The point you made at 2:10 is kinda interesting. I think it would have been cool if the United army had an equalist spy. It could show that Amon's influnce isn't just spreading past republic city but that others in this world would eventually come to similar conclusions.

I'll expect that cookie by next Tuesday

the one time i need a good fortune cookie its arriving snail mail and will be too late

If I leave 2 comments will I get it overnight?

Well I did anyway

Very true. But Iroh Junior never knew that Zuko.

My mother used to respect the avatar's instincts

Yeah, that sounds like something Aang would do ngl. There's probably a lot more and that's just the closest one they could use.

Or he prepped the temple for an invasion that he feared would eventually come again. Fool me once.

@@willaverynerdyclarinetist6131 or the one that korra knew or that lead more directly to where they wanted to go.

Also worth considering that if air nomads are traditionally non-violent, they would likely have hidden escape passages. Which is something Aang would know about and probably want to integrate into newly built temples.

@@PhoenicopterusRI thought maybe it was just there in case someone tried to wipe out the air nomads again, Aang saw what happened at the air temples (that being isolated and open) and wanted a secret way out

i agree with this

made this comment 3 weeks in advance

A comment made 3 weeks before this video was released f*cking dr who over here.

@@shovelhead3843the videos are early on patreon lol

Mao Zedong was beaten mercilessly by his father and forced to memorize Confucian texts. His early writings lament such a system as he grew up in, and claims no child should be beaten into submission to memorize government mandated texts. He then went on to create a system where children were beaten into submission if they refused to memorize his own book of musings.

I like this

This is a pretty good idea, by "modernizing" the story there is an opportunity for more complex motives/plots that I feel they didn't explore to it's fullest extent

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@@michaelrumsey7932 we would need more episodes thought. honestly, theres a lot of ideas to flesh out the seasons with moderate changes and additions while keeping the same plot overall. but we would need like, at least a 16 episode per season instead of 12.

Nah.

That must be what the hatch is for, it's how he sneaks out to further make animated Shinzo Abe proud

I'm suprised he doesnt have a harem. He's certainly got an excuse, and with air being the element of freedom i would think his culture would be okay with polygamy.

@@battlesheep2552 yeah thats odd to me, but it is still a semi kids show

@@battlesheep2552technically the culture never has direct parents so it might be

@@battlesheep2552 That's a vaguely implied idea. Aang doesn't know his parents and if he DOES know who his mother is, in the very least, it's never mentioned.

i mean, it's the only bending to get outright banned, hell, Aang was powerless against it till he activated the Avatar state, if it never was re-unlocked by Ozai, Aang would've died right then and there, with Yakone basically easily ruling over republic city. since he only needs to look at someone to basically disable them, it is also shown that a strong blood bender can knock out entire crowds in 1 go, so knocking out the worlds strongest benders and then killing them isn't that difficult for someone who is that strong in blood bending. although I think there should be some weaker form of blood bending, like at night blood bending is at it's strongest, especially the full moon, but during the day it's much weaker, still strong but your opponent if strong enough can go against it. this bloodbending just feels like a cheat code since at any point in time a blood bender can basically just kill anyone instantly, concidering if you blood bend you can also increase the flow of blood, meaning you can pump much more blood to your heart and SPLAT. it's not like how Zaheer does the air bending thing against the Earth Queen later, where it takes time and a vacuum which he gotta create, blood bending is instant as shown constantly in Korra.

I’ve seen so many people in the fandom say that water is the strongest element (probably because of blood bending). So it makes sense

@@motorwayt-s628 i'm just looking at it logically, I wouldn't have called it the strongest element if it was the previous show with Aang, since there bloodbending requires a full moon to work (or atleast night time since I don't know if that 1 episode where Katara goes for revenge with Suko is during a full moon) but in Korra you can do bloodbending in broad daylight (literally) and even multi bloodbend people, this is much stronger than any bending out there. if we look at other elements and their alternate variations. Fire has Lightning, which is storng but if you can bend someones literal body with your mind? not that strong anymore, also generally needs some wind up to be strong (lightning bending) Earth has metal and lava, which yes both are strong, but if you encase yourself in metal, can you resist the blood bending? since there isn't a line of sight to said body? if yes then it's a possible counter, if no then blood bending is still the strongest. and then air bending, which it's strongest variation was what Zaheer used on the Earth Queen, where he formed a vacuum and then sucked the air out of her lungs without any new air being present, but this takes time and I doubt that you can do this on a massive scale since the air bender still needs to be able to breath, which obviously if you create a vacuum with you in it, you can't breath anymore either, but even then, being in a vacuum and being able to blood bend that air bender doing the vacuum means the vacuum dissapears, so blood bending still stronger. this is just looking at it logically, needing a full moon to blood bend gave it limitations and there for had an hard counter. in Korra it can be done at any time, even without movement, so it's massively overpowered with no real counter other than "you didn't hear or see me coming and I killed you" which I don't like, normally a variation of a bending style requires practice and discipline, in Korra it's just given. Like daylight bloodbending being somehow related to 1 family even though bending isn't specifically inheritable and you just get born with the capabilities or you're not. like lightning bending was unique that you needed a lot of training and discipline to effectively use it like Iroh, Ozai and Azula. how metal bending required a lot of effort till you finally get it (like how Toph's vibration sensing abilities being able to see the impurities of the metal and manipulate that specifically) and everyone else struggles with it till they get it. (like how Bolin and Korra both can't do metal bending even after training, while you got others who are masters at it)

@@DarkDyllon Only those 3 people have ever been able to do bloodbending in daylight before, so stop saying "In KoRrA" because thats just wrong.

@@DarkDyllon yes but only like 3 guys have the ability to do it at day time

in that sense it's kinda like a sniper spotter duo, sure the sniper can technically do the spotting, but that would make him/her inaccurate since you then gotta switch between zoom levels and where you're aiming. I liked that they had a fire bending cannon powered by 1 fire bender just pumping out fire, concidering it's also a funnel, it concetrates the fire, since if you just fire bend it disperses quite quickly, you rarely see them have a thin stream of pure fire, generally a wide stream of fire that can be maintained, or when Ozai did the comet part from his ship, it started small but then quickly fanned out to a massive area of effect, basically the opposite of water since water can be more focused as it can exist without it's source. so concetrating fire through a funnel would concetrate the firepower, while you can then also have certain recruits focus on power and speed instead of accuracy, all the person gotta do is bend their hardest and maybe bend fire fast.

I really do wish that Korra hadn't gone SO hard into new tech. Because I love the idea of doing all these things with bending instead of tech, but still providing an argument for the mistreatment of non-benders.

The " he's right " of this series 😂

I just assumed he bloodbent himself to make sure he dodged. It would explain his unnaturally fluid movements during fights.

@@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets i think through bloodbending he can even sense a persons movement like an actual predator smelling blood. which is terrifying but also really fucking cool IMO. shame we also never had this concept shown. imagine when Korra was hiding from him, shortly before he grabs her through that mat she was hiding, as soon as Korra thought she was safe, we have a sudden greyscale shift like we had fort seismic sense, but we see the whole room for a moment, and we see Korra highlighted in bright red with a pulsing outline in the sound and ryhtm of a heart beat, before she is grabbed. this would make the sudden back and forth of Tarloc telling the truth much more scarier as you slowly realize whats going on before it happens.

Mako: "Aha! That's how he keeps winning, he must've been redirecting our attacks through bloodbending!" Amon: "Whatever helps you sleep at night, turtle-sloth."

Same. He has to be one of the most talented waterbenders around even without the bloodbending shenanigans, which basically makes him a top tier martial artist on its own. And that's before taking into account all the chiblocker pals he has and the fact he pretends to fight as a non-bender. But also him subtly bloodbending to win just makes it lamer. Imagine in 'The Headband' when Aang non-bending stunts on that bully without even touching him if it was revealed Aang was actually subtly airbending to throw all the bully's punches off. Rather than a huge gap in their skill it just becomes Aang cheated to win.

Yeah it made me do an actual LOL

How the fuck did you leave a comment four weeks ago.

@@idontknoq4813Early access period.

What's so funny about that scene to you? Noatak's voice?

Me too, I actually cackled. 😂

Probably had hair implants

It is also possible to hate every aspect of a person's personality, yet agree with them politically, which is how I imagine it.

Oooh! I'd never thought about this. Makes so much sense though

I think so too, his meeting with Amon later on would show us that there is something he wasn't letting on.

He was rather young so it’s not surprising if he was innocent

To quote a certain man from a certain show... "Hey that's pretty good!"

True, but at the same time, Telegraph lines are easy to cut. If the police can't use that line, then no one can. What line is the homeless guy using for his telegraph? They've all been cut. If he was a HAM radio operator, then it would make sense.

@@SImrobert2001they might be using an abandoned line that used to be for police or military use and was repurposed by the underground dwellers for their uses. it might not connect directly to the recipient either, if there’s at least one good guy at the receiving end and they’re at a quickly travelled distance of the recipient.

Yucky. And the blood is held still or at least slowed

it probably hurst like hell too, and if i were to give my personal intake, bloodbending still requires a significant ammount of focus and poise, getting these disrupted just makes you lose thr grip instantly, the pain of having your muscles suddenly contort and lock involuntarialy from inside out must not allow you to focus too much.

People get lifted by blood bending a few times... Oww.

i kind of look at bloodbending yourself like sitting in a chair and trying to lift you and the chair up

@@swag31556 this

Agreed. I've always seen it as just a very, very rare if not unique genetic mutation that this particular family had. As for Katara it's possible that her water bending was actually just a trait that skipped a generation in her case.

I've always thought it was a trick that only Yakone knew. Like some way to charge power and some trick to bend without movements

@@androkguz i like this one more tbh, feels more martial arts and less gifted ubermensch

i think bending is probably like handedness. influenced by genetics, but still pops up randomly from time to time. and that would apply to all "abilities"

thats because thats how it supposed to be, Yakone and his bloodline were introduced as extremely rare inately talented benders, the rules for bloodbending werent changed, its just that these guys are super out of the curve so we could get full blown bloodbending villains and see how absurdly OP this ability really is.

nick without a doubt hurt this show so much. they didn't even want a full series until after the first season was done, then act shocked when it doesn't do as well critically because everyone forgot the show existed inbetween the first 2 seasons. not to mention the production issues galore

I think it's more like how in the real world we got the NATO alliance. where every nation is basically joined together in an alliance (united forces) and anything to threathen another nation gets met with the military might of the rest of the nations. in this case, I more think that each nation came together (more specifically to the fire side) to make a strong military, concidering they got a boat with fire, earth and water benders and each got labeled as such, would also make much less sense for the water tribe for example to even have a strong military at this point concidering this might be quite a lot of years later from Aang's time, but the water tribe had more time in the past, yet always lived secluded, I think the fire nation basically said "ok, we need to work together to make sure nobody goes rogue anymore, this is our global army, it comprises of water, fire and earth benders to cover the land and the sea" and both earth and water nations agreed. the Earth nation had an army, but very ineffective against what the fire nation could offer, like hot air balloons (basically making earth bending a lot less effective) and bombs (making their "tanks" basically a death coffin) so combining all 3 together with the military expertise from the fire nation would make the most sense.

I have a headcanon that the United Republic wasn't really sovereign until they ditched the council for a President in the next season. It would explain the composition of the council if they were meant to represent the 4 nations, not the citizens of the city.

I think it would be similar to UN's military, working for the United Republic's interests but are contributed by the other nations.

It’s pretty strange that Fire nation royal would be its leader in that case. Speaking of Iroh, Korra saving him like Katara and Aang makes you just wish they were a romantic couple.

Gaara of the desert

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He somehow invented the plane, without needing to ever fly it Good worldbuilding!

9:02 This is a fair assessment, but there is a flaw. The water healing would get in the way of the surgery. Imagine your body fastly healing in a surgery. That would most definitely get in the way of things. The healing would be after the surgery (which dependsof sacredness of the water). The preservation of things would be ice, healing won't work with a disconnected body part, it still requires nutrient supply & energy from the body (weither it be chi or fat) of the patient. Reason why we see scars with those healed, even with the most pure water katara used. I'm not a face surgeon though, so I have no idea in that lane. This is a dope idea tho. I like it.

@@quincy9908 Ah, thank you. Apparent the automatic time stamping doesn't work quote right during a premiere.

Several words: That's your head-canon. Which doesn't make it canon.

The super magic spirit water didn’t even remove Aang’s scar after Azula zapped him there.

Important to note humanity has had surgeries, both cosmetic and medicinal, *long* before industrialization of any form. We have skulls from ancient Egypt with holes in them; a medical practice that relieves pressure from the skull. These skulls show that the "patient" *survived* too, I can recall cosmetic nose surgery being done in a horrific way, and it was before the Industrial Revolution. I don't like it still; like why bother with the mask if he got a new face? Idk I've never even bothered to watch Korra ngl lol

Your second point makes so much sense. I don't think an aerial attack would be anticipated at all because there haven't been airbenders for years and planes were just created. Well, that being said they did have war balloons. Maybe you are right. Dang

Impressive that Sato somehow invented, manufactured and trained a squad to use planes IN SECRET

Wait that's so funny. Why are they standing like that 😂😂

I just assumed he was using bloodbending to destroy a part of the brain, a sort of bending lobotomy. Makes it way more terrifying.

@@battlesheep2552 I feel like that would be way more complicated and require advanced neuroscience knowledge that I doubt anyone in this world has. I think he just breaks key nerves and/or blood vessels to permanently chi-block people.

"thought-out explanation" Korra: So, he somehow uses bloodbending to take people's bending. Tarrlok: I don't know how he does it, but then again, I've never encountered a bender as strong as Noatak. That is literally all the show tells us, there was no thought about HOW bloodbending can turn off bending forever

@@maskofthedragon I mean, sure - the show could have done that. I don't think it was needed though. I think it's okay to let the viewer piece things together themselves sometimes. It depends.

@@maskofthedragon maybe thought-out was a strong word, more like consistent with the worldbuilding. And let's be real here, if they actually explained how charkas and chi works in Korra that would've been another midichlorian situation

Zuko was also no where near the source of the explosion, so he got messed up badly by a fraction of the blast

Maybe the weight of the bomb just pushed the fire bending back onto him and it bonked him off the ship

Yeah but it was rad so who cares. He’s also not a teenager.

tbf zuko was hit with a way way bigger explosion and was in an enclosed space while that happened

@@Jaydee-wd7wr and?? he is still human.

I guess? I personally find issue regarding this because of their ending. Them commiting su*cide (censor cause YT bad) after going through deep childhood trauma and this being the ending to their characters is so bleak and I think goes completelly against ATLA’s message of hope after despair. I never felt that how they handled their deaths was respectful either it’s just so- bleak and depressing for the sake of it.

​@@lenierkaThere's just one problem: this isn't ATLA and isn't trying to be. Also, the season literally ended on the message that there's nowhere to go but up after you've hit rock bottom. Hence Korra's suicidal contemplation opened her mind to every possibility to make the pain go away.

​@@vetarlittorf1807 bryke promoted it to be a direct continuation of atla if they wanted it to be so different they should have promoted it as it's own thing from the jump.

@@hueyfreeman6262 It IS a direct continuation of ATLA. That doesn't mean it has to be the same.

tbf zuko survived his ship exploding with relatively minor injuries in season 1 of atla. i think a lot of it also just goes back to “this is a kids show we can’t just blow off the good guy’s limbs” (even though they’re totally fine showing the villains getting exploded in later episodes lol)

@js-1389 They could've done what they did with Combustion man. Have the explosion happen and then not show the body. As for Zuko's explosion, he at least managed to put up some form of defence before it hit. Not-Iroh straight up punches the bomb.

It's really funny when earlier in the same episode, Korra had to soften her landing in the water, only to have Iroh be fine after getting BLASTED into it

Those biplanes with three engines tho. Like I don't know anything about plane engineering, but I feel like those wingtip engines just make the wings 5x more breakable in hard turns or fights

He can firebend, so I assume he did some sort of pushing bending trick to lessen the impact.

especially given they attacked him under the authority of "we got a letter let's destroy people without asking for approval"

amon ultimately was gonna go against the world and even the avatar in his views, its just that he was holding back until he had enough man power and resources to feel confident he could do it.

It would have made more sense to attack cities heavily reliant on bending like Zaofu. Republic City is one of if not the most Non-bender friendly territories in Korra's age. The city is built around accommodating people that can't bend, the only jobs that require bending are the police, power plants and Pro-bending. The former two require very specialized techniques that exclude most.

@@hilgigas09 the police could have had a non bending division honestly, specially if they could recruit the more talented chi blockers and such, these guys are basically ninjas, they might outmaneuver the metal benders with their grapple hooks and stuff.

@@unkindled6410 That's a great idea, that is never implemented or even mentioned. Amon spends most of his screen time preaching hatred against benders while the people with the most resources and influence are non-benders. Were the writers trying to show his hatred as irrational or were they trying to have their, steampunk roaring 20's, cake and eat it too?

I thought it might be something similar to that. I just don’t like the idea of it being permanent. It doesn’t seem like like that should be possible. I think it should at least be healable. Like if they asked Katara about it. She could say I can feel the damage but to be to undo would take years of work and practice. I feel like it should be healable. I think a strong bloodbender should be able to fix it.

@@AirPanda22yeah, but it should be like Korra with the poison, like it can't be done by another person it would have to come from within, maybe connecting to the source of their bending would be a cool concept

Well yeah.... He blocks the chi paths that allow a bender to use a form of bending. Korra hadn't learnt airbending so no chi path was even formed. So he couldn't block.

Yeah it makes sense, Hama was entirely self taught and Katara learned from her. If there is some secret bloodbending tradition, who knows what they could be capable of?

honestly, I kinda wish they showed that daylight bloodbending was weaker than it is. If it was based around what time of day and what moon cycle we were on I would've liked it more, since now it's basically "well, Amon is the strongest being there is right now concidering that Korra only edged a win because she randomly learns Air bending and shreds him before he can even react to it" without air bending Korra is much weaker even in the Avatar state, Which Korra doesn't master just yet. but I also find it weird that only Yakone and his sons can bloodbend, even though they both didn't know how and needed to learn from someone who can't even do it anymore, meanwhile Hamma had to learn it through years of painful training on rats and Katara was already an insanely strong bender (also much stronger than Hamma at that point) and just chanced into letting her emotions work for her and unlocked blood bending, then when her emotions ran wild again (when she was pissed) she did it again Daylight bloodbending should exist, i'm not against it on a concept level, but it should be weaker, kinda like firebending is weaker during the night since you can't draw from the sun anymore and need to draw from yourself, it still exists, but is weaker than it's daylight version. obviously regular water bending doesn't have this issue since water can exist in night and day on it's own.

It's similar to how Azula becomes able to generate lightning despite her mental state. She's so good that the ability is just second nature now. Its funny bc he has a problem with this but explicitly says in ATLA that he's totally fine with Azula being able to do what she can do despite clearly established cannon

@@isaiahcaston4539 it's more that Azula got so familiar with it that she can generate it, but as you saw in that final fight, it was unfocused lightning compared to how she normally does it, also, Azula was a master at fire and lightning bending, her emotional state can be compensated for. meanwhile bloodbending is suppose to be only possible through a full moon as water benders become their strongest at that moment, you can master it and possibly do it during the night, but daylight bloodbending is so massively OP that Yakone even mass knocked people out by a simple flick of the wrist, no other form of bending even comes close to this level of power, so it feels off that everything has an hard counter, meanwhile bloodbending is so massively OP that nobody can technically stop you except if you're the avatar AND mastered the avatar state, otherwise you're screwed.

You're so right (about your second point especially)

Crap never thought of that

They were always conflating him with the Avatar, his whole narrative is that he too was chosen by the spirits to bring balance to the world, which is how he has an ability that everyone thought only the Avatar could posess.

Im not sure actually, since they dont require actual hand movements to do it but do it psychically

speaking of season 3, I just want to see what he thinks about Jinora inexplicably knowing that Korra's poison was metallic

@@anrper6095 Headcanon: Jinora is shown to read ALOT, so she recognised the material as metallic (shiny) when she saw it as a spirit projection

Things will get fun when we get to season 2 where all the bullshit in Korra is at its worst.

@@anrper6095 What? You could plainly see it was liquid metal. And she was in the room watching with her projection. How is this odd?

God Zaheer is so dumb, his motives make even less sense than Amon’s

Amon certainly didn't think this through. He's not going to live forever, and he knows from personal experience that ex-benders can still have bender kids. Not to mention non-benders too. Bending would just come back anyway.

I think it makes sense for Katara to not know how to fix it because why would she check that?