I'm not liking your comments cause you're telling me to. I'm doing it cause I want to. Let's get that detail straight 😠

Episode 7 let's gooooo

I do want to say that the deep throat giving Korra the location of Hiroshi's does make sense to me. Hiroshi and the lieutenant were clearly prepared for the raid, and no one else was shown to tell them. It being an ambush for the Avatar, Chief of Police, and head of the Republic City council is a pretty big win if they pull it off.

OH GOD

*dramatic gasp* Not the monster from like ten videos back!

It would have been nice to see somebody on the team have a different way of thinking from the rest in terms of alignment. I guess Mako is usually the foil for most of the other characters in that regard but damn is he super boring

Have not thought of that! It would have been really cool!😮

@@creed8712 PAINFULLY boring. I'm not even sure why he was there, just to have a firebender.

Asami being a secret equalist then turning to the good side after a bunch of drama or whatever could have been really cool too.

@ultimatedbz2 but he would only fill that role until the end of season 1, right? At the end Korra was able to restore the bending abilities.

Such a waste.

It felt so empty too 😅

Same… it’s one of the main reasons I have yet to rewatch tlok

It happened to Mordecai too in Regular Show

​@@luisvelez1952not a love triangle a love triangle would be like if korra liked mako but mako liked asami but asami like korra

How did I never put that together? Wow

It would be really easy for fire benders to deal with it tho

Which I would argue is a good thing, it shouldn't be a "one material fits all" kind of thing imo

@@danijeljovic4971 he could’ve invented carbon fiber, not immune to heat but can withstand a pretty good amount. The platinum solution is definitely the worst route the writers took for this one

Yeah, plastic was really starting to become staple in society by the 1920's. That would have worked perfectly.

@@danijeljovic4971 Fiberglass benders

I can't remember... why would he bother to set up this trap, though? Why is now the time as opposed to before when Amon could've taken korra's bending? Is there a reason to set this trap as opposed to keeping his secret identity up? is what I'm asking

@@peanutbutter7721 maybe he set it up after Korra became suspicious of him.

​@@peanutbutter7721 It is a bit odd. Only a couple episodes before, Amon let Korra go as to not make himself public enemy #1, and now Sato plans to send the police chief, a councilman, and the avatar to go be "cleansed?" Either it's inconsistent writing or Sato is just an idiot.

Thank you! Yes I was about to comment that it wasn't coincidence after all, but the channel seemed to miss that. That being said, it was still probably a bad idea to lure them there since there were nearly out of clues to even investigate....

@@Jasperr9999 he attacked the most renowned sport of the city(maybe even the world)in the finals of the tournament and blew shit up with a war balloon, he is already public enemy #1 at this point

I honestly can’t remember: did Toph teach lie detection to no one or everyone?

Lie detection isn’t perfect we saw Azula could fool it

Tbf Lie Detection seems to be seismic sense on asteroids. Like, you need feel someones absurdly miniscule vibrations in the earth and determine if they're nervous about the subject or not. I always thought it was something you could only get with an ridiculous time of training or by having earthbending substitute one of your senses like Toph

​@@dw1419In the last Airbender no not really nor in the comics but one guy in book 3 of Korra can do it for some reason

I always thought that Toph could only do the lie detection thingy due to her blindness making her other senses heightened and sensitive to change. But also the random guy in korra book 3 just throws that out the window

It would have opened up so many interesting quarrels and interactions between the main chars

Yeah, replace Mako. Make him a secondary character

Tahno is a relatively grounded antagonist. On one hand he's willing to win by cheating a game and enjoys the attention he gets. But he's not a monster and losing his bending did peg him down a bit. Maybe some backstory that could explain his "victory by any means" probably similar to Mako and Bolin having to survive on the streets and a redemption learning to be anon bender for a while, stopping relying in cheap tricks and once he saves the Avatar and once Korra regains the skill to bend again he earns his bending again as a much more complete nicer person.

Would've honestly been pretty sweet for him to get his bending back at the end of season 1 and basically take Mako's place in season 2 while Mako becomes more of a side character in his detective arc, at least until they figured out a better way to write him back into team avatar for a 5 team with Asami. Korra's a waterbender, sure, but she'd be the only airbender on the team

i mean OG avatar had Katara and Aang, though i guess Aang was natively a water bender feels like the Avatar shouldn't count as an element slot though

Didn't Asamis voice actress also play Yue in the movie that doesn't exist?

​@@commandere2475That she did! But her performance was actually good in Korra so I don't mind that at all.

​@@claytonrios1Asami might not be the best character but that is one heck of a redemption for this non-existent movie

​@@craigpeoples9883I think she could have been a lot cooler. Hopefully the next Avatar series learns from the mistakes of the past.

He became that which he wished to destroy. Ironic.

I knew it! Easier to draw ✍️/ animate

Doesn't change the fact no one does that shit irl

@@excalibur2772 Nobody bends metal by waving their arms either. Human eyes are not nearly as big as this style would imply. How is this relevant to art, which is a mixture of simplification and exaggeration? Here eyes are bigger because they're a common focal point and it makes it easier to convey emotions and hands in certain moments are simplified as they're not in focus of the scene and so long they're vaguely hand shaped, they are good. The fun of art is breaking the constraints of what's real and bending the reality to your will... like the avatar.

This is like the art equivalent of an old writing adage for dialogue tags: "Said" is invisible. No one notices you when back-and-forth dialogue is "he said," then "she said," etc. If you start throwing in adverbs, like "he exclaimed, furiously" you are drawing attention to it, and that isn't always a good thing. Just having a fairly generic common hand position is saying: "There's nothing to see here. Don't pay attention to the hands. It doesn't matter at the moment." And your eyes are like "yeah."

It's one of the reasons why many Western cartoon characters. Tend to have only three fingers (not counting thum). It's just easier to animate. And only becomes more common the less realistic the style is. That said from what I've heard you will almost never find three fingers on a human anime character. No matter how simplified the style is. Because (this is just what I heard) cutting one of your fingers off was a trademark thing for the Yakuza to do. And because of that association. It very quickly became tradition for Japanese animators to always make sure that their characters had four figures.

It would at least explain why Hiroshi and his squad were down there apparently just waiting for them.

Yeah, I always looked at it this way too. I think someone says "you set us up," and Hiroshi says, "Guilty as charged." I couldn't find the scene on UKposts, so I can't confirm.

I was just about to make this comment myself but y'all beat me to it! It means those "coincidences" weren't coincidences at all. I also remember that "guilty as charged" scene, I'm kinda surprised overanalyzing didn't mention it. But that also makes our heroes not the smartest for falling for the very obvious trap soooooooooo either way it's not the best.

wow, Hiroshi did not think that through at all. he had just gotten them off his ass!

I swear I remember Hiroshi confirming it was all a trap

Once a theater kid...

@@MediumDSpeakslmao exactly what I’m thinking. I know OP’s “quirky”

"Past" you still are one...

i also think he nitpicked way too harshly on somethings that are pretty harmless, like how he trashed on them making Korra gigle on Bolin puppeting Pabu, come on it was just the goofy guy playing with his cute pet.

it was and sato confirmed it was a trap. you are right

It's confirmed in the episode, you are right.

it was, the series is called 'overanalyzing avatar' not 'properly analyzing avatar'

It was a trap.

It makes it so much easier to draw hands

Those two fingers tend to stick together a little more naturally as well.

It's a subconsious thing, but you're right. If I think about doing it, I will absolutely not be able to.@@Greenicegod

SAME I do that in my own art.

yeah but that specific hand shape is really unnatural. i cant stick my middle/ring fingers together without my pinky also sticking.

on your second point. Based on what the guru said about it just being "purified and refined" implies that metal bending is bending the metal, not just the impurities in the metal. Especially giving how casually all the metal bending cops bend it without seismic sense to find the imperfections in each bit of metal they bend

Better question is "What is Earth?" Calcium? Iron? Carbon? Does glass count?

​@@jamesmoniz5263It's pretty clear that the lore of the show is that earth benders are just bending the earth inside the metal. Those were the parts that were glowing when Toph hit it. And when Suyin teaches Korra to metal bend, she tells her to "focus on the fine pieces of earth *within* the metal". They're not bending the metal itself, just the earth inside. Having metal so pure you can't bend it perfectly fits the lore. Saying that the metal specifically has to be platinum does not, though.

@@Howzieky I mean it fits the lore that Korra defined and explored. Though in the original show its left more ambiguous, though when Toph is teaching her students in the comics and drops the same line as the guru saying "metal is just a part of earth that is purified..." so on so forth, it really does more directly imply metal "is [just a part of] earth..." and hence can be bended (bended? bent?) She doesn't teach her students to look for impurities, she teaches her students that metal is just earth. She doesn't teach her students to look for weaknesses in the metal, but to strengthen themselves and their own willpower. The comics do seem to clarify that metal bending is just that, bending metal. As well it seems to illustrate that in the same way earth is a stubborn element(to quote Toph), so is metal, and to bend metal you need the fortitude to make it server you. (and the comics are canon for reference, so its just an inconsistency that was created when they decided to add platinum into the setting and make it immune to metal bending. It could have been immune just by... being immune, but by saying its just cause its "pure" does kinda create some inconsistencies with what metal bending even is)

Not at all. I've source-dived and crunched the numbers several times. You can absolutely get far more than you need with the amount of platinum mined per year. There are a lot of sources that just vastly underestimate how much platinum there actually is. It's a very small percentage of the Earth's crust, but the Earth's crust is absolutely gargantuan, so a small amount of it is still an incredible amount of stuff.

Yeah, and fire is the easiest element for killing, with little to no training. All the other elements require a bit more training to be deadly.

​@insertname9736 tbh I think earth benders could kill each other pretty brutally with little training... but they do have other options unlike fire benders

@@KD-ou2np indeed. A rock thrown either by hand or bending can be deadly.

I call bullshit tbh, people underestimate the lethality of waterbending. you can bend an icicle and stab somebody through the heart with it, or drown them in a water bubble. with earthbending, you can crush them with a boulder or sink them into the earth. them always making it a firebender feels like validating the stereotypes surrounding the element.

I've heard similar things about feet, which is why a lot of artists deliberately have shots where the characters are only seen from the waists up.

Even AI has trouble drawing hands!

Is this why so many cartoons have characters drawn with only 4 fingers? Fascinating.

@@electromotivehorse6679 yes

@@electromotivehorse6679 It's definitely part of it.

Thanks

Problem is that Korra gets energybending at the end of the season so Tahno would get like a half a season as a non-bender.

​@@sonicfan4511just don't give Korra energybending and we're fine

It's even directly mentioned in the episode, but it's so easy to miss. I only noticed in my last rewatch. It's at about the 17 and a half minutes mark (in the actual episode), Beifong says to Sato "that source was a setup; you lurred us down here!" and Sato responds "guilty as charged". Somehow even Overanalizing Avatar missed it, I think it says a lot about how weirdly this little conversation goes unnoticed compared to how important it is for the plot of the episode

It's not a rumor or myth. I don't know why he said that. Granted, I'm just a guy saying "the creators totally said so," & people do that on the internet for things that aren't true very often. But UKposts tends to delete comments that include links even if I felt like looking for the source. So, I guess it's up to you if you want to trust me or not, but this is known for a fact.

@@TheLithpnah i believe that cause i’ve seen multiple video essays on korra mention it too, that Azami was originally supposed to be an equaliser and betray her father in the end cause she learned that not all benders are heartless monsters because of her new friends. it would explain her accidental meeting with mako and give her character development and compassion. but sadly they sidelined her and now she’s just somehow there while also never being a complete member of the core group. makes me upset cause it’s so easy to just write it in cause it wouldn’t change too much of the plot anyways. it would just give us way more character building and relationship struggles within the group

IDK, I mean what's the play here if she's an equalist spy? Send her to stalk a member of the avatar's new sports team, wait for him to run into her motorcycle for no apparent reason so she can ask him out to dinner, and hope that somehow leads to her being invited or informed about raids on the equalists that haven't even started yet? Why was nobody sent to try and spy on the actual avatar if you're going that route? I find it easier to believe it's just a rich heiress who asked out a top professional athlete. It's a huge coincidence he met the daughter of Amon's biggest ally, but it's easier for me to justify a huge coincidence than someone making plans that rely on huge coincidences and actually having them succeed.

@@user-rw3kw7wx7e i mean wasn’t it pretty much confirmed that asami was supposed to be a spy? and spying on the avatar, the closest she could get is befriending her but that might get difficult if you don’t have a good lie, and you’d be constantly in the spotlight, under her gaze and if she’s smart enough she might notice. a boyfriend on the other hand could be tricked with rose tinted glasses. being the girlfriend of her closest ally seems like a good vantage point to getting information. everyone usually tells their partner everything, even if it’s supposed to be top secret, if they signed an nda, a partner is often known to be an exception. she’d get all the deeds without actually having to attend any meetings. And he even looks good. so another plus

If the writers did that, then it would just be a blatant repeat of Zuko (at the end of ATLA season 2).

@@haydenberends3905 One could argue that TLOK in general is just a blatant repeat of TLA, so that point isnt very strong

I agree, and then season 2 could have a little bit of Asami leading the cause or something so the non-bender discrimination isn't just ignored. It would also make her and Korra an enemies to lovers arc which would be really cool.

@@nyblller9785 . . . Except, it's not? TLOK's story is pretty different than ATLA, and Korra went through a lot of different things than Aang did. So I don't know what you're trying to say here.

@@nyblller9785what fuckin show did you watch? You’re just spouting meaningless criticism that doesn’t apply even a bit to the show. A very common criticism I see for Korra is that it’s too different from ATLA

It's a variant of the air scooter that he invented, like his father invented the original. I do not recall where this is explained. Probably the commentary or the art book.

This was actually one of my biggest gripes with the show for whatever reason years ago when I first watched it. Like, either metalbending is possible due to impurities in metals or it's bending the metal itself. I mean metal makes up 88% of the earth's crust and I just sorta feel that it makes sense that earthbenders should be able to bend metal if they get the technique down. But then if for whatever reason earthbenders cannot bend pure metal, then WHY PLATINUM? Just say that Hiroshi invented a new way of purifying common metals that is expensive but makes them nearly unbendable, I don't like it but it would at least make some internal sense. Platinum has to be one of the worst metals you could choose for this too. It's rare as hell, heavy, and it's weak! Platinum is both ductile and malleable, meaning it would most likely deform under the stresses the mech's own weight puts on it. Or, if the mechs are not entirely platinum, then just bend the metal inside the mech, you can't cover every joint or else it wouldn't move. Also, how rich is Hiroshi??? He somehow has enough money to buy enough platinum to make a GIGANTIC fucking platinum door! A single kilo of Platinum costs ~30,000 dollars today, when we have more mines and faster mining techniques. One cubic meter of platinum weighs 21,450 kg. For a *very* conservative estimate let's just say that the door has a 1cm coating of platinum on every surface to ensure there's no way any metal will accidentally be revealed by scratching when it's raised. Eyeballing the measurements here, It seems to be about 2-ish feet thick if each section is about 6ft wide (60cm). There's a minimum of 8 sections to the door and so it's at least roughly 14.6 meters long, And I think it's ~4 sections tall so then it's also ~7.3 m tall. Assuming it's a perfect rectangular prism (Which it obviously isn't and therefore is significantly more expensive), it turns out that if you wanted to surround the door with platinum, you would need to acquire 1.195 cubic meters of the stuff. That is, of course *25632.75 Kilograms,* which has the low price tag of ~769 million dollars. For a door. However, I do believe that he says the door is "solid platinum". The total volume of platinum in a purely platinum door under the previous measurements is *64 meters cubed.* That is a fairly heavy door of 1.37 Million Kilos, half the weight of the Saturn Five. It's lucky that Hiroshi has a fairly large fortune and has decided to keep most of it liquid because that door cost him at least *41.184 BILLION* dollars (assuming the door is no larger than my very rough estimate). Hiroshi must also be funding a significant platinum mining operation because that door he built there would've used nearly 15% of the platinum we have mined over the course of the entirety of human history. _Platinum,_ a bad choice.

Does this mean that in retrospect steel would've been a better option? If I'm not mistaken it's also a metal which is purified of impurities, at least unless it's purposefully done for different properties.

@@AnakinFury Yeah, removing impurities is a big component in making sure steel is strong enough for structural use.

​@@randomaster138😅

@@mystic-malevolence Removing impurities is a big component in making any metal useful, there's a reason we don't just make knives out of hunks of ore.

Oh, he did! He learnt to play the trumpet and joined a band : )

AND we would get to see the contrast comparson between Korra and this other really cocky self absorbed bender like her, who lost his bending something she is deeply terrified of. Lots of possibilities for self reflection and growth and interesting interactions there. Oh well...

The series feels rushed and polished at the same time. I blame Nickelodeon. That being said Season 3+4 of TLoK taken all together (minus the giant mech) is some of the best Avatar gets. Modern philosophy and politics and mental health issues in a kids show with superpowers handled extremely well.

but toph had to hit things too, and aang had passive seismic sense when he did it to the firelord, wait I'm sorry fatherlord. I don't think you need to be blind in order to use it like that

@@AnimeZone247 To be fair, Aang is the avatar, so we could expect a lot more impressive feats from him than from Lin

I think they all did the extra slam into the ground move, with hands or feet, to get a clearer picture. Like looking in all directions until you spot something suspicious. The you lean forward and squint, or get out binoculars to see more clearly once you found a target.

Linn was wearing metal retractable shoes which blocked her feet from directly touching the ground tho which prevented it passively. Toph doesn't wear shoes and Aang was barefoot in his fight against Ozai.

@@AnimeZone247 Toph didn't need to dig her hands or feet in to use it though, she just did that when she wanted to look really deep underground or whatever. Kinda like someone else squinting someone at something else far away.

avatar plot powers, a technique passed down for generations

And now she doesn't. Nice job team

So she became Appa?

​@@SURok695appa is more interesting

I'm wondering why she doesn't give everyone in team Avatar an electric glove, having deathtouch would have won Korra so many fights

That and be shipping fodder.

So what you're saying is that all sneezes are coughs, but not all coughs are sneezes? This is a game changer.

idk why people find it such a biggie for people to bend through other parts of their body aside from just hands/arms and sometimes legs/feet. we saw bumi earthbending pretty competently with his face, and breathing fire or air benders blowing big gusts of air from their lungs is also no biggie, hell we saw earthbenders breaking rocks with their face and even teeth, its safe to assume your whole body can afgevt bending.

I mean, extremely pure metals(ie. Platinum) would be unbendable by metalbenders because they aren't bending the metal, they are bending the impurities in the metal

Lol, man is literally making his money

At least season 1 is worth analyzing. Season 2 on the other hand...

I think this is more akin to Chuggaaconroy covering Sticker Star. He does not enjoy talking about it now because he enjoys Korra, he enjoys ripping into Korra. And even then, he is fair to Korra, so he is not obviously doing this purely out of obligation. Furthermore, a lot of stuff is good in Korra. Thus, this is not a pure dunking-on.

@@bulbasaurlol every season is worth analyzing... especially season 3

I want you to know that you successfully made me contort my hand for an unreasonable amount of time. 💀

@@owencmyk as you should, biomechanics is a fascinating subject.

This is true@@ShiningDarknes

Wow, reading this and testing my hand simultaneously gave me so much insight into the intricacies regarding my hand. I never noticed my hand fell into that position so frequently. I tried to keep equal separation between my fingers while stretching them out, and man it is tough to maintain it.

It's also elaborated on later--Metalbending is quite rare, with about 1 in 100 Earthbenders having the skill (Which is a reasonable limit on numbers), but that they tend to congregate in metal-heavy cities. Republic City and Zaofu had so many metal-benders, because they have so much metal to begin with. A Metalbender wouldn't be nearly as useful in a place like Omashu.

The criticism of metal bending being more common is really weird. Being able to bend metal would have huge benefits to earth bender society. Like it would have sped up their Industrial Revolution by tenfold. Hell, if toph had been able to teach metal bending to an earth bending army before the capture of Ba Sing Se they absolutely would have destroyed the fire nation. Bad take from Mr Over-analyzer.

Idk why they didn't choose aluminum, fairly certain Platinum is mined and thus would have had impurities assuming they were still stuck with the issues other metals had in this universe. Aluminum is easily man made due to electricity and wouldn't contain any rocks in it and be less expensive.

@@shyguy4617 i believe that was the original idea for aluminum, but there was a mistranslation when writing overseas.

@@TheVisionaryLeo that would make so much more fucking sense, I seriously doubt earth benders could fuck with aluminum considering it's not earth at all it's mostly man made (fun fact it use to be one of the more expensive metals in the world until we found out how to just flat out make it)

@@TheVisionaryLeo How could there have been a mistranslation though? Even if it was animated overseas, the show was written by Westerners.

@@jordancampbell8597 The mistranslation claim pops up from time to time, though it's usually titanium. Either way, there's no evidence for it, it's just something that gets repeated as fact. It seems pretty clear to me that platinum was chosen because of its non-reactivity. You can find large deposits of platinum in elemental form, & it's relatively easy to smelt out any existing impurities due to platinum's properties. I also have to slightly disagree that we don't get a sense of how rare platinum is. There are a couple cases in the show where metalbending works to indicate the villains can't just make everything out of platinum. One of the airships is metalbent later, & so are the innards of the Colossus. I guess the last thing I'll complain about is that I think "they just wanted robots" is really reductive. You can't make hardly anything work if there isn't some metal substitute. They couldn't fight even something like the drill or the airship fleet from Last Airbender unless there were always conspicuously never metalbenders around.

I mean just imagine a gang calling themselves the bloodletters. Sure its not practiced anymore but we know about it

Also potentially the Agni Kai triad could have once been an honourable or traditional organisation that devolved into crime. Happens heaps in the real world lol. Think the name fits pretty well. It’s intimidating, sounds cool, has links to fire nation tradition. Has a lot of implications without saying much.

How does he feel about it? I wasn’t clear on that

I disagree. This show should get a thorough analysis just like ATLA.

@@aaronreed2424overall Korra is pretty bad and a massive step down in quality from ATLA but there are some good moments that deserve mentioning I guess

@@ieatmice751 pretty bad? Yea ion agree with that at all

​@@aaronreed2424 dude repeatedly explains why he doesn't like many aspects of it and y'all do your classic special tactic of being in denial and pretending not to understand. Please its getting old.

Tarloq isn't Amon though, I think you mean that Amon is his brother

@@coiler_119 I know. Bc of this point in the story Amon's true identidy was a secret, and it was implied Tarloq was Amon. This knowledge was WITHOUT the foresight of knowing who Amon truly was

kinda cool, but by the end of the show, she just metal bends casually without having to focus on finding the imperfections in the metal. Especially when you consider the new metal bending cops don't have seismic sense but still metal bend casually.

Platinum is extremely soft though, you can't really make anything solid of it without mixing it with other metals like with gold.

@@jamesmoniz5263 fair point. However, a lot of crazy bending abilities were unlocked by a change in perspective. For example, when Kotarra learned blood bending, she never needed to see the water in the blood in order to bend it, she just had to see how it was done (and that it could be done, etc.). Toph was a similar case, only she used a unique form (seismic sense) to figure out its possibility. So I think it could be argued that you don't need seismic sense to metalbend, it was only used to discover it. Any thoughts?

@@z-master4749I still think that goes against what the guru and later toph say about meta being "a part of earth that has been purified and refined". I don't love 2 characters just by happen stance quoting each other verbatim, but it does illustrate the idea that metal IS earth(according to the guru isn't a great sourse, but the bender who literally invented metal bending straight up saying "metal is just... earth..." seems like its the biggest part), and thats how she bends it. Toph describes rock as a stubborn element and that you just need to have the fortitude to make it obey you. So metal is just rock level 2 in a sense, as in its presumably even more stubborn and less willing to be bended, so you have to really be made of some tough stuff if you wanna make metal obey you.

@@brandonlyon730that always bugged me. Platinum is so soft you can’t use it in pure form for basically any mechanical application. It would make way more sense to say that Sato just discovered a way to make a steel so refined that it’s pretty much unbendable.

This comment right here is a PERFECT example of an S-tier comment.

Maybe it was a scrapped gag that was cut or smt, idk

Its only been like 70 years since WW2 and no one is afraid of Japan / Germany any more tho

​@@noaha6185but all hates nazi

@@noaha6185 There is still very much a fear/anger for Japan from china and Korea. places that were directly invaded by Japan during ww2. Not to mention anything associated with the Nazi’s is a very sore subject in general.

@@noaha6185 we still hate germany

i like the idea that firebenders have a bit of a violent past but that we as the audience know that they arent bound to it. it adds to the sense that the world of avatar is complicated enough to have developed specific prejudices which while not exactly great, do show a society with a tangible history which makes it more believable.

there are heat-resistant plastics, but they don't really hold up to open flames too well. still, they could have just hand-waved a super plastic that was

You too, man :(

You too, man? :(

Hg also loses its toxicity when amalgamated.

@@hilgigas09 it wouldn't need to be amalgamated just to be bendable, they could've just mixed it with nonreactive earthen elements.

Yea

And also during the siege of the north, he used the same technique

> goes from antagonizing team korra to joining them in like 3 episodes > zuko level arc

Hiroshi shouldn't want to risk exposure just yet, so that one has to be "Luck", but the idea that the note was a trap is quite reasonable, especially since they were ready for them.

LotK was always Steampunk themed, it is very on par with what the art directors were going for.

To be frank I never liked the tech, it feels like they did it without any care, in ATLA all of the tech revolved around bending, but in Korra it seems completely separate. Now thst can be really cool, maybe going with a "obsolescence of bending" storyline would work well, sort of like how Samurai were threatened by the proliferation of firearms and citizen armies, benders could be threatened by the fact that non-benders can use all this tech that makes their innate abilities less useful or outright useless. But nah, all that never appears much at all.

@@thethirdsicily4802 What about massive f-off airships and a giant drills revolved around bending? As time progresses innovation is inevitable, just because ATLA came first and created a world doesn't mean the follow-up has to follow the exact same formula. Nobody would've wanted that.

They just pushed the power level forward without making any new meaningful changes or interactions. Metal beats earth, and now platinum beats metal. We're stuck on the same paradigm

honestly i think metalbending being common makes total sense. all of team avatar, including toph are basically folk heros by the time of korra. it seems like pretty much everyone knew most of what went down and toph would absolutely loooove telling people about how she developed metal bending, to the point where she founded a school for it.

they are indeed in the series athough not the way i think many people would think of at first. but they are present in a flashback in korra that i think comes later, i dont remember.

you think THE GANG, as in Aang the tween avatar and his two water tribe people who have lived in the south pole their entire life have both found as fought Sheela and or other creatures like her before? And with the drill, it was a similarly foreign and new threat and they beat it by being creative and devising plans or putting up a real fight. I think its a little unfair to say "well it isn't literally a 1 to 1 copy of the drill, so therefor they can't literally copy paste OG team avatar's strats". Even if they have to loose that fight for the plot to happen, you can show them taking out 1 mech with cool team work and maybe a new application of their bending (maybe some metal bending to restrain the mech, air bending to deflect its attacks, and Korra can burry it in the ground as a finisher move or something. Its not impossible to write that scene where our team feels powerful and creative), only for 3 others to show up. Think how Aang tries to solo the fire nation navy, takes out 1 ship by being crafty, then realizes "holy heck... there is an entire army out there" and ultimately looses round 1 of that conflict. You can have the protagonist loose without them feeling like pushovers.

@@jamesmoniz5263 Yeah, exactly, they had a moment to plan against the drill, this was immediate, they were under direct attack.

@@JAYDOG1337A the drill was also larget threat~ I don't think you cna argue 1 mech is a bigger threat than the drill with Azula and her gang protecting it. It would be a much better scene if we saw then be creative think of their feet and take one down, only to get beaten by more. It'd feel more like a fight and less like our team just being pushovers and loosing every single fight they take (which just makes team avatar seem a lot less powerful than " the avatar and her 2 probending athlete goons")