbending is the most feared & powerful type of bending in the world - it makes sense for this guy to make that claim.

[@DarkDyllon]

i mean, it's the only bending to get outright banned, hell, Aang was powerless against it till he activated the Avatar state, if it never was re-unlocked by Ozai, Aang would've died right then and there, with Yakone basically easily ruling over republic city. since he only needs to look at someone to basically disable them, it is also shown that a strong blood bender can knock out entire crowds in 1 go, so knocking out the worlds strongest benders and then killing them isn't that difficult for someone who is that strong in blood bending. although I think there should be some weaker form of blood bending, like at night blood bending is at it's strongest, especially the full moon, but during the day it's much weaker, still strong but your opponent if strong enough can go against it. this bloodbending just feels like a cheat code since at any point in time a blood bender can basically just kill anyone instantly, concidering if you blood bend you can also increase the flow of blood, meaning you can pump much more blood to your heart and SPLAT. it's not like how Zaheer does the air bending thing against the Earth Queen later, where it takes time and a vacuum which he gotta create, blood bending is instant as shown constantly in Korra.

[@motorwayt-s628]

I’ve seen so many people in the fandom say that water is the strongest element (probably because of blood bending). So it makes sense

[@DarkDyllon]

@@motorwayt-s628 i'm just looking at it logically, I wouldn't have called it the strongest element if it was the previous show with Aang, since there bloodbending requires a full moon to work (or atleast night time since I don't know if that 1 episode where Katara goes for revenge with Suko is during a full moon) but in Korra you can do bloodbending in broad daylight (literally) and even multi bloodbend people, this is much stronger than any bending out there. if we look at other elements and their alternate variations. Fire has Lightning, which is storng but if you can bend someones literal body with your mind? not that strong anymore, also generally needs some wind up to be strong (lightning bending) Earth has metal and lava, which yes both are strong, but if you encase yourself in metal, can you resist the blood bending? since there isn't a line of sight to said body? if yes then it's a possible counter, if no then blood bending is still the strongest. and then air bending, which it's strongest variation was what Zaheer used on the Earth Queen, where he formed a vacuum and then sucked the air out of her lungs without any new air being present, but this takes time and I doubt that you can do this on a massive scale since the air bender still needs to be able to breath, which obviously if you create a vacuum with you in it, you can't breath anymore either, but even then, being in a vacuum and being able to blood bend that air bender doing the vacuum means the vacuum dissapears, so blood bending still stronger. this is just looking at it logically, needing a full moon to blood bend gave it limitations and there for had an hard counter. in Korra it can be done at any time, even without movement, so it's massively overpowered with no real counter other than "you didn't hear or see me coming and I killed you" which I don't like, normally a variation of a bending style requires practice and discipline, in Korra it's just given. Like daylight bloodbending being somehow related to 1 family even though bending isn't specifically inheritable and you just get born with the capabilities or you're not. like lightning bending was unique that you needed a lot of training and discipline to effectively use it like Iroh, Ozai and Azula. how metal bending required a lot of effort till you finally get it (like how Toph's vibration sensing abilities being able to see the impurities of the metal and manipulate that specifically) and everyone else struggles with it till they get it. (like how Bolin and Korra both can't do metal bending even after training, while you got others who are masters at it)

[@flamebreaker7318]

@@DarkDyllon yes but only like 3 guys have the ability to do it at day time

[@ieetpeople4003]

13:45 has me dying

[@gamebuster800]

Yeah it made me do an actual LOL

[@idontknoq4813]

How the fuck did you leave a comment four weeks ago.

[@TwilightChomperEnthusiast]

@@idontknoq4813Early access period.

[@RacingSnails64]

What's so funny about that scene to you? Noatak's voice?

[@smirkza]

Me too, I actually cackled. 😂

[@kevandre]

I've always thought that Tarrlok's story paints him a bit /too much/ as an innocent in his backstory. We know he's happy to change a story to make him look blameless, I kind of think he did the same here and we never truly knew the real story. I'm sure it was at least pretty similar but I'd kind of guess he was a lot less hesitant than he says he was, given how he acts in modern day

[@cloudy8146]

Oooh! I'd never thought about this. Makes so much sense though

[@AAhmou]

I think so too, his meeting with Amon later on would show us that there is something he wasn't letting on.

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

He was rather young so it’s not surprising if he was innocent

[@thesuperdk513]

Well, we often are shaped by our abusive parents without us even knowing. Sure they stood up to Yacone, but he's likely still sunk his hooks in and they ended up doing what he wanted anyway because it's been so burned into their mind by him that they don't even realize what they're doing.

[@alexanderrobins7497]

It is also possible to hate every aspect of a person's personality, yet agree with them politically, which is how I imagine it.

[@natebengtson5252]

That he was once a blood bender, of rare skill. “What’s blood bending?” “You should have been briefed about this”

[@dandyspacedandy]

its probably difficult to bloodbend yourself to fly, your body is just being held up by its veins

[@carloguerrero6583]

Yucky. And the blood is held still or at least slowed

[@unkindled6410]

it probably hurst like hell too, and if i were to give my personal intake, bloodbending still requires a significant ammount of focus and poise, getting these disrupted just makes you lose thr grip instantly, the pain of having your muscles suddenly contort and lock involuntarialy from inside out must not allow you to focus too much.

[@Igneusflama]

People get lifted by blood bending a few times... Oww.

[@swag31556]

i kind of look at bloodbending yourself like sitting in a chair and trying to lift you and the chair up

[@mikedebakker5820]

@@swag31556 this

[@ghosttimm420]

13:40 "we can't just leave him here..." (gun shot) that was funny as hell 😂

[@three-moons6036]

I always thought of daylight bending as genetic and only those three had it. He just taught them that ability that they had.

[@horse14t]

Agreed. I've always seen it as just a very, very rare if not unique genetic mutation that this particular family had. As for Katara it's possible that her water bending was actually just a trait that skipped a generation in her case.

[@androkguz]

I've always thought it was a trick that only Yakone knew. Like some way to charge power and some trick to bend without movements

[@duskpede5146]

@@androkguz i like this one more tbh, feels more martial arts and less gifted ubermensch

[@durdleduc8520]

i think bending is probably like handedness. influenced by genetics, but still pops up randomly from time to time. and that would apply to all "abilities"

[@unkindled6410]

thats because thats how it supposed to be, Yakone and his bloodline were introduced as extremely rare inately talented benders, the rules for bloodbending werent changed, its just that these guys are super out of the curve so we could get full blown bloodbending villains and see how absurdly OP this ability really is.

[@Great_Olaf5]

9:02 Two words: waterbending healing. Would probably be useful to a lot of stages of plastic surgery. (could possibly keep the flesh alive while it's out of the body, can heal the cuts without scars etc etc)

[@quincy9908]

9:02 This is a fair assessment, but there is a flaw. The water healing would get in the way of the surgery. Imagine your body fastly healing in a surgery. That would most definitely get in the way of things. The healing would be after the surgery (which dependsof sacredness of the water). The preservation of things would be ice, healing won't work with a disconnected body part, it still requires nutrient supply & energy from the body (weither it be chi or fat) of the patient. Reason why we see scars with those healed, even with the most pure water katara used. I'm not a face surgeon though, so I have no idea in that lane. This is a dope idea tho. I like it.

[@Great_Olaf5]

@@quincy9908 Ah, thank you. Apparent the automatic time stamping doesn't work quote right during a premiere.

[@dragonborn7955]

Several words: That's your head-canon. Which doesn't make it canon.

[@brandonlyon730]

The super magic spirit water didn’t even remove Aang’s scar after Azula zapped him there.

[@XXMatt0040XX]

Important to note humanity has had surgeries, both cosmetic and medicinal, *long* before industrialization of any form. We have skulls from ancient Egypt with holes in them; a medical practice that relieves pressure from the skull. These skulls show that the "patient" *survived* too, I can recall cosmetic nose surgery being done in a horrific way, and it was before the Industrial Revolution. I don't like it still; like why bother with the mask if he got a new face? Idk I've never even bothered to watch Korra ngl lol

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

13:32, For the same reason you can’t fly by earth-bending or water-bending something you’re stood on. You hated it when that happened and we all agreed to forget about it.

[@DJDee79]

Gaara of the desert

[@gatoconstandqueparaeltiemp712]

Besides I think it would hurt af Like you aint flying you're just hanging on to your own veins

[@mathijsfrank9268]

It's actually not thát far fetched that the homeless man went through when the police couldn't. When in real life a disaster happens and all communication lines are broken, It's often the local hobby radio people (if there are any) that are able to set up emergency commucation, since they often have equipment that can function without the major phone lines. Something similar could be happening in the korra universe.

[@SImrobert2001]

True, but at the same time, Telegraph lines are easy to cut. If the police can't use that line, then no one can. What line is the homeless guy using for his telegraph? They've all been cut. If he was a HAM radio operator, then it would make sense.

[@remicou8420]

@@SImrobert2001they might be using an abandoned line that used to be for police or military use and was repurposed by the underground dwellers for their uses. it might not connect directly to the recipient either, if there’s at least one good guy at the receiving end and they’re at a quickly travelled distance of the recipient.

[@TheTwilitHero]

It probably is a radio signal. Old ships could send telegraphs wirelessly. At least by 1912, as the titanic sent out distress calls.

[@spirto1279]

Bloodbending your hand to fly around would be absolutely fucking hilarious, you have a corpse dangling off an extremely swollen red hand 100ft in the air

[@someonesomebody9952]

Personally, I felt that the battleship battle scene is tactically stupid. General Iroh should have just blockade Republic City at a safe distance and send a small group to help coordinate Korra from within. He did not even have any air support. There is no reason whatsoever for bringing the fleet so dangerously close to the city.

[@luap911]

When Tarrlok says that he recognizes his brother's bloodbending grip, that doesn't mean he has to of felt others bloodbending him. He only needed to realize that he was being bloodbent at all since it wasnt a full moon.

[@kizhaz5092]

I always hated that Hiroshi designed and made all these contraptions and people were just able to pilot them with no problems. Like damn how easy is it to fly a plane in the avatar universe

[@maskofthedragon]

He somehow invented the plane, without needing to ever fly it Good worldbuilding!

[@TheFlaminFire888]

6:30 He is sending a message over shortwave radio. Basically long distance radio.

[@pablosilva6932]

1:47 this was probably mentioned before, but I like how Amon's bending is portrayed as scary. We've seen how in this universe bending is highly integrated in society, so losing is losing part of one's identity

[@capnd.g.4711]

5:20 so scientifically the canons the firebenders use would be good for a quick build in pressure allowing for weaker benders to get more range from their attacks

[@JackieJackJackerJacky]

8:00 That caught me off guard lmao

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

I just realised the homeless guy looks like Doc, or was it his brother, Shu?

[@kaygirl10101]

I don't care how old he gets, Dante Basco will always sound like a prepubescent teen and is distracting as heck as a voice actor as a whole new adult character. All I can hear as Zuko.

[@MarKreationsStudios]

I'm really loving these, and I hope you do end up making videos for the next 3 seasons!

[@swag31556]

I know they just did it for visual reasons but can we talk about how bad of an idea it would be to have 2 airplane engines on the very tips of each wing? like 1 gets taken out you go into a spiral and die. you put one in the middle like in our world if it gets taken out you die while if the end of the wing gets taken out you can land it like a glider

[@marche800]

I think the whole no full moon bloodbending is a Yakone bloodline exclusive. Along with psychic bloodbending. Other than combustion bending which is also a rare ability we don’t really see a lot of people bend without moving so it can be assumed its some kind of genetic or psychilogical quirk with Yakone and his sons that's making it possible. Sort of like Azula's blue flames. Its just a them thing, at least until we see someone else utilize this ability.

[@lightning1892]

My biggest gripe with LoK's tech is how uncreative it is. They just took Bi-planes, bikes, trucks, cars, and the like, slapped 'em in the show, then called it a day. Also still finding it bizarre how Not-Iroh can have a bomb blow up right in front of him and survive with his only wound being a lost coat arm and a burn. ಠ_ಠ

[@scotchedtapee]

tbf zuko survived his ship exploding with relatively minor injuries in season 1 of atla. i think a lot of it also just goes back to “this is a kids show we can’t just blow off the good guy’s limbs” (even though they’re totally fine showing the villains getting exploded in later episodes lol)

[@lightning1892]

@js-1389 They could've done what they did with Combustion man. Have the explosion happen and then not show the body. As for Zuko's explosion, he at least managed to put up some form of defence before it hit. Not-Iroh straight up punches the bomb.

[@maskofthedragon]

It's really funny when earlier in the same episode, Korra had to soften her landing in the water, only to have Iroh be fine after getting BLASTED into it

[@h3069]

Those biplanes with three engines tho. Like I don't know anything about plane engineering, but I feel like those wingtip engines just make the wings 5x more breakable in hard turns or fights

[@RacingSnails64]

He can firebend, so I assume he did some sort of pushing bending trick to lessen the impact.

[@BBEX-fu5ho]

Amon’s and Tarlokk’s backstories have got to be some of the most tragic stories I have ever heard. When Tarlokk pleas to Korra to “put an end to this sad story” it brought me to tears

[@Lightningsrp]

The leap from car to suddenly WWI style biplanes always bothered me especially how unprepared the navy was for them. The existence of that navy doesn't screeam peacetime and with the existence of airships, a warships air defense would have to be top notch.

[@slowbrodragon6951]

8:55 omg, this is genius 🤣🤣 do more of these

[@bbjygm]

That gunshot was hilarious

[@lukarosberg5852]

12:11 I think he does it creating coagulations of blood in the places the chi blockers use, leaving a semi-permanent block (semi because another blood bender should give it back), and the places would change for every bending, thats why he didn't take airbending from Korra, he didn't know what chi to block

[@AirPanda22]

I thought it might be something similar to that. I just don’t like the idea of it being permanent. It doesn’t seem like like that should be possible. I think it should at least be healable. Like if they asked Katara about it. She could say I can feel the damage but to be to undo would take years of work and practice. I feel like it should be healable. I think a strong bloodbender should be able to fix it.

[@lukarosberg5852]

@@AirPanda22yeah, but it should be like Korra with the poison, like it can't be done by another person it would have to come from within, maybe connecting to the source of their bending would be a cool concept

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

Well yeah.... He blocks the chi paths that allow a bender to use a form of bending. Korra hadn't learnt airbending so no chi path was even formed. So he couldn't block.

[@ShOrt_RoUnD]

“We can’t just leave him here.” *BANG* 😂😂😂

[@garrisondesieno3199]

Korra says "Knock their heads" which seems to be a confirmed Water Tribe saying

[@scootydad8093]

The “we can’t just leave him here” bit with the gunshot was glorious, earned a good belly laugh

[@CMW003]

I think the balance if still having things to genuinely praise but also a being a lot more critical, similar to some of your coverage of the avatar comics, makes these korra vids really enjoyable in a way unique from how overanalysing atla was, so i hope we do get to see future books for the good and bad

[@XonTheOne]

The Fact that Every Equalist Disappears after Amon is Exposed sucks So MUCH, They Wasted a Villain, Wasted an Interesting Group of Chi Blockers. Season one was just a Total Waste of Potential

[@generalmars3855]

Imagine how much more rich the story would have been if Yakone, while on the run, made a deal with Ko the Face-Stealer for his new face. It could have added so much more to his and his son's motivations: what was Ko promised? Perhaps Amon's face was promised to him, which is why he wears the mask? That could have been really interesting to explore and use as a motivation.

[@MaxWelton]

5:25 I like how the giant coin shape is the standard earthbending ammo regardless of size, like we see in the pro-bending arena, Zuko Alone, and Beginnings.

[@mattgreen5800]

Lets be real, Aang probably installed secret hatches and passage ways all around the temple in an attempt to prevent what happened the last time the air nomads were trapped within their temple walls. As weird and out of pocket as it may feel in the moment it does make sense if Aang feared the loss of the Air Nomads again from future threats.

[@craigpeoples9883]

Crap never thought of that

[@emberedfox223]

I always felt that with Amon learning chi blocking and its effect on the body, stopping the ability to bend, I think he devised a way to mess with blood flow to the brain to restrict their motor function with how they bend keeping them in that chi blocked state without the paralysis (like your leg going numb you can still move it but if feels off). Like maybe Amon is making a blood clot in the brain or shifting the blood vessels given how he is always doing the forehead touch could be him focusing on such precise alterations without killing them this also explains the sluggish movements afterwards maybe be a side effect of that shift in the blood flow. This may also explain why it didn't stop Korra from airbending it may use a different parts of the brain or is strictly spiritual kind of bending(fits in with the theme of airbending) its not like there were airbenders to practice on either way so Amon wouldn't know if it would work or not had had no reason to think otherwise since it worked for 3/4.

[@cheeesecakkee]

Even though he clearly doesn’t enjoy TLOK as much as Avatar, he still puts a lot of thought into his videos(and hella work). This is great media analysis, amazing work, love the content.

[@owencmyk]

You could theoretically fly by blood bending, but that would a lot of effort, would probably cause long-term vein damage, and would certainly hurt like hell

[@leowulf5280]

I do wonder if they idea behind Daylight Bloodbending could just be a matter of training. Considering that Tarlokk and Amon started off training under Full Moons, maybe these rare forms of bending are like muscle training, it's hard the first time but becomes easier and easier with consistent practice. Most people even if they're capable probably never bloodbend in their life. Having specific training around doing it as much as possible at every opportunity leading to it becoming so much easier that you don't need the special moon power-up anymore I think actually makes a good deal of sense.

[@battlesheep2552]

Yeah it makes sense, Hama was entirely self taught and Katara learned from her. If there is some secret bloodbending tradition, who knows what they could be capable of?

[@DarkDyllon]

honestly, I kinda wish they showed that daylight bloodbending was weaker than it is. If it was based around what time of day and what moon cycle we were on I would've liked it more, since now it's basically "well, Amon is the strongest being there is right now concidering that Korra only edged a win because she randomly learns Air bending and shreds him before he can even react to it" without air bending Korra is much weaker even in the Avatar state, Which Korra doesn't master just yet. but I also find it weird that only Yakone and his sons can bloodbend, even though they both didn't know how and needed to learn from someone who can't even do it anymore, meanwhile Hamma had to learn it through years of painful training on rats and Katara was already an insanely strong bender (also much stronger than Hamma at that point) and just chanced into letting her emotions work for her and unlocked blood bending, then when her emotions ran wild again (when she was pissed) she did it again Daylight bloodbending should exist, i'm not against it on a concept level, but it should be weaker, kinda like firebending is weaker during the night since you can't draw from the sun anymore and need to draw from yourself, it still exists, but is weaker than it's daylight version. obviously regular water bending doesn't have this issue since water can exist in night and day on it's own.

[@isaiahcaston4539]

It's similar to how Azula becomes able to generate lightning despite her mental state. She's so good that the ability is just second nature now. Its funny bc he has a problem with this but explicitly says in ATLA that he's totally fine with Azula being able to do what she can do despite clearly established cannon

[@DarkDyllon]

@@isaiahcaston4539 it's more that Azula got so familiar with it that she can generate it, but as you saw in that final fight, it was unfocused lightning compared to how she normally does it, also, Azula was a master at fire and lightning bending, her emotional state can be compensated for. meanwhile bloodbending is suppose to be only possible through a full moon as water benders become their strongest at that moment, you can master it and possibly do it during the night, but daylight bloodbending is so massively OP that Yakone even mass knocked people out by a simple flick of the wrist, no other form of bending even comes close to this level of power, so it feels off that everything has an hard counter, meanwhile bloodbending is so massively OP that nobody can technically stop you except if you're the avatar AND mastered the avatar state, otherwise you're screwed.

[@stephanieturner6912]

I mean, I did think ‘don’t hurt the doggies’ when the wolves were being blood bent. So yeah, spot on analysis there.

[@lckaboom6810]

Ok how tf do you come up with the Patreon shoutouts at the end; they are legitimately hilarious

[@Someone02070]

I think Hiroshi just wanted to get some brownie points, he wants to have good faith with Amon and what better was than to capture the avatar and crew

[@mynameisbilly500]

"we cant just leave him here" -gun shot- i spat out my water LOL

[@everythingisscience658]

13:34 the reason you cant do that is probably the same reason that earthbenders cant just fly around on the chunks of ground and waterbenders cant bend ice blocks they are standing on. The creators didn't want everyone to be flying all the time.

[@eatglue]

You can't bloodbend your hand to fly for the same reason you can't pull a car with a magnet attached or pick up the chair you're sitting on

[@Obstpflanze]

Im not sure actually, since they dont require actual hand movements to do it but do it psychically

[@professorannefaire7233]

516 whenever I think about this scene I remember that when I first watched it I thought that she was going to lose all of her bending but unlock airbending naturally and then have to proceed with just airbending the rest of season 1 as a kind of culmination to her spiritual journey

[@deadshotdman6184]

For that comment of "bloodbend my own hand and just fly" I find the concept really interesting, I like to think yeah you could totally do that.... HOWEVER, as we've seen, a victim of bloodbending is always gonna be in pain and agony, so while you probably COULD, you'd have to push through the sheer amount of pain to make it happen

[@innegativeion]

I've really been enjoying your korra episodes. I do think this show is in certain circles both over praised and harshly criticized, and while I more fall into the latter camp, it's refreshing to see a very even and critical look that's willing to highlight its strengths *and* weaknesses with some real thought behind it.

[@twoloavesofbread]

okay "that is the coast!" got me good. just a plain ol dumb funny joke. great stuff

[@shadoukoa5045]

I eventually figured that the way Amon's Bending Removal(TM) works, is him using his bloodbending to destroy/block the part of the brain that allows benders to bend by cutting the blood flow to that section. He always goes for the head, so he's clearly messing with that. And that would mean that Amon has excellent knowledge on the human brain and its anatomy. Now, it could just be him blocking the chakras tho, but I'm not sure if the chakra located in the brain was responsible for things like bending and I can't be assed to find a (free) way of re-watching that episode of ATLA right now.

[@christiantangvald9421]

I noticed you called it "weird bread". But they're rocks. Thats good edible rock continuity.

[@MaxWelton]

8:14 Bolin probably used his spyglass to watch the equalizations from the coast.

[@benharmon7369]

Bro that gun shot made me laugh so hard fr

[@marijngrashoff30]

ohhh cliffs of dover now thats a fucking banger of a song

[@CoolBreeze1232]

"We cant just leave him here..." had me 💀💀

[@yehiakadhum340]

why did General kinda-Iroh just leave his soldiers? you mentioned that Bumi might just not mind sending his soldiers into their demise, but this guy just left his people and didn’t even think about their safety.

[@GrummanEnjoyer]

6:42 best guess is that is a wireless telegraph meant for Morse code likely taken off a scrapped ocean liner

[@amitavrashmi17]

Actually it makes total sense that amon would use the airbending island as a secret base, its remote and no one from the city can get there except korra, and the United nations wouldn't think of that as an option

[@andrewvirtue5048]

I don't know why, but I'm irritated at 7:30 freeze frame. All 3 of the guys are in the exact same pose.

[@cloudy8146]

Wait that's so funny. Why are they standing like that 😂😂

[@MaxWelton]

13:33 because that’d be only possible under full moons unless you wanted to commit animal cruelty for years on end

[@MrNova_404]

I think I've noticed with the writing of Korra, a lot of it feels like they finalized the script when they got to the second draft and didn't look back. Like a few more writing room meetings and drafts could have really fixed, fleshed out, and polished up the writing into something better. Given Asami, Bolin, and Mako more screen time and interaction with one another and such.

[@EricIsntSmart]

I havent seen many people brinh it up, but i love that Amon's bending-stealing doesnt have any effects, or notable sounds. It is so effective at making it terrifying, you hear and see nothing and then bam, a piece of them is dead

[@dorians2138]

Dude, i love this guy. I laughed so hard after that "We can't just leave him here."... "gunshot"

[@AtlasBlizzard]

The bloodbending of the wolves was physically painful to watch. This episode is really heart-wrenching, a story of a leopard who couldn't change his spots even when presented with happiness, destroying his two sons in the process. 😢

[@ieatmice751]

Nah it’s lame and contrived

[@emperortgp2424]

We probably could've had a similar story without utterly destroying the magic system of the shows

[@chimera9818]

@@ieatmice751I know about you but what about the episode

[@tomalator]

You can send a telegraph over radio, it's just less secure since anyone can hear it if they're listening

[@siggeahsberg3243]

cant wait for the overanalyzing avatar overanalyzing overanalyzing korra

[@hunterhiggins4930]

i hope you keep doing these videos, I want to see what you think of Zaheer and his crew. also the first season of korra isnt great but I want the videos to keep coming. they are great.

[@anrper6095]

speaking of season 3, I just want to see what he thinks about Jinora inexplicably knowing that Korra's poison was metallic

[@beckhambrooklynpenza1708]

@@anrper6095 Headcanon: Jinora is shown to read ALOT, so she recognised the material as metallic (shiny) when she saw it as a spirit projection

[@brandonlyon730]

Things will get fun when we get to season 2 where all the bullshit in Korra is at its worst.

[@XavionofThera]

@@anrper6095 What? You could plainly see it was liquid metal. And she was in the room watching with her projection. How is this odd?

[@ieatmice751]

God Zaheer is so dumb, his motives make even less sense than Amon’s

[@MaxWelton]

11:04 also, it’s titanium. The writers wanted to make it titanium which would make more sense with how heavy it is. They wrote platinum instead and by the time they caught the mistake it was too late to take back.

[@mew1023]

12:33 I thought for SURE you were about to say "And they brought the weird rocks too!"

[@christiantangvald9421]

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF NORMAL OX / WOLVES * reverb *

[@alessandro348]

1:08 There's just not enough on-screen development for this to fly, especially when he was so cold to Korra at the start. Also, the home she offered wasn't her own, so I feel like Tenzin gets the majority share of that selflessness. 1:55 It gets goofier when Hiroshi at the Equalist rally thinks they're going to go worldwide. So what, Amon is just going to spend his 9-5 cleansing benders waiting in a massive queue? What happens when all the nonbenders keep having bender children? What happens when Amon gets old and dies so there's no one with his special bloodbending technique? 10:10 I hate TLoK adding bloodline bending abilities, or at least confirming that Ozai was right and breeding does result in better, more powerful benders. Any time bending eugenics enters the discussion it ruins the martial skill and spiritual aspect of bending. Shit should have stayed in Naruto where it belongs. 12:02 Perhaps, but then we get issues like doctors being unable to tell that anything it wrong with them (so is it really blocked chi, which restricts movement?) or another bloodbender like Katara not being able to do anything. Why does a technique that has 0 to do with energybending require energybending to undo? 13:37 Half is empty spectacle (I can't believe Korra nearly gets torpedoed twice, they're accurate as fuck with those things), and the rest is a baffling flashback backstory. This is ep 11/12, the finale is next. This is when the pedal should be to the metal, and it's just an exposition dump flashback. It ends with the new plan to reveal that Amon is a waterbender, which I guess means nonbenders are wrong and stupid and have no legitimate grievances anymore. And wouldn't just be ok with using bending to remove bending - even though their kids could be benders like Katara and Toph - you know what I give up.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Amon certainly didn't think this through. He's not going to live forever, and he knows from personal experience that ex-benders can still have bender kids. Not to mention non-benders too. Bending would just come back anyway.

[@m4rcyonstation93]

I think it makes sense for Katara to not know how to fix it because why would she check that?

[@MaxWelton]

2:04 the shanty town lent him a spyglass because they know Bolin’s trying to save the city

[@jonasquinn7977]

I imagine that by the time Hiroshi laid the trap he had already build most if not all of the equipment the Equalists needed and likely had a few other secret factories set up. With Korra sniffing around and his cover not being completely necessary anymore he probably saw it as an opportunity to ambush, kidnap and equalise at least Lin especially since he clearly hated pretending he wasn’t an Equalist.

[@Brenilla]

Your telling me that you think aang wouldn’t put secret silly passages in airtemple island? (That one is kinda sucky tho…) They honestly should have had Amond find some spirit to get a new face, would have fit better and play into the water tribes being spirit related for the potential next season. (If by now they had ideas for it if they got it)

[@cloudy8146]

You're so right (about your second point especially)

[@ZachariahMicallef]

That Chanty town SOOOOOO should have been where the Non-Benders live. I wanna SEE the oppression you talk about show!

[@diogoduarte4097]

I suppose the shanty town could have been built in either a flood drain tunnel like G-Cans in Tokyo. Or, based on the hole in the ceiling, an abandoned metro station, which have ventilation shafts like in London. Usually they try to hide the shafts somehow, but there are some which are just big holes with a fence.

[@chrisd5564]

A thought that scares me is the fact that bloodbending could easily be used to stop someone’s heart or even make it explode. The fact that you could be skilled enough to not only do it without a full moon but during the daytime as well; it would be very plausible that they could do something like that… especially if Amon and his father were able to do it with their damn minds!!!

[@theonlycommodore2778]

"You havea shanty town in these subteranen tunnels, what could these be fore." Laughs in New York City vibes

[@snoobertwilliamson]

just noticed that amon does the sideways hand thingy to take away bending that karara and the old lady do in the bloodbending episode from airbender. it’s the same motion just touching their forehead

[@D-TayWashington]

So “you should’ve been briefed about this” is the new “ that’s good”

[@TheGreatVoicemancer]

Yknow I could have sworn I remembered that Amons ability worked by permanently blocking someones chi with bloodbending

[@crispy1519]

"You should've been briefed about this."

[@paulotruzzi3652]

Here's a small flaw in your logic regarding Amon's plan: The United Nations aren't comprised entirely of benders, there are several nonbenders operating on critical roles. If you manage to launch an attack on the capital of the world and WIN, it gives all the nonbenders power to fight back against the benders. Also, do you know how hard it is to get different countries to work together? Amon would have to be an Ozai-level threat to get all nations to unite, and even if that happens, there's gonna be infighting between benders and nonbenders. Waiting before launching an attack is a great strategy, since it allows him to demonstrate strength in a quick 1-2 punch that no one would dare challenge.

[@talenstout8324]

He made them previously. He was betrayed by that mysterious guy. No but he’s persistent.

[@furiousfists127]

just because of all the bloodbending stuff, i think there should be blood bending in metal benders because there are trace amounts of iron in blood

[@TopKing63]

I'm gonna give Bloodbending the title of most powerful and most feared type of bending in the world. No combustion bender has broken out of a bloodbender's grip. Plus, it's been shown that a bloodbender with a hold on someone can keep them from bending.

[@cmac3530]

I had always assumed pretty much every master waterbender could learn to blood bend in daylight but, because it was such an unknown technique before it became outlawed the only people to attempt, practice and perfect the technique would be the criminals.

[@NotEpimethean]

I always just assumed that any Waterbender could bloodbend during the full moon, but only a select few powerful bloodlines could do it at other points in time. Hama invented bloodbending, but it was shown that Katara was a more powerful bender naturally. I could see the same happening here, but in this instance, not many of these super powerful Waterbenders would have even known they could bloodbend without a full moon, since Katara made it illegal.

[@DoktorTaiko]

Just writing a comment to help push the algorithm, so that the full show will be covered.

[@jacktietjen]

I'm for real cracking up all the time in these videos. Easily some of my favorite content on youtube if not the internet at large. I love it. You're still underrated as fuck imo, keep it up I hope you hit 500k soon