Avatar: The Last Airbender 2x6 REACTION!! "The Blind Bandit"
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Eric Shane Calvin and Aaron react to and discuss book 2 episode 6 of Avatar The Last Airbender The Blind Bandit
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The Blind Bandit alias works because no one knows the Bei Fongs have a daughter.
Favorite character
@@X_Juice_X def cool
I think they covered that in the show
Toph's earthbending is based on Southern Praying Mantis style of Kung Fu, whereas most other earthbending in the show is based on a style called Hung Gar. You'll get to see more of the clear differences in the episodes to come.
107 facts about avatar?
Azzuron It's in the DVD extras for Avatar Book 2. The four martial arts that bending it based on is in the Book 1 extras.
Or, knowing about kung fu. That's how I figured it out.
Taizen001 Thanks I tried to to explain it myself but forgot the names of each style.
This video is finally unblocked and I had to ask does the digging guy use the style as well him and toph both have the same stance during the ambush
The "I'm not smiling" joke is probably my favorite blind joke in the series.
That's a good one, but my two favorites are during the Drill episode: "It's to dark! I can't see a thing!" "Oh no! What a nightmare!" And especially the Serpent's pass part 2..."Oh, well...you can go ahead and let me drown now..." •/;p
One of my favorites is where they're looking for a library in the desert and Toph goes, "There it is!!", while pointing at nothing and when the team gives her a look of disappointment, she goes, "that's what it'll sound like when one of you spots it", and she proceeds to turn their direction, smile, and wave her hands in front of her face, reminding them she's blind lol
@@kfactor20 This is the best blind joke in the series. Mostly because I think it tricks the audience too. Everyone hears Toph say "there it is" but I don't think a lot of us realize it was Toph and flying lmao. Its so funny
@@kfactor20 one of my favorites too! Also, the one underground in The Drill as the commenter above yours says. I also like, in, The Runaway, with the wanted posters. I just love that Toph has so many blind jokes. It's what makes her character way more realistic than a lot of other characters with disabilities in media.
I also love her talk with Iroh. It's when did the seed for a lot of positive change for me when I was a teen. I had a lot of trouble asking for help, and I felt weak whenever I need it, but Iroh tell me that it's OK to ask for help. Although, I do still hate when people insist on helping me, even when I don't need it, and I'm polite about denying their assistance. People be annoying sometimes.
@@paul-juniorblack6151 I also love that most of the blind jokes aren't at Toph's expense, but her friends. I mean, there are, because we do you do stupid shit, and it is funny, but I do appreciate that they don't make Toph the butt of the ALL the time. That's unrealistic. I'm going to mount of my blind jokes at my friends and family are at their expense. For example, I always make fun of them for not being able to get around their own houses without light, or when they can't see something that most people would think obvious, stupif shit like that.
Toph isn't perfect, for example, I wish that they'd had a little more of life skills and things like that shown, but, for 2005, this is the best I got, and I'm still happy when it 17 years later. God I feel old.
Avatar is divided in two parts. BT and AT, Before Toph and After Toph
AT is much better
Everything changed when Toph joined their group lol
BB and AB, before boulder and after boulder.
+Joseph Su'a But then everything changed when Toph joined the group.
I've only watched AT, everything before i can't remember since i watched it when i was like 5
Yeah, basically Toph can see with her feet by feeling the vibrations in the Earth. This ability is often called Toph's Seismic Sense. It's really cool.
I've always preferred Tremorsense. Though I like to imagine that ATLA was a D&D campaign that Bryke played and decided it would make for a great cartoon.
Tremorsense sounds good too. I've always just called it Seismic Sense for some reason.
I enjoy the observation on Toph's style being different. As opposed to other earthbenders, whose bending is based on the martial art Hung Gar, Toph had a style unique entirely to herself, which is actually Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu, a very exclusive style.
Also they have real martial artists choreograph the moves on this series, that's one of its strengths and shows that they took great care and detail to make it authentic.
StygianTraveler141 hi
One of my favorite comedy moments in all of avatar! 6:36 "Water tribe!" Plus the beginnings of the best nickname in the series!
The martial art in the show of course copies real life martial arts, they have a really awesome consultant, who came up with which fighting style fits which bending.
I'm so fucking excited that they got to Toph now. Hands down, favourite character.
I want to defend the name "The Blind Bandit" as it's probably a name Toph herself came up with when she was younger and thought it sounded cool which makes it perfectly excusable, or the Earthbending matches promoter thought the same for the same reason. Either way she comes and she goes, no one really knows who "The Blind Bandit" is, she is completely shrouded in mystery, much like The Undertaker was (not in terms of kayfabe) back in the 90s. Moreover, nobody knows that the Beifongs even have a daughter, so no one can associate that with a mysterious little girl who wins Earthbending matches, which Toph must have used to her advantage.
Finally she's in the Gaang!
One of the greatest episodes in the Avatar franchise. A true Legacy episode of the Avatar Universe.
HAHAHA LMAO at Shane and Aaron hanging their heads at the same time!
I dont know if you guys were asking about this but toph said she could feel the vibrations in the earth through her feet, thats how it works
they wont pat attention to that detail. dont bother trying to explain it to them.
The boulder is voiced by Mick Foley !
Also, TOPH HAS FINALLY ARRIVED ! MWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The Boulder isn't the guy in the opening credits. The guy in the opening credits is a very minor one-shot character from the next season. That's all I'll say; hopefully that doesn't count as a spoiler.
Said person is also based on early designs of Toph before the creaters even decided to make Toph a girl.
Is it sad that I read half of your comment on The Boulder's voice before I realized it wasn't meant to be one of his sentences?
The Boulder is very confused!
i wouldnt consider it a spoiler, since it dosent matter to the plot.
Leonard Church Well the guy is directly linked to one (technically two) of the show's main characters, but at the same time he doesn't really add anything to the story; like it wouldn't collapse without him. That's why I was undecided in whether it was a spoiler or not.
just say it I wanna know lol
Welcome to 'discussing blindness', ft. Avatar the last airbender.
So THAT'S why Eric's always on the left? (well, "right" where they are) The Blind Wave lore is slowly revealing itself...
@12:50
Toph's fighting style is the 'Praying Mantis' style fighting. Unique to her. Very good style when learning from the original Earthbenders, the Badger Moles.
Sweet. My favorite character is here.
The Earthbender in the intro is Roku's Earthbending teacher Sud, his character design is a prototype for Toph Beifong.
If you were wondering about her Style,
Toph's is based off of Southern Mantis Style
Regular Earth Benders use Hung Gar Style
Well, if you listened you'd know her parents kept her a secret, remember? haha So the "Blind Bandit" name does work. Everyone just thinks she's a mysterious little earthbending girl..
I think they meant if her parents hear about the Blind Bandit. I mean you can argue that they would still be in the dark because they refuse to believe she isn't helpless. But it makes slightly more sense.
Well there's also the issue that the richest noble family in town would not be very likely to go after gossip about the dirty underground MMA ring.
Tokat Storm
I guess? But still, what are the odds that the highest noble family are in the know on an underground bending club.
blindwave doesn't attention to details. its kind frustrating.
And there she is! My all time favorite Avatar character!!!
There is a man who is a martial artist master of all the forms that the bending is based off of, who can do all of the four bending styles in the intro. They are based off of northern shoulin kung fu, tai chi, bagwa, and hun gar. Fun fact, the boulder, was original idea for the avatars earth bending teacher. They decided to go with toph instead, and make sokka more o a comic relief but alo a strategist instead of the boulder. the earthbender int he intro is the concept for the boulders character.
ok so some of it was an assumtpion, since we never actually got to the development stage, but youc an asume i think pretty safely that the MAIN earthebder in this show if it was latr inspired to be the boulder, would have ben aangs airbending teacher. i mean, its liek if they had a firebender walking around with them as a main character who ISNT teaching him firebending? they never disclosed what the concept art that would later become the boulder and changed to toph would actually DO int he show. so i put 2 and 2 together.
The benders in the opening are; Water - Pakku, Earth - Sud (Roku's earth bending teacher) Fire- Azula, and Air - unknown air nomad. :)
I fucking love Toph
FINALLY! The best character in the show.
Yeah!!! The boulder!!
Iroh was already introduced
The dude with the cabbages was already introduced.
Aang was already introduced
Nao Sou Azula was already introduced
Fun fact:The benders in the opening sequence of the show are the people who the creators originally planned to have as aang's bending teachers, but they changed their minds at some point during the production of the series. So toph was originally written as an adult man.
For me it's so funny hearing you guys discuss how it is to be blind, because my mom is hard of seeing (if that's how you say it ;)) and slowly turning blind. because of that I know quite alot about blindness and a lot of people who are either blind or hard of seeing. My mom also works as a guide in a museum (called the muSEEum; in Dutch muZIEum) where you can get a tour in the complete dark to experience how it is to be blind for a while and you can ask anything you want to now about blindness etc to the guides who are either blind or hard of seeing. It's a great experience if there's something like that in America (sorry if my english is not perfect, I'm Dutch so ;))
ITS NOT BANNED ANYMORE I CAN FINALLY SEE THIER REACTION TO TOPH
Actually, all these bending moves are based on moves performed by a talented martial artist. He's mentioned very frequently in the commentary for these episodes.
StygianTraveler141 Thank you! The only reason I didn't put his name down was because I couldn't remember how to spell it. I don't want to do the man an injustice.
They actually did record people for reference while animating, the guy doing all the moves is called Sifu Kisu. I don't know the validity of it but i also remember hearing that the creators actually acted out every single scene in their office.
Not sure if anybody else written a comment about this, but 'The Boulder' is voiced by WWE wrestler Mick Foley aka (Mandkind, Cactus Jack, Dude Love). That's why I guess it sounds like Macho Man Randy Savage...Oooo Yeah.
Can you smell what The Boulder is cookin'?!
Mayhemm007 OMG I watched Avatar while it was going on and it's not until now that I get that the boulder is Avatar's version of the Rock, it all makes sense now lol
Directional hearing is based mostly on the timing difference between the ears, not on variations in volume. Mostly...
4:26 I'M BACK BITCHES :-D
2:28 "He is Mi and I am Yu"
I am he is you are he is you are me and we are all together.
Everyone thinks that they could do without smell, but people who have actually lost their sense of smell often go into deep depression and their rate of suicide is much higher than the general population. Much more than people who have been blinded or deafened. Something about smell is almost necessary to keep our emotions working properly.
Yeah, it always annoys me when people think that smell is nothing. Without smell and taste, you would lose complete interest in eating. When my dad was going through chemo and radiation therapy for throat cancer, he completely lost his sense of taste, and he never had smell to begin with. He lost complete interest in eating, became extremely depressed, and later confessed he had thoughts about suicide. He survived off of drinking those nutrition shakes they give old people, and he only drank enough to sustain his basic functions. He lost over 50 pounds in just a couple of months.
That kind of life is not sustainable, and you would either end up starving yourself to death or killing yourself. In his case, the treatments were concluded, but it took a long time for him to even regain his sense of taste even partially. It still depresses him.
I personally hate this particular question, because most people can live without sight or sound (or even both), but living without taste, smell, and touch is life-threatening on so many levels.
I normally hate reaction channels but this is a full discussion, total talk about how everything that happened. Why it happened. I love this channel
The Boulder is actually inspired by Dwayne Johnson’s WWE The Rock, they actually tried to get Dwayne to voice for the Boulder but he was too busy at the time. There are rumors that they actually might get him to play as the Boulder in Netflix’s Live Action adaptation series.
That earth-bender in the opening was Toph's prototype design, they gave the design to The Boulder and a different character which you will see later.
@10:17
He had his hand in the ground. Toph 'saw' that and countered... FLAWLESSLY!!!!
Fun Fact: All the fighting IS actually choreographed based on different styles of Martial Arts. Waterbenders (tai chi), Earthbenders (Hung Ga kung fu), Firebenders (Northern Shaolin kung fu) and Airbenders (Baguazhang). And Tophs moves are (Chu Gar Southern Praying Mantis)
13:51
So the person earth bending in the beginning skit was avatar Roku’s earthbending master Sud. Look him up.
Also, fun fact:
Sud in Italian and French mean south or “facing south” which means to be stubborn and resist change.
It was played as a contrast to Toph “Beifong” which means north place or heading north as she was the catalyst for many changes in the group’s dynamic and as a founder of a new bending subset.
Calvin pointing at the screen and A A Ron putting his head down implies a history
Oh hell yeah! The most badass character on the "light" side.
StygianTraveler141 Spoilers!!!! Although she does get a badass lightsaber.
And Iroh is the neutral badass character.
Toph's voice actress (Jessie Flower) also voiced the gap-toothed girl with a crush on Aang in "The Fortuneteller", as well as the flashback version of Suyin in "The Legend of Korra"
First off, that wasn't my reasoning at all. Second of all, I didn't spoil anything about Korra. I didn't say anything about what the aforementioned character is like, or what significance they have in the show, or any other important details.
Wow, Eric, I did not know that about u. That's why ur always on that side, or everyone's arranged on that kind of position that way.
Just started watching this reaction series last night and it's really nostalgic. Love Toph so much, definitely one of my favorite characters!
The beginning of this is gold
BEHOLD THE GREAT SHANE'S LOGIC OF KNOWING ABOUT BEING FAMOUS VS HELEN KELLER.
Wildest blind wave intro I ever heard 😹
one of my favorite details in this episode is at the very beginning when you can see the guy handing out flyers wandering around behind them
SHE HAS ARRIVED!!!
the Earth Bender in the intro is the original character design for Aang's Earth Bending teacher.
The earthbender in the intro is actually Toph's original (male) design before it changed
Poll answer: I was deaf from swimming for 4 days straight once. Since I'm super-paranoid about any sounds in my house to the point of insomnia, I have to say that it was the best 4 nights of sleep I'd ever had. :) Also, no hearing would give me an excuse to ignore people and read books...my favorite thing :D
13:10 - That's a sharp observation Eric, probably one most people wouldn't have noted. The animators deliberately gave Toph a different martial art style than every other earthbender in the series to complement her unique characterisation; she didn't learn the usual moves that most do because of how and WHERE she learned it (refraining from further specifics for now...) For bonus points, all these are STILL based on real martial arts styles, since Sifu Kisu was their consultant on all the fight choreography for authenticity... o_O
I don't know if they've yet watched it, but I can tell that Eric and the guys (will) enjoy 2x09 - because it covers some of this philosophy and the like, along with the show's usual strengths... It's also one of my personal top 10 episodes for being such a unique experience, even for a show like this; it's a breath of air which is SO well-timed in terms of the series' overall chronology, and there's some fantastic world-building based on philosophy AND characterisation (oh, and some great humour!) I don't think it gets discussed as often by most people (though it's far from forgotten), but it just really sticks out to me as an individually great episode. ;-D
Best underrated joke to me is Oh a girl has her ways.
2 jerks froze into a wall
In terms of senses personally I'd go with having touch because without touch its gonna be hard to understand the world. If you had sight you would see differences in color but until you actually fell you probably wouldn't realize that you can't stand on empty space. Walking in and of itself would be hard since unless you were looking at your foot you wouldn't be able to tell if it's off the ground or not. You also wouldn't know pain which could be dangerous. You could see fire but you wouldn't feel the pain that would occur when you walked through it. You wouldn't be able to tell when your bones were broken or even had serious internal injuries. Pain may not be a nice sense but as the saying goes "pain is the best teacher".
Lmao. "You made no attempt to save him." 😂
I am not sure if you guys knew this but each 4 nation has specific fighting styles based heavily on real life fighting styles.
Fire nation- Northern Shaolin
Earth Kingdom- Tai Chi
Water Tribe- Hung Gar
Air Nomads- Ba Gua Zhang
Yes you are right Eric Toph fighting style is based on Southern Praying Mantis which is different from rest of the earth benders.
I like how you noticed she has a different fighting style. All the ways the bending elements are fought are based on different martial art styles. All earth benders are based on Hung Gar style fighting, except toph, who's style is called the praying mantis. this is because she learned in a unique way compared to other earth benders, which is explained further in the series.
Most Earthbending styles and stances are based on Hun Gar Kung Fu, while Toph's style is based on the Southern Praying Mantis style of fighting. Airbending is based on Baguazhang (Circle Walking). Waterbending is based on Tai Chi. Firebending is based on Northern Shaolin.
Idk if you guys mention this or if someone else has but Mick Foley (Mankind, Dude Love, and Cactus Jack) from WWE plays the Boulder in this episode.
The shoq runners hired a kung fu master and he choreographed all the scenes and sent video to the animators. They didn't draw over it, but they had great reference that they could look at frame by frame.
The mind's ability to adapt is pretty amazing. My cousin lost hearing in one side a few years ago (he had a tumor removed from that area), he was given special bluetooth hearing aids where the one on his deaf side would send all the sounds to the one on his good side and his mind would learn to distinguish them as if the sound was coming through both ears normally... at least it would if the idiot would wear them but he felt too self conscious. He preferred to never know where sounds were coming from instead.
I've also heard of an experiment where some volunteers were given glasses that made everything appear upside down, apparently it did not take very long for their brains to simply re-orient the image to appear the right way up again. Brains are weird...
That conversation though!!😂😂😂
The conversation they had at the end XD
"whenever you're ready THE PEBBLE, muahahahaha" love it every time 😂
The Bolder is voiced by Mick Foley (aka Cactus Jack) from the WWE.
guys I just noticed this...
" the avatar has kidnapped my daughter "... Aaron and Shane put their heads down the same exact time..mind blown
This is my favourite episode of the entire series. When I was 14, I was able to quote large swaths of it.
The Blind Bandit actually works given her parents kept her existence a secret. Nobody knew Toph Beifong existed, the two boys in town even said the Beifongs had no daughter.
The discussion sounds like my philosophy class lol
And to go with the whole pro wrestling theme, The Boulder was voiced by WWE Superstar, Mick Foley (Mankind/Cactus Jack/Dude Love), in this episode
Fun fact, they originally tried to get Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to voice him, but they couldn't work around his schedule.
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And you can see that when he says his lines. "The Boulder says. . ." The Boulder is. . ."
FINALLY! AH I got so excited when I read the title of the episode you were watching. I've been waiting forever for you guys to finally meet Toph :')
I don't know what sense I'd keep... I mean I already don't have Smell, so that's one less to choose from. Touch and Taste are great, I'd hate to lose them, but they're just not so vital to the things that matter so much to me. The decision then is between Sight and Hearing, because like... I'm an artist, and I'm a musician. Both of those senses are just so incredibly important to me that I can't decide one over the other.
I think that's an unfair poll but that's probably the point. I'd do sound cause I am a musician myself
"Hey! I got my eye on you. Water Tribe. " Man, I am sorry you had to edit out how Katara handled those boys in the alley. Toph Beifong. Best. Earthbender. Ever. Now and in the future.
@Blindwave Toph's stand and her moves are inspired by Southern Kung fu, Chu Ka.
you can take a look on creation of Toph's stand and her character in video called Making of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender - Toph
would be nice if you could include that in next reaction
Damn. That is one very difficult choice: picking only one of the 5 senses a person has.
1) Smell
2) Taste
3) Feel
4) Sight
5) Sound
My guess is: I would pick *Sight*, but damn is it a difficult choice.
the bolder is a spoof of the rock
Toph rocks! The boulder: hilarious! And Touch: people who can't feel generally live shorter lives. Also you can't feel pleasure if you've never had touch so...and touch is critical to emotional development and aids greatly in all other kinds.
Shane and Aaron dropped their heads at the same time... XD
At last! Now the REAL season 2 begins.
So I'm just watching along with them but I was wondering. Wouldn't people have realised that Aang was airbending when he was fighting Blind Bandit and therefore linked him to being the Avatar or did they just not notice?
People wouldn't automatically assume airbending and avatar in a WWE like tournament, as hes super famous and theres only one of him in the entire world, why would he be there? Its much easier to assume it was faked for the money
The show animates the airbending so the audience will know. But the characters/ audience in the stadium have no idea what happened. As in real life when the wind blows you don't see the actual air current.
OMFG!!! Calvin is the purple-shirted Eye Stabber!!!!
One of my favorite episodes of the series. I love Mick Foley as The Boulder. I was born with only one eye so I always wondered what having two eyes is like.
Not much different. Your peripheral vision is quite a bit better but it can be a pain when you have a headache.
This is earlier than i expected. I love it.
the boulder is Mick Foley doing an impersonation of The Rock
I'm middle age and have a lazy/wandering eye. I can switch between them, but I can't use them at the same time. It give me no depth perception. Doctors have said to have surgery to correct it, would probably give me headaches because my body is used to one eye at a time.
As amped as I am for this episode's reaction, I must point out how... interesting that pepper-in-dickhole conversation was.
The Agni Kai theme is so goddam CATCHY
If I remember correctly Toph was originally a guy but when she was changed to a girl they kept her old design and used it as The Boulder so that is why it's him and not her in the intro
I promise this isn't a spoiler! Toph's fighting style is based off of mantis style kung fu
lol thanks for the disclaimer/info at the start because without context that convo was just . . . . Ha ha ha ha
With all the talking of blindness, there's this funny UA-camr named The Tommy Edison Experience that was born blind and he makes videos explaining his life as a blind person. It's very entertaining and everyone should check him out!