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Adult Aang's voice actor absolutely nails his little inflections and way of speaking so well, like you really get the sense that it's Aang but grown up

I love how scary Amon is. That shit slaps

I'll give Korra credit for one thing. The way she escapes that box is genuinely clever and she had to come up with a plan really fast too. So I'll give her a point for that at least. Thank goodness she had something on her wrist to help.

I think its possible that one of Lin's officers grew a mustache in the time it took for him to be rescued.

I'd like to point that when Sokka flexes Toph's metalbending, actually he praises a few times during atla, and even in the finale he says "have i ever mention how sweet it is that you invented metalbengind" Toph responds with "you can stand to mention it more" so a nice detail he still does it in their adulthood

>The bits with Korra and the villain were really good. >The bits with everyone else was kinda lame. Now your getting it.

Asami being weird about Mako being concerned about Korra feels kinda stupid. Did she forget that she was kidnapped by equalists who plan to take her bending away, and without the Avatar the world is doomed. Also the fact that Mako was more calm when his brother (the only family he has left) is kidnapped compared to the girl he’s known for like a month.

im gonna be completely honest, these vids are making me realize how well amon is built up and how amazing they portray pure, animalistic FEAR in this show. when korra overhears them talking about shocking the box, that shot showing her pupils dancing across her eyes with heavy breathing and slight shaking is GOLD. and amons EYES through the mask are so fucking creepy it makes me shudder.

I will never not love how freaking powerful that moment is where Aang snaps his neck forward as he enters the avatar state with that rush of wind effect. This fictional universe has some seriously epic moments

If the “psyching bending’ that you’re thinking of in book 3 is Ming Hua, it’s not. Her movements are exaggerated to show that she’s still using her body to bend, even without arms. Also, Sokka definitely didn’t die during Yakone’s escape, since we know he helped fend off the Red Lotus during their initial kidnapping attempt.

About Korea’s escape: I always saw it as a giant rush of instinct and adrenaline. All of the bending that she uses is very uncontrolled and not precise. I don’t think she had a clear enough head to navigate that forest at the speed that she was going at because she was filled with so much adrenaline. Her mom couldn’t catch up to her body.

This might just be a me thing, but I like how Amon's voice actor delivers the line "I'll take care of him." His tone makes it sound like he's talking about someone he knows personally. And it kinda makes sense considering who Amon is.

Maybe I don't remember this correctly, but I'm pretty sure that in Season 3 it's mentioned that Sokka helped to rescue 4 year old Korra from the Red Lotus. Therefore he died after Aang passed and Korra became the Avatar.

Honestly the "bloodbending overpowering" is some top tier shit for me, I've always found it super cool

I know it's kind of an hindsight thing with the comics, but Toph becoming a cop in light of how ineffecient the rules and regulations of the world post-Ozai have been makes a lot of sense to me. Toph has always been a very pro-action kind of character and seeing that her methods work over the more careful prodding of politics leads perfectly into Toph being down with establishing an authortitative group of action taking lawmen to keep the riff-raff in line. In fact, I think this is why Toph and Aang are so associated with each other in flashbacks, she is the most directly helpful associate to Aang's politics that he had back then.

I gotta say I love adult Sokka. The fact that he didn’t just say boomerang, but his “trusty boomerang” is just perfect. Not to mention that humble brag about besting combustion man in true Sokka fashion. Even the eyebrow raise when he says “with his mind”. *chef’s kiss* well done show creators 👌🏾😊

Adult Aang just looks like Abraham Lincoln without his hat with the beard and the sepia filter.

The scientist from The Northern Air Temple in Airbender came up with the candle system for telling time. He said it was “4 o’candle” in that episode. So it does track they would develop their clock system based on that.

I know that when this series first came out and it got to that part where he just walks through the bloodbending and Tarloq asks ''What are you?'', the way he said ''I am the solution.'' was one of the creepiest, most unsettling sh*t I had ever heard up to that point.

14:05 with regards to the “hint of what amon is”, there were ppl that genuinely believed amon was aang or a robot because he couldn’t be bloodbended

I love these weekly episodes man. I genuinely get so giddy when I see the notification and the classic overanalysing avatar intro comes on. It’s the same feeling as watching a TV show as it airs.

Say what you will, the one thing Korra did right was making Amon actually feel like a threat. A scary one at that. It's just a shame they couldn't really follow through on it well enough.

You could explain Korra having enough juice to beat down on the guys as adrenaline. She got a burst of energy, used it on them and then to escape and when she started to get far enough away it began to fade. Her concentration slipped and boom tree root

the fact that tarlok just had the box, and that amon immediately assumed korra was in a box aswell makes me think maybe this is how jakone took out people. like a bender equivalent of a regular mob boss tossing someone into a river with a concrete block chained to their leg, but they put them in a metal box before drowning them instead. just a headcannon but damn thatd be dark

"WHAT..ARE YOU!?" "I... Am the solution." he's so fuckin cool!!!

Tarrlok coming to as the police show up makes absolute sense. It's shown that he electrocutes himself in a flashback and since an indeterminate amount of time has passed there's no reason he couldn't have just waited after radioing it in

7:06 I mean Zuko did occasionally make fire come out of his closed fist. Also fire benders hold flames in their palms all the time.

3:21 My head cannon is being a cop was the only legal way for Toph to beat up bad guys

To any UKposts Copyright mods reading; You're ruining our day. Let him post.

Hope there was just a break in production for the holidays instead of ending the series prematurely. I really have been enjoying it so far

I've always thought of the "more powerful bending" stuff as like a physical strength thing. Like maybe because katara was younger and more physically fit she could leverage more force to push and pull her own blood. That or maybe more powerful meant you had control over water more precisely, like a waterbender starts at like moving puddles but become more skillfull in it and maybe you can even move individual molecules.

Psychic, midday, omnidirectional bloodbending, that works on an entire room of people Avatar is making Yugioh blush with it's insane powercreep

6:18 Bro tried to sneak in that guy from "The Headband" lmao

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the fact that Aang was balancing on his air scooter with both feet, without needed to balance on it like a top.

For me at least, the question of "using Bloodbending to kill" isn't the biggest issue with regards to Yakone not doing so. It could be a simple as "it's harder to control and kill a whole room of people versus a singular person." Additionally, from what I understand it actually doesn't take that much change in blood flow to the brain to knock someone unconscious, but it also doesn't tend to last that long if it goes back to normal.

16:30 He honestly does carry season 1 for me. Amon is such a cool villain conceptually who fits in perfectly with the world despite, at first, not seeming like he does. I really wish that they could’ve given Amon more seasons because I’m sure that he could’ve carries season 2 as well. Season three and four are good on the villain front though (Amon is still my favorite).

2:45 I feel like even though she might not be there boss anymore some people in the police will still listen to her. It’s sorta how like in movies or other shows when the old boss comes they will help them when they should be capturing them or something. Actually something like this happened with Napoleon when he tried to come back after being banished. But if so we would need scenes of officers showing extreme loyalty and/or idolization of Lin

"She's totally fine until she hits a root!" Sounds like _somebody_ has never had an adrenalin moment before. It is kind of like that, actually. The first thing to burst the bubble of "oh it's death defying time" takes you aaaaaaaaalllllll the way out since it's such an intensive state of being. It is _the_ second you catch up on the fact you're out of whatever situation put you there. I can buy that in this scene, she hit the root, went down, caught the fact Amon wasn't on her heels, and was reduced to a bodily turbo nope. That I have no issue with. It's the lack of hypothermia for me.

I just found out an insane fact, aperantly the current Dalai Lama is called Tenzin Gyatso, TENZIN GYATSO, They named the two most prominent airbenders besides aang after the Dalai Lama. That's wild I love how they incorporated that into Avatar.

1:50 also wouldn't it be suspicious that they would have found him WITH THE GLOVE he used to shock himself?

When you said “if we get that far” I was a little worried .. I really do love this channel but mostly because of your commentary on things… I really do hope you continue

toph can leave two people to die of starvation alone and in filth bc shes cool and i like her

Idk if anyone talked about this but on that whole thing about clocks and time, in the northern air temple episode, they briefly talk about a time keeping system by looking at the candles that have sparks put in them so that when they burn for a specific amount of time they spark. They say it was like 4 o’clock but joke about it being 4 o’candle suggesting they have clocks in atla

...But when the world needed him most he took the holiday season off

On toph: I think her becoming a part of the police is very in character. With what happened in Ba Sing Se, I would think ensuring true justice would be very important to her.

Actually we know for a fact that sokka is still alive after this, when he is notified about the red lotus members escape tenzin mentions that it took him tonrack sokka and zuco working together to stop them from kidnapping korra as a child

This episode really reinforced the scary part of Amon. I think it's ebcause of stuff like this that people claimed this show was more "mature", because they were more willing to play with horrifying scenes.

The Mechanist in Airbender actually used separated units of time with his invention of putting combustible powder into sections of candles so they would react and signal the time. "Two o'candle." Also Koh the Face Stealer acknowledges Yin and Yang, so that imagery may have already existed. Him saying that is even what makes Aang realize that the koi fish are the spirits.

I think there's something that explains the "bloodbending knockout" and the same thing not being used to kill. A "blood choke" where the carotid artery is blocked from carrying oxygen rich blood to the brain, can knock someone out in about 10-15 seconds but it can be even faster for that and would fit the way bloodbenders knock people out perfectly. But actually killing with a blood choke can take several minutes, it makes sense Yakone wouldn't want to risk the time, plus he'd be like, public enemy #1 in the entire world if he did actually kill everyone there.

So more recently, when i first read the Kyoshi books, i figured Aang resisting Blood bending came from Kyoshi. Some of Kyoshi’s earthbending/immortality training involves being able to inventory and control everything little detail about your body. If all of the past lives put their focus on this while Aang is in the avatar state then even if none of them know how to blood bend, he should still be able to resist. Thoughts on this theory?

Honestly the family cabin makes total sense. Amon knows there’s a box down there & it was already there before Tarlok knew Korra was coming. If it was a family cabin, perhaps Tarlok & Amon’s father used that box to abuse them. It’s in line with what we know of him and explains all the discrepancies you brought up. My new head canon

I want him to get to Verrick, he is easily one of the best parts of Korra

About your questions for the metal box's presence in Tarrlok's cabin, why was that prepared, why did amon know it was there ; My guess is either the cabin or the box itself belonged to Yakone when he was the underworld boss, and he talked to his sons about it.

It’s crazy how good your commentary has become (from already good)

I’ve been watching your channel for awhile and it’s so awesome. I get that maybe you hit some copyright issues and decided to take a break for Christmas which I totally understand. Just know I’ve been missing your videos so much that I keep checking if I overlooked an upload

Tunnels are simply some industrial transportation networks. Or ventilation shafts (i.e. coal burning process requires a lot of fresh air supply). Or stormwater runway/flood protection drainage. Or any combination of above. Btw, as I recall Republic City was created from the former colony city (forgot the name, there is Avatar comics story about rebellion there, etc) - so it means there was definitely some mining/industrial plants, as well as neccessity for underground shelters. Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom liked their tunnels very much even in original ATLA.

The hitting a tree root makes perfect sense actually. Because Korra was kept hungry for a day, then had to fight for her life basically, and finally got away. You try and tell me she doesn't crash after what was clearly an adrenaline rush. Now that the situation is escaped, her adrenaline gets processed, so she becomes jittery and weak. Edit: Grammar

Atla season 1 episode 17 the northern air temple we meet the mechanist and he has a candle that pops every hour to tell the time in a system similar to a clock so I think time being similar to our real world thing has been very common in the avatar universe

Ayo anyone else wondering where the next ep are? Im guessing holiday break but like I dont see nun on twitter or the community tab r u good bro? I hope ur just taking ur sweet time with the holiday season but if not I hope youre alright man

Got to love dancing Fire Nation kid at 6:20

9:37 She’s the chosen one! She will resist the blood benders and take them down! She is…. The bloodless!

Hey so can we talk about how in the close-ups of Yakone (9:24) it looks like he's bloodbending by contorting his eyes and possibly the rest of his face, kinda like Bumi did in Return to Omashu? And how "psychic" bending makes no goddamn sense, and it would be so much cooler if Amon wore a mask because he was constantly bending with his face? I just wanna throw that out there.

What you said about Yakone possibly killing Sokka: he is mentioned to be in a mission to rescue Korra when she was younger, so he didn't killed him directly there in the hearing (wether or not it gave him sickening side effects in the long term, we don't know)

All bending styles have a 1 shot kill/win move. They just dont use them because it’d be uninteresting and boring. Airbenders can bend the air out your lungs/out the whole room. Gyatso and Zaheer; respectively. Firebenders can kill you with lightning. Waterbenders can bloodbend OR just straight up freeze the water in your body. It would create spikes that ruptured your veins. Would be a VERY bloody sight though. Earthbenders could 1) bind you with rock as we see Aang do to Ozai and Toph do yo Ty Lee when taking Bosco the Bear or 2) bend the earth to bury you like that one guy did to Katara in ATLA trying to force Aang into the avatar state. I’m convinced the only reason these moves are not utilized more often is because they would be uninteresting to see. Itd get real boring real fast

Is this some mind game to make me wanna do the patreon?

As far as Korra looking solid on the snow right before getting wrecked by a tree root, I'm a snowboarder and that's exactly how it goes. Starting out, you're a little tired and beat up from the day still pushing for one last run. Once you get moving, the aches fade out and you feel pretty solid. You actually forget how tired you are, right up until you see something coming and can't quite move fast enough to avoid eating it. So for me at least, it works.

9:55 wait they’re called bolases?

Amon is the coolest villain in Korra hands down Imagine your strongest ability just getting walked through. Gives me Broly vibes when he walked through the Kamehameha

It make perfect sense that Korra would run from Amon, not only was he there, but the lieutenant and his goons were there as well, and up until this point, Korra has yet to defeat the lieutenant and more then 2 goons at the time.

Really enjoying Overanalysing Korra, I hope you do decide to keep it going after Book 1. Also, in the overanalysing spirit: The Mechanist invented clocks kinda.

THANK YOU for speaking on Toph being a cop. I’ve never understood peoples problems with it and I think it makes a lot of sense. She enjoys conflict and fighting and the fact that she’s experienced being repressed by unfair rules would make her a better and more fair cop. Makes perfect sense she wants to use her strengths to protect people

10:00 Tarrlok has chief Saikhon in his pocket... I'm sure he could have had access to Equalist gear if he wanted it.

15:40 I always took Korra's lucidity, energy, then subsequent crash to be her running purely on adrenaline and fear. Think about it, she has basically never been in a situation this dire before. Adrenaline carries her through the escape, making her clear and focused, then as she escapes the house and sees Amon, the Adrenaline is already starting to wear off a little, and she's feeling a bit wobbly, she's no longer planning and being precise like she was downstairs, so she panics. That attack she did wasn't a thought-out attack like the fire blast and earth wave downstairs, it was her taking the most available weapon (the snow) and just yeeting it at the scary thing, then running away, she's fully in panic mode at this point. As she's running away and starts to feel like she might be actually getting away the adrenaline finally wears off, and her legs get wobbly, she has trouble maintaining concentration, hits the root and absolutely eats it. It honestly felt like one of the most realistic things. I can almost feel what Korra feels throughout that relatively short sequence. The fear being held at bay by insane amounts of adrenaline and the hope of a chance to escape, slowly giving way to that wobbliness in the legs, the pit in the stomach and sudden clamminess of adrenaline receding and panic settling in. I feel like the animation really sold this for me. It also helps to sell Amon to me and how he's affecting Korra. That being said, I didn't like that it knocks her out completely. I think it would have worked better if at the end, she falls over, then gets up again and stumbles a few times, before stopping and needing to sit down while her hands shake (and other panic attack symptoms). She can still be found by Naga, but it gives her a bit more agency if she's not knocked out cold, and really helps to drive the point home about how new Korra is to being in actual danger. She's highly skilled and powerful, but quite inexperienced, and this could have sold that. Still honestly an awesome scene imo.

This is like waiting for a new episode of avatar every Saturday morning, but now at Tuesday night

I love how much Sokka resembles his father, as if he became the man he looked up to most

Aside from very few exceptions (which can be chalked up to the general issues season 2 has) I REALLY love how LoK handles the original Team Avatar. Both in what we directly see and what we can infer from their families. They're no larger than life heroic figures that can do no wrong - no, they're flawed humans who, despite being quite literally at the top of the world, still wrestle with relatable struggles like anyone else. They mess up sometimes, but always for reasons that are relatable or at the very least understandable. Even at this point we can infer that Aang put a lot of importance into his airbender tradition. We can see that both in him being the only one with a pretty much unchanged outfit, as well as how Tenzin turned out, very adamant to stick with the traditional ways, with airbender culture defining his whole life. (Spoiler: Later we learn that this went so far that Aang basically ended up neglecting his other children in order to train his little airbender son.) Toph basically found a way for her character traits to be useful to society as a whole. Keeping order may at first seem antithetical to her character - but as chief of police there is no one to tell her what to do. The only instance above her are the laws of Republic City. (The show made it clear that Lin's replacement answering directly to a council member is a sign of corruption.) And then there's Lin, whose authoritarian personality is the result of Toph's anti-authoritarian parenting, which again is a reaction to her own upbringing - a common pendulum-effect. (Spoiler: We quite literally see that play out with Su later: And then there's that part in season 4. I even largely like the extended family we meet down the road.) Sokka gets full points, no comments. (Spoiler: Zuko from season 3 is still as socially awkward as ever, but with a warm authority that would make Iroh proud.) My only real complaint is that mama bear was barely a character in season 2.

I love the scene of Amon in this episode it still gives me goosebumps to this day

i feel like there should be another video by now

I agree her being a cop makes the most sense. It gives her an outlet for her assertiveness and attitude. Also it means she is the one enforcing the rules now. It also shows she grew and became a good team player, which pays off her arc from LAB

Anyone else wondering where tf he is?

Everyone in Republic City were taking a nap, after building those miles and miles of tunnels overnight That's why the city is so empty

14:58 that's how you do a slow motion scene

14:46 Family cabin…family box?

My biggest problem with this bloodbending is that it is done in the middle of the day.

i think Toph becoming a cop is less a misunderstanding of Toph's character than it is a misunderstanding of what the police do (or, more charitably, a different understanding than the critics have). If you think the point of the police is to protect people from dangerous criminals then it totally makes sense for Toph to do that. But if you think the point of police is to protect the property of the rich and violently enforce order then it seems like a much bigger conflict with Toph as she was in ATLA

Hopefully that thing with the copy right will go away and we will get an episode

The change in the delineation of time from more general to exact underwent a similar change in the real world too because of industrialization and the need to coordinate railroad schedules.

Honestly, I think Yakone really needed to put some effort into killing people. Like he was getting real fancy when he was trying to kill Aang so knocking out everyone in the room and leaving is likely a time saving move. That being said, the only thing I dislike about these bloodbenders is how they can do it psychically. I'm not against very powerful martial skill but just being able to look at someone when all other bending requires physical movement just sucks.

I think the reason they show that Aang used his avatar state to avoid the bloodbending is just to show you that Amon is as powerful as the avatar state or that at least has close enough powers. Thats why he also struggled a bit. At least to me that I wasn't following that the first time I watched the show and didn't remember the fact that a more powerful water bender can basically overpower someone else's bend. But yeah, lovely detail. Also, that scene is awesome, and it is a very good presentation of the villain.

It would've been really cool if they had made it to where Aman wasn't actually a bender, but just a normal person who achieved enlightenment and was able to ignore a lot of the bending rules we've grown accustomed to. This could've been a cool way of hinting at what the world was like before bending like what the Lion Turtle teased at in Airbender. It also would've been a great way to lead in to the more spiritual villains that Korra later faces. Had this series been given a fair chance and given a consistent 3-4 season run I genuinely believe it would've been a lot better than what we got.

I always read the psychic bending to just be really small precise movements (like the head or hands). Most bending is like fighting where you need bigger moves to direct your (kinetic) energy (like a punch or kick) but this brand of blood bending seems more like when you already have a grip on someone and just shift slightly for a big effect (like a wrist lock or grabbing someone by the throat). It requires you to get a metaphorical hook into someone before you 'twist'

10:12 That's a dude!? I could never tell if they were an old lady or an old guy!

13:28 sokka helped protect korra from the red lutos, so no.

I’m LOVING these Korra episodes! Please continue through seasons 1+2+3 & 4, it would be such a shame to not talk about all the EPIC (and not so epic) things that happen in this show! Air Bender had its lackluster episodes too but that didn’t stop you from covering the series till the end.

OA PLEASE keep overanalyzing Korra into future seasons this shit makes my week

After Mako and Korra discover Amon is a bloodbender, they also discuss beating him, saying “he deflects attacks with his mind”. I’ve always understood this as, he uses just a hint of psychic blood bending to screw with his opponents accuracy. I’ve always wondered if Amon showed up to Tarrlok’s house to free Korra in disguise. If he really wanted her, he would’ve had the lieutenant or someone else load Tarrlok, and get Korra himself. Since it was just them two outside, he could’ve used a bit of psychic water bending to trip her feet, and no one would’ve noticed. Even if Korra noticed, the equalists aren’t going to believe her. Also, Amon told Korra he has a plan for her after she challenged him to a duel. So yeah, I think he free’d her to keep that plan.

I enjoy this series. There's so many things i hadn't noticed before. Thanks for doing this man

Your attention to detail is unmatched, you noticing the mustache on the officer is crazy 💪🏽 great vid

I wanna give credit to D. B. Sweeney for his portrayal of Aang here. He did a really great job at sounding how an older Aang would sound.