THE SOUTHERN RAIDERS | S3 - E16 | Avatar: The Last Airbender Reaction

[@Kepler93_]

Everyone talks about the bloodbending scene but katara stopping the rain was genuinely so cool

[@Paolo-ec2si]

True

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

that scene is so chilling you really Feel Yong Rha fear

[@Lee-m6m]

She's actually not stopping the rain but she just make the shield from the rain water.

[@cosmic_jon]

15:40 Zuko probably doesn't know bloodbending even exists, so you can see the look in his face like "oh ****"

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

It was probably the moment he realized Katara if she wanted he could end his Destiny in a few minutes

[@ninjack11]

"thank god i decided to join Team Avatar O_O"

[@bluewolf6323]

@@lasseehrenreich5502 That's when he realized that what Katara said wasn't just an empty threat

[@DexDex000]

I love that Katara ultimately spared his life, but still didn’t forgive him. She got her closure

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

it is very interesting choice is to have some spare their enemy but not to forgive them - I don't think I have seen anything like it in any other story and I think it is the perfect conclusion to Katara's arc in this episode.

[@kelsey1467]

@@lasseehrenreich5502 you know i thought it was good she didn't kill him cause karma caught up with him hes a shell of his former i'd say life gave him punishment already

[@bluewolf6323]

@@lasseehrenreich5502 We need more of that in shows, where we can spare people but not forgive. I already like the trope of "Forgive, but not accepting them"

[@meridand9781]

In my opinon i didn't like how she didn't forgive him but at the same time I think justice should be served.

[@kelsey1467]

@@meridand9781 i think justice was served because hes a shell of a former self and is honestly a slave to his mother

[@bugra-yildirim]

19:30 subtle detail bu they are not taking waterbender prisoners anymore because of Hama. They realized they cant keep a waterbender alive and powerless at the same time.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

i am not sure of that was the writers intentionen but that's a super cool inspiration to why they decided they to kill waterbender instead of taking them as prisoners

[@enescelik5946]

it's cool. But after figuring out that they can bloodbend at the full moon they could tie their hands during the full moon. so it was possible

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

@@enescelik5946 Yes That makes sense they wouldn't take any chances after that

[@KirboBoy]

Katara: blood bends Katara: almost turns a guy into a pin cushion using rain Zuko: Noted

[@MattTOB618]

12:52 Yup, it's where the Dai Li tried to trick the team into thinking Appa was being sent to.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

I'm proud of him, usually he's not that good at remembering sorry that sounds mean I don't mean it too

[@DonnaPinciot]

Katara was so lucky that he didn't demand her mom _demonstrate_ waterbending first. If he did, everyone was basically screwed.

[@Alex-xk9yd]

5:39 yep. This just happened. No one is ever ready for the sexy Sokka

[@skyknight2233]

Yeah one of the best jokes in all of Avatar

[@MattTOB618]

And the next morning, Sokka's working on a lei. Y'know... because he got lei'd.

[@jaxcraft2848]

Katara confronts her Mother's killer. She finally gets closure.

[@willspikes]

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet but there's this hilarious detail, almost any time Azula enters the frame the same high-pitched chime plays and once you hear it you can't unhear it xD

[@jessicamalca]

There is a theory the reason the Southern Raiders invaded the Water Tribe because of what happend with Hamma

[@dodiswatchbobobo]

Azula looked a little more unhinged than usual in that opening:

[@tomthekek]

The dialogue in this episode is so good

[@guzmaamzugsi4]

i gotta say, my favorite parto f the episode is that final quip zuko gives at aang, you can just feel zuko is thinking about something considering how unquiet he is, and then he gives aang the question that the entire series went ignored

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

Oh this episode is awesome - I love how Zuku and Katara bond in this episode - to see this dark, vengeful side of her - the character that always has been the most warm and compassionate of them - just feels wrong - how she used blood bending the one thing she swore to never do - the sheer look of horror in her eyes when she realizes it wasn’t the right person - Katara essentially has 3 choices about what to do with Yon Rha: kill him to take her vengeance against him, forgive him as Aang said she should do, or what she ended up doing spare him, to live the rest of his life as a perfetic monster he is but remaining hateful of him the rest of her days. No matter what she chose the result would have been the same, her mother would have remained dead. Some people say she was being unreasonable aggressive against Zuku but that’s the point - when she saw the good in Zuku and tried to heal him he betrayed them which nearly lead to Aang’s death - if she had healed Zuku and as we saw with Jet she holds grudges - and even she admitted it and was willing to forgive Zuku in the end of the episode. I do kind of wish she had apologized for saying to Sokka that he didn’t love their mother as much as her but otherwise I think it’s great - all of this was incredible heavy so on a more fun note Jake the Dog is going to appear next episode - to anyone who understand this reference you have earned my respect.

[@TamirBrooks-lf8kx]

Hi😊

[@vick7868]

It also felt interesting from Zuko's side. Even though he wants to get past his dark, vengeful, painful past, he's pretty much enabling hers without even knowing it. His trauma is just that strong.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

@@vick7868 Yes I appreciate How the series understands just because He has become a better person and has learned to control his anger then of his more negative side is just goon disappears completely

[@ipaipeopaopa6721]

LET'S GOOO I've been refreshing for a whole hour for this one! This one's my favorite episode of the series by far ^^ I hope you liked it.

[@vick7868]

Interesting pick for favorite. Not mine, that goes to The Avatar and the Firelord, but this is such a good episode that I can't fault you for it. This episode is pretty unique and its storytelling is as immaculate as almost everything else in this show.

[@Brisk_Deer]

I hated how Katara never apologized to Sokka after what she said to him. I wish they added that Other than that, 5:39 was too funny Also, Zuko doesn’t ask for people’s names. Instead, he hears their names from others & that’s when he learns

[@vick7868]

Zuko being terrible with names is a random fact that will always be funny to me.

[@Paolo-ec2si]

@@Brisk_Deer ikr!?? Why the hell they never shown her apologize to Aang and Sokka?? She probably never did off screen.

[@af3897]

thats like one of my only complaints about this episode, that was such an awful thing to say to your brother that also lost his mother. she was angry but that was totally unjustified

[@vick7868]

@af3897 Understandable, but I don't think that's a writing flaw. I think it's a character flaw. Her mother has always been a weak spot for her, so her being so consumed with hate and grief and rage makes sense, as inexcusable as her words were.

[@mikkek3237]

she obviously has a closer relationship with their mother and her death affected her in many more ways than sokka, katara has no problem recognizing that sokka is closer to their dad. the episode basically knocks kataras characters i to yalls heads and you still somehow miss the entire point bc she was mean once

[@warrenpowers108]

Even if we have to wait longer to see it pease keep the final two episodes as one video! 🥺🙏

[@AshleysAdvice]

There has been a theory floating around for a while, on this episode specifically, because it's been made clear in other episodes that characters like Azula pay very close attention to our main gang, knowing most of their names, even using that to torment people such as Sokka in the eclipse episode about Suzuki. However Zuko doesn't really pay as much attention, you'll notice that in the first episode he joined the group, when he introduces himself and says "Zuko here" it's kind of implied that he is wanting them to introduce themselves as well so he can finally learn their names and get to know them, but nobody says their name instead they just get mad at him so he has to learn their names well talking to them and slightly slip their name into conversation the next time after he's heard it, you'll notice that he actually does this with Katara as an example, while her name has been mentioned before it's sort of implied that he didn't learn it and it's actually in this episode that he does, when confronting Sokka listen to what he actually says. He says "your sister hates me" to which then Sokka replies "Katara doesn't hate anyone" and then after that Zuko then refers to her as Katara saying "I think Katara has directed her anger about that at to her anger about me". This shows that he is good at slipping people's names in the conversation and the question is how often has he done this once he's learnt a name, then using it the next time he talks about that person. I found this really interesting and while I'm not totally sure if it's true, it makes a lot of sense given his character character, he was so focused on hunting the avatar and his friends, that he never actually got to know them as individual people, even when he was trapped with Qatar for that short period of time in embarrassing say, he never actually learned her name. For the first few seasons he refers to Aang as the avatar, which is even more proof, he doesn't refer to him by name until later on when talking to him, because if he learnt the avatar name then it would become more personal whereas just referring to him as the avatar allows him to be focused on his goal of hunting the avatar not hunt Aang but you notice after they become friends he refers to him by name, which also happens with everybody else as well, like when he was bonding Sokka in the previous episode, it's unclear at which point he learnt everybody else's names or how early into the show he learned them, but I think it's safe to say that it's at least been this final season for most people, because before that he didn't know who they were and doesn't seem to pay as much attention to that kind of thing until he actually joins their group and is kind of forced to get to know them. So it makes sense that he wouldn't know Qatar's name until this episode when it's brought up again and he's in a one-on-one situation where he's just having a normal conversation Sokka about her, then hearing her name without any other noises or distractions he's able to take that in and then say it when continuing the conversation, which I think is pretty clever of the writers if this is true, it also kinda makes it funny when you think about it.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

I love the idea of ​​zuko the whole time he was hunting aang was too blinded by his anger and destination to learn any of their names but at the end of the western air temple when aang ask the rest of the group for their opinion on zuko joining to them he says all their names and I think Zukp will listen at that time but otherwise it's a really good theory

[@AshleysAdvice]

@@lasseehrenreich5502 yeah but it still doesn't explain why he said your sister why wouldn't he just say Katara doesn't like me or Katara hates me he said your sister which wouldn't imply he doesn't know her name and who's to say that he didn't learn their names on his individual quests he goes on with them, I don't know I just found it weird unless it's a mistake by the writers

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

​@@AshleysAdvice There are two explanations I can think of either he is very formal and don't like to refer to people by their first name - I know of some people who are like that or somehow in all the most likely several weeks he has been living with them he has been to oblivious to learn their names which is a really funny thought now that I say it out loud...

[@AshleysAdvice]

@@lasseehrenreich5502 That's what I mean, I think it's funnier if he doesn't actually know their names, I also think it kind of fits with his character the more you think about it that's why I said I think that is actually true because it would make sense and I don't think it's about a formal thing because he doesn't do that with anyone else why would he just do it with her in that one moment like he doesn't do it any other time he doesn't even give her a name when he talks to her the rest of the time he doesn't say like your sister he just doesn't say anything when he talks to her Notice if you rewatch that whole episode the way he talks to her and about her until he learns her name it's kind of funny and weird and again this is just a theory so that's why I'm saying like it might not be true but I'm just saying it'd be really funny if it is true and it would kind of fit with his character cause remember he's really awkward and weird and he kinda like doesn't really know how to talk to people or to girls and especially in that episode where he introduces himself like think about that episode and how he acts like around them and he like rehearses what he's gonna say to them and like all of that kind of stuff like I feel like that would totally fit with his character like he's so anxious in that moment that instead of listening to them introduce themselves and say their names he is just so panicked like they don't actually introduce themselves but they do mention their names or I think Aang says everybody's names, but maybe Zuko in that episode in that moment when he's doing it because he's rehearsed his speech and because he's like overthinking everything there's a chance that he just missed all of that and then has to learn everybody's names through interactions with them, I also think like I said it fits with his character because it plays into his awkwardness that we've seen from season two when he was walking around those different towns and stuff, again I don't know it's just a theory so it doesn't really matter either way but I just thought it would be funny if that were true.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

@@AshleysAdvice Now that I think about it It's really funny And I prefer that interpretation of it

[@artesiningart4961]

💙💚❤️🧡 One penultimate episode to go before the 4-part finale! 🌊⛰️🔥🌪️

[@christianthompson2768]

5:38 I've been waiting for this moment for soooo long

[@warrenpowers108]

We're in the endgame now.

[@AnthonyHologounis96]

What an episode

[@Paolo-ec2si]

So according to TV tropes originally Yong Rha should've had a daughter and when Katara started blood bending she would've seen herself in the daughter of her mother's assassin...... Dark.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

I look on TV tropes I didn't find anything about it where did you see it's ?

[@Paolo-ec2si]

@lasseehrenreich5502 either tearjerker or nightmare fuel pages I think.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

@@Paolo-ec2si I actually wish they had done that so it could show her how she would have turned into a monster like him

[@calistodorren]

She didn't use BB on Yong Rha though, and even if she wanted to, she couldn't because it wasn't a full moon...🤨

[@Paolo-ec2si]

I think he cut it from the video

[@Paolo-ec2si]

I wish katara apologized to Aang and Sokka, the one with Sokka was bad especially because she heard him feeling insecure about not being able to remember her mother's face, but she said that anyway. I get it she suffers more for the survivor's guilt, but that was just uncalled and undefendable.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

I understand she did it in the moment but I agree we should see her apologize to them for overreacting

[@1241Aprilstone]

@@Paolo-ec2si I’m sure Sokka understands even though that line was unwarranted and unfair, but yes Katara should have apologized to Sokka on screen and had a sibling moment there.

[@j.43]

They should apologize to her too then.

[@Paolo-ec2si]

@@j.43 because???

[@j.43]

@@Paolo-ec2si because they were literally invalidating her and failing to understand her pain, Aang comparing it to losing appa and telling her to just forgive him, Sokka saying she was his mother too like he doesn't realize how much more effect it had on Katara. I'm glad she didn't apologize tbh.

[@Flirtz420]

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[@hazeyhails]

hear me out….voltron 2016

[@RosineSieka-n9v]

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[@Paolo-ec2si]

While i can understand Katara not forgiving Zuko so easily even after helping Aang with the fire bending and Sokka with rescuing their dad and Suki (mmm) it was still unfair to ask him to bring her mother back. Like; he probably had the same age of Sokka at that time when their mother got killed, it had nothing to do with him (unlike the fall of Ba Sing Se).

[@vick7868]

It really was, but she has every single right to be sore and suspicious. She was betrayed by Zuko once already, and harboring intense hatred for the Fire Narion her entire life. I don't think she was really asking him to being her mother back from the dead, it was a statement of "getting me to forgive you is as impossible as this"

[@bugra-yildirim]

Yeah but 14 year old teenagers doesnt have the best emotional managament. Zuko is the face of Fire nation for months . She never actually fought or get threatened from someone besides him or azula. Even zhao didnt have much interaction or face up with them. So its easy to put everything into just 1 person. Its easier to hate 1 face you know.

[@Paolo-ec2si]

@@vick7868 can't argue with that point of yours.

[@Paolo-ec2si]

@@bugra-yildirim fair point.

[@DexDex000]

Do you guys actually think she meant she wanted literally him to bring her mother back lol she was just talking out of anger, it was only meant to reinforce the fact that she sees Zulu (at that time) *as* The Fire Nation embodiment more or less. So that by the end of the episode it shows that she sees him as his own person capable of his own choices.

[@mikkek3237]

aang was lowkey so annoying in this episode

[@KC_ESQ]

How so?

[@allthingslexi6046]

He was one of the most level headed in this episode

[@j.43]

​@@allthingslexi6046 Nah he refused to understand Katara and allow her express herself and was forcing his way of life upon her.

[@xialec2342]

@@j.43 In fact, no, because in the end he allowed her to use Appa to go on the journey with Zuko. Aang only wanted to help Katara not make a mistake that she would later regret, and at the end of the episode he proves it.