Oh this is gonna be a fun watch.

Definitely!

Absolutely

Yes absolutely

I mean already this far in

"Only by finding balance under a silver cloud can you reveal your true self and find energy."

In all fairness what Aang says is somewhat true.

@@etienne8110 “Sometimes Clouds have 2 sides. A dark and light...and a silver lining in between. Its like a silver sandwich. So, when life seems hard, take a bite out of the silver sandwich.”

By finding Balance and Energy, by feeling the Energy, she found balance and by finding balance, she can feel the energy.

It doesn't work logically / rationally. But I think it works emotionally for the kind of people he's appealing to.

​@@XavionofTheraGreat point. Even after all these years there must still be some Firebender hatred to tap into to make people blindly follow your cause.

I thought the same thing, like so you have a face scar? Big woop, Zuko also has face scar, that doesn't mean he's a non-bender. It just means you got hit with fire, and benders fight other benders all the time. It's not the gotcha moment he thinks it is lol

It’s more about Korra’s story not lining up with with his scar He already has public support and this scene just solidified supporters trust

….shit your right…like at no point did he actually address the concerns korra made in fact WHY did korra think this was gonna work. I understand the teenager part and her personality but Not mako?

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Ok i can somewhat clear up one part but the other is mostly just my headcanon. Amon takes away bending by blocking Chakras with bloodbending. Now why does Korra have airbending? Amon never learned to block that chakra because there was no airbender to practice on. My headcanon is that somehow this triggered some sort of reaction that allows her to airbend. Don't ask me what, but something in there. Aang (SOME GODDAMN SOMEWAY HOW) is able to ENERGYBEND this back, when they are ENTIRELY 2 DIFFERENT METHODS OF TAKING AWAY BENDING

In my own personal experience, _yeah actually_ that's how it happens sometimes. Not unlocking spiritual wind-magic, obviously, but we have inhibitions, shames, "hangups", things we've been conditioned not to say or even to _think_ no matter how true they actually are, etc. If you're neurodivergent you straight up have to pretend to be someone else just to get by in "normal" society, and it can be shockingly hard to take that mask off. There's also the possibility that you _deeply_ resent someone but, for one reason or another, _cannot_ escape them and for the time being remain trapped under their thumb, so you have to keep your mouth shut or else things will only get worse. Whatever the reason for it, you can only live a lie for so long before you lose your grip on truth. More than once now I have had some profound insight not through peace or through introspection, but through being _overwhelmed by fucking everything_ and having too much shit to juggle to keep up the charade anymore. More than once now I have had to learn who I _really_ am simply because _something_ had to give and reality won out. I don't _recommend_ self-discovery through crisis, it's certainly not healthy, but sometimes that's just how it happens.

No entirely sure how that's a big deal? They explicitly tell Korra that she basically brute-forced her way into airbending, but still doesn't know how to properly airbend & should continue training (then she refuses, and honestly never quite becomes adapt at it)

Are you saying that she should have had her bending taken away and proceeded to have like a 10 minute beat down by Amon where she has to progressively overcome her fear, guilt, shame, grief, lies, stubbornness, and earthly attachments as she is forced to stop the villain from killing all the bystanders and her friends? One where you could resolve a host of issues and character growth built over the course of the show? One where you could stage an amazing big damned hero moment with a full Avatar Awakening? Don't be foolish. Nobody would want to see that. Let alone have it built up to over the course of 11 episodes or something.

overanalyzing avatar season 2 more like overcriticizing avatar season 2

The second half of that season(avatar wan onwards) is the worst in the series It’s better than the great divide but below the painted lady

@@XanderMatthews-nv9zf You sure it's better then the great divide? tgd didn't break or rewrite the world at the very least

​@@jakejs7117Lmao yeah Even Painted lady is not as retcon heavy

​@@dudewithnolifepoop undercriticizing. Season 2 deserves that hate

Agreed characters don't have to win all the time but make them look competent please

I fully disagree. I can name all of the master bender characters who also appear to be competent. since there are many I will just name ten. - Mako - Lin - Tenzin - Suyin - Kuvira - Unalaq - Tonraq - Zaheer - Kya - Ming Hua

@@youngmaster7405Swap Ghazan for Zaheer and it’s accurate

Zaheer might not be a confirmed or "true" master, but his use of air bending is certainly master level. the only person he has not beaten is tension and for obvious reasons. he beats kya (who should be on her mother's level or relative) and tonraq while also fighting Korra. his skills may be unorthodox and unrefined but they haven't failed him. plus he does create a pretty big snowstorm@@beckhambrooklynpenza1708

Did anyone else feel like General Iroh was gonna join Team Avatar? I was always disappointed he didn’t. He only ever showed up again in like one scene after this season.

This is a really interesting plot! We could meet Amon and slowly learn more about him two or three times throughout the season. It would help build both characters, and the intensity

really great idea!

I love this idea. Hell instead of Amon just going "lmao nah" that one time, he actually does it, Korra passes out, then the Task Force busts in the save her. When she wakes up she can't fire bend anymore but can still water and earthbend. Then maybe Amon gets her again after Tarlock captures her and she loses earthbending.

It feels more like extra steps if anything. Why would Amon of all people would take away Korra's bending one at a time when he knows that in intimidating and threatening her to take her bending away is enough for Korra to be on her toes as he himself knows that although Korra is physically strong, she is mentally weak knowing that he can take away her bending but chose not to due to not seeing her as a threat (further digging into Korra's skin and showing that Amon is a good at manipulation). It is only then when Amon realizes that Korra was becoming a threat in which he resorted to taking away her bending away near the finale of Book 1

@@FengTheSlayer it shouldn't be a choice just make it a limit of his powers that he can only take away one kind of bending at a time. It would make a lot of sense that the method for taking bending away would be slightly different for the different elements.

Assuming he washes his face every day. He may not need to apply it that often.

I mean it’s not that far fetched that he does it before making any major public appearances like the rally.

He could have just taken 5 minutes to burn himself and have a convincing backstory, we know he has the pain tolerance for it He doesn't even seem to have a need for an identity outside of Amon

He is a waterbender

Why not just scar your face if youre that bothered?

I get the rationale in your thought but if that's the case it wasn't conveyed well at all. Bloodbending was a forbidden technique and they literally had to go a mile or so away from their home to practice with their dad. There really didn't feel like a good transition from evil people with bending to bending is evil in his mindset that is shown. There is also the fact that amon originally really hated bloodbending due to its taboo nature and the fact that the only thing it could do was cause pain, unlike other forms of bending which have practical uses. The fact that there are reasonable potential explanations like this but they are never really shown like that is part of why the series frustrates me. They were so close to having convincing storytelling at so many points. You have a good rationale that is likely what the writers wanted to portray but didn't do all that well imo.

Cool blud, but his father wasn't even a bender when he was abusing them both so this logic doesn't make sense.

@@GaribaldHludwig But his father's former bending was his sense of power and motivation in life. Yakone's bending and unique abilities shaped himself as a person. It's still bending that's the evil to Amon, it's an inherent and automatic power over others that could be used to exploit and ruin lives, the way Yakone is training them to use it in his stead.

Doing the writers' job, huh?

@@GaribaldHludwig you think being forced to learn a technique to basically torture people and animals into submission wouldn't leave a mark?

I actually think Season 2 is better overall than Season 1. Because Korra's growth is more finalised, and the actions that happen then carry on through the rest of show. I don't think Season 3 or 4 of Korra would be as good as they are if Season 2 didn't set the bedrock for them.

​​​@@throughrockmetal6935>Korra growth is more finalized >Is characterized as hating her father and people who help him for no reason while also trusting litteraly the main villain >Litteraly everyone hated the Spirit World retcon in Season 2 At least mention Varrick being the good thing Season 2 have

​@@RenoKyrieHer being upset at her father is understandable at first but I feel like they didn't handle well

3 and 4 are a lot better. At least in my opinion.

The first half of season 2 is really good but when the avatar Wan story hits it all goes downhill.

True, but i think he meant iroh in season 1 only.

Well tbf all of his development happens before the series. Start of series Iroh was already a White Lotus member and he was always willing to settle down with his nephew. He never changes from the start because he was amazing from the start anyways

​@woyzing I only noticed this recently, but if you do some thinking on the subtext of Iroh's backstory, it's implied that he basically had the same character arc that Zuko had before the show begins. Which makes their dynamic all the more touching

The problem with that, a very good pitch for a multi-season arc, I'd say, is that the first season was meant to be the only season. Blame Nickolodean for playing keep away with the creative team and denying them a clearly laid out production schedule to work around. If the creators knew they'd have 4 seasons from the start, no doubt the series would have turned out wildly different.

​@@Xloi63except the creators just could have written a better show and when the fans are clamoring for more Nick would have no choice to renew. The excuse of "they thought they had one season" is just dumb and lazy. That's what cliffhangers are literally for. To drum up hype for the next thing.

And if they weren't sure if korra would get a second season they could end the with resolving the conflict between benders and non benders some way. In gundam ibo Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! The protagonist basically ends up on the wrong side of the right fight in a way. But though they lose and they die, the aftermath leads to them getting the outcome their fight more or less was for (ignoring a bit though for motives). The season ending with korra losing her bending but resolving the issue for benders and non benders would be great. Of course they would need to have actual development on her diplomatic and leadership role as the avatar. Thus when it ends it suggests that with or without her bending, her most valued role can still be done. And if they got season two they can dive either into restoring her powers, spirituality or her role as a figurehead.

@@Xloi63 Even so, they squandered so much of what they did have. They also didn't have to kill off Amon, which would have given them a potentially interesting season 2 imo.

⁠@@casthedemonthat doesn’t always work. Shows have set up a cliffhanger and never get renewed. Even if it is popular. So you could set one up to try and get a second season or you get an incomplete story.

I disagree. I like that it shows how committed he is to his beliefs, even if his beliefs are wrong.

​@@Zoper1409 yeah, like he was convinced by Amon to become what he is and he knows there's no going back

I agree. all the right ingredients were there for this show to be as good as ATLAB. But the execution just missed.

@@Zoper1409 I was going for characterizing Amon more than the lieutenant, but hey there's a reason I'm not a writer.

@@calebbrinsfield2994 Wisecrack made a video about how Amon and Kuvira were set up really well and fell flat on their faces come their resolutions, Zaheer being the exception. I pretty much agreed with it. I wonder what happened in the writing rooms.

It's very common in real life to grow up thinking "I'll never be like my parents, I'm going to do things better", only to later in life suddenly realise we still often end up mirroring our parents in the end (usually this realisation comes in the form of yelling at our kids and hearing the exact same words our parents used on us come out). This is how I see Tarlok and Amon. They resented their father so much. Their lives were so dominated by the need to prove their father wrong that they each ended up enslaving themselves to his plan in an attempt to demonstrate they could do it better than him, "be" better than him. Like a self fulfilling prophecy though, the more they tried to outdo their father, the more they inadvertently just ended up mirroring him.

I feel like it's one thing to pick up traits of your abusive parents in one way or another, even if you hate them. But it's another to like, carry their will beat for beat like it's an idea you're super into

@@100Darkspine Fair! (Though I’ve personally seen otherwise, the former is definitely more common) Plus I could see Amon actually disliking benders cuz his father put him thru all that shit but like that’s fanfic-ey territory lol

I’d honestly much rather him just go straight to season 3

I agree with this but will add a couple caveats. One is that I've only experienced Korra through this channel, and the other is that the writers probably could have made that more explicit.

Haha yeah, and remember earlier in the season Naga wasn’t able to carry 4 people. But destroying steel bars and tossing around giant robots is different I guess

That'd be wild, seeing someone trying to Blood bend the apex predator of Apex Predators. Naga would muscle through that and really put a scar on that face

@@Alex-ob8kmthey said she just didn’t want to iirc

Polar bear dogs the original blood benders

#NagaCantMeltSteelBeams

Because it sucked

He said in episode 1 that he was gonna give this show significantly less praise and more criticism than the original

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not really? he seemed like one of the only youtubers who's ever taken an actual, crtitical, look at the show. Not one of those shitty pure hate videos you see everywhere.

​@@froggyl7472Yeah, OvA is way less negative about Korra than most people Although he IS still pretty mostly negative towards Korra but at least he bring up the good unlike most others

the only two episodes i like of season 2, are the ones about the first Avatar.

​@@MrDefladorit's a nice story but completely destroys the lore of the franchise

@@MrDeflador Very interesting perspective. I love the art and the story of those episodes, but I think it ruins Avatar as a franchise completely and makes no sense in the context of the Avatar universe. Basically how not to worldbuild 101.

@@rold-hx8bu so i have to ask again, why. It was over ten thousand years ago, so there would be no record of that time. Second what i hear the most is the orginal bender point. I do not think that is was meant in a literally way. It is even shown in the first of the two episodes, that the other hunters just throw some fire, while Wan (after shown doing a promo version of the dragon dance) can really bend fire. I think it was meant in a way that humans copied the natural benders to use the elements effectively.

@@rold-hx8bu I disagree. Raava & Vaatu are weird and inconsistent in what they represent - I would agree that's a problem. But I don't think there's anything that "destroys the lore of the franchise".

Korra should have stayed airbender only after this season going into season 2, with access to the Avatar State when needed but not at will yet. The suddenly being able to do (punch style) airbending because the instinct kicks in with her other bending locked sorta works, but she would now have to actually learn to do it properly. Her deepest low finally making her introspective/spiritual enough to connect with her past lives makes enough sense. Season 2 could have kept the overall spiritual stuff, it ending with Korra reforging the original Avatar Bond (restoring her other bending), and the spirit portal opening going into S3 with the new airbenders like it did. I know why they had only single season plans up to S3 and S4 but the story would flow so much better with some slight changes.

i like this idea a lot, in ep 4 amon should've just taken her bending

@@broodjebamibal i mean firstly her using something far closer to fire bending but with air bending is probably BECAUSE she doesnt know how to "properly" airbend so she uses what she DOES know namely firebending, secondly korra also has essentially 2 fighting styles depending on the situation, she rarely uses big impactfull bending techniques, during the car chase she makes an earthen ramp which is the only 'big' bending i can think of, most often she sticks to the "pro bending" style of bending with short, focused jabs which when applied to airbending would look exactly like what she does when she unlocks airbending

@@broodjebamibal also if korra only had access to the avatar state when its "needed" that would just be hella obvious plotarmor

Dude, Roosterteeth already has the "suicide good, ahktually" thing going on already, we don't need any more of that crap.

imagery is great it's great scene in a vacuum it's just that it doesn't feels earned.

To add on about the process of lightning bending, it's usually done with both hands. First the hands seperate the energies then bring them back together with a thrust to shoot it forward. But here Mako just kinda shoots it with one hand like he's Cuphead or something

well said

I assumed that it became easier to do with inner sun firebending rather than angry firebending, and also when the Firelords aren't being narcissists keeping it for themselves. Someone figured out rapid-fire but weaker lightning.

I do agree with this as the mindset and the idea for the elements are just gone by the time of the final. Also was the "Tom, Dick, and Harry" bit a reference to The Great Escape?

This is why I don't like the "Bending was always supposed to be like this. Airbender just didn't have the budget" argument. So you're telling me all the creativity and diagetic limitations to bending was just a result of them needing to slow down the action? We both know that's a dumb point to make if you think about it even for a second.

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@@Woozee_ Because he fucking misspelled one word? Missed one letter?

That degree is "lots" for what it's worth. He ticks basically every box but the big one everyone jumps to. (Physical, Emotional, Spiritual, and Coercive Control are all definites.)

then the show should have done at least one thing to show us this lasting influence but didn't

All defences of the characters in Korra are "of course they're acting stupid there's something seriously wrong with them"

It feels alot more like trying to justify actions to cover up bad writing. Both of these characters were shown to hate their father and nothing comes of it for either one. The story could’ve changed with yakone dying of old age and the story would be the exact same.

@@mutantraze3681 Yakkone did die of old age though

Bro that would make a lot more sense than whatever the hell Korra was planning.

Skipping over your secondhand Holocaust guilt, taking away their bending wouldn't end the air nation. Any one of them having another child would allow it to continue.

Extremist groups have historically had no qualms with extermination

I don't agree, the entire point seems to be to equalise everyone and thus to take away everyone's bending. That the air nation is ended isn't relevant and not even entirely true. As long as people still follow their ways, the air nation remains, there just will not be any more airbenders.

very unrealistic mob behaviour to be like "oh no that's one step too far" as their movement starts becoming destructive... i can give you a thousand examples

The reasonable answer is that... because there are 5 airbenders in the world in total at this point... he never had a chance to figure out what the chi path for air is.

​@@JackPhoenixCzwait so if he didn't know the chi path: what the hell was he gonna in front of a AUDIENCE if it didn't workand couldn't take the last airbenders bendings away

​@@malikpierre-louis3343 he may have assumed he could figure it out, or was just bluffing to provoke Korra

If Korra had followed what made Bitter Work so good, after her bending is taken away, Amon would have been distracted by the lieutenant, giving Korra an opportunity to sneak away. Without her bending, she is forced to get creative. She works around Amon, uses the environment, finds creative solutions that don't require bending, puts him in situations where his only way out is to use waterbending around equalists, weakening him from having to fight his own lackeys. Then, in the final moment, as Amon is already all but defeated, all his equalists unconscious by his own hand, he lashes out in rage, grabs Mako and is about to take his bending away out of sheer spite, and _that's_ when Korra unlocks airbending and uses it to defeat him for good. I feel like that would be so much better.

Being sad at not being special is not a philosophical revelation.

youre over reacting here bro. you talk like if nick of time moments didnt happen in ATLA or if many other good shows dont use that either.

@@felipe970421 also, considering how bloodbending is and what they set up amon for, there no way for Korra to beat him with no bending strategies, unless he simply did not want to use it or she dragged him to the middle of the crowd of his followers and then challenged him to hand to hand combat, but even then theres no way she wins because Amon is also an extremely skilled martial artists and chi blocker himself, Korras CQC skills are based on what she knows from bending tecniques that can be translated to the, which is decent but no way shes beating someone who mastered this combat.

@@Zaurthur its not being sad about not being special, is being sad for having something that defined your identity taken away from you. everyone is special in their own way as small as it is, even if just a little hobbie talent or something youre passionate about doing, imagine being completely unable to do that. also for Korra it goes to the feeling of failure because she is one of the most important people on the planet who a great duty to fullfill, and she failed to upkeep that status and fullfill her duty. its why the suicide theory makes sense and she wasnt just at that cliff to be sad like the other times, specially since she was 10x worse than before, the thought of letting the next avatar who would be an actual capable one take her place might have crossed her mind at that moment, if this show was PG14 at least we would probably had seen her put one step off the edge, to show she was indeed gonna jump, but then given up and just break down crying.

It's also fine to give Aang a freebie, for the sake of showing off the main gimmick of the Avatar

Hot take, but you just described perfectly what happened with the Star Wars prequels too. They focused a lot on fanservice and action, but lost what gave the original movies so much more heart which was the solid writing and memorable characters. They're entertaining for what it's worth, but are just not the same. (Same applies to the sequels too)

IIRC Katara was only envious of him for that one episode, right? I don't think giving Katara a character arc for one episode was worth giving Aang water bending too easily. Something similar happened in S3 where Bolin was envious of Korra for being able to metal bend first try (sigh) and it actually initiated a solid character arc for him that eventually lead to him unlocking lava bending but was that arc worth making metal bending look like something everyone could learn in a minute?

@@danijeljovic4971 Aang picking up waterbending quickly made sense though. Why would he struggle moving water at all when the basics mesh well with airbending? It's not like he mastered it after doing it once.

he didn't master it per se, but he did completely out perform someone who has practiced for years on one go. the wave he conjured was several meters high and he literally just started three minutes prior. @@PatchesNjose

Idk how you can sleep to these videos. If I tried, I'd be dozing then hit a hilarious line then be totally awake again from laughing. Definitely agree this is one of the best channels out there though.

Airbending has finally clicked with Korra, I wonder what she is gonna do? (Air punch air punch air punch) ... Did Bryke forget that bending isn't just a power up?

⁠​⁠@@maskofthedragonDon’t forget the air kick!! But honestly I think it’s better that Korra was just blasting air rather than some other technique, as it would need some major restructuring to make sense. She hasn’t trained in any actual airbending, and evasion wouldn’t really work narratively or cinematically. Korra just started attacking Amon out of desperation, so why suddenly turn and run at the finale? And how do you show dodging or hiding from psychic bloodbending? Replay the previous scene where Korra and Mako were just running and hiding from Amon?

@ddchrw you're right, that wouldn't make sense. But i think that just emphasizes how rushed and half baked the whole season was, especially the finale in terms of writing

Hey don’t forget that one scene of pro bending! At the first half of the show….yeah you right.

Because reasons don't question it korras a good show

That season is so bad I would love to see him rip it to bloody pieces

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he seem to have a pretty strong negative bias for korra. like him not understanding that someone can hate their parent yet still going down the path said parent set out for them is not a strike against the show

there's A LOT of blind hate on his lok videos

Eh, I honestly disagree. It's very evident his opinion of this show is a lot lower than he admits and he hasn't said anything positive beyond tiny little compliments since like episode 3.

I agree a bloodbender with chi blocking knowledge should have been able to identify the problem + heal it That said the victims were still only in republic city at that time, bloodbending was outlawed(?), and being a bloodbending healer with knowledge of chi blocking is already a pretty unique combination. So I don't think it's unrealistic that there wasn't such a person available in Republic City. Maybe in the North Pole if the problem didn't get solved earlier.

To pull a move like that you'd need to move at least two levers with each hand and some of them extremely quickly. I'd never expect accurately controlled forklift judo from tv, but it's fun to imagine them inside the machines jumping around using every part of their body to push and pull several levers at the same time. It would be a whole martial art in itself: Machine bending, the art anyone can learn but only a few can master

Forklift Certification is not a mobile suit Gundam license

imagine the audiences reaction when he has to keep re trying to take tenzins families bending

@@victormanyeruke9997 god that'd be hilarious

But if Korra can heal the benders to be benders again, how permanent is this block? The whole thing is so nebulous

Kinda need to show that he feels this way. Relying almost entirely on head canon for your main villain isn’t a strength.

Just a Theory? A FILM THE- I'm gonna miss MatPat.

To your first argument. I would believe that if he actually did disfigure his own face. Then the symbolism would be that he really does hate what his lineage represents, and would go so far to hurt himself to punish himself and his mask would be to mask his biological nature. But this is just not the case BECAUSE of the make-up. Now the symbolism is that he's not who he says he is, and the mask is (unfortunately) a redundant representation that his true nature is not what he's saying. He's just a fraud, plain and simple, and we don't particularly know why. His character would be so much more interesting to dissect if he actually disfigured his own face.

I agree, wanted to comment this but I'm glad someone else wrote it all out instead!

Legend of Korra is not as bad as RISE OF THE SKYWALKER. That's harsh.

@@Nearsificationnobody said that

Considering Amon seems to have invented his technique and has only ever used it on ordinary benders before, it's believable that he also doesn't actually have perfect knowledge regarding it; There must have been an experimental phase in there at some point where he was figuring things out and he wouldn't necessarily have found everything especially regarding anomalies like the avatar. Given each element is primarily tied to specific chakras, and that Korra already had a blocked chakra that was interfering with airbending, it's arguable that Amon had tried to hit all the major chakras to try and cancel out all types of bending knowing that as the avatar Korra should have all 4 elements, in which case he might have been directly responsible for "unlocking" Korra's airbending. If 3 of 4 "switches" were "on" and the fourth was "off", and he flipped all 4 assuming they were all on, then the first 3 are turned off but the last turns on.

i never thought about that that's actually a really cool explanation

@@snowboundwhale6860 Amon used for i = 1:4 bendingStyle(i) = !bendingStyle(i) end Instead of for i = 1:4 bendingStyle(i) = 0 end

See, you lost me at the end there... Because that implies Korra's lack of air bending was the result of a chi blockage, but that was never established in the show. Korra's problem was always her not being able to get into the mentality of an Airbender. She lacked any spiritual connection and the "go with the flow" nature of air wasnt clicking with her. The first probending episode was dedicated to establishing this, and it's consistent with why Aang wasn't able to earthbend at first. Amon's chi blocking didnt change her mentality when it came to bending since she's just fire bending with air and we dont get any spiritual connection established until they get to the south pole, so Korra didnt really overcome either of the things they established her needed to in order to air bend in this moment on top of her having her bending taken away in general. This is my main problem with that scene, cause now to make sense of why she just gets to air bend anyway, the fanbase now has to make up any sort of potential excuse that the writers didnt think enough for, ranging from Amon somehow screwing it up (something awfully convenient to happen in THIS moment) or that Amon, for one reason or another, just cant take it away (which makes no sense both for the reason that was said in the video, and because why would the writers set up him getting ready to take away Tezin and his family's bending if he couldnt take away the bending of an airbender? It removes any tension that scene would have to argue he couldnt take an airbender's bending). Both reasonings are contrived as hell

@@natsuquilava7917 a mindset should correlate with a chakra flow, according to the episode The Guru in ATLA

What highs? Amon was pretty much it

​@@fulltimeslackerii8229season 3 is an objective masterpiece and was the only time Korra achieved the levels of quality set up by "the last Airbender "

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 red lotus is a high too and maybe quvira's motives and that's about it

@@fulltimeslackerii8229 have you seen season 3 my guy

​@@lesiuiuur123season 4 is my absolute favorite. Just a shame it ends with a mecha fight.

It still feels unearned is the issue. I don't really care about the technical explanation of why she's able to or not, although I do think it makes little to no sense, but it feels like a complete deus ex machina. You don't hit rock bottom and then that's it, you're over whatever it was that was holding you back. She doesn't seem to make any particular change to who she is or anything to make the moment feel earned. They do themselves no favors by making it just like she's firebending, but with air. "I can airbend?!?" is a pretty appropriate reaction.

The problem with that is that we know that all bending requires chi flow, energy traveling through the body to make bending work. It's why chi blockers exist. By your logic, chi blocking shouldnt work on Korra since she'd still have the drive of a fire bender and thus still be able to fire bend. We can assume Amon's bending removal takes some aspects of chi blocking (The water tribe has been shown to be very knowledgeable on chi flow because of their healers). He would have to be physically disrupting the flow of chi with blood bending to stop bending permanently since hes not energy bending. At that point, spiritually wouldn't matter unless you show a spirit or something helping her do it, which they didnt. There wasnt any spiritual realization till long after her air bending moment, and she had basically been advance chi blocked, so the rules should say she cant bend

@@Falllll eh.. coming to terms with your imminent death is definitely an 'unlocks spiritual awakening' thing in eastern mysticism. It's like that story about the guy on the cliff picking the strawberry. The main trouble is we have no idea how Amon's power works, and it doesn't make a lot of sense. Unless we're to believe he turns each type of bending off manually... there are very few mechanics for bending under which his technique shouldn't block it _whether an avatar has unlocked it or not_

Idk, like how fast can a fly fly or something

@@dumflame The Yu-yan can fly to a tree 100 yards away, without killing the Yu-yan.

This episode alone wasted time by having Korra lose and regain her powers in the same episode While also having the villains escape, only for them to end up dying anyway 2 scenes later Seems like this episode was written exactly the opposite what people claim, with it intending to end with 2 massive cliffhangers

Thats because LoK simply isn't as crazy as ATLA. Thats like saying a movie like Eragon should get as many analytic videos as Lord of the Rings

I agree! That's what the thing at the end was supposed to be. Korras attachment was her bending and identity as the Avatar, having that taken away allowed her to find release and airbend. I liked that they tried to incorporate that, but the way they did it was so scuffed! It's disappointing

Aang never let go of his attachments

@@johanluisrivas8016 That was literally what happened at the end of season 2.

@@johanluisrivas8016 he did at the very end of season two. He bent himself a little cave in the middle of a fight to meditate XD. Then he was able to unlock the Avatar State and that's when Azula shot him 😬

Yeah the first 2 main villians are mixed at best especially motivation wise. Once it gets to season 3 they become more realized and understood

Yeah I don't get when he says that Amon does not believe bending is actually evil . He does actually seem to believe it and being trained in the most evil art of bending possible by a cruel master and being taught that bending is pure power and no art made him think that's actually true.

@@majintv24 I say Unalaq was just flat out a bad villain. He was both a boring and stupid villain.

While I can see that as a possibility, it's not really said in the show. We never see him say anything related or act in a way that would confirm that.

@@fusel5883 He says "I'm going to erase bending from the world" and then tries to erase bending from the world. WHAT DO YOU MEAN he dosent say or act in a way that confirms that.

In theory, by stopping the propeller, assuming the rope is strong enough for that, the engine could rip itself apart from the stress and cause a fuel fire. I'm not sure if that can happen with propeller plane, though, but there are multiple examples of jet engines deciding mid-flight their constituent components need some extra space.

@@JackPhoenixCz Yeah. With a turbine engine, anything like that getting stuck in the fans could end up leading to some genuine engine failures, however I just don't really know what this would do to a prop driven aircraft.

But Korra was struggling with airbending long before she had any grief, or really any problems at all. I could buy this if maybe Korra started making the first steps toward airbending, but then regressed after Amon captured her, with that event blocking the chakra.

@@sonicfan4511 we do see progression though. She learned how to do the spinning leaf thing in the pro bending arena. There’s obviously some element of mentality which blocks the avatar’s ability to initially learn an element. I.e. Aang with earth bending. Tenzin notes it for Korra and air bending too. However we do see some initial progress in Korra, but she also has grief over not being able to handle Amon which is blocking further progress. I’m not saying the writing couldn’t have been better for this, but I think it makes sense that a self blocked chakra can be unblocked. She was at her lowest point and became open to the most change when she lost her other bending. Allowing her to unblock the air chakra and finally bend.