Overanalyzing Korra: Rebirth

[@overanalyzingavatar]

That wheezy waiter thing is already claimed btw

[@berentlabrecque4641]

looking forward to seeing it in future videos! can we, uh, get a link to it?

[@stardmg]

that's one of the few references of yours that have flown over my head. What did you mean by "rack focus"? Am I dumb?

[@Abananapie]

@@stardmg when the focus of a shot changes during the shot it happens _a lot_ in Korra

[@mikamo]

@@stardmgfront person in focus, back person blurry, then back person talks, and suddenly back person in focus, front person blurry. Or vice-versa.

[@LuisSierra42]

Watch Attack on Titan

[@manic9648]

Surprised there's no mention of how raw Zuko's design is. He looks so sick as an old man, the way they made him look like a mix of Roku and Sozin is genius. Easily the best of the aged-up designs Korra gives us

[@ningunoZyZ]

Wish he'd act more regal but i guess he developed a sense of humor over the years

[@rakshithanand8262]

@@ningunoZyZMy man retired long ago, I don’t blame him for trying to act like uncle iron in his old age.

[@zemo8214]

@@rakshithanand8262Nah, I call BS. Virtually every other Firelord we’ve seen has ruled until death the reason why Iroh didn’t was because he wasn’t the Firelord. Zuko abdicating the throne to his daughter just feels like an excuse so they can write Zuko out of the finale later.

[@rakshithanand8262]

@@zemo8214 I’m not saying I wouldn’t have preferred Firelord Zuko. But what we were gives is that he did in fact retire. On that basis, however flawed, it makes sense.

[@Hekateras]

@@zemo8214 Zuko is unlike "every other Firelord we've seen" (i.e. his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather" in a lot of ways. That was a pretty big deal in ATLA. Him retiring rather than clinging to power until his dying breath is something I can see pretty easily.

[@wraithgames]

From Wikipedia: "Sequins made with nautilus shell were found dating back 12,000 years in Indonesia. Evidence exists that gold sequins were being used as decoration on clothing or paraphernalia in the Indus Valley as early as 2500 BC" and "Sequins (mainly made out of reflective bits of metals) sewn into jackets, bonnets, and dresses were popular among the nobility and wealthy during the 17th to 19th centuries" Most relevant: "During the 1920s, after the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, sequins witnessed renewed popularity as a consequence of Egyptomania.[6] The usage of sequins (typically made out of metal) was widely popularized as a fashion statement by flapper girls during this period."

[@LeeTheGoat]

I think that was one of his engagement baits that he admitted to in "overanalyzing overanalyzing avatar"

[@kayemni]

@@LeeTheGoat it's fine at worst we get to learn about Sequins lol

[@biggtay5758]

I apprectiate this information even if Mr. Overanalyzing tricked you into giving it!

[@notorious.png_]

Overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite confirmed?!

[@Lenman19999999999999]

Hell yeah!

[@ca5herba5her99]

Yes Please

[@ladymilliejean4166]

HYPE

[@skel1179]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

[@boppertron4929]

Commenting here to support overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite

[@maskofthedragon]

5:47 Someone needs to make an edit Katara's line from the first episode to have her say "it's not waterbending it's magic"

[@robertm5110]

😂

[@pn2294]

Why?

[@ApocolipticMonkey]

@@pn2294 To use when ming hua is swinging her magic arms

[@earthsmightiestdorks]

in the style of the yuyan archers "magic water not bending, water magic 100 yards magic water tree"

[@overanalyzingavatar]

Like and comment and gain 1 inch on everything. Your vertical jump, height, sandwiches, you name it.

[@Bentijon]

My jump height is pretty convincing

[@LoudNoob]

On everything? Or anything? Some things, i cant afford to have another inch.

[@laugepoulsen8647]

Thickness of dollar Bills, please

[@wraith3156]

For objects that you own is it 1 inch only, or is it 1 inch every time it becomes yours again? I need to know if I could duplicate pizza infinitely, oh and money too I guess, but mostly the pizza. Update: The good news, you can in fact abuse this power by passing ownership of something between a friend and yourself. The bad news, there is now a 3 story house cat rampaging in downtown New York.

[@BeccaGuinn]

can I lose 1 inch on everything instead?

[@Charlestic]

Yea they are 70 years removed from the war but the germans are still used as villains for us goo and that war only lasted 6 years, the cultural impact of a 100 year war is valid if not undersold

[@abthedragon4921]

I agree, wounds left over by wars (especially long-lasting ones) can linger for decades. WW2 was roughly 70+ years ago but not only are we still talking about it, we live in a world order shaped by it. Honestly, like you said, the Fire Nation's lingering tensions with the rest of the world feels underutilized!

[@Zenwind]

Ikr - you should ask basically all of asia how they still feel about Japan

[@trivialwriting6608]

@@Zenwindyeah, my home country fucking hates the Japanese.

[@xShadowChrisx]

@@Zenwind or just ask how the french and british felt about each other after *their* hundred year war...

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Zenwind And about each other. and how japan feels about all of them. they really all did a number on each other.

[@hammarkids542]

12:05 Isn't that kinda Zaheer's point though? He literally says that himself in The Stakeout. When they came out of hiding and openly served the Avatar, they became glorified bodyguards. Honestly imo it makes sense that they're worse at fighting now. Instead of this cool cryptic society that only skilled masters can get into it's like another police force and anyone can join to protect the avatar

[@maskofthedragon]

"it's like another police force and anyone can join to protect the avatar" You say that as if we've seen their recruitment process and it's not just Bryke forgetting higher ranked members existed, Even that leader guy from episode 1 doesn't make a single appearance after the 1st episode of Korra

[@destroyerdoom1544]

ITS THE HAMMARKIDS DUDE WHO MAKES KORRA VIDEOS AND IS FREIDNS WITH OVERANALAYZONF STAR WARS

[@hammarkids542]

@@destroyerdoom1544 YES I FUCKIN AM

[@youngmaster7405]

HAMMERKIDS

[@F0XD1E]

Of course it makes sense. But how else other than making nonsensical arguments can he get across "Korra bad?"

[@loogiemaster308]

Missed opportunity to have the actual Aang Fornite skin doing orange justice

[@Gabe-m1q]

Yes

[@ethansample8512]

I think it's specifically because Tenzin holds his culture so near to his heart that he goes overboard on all these people. There's a chance to rebuild that culture, in his head it would be a no brainer for everyone to drop their old lives and become air nomads, because if he was in their position he would do it. Because he loves the air nomad culture so much. It's a very human thing to forget that not everyone feels the same way about things as you, and this is that on a massive, world altering scale. I think it makes sense for Tenzin

[@TheCheck999]

Exactly. Tenzin was the last airbender for about a decade. He had to carry the weight of keeping that culture alive as the last airbender and being the son of Avatar m*th*rf*ck*ng Aang. Of course the prospect of that culture being restored clouds his judgement.

[@chimera9818]

Also there is fan theory that the new air nation are the descendent of fleeing surviving air nomads so it is likely it is their culture they just had their ancestors hide it to survive

[@symbolofpeacetv1578]

@@TheCheck999 He wasent the last airbender cos korra was still around so he was the last airbender for like 2 mins

[@TheCheck999]

@@symbolofpeacetv1578 Yeah but Korra didn't learn to bend air until Tenzin taught her. Until his kids started bending Tenzin was the only person who could physically bend air.

[@DerrickWilson-fm7vc]

Man, you’ve gotten way funnier I dunno about the water arms lady though. Bumi and combustion man were both able to bend with very subtle movements in their head, and I feel like it makes enough sense that someone without arms would naturally learn a way to move their body in a way to still bend I don’t think it’s much different from other extreme outliers in bending. Like healing

[@maskofthedragon]

She's not using movement at all, she's even able to grow 8 of those things and control them in as close to a T-pose as she can muster

[@DerrickWilson-fm7vc]

@@maskofthedragon I originally had a much longer comment but toned it down because I didn’t think people were going to bring up the 8 armed moment, but I guess I should’ve kept it Like with a bunch of other bending moments in Korra, the water arm lady has instances of bending that are inarguably telekinesis, like that 8 arm trick. But I still think the core idea is solid, as solid as combustion bending or healing, or Bumi moving earth with his head. The water arm lady *usually* is moving a lot with her bending, and I think subtle shoulder, head, and leg movements should be enough to justify most of it Healing is a big thing I think people need to remember when it comes to how wildly different bending can be from what we expect. When it’s first introduced, Katara doesn’t move at all to heal her hands. Nothing about water should allow it to heal wounds so quickly, so there’s inherently some sort of mind magic going on for it to work. If healing was introduced in Korra, everyone would be super against it as a degradation of what bending is, and I think we should remember that when other outliers in bending appear

[@maskofthedragon]

"If healing was introduced in Korra, everyone would be super against it as a degradation of what bending is" No shit, that's why it was established early on and given proper expansion "Bumi moving earth with his head" He does a small movement and gets a small result, he still uses his whole body to do visibly more impressive feats MIng gives water the complex anatomy of arms and hands doing nothing and does her most ridiculous moves in freefall where stances are impossible If Korra (the Avatar) herself bungee jumped with water like Ming does, if would look nothing like waterbending

[@DerrickWilson-fm7vc]

@@maskofthedragon “properly explained” Yeah right. Its explanation is that it’s a thing waterbenders can do for reasons, even without movement. And the argument that it’s fine because it’s early is ridiculous. Combustion bending came late into the game, and it’s completely nonsensical with no explanation. Another bending style that would absolutely be ripped apart if it was only in Korra Toph can sense everything around her with the most subtle of movements. I do not see how it’s so ridiculous that a disabled person would be particularly suited to learning a way to bend without their arms

[@maskofthedragon]

@@DerrickWilson-fm7vc "Yeah right. Its explanation is that it’s a thing waterbenders can do for reasons" We are given far more than the NOTHING of almost everything invented for Korra, we a given a loose sense of logic tied exclusively to waterbending, we are given an X-ray of what it looks like through that dummy, we are shown it being taught and we are shown what it can't do "Even without movement." Katara is shown to move plenty of times during healing sessions "And the argument that it’s fine because it’s early is ridiculous" If flying bison or spirits were introduced years into the series lifespan, they would not fit the world at all "Combustion bending came late into the game, and it’s completely nonsensical with no explanation" "No! Power in firebending comes from the breath. Not the muscles. The breath becomes energy in the body" - The first we ever learn about firebending We also see explosive bending from unmastered lighting use and improper use puts the user in extreme danger, making the rarity self explanatory "Toph can sense everything around her with the most subtle of movements. I do not see how it’s so ridiculous that a disabled person would be particularly suited to learning a way to bend without their arms" Seismic sense is a learnable skill, invented by badgermoles, passed on to Toph and than to Aang Ming's ability to make normal water do basically anything came from nowhere, no other waterbender can swing around like Venom or make even more arms like she can, so why can she?

[@DougJF77]

Waterbending is based vaguely on t'ai chi, which is an internal martial art that puts huge emphasis on movement originating from the core. Ideally at a high level, the limbs are simply relaxed extensions of the practitioner's 'dantien', the area between hips and sternum. I think it's entirely feasible that a master waterbender who loses the use of their arms would be able to still waterbend, and in fairness she never uses the water prosthesis for extremely fine detail - it's mostly large whipping motions, which could certainly be driven from waist and hip motion. Food for thought!

[@Briskeeen]

She drives a car with them

[@maskofthedragon]

The second action she does with them is creating working arms with hands to climb and swing around like Spider-man The last thing she does is create at least 8 functioning arms that she can control all at once She can freeze herself up to head to form a functioning drill that cuts through the ground like it's cotton candy and immediately go back to Spider-man mode Master waterbenders who aren't 13 years out of practice can't do any of that

[@Greenitthe]

King Bumi, Combustion Man, Laghima & Zaheer, and lightning bending in general are great examples of how bending is more about the movement of energy than the accompanying physical movements which also aligns with the lion turtle lore. The martial arts being the most effective way to learn and/or effect the movement of energy does not preclude purely psychic bending. Particularly given how the mind and body accommodate the loss of senses and body parts, I don't think it is a stretch at all to say that she can still use waterbending even with minimal movement. Waterbending as a style is probably one of the easiest to adapt as you rightly point out. That being said, some of the stunts Ming-Hua pulls would be beyond what we've seen most waterbending masters do while still in their prime. That is the real issue with her abilities IMO

[@the_turtle_boii]

Your korra series is so good. Thank you for keeping it consistent with overanalyzing avatar. 10/10 my new comfort series

[@pn2294]

What makes it good? I feel the commentary is pretty lacking compared to the cartoon.

[@zenebean]

The Red Lotus is pretty much why I gave this season a try and ended up watching the last 2 seasons. "Evil Team Avatar" but with a cracked team of specialized, older benders is really cool in general. They have great designs (wish you stayed around, Hairy Zaheer), a fun dynamic of a bunch of old friends, and have their pretty standout bending styles. Ming Hua's my fav. If Bumi can casually earthbend with just his chin, I can believe a skilled enough waterbender can learn to bend like her.

[@thegreatscribbles960]

Evil team avatar be like actually feel like a group of friends and like each other

[@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975]

Ironically the red lotus were a better team and friend group than the krew

[@carlosalbertoalcazarandrad5348]

@@faeyzaihsanulfikri9975 that's debatible

[@maskofthedragon]

If the Red Lotus didn't call themselves that, I would have genuinely forgotten the White Lotus still exist during Korra If you took away the uniforms, you could just assume they are with the United Forces

[@binatlas6620]

0:10 it *does* feel kind of weird that the name for the New Air Nomads is the same name the fire nation called them during their propaganda lessons though. i guess they're reclaiming it but it's never brought up and it feels wrong to accept that as their new identity

[@cloudyskyz2237]

THATS where I heard air nation from, thank you! I was like “wait, it wasn’t called that ever before?”

[@nonyabiznis7550]

This is exactly what I was thinking

[@davis1733]

I mean, they're not a nomadic culture at this point in time, at least not until after the S3 finale. Why would they then be called nomads?

[@nonyabiznis7550]

​@davis1733 You're not wrong. I personally don't think it's incorrect per say, it just feels weird.

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

This world does have plastic. The first thing that comes to mind is the rubber tires of the Satomobiles. Synthetic rubber, even if its not the same kind of plastic, is still made of basically the same things, in the same ways. Its not a stretch at all to say they have both. Edit: The Pro-Bending helmet visors too. Couldn't make those out of glass when they're actively getting hit by rocks, so I can't think of anything else other than plastic that they could be made of.

[@TyphonBaalHammon]

Maybe it's not synthetic rubber though.

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

@@TyphonBaalHammon That's a good point. Synthetic rubber was still very much a new thing in the 20s, and, although organic rubber is still a plastic, it has nothing to do with oil products. Another thing I remembered that I think is plastic are the visors on the Pro Bending helmets. For obvious reasons it would be better to have no visor at all than to make it out of glass, so I can't really think of any other material that could be rigid and transparent to make them with other than plastic.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@sebastiaomendonca1477 Yeah rubber is just tree sap.. and interestingly, if they have that, they also have chewing gum. and potentially condoms. Though I have to imagine avatar people would largely chew dried squid. You are probably right about the pro bending helmets though.

[@KairuHakubi]

I imagine that sequins predate plastic, surely they were made of thin pieces of punched out metal first.

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

@@KairuHakubi You're right. Turns out there's a whole wikipedia page about sequins, and something it mentions very explicitly is that metal sequins predate plastic sequins

[@lkeblock1662]

Ming Hua bending always read to me as "She does the bending motions but you can't see it because she doesn't have arms". Think of that Dr. Strange scene where he's struggling to do a spell and blames it in his hand injury, but then they guy without a hand does it just fine. It's kinda like an in between of Amon psychic bending and regular bending. Mentally she still needs the technique, philosophy, and understanding of the motion, even if phyically, she doesn't have arms to move. That does beg the question of whether or not bending is done by the intent of moving, and limbs are just a vehicle for it, or if you need limbs for phyical motions or else you can't bend.

[@NataliaPunko]

Good point Another thing is, she could still be flexing whatever related muscles she has. We've seen king Bumi bend by doing so

[@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131]

Not to mention that as much as the arms move around with waterbending, like OA mentioned, the torso also does a substantial amount of movement too, which is reflected in Ming Hua's choreography. At least early on. Her super octopus arm thing later on I think was a stretch considering there were times she was definitely fighting team Avatar around enough water to do at least a scaled back version of that (Which would've helped a lot for me.), but then again I feel like those scenes in Ultimatum and Venom of the Red Lotus were more just finale and penultimate finale spectacle, which I can't really fault.

[@abiwonkenabi7027]

This is how I've thought of it as well. It also feels like this is something that only a person without arms would also get proficient at as well, like they way irl they typically become very dexterous with their feet. An able-bodied person doesnt need to learn how to do this. Its incredibly difficult and why would they need to if they can just use their hands, so Ming Hua stands as an impressive outlier.

[@NataliaPunko]

@@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131 she did have two fights where she had lots of water accessible, but I think she just chose not to use it. In one of those (on the north pole) she wasn't having any trouble fighting Unalaq's children, and in the other (the one at the misty palms oasis) she was fighting Mako, a firebender, during nighttime. On the other hand, maybe the octopus thing has downsides, since it's about controlling so much water. By the way, something I noticed in Ultimatum is, when Kya pushes Ming Hua off the balcony, she uses all the water available for her at once, letting Ming Hua take all of it for herself and leave Kya even more defenseless. So, it might be not just a flashy move

[@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131]

@@NataliaPunko What I'm getting at more is just that her ability to just go "Haha I'm an octopus now" caught me by surprise the first time I watched it. Sure, that might have been partially the point for a scare/shock factor effect, but it would've been nice to see her do one or two fights where she used, say, two pairs of arms, like at misty palms. Sure, it might not have been needed, that fight always made me feel like she and Ghazan were just toying with Mako and Bolin, but it still would've been nice to see.

[@lightning1892]

"Come on guys, you're meant to be competent and smart" My good man, have we been watching the same show?

[@ningunoZyZ]

A man can dream

[@AhuramazdaShah-d8z]

Have you ever heard the tragedy of Guru Lahima the wise?

[@DepravedCoTApologist]

It's not a story the Air Nomads will tell you...

[@JackPhoenixCz]

It's a Red Lotus legend...

[@z0bi_]

1:40 one might say that he'd be a great actor

[@wawatooki]

Overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite would be awesome lol

[@kstanv9265]

I don’t know, I normally agree with the takes you make about the magic system but I actually like the armless water bending. It felt like a cool addition seeing a limbless bender, someone who was faced with life changing problem and still improved. Almost like losing one of your 5 senses

[@foxi13x]

Yeah, it's like when you lose one of your senses, the others get stronger, so imo it works

[@lightning1892]

If Bryke took the time between this episode and the finale to explain or hint at how she does it like when they showed how Toph earth-bends despite being blind, it'd be less of a problem. She's a congenital amputee, so she's never performed regular water-bending, so how was she able to create/learn this (probably) entirely new off-shoot of water-bending?

[@Felicificity]

@@lightning1892 Considering that King Bumi was able to chin-bend earth to fly up and pry open his cage, I think it’s pretty clear that very gifted and determined benders can bend with minimal movements. Ming Hua is probably the most skilled bender we’ve seen who uses this kind of technique, but it’s nowhere near as dumb as psychic bloodbending. She clearly uses her body still, swaying and twisting to match her water-arm movements. I really don’t see it as a significant departure from what we’ve seen is possible in this universe, and it’s justified a lot better than what we see from Amon.

[@maskofthedragon]

it would be nice if she did actual armless waterbending, instead of having a symbiote do everything for her

[@maskofthedragon]

@@Felicificity 5:50 Oh man, look at all that movement she is doing That water is totally not acting like it has muscles that are physically attached to her

[@tibula5857]

I feel like the reason Ming-Hua being able to waterbend without using her arms simply because she doesn't have any works for me is because the show has already shown a character who has turned a weakness into a strength via bending in the form of Toph. The reason she's the sickest earthbender is because she has to use it at all times and be more attuned to be able to see. I've always interpreted as the arm movements as something that helps a user channel the bending but not entirely necessary (would note Bumi also does some psychic bending back in ATLA while in the metal cage). It isn't out of the realm of possibility to me that Ming-Hua just had to do it so much more than any other bending user that to her it just feels natural, which is why her doing this doesn't feel crazy out of place.

[@HegelOnHisHead]

Something I’ve never seen anyone bring up (although maybe it’s because it’s not really that important) is that Lava bending was HEAVILY implied to be a fire bender ability in the original avatar. It the episode “The Avatar State” at the beginning of season 2 Roku shows Aang what the avatar state does. We see a flashback of Avatar Kioshi Bending huge Earthern Statues, the water bender who’s girlfriend’s face Koh stole bending a tsunami wave, Yang Chen bend a huge amount of air and the fire bending avatar before Roku bend the lava from a Volcano. Each avatar bends their nation of origins respective element, implying that lava is a fire bender ability. Also in the little chibi short of the bending battle from the original series, zuko bends lava. It’s not really important and I actually don’t mind that the creators changed it to an earth bender ability (it makes just as much sense honestly) it’s just I’ve never seen anyone comment on it

[@LoudNoob]

Makes no sense for firebenders to bend lava. Its molten earth…

[@auditect950]

I agree and thought the same. I figured it could be the opposite of cloud-bending, having a firebender and an earthbender team up to do so? Since Bolin's mom was of the fire nation, perhaps it is a latent firebending gene, combined with his earthbending, that makes it possible? Maybe that's why it's so rare.

[@manbagan]

sure, but how are the earthbenders melting that earth? they don't produce heat

[@Videogamaholic1]

@@manbaganI mean, Waterbenders can create ice and steam from regular water. It's the same basic concept with Lavabending. Earthbenders are just heating up the earth the same way that Waterbenders cool or heat water.

[@HegelOnHisHead]

I mean comets are made of “space earth” and water yet empower fire benders. Lightning is caused (in part) by differences in atmospheric pressure yet is a fire bending ability not air bender. What nation gets what ability is not always based off of what makes the most scientific sense.

[@ddchrw]

5:12 “On the topic on whether the Lion Turtles giving bending IT a retcon:” Minor error detected, I thought you were better than this Mr. Overanalyzer

[@flintwildpants8710]

I like Ming-Hua. Their design is very striking and creative, and as a disabled person it's nice to see that disabled people aren't just non-benders regardless of bender genetics. The non-physicality argument makes sense, but it brings to mind more (comparatively) minor injuries and questions if they'd effect bending. Blood bending has been shown to very heavily involve the wrists and fingers, could a man missing just his hands not blood bend precisely? If your dominant foot was a prosthetic, could you still earth bend? The only example of something like that in-universe that I can think of is explosion man from atla. He had a prosthetic arm, but didn't really need to use it to bend. My rationalization is that her spirit has phantom limbs, like the medical phenomenon. According to her mind and spirit, she still has her arms and can move them, even if they aren't physically there. But that's probably just cope.

[@AwesomeWookiee]

That's some sick cope though. Also Ming His is obviously meant to be "special" in some sense. I assumed she'd learned to control them using the remnants of her arms with tight, controlled motions.

[@mittens4385]

Since bending is so spiritual, it makes sense if Ming Hua’s intended movements of missing arms translate into waterbending, yeah.

[@wv5853]

There’s a theory I just thought of. Combustion man needs only breathing to bend right and his wounds are a missing arm and leg. You’d expect his whole body to be mutilated if he survived his own explosion but everything that’s not his arm and leg are scar free and squeaky clean no scars or anything. What if physical injury alters you’re bending, we know bending has alot to do with chakras and energy moving through out you’re body so if energy that would have traveled towards ming huas arms can’t do that for obvious reasons we’re does it go instead? Maybe it swirls around her heart or brain more or Mabye it gets released from her shoulders. We also know fire benders can use there bending to sense chi paths when Azula hair cut lady did it in season 2. With that being said my theory if that Ming Hua, combustion man and P’li are chakra experiments, combustion man was the first as he got injured in war and the solders noticed his bending becoming more explosive and less controlled, so they did experiments on him, surgically altering the direction of the chi paths towards his forehead turning him into a walking cannon. The red lotus are pretty much a crazy cult who may have learned about the creation of combustion man and replicated that experiment to create P’li, she has no missing limbs which might be why her blasts are less powerful yet way better controlled as her body felt the need to alter itself in a slightly different way than combustion mans, wing hua was stated by one of avatars writers that she used to have her arms but they were cut off so her body and chakras basically could evolved or adapted to that and if not her chi paths could have been altered surgically for her to do what she does. Do I think my theories correct, no but I think it should still be looked into since we know so little about combustion benders who might in another theory be selectively bread potentially genetically altered super solders since there both so tall much like real life historic super-solders were groups of people selectively bread the tallest and strongest people to make there armies however the experiment could have been dropped do to there self destruct risk which canonically happened to combustion man.

[@colinclabo3536]

I was going to comment a very similar theory, but glad I found your comment! Bending is certainly very physical and that is a huge part of the appeal but it is, at its core about focusing chi. While she may not be able to physically move her arms, her spirit may manifest otherwise. Alternatively one may even argue that hands and arms are maybe actually an obstacle to benders which is why it takes years of training to move/position them correctly such that they don't inhibit the flow of chi. Lots of cool theories for her and while it's maybe not classic Airbender it's very cool in other ways!

[@dominickeijzer5844]

​@@wv5853Combustionbending was actually an experiment to create warriors, but it happened back during the Yangchen era. It was called the Unanimity Project and it was done by this group of trade cities who wanted independence (a bit like a proto-Republic City). The project experimented with all kinds of Benders to find results (even trying to coax Lavabending out of people) but only Combustionbending worked. And it was cruel beyond belief, many died leaving only (I believe) five survivors. Some of the survivors were given new fake identities after escaping and I think Yangchen even developed an entirely new Airbending attack (draining the air out of a place) to counter it. Combustion Man was an elite mercenary that was likely either trained to Combustionbend when he was young, or forcefully subjected himself to it. Maybe he's the descendant of one of the original Combustionbenders. P'Li was stated to have been rescued from a warlord trying to use her power by the Red Lotus, suggesting that there was a warlord trying to recreate the Unanimity Project. Ming-Hua was actually born without arms according to a Q&A, but I think some level of phantom limb is still acceptable, especially with how Waterbending can influence Chi paths.

[@the_turtle_boii]

The red lotus is one of the best concepts from the avatar franchise.

[@bobfr3akingdole]

A whole inch? That's double the size!

[@aleatheltrashcan478]

Bro is one inch tall 💀

[@ElusiveMysteryMan]

I disagree with your take on Ming Hua. The "telekinesis" bending is definitely a problem in the show, but I feel like Ming Hua isn't a case of this. Bending is about manipulating the body's chi, but not necessarily the body. That's why physical strength has never been the limit to the amount someone can bend. The motion and physicality of bending is because a bender needs to be attuned to their chi/body and freely able to move it to direct the chi. Ming Hua still moves her body to bend and direct her chi. It's not that big a leap to say a very skilled bender could use their existing body to direct chi up to and beyond where a lost limb was (Sparky Sparky Boom man was able to bend with a prosthesis). To go even further with the head cannon copium filled explanation, water is consistently shown to be able to serve as a conduit for the body's chi and spirit. That's why it could be used by a skilled bender for healing, spirit water shenanigans, and in Ming Hua's case to be used as an extension of a lost limb. I've finished my deranged ramblings. You have 24 hours to respond or else I'll be considered correct by internet law.

[@midnightbard3935]

Thank you for other great points about Ming Hua. I also think that her style is very reasonable and this episode did it a big disservice

[@jacobrutzke691]

That is how internet law works

[@friendlyelites]

I also think its an objectively cool way to fit a character's disability neatly into the world's magic system. Ming Hua doesn't do the water arms effortlessly because she's good at it, she does it because she *has* to do it.

[@juicyjuustar121]

THIS. I think the idea of amputee benders is awesome and I have absolutely no issue with it. The other psychic bending stuff on the other hand is just really unfortunate

[@zenebean]

The only thing I don't think they should have done with her is give her those complete water hands. Just stick the tentacles since they do the same job and aren't super complicated (I couldn't imagine any non-avatar making a full on water hand). I really like Ming hua and her bending style, so didn't love her treatment in this episode

[@hunterfisher1019]

A part of turning oil into fuel produces a byproduct that can be used to make plastics. We were making the first plastics around the time of the first cars. So while it shouldn’t be common, it is there. If they got oil they got plastics. 7:32

[@KairuHakubi]

yeah that is a good point. but that is all the more reason they shouldn't have CARS.

[@Theoriginalmistwalker]

@@KairuHakubi i mean why are cars in Lok such a big uproar??? the fire nation had TANKS and BLIMPS with steam engines, lets also not forget Whatever the fuck the drill was (and also that cool giant vehicle azula used in "The Chase"

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Theoriginalmistwalker because those were creative and looked like nothing we've ever seen before.

[@Theoriginalmistwalker]

@@KairuHakubi i mean sato having shit taste in asthetics doesnt mean that his invention doesnt fit the worldbuilding

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Theoriginalmistwalker all i said was 'all the more reason they shouldn't have cars.' cars = it's time for the invention of plastic. If we had something a lot more creative and different, perhaps it would not equal that. and we could enjoy a more laidback fantasy setting like this world apparently had for 5000 years.

[@i_cam]

I always interpreted the “psychic water bending” as like a phantom limb thing, like people with removed apendages can still “trigger” movement in their head, when combined with waterbending it creates the emergent water arms

[@egalomon]

Combine it with "the flow of energy", which is a flimsy enough concept, and yeah I can suspend my disbelief.

[@Broockle]

ye and since it's all about chi pathways, you can say the arm chi pathways still exist even without arms. Tho functionally, from what viewers would see, it's no different from telekinesis so the critic still holds.

[@kuvira4267]

Phantom limbs only occur due to losing a limb. I know somebody who’s worked on the show has drawn a young Minghua with arms, but it’s confirmed she was born without them

[@cyprianpirog]

I'm literally so hyped for your coverage of this season. I just finished a rewatch of korra and the whole way through I was just thinking how you would comment on the writing decisions taken by the writers. Also I love Ghazan, literally my favorite character of the whole show.

[@foxi13x]

Absolutely, I love this season so much, the Red Lotus is an actual threat, unlike whatever the fuck Season 2 was.

[@VarangianGuard13]

As to your comment about making sequins without plastics, I have a theory that could work in-universe. My theory rests upon using fragments of the silicate mineral mica. Normally, mica flakes and fragments relatively easily, but if layers of it were compressed via earthbending, they could probably be made dense enough to form something similar. Small pieces of polished shell would probably also work even though they would probably have to be clipped, shaped, and then carefully bored through by hand. They could also make them from tiny pieces of very, very thin sheets of metal: gold, silver, copper, aluminum, tin, etc. Or from very, very small pieces of painted glass might work. Metal and glass were how they made sequins in our own world, before plastic and other synthetic materials. Anyway, it's an amazing video as always. Keep on Overanalyzing! And have a great day! **Edited for spelling.

[@alexjay3980]

100% down for Overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite

[@KairuHakubi]

ooh and maybe the series, after that. The series was great!

[@muncherofpizza]

“there still seems to be some underlying societal hang‐ups about firebenders even though we’re 70 years removed from the war” Seeing the way some British people still talk about Germany, seems legit enough

[@janTesika]

and WW2 only lasted six years, not a fucking hundred.

[@havoc697]

Nah that's more of a victory lap kinda thing, we love clowning on Gerry Now how us Brits talk about France is very different, since we were pretty much always in conflict in some manner until the Second World War

[@muncherofpizza]

@@havoc697 that’s right, there was were those Thousand of Annoying the French And I get the feeling sometimes it goes further than clowning

[@danielgysi5729]

Idk I kinda like the limbless water bending. I don't see why she couldn't learn to move chi by using her "arms" in her brain even if they're physically gone. Now would it be cooler if instead she just water bent entirely with her legs and was still that insane? Yeah honestly that'd be pretty awesome

[@sutirk]

This. Armless waterbend is much easier to swallow than waterbending with your arms crossed

[@KairuHakubi]

There is a weird logic to phantom limb bending. I think they were going for a Toph thing, like "a normal person could not do this, you have to be disabled and this is how you're adapting to that"

[@swiftwind438]

part of why ming wa's strange power set and lack of bending is due to the fact that origionally she was supposed to be a bloodbender, but the team realized that she would have overshadowed the other members of the red lotus if this was the cast, so they last minute changed her style.

[@AwesomeGuy123]

11:42 Honestly I don’t mind the White Lotus being basically fodder. It makes sense that as the White Lotus became a more public organization that welcomed in whoever worked to be qualified to join rather than accepting only the most skilled, wisest, and knowledgeable members of bending society that they would become less of a threat as less of the cream of the crop would join and more just normal people who are okay at bending would join.

[@milesdevine1161]

Bro turns Canadian at 11:29

[@hellkaiser64]

You can say Ming Hua's Waterbending is about moving her entire Body to move the water, even a little shoulder movement could do something, and since she was born with no arms, she practiced enough to make it work

[@TnT_F0X]

6:00 There was an armless Avatar who used footwork and movements of his spine to bend. I think that's where they got the idea for this character, but the animation doesn't make it look like footwork is doing the bending. She should look like how Toph used Bending stances, just manipulating water. Strong core bending form to make up for the lack of upper body dexterity.

[@darthtace]

I think your focus is a bit narrow with psychic bending -- bending without motion is rather common. Airbenders flying via their gliders require no motion to control the wind, combustion bending requires minimal motion, firebenders can summon fire without actually moving (to use as a light and such), waterbenders can freeze and unfreeze water... while they themselves are frozen. Or, you know, hold rain still with just a single gesture. It's apparent there's some mental aspect to all bending, with Toph being the best example. She is often able to create complex structures with simple gestures (see: making a model of Ba Sing Se with just a single motion). It's obvious that intent strongly influences what a motion actually does when it comes to a bending master. It shouldn't be surprising that Ming-Hua is able to control water whips with just minute motions of her shoulders or chest.

[@Theoriginalmistwalker]

to add to it, Aang's air scooter has little to no physical motion to mantain it, only to summon it, and in his fight with the firelord he also creates the 4 element shield around him that is constantly mantained without imput from him

[@thegreatscribbles960]

I guess but psychic blood bending is very dumb no matter how you look at it

[@perfectmilk7807]

5:03 Yes. I would like that to happen.

[@BrazzEvansIV]

Yes. I would also like that to happen.

[@ChrisB01]

10:40 Man I entirely forgot that Wheezy Waiter existed, it's been so long since I've seen anyone mention him lol

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

2:33 I love how OA has run for so long he's just putting references to his own shit in Korra.

[@kampfkeks6619]

One thing I really don't like is they are trying to find all the airbenders and most reject their proposal... But they can still airbend! and we've established at least somewhat that becoming a bender out of nowhere is confusing and somewhat dangerous. So are the people they leave to themselves just out there wrecking things with their uncontrolled airbending?

[@depotheose7890]

probably

[@ilyte1]

It takes training to develop power. The guy endangering himself was partially a fluke, and partially overreacting

[@GaribaldHludwig]

Bold of you to assume that Korra give a damn about rules and consistency.

[@stg3239]

@6:25 I'm pretty sure in lore Ming-Hua uses her hips to create waterbending motions in order to move the arms. That's why her water bending is just that one thing (roughly), she doesn't have the arms to do what other benders do, but she makes use of what she has.

[@Jazzered]

3:20 as someone who’s family somewhat practices Buddhism and goes to Buddhist temples, this is very accurate to what is served by the monks and temple volunteers Also, a over analyzing napoleon dynamite series would be very enjoyable to see

[@underwater1997]

Wish he mentioned it but the more regal reprisal of the tsungi horn theme when Old Zuko shows up is such a nice touch.

[@a_cup_of_joe540]

I understand that having a bender with no arms is cool, but they make it clear in avatar that destroying iroh's hands "should" stop him from bending. At the very least i would prefer if she used other body parts to compensate for her weakness rather that essentially being a decoration

[@johannesseyfried7933]

I think Ming-Hua is a special case. For 90% of benders, loosing their hands would probably also lead to a loss of bending powers. And Iroh is experienced but not all knowing. I think he would sooner try to bend fire through just his breath or his feet before he even thinks about training with his arms.

[@k1wishade]

Ming-Hua was confirmed to be born without hands, so maybe it’s a different case from Iroh and other benders. Additionally, she does seem to use her shoulders quite a bit- it obviously doesn’t explain how she’s able to do such complex and hand-like movements, but still.

[@docomega7862]

It would only tales iroh's bending away in the sense that he wouldn't know how to bending without his hands. He's used to using his limbs to control the flow of energy coming from his elemental chakra, like most benders are. But nothing definitely tells us you need to use those movements to bend. Healing bending doesn't require movements. Toph's seismic sense doesn't require movements. Energy bending doesn't resuire movements. Aang in avatar state could maintain his elemental bubble without movements. The avatar state itself doesn't require movements. Combustion bending doesn't require limbs as it is more of a breathing based bending, and combustion man himself has lost an arm and can still bend, invalidating the definitive necessity of having limbs to bend. So we already have plenty of examples of valid and disabled benders in atla performing more psychic / spiritual based bending. So seeing ming hua, someone who was disabled since birth performing psychic bending, while still a step up from most previous iterations of psychic bending, is not an entirely novel thing and makes sense considering she had an entire lifetime to adapt to this style of bending. Also with a remainder that katara went from barely knowing how to bend to being one of the greatest waterbenders in less than a year, and aang gained a proficiency in two elements and a handle of firebending in less than a year too, even learning the seismic sense. While those two are prodigees, it still puts into perspective how fast people can grow if dedicated enough, and ming hua had a lifetime of that

[@TheChairGamer10]

Another amazing analysation, keep it up:)

[@xalat6277]

2:32 callback to when sokka showed chin ups are good for biceps, and everybody ripped into OA for it

[@rubiks8975]

I noticed that that's crazy

[@Uhhok3]

Overanalyzing Overanalyzing Avatar

[@claytopolis]

I like how this episode finally gives a concrete idea of what Lavabending is. Previously it was something only an avatar was shown doing so weather or not anyone else could was a mystery. But now we have an answer. Toph later says it's a rare ability, but its still functionally like how waterbenders can freeze things.

[@silverish9081]

I agree that having Ming Hua waterbend like that breaks some established rules, but I actually don't have a problem with it. Firstly, while it's not consistent with the way other waterbending works, her fighting style still clearly has limitations and there is logic and predictability to how she fights. For example, I think she can only use water as arm extensions when they are directly connected to her body. Second, not everything has to be explained fully - we are not introduced to some new completely different bullshit mechanic like the glowy spirit water thing, it's still a waterbender moving regular water around. Beyond that, leaving it somewhat unexplained just makes the viewer fill the gaps that she just must be some special case of a very skilled bender (and hence a very dangerous enemy), just further making her a bigger threat. This is in general how I feel about the red lotus - they are all exceptional in their abilities, but as long as those abilities are internally consistent it's fine and doesn't break immersion. Like, Zaheer doesn't just start flying out of nowhere, it makes sense. Who knows what kind of knowledge about advanced bending techniques exists out there inaccessible to a regular person. As for Ming Hua, Idk, maybe or it's a spiritual thing too or she learned to bend with her tongue or something.

[@PaladinKillbird]

Agreed. It kinda falls in line with uhh, the mind blast fire bender mercenary from OG ATLA. Its weird, unexplained but makes sense that someone with a disability affects their bending in a weird, cool way. Kind of leans into the spiritualism behind bending as well.

[@docomega7862]

I saw an interesting explanation in another comment. Basically, bending is letting the energy from the elemental chakra flow through your body and manipulate it to manifest it into bending. Naturally, because most people don't have physical disabilities, they use their limbs and physical movements to control this energy because it makes it easier. But, in the end it's still a matter of manipulating the energy from your chakra. So, it would theoretically be possible with enough training to control this energy purely using your mind instead of using limb movements. Ming hua being born (i think) without arms, she would've had to live her entire life with that disability and adapt to it. In that sense, she is very similar to toph with her seismic sense that is more of a psychic power rather than a movement based power. And we've amready seen examples of waterbending being more psychic based with healing that doesn't require movements to be performed. So while an explanation would've definitely been appreciated, i don't think it breaks the bendilg system that much

[@3DSCarnaje]

​@@PaladinKillbirdYeah combustion man existing is why I don't have too big an issue with it. It makes sense that there would be these rare extraordinary cases, and honestly I think it works even better here. She has no arms so learning how to use waterbending to replace them just makes sense to me.

[@midnightbard3935]

I second this point. And it's not like she's NOT moving while bending, in fact she's incredibly mobile in her fighting style. Might be that she kind of bends with her whole body? It's unique, interesting and creates another cool character with a physical disability while not really breaking any ore established rules. It makes sense that being born this way she would develop a different style that others can't really grasp!

[@awesomedavid2012]

@@docomega7862 yeah in my head, she's moving her phantom limbs to water bend. Mentally, it's no different for her. Externally, it doesn't look the same.

[@Taylahay]

Said it before and I'll say it again, your patron shout outs are the best on the internet and I look forward to hearing them every week!

[@LargeMollyWater177]

11:34 missed "Hello, Zuko here" opportunity.😢

[@mikeschwartz1764]

Bro I just got off a 13 hour shift on and ambulance an have another in like 9 hours. This is exactly what I needed tonight. I love you dearly, OA

[@Kylekashi]

I like to think that the water connects to the nerves in Ming Hua's shoulders, similar to how some advanced prosthetics work.

[@BRDoriginal]

What I do like about this episode (and maybe could've been leaned into more to show how the red lotus is skilled, rather than saying they are) is that all they needed to break out of their prisons was their element. A small rock and a jug of water and they are suddenly unstoppable.

[@michaeljoyner3651]

As a 22-year-old who is temporarily living with his parents after graduating college: i hate this and it sucks. But yes, it is pretty common these days.

[@JackPhoenixCz]

It was even more common in the old days. Of course people lived with their parents, houses are expensive, more people around means more work can be done, and who's gonna take care of them in their old age? It's not like there are retirement homes. It's still common in some cultures (like in Asia, fitting with Avatar). Really, moving out of your childhood home ASAP is pretty modern (and American) thing.

[@LycanFerret]

​@@JackPhoenixCz I don't know why people make such a big deal out of moving out of your family home. It's one thing if you have a girlfriend/boyfriend and you two want to get serious and start a life together, but if they're single moving into another house just seems kind of... shortsighted. But that's me, 22 and my dad(who is in his 60s) plans to give me the house so I have no reason to leave. Inheritance, baby. So maybe my views on the topic are different. I get the family house in my name. But yeah I really don't understand it. Don't you want to keep a property in the family? Letting your kids stay in it seems like the best option for family wealth.

[@LycanFerret]

Also should mention all of my peers either still live with their parents, or live in an RV on someone's property(usually if they have awful parents).

[@cattievogelsong96]

Others have said this but why no airbender in the water or fire nation? People move. Any explanation like have any air nomad ancestry or element compatability should apply to the fire and water tribe. I while it would be lazy i would accept a throw away line like the fire nation government has offered to transport a small group of airnomads found in the fire nation to the northern air temple. Before episode seven. Basically the new airbender’s took the initiative to go to Tenzin and their government water or fire helped meaning our Krew didn’t need to do anything.

[@Theoriginalmistwalker]

well to be fair its never explicitly said that there Isnt any air benders in the other nations, just that they are following the reports of airbenders In the earth kingdom + we see that people are coming willingly to air temple island from god knows where so its possible that the airbenders of other nations are just finding out and coming there on their own (IF you wanna follow the theory that the new airnomads are descendants of airbenders who escaped genocide and their genes were just dormant, i dont think any airnomad would move to the Fire nation out of all places to escape genocide, the water tribes were the second objetive of the fire nation since the raids started at least 80+ years ago [The armor the northern tribe has of fire bending navy soldiers is more than 80 years old] and that only leaves the earth kingdom to take refugee in, its the biggest territory which would make hunting them harder and it also holds the safests cities in the world)

[@inalechner7426]

I don't know myself, but I have read a theory somewhere, that air nomad survivors (that weren't benders) fled to the earth kingdom and hid/settled down there. Which makes it make sense that they're only in the earth kingdom, cause obviously they wouldn't go to the fire nation and the water tribes were kinda cut off from the rest of the world, so idk maybe that makes sense.

[@kharijordan6426]

Does anybody else think Ryu should have been the best Airbender seeing how detached from life he is? Edited: so yeah, moving the elements without having to move your body is insanely powerful, and that's why Ang in the Avatar State thematic Wise is allowed to do that. I'm just saying a better example would have been the two times when Ang was covering his body in earth. How is it just magnetizing to him without really needing to move all that much? Can you magnetize the other elements to your body? What about that air scooter Ang dose..it goes away eventually, but it does stick around spinning in place...how does he maintain the scooter..why does it even Go away if it's maintainable? Just..these are better examples, I feel.

[@ApocolipticMonkey]

When you look at it too hard, everything in the two shows starts to crack at what one might deem believable. The truth is that avatar's bending is a system that is soft. Their is a physicality tied to it, being designed after real life martial arts. So you get these moments, where benders do something with minimal movement, it ends up towing a line of believability. In some cases it works, other times it feels completely off and that is mostly subjective. Personally, I like the idea of using bending as a form of prosthesis. I think you could build this with limits, and Ming definitely has moments that go to far. I think the big problem with Ming is that she doesn't have time dedicated to giving her bending the proper attention it deserves. I think it could be believable, but I also feel moments that work less well, like the Unalok floating water.

[@kharijordan6426]

@@ApocolipticMonkey First..I fixed a sentence I messed up. Second.. yeah, you're right. A lot of things in Korra would have felt better if properly set up. Or just executed well in general. Remember when Korra kicked Amon out the window by... Taking control of a leg all of a sudden. Remember The first episode where Ang escaped capture by using his breath to knock out two guards? Why didn't they let Korra bend powerful air from her lungs if all of her limbs were disabled? I mean .. just a lot...and I mean A LOTA things about Korra can be fixed only in hindsight. Pacing would be fixed if Nickelodeon didn't screw them over, sure, but extra time wouldn't have fixed tiny details like that. If anything, they just would have replaced them with other more frustrating detail mishaps.

[@Theoriginalmistwalker]

@@kharijordan6426 i mean for korra escaping amon's grip its kinda of the same shit that happens with katara and hama, both katara and korra are waterbenders that dont know bloodbending, they are being controlled by a bloodbender and suddenly they just "out-power" their will upon their body and are suddenly able to move on their own again, without actually learning bloodbending, Korra just does a kick of airbending to knock amon which is ok since Korra's first instinct is Quite physical, the first thing she does as soon as she airbends is send multiple air bending punches at amon + Bloodbending in general just seems to work in Telekinetic/Willpower system where the person being bloodbended can Focus their energy to free themselve, since we see different degrees of resistance to it whenever someone bloodbends (Althought i do believe to Fully break out of it You Need to be a waterbender)

[@kharijordan6426]

​@@Theoriginalmistwalker I'm baffled you compared these two things. Why do you think Korra was even using blood bending? Edited: KZbin keeps deleting my response to you man. I'm sorry I don't mean to just keep sending bunch of these separately....and now I can't send you anything at all ...hope you see this.

[@kharijordan6426]

​@@Theoriginalmistwalker Hey KZbin sucks and is deleting my comments to you..I'm going to try and put it in you community tab if you have one.

[@dreonthetube24]

I understand the point on the "psychic bending" but personally I always attributes it to a sort of phantom limb syndrome. Her body remembers having arms that were used for bending and bending comes down to manipulating energy flows in the first place so the idea that her bending caters to being more "muscle memory" than physical application works for me.

[@jacobtaylor9978]

I don't know about you guys, but I for one would love"overanalyzing Napoleon dynamite"

[@rosegoldberg2469]

I actually really like the take on Ming Hua's variation of bending. It doesn't feel like an egregious case of telekinesis bending because it's clear in her motions that her body is very attuned to the bending (some commenters have mentioned chi being more important in bending than literally physical motions) and it makes sense that she can create arms but not bend with them. Also it's extremely cool to see someone else with a disability use bending to supplement their ability, like toph's variation of sight

[@throughrockmetal6935]

7:28 Overanalysing Overanalyzing Avatar: Sequins can be made out of metal or stuff like shells and ivory and have been used on dresses and cloths for thousands of years. But even then the Industrial Revolution saw huge developments in the production plastics, and considering Korras 1920's setting, and the fact that we see record players, which famously used Vinyl to create the records, yes plastic would be used and well known about in during this point in the Avatar time line. But you already knew all of this you scoundrel.

[@TheInkTank]

2:42 same. I figured he could only lava-bend by accelerating the rocks at high speeds or something, and the shuriken shape was just more convenient.

[@kerroseir4764]

1:13 good on Mako for initially making the choice to separate himself from his past errors (Being near Korra and Asami) Wish he stuck to it and left them to have his own side story instead of torturing himself with those two

[@nikmariealex]

It's the inside, gotta be tuned in to your channel, jokes for me 😂 Watching your growth has been a fun ride!

[@AzureIV]

4:28 Multi-generational homes are becoming more common.

[@TNuuv]

it's funny that in Last airbender, if you make everyone wear neutral colors and if you freeze frame on a neutral color wearing bender, right before they moved their element, you'd be able to guess which element they were about to use just by looking at their hand and leg movements water bending has the easiest tell with their lack of leg movement

[@pauldyson8098]

I want Overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite and Biceps Exercises.

[@Jack-lo5me]

Overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite would be sick, I’m in

[@WhoisThatGuy-]

4:44 Based on the ages of the people who made this and when they made this....sadly it makes sense, nowadays that's kind of a necessity

[@np1A53Nc1A]

this one.. this one had me dying the whole time, solid jokes, and finally korra giving you things to actually analyze, 10/10, gonna review every episode.

[@theskull1030]

7:09 Maybe she developed her own techniches based primarily on shoulder and core movement by years of constant practice.

[@midnightbard3935]

Exactly

[@dhfr04]

5:03 YESSS PLS GOD YES I LOVE THAT MOVIE DO IT OVERANALYZING AVATAR PLZZZZZZZZZ

[@after-hours]

But I have to admit how they brought back airbending it kind of down please the horrific tragedy of the air nomad genocide

[@crimsonvale7337]

8:05 made me laugh enough that I hit my nose. I wait with bated breath on this earth-shattering analysis

[@karameru880]

As an aspiring artist I agree with you on that hand stuff It's really weird and i don't know why people draw the middle and ring finger together as if it wear one big finger. To be totally honest I tried to do that a few times but it feels so wrong on my drawings, I like it more if they are separate. If I remember it, I will try to ask some of my art friends if they know why big industry artists draw hands like this, and keep you updated on your next video

[@k1wishade]

Hello, please let me yap. While I’m not totally sure, there are a few possible reasons. This hand structure is also very prominent in Renaissance and Baroque paintings. In the Renaissance and Baroque eras there were portrait "standards." Depending on how you wanted to be portrayed (powerful, educated, pious, etc.), there were different conventional poses. There were also rules about how certain genders could be posed. Women, for example, should have hands folded in their lap (conveniently covering their womb and making them look very gentle), with the right hand over the left. Could be that the fingers being drawn like that were a part of that “standard.” Classical sculptures almost always have the middle two or three fingers fused together to prevent them from getting chipped off. Given how prevalent cast copying became in post-Renaissance Europe, it’s possible artists were used to this sort of gesture and just made a habit of using it. Artists also copy other works a lot. Michaelangelo did it, so did Rafael, Rembrandt, etc. It's what you did when you were starting out. So, if you're a painter and you see one hand that looks good, a lot of other painters did too. It’s likely that, because of this, this kind of hand structure became the “norm” in art.

[@karameru880]

@@k1wishade this actually makes some decent sense, thanks for the insight

[@treymcgee8464]

On the topic of whether we’ve seen plastic in the show before: there’s a few effects from the Ember Island Players that seem like they’re made of some kind of plastic. Namely the material they use for water when Jet floods the village and the flames during the Ozai/Azulla fight at the end. I can’t think of a fabric that would be that shiny and lightweight and opaque leading me to believe the fire nation had Mylar.

[@foxi13x]

A whole inch? That's 2.54 centimeters

[@drillbitz2816]

2.54 centimeters? That’s a whole inch

[@brendanwatroba8568]

The WheezyWaiter shout-out was not something I was expecting. My respect for you has increased 10 fold

[@b3nzayizkoolyo]

7:04 I think if thess telekenetic benders were shown to be more exceptions to the rule in an explicit sense, it'd be alright. Of course, what should be normal benders are shown doing this telekinesis so it's a moot point

[@RaraPremium]

Adding - I think combustion is another example

[@ericschockemohle5642]

8:54 "I'm just saying there still seems to be some underlying societal hangups about firebenders even though we are 70 years removed from the war." As a German, this feels quite realastic and relatable, acually.

[@thothrax5621]

9:18 no no silly Overanalyzing Avatar, that is clearly a Kamehameha

[@blacklite1557]

No, it’s definitely a YOMI hustle reference. High block and everything.

[@belly2_me]

Clearly, it's advanced haki from one piece, she destroys the rock from the inside

[@dadenmusic6202]

You're one of my favorite creators of all time, I would watch an overanalyzing anything, but Napoleon dynamite would be awesome 🤣

[@diddymon]

Yes please do over analyzing napoleon dynamite

[@claytonrios1]

Oh yeah! Lavabending! This is one of my favorite new additions that Korra gave us. I always like learning about the advanced skills of bending when I read a new Avatar book or delve more into the series. So Master Earthbenders being able to lavabend is nothing short of interesting to me. I hope we get another bending evolution in the next show which focuses on an Earth Avatar.

[@johnnywhoa343]

12:12 - this is called the Worf Effect (named for Worf in Star Trek), and yeah, that's my whole problem with the White Lotus in this show, too. They're given the name so we associate them with the absolute greatest masters of each bending discipline (and also sword) that we know of, and they just get wrecked every time they appear.

[@mellow3995]

It makes sense story wise, Zaheer admonishes the group for diverting from it's original mission, and becoming a group of personal bodyguards for the Avatar. You may not like that explanation, but it is an explanation regardless.

[@johnnywhoa343]

@@mellow3995 Yeah, they made it work in-universe. But understanding why they did it is important, and they did it just to make Zaheer and his gang look strong. There's no storyline pursued with the White Lotus changing from their original mission, no comeuppance for it. Nothing changes for them and if you replaced them with literally any other group, nothing would change. The only reason to call them the White Lotus is to show off how strong the Red Lotus is. They exist here to be Worf'd.

[@mellow3995]

@@johnnywhoa343 I honestly don't think it's a bad thing, it's pretty realistic. Look at it from this perspective, aside from the 4 core leaders, the Red Lotus also has grunts and henchman. As did the White Lotus in Avatar, we just didn't see them do much because the old masters lead the mission during Sozin's Comet. If you put the White Lotus from Avatar against the Red Lotus from Korra, both groups are fairly comparable. And after season 3, all the leaders of the Red Lotus are dead or in prison and relative power of the group wanes again. You can't expect a group/order to be at peak power at every moment can you?

[@johnnywhoa343]

@@mellow3995 Of course not. But that doesn't detract from the reason why the name is used. Aside from finding and training Korra as a child, the White Lotus only exists in this show to get knocked around. And while the former seems like it would be useful, ATLA tells us that the world already had ways of finding and teaching the avatar (not that it was ever going to be difficult to find Kid Korra of the 3 Elements). Once again, replace "White Lotus" with anything else and nothing in this story changes. I'm not saying they were necessarily wrong to have done this. it's functional, and the Worf effect is an effective way to communicate the threat level of a villain. It's just noteworthy that this is why they did it.

[@galaxy8190]

I think the original White Lotus characters just set pretty unrealistic expectations for the audience, Iroh, Bumi, Jeong Jeong, Korra's cast in general doesn't really have anyone as strong as these guys (except for, you know, Korra and some villains), so the current White Lotus obviously wouldn't be anywhere near as strong as they were. Still, I think the writers could have created 2 or 3 really strong characters, on the level of Tenzin or Lin, just to show that the White Lotus is still strong, instead of just npc's, White Lotus in Korra is kinda like the Dai Li in Airbender, which were hyped up but got beaten up by kids.

[@matthijscalje4143]

From what I can tell, the bending telekinesis thing mostly happens with earthbending. You can see it in Airbender too, with (I believe) Toph Matrix dodging a rock that flew at her, like she could feel where the presence of earth is. That's not how her vision, or earthbending in general, works

[@ianrastoski3346]

Yes Overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite Do it or we riot

[@juliandebrouwer9118]

Zaheer would probably already know of harmonic convergence even if he wasn't in the spirit world. He said that Unalaq becoming a dark avatar was not planned, so he implies that freeing Vaatu was something the Red Lotus wanted to do, for which they needed harmonic convergence.

[@jamesonhess]

I for one want overanalyzing Napoleon Dynamite

[@AdamSilvertamer_Adamsnotmyname]

I always read tenzins accepting every Airbender as incredible desperation to make Aangs dream come true that of the Airbender culture and people being rebuilt

[@mk2gamer]

I was expecting an "Whoops I dropped my Anarchy symbol" when he cut through the wooden prison cell.

[@The_Oak_Boat]

I assume the water arm lady was really cracked at water bending before she lost her arms, and controlling elements without moving is pretty high level stuff so she was able to create her own style of bending.

[@Arctic7985]

7:00 Alright. I disagree with this one. Not only is she moving the rest of her body, it's shown that benders who are proficient enough can substitute other body motions for their hands and legs (toph cheats in gambling by moving a die with her head motions). She has a disability so her bending isn't going to look exactly like everyone elses. The idea of benders with disabilities using their bending to compensate in unique ways has always been prominent in Avatar. Imagine if when toph was introduced, someone said "really? All the other times we've seen bending, it's bendables they can see with their eyes!"

[@beaawsome2211]

Fun fact the thing where someone strong or people that are strong keeps getting beat up to show how strong someone else is, is called the Warf effect. Named after captain Warf from Star Trek.