Yeah, think about what they'll be able to do with this episode in the Live-Action Netflix show. I don't really want them to go full R-rated sex and swearing like GoT, but just more mature that so they'll be able to show and write things that they weren't allowed to before.
@@John-X That has some advantages and disadvantages. For example, if in the Netflix version the soldiers of the Fire Nation do kill people onscreen then Azula will have to do even worse things to stand out.
Ok, but think about how painful it would be to have all the blood in your body twisted against your will. It would be literal torture, it's not like it makes you move naturally, it physically pulls your blood wherever the bloodbender wants. There's no way that wouldn't hurt nearly to the point of insanity.
Not only that, but to bend the blood you're interrupting the person's circulation and putting stress on the heart. It essentially puts the person into cardiac arrest.
Hey the Normies, if you think about it, Hama could have been the reason that Katara's mother Kya was killed because the Fire Nation realized that imprisoning the waterbenders wouldn't do much because they can control other people so they killed the last waterbenders after her escape.
Yes but Hama escaped like a long time ago, before Katara was even born right, but I guess when they got the radar that there was still another waterbender alive that’s why they killed her mother because they couldn’t keep her as a prisoner in fear that a water bender might break out, also weird but wouldn’t news about blood bending spread if it happened to the guards
G Money well Hama said she was the only one to escape so the other waterbenders would either not have seen Hama bloodbend or maybe killed when in prison. It’s safe to assume that once she was captured there weren’t other waterbenders from the South Pole until Katara. There was probably a mole that gave intel about this new waterbender, so when the southern raiders came and Kya said it was her they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of capturing her if there was the potential she could have escaped through blood bending again, so they killed her to save time. Idk if you already thought this but yeah that’s my theory
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention how "bloodbending" is a surprisingly dark concept for Nickelodeon to allow on their channel. I would've thought there would be a ton of "This is NOT a kids show!"
Hyper Dee I was surprised how the Normies never questioned if you can bend the blood and/or metal. The Swamp episode in particular they never question, "Well if this guy can bend the water in the plants, could you do that to people?" How can you not mention that?
s actually not dark, warefare itself is a dark subject to have on nickelodeon. blood bending would actually be a good way to win a war with little casualities, you could literally take control over entire armies make them surrender and no one would have to die. plus blood bending would allow the water bender to heal a person far better
And no one cared. They all heard her saying there is another person who can do that and they just walke away. (Maybe she said it in a language that only souther water tribe people understands.)
Hama took away her innocence at that point, she cant not unlearn it, she knows and can do the darkest bending a water bender can do, and it was against her will, but she had to do it, ugh.
It's crazy to think about how it took DECADES for another waterbender to appear (Katara) after Hama was stolen from her home. The pain in the the eyes of Hama and Gran gran broke my precious heart :(. I LOVE ATLA.
Yeah, it's amazing how the Avatar universe is full of scary spirits and animals, but the SCARIEST episode happens to be about a little old lady. When I was a kid it freaked me out just because of the freaky imagery, but i was too young to really pay attention to the story or really know what was going on. Now I rewatched and it really is shocking because it's not too far fetched as a story. A woman with supernatural powers is subjucated to horrible treatment, witnessed her people being killed, and then she hides in enemy territory, essentially becoming a serial killer.
it wasn't a glitch. Suraj sped up the footage to save time on fair use, he said. "There a few spots where the show audio will echo over our audio weirdly. This happened because I sped up the footage to save some time for the fair use. May or may not fix for the UA-cam release. "
15:28 this scene is so badass as Katara rises from the ground and telling Hama that she's not the only one who draws power from the moon. Katara was just so powerful
9:02 Just so you know, Hama’s friend in the flashback... notice how she eerily looks like Katara? And is wearing a betrothal necklace? Yeah, that’s _Gran-Gran._
Haha! I've been waiting for this one. Katara takes so many hits. She's by nature a healer and she's been forced to learn a power that could easily rip life away from someone. It's so painful to see the kindest character in the show be twisted and forced into using a power she never asked for and can never unlearn. So creepy and eerie! Agh! I just love this episode!
PrismAnime yeah, it really shows you what blood bending does to a person. You reach into a person and enforce your will upon theirs. This leads to a power trip, which leads to madness. That is why she *forced* Katara to learn this against her will, she doesn't give a fuck about anyone's will but her own at this point. SPOILERS for Legend of Korra This also happens in Legend of Korra when Noatak's father forces him and his brother to learn blood bending against their will, as well.
Exactly! As an older audience we forget that innocence could be ripped off especially to a girl that is around 15 years of age? It’s devastating for her because she know she will never be able to forget the tactic
Exactly! It’s almost like she lost her innocence at that point. It’s horrible for anyone to learn, but the fact that the most kind and nurturing character in the show was forced to learn a skill that (from what we learn in Legend of Korra) basically tortures the victim and is extremely painful, is the most heartbreaking part. It’s so sad because at last shot where Katara is crying, I imagine she is feeling horrified and sickened by HERSELF, because of what she just did, and what she can now do forever.
Hnem Hnem Well I think it was already pretty obvious bloodbending is a painful type of torture from this episode alone. Not to mention the Southern Raiders
I don’t really think that “by nature she is a healer”. I mean, in the first season Katara didn’t want to be training with the healers. Like, at all. She wanted to be training with Master Paku and the other fighters. Furthermore, she was the best student at fighting. Of course, she is an amazing healer as well, but I don’t think that makes her a healer by nature. I think that she is an just an amazingly talented water bender by nature. Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to turn into a long paragraph, haha.
Katara is my favorite character. She is great. She is also much stronger than people give credit for. Probably one of the strongest in the entire series
She's not my favourite, but she is still consistently amazing and doesn't get enough credit for the amount of ass she kicks (and saves when she's healing).
Katara is the only character who has learned from multiple water-bending masters across the world; by the end of the series she is probably the greatest water-bender in existence (though unlike Toph she would never say it herself). Additionally, her bending has healing properties and she is the only person in this series besides Hama who can blood-bend which is one of the most broken, OP forms of bending in the lore. Definitely a candidate for one of if not the strongest bender.
Only behind Aang, Iroh, Ozai, Bumi, Azula, Zuko (arguably) and Toph. And if you count deceased characters (but not Avatars), Sozin, Azulon and Gyatso (defeated dozens of Sozin’s comet amped firebenders). So seventh or eighth place, not bad, would probably be about fourth or fifth with the full moon. The reason she might not seem as powerful most of the time is because she doesn’t always have a large supply of water, so she has to rely on the limited amount of water in her water skin. Still, Aang and Iroh were said to be the only ones who could possibly defeat Ozai, so those three are above Katara. Azula would’ve won in the coup of Ba Sing Se if Aang wasn’t there to help Katara (though, Zuko also saved Azula, but he didn’t show up until later). Plus, Zuko admitted he would need help against Azula, Katara only won by outsmarting her, her being unaware of the water supply, and her deteriorating mental state. Sure, she had Sozin’s comet, but she was too insane to actually hit Katara. Bumi was tossing buildings around during the Eclipse, Toph matched him in the comics, and held up the Library, and Zuko is debatable.
Fire Nation /including settlements committed serious war crimes / human rights violations / or were complicit in it. after peace is attained, serious repatriation / restitution must have been made
I always say that Avatar was intended for the age groups of its main characters. And that's a fairly wide range of preteen and adolescence tbh. Granted, kids (and many adults) in the modern era aren't always as mature or understanding as they should be.
aeris44 this show was more like 11+. I was like 7 when this came out and very few in my age group was a fan, my age group were more into SpongeBob & Fairly Odd Parents. I knew alot of older kids who were big fans tho. This show felt more 11+ and Korra is like 14+
Jets village got destroyed and he planned to destroy a village. Hama was being captured and she captured civilians. From victims to culprits- both repeating what has been done to them. Both not able to let go of the past and of the hatred. A tibetian wisdom says: An enemy is the biggest teacher because only he can help you to develop patience and empathy. I believe the true enemy lies within us - and he is the only one worth fighting.
One Punch Man and now Avatar... I fucking love you, Normies, i fucking love you. PS: the last scene, with Katara crying, destroys my heart every time. This episode, Appa's Lost Day and Aang in Avatar mode in The Desert
no, i think the sages know when the avatar is reincarnated. i think they wanted to take the water benders to try to limit the chances of when and where the next avatar is born in case the current avatar (aang) dies. and we see in a future episode they come back when there are rumors of new water benders being born. so i think they want to force the cycle back to the fire nation. also by taking away all benders you remove that nation from being a threat. they were just working in order of the avatar cycle, you saw them start to do the same to earth kingdom in the episode with the earth bender prison ship.
Lawren Stewart No, Sozin knew that Aang had escaped him. He spent his life looking for him, but never came up with anything. At most, Hama's imprisonment happened 50 years ago, making her 70 or so. 50 years into the 100 year war. The Avatar, if he lived a healthy life, would be around 50 years old as the war began right after Roku died and Aang was born just as Roku died. If that were the case, he'd have already mastered all 4 elements and fought Azulon, who was the Firelord at the time (probably around 25 or 30 years old). No, I think that the Fire-Nation attacked the South to weaken the North, as both were so closely intertwined politically, and keep both sides from aiding the Earth Kingdom in the 100-then-50 year War.
@@ATLKing404 I know this is late but, in the legend of korra, when all those earth kingdom people became airbenders, it was because they were descendents of air nomads who escaped to the earth kingdom, so the cycle wouldn't be broken, but if Aang died and the next Two avatars died, then the Air Avatar would be born in the earth kingdom.
You're kind of right that Bloodbending is like rape. To physically control someone and force them to fight each other is a cruel dark art and the product of sadism
Don’t watch them for years, and you’ll get goosebumps, and you’ll understand it a lot more. Amazon has the entire series on digital as well as Blu-Ray for $20-30 respectively.
@@Rct-ti6il yeah I haven't watched this show in like 6 or 7 years... That's why I'm really into reactions with groups of close friends especially those that are either completely blind or hardcore fans of whatever work it is.
@@jadeuwu9860 Definitely a villain. Just because she had a traumatic backstory that draws sympathy does not mean she is an anti-hero. In fact, that is what makes her a great villain. Great villains have a great backstory that explains why they are the way they are.
Well a solar eclipse might be even better for water benders cause the source of their power is literally blocking the source of the fire benders' power
watri water is one of the strongest elements in the avatar world everyone things that fire is the best but what can you do with fire only burning people in the face and warming yourself up
15:44 its interesting how Katara uses an earth bending stance to block the attack, probably learned from the fights against Toph. These small details are the reason, why ATLA is absolutely amazing
True, but the people she locked up were not the guards of Fire Nation soldiers who took her into custody. They were innocent villagers. Even if they are also Fire Nation citizens, two wrongs can never make a right. Also her methods were pretty gruesome, like using the Dark Side of the Force.
@@darthroden Yes, that's the point, she's the villain of the story. To Hama it didn't matter that they were civilians, they were from fire nation so they were evil in her mind.
@@Ekami-chan she was an innocent civilian from the water tribe, they are innocent civilians of the fire Nation so it doesn't matter. In her eyes it is expressly the same. sure if some high-ranking general waltzes through the town she'd snatch him up because it is a high-value target of opportunity but the idea is to do damage to the heart of the people, and destabilise the morale of the general population. to stretch it who knows maybe she even had delusions that she could eventually wipe out all of the fire Nation one by one one person a month.
@@PACKERMAN2077 She wasn't a civilian though. She was a waterbender, and the Southern Tribe didn't have the luxury of rejecting their female waterbenders from combat. Hama, as was explicitly shown, was military personnel. Doesn't justify any of what happened to her, but she wasn't grabbed from her home one day like Katara's mom was killed. She was fighting the invaders and surrendered.
Blood bending not only is a pretty shitty thing to do, it slowly corrupts the person doing it over time it's a total perversion of what water bending should be...
@@dragonandavaterfan8953 that has nothing to do with the bending by itself, yall come with the psychological effect of that ability when the user who created was a war prisioner and was turtured for years of fucking course she would be mad af that has nothing to with the fact that she can blood bend.
There's uh, nothing inherently corruptive of the power. It's not like the Dark Side of the Force, or the malignant powers of the Warp. You're not calling on something malevolent, or explicitly focusing on the cruelest parts of yourself to channel the ability. If you go bad from using it it's because you couldn't handle the control if offered you, nothing more.
1:57 Suraj just casually analyzing a recurring theme in the story and proceeding to link it to overall character development like atla is some sort of classic piece of literature is now one of my favorite things
This episode really enforces the idea that anyone can be evil no matter from which nation. But their actions have a motive. When you watch LOK, you'll start to agree with the villains on the many ideologies they have.
I'm glad the Normies pointed it out-it never dawned upon me that the ship that set off the signal from the 1st episode in ATLA was the same one in Hama's flashback
The true evolution of air bending is unassisted flight, as zaheer acquired that ability after acquiring true freedom (death of pli). If you think about it, it's the same for lightning, zuko couldn't fire it because he was ashamed, and the fire is power.
Ranking of Canonical Bloodbenders: (Least to Most Powerful) 1) Hama - The only waterbender in the multiple millennia that bending has existed to discover and master the ability to manipulate the fluids in a living organism’s body via waterbending. This makes her one of the most resourceful and intelligent waterbenders in Avatar canon. 2) Katara - She was able to ultimately resist Hama’s bloodbending grip as well as master the dark art instantly while Hama needed to practice for decades on elephant rats before she was powerful enough to bloodbend a human being. 3) Tarrlok - He was able to bloodbend without the full moon; a skill that Katara wasn’t able to master (as far as canon shows). 4) Yakone - He was able to execute “psychic bloodbending;” something that Tarrlok couldn’t do. 5) Amon / Noatak - He has Yakone’s psychic bloodbending ability plus could eliminate one’s bending ability permanently, which can only be restored by the Avatar.
This was the Halloween episode of Avatar. Kind of like how The Simpsons has "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, this was Avatar's "Pentapox of Horror" episode XD. Plus, the official airdate for this episode was October 25th 2007 for the UK (pretty close to Halloween). The episode later aired in the US around November 9th. Also, Normies. Remember in The Avatar and the Fire Lord where Aang said that the point of Roku's story was that anyone is capable of great good and great evil. This shows that not all Waterbenders are good-natured people. Though in the case of Hama, her mind was very jaded because of what happened to her in the Fire Nation Prisons. She could've very well KILLED the people she captured, but she didn't.
@P E well of the most neglectful punishment she could have done was to simply let them all watch each other starve to death. Also she probably relished in the paranoia that was spreading throughout the town, with people disappearing left and right and loved ones gone until finally reunited only to watch each other die.
this is one of my favorite episodes - it goes through so many darker but important themes, and the way it develops Katara as a character is especially interesting. I love the reactions! You're making me remember how much I loved this show as a kid, but it's so interesting to see all of the deeper themes I didn't totally catch on to at a younger age.
There's something really satisfying about watching a villain succeed even in their failure. You usually see it in villains that have nothing to lose or like in this episode just want someone else to take up their legacy. Its classic Batman vs Joker. Joker doesn't want to kill batman he's always trying to force batman to go down the Jokers path even if it means Joker dies in the process its a win to him.
One of my favorites scenes in the entire show is at like 13:51 when young Hama is escaping the prison, the guard tries to get up & Hama is like “NOPE” then slams him back down lol
This episode was scarier and creepier than most “horror” movies out these days. This episode is literally chilling, I mean creepy and frightening in a weird way.
Little do I understand Hama. She was kept in prison and saw her people get killed. She spent her whole life being isolated from her loved ones without getting any type of justice. I feel like they did her wrong. She does not belong in prison - she needs mental help to deal with all the trauma caused by the fire nation.
Well she is a villain but we understand why she became one because she and all of her people suffered whole life from fire nation and now she is doing the same and we see that not only fire benders are bad and how the war is influencing people
the italian title for this episode is "il lato oscuro della luna" which means "the dark side of the moon" and i think it fits it perfectly (also "the puppetmaster" is pretty fitting and creepy though)
You remind me so much of my own group of friends! The mix of men and women hanging out together, your positive attitudes, how you give each other shit, and just the constant laughing makes me think of my group every time! Love the reactions, guys!
I think a lot of people don't quite realize that this episode basically showcases a loss of innocence for Katara. She took pride in her abilities as a waterbender and a healer, now she also feels shame. Rember how Jeong Jeong said waterbending was about life and healing, and that water was a soothing element? Well Katara just learned it is not. She found out there is a darker and twisted side to her abilities and had to take part in it. And in how invasive and painful it is, rape is a very good comparison to bloodbending, as good of a paralell as a Nickelodeon show could make to something so grim and terrible
571danu, well only in avatar the legend of aang, but in avatar the legend ao fkorra, (the first spin-off american-anime show,) is that an total another aspact, (about using bloodbedning,) because (in the spin-off,) there isn't a moon cycle time-limit, because every waterbender can use bloodbending every moment, if their want to. (like: noatak, / amon, tarrlok, yakone, etc..)
Thugzbunyyy Just Think about the possibilities . .. You could make a band-of-brothers-esque show focusing on the actual war between Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom . It would be BRUTAL!
My favorite part for some reason in this entire episode is when Toph screams: "Oh no! I did hear people screaming under the mountain! The missing villagers must still be there!!!" It's just a small line, but just shows how amazing this show was with details, plot development, etc.
At 15:46 when Katara blocks Hama's attack she's actually using an earthbending form that she learned while watching Aang and Toph practice earthbending.
Hama's story in this episode reminds me of Iroh talking about the Water Tribes in book 2, and makes what she went through so much more tragic. "The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a strong sense of community and love that holds them together through anything." Hama adapted to life in the prison which is how she invented bloodbending, but her sense of community and love were eroded over decades of seeing her fellow waterbenders imprisoned and dying, that it was replaced with hatred. In the episode Katara meets Hama and wants nothing more than to learn about her heritage. But what Katara doesn't realise is just how fully the Fire Nation perverted the culture of Water Tribe and made it something darker and more malevolent just to survive extinction; bloodbending is a reflection of Water Tribe adaptibility taken to terrible extremes. Hama wants to pass bloodbending along, because, just like the comb she possesses, it is the last connection she has to what her culture has become thanks to the Fire Nation's war. Even when Katara and Hama fight I can't help but feel really sad as this is what the Fire Nation did to the Water Tribes: it made two people from a culture built on the values of love and harmony duel each other. I also realised Hama drawing water from thin air to make icicle spikes is likely what made the Fire Nation guards begin to pump dry air into the cells, (because they too did not think of waterbenders drawing from moisture in the air) Hama's first adaptibility moment and she very likely murdered a few guards with that technique. The Fire Nation created the conditions for bloodbending's existence with their cruelty.
I love how the writers made Hama sound like an injured old woman, weak and small, when Katara spun her and knocked her down, but she’s actually one of the most if not THE most lethal person in the series. Ozai would’ve lost in seconds, even with the comet. I almost wish he would’ve gotten a taste of bloodbending. If he was shocked at the idea of redirecting lighting, which didn’t even exist until Iroh invented it, I wonder how much sheer terror he’d feel when he was no longer in control of his own body. Hama also doesn’t even care that she’s getting locked up again! She just laughs knowing she passed on blood bending and Katara will never forget that, even if she wants to. She achieved her desire.
It is heavily implied that she has killed people before because remember when she escaped from prison she was still fairly young with black hair and now we see her as a gray-haired old woman she has been doing this for decades
I m just going to say again, watching Avatar again (I saw the whole show with my daughter...and the adults loved it as much as the kid) through your eyes is amazing. I fell in love with the whole show all over again. Knowing what is coming I can predict when your jaws are going to drop, and it reminds me of my first time watching the show.
So I saw this thing on reddit about the scene where katara blocks hamas attack w her hand and Hama looks super shocked. It said that the movement of that water bending move matches more w earth bending, the user theorized that katara invented it by studying toph and Aang training and that why Hama is so shocked she’s never seen anything like it
When they got to discussing why they didn’t kill the waterbenders I was just struck with a thought. After air the avatar would have been reborn into the water tribe. They took the water benders captive because any one of them had the potential of being the avatar. After all aang never knew until he was told and exhibited no other elements. The lack of death is not because it’s a kids show. If they killed all the water benders they could unknowingly push the avatar into the next nation. Hama mention that she was the last, likely she had not gone through what ever tests they were doing to check for avatar powers before the water bender was killed. They were trying to limit the avatar search area, after all the earth kingdom is massive compared to the other three. Also Hama and her age ranger were likely candidates if the air avatar had been killed.
It’s one of the nastiest Avatar episodes. But, with one the most funniest Avatar lines. Sokka: it’s like my brain has a mind of its own”. Aang’s delivery “its okay” was golden too.
They only captured those water benders and didn't kill them because after they killed all the airbenders they realize how much more difficult it was to find the avatar again in the next nation so they made it easier in themselves by just capturing all the water benders. But since Hama got out they realized it wasn't a great plan and skipped right to killing, that's why Katara's mom got killed.
Yes! Been waiting for this. Tbh this episode still stuck with me, I didn't think it would go that dark. It taught me to be more skeptical of others I come across and their intentions. You never know what someone's capable of.
even tho this was a scary episode, the animation in Legend of Korra made bloodbending way more terrifying than it seemed here. LoK bloodbending made people's eyes fucking bulge out and arms twist and shit was wild
man, i remember how much this episode scared me as a kid, this episode along with the brainwashing in ba sing se creeped me the fuck out as an 8 year old haha
Suraj: **gasp**
Micky: **gasp**
Rana: **gasp**
Nahid: **scratches elbow**
Emma063 every normie video
It's how he shows emotion
Adrian Ventura Sokka isn’t emotionless.
Emma063 aaaam fammm
Nahid: Not impressed easily
Oh boy. 7 year old me tried to blood bend people I didn't like.
Spanish Inquisitor That's unexpected
I'm not alone!
I really wish I could. But I'd rather be a firebender
Bruh how you spent to bloodbend if you cant even bend the water
if only i was in that world to water or earth bend
16:22 "I'm sorry, Aang!"
"It's okay!"
lmao that bit always cracks me up
I also love that she just doesn’t apologize to Sokka
Dash Man Siblings, am I right?
What makes Avatar so good is the humor they throw in during extremely serious moments!!! This happens so often and in Korra too and it’s so impressive
@@bryanfuerst3277 exactly!
it was so cute haha
Could you imagine being blind and being able to hear the screams of tortured people beneath the earths surface. I would've had a mental breakdown.
Yeah, think about what they'll be able to do with this episode in the Live-Action Netflix show. I don't really want them to go full R-rated sex and swearing like GoT, but just more mature that so they'll be able to show and write things that they weren't allowed to before.
@@John-X like Stranger Things kind of language, gore, matureness, but of course with the goofy kids
@@John-X that's gonna be way too edgy
@@John-X That has some advantages and disadvantages. For example, if in the Netflix version the soldiers of the Fire Nation do kill people onscreen then Azula will have to do even worse things to stand out.
Toph is metal as fujjckk she deals with it 😂😂💕
Ok, but think about how painful it would be to have all the blood in your body twisted against your will. It would be literal torture, it's not like it makes you move naturally, it physically pulls your blood wherever the bloodbender wants. There's no way that wouldn't hurt nearly to the point of insanity.
Xander it would feel like a million blood clots pulling you
I remember reading that bloodbenders are capable of rupturing a person's inner organs as well. yikes.
Headaches and migraines are caused by only a minor inflammation in blood vessels. So ya it would hurt.
Not only that, but to bend the blood you're interrupting the person's circulation and putting stress on the heart. It essentially puts the person into cardiac arrest.
there is also a possibility that the air benders can kill someone by taking all the air from someones body. Instant kill..
I think the name Hama is a pun or cognate of “hema” which is Greek for blood.
cool, nice catch.
@@babis9288 Είπε "αίμα" απλός στα αγγλικά βάζουν και ένα h μπροστά! Όπως *H* istory στην Ιστορία αμόρφωτε!
My sister's name is hema 💀
It's a Persona 5 bless instakill move, that's definitely the origin.
Levi Ackerman is she a redhead? It would probably be more appropriate.
Hey the Normies,
if you think about it, Hama could have been the reason that Katara's mother Kya was killed because the Fire Nation realized that imprisoning the waterbenders wouldn't do much because they can control other people so they killed the last waterbenders after her escape.
Ooh nice catch!
Burak - I never thought of that. Damn
Nice catch
Yes but Hama escaped like a long time ago, before Katara was even born right, but I guess when they got the radar that there was still another waterbender alive that’s why they killed her mother because they couldn’t keep her as a prisoner in fear that a water bender might break out, also weird but wouldn’t news about blood bending spread if it happened to the guards
G Money well Hama said she was the only one to escape so the other waterbenders would either not have seen Hama bloodbend or maybe killed when in prison. It’s safe to assume that once she was captured there weren’t other waterbenders from the South Pole until Katara. There was probably a mole that gave intel about this new waterbender, so when the southern raiders came and Kya said it was her they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of capturing her if there was the potential she could have escaped through blood bending again, so they killed her to save time. Idk if you already thought this but yeah that’s my theory
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention how "bloodbending" is a surprisingly dark concept for Nickelodeon to allow on their channel.
I would've thought there would be a ton of "This is NOT a kids show!"
Hyper Dee There’s something in Korra season 3 that is even more shocking that they allowed on their channel
James F Yeah. Killing suckers
Hyper Dee I was surprised how the Normies never questioned if you can bend the blood and/or metal. The Swamp episode in particular they never question, "Well if this guy can bend the water in the plants, could you do that to people?" How can you not mention that?
s actually not dark, warefare itself is a dark subject to have on nickelodeon. blood bending would actually be a good way to win a war with little casualities, you could literally take control over entire armies make them surrender and no one would have to die. plus blood bending would allow the water bender to heal a person far better
Dunskap More likely exploding head girl
When she looked at a tearful Katara and said “my work is done. You’re a blood bender now” and started laughing.....😳😳... that was like a DC comic...
ya thats what i thought too
And no one cared. They all heard her saying there is another person who can do that and they just walke away. (Maybe she said it in a language that only souther water tribe people understands.)
Hama took away her innocence at that point, she cant not unlearn it, she knows and can do the darkest bending a water bender can do, and it was against her will, but she had to do it, ugh.
@@StefKomGeekruor maybe they just didn't care because Katara helped them
It's crazy to think about how it took DECADES for another waterbender to appear (Katara) after Hama was stolen from her home. The pain in the the eyes of Hama and Gran gran broke my precious heart :(. I LOVE ATLA.
Unique it’s crazy how it took DECADES for them to get to this episode 😂
That was gran gran??
And it only appeared because Gran gran was an immigrant from the Northern Tribe. Crazy how they put all that together huh
Oh so that was a young Gran Gran?
Wasn't katara's mom a waterbender?
Nahid: "D-d-d..."
Nahid's dad: "Honey come quick! He's about to say dad!"
Nahid: "D-d-d-duuuuuuude"
JAJAJAJAJAJA
Excellent
"D-d-d-daaaaaamn faaaaaam!"
@@ttzzttzctzz847 "d-d-d-daaaaaammmiitha fammmitha"
i can’t stop laughing ASDFGHIFIIFF
This was episode was especially made for Halloween, it scared the shit out of my 11 year old self.
aakansh938 who are u kidding? This STILL scares me
I look forward to this every Halloween.
I actually liked this episode when I saw it.. I was 5 years old :D
This episode scared me as a kid too, but not once I was a teenager. It’s always been one of my favorites though.
Yeah, it's amazing how the Avatar universe is full of scary spirits and animals, but the SCARIEST episode happens to be about a little old lady. When I was a kid it freaked me out just because of the freaky imagery, but i was too young to really pay attention to the story or really know what was going on. Now I rewatched and it really is shocking because it's not too far fetched as a story.
A woman with supernatural powers is subjucated to horrible treatment, witnessed her people being killed, and then she hides in enemy territory, essentially becoming a serial killer.
The audio glitches just make the episode even creepier.
So true, it creeped me out lol
it wasn't a glitch. Suraj sped up the footage to save time on fair use, he said.
"There a few spots where the show audio will echo over our audio weirdly. This happened because I sped up the footage to save some time for the fair use. May or may not fix for the UA-cam release. "
KnowYourHistory How are these comments from a month ago when the video was posted today?
*OneWayNinja* Been available for a month for Patrons.
Patreon son, Patreon, if you pay to watch, you can see them sooner then everyone else
15:28 this scene is so badass as Katara rises from the ground and telling Hama that she's not the only one who draws power from the moon. Katara was just so powerful
9:02 Just so you know, Hama’s friend in the flashback... notice how she eerily looks like Katara? And is wearing a betrothal necklace? Yeah, that’s _Gran-Gran._
Was this after she fled from her engagement to Pakku? Does that timeline work out?
@@JimmySteller the moon princess was ready to marry with 16. So gran gran was 16 when she run away
Hoooooolyyyyyy shit this show.
"This is not a kids show"
"This is not a kid's Show" Book 3 Chapter 8 Ammm Fam
Yeah it's sad that some people say that all cartoons are just for kids only...
This is THE episode to say that line to
damn, definitely it's not
It's a *thinking* kids' show.
Haha! I've been waiting for this one.
Katara takes so many hits. She's by nature a healer and she's been forced to learn a power that could easily rip life away from someone.
It's so painful to see the kindest character in the show be twisted and forced into using a power she never asked for and can never unlearn.
So creepy and eerie! Agh! I just love this episode!
PrismAnime yeah, it really shows you what blood bending does to a person. You reach into a person and enforce your will upon theirs. This leads to a power trip, which leads to madness. That is why she *forced* Katara to learn this against her will, she doesn't give a fuck about anyone's will but her own at this point.
SPOILERS for Legend of Korra
This also happens in Legend of Korra when Noatak's father forces him and his brother to learn blood bending against their will, as well.
Exactly! As an older audience we forget that innocence could be ripped off especially to a girl that is around 15 years of age?
It’s devastating for her because she know she will never be able to forget the tactic
Exactly! It’s almost like she lost her innocence at that point. It’s horrible for anyone to learn, but the fact that the most kind and nurturing character in the show was forced to learn a skill that (from what we learn in Legend of Korra) basically tortures the victim and is extremely painful, is the most heartbreaking part. It’s so sad because at last shot where Katara is crying, I imagine she is feeling horrified and sickened by HERSELF, because of what she just did, and what she can now do forever.
Hnem Hnem Well I think it was already pretty obvious bloodbending is a painful type of torture from this episode alone. Not to mention the Southern Raiders
I don’t really think that “by nature she is a healer”. I mean, in the first season Katara didn’t want to be training with the healers. Like, at all. She wanted to be training with Master Paku and the other fighters. Furthermore, she was the best student at fighting. Of course, she is an amazing healer as well, but I don’t think that makes her a healer by nature. I think that she is an just an amazingly talented water bender by nature. Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to turn into a long paragraph, haha.
Katara is my favorite character. She is great. She is also much stronger than people give credit for. Probably one of the strongest in the entire series
Lelouch vi Britannia That's kinda over kill. Not the strongest in the series but definitely strong.
Raenar Braun “PROBABLY ONE of the strongest in the series.”
She's not my favourite, but she is still consistently amazing and doesn't get enough credit for the amount of ass she kicks (and saves when she's healing).
Katara is the only character who has learned from multiple water-bending masters across the world; by the end of the series she is probably the greatest water-bender in existence (though unlike Toph she would never say it herself). Additionally, her bending has healing properties and she is the only person in this series besides Hama who can blood-bend which is one of the most broken, OP forms of bending in the lore. Definitely a candidate for one of if not the strongest bender.
Only behind Aang, Iroh, Ozai, Bumi, Azula, Zuko (arguably) and Toph. And if you count deceased characters (but not Avatars), Sozin, Azulon and Gyatso (defeated dozens of Sozin’s comet amped firebenders).
So seventh or eighth place, not bad, would probably be about fourth or fifth with the full moon. The reason she might not seem as powerful most of the time is because she doesn’t always have a large supply of water, so she has to rely on the limited amount of water in her water skin. Still, Aang and Iroh were said to be the only ones who could possibly defeat Ozai, so those three are above Katara. Azula would’ve won in the coup of Ba Sing Se if Aang wasn’t there to help Katara (though, Zuko also saved Azula, but he didn’t show up until later).
Plus, Zuko admitted he would need help against Azula, Katara only won by outsmarting her, her being unaware of the water supply, and her deteriorating mental state. Sure, she had Sozin’s comet, but she was too insane to actually hit Katara.
Bumi was tossing buildings around during the Eclipse, Toph matched him in the comics, and held up the Library, and Zuko is debatable.
"Some people are just talented like Sparky Sparky Boom Man"
Suraj fucking gets it
She said they left her to rot so she is doing the same to them.
blarf mcscarf and from what I understand blood bending can slowly warp your mind making you slowly lose your mind
Magnus Liadal Ummm no
Fire Nation /including settlements committed serious war crimes / human rights violations / or were complicit in it. after peace is attained, serious repatriation / restitution must have been made
NipleSecretions "them"?
Edit, I see, should have waited :)
Exactly.
Avatar is for kids, but its also for an older audience as well. It's a family show. So they're right, but the creators still targeted children too.
aeris44 More kid shows should be written like this.
aeris44 yeah your definitely correct but The Legend of Korra is more for Teenagers and young Adults
I always say that Avatar was intended for the age groups of its main characters. And that's a fairly wide range of preteen and adolescence tbh. Granted, kids (and many adults) in the modern era aren't always as mature or understanding as they should be.
It's cool that this show didn't insult the audience's intelligence
aeris44 this show was more like 11+. I was like 7 when this came out and very few in my age group was a fan, my age group were more into SpongeBob & Fairly Odd Parents. I knew alot of older kids who were big fans tho. This show felt more 11+ and Korra is like 14+
"No. You've outnumbered yourselves"
Such a great line
Jets village got destroyed and he planned to destroy a village. Hama was being captured and she captured civilians.
From victims to culprits- both repeating what has been done to them. Both not able to let go of the past and of the hatred.
A tibetian wisdom says: An enemy is the biggest teacher because only he can help you to develop patience and empathy.
I believe the true enemy lies within us - and he is the only one worth fighting.
One Punch Man and now Avatar... I fucking love you, Normies, i fucking love you.
PS: the last scene, with Katara crying, destroys my heart every time. This episode, Appa's Lost Day and Aang in Avatar mode in The Desert
Eduardo - YEAHH I'M NOT ALONE
Imagine if an Avatar tried to bloodbend on the full moon WHILE IN THE AVATAR STATE. Could fucking control entire armies...
I also think the Fire nation was looking for the avatar.They probably thought the air nomad avatar had already died and been reborn as a water bender.
no, i think the sages know when the avatar is reincarnated. i think they wanted to take the water benders to try to limit the chances of when and where the next avatar is born in case the current avatar (aang) dies. and we see in a future episode they come back when there are rumors of new water benders being born. so i think they want to force the cycle back to the fire nation.
also by taking away all benders you remove that nation from being a threat. they were just working in order of the avatar cycle, you saw them start to do the same to earth kingdom in the episode with the earth bender prison ship.
Lawren Stewart No, Sozin knew that Aang had escaped him. He spent his life looking for him, but never came up with anything. At most, Hama's imprisonment happened 50 years ago, making her 70 or so. 50 years into the 100 year war. The Avatar, if he lived a healthy life, would be around 50 years old as the war began right after Roku died and Aang was born just as Roku died. If that were the case, he'd have already mastered all 4 elements and fought Azulon, who was the Firelord at the time (probably around 25 or 30 years old). No, I think that the Fire-Nation attacked the South to weaken the North, as both were so closely intertwined politically, and keep both sides from aiding the Earth Kingdom in the 100-then-50 year War.
@@fightingfaerie With the Air Nomads extinct the cycle would have been broken anyway.
@@ATLKing404 I know this is late but, in the legend of korra, when all those earth kingdom people became airbenders, it was because they were descendents of air nomads who escaped to the earth kingdom, so the cycle wouldn't be broken, but if Aang died and the next Two avatars died, then the Air Avatar would be born in the earth kingdom.
That is exactly right, they invaded the water tribe like right after they killed of all the airbender and thought they got them all
You're kind of right that Bloodbending is like rape. To physically control someone and force them to fight each other is a cruel dark art and the product of sadism
It’s almost worse than rape, since you can cause that.
It's a fantastic analogy that came out of nowhere
@@bruh-fw7op How does one "cause" rape?
@@CatallusCarmina by bloodbending them into an immobile position…?
@@bruh-fw7op Ugh! That is MESSED UP.
Fun fact: Hama is played by the same voice actress who played Dot on Animaniacs
Flame of Udun Holy shit
Flame of Udun no way!!!!! 😱
Flame of Udun The CUTE one!
Oh wow didn't know that but now that you've enlightened us Hama does have a hint of Dot inflections in her voice.
And Mom from futurama
I would pay so much just to experience every one of these episodes for the first time again.
Pay me 2 million dollars and I'll hit you till you get amnesia, Deal?
Don’t watch them for years, and you’ll get goosebumps, and you’ll understand it a lot more. Amazon has the entire series on digital as well as Blu-Ray for $20-30 respectively.
@@Rct-ti6il yeah I haven't watched this show in like 6 or 7 years... That's why I'm really into reactions with groups of close friends especially those that are either completely blind or hardcore fans of whatever work it is.
Hama is one of the scariest villains in cartoon history
She isnt villan.think .
@@knightarmor6981 just anti hero
I think.
I need to rewatch Trope talk
@@jadeuwu9860 she isn't anti hero.
@@jadeuwu9860 Definitely a villain. Just because she had a traumatic backstory that draws sympathy does not mean she is an anti-hero. In fact, that is what makes her a great villain. Great villains have a great backstory that explains why they are the way they are.
@@hornguy04 ye just rewatched trope talk. Definitely sure she's a villain. A great one
I feel like you guys missed the fact that you can’t bloodbend unless it’s a full moon
So it’s not an option during the solar eclipse
Well a solar eclipse might be even better for water benders cause the source of their power is literally blocking the source of the fire benders' power
Bad Wolf But didn't Katara blood bend later in the show? I don't think it was a full moon then
Ailin Ell
No, establishing shots in The Southern Raiders explicitly showed it was a full moon.
Legend of Korra...
You can, but I think you have to a naturally powerful waterbender or train especially for that a lot to be able to do it. Or both.
and Rana thought Water was lame...😏
watri right? Water is honestly my fav
watri water is one of the strongest elements in the avatar world everyone things that fire is the best but what can you do with fire only burning people in the face and warming yourself up
That was nahid
Yeah right..
watri lol you can drink water survive for days..now eat fire see if get the same results.lol
Hama is such an underrated villain. Plus, when Katara fights against the bloodbending, that's my favorite Katara moment ever🌊
Mine is when she confronts you know who.
@@MetallicaRules When does Katara fight against Lord Voldemort? 😂
@@tirthankarsarkar4206 oh damn I don't remember that fight xd
15:44 its interesting how Katara uses an earth bending stance to block the attack, probably learned from the fights against Toph. These small details are the reason, why ATLA is absolutely amazing
they basically were in a prison like Hama was. She was locking them up and letting them suffer like she did.
True, but the people she locked up were not the guards of Fire Nation soldiers who took her into custody. They were innocent villagers. Even if they are also Fire Nation citizens, two wrongs can never make a right. Also her methods were pretty gruesome, like using the Dark Side of the Force.
@@darthroden Yes, that's the point, she's the villain of the story. To Hama it didn't matter that they were civilians, they were from fire nation so they were evil in her mind.
@@ao1920 damn
@@Ekami-chan she was an innocent civilian from the water tribe, they are innocent civilians of the fire Nation so it doesn't matter. In her eyes it is expressly the same.
sure if some high-ranking general waltzes through the town she'd snatch him up because it is a high-value target of opportunity but the idea is to do damage to the heart of the people, and destabilise the morale of the general population.
to stretch it who knows maybe she even had delusions that she could eventually wipe out all of the fire Nation one by one one person a month.
@@PACKERMAN2077 She wasn't a civilian though. She was a waterbender, and the Southern Tribe didn't have the luxury of rejecting their female waterbenders from combat. Hama, as was explicitly shown, was military personnel. Doesn't justify any of what happened to her, but she wasn't grabbed from her home one day like Katara's mom was killed. She was fighting the invaders and surrendered.
Blood bending not only is a pretty shitty thing to do, it slowly corrupts the person doing it over time it's a total perversion of what water bending should be...
ryan shannon Exactly,i think the Normies failed to understand this.
@@dragonandavaterfan8953 that has nothing to do with the bending by itself, yall come with the psychological effect of that ability when the user who created was a war prisioner and was turtured for years of fucking course she would be mad af that has nothing to with the fact that she can blood bend.
There's uh, nothing inherently corruptive of the power. It's not like the Dark Side of the Force, or the malignant powers of the Warp. You're not calling on something malevolent, or explicitly focusing on the cruelest parts of yourself to channel the ability. If you go bad from using it it's because you couldn't handle the control if offered you, nothing more.
1:57 Suraj just casually analyzing a recurring theme in the story and proceeding to link it to overall character development like atla is some sort of classic piece of literature is now one of my favorite things
ikr.
Love how much analysis this show stands up to.
This episode really enforces the idea that anyone can be evil no matter from which nation. But their actions have a motive. When you watch LOK, you'll start to agree with the villains on the many ideologies they have.
Earth Kingdom/Empire >>> Democracy 🤮🤮🤮🤮
I'm glad the Normies pointed it out-it never dawned upon me that the ship that set off the signal from the 1st episode in ATLA was the same one in Hama's flashback
didn't they show the ship in the "Previously on Avatar..."
Suraj: "should I turn the lights off? "
Nahid: " nah we cool fam" 😂
Earth Bending: Metal bending
Fire Bending: Lighting Bending/Combustion
Water Bending: Blood Bending
Air Bending: ???
They're all leveling up man
Dean Joyner Air Bending:Suffocation Bending and flight.
And don't forget lava bending
The true evolution of air bending is unassisted flight, as zaheer acquired that ability after acquiring true freedom (death of pli).
If you think about it, it's the same for lightning, zuko couldn't fire it because he was ashamed, and the fire is power.
And Healing Water
Daliens yess
I think Hama sealed everyone in the mountain, because she wanted them to "Rot" like the Fire Nation was doing to her.
Ranking of Canonical Bloodbenders:
(Least to Most Powerful)
1) Hama - The only waterbender in the multiple millennia that bending has existed to discover and master the ability to manipulate the fluids in a living organism’s body via waterbending. This makes her one of the most resourceful and intelligent waterbenders in Avatar canon.
2) Katara - She was able to ultimately resist Hama’s bloodbending grip as well as master the dark art instantly while Hama needed to practice for decades on elephant rats before she was powerful enough to bloodbend a human being.
3) Tarrlok - He was able to bloodbend without the full moon; a skill that Katara wasn’t able to master (as far as canon shows).
4) Yakone - He was able to execute “psychic bloodbending;” something that Tarrlok couldn’t do.
5) Amon / Noatak - He has Yakone’s psychic bloodbending ability plus could eliminate one’s bending ability permanently, which can only be restored by the Avatar.
Where is Pakku? He is a master
Paku is not a canonical Bloodbender.
"We'll get along SWIMMINGLY" Foreshadowing through a pun lol
This was the Halloween episode of Avatar. Kind of like how The Simpsons has "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, this was Avatar's "Pentapox of Horror" episode XD. Plus, the official airdate for this episode was October 25th 2007 for the UK (pretty close to Halloween). The episode later aired in the US around November 9th.
Also, Normies. Remember in The Avatar and the Fire Lord where Aang said that the point of Roku's story was that anyone is capable of great good and great evil. This shows that not all Waterbenders are good-natured people. Though in the case of Hama, her mind was very jaded because of what happened to her in the Fire Nation Prisons. She could've very well KILLED the people she captured, but she didn't.
@P E well of the most neglectful punishment she could have done was to simply let them all watch each other starve to death.
Also she probably relished in the paranoia that was spreading throughout the town, with people disappearing left and right and loved ones gone until finally reunited only to watch each other die.
Mickey seems to be forgetting that this show covered genocide in the 3rd episode.
And she was imprisoning the ppl to get revenge for her imprisonment
*This is not a kids show*
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!! Grow some balls
It is only now, YEARS LATER, that I realize: they raided the water tribes in case the avatar cycle skipped the air nation and moved on to water.
Great reaction as always, guys!
You're criticizing people for comparing the shows Andres and now you're trying to compare the shows lmao just saying
Both great shows, is all I will say..
Hey LadyVenom (great name btw), I was curious how far into the show are The Normies for Pateron users?
Mr True they have got to 3 x 14
Wow they're already at one of the best parts of the season. Awesome thanks for the info LadyVenom
4:20
*_Sokka becomes the high pitched choir in the Avatar Soundtrack_*
this is one of my favorite episodes - it goes through so many darker but important themes, and the way it develops Katara as a character is especially interesting. I love the reactions! You're making me remember how much I loved this show as a kid, but it's so interesting to see all of the deeper themes I didn't totally catch on to at a younger age.
nobody here noticed "puppetmastah" at 4:08
There's something really satisfying about watching a villain succeed even in their failure. You usually see it in villains that have nothing to lose or like in this episode just want someone else to take up their legacy. Its classic Batman vs Joker. Joker doesn't want to kill batman he's always trying to force batman to go down the Jokers path even if it means Joker dies in the process its a win to him.
One of my favorites scenes in the entire show is at like 13:51 when young Hama is escaping the prison, the guard tries to get up & Hama is like “NOPE” then slams him back down lol
This episode was scarier and creepier than most “horror” movies out these days.
This episode is literally chilling, I mean creepy and frightening in a weird way.
Little do I understand Hama. She was kept in prison and saw her people get killed. She spent her whole life being isolated from her loved ones without getting any type of justice.
I feel like they did her wrong. She does not belong in prison - she needs mental help to deal with all the trauma caused by the fire nation.
Well she is a villain but we understand why she became one because she and all of her people suffered whole life from fire nation and now she is doing the same and we see that not only fire benders are bad and how the war is influencing people
the italian title for this episode is "il lato oscuro della luna" which means "the dark side of the moon" and i think it fits it perfectly (also "the puppetmaster" is pretty fitting and creepy though)
You remind me so much of my own group of friends! The mix of men and women hanging out together, your positive attitudes, how you give each other shit, and just the constant laughing makes me think of my group every time! Love the reactions, guys!
"It's like...rape." Quote of the episode ladies and gentlemen.
I think a lot of people don't quite realize that this episode basically showcases a loss of innocence for Katara. She took pride in her abilities as a waterbender and a healer, now she also feels shame. Rember how Jeong Jeong said waterbending was about life and healing, and that water was a soothing element? Well Katara just learned it is not. She found out there is a darker and twisted side to her abilities and had to take part in it.
And in how invasive and painful it is, rape is a very good comparison to bloodbending, as good of a paralell as a Nickelodeon show could make to something so grim and terrible
The creepiest Avatar episode in the month of October.
Perfect.
5:54 when he knows basically the entire episode after like 3 minutes
This is nawt a kids show, dude.
Don't be a sensitive clown and go back to watching Care Bears. This is definitely a kid shows
Just remember that blood bending only happens during the full moon.
571danu, well only in avatar the legend of aang, but in avatar the legend ao fkorra, (the first spin-off american-anime show,) is that an total another aspact, (about using bloodbedning,) because (in the spin-off,) there isn't a moon cycle time-limit, because every waterbender can use bloodbending every moment, if their want to. (like: noatak, / amon, tarrlok, yakone, etc..)
that was bc hana was the first user she ltierally created the ability in korra time line you can see how other wather benders have improved the skill
The random guy from "Sokka's Master" was the shopkeeper.
"...Blood bending"
O.O
O.O
O.o
"scratches elbow"
LOL!
My favorite episode. Blood bending is epic and I would use it in a heartbeat.
Mandy Olsen why it’s like rape no one deserves that
But it corrupts you
Katara actually used earth bending techniques when she stood back up
The only thing that could've made ATLA better is an R rating.
Yeah there so many crazy deaths they could pull off with these bending abilities.
Thugzbunyyy Just Think about the possibilities . .. You could make a band-of-brothers-esque show focusing on the actual war between Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom . It would be BRUTAL!
Earth Benders Impaling Fire Benders..
Fire Benders Lighting Earth Benders on Fire...
Violence isn’t what makes a show good
@@jadenbender1082 True, which is why that's not what I said.
13:45 lol everyone's reaction and then there Nahid 😂
My favorite part for some reason in this entire episode is when Toph screams: "Oh no! I did hear people screaming under the mountain! The missing villagers must still be there!!!" It's just a small line, but just shows how amazing this show was with details, plot development, etc.
Hama was keeping them under the mountain bc they "threw her in prison to rot" she wanted them to do the same.
At 15:46 when Katara blocks Hama's attack she's actually using an earthbending form that she learned while watching Aang and Toph practice earthbending.
Rana's and Nahids body language towards each other the last couple of weeks has been better
ooo, maybe that rugburn on Rana's knee is a clue
Hama's story in this episode reminds me of Iroh talking about the Water Tribes in book 2, and makes what she went through so much more tragic.
"The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a strong sense of community and love that holds them together through anything."
Hama adapted to life in the prison which is how she invented bloodbending, but her sense of community and love were eroded over decades of seeing her fellow waterbenders imprisoned and dying, that it was replaced with hatred.
In the episode Katara meets Hama and wants nothing more than to learn about her heritage. But what Katara doesn't realise is just how fully the Fire Nation perverted the culture of Water Tribe and made it something darker and more malevolent just to survive extinction; bloodbending is a reflection of Water Tribe adaptibility taken to terrible extremes.
Hama wants to pass bloodbending along, because, just like the comb she possesses, it is the last connection she has to what her culture has become thanks to the Fire Nation's war.
Even when Katara and Hama fight I can't help but feel really sad as this is what the Fire Nation did to the Water Tribes: it made two people from a culture built on the values of love and harmony duel each other.
I also realised Hama drawing water from thin air to make icicle spikes is likely what made the Fire Nation guards begin to pump dry air into the cells, (because they too did not think of waterbenders drawing from moisture in the air) Hama's first adaptibility moment and she very likely murdered a few guards with that technique. The Fire Nation created the conditions for bloodbending's existence with their cruelty.
I just love their personalities, I wanna be in their friend group lol
I love how the writers made Hama sound like an injured old woman, weak and small, when Katara spun her and knocked her down, but she’s actually one of the most if not THE most lethal person in the series. Ozai would’ve lost in seconds, even with the comet. I almost wish he would’ve gotten a taste of bloodbending. If he was shocked at the idea of redirecting lighting, which didn’t even exist until Iroh invented it, I wonder how much sheer terror he’d feel when he was no longer in control of his own body.
Hama also doesn’t even care that she’s getting locked up again! She just laughs knowing she passed on blood bending and Katara will never forget that, even if she wants to. She achieved her desire.
It is heavily implied that she has killed people before because remember when she escaped from prison she was still fairly young with black hair and now we see her as a gray-haired old woman she has been doing this for decades
I m just going to say again, watching Avatar again (I saw the whole show with my daughter...and the adults loved it as much as the kid) through your eyes is amazing. I fell in love with the whole show all over again. Knowing what is coming I can predict when your jaws are going to drop, and it reminds me of my first time watching the show.
Favorite episode in the entire series. I just love it so much!!
So I saw this thing on reddit about the scene where katara blocks hamas attack w her hand and Hama looks super shocked. It said that the movement of that water bending move matches more w earth bending, the user theorized that katara invented it by studying toph and Aang training and that why Hama is so shocked she’s never seen anything like it
I'm 20, and I still think that this is one of the most broken and insane type of bending in the hole series.
"should i turn the lights off?" "nahh we cool fam" LMAOOOOO
When they got to discussing why they didn’t kill the waterbenders I was just struck with a thought. After air the avatar would have been reborn into the water tribe. They took the water benders captive because any one of them had the potential of being the avatar. After all aang never knew until he was told and exhibited no other elements. The lack of death is not because it’s a kids show. If they killed all the water benders they could unknowingly push the avatar into the next nation. Hama mention that she was the last, likely she had not gone through what ever tests they were doing to check for avatar powers before the water bender was killed. They were trying to limit the avatar search area, after all the earth kingdom is massive compared to the other three. Also Hama and her age ranger were likely candidates if the air avatar had been killed.
It’s one of the nastiest Avatar episodes. But, with one the most funniest Avatar lines. Sokka: it’s like my brain has a mind of its own”. Aang’s delivery “its okay” was golden too.
Avatar The Last Airbender is way better than G O T!!! IMO. This episode is one of my favorite episodes so amazing!!
Avatar truly is a 10/10 show like no other. I cannot find a flaw with the original series.
ASOIAF > Avatar > GoT
ZeroChaos76 Whats ASOIAF?
K Smith Thats because GOT is shit
A man with one hand Avatar isn't flawless but it's as close as a show can get to be honest
They only captured those water benders and didn't kill them because after they killed all the airbenders they realize how much more difficult it was to find the avatar again in the next nation so they made it easier in themselves by just capturing all the water benders. But since Hama got out they realized it wasn't a great plan and skipped right to killing, that's why Katara's mom got killed.
4:44, Even if Katara can't tell a good joke, she sure can scare the crap out of someone
Yes! Been waiting for this. Tbh this episode still stuck with me, I didn't think it would go that dark. It taught me to be more skeptical of others I come across and their intentions. You never know what someone's capable of.
This was the most. scariest episode of my childhood
Suraj: “We should make an R rated fan fiction of a kids show!”
Mickey: “Yeah like, mature and stuff.”
"Sweet Juice of Blood Bending" LMAO
Katara used a technique influenced by earthbending when she stopped the water, that's partly why hama was so shocked
even tho this was a scary episode, the animation in Legend of Korra made bloodbending way more terrifying than it seemed here. LoK bloodbending made people's eyes fucking bulge out and arms twist and shit was wild
Thought I would swing by to see if a video was uploaded yet by chance and I screamed. BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE!!!
This is one of the episodes that opened my eyes on how powerful waterbending is
man, i remember how much this episode scared me as a kid, this episode along with the brainwashing in ba sing se creeped me the fuck out as an 8 year old haha
This is *NOT* a kid's show!
I love this episode, man. I think, I think, I think---- AI THEENK THIS SHOW'S DARK, man.
lmao perfect
That Nene story still gives me chills to this day
I used to try to blood bend and water bend when I was little with my mind. I was to afraid to move my hands bc people would think I'm weird lololol
5:19 Oh My God!! I never noticed Momo's scared reaction before, it's hilarious