Okay

It's the right thing to do...

I always wondered if Korra’s Father who was supposed to be chief of they were related to Yue, when it first came out I was like Yue was pretty young her parents could’ve had another child, but nothing ever came of it

Morality is subjective my friend

Yes, Sensei

Psychic

You sound like homie at the end of all his vids spitting out really funny jokes I love book 2 But I’m ready for him to roast it imma laugh with him even though I love all 4 books of LoK

I have the same reaction to this that I had when I realized the spell in fire emblem is Physic, not Psychic

Psycho

They just built different

I also imagine that moving the statues was some sort of ritual they performed when adding a new avatar statue. Slowly moving hundres of statues to honor the avatar seems like a very monk-like thing to do.

My personal head canon based on when Jinora sees Wans statue is when they rotate the statues they put the oldest one in the spiral up on the walls, again a lot of work but also one statue once a lifetime...

They could probably move every one at once if they had enough people

or hire some earthbenders

A "Hilbert's Hotel" scenario; I like it!

A true tragedy.

Fun fact, there are camels that live in the arctic tundra

Fun fact: not all deserts are sandy. the largest one on Earth is Antarctica.

Yep! And it makes sense when you think about Desert animals are usually very small (so they require less resources and have more surface area to radiate excess heat), with camels being a weird exception to this Meanwhile their large size, thick fur, and fatty humps are all perfect adaptations for cold climates

Fun fact: saying "fun fact" makes you sound like a goof lol

@@saltyseacaptain2257fun fact: you sound like a goof cause you’re complaining about somebody saying “fun fact”

3. More fraternizing means more acolytes, so bring on the banging

Or y'know, Bryke forgot basic Avatar lore, like how the Northern Air Temple doesn't have a single sign of the people that moved in 70+ years ago or the Misty Palms Oasis unmelted somehow

It seems Bryke forgot a lot of basic lore in this show. Like a little too much. Like a little bit past the DBZ creator forgetting an entire character...​@@maskofthedragon

This has confused me as well, especially considering that according to comic canon, LGBT relationships have always been accepted and encouraged in Airbender culture. So unless I am missing something very important in the lore, why separate the genders at all?

@@HelenRowe-rg8bx Because they were based on monks, and monks have usually always separated genders. The Airbenders also heavily promoted not having ties, so separating men and women, along with children from parents, makes it so they have fewer attachments.

cause Korra is never actually interested in doing good to anyone, she just wants to be viewed as a hero, same reason why she never questions if the equalists and people are actually oppressed, she is pretty self serving and centered and never actually changes or gets confronted about it.

Korra is written as an oddly passive character despite her personality

Which is the exact opposite of aang who tried to understand the fire lord and the fire benders and saw their perspective (Zuko)

I mean, I assumed that because she wasn’t as in touch with the spirit world, she just followed Unalock as he seemed more knowledgeable and trustworthy.

That's one of Korra biggest problem and writing problem of the series all together. Korra in the beginning is a great character, there's many characters male and female that are just like her, but they receive development as the series goes and become a better and wiser person, Zuko being a great example. But in Korra case, she never learns her lessons, from season 1 to season 3, she keeps making the same mistakes, treating people close to her horrible and never listening to a advice that is given to her, which makes her cause her own problems and chaos. In season 2, everyone warns her about Unalaq, but she doesn't listen to them, treat them like shit, do everything Unalaq tells her to do and almost destroy the world because of it. Like, she has a whole cast of people that she can talk any moment she wants, including her friends and the past avatars, she just doesn't try at all to listen or talk to them.

I mean there must have been some survivors of the siege right? And I doubt thr water tribe ust took them in happily and shipping a bunch of people across the world is also not the easiest. Makes sense in my mind.

if you think about what the fire nation after the war would be like too much it becomes very clear that there's no way it doesn't immediately dissolve into a civil war to bring back ozai.

Like the filibuster armies from after the Mexican American war

That makes a lot of sense, we’ve seen that the fire nation has been very militarized and has been that way for a long time, plus there are corrupt individuals using their power over others for their own gain It makes sense that even when the war is over some of them just keep fighting because it’s all they know how to do, or for any number of other reasons

Yea feel like that's something that could have been explored in the Avatar world better. What happens after Zuko takes the throne to all the Fire Nation soldiers around the world? This was a culture that literally raised their children on the ideals of Fire Lord Ozai and Sozin, and you're telling me everyone would just stop fighting because Fire Lord Zuko says so? Nah there would definitely be huge pockets of Fire Nation warlords and rebellions against Zuko.

well it's the south pole, so it would be an aurora australis.

Spirit storm?

Green storm 😎

I mean this is a universe where a place called the dragon bone catacombs is a thing

TBH hearthstone meta tempo has been pushed WAY into overdrive nowadays

​@@Nebula644but that was catacombs made of literal dragon bones.

I was looking through comments cause this is my head cannon of it. Also, I would maybe argue bloodbending is the ultimate opposite of healing, cause you could technically do anything you wanted to a person, even severing arteries if you wanted to get very dark

Weird, but pretty intuitive if you think about how medicine works. Most things that are used to heal/cure can just as easily kill.

@@malcolm32 Yeah, 'too much of a good thing' or 'depends on the dosage,' that sort of deal.

Yeah... just ignore that Unalaq gets "soothed" to death

@@maskofthedragon I suppose you could make the argument that it was more Vaatu that got "Soothed to death" and because they had already been seemingly permanently fused in the same way that Wan/Korra and Raava were, Unalaq just kind got taken along with Vaatu. Not very convincing imho, but it does help for me that if this is how that spiritbending stuff works, at least the same thing would've probably happened to Korra, had the roles been reversed.

Gotta bend the knees though

Remember to not pizza when you should of french fried or you're gonna have a bad time.

What about those weird skis where your toe is on a joint connection to the ski and you lunge pretty much the whole time?

If Aang thought waking up after 100 years to everyone he ever knew and loved and also his entire culture being dead was bad, imagine dying then being born again like 5 lifetimes later!

the man split between generations.

The first and last time traveler.

Image if the water Avatar was reincarnated as a swamp hillbilly.

Vine titan avatar state

@@brandonlyon730Omg that is entirely possible and now that’s something I want to see be canon

​@@brandonlyon730remind me of this when I make my fanfic.

@@brandonlyon730I’ve always thought of this

Explains why the fights are fire

You did it, you fixed Season 2 of Korra

@@alexandrac6177 It really is amazing how humanizing your villains makes them and the story more compelling than just, “Let’s make him a Dark Avatar and have him and Korra have a Pacific Rim style fight because it’s cool”

Unalaq is so lame man.

Bryke are criminally under equipped to write antagonists that are complex and not just straight up evil personified. The moment a villain provides a justification for why they do what they do, the moment they make even a little bit of sense to the viewer, bryke immediately adds "oh btw they're also an anti-social psychopath who would kill and hurt innocent people for no reason at all"

​@@LauraM96829it comes from a show that had *Ozai* as the main villain. Not humanized at all.

lmao good catch. is that the boy from the dance party in atla book 3?

Fur those who don't get it, on the far left on the cliff theirs a tiny image of a person dancing.

I didn't even catch that

anyone who thinks scythes arent cool hasnt watched soul eater or RWBY

good for them@@yassslay8269

scythes are outclassed as a weapon by a simple stick, im not even joking, by the time you swing a scythe your opponent will already hit you 2 times , had a cup of coffee and done his taxes

@@Warmaster00 well who fucking cares about what outclasses what, swords are cool and guns exist ??? scythes are fucking cool!!!

​@@yassslay8269 RWBY is overrated.

In normal circumstances, it would be insane for them to try and spend 2-3 generations adapting from warm tropical islands to harsh arctic tundra. But firebenders can regulate body temperature so I guess it's ok

​@@LordZemosa Those guys would barely be more equipped than Zuko if any uncaptured soldiers escaped into the wilderness. Besides there were probably no women among them since military women mainly resided in the homeland as far as we knew.

Yeah, Korra gets way too much shit than it deserves.

​@alexanderrost5958 It's not up to the level of Avatar, but it's not terrible.

Korra has lots of isolated really cool shots, first one that comes to mind is the mountain with a hole through it in the final season.

@@Jaydee-wd7wr also when lyn does the spin thing with her metal whips ontop of the arena in season one

Yeah I thought there was potential for him, but they quickly turned him in one of the most poorly written characters in the series.

As many issues as s2 has, on a neuron activation level, I find it way more appealing than s1. Amon was hard carrying s1's bore fest. Unalak is just kinda Tarlok again, but actually full blown evil.

I agree. In fact, I think he *still* has potential, if they ever decide to let the dark avatar reincarnate the same way the regular avatar does.

They butchered his character halfway through the season!? When was there anything to butcher and how was he not horribly written at first because he's an idiot as soon as this episode when his invasion of the South which doesn't have anything to do with opening the portals and only impedes him because it makes it so that Korra sides against him. Also, James Ohlen the lead game designer of KOTOR the video game that has the greatest plot twist in video game history has stated "Ten percent of your audience needs to figure out your twist before it happens for it to feel truly natural" I am willing to bet my life that a lot more than ten percent saw the twist the Unalaq was a villain coming from a mile away because it's so obvious. Admittedly I partly knew the twist when going into the season so it shouldn't surprise you that I couldn't have been less surprised when it was revealed he was the villain but that doesn't change the fact that it's really obvious. I also have no idea, not a single character figures out the obvious fact that he's up to no good, I mean in this episode alone he pretty clearly manipulates events so that his brother attacks a spiritual place and he just so happens to be the only one with the power to swoop in and save the day and also just so happens to benefit from his father being in trouble a lot and keep in mind this is just one part of this episode if I listed every moment where all of the characters should have immediately realized Unalaq was up to no good we'd be here all day. And that's without me even bringing up the fact that he flat-up invades the south, a three-year-old can tell this guy is up to no good.

​@@GOODYGOODGOOD789The season should have focused on the water tribe civil war story line instead of that stupid portal stuff

So, what you’re saying is, they were dealt a horrible hand and played it masterfully? Yeah, that deserves respect.

At this point, when I see a show have bad animation I just blame whatever studio is at the top. I can't imagine having to draw all that under a time crunch.

Yeah, and it also makes it seem like the reasons the Spirits are angry don’t even need to be addressed, like their problems aren’t legitimate, and they just need to ‘calm the Spirits down’ or ‘purify them’ or whatever and suddenly the Spirits won’t be upset anymore.

Korra really dumbs down the writing Unalaq Spirit Fighting does whatever the Hell they want it to in a given scene and then disappears once the season is over

no, the scythe death wields isnt a weapon, its a tool for harvesting crops. Death using a scythe represents harvest of souls, not combat.

@@ShadowSlith789But scythe cool

​@@ShadowSlith789 I have no idea why that never occurred to me I always thought it was just a weapon

As mentioned the Grim Reaper, not technically Death, uses a scythe because to reap something is to harvest it and scythes are a farming tool to harvest various plants but generally think wheat. Scythes would actually be awful for combat because the blade is purposely askewed to allow the user to stand while swinging it to cut at shin level. It's actually very likely that if you actually hit something sturdy with a scythe a handful or so times then the blade may just break off due to it not being designed for that. But yes scythes are neat.

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It's the accumulated knowledge of 1000 Avatars, and in The Last Airbender at least, knowledge equated to power. In Korra, it's a powerboost similar to Super Saiyan, granting you additional strength and reflexes.

@@blackfox4138 could this be a result of aang's far more spiritual upbringing rather than how kora was trained to fight basically from day 1? maybe thats just head canon but it makes sense to me at least. Rose glasses?

@@blackfox4138 The glow is the combination of all your past lives, focusing their energy through your body. In the Avatar State, you are at your most powerful, but you are also at your most vulnerable. -Roku, S2E1 When Azula shot me with lightning, my seventh chakra was locked, cutting off my connection to all the cosmic energy in the universe. -Aang, S3E10 There’s probably more that I’m missing, but these statements from the original show confirm that the Avatar State lets the user harness energy on top of giving them access to their past lives’ experiences, and more energy is required to perform feats of greater strength. It just makes sense demonstratively too, Aang without the Avatar state threw the top of just one stone column, while Aang with the Avatar State casually compressed six of them into tiny ass pebbles and chopped them up into machine gun fire.

@@crosslao again, both shows have different premises regarding "power." In Airbender, the most powerful benders have experience, age, and wisdom. Physical prowess was required, but it wasn't the deciding factor for a powerful bender. In Korra, the most powerful benders have the power of youth and strength on their side. There is some knowledge and wisdom, but for the most part the benders in Korra are powerful because they have that physical ability behind them.

@@blackfox4138 That's kind of a moot point though because the whole reason we're discussing whether the Avatar state enhances one's strength is to explain how Korra ripped herself out of the spirit vines. There was no bending involved there it was just a pure feat of strength. So how the rest of the show treats bending power levels doesn't really matter in this case.

I mean any Avatar after him could have Made the stature and/or some Legends or so where told of His live?

It was probably made before he died

Taking paralels to religion, the cristian/catholic bible was not written until 300 years after Jesus died. Maybe after some avatars (after the avatar has been a reknown figure), they describe how Wan looks like.

Made before he died, or another avatar made it

The second avatar probably got directly told to lmao.

It would if that was a thing that’s ever existed. If only avatar Kuruk knew he could just un-evil the face stealer

@@creed8712, I can give it the benefit of the doubt that Koh is inherently malicious whereas the Spirits currently messing stuff up are just angry or misguided.

​@@Jaydee-wd7wrBut the point was that he wasn't inherently malicious! He had his own thing which doesn't line up with our sense of good/evil. The same was true of Wan Shi Tong and Hei Bai -- they weren't inherently good or evil, and lok did a huge disservice to the concept of spirits by taking away what made them super mysterious and alien

@@creed8712 I got the impression that there’s a difference between inherent troublemakers like Koh and corrupted spirits like we see in this season

@@redtutel the difference is one is a well thought out part of a universe with complex culture and spirituality, the other is a massive simplification that puts it in the same league as Star Wars for all the nuance it has

Except he does it with airbending rather than his full strenght

He might’ve used his air bending for strength boosts, but he’s able to carry zuko, sokka and katara easily despite them out sizing him. It’s safe assume he’s pretty strong anyway.

Except she keeps him up even when she's out of the avatar state.

she just did that to look intimidating korra is literally just strong

Personally the defense used should've been the season 3 finale where a weakened, poisoned Korra goes glow and is shown to be far stronger; however, I think OA was meaning when have we ever seen evidence of increased strength in the past as in before season 2, and for that you'd have to define words like 'strength' and 'power'. Aang, for instance, could pull off crazy bending feats with the glow that literally could be defined as the 'culmination of all previous Avatars' as in thousands upon thousands of benders bending all at once in one singular form. Aang never actually gains muscular strength at any point; the closest I can think of is pushing back Ozai at first glow but Ozai was physically stunned at seeing a Fully Realized Avatar and Aang did use airbending, so no I don't think so if we are defining strength as muscular strength which is how OA seems to mean it.

Laughing

I guess but aside from jet's memory ig, healing has always been a physical thing while unalaq seems to actually control the spirits or at least their mood. the real issue is they never explain it, not even how unalaq learned it (also he can use it to steal souls apparently)

Bryke did not think about that at all

I have a feeling he will hate all the wan stuff as a fan of ATLA

You liked Wan? I love this show, I’m a Korra apologist and even I hated Wan, it’s such a boring answer to the start of the Avatar cycle and it contradicts previous lore.

​@@kainoawaikiki2614yeah, wan basically flips everything we learn about how people got bending, what are spirits and how they work

@@Jaydee-wd7wryeah the story isn’t my favorite either but I do love the animation style!

what we learnt in atla was cultural lore. isn't it cool and real when cultural lore is not entirely true and you can cut into layers? and then it still doesn't contradict the wan story. with regards to oma and shu myth, i think they themselves were not real. they are likely an etiologic tale to explain omashu's early history and name where now omashu itself works as a testimony of the truth of the myth. it's similar to the explanations of the place names in the hebrew bible and some other traditions. but humans likely did learn earthbending as an art from badgermoles just like they learnt firebending from dragons (demonstrated by wan himself)