REACTING to *3x14 Avatar: The Last Airbender* PRISON BREAK!!! (First Time Watching) ATLA

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

What is your favorite prison break in film or television?

[@astroworfcraig9164]

"The Great Escape."

[@GastonAlvarez_]

Prison break

[@SpacialRend7]

“The Boiling Rock Part 2”😅

[@kclightman]

The Shawshank Redemption. A total classic and one of the best movies of all time.

[@ViNHaleyBuen]

@@SpacialRend7 ha! yes!

[@SpacialRend7]

Sokka: “My first girlfriend turned into the moon.” Zuko: “That’s rough, buddy.” This moment has been memed a lot, lol!

[@LuLu-Sil]

It's so relatable 😂

[@daniellerobbins6503]

Zuko's not a very good mentor when he's "trying to do what Uncle would do," but he's a great mentor when he speaks out of his own experience!

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

That’s true!!

[@bonesnapper93]

To be fair Katara thought Zuko had changed and was actually somewhat nice to him when they were talking about there mothers in the crystal caves at the end of the book 2 but Zuko choose Azula side that Aeng almost died so its lot more understandable that she wouldn't trust him this second time around

[@gustavoalvarez277]

he did die but Katara brought him back

[@iminumst7827]

Also Kataras personality is being the most gullible and trusting but also the most unforgiving. For example she was the one to trust jet. But she was the last willing to accept his help. She will trust you if you don't betray her.

[@Caffin8tor]

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Kitara is fully justified in being skeptical of Zuko plus she's even more emotionally scarred by the fire nation killing her mother than Sokka is.

[@priscillamcrmy]

katara went to prision, and now it's sokka's time. runs in the family!

[@Caffin8tor]

One detail many people miss is when Sokka first approaches Suki in the prison, he's just trying to pull the same prank Suki pulled on him when he met her disguised as a guard in Serpent's Pass. I mean, it's still inappropriate, but he was just trying to reverse the joke on her.

[@marcusadrielsalesramos9601]

I actually thought everyone get this at least when watching for the 2nd time, i got this at my FIRST time ever, and i still did'nt get everything, for exemple: i allways thought ozais face was only revealed over s2, but they did in the EP Zuko alone s2ep7, and i Just noticed last month

[@JOVONO]

It also seems very much inspired by the first Star Wars film when Luke disguised as a Stormtrooper enters Leila’s cell

[@bhelliom3]

Everyone says Book 2 and 3 just get better every episode, and when you're watching Book 1 and already in love with the show you're like "how??" But then you see exactly how. The writing makes sense, and not in a trope-y "I know everything that's gonna happen" way, but in a way consistent with the journey our characters have been on. Watching Zuko fail to "switch sides" at the end of Book 2 is hard to watch and so frustrating as a viewer but makes complete sense in the story and makes his journey in Book 3 that much more satisfying and believable. It's so surreal to watch him interact with the Gaang in a "normal" way and the show let's us know they know it's awkward too, they don't just pretend everything is fine and normal now. I fucking love this show.

[@katieb9428]

That’s what I love about this show: They make the characters feel real, human, and relatable

[@lesliemonster92]

Katara has at least graduated from outright hostility toward Zuko (totally understandable given the broken trust), to some gentle teasing. And it even got a smile out of him! Like he always knew this wouldn't be an overnight transition with the whole group, but they're getting there 😊

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

😂😂

[@giolarocca]

Time for the most epic bromance 😂😂😂

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

James and Zuko!!!! Lol

[@DC-dq7et]

Zuko betrayed Katara and Aang paid the price for it, of course Katara is acting that way. No one else saw aang get shot. They accept him but she doesn't want to make the same mistake so she's not gonna be welcoming to him. It makes sense how she acts.

[@Idalieeh]

That's rough, buddy is potentially the funniest line of the entire show tbh

[@stephaniehundley6792]

I lOVE these two episodes, they are some of my favorites!!! I had someone make me a shirt that says “Leaf Me Alone, I’m bushed!”

[@DivusMagus]

This season is so good because of the amazing character writing and world building done in the first two seasons. This whole show was written beginning to end before the first episode was made and it shows.

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

That’s very true!!!

[@baileycox6847]

My favorite part about this episode it the fact that if Sokka HAD thought this through, he would have realized bringing a MASTER waterbender, a MASTER earthbender, and the AVATAR to the BOILING ROCK, this would have lasted like 5 minutes.

[@nicholaswilkerson4394]

Also, i gotta say, Zuko and Sokka work so well together.

[@samanthac8048]

I just wanted to say I always look forward to your updates on ATLA! You let me rewatch one of my favorite shows for the first time again. Thanks! This is also one of my favorite episodes so I'm glad I could watch it right as you upload.

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

This means so much to me! Thank you!

[@naruchancutie1]

To be fair to Katara, if someone I thought changed led to my loved one dying in my arms (though temporary), I'd be mean to them too.

[@ZiaJester]

This is why (and other episodes) book 3 is my favorite. Getting Sokka and Zuko episodes is such a treat. Seeing them work together is such delight. This is also where Zuko starts to respect Sokka and understanding he is more than just a guy with a boomerang. Also can't wait to see James react to one of my favorite 'Suki is such a badass' scenes!

[@ViNHaleyBuen]

always looking forward to your ATLA reactions. also that little "happy" you let out and caught yourself when you saw suki, priceless! can't wait for the next episode, i think you'd really enjoy the next one; one of my fave episode.

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

Dude! I mean come on!!

[@fernandaparraguirre5237]

watching Sokka and Suki in the cell had me with full on flashbacks to your and Nobus reaction to The Mummy Returns and "these peoples problems all come from making out!! stop making out everybody!!!" lmao

[@shakespearean_khaleesi8071]

If you love Suki now, just wait until the next few episodes. She gets even better.

[@kathryn3802]

Your reaction to seeing Suki was awesome. I felt the same way when I first saw this episode. Trust me you are not prepared for part two, it is amazing. Can't wait to see your reaction to it!

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

😂😂

[@calistodorren]

It's always funny to see people react to the warden because initially they think it's a woman, then they hear him speak...🤣

[@nori9111]

I love watching you squeal over Suki.

[@kaijingarou6526]

Sokka blames himself for the failure of the invasion plan but TBH the plan was awesome. It was the Earth King who fucked the plan by telling it to people he didn't know if he could really trust. He needs to chill.

[@hallieraymond]

I cringe so hard at the way Sokka chooses to reunite with Suki-with a young girl in a prison where we've already SEEN the guards are abusive, still wearing the guard's helmet, making an advance. It's nightmare stuff, and worse, it's nightmare stuff she might've lived in a show written for an audience a few years older. But horrible moment aside, Zuko and Sokka are probably my favorite story pairing on the show, and it's such a shame they don't get a chance to play off one another except in this episode duo. Sokka's strategic skill works exceptionally well with Zuko's tactical strengths. In a way, it seems like Sokka is more himself in this episode with Zuko when he's not performing for the others (to live up to his expected role as group comedian, as seen in "Sokka's Master"), and Zuko is really the perfect person to support Sokka in his insecurity after his recent failure. There's also a great story of trust here in the subtext. Sokka ASKED Zuko for details about high-security Fire Nation prisons and expected to be told. And Zuko not only told him but volunteered to assist and protect him in infiltrating the prison and staging a breakout of his loved ones. Sokka feels he can trust Zuko for state secrets, and Zuko, without being asked, goes the extra mile, proving both exceptional courage and a deep commitment to the cause and his new friends. I mean, how on earth is Sokka ever supposed to distrust Zuko after this, when the man risked his life to go against his countrymen and break Sokka's loved ones out of prison?

[@dafnid7294]

Apparently she also teased him like that when she was disguised, in the episode with the Serpent's pass? I don t remember it at all tho. And anyways, she is not weak emotionally or physically, she can handle some abusive guards, let then come lol

[@hallieraymond]

@@dafnid7294 , she did, and she's not. But there is a HUGE difference between a guard teasing a man in the open with his friends (including the Avatar) beside him and a guard teasing a woman alone in a PRISON cell. Also, just because she can handle potential attackers doesn't mean it wouldn't be TERRIFYING to have to do so at any moment. Finally, the fact that Suki's IN prison means that she has lost. What happens to her in the kind of situation Sokka initiates if Sokka ISN'T the guard, the guard DOESN'T love her, and she loses again? No. DON'T let them come. Are you kidding?! This is a kid's show, but in a coed prison with abusive guards, or in any kind of prison with abusive guards or lax guards, a girl like Suki would live in constant fear of assault. Even if nothing's happened to her before, or if she's stopped it happening every time before, that kind of fear is life-changing: traumatic and debilitating. And the optics of Sokka's advance on Suki in this situation show how young and comparatively innocent Sokka is. Her response of attacking him is completely justified, and in a similar situation, I would NOT have melted and gone all sweet the second he revealed his face but would have yelled at him and been furious for the next twenty minutes for that one moment of sickening fear, for making me associate someone I loved and something I'd been hoping for with something so awful even for a second. I get it's a kid show. They weren't trying to go this deep. They were trying to make a cute callback or a quick joke. Maybe I'm too sensitive, and I don't want to start something. But Suki deserved better. Women deserve better. Victims who have been in close quarters with authority figures attempting to abuse that power deserve better from this normally beautifully and subtly written show.

[@dafnid7294]

@@hallieraymond I am obviously kidding, but she can take them on as she did with Sokka. Anyways, I just consider her way stronger than that and yeah she in prison from the war. She didn't lose to 2 or 3 guards she can teach them a lesson anyday. anyways, I get what you are saying so Ig he should have been clearer

[@anitatereszczuk3967]

Hearing anyone shout Suki is always so funny to me, because in Polish this word translates to "bitches" :D

[@nicholaswilkerson4394]

This is one of the things that I really loved about these last few episodes before the finale. Redemption arcs are, of course, not at ALL unheard of. But for a show to actually give us episodes showing the person actually putting in the work to EARN the trust they're asking for, proving that they aren't villains anymore... so damn good.

[@ilzedickenson8746]

The next two episodes are my absolute favorite episodes!!!!!

[@lfreeman4612]

What's so amazing about this show is that book three is incredible but the only reason its so amazing is because of every tiny detail and event in the other two seasons is what makes all of the events and character development and battles possible in book three because season one and two perfectly created and set the stage for the beautiful masterpiece that is the final season. And book three would be fun to watch still without the other two, but all of the depth and the reveals the the grandeur would be lost without the comparison of the other two.

[@jessicaflynn3184]

YES!!! This and the next episode are my favorite in the series. Even when I was younger, I liked these two the best. Partially because I believe in Suki supremacy but the whole set up is done very well.

[@mattpassos5689]

4:07 did they steal it though? The mechanist was designing them for the fire nation and they reverse engineered a crashed one

[@rducky136]

Aww I thought southern raiders next

[@Darkstar72SR]

They couldn’t take down the prison guard because THAT wouldn’t be smart either. What are they gonna do with her long term? People will know she’s missing if they tie her up and the same goes for killing her. Not that they would kill her, I’m just saying. (Shrug)

[@whitenoiseanimereacts]

That’s fair

[@mathies3598]

Hey, Sokka did right not risking getting caught too

[@chasedupthesky]

the plot and character development this season works so well and so fast /because/ of the slower buildup throughout the other seasons

[@Charsept]

Book 3 benefits from 2 seasons of build up and it really delivers.

[@rducky136]

16 years ago today the lat episode avatar aired apparently

[@ScorpionStrike7]

4:36 There it is!

[@lc8155]

Loving it thanks for the reaction!

[@ShesBats]

👏 greatest parter of the series. You can't beat a good prison show. I tell ya, when that idiot grabbed the paneling I'm thinking does he not know how heat works? Is being a fire bender that good you think you can write-off all things hot. Lol, I should talk, got a near second degree burn from a glass lid 😢. And Sokka is at his best when he's improvising. He knows himself better than anyone... Minus the cactus juice 😁

[@rducky136]

How I'd spka and zuko know where boiling rock was the discribtiom was it in volcano near fire nation but was given no location or direction from easten air temple

[@Splanc]

Honestly their first plan didn't fail,that other guy just doesn't know how to keep his pain silenced and honestly they were being too inpatient o.o

[@Little-Dude]

There's only been one full episode since Zuko joined the group, so it hasn't been very long. Katara still being prickly towards him makes sense for the position her character is in and also just timeline-wise. We've also been Zuko's cheerleader for awhile now but the Gaang obviously doesn't have even close to the amount of context that we do. Someone else in the comments pointed out something pretty astute about Katara's character: She's actually pretty quick to trust someone, but when she's been burned once, she'll bar and protect herself fiercely. Jet's a good example of this. Even when she allowed him in to help them find Appa, she was still coarse towards him. And he didn't even do an ounce of what Zuko did to her.

[@eliperilpresidente]

James if someone had tried to kill you and/or enslave you multiple times, would you become buddy buddy with them immediately? I think I know the answer, give katara some slack

[@wilbibe]

Is this your first time watching? Damn I'm old

[@00Coyote]

"I hate Katara..." just like a Dude to get offended when someone makes fun of his Boyfriend.🤣

[@saintmatthias8187]

Well suki did it to him when she was that security guard at the station for the refugee's. Dang feminist crap.

[@KRIOSthe5th]

That's rough buddy

[@DeathKitta]

if you are interested can you react to the legend of vox machina?

[@x97k8]

Katara is the most annoying character that’s why most of the fandom hate on her

[@SkilasSkilasGaming]

"alright boys, we just have to get him off.." ayooooooo .. nah im jk man lol, sorry

[@aubryellaotero1064]

Literally stop hating on Katara. She has the most reason to hate Zuko and while it’s good of the rest of the group to be so accepting, it’s completely understandable for at least one person to still have reservations about him.