Now just in case you guys or anyone else is wondering, or doubting amon because his move didn't take long and had no light show: the creators have already confirmed that both the time it took and the light show were just to dramatize the scene for the viewer, but it only took seconds for aang and there was no actual light show.
I figured that out on my own from watching the show and reactions so many times. The light show and stuff were more symbolic than an actual thing that happens :'3
True, if every time we have a struggle to overcome the other in a lightshow... Even if we had a brief one, people would call it lame for being too quickly
7:00 Not correct. It's one of those things of being "hidden in plain sight". How often do you take a flyer from someone and actually read it? Especially when you don't like what it's advertising? No 4 benders is going to pick up a flyer come together and try and figure out where the revelation was happening. Korra and mako did because the circumstances required them to investigate.
For context, what Aang did to remove the Firelords bending is commonly known as Energy Bending, as the Lion Turtle who gave him the power referred to "bending the energy within one's self." This was back before the division between elements occurred, so it can be seen as a sort of proto-bending. How Amon has acquired it is a mystery at this point. Obviously, chi blocking is still around as well. Ty Lee may have been the only practitioner of that art we saw before but she was presumably taught it by someone so it stands to reason others have known of it and continued to teach it. The guy with the lightning rods is Amons Lieutenant. He wasn't bending; those are just cattle prod-like weapons. Tech is better yo.
As we see in this episode, another quirk of the post-war century has been the mass-exposure of lightning bending! While perhaps not as powerful per overall individual as it was for Zuko, Iroh and Azula (it would take a dedicated warrior to reach those heights I reckon), they can use rudimentary lightning bending for things like power plants!
I think that things like lightning bending WAS possible for more people, but it was seen as something more difficult/reserved for royal family only. I heard a quote somewhere, that once people realise that something is possible, a lot of people can figure out how to do something. I think the original quote was talking about running some distance. (a mile?) It was thought impossible, but once one person did it, more started doing it
A lot of people had issue with other fire benders being able to lightning bend, thinking it was some unique ability only the elite firebender should have. But that right there is the problem, it's not. That's just how it seemed in atla because the rich and powerful horded the knowledge of lightning bending for themselves despite it being an ability all firebenders can do and should have the opportunity to learn. Sure it's not as powerful as what we've seen in the past with ozai, iroh, and azula, but the rich and powerful shouldn't be the only ones allowed to learn it.
It wasn't the rich and powerful. It was only the royal family. No one else who from wealth in Fire Nation had it neither. Projecting much by referring them as the "rich and powerful" rather than being specific. They kept it for themselves which you could say was wrong. Even though it is very dangerous bending style. One hit and your dead.
13:00 the movie I believe you're referring to is "Office Space" from 1999, specifically where the "Bob's" are talking to Peter about who they are about to fire.
Fun fact, Amon is voiced by the incredible Steve Blum, best known as the English voice of Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop and "Tom" from Cartoon Network.
It wasn't chi blocking Amon did. His speech was going on about how "the spirits gave him a gift that lets him remove bending". In essence, without giving anything away, his whole Equality movement is based around the idea that he learned how to energybend. The same technique Aang used on Ozai before, now being used on all benders regardless of who gets affected or any consequences that doing so can result in. And that's all I can say on the matter without ruining the whole season ahead of time.
Amon's second in command is voiced by Lance Henriksen, he was the main character in the television series Millennium, was the Synthetic Organism Bishop in Aliens (and Charles Weyland in Aliens vs Predator), and the old man in Detroit: Becoming Human whose android painted a masterpiece. He's also one of my all-time favorite actors, and I love every second he's on screen - or when he does voice over work!
Yup. Amon is a great talker and a hypocrite at some point. But as our villain here, he is not stupid, competent supporters like the Lieutenant with his Spark-Man Power sticks. And Amon's power is real. Dangerously real.
Beth said the villian's voice was familliar, thats cause the voice actor plays subzero from MK, also orochimaru and zabuza from Naruto. plus a whole load of famous characters
the whole public "execution" of that scene reminds me of the Street Fighter live action movie. M.Bison had a bunch of soldiers lined up and faced off with them until he dealt with them. or another way: that episode of The Walking Dead where Rick Grimes and a few of his friends are lined up and executed by bat and throatslits. also, i think Amon is voiced by Steve Blum.
@@earendilthemariner5546 much as I’d love to agree. I just can’t get past when Blind Wave reacted to this show and compared Amon and the Chi Blockers to “Backstreet’s Back”. All the way to the point where when Amon showed up, their editor would add the “alright” into the backing music (even slowed down during a menacing part in S4), and gave Aamon a full tribute to the song after the season 1 finale.
Here we do see Mako at some of his best just trying to provide for his family. Man was orphand from a young age and had to take care of Bolin witch is probably a whole hassel. Now for anyone wondering about Bolins IQ man willingly whent with a guy who unironicaly calls himself shady Shin and he knows the guy is a triad from before. Now granted we never actually see the job so it could have been legit but still not the best move. Now I of course can't confirm or deny wheter either option is true at this point but very few people think that Amon is a grifter at this point in time because well in avatar there is porvably spirits fucking around so it actually is a posibility where as in our world its very easy to say that such talk is just that. Amon is very diffrent from many other villains in that he is basically right in that there is inherently a imbalance between benders and non benders. Unlike a diffrence in skintone being abel to bend is inherently a power that you can use. We even see in avatar the basically casual look that many have that non benders are lesser. Even Toph had som moments early on where she just dissed Sokka just because he wasen't a bender and we saw that Sokka eventually got some big issues with it. Amon also gives a as far as we know fair fight hell he tecknically has a disadvantage. He also just lets Korra go so he can spread more terror on the benders. Hell Korra did lowkey assult the equalist barker. Now the guy did say that whatever their bending firend gets subjected to is deserved so bro aint exactly on the straight and narrow but its still a moment that basically just proves the rethoric right. The romance yeah we will get to that because well you already know some of it but it is definatley a part that needlessly demonises Mako for his haters. Now saying that anyone who claims to have the support of a higher powers is deserving of any discrimination thrown their way is certanly a take. Best to keep it at that otherwise you start to beaf with most of the jewish population and thats a can of worms best left closed. Also the Jews are not being compared to worms here its a figure of speach you pendantic bastards.
Mako also lays it out pretty well, they use to work with the Triple Threats when they were younger, so Bolin and Shin already have some familiarity. But it feels like Bolin is desperate to help and prove he can help Mako as well. Enough factors stacking up can make an understandable case.
A lot of people don't like / get irritated at the lovey dovey stuff. And even though it's not my favorite part of the show either, it would be dishonest to make a show about teenagers and not deal with all the hormonal crap.
With years of TV and games i love that me an Bethany are 100% on the same page when it came to the equalist cult and amon. Sassy and unimpressed with yet another cult.
@@gottaloveanimeyeah and then they got asked to make more and we have more. Having to squeeze stuff in one season didn’t give them a lot of time and it was done right away. Aang had to wait 3 seasons to get his love korra mako and asami got theirs in the first season.
oh no teenage hormone love plot is weird and chaos.... some people like you i wonder if they had any feelings for someone in their teen years....or it was such a disaster that they have to hate it everywhere they see it
@@derfritz4550 sorry that you are triggered. Its just to me the romance is done poorly compared to the last airbender (a teenage show) and many other shows, it being teenage based show is no excuse , and I don't generalize stories to being bad because they have teenagers. Raise your standards a bit. Merry Christmas.
Steve Blum did too good of a job voicing Amon and the build-up was too great for their own good. Not only did it not live up to the hype they've created, but really dropped the ball with him.
Now just in case you guys or anyone else is wondering, or doubting amon because his move didn't take long and had no light show: the creators have already confirmed that both the time it took and the light show were just to dramatize the scene for the viewer, but it only took seconds for aang and there was no actual light show.
I figured that out on my own from watching the show and reactions so many times. The light show and stuff were more symbolic than an actual thing that happens :'3
True, if every time we have a struggle to overcome the other in a lightshow...
Even if we had a brief one, people would call it lame for being too quickly
7:00 Not correct. It's one of those things of being "hidden in plain sight". How often do you take a flyer from someone and actually read it? Especially when you don't like what it's advertising? No 4 benders is going to pick up a flyer come together and try and figure out where the revelation was happening. Korra and mako did because the circumstances required them to investigate.
For context, what Aang did to remove the Firelords bending is commonly known as Energy Bending, as the Lion Turtle who gave him the power referred to "bending the energy within one's self." This was back before the division between elements occurred, so it can be seen as a sort of proto-bending. How Amon has acquired it is a mystery at this point.
Obviously, chi blocking is still around as well. Ty Lee may have been the only practitioner of that art we saw before but she was presumably taught it by someone so it stands to reason others have known of it and continued to teach it.
The guy with the lightning rods is Amons Lieutenant. He wasn't bending; those are just cattle prod-like weapons. Tech is better yo.
Same goes for bending metal or lightning... the world has progressed so much that stuff like that is more commonplace.
As we see in this episode, another quirk of the post-war century has been the mass-exposure of lightning bending! While perhaps not as powerful per overall individual as it was for Zuko, Iroh and Azula (it would take a dedicated warrior to reach those heights I reckon), they can use rudimentary lightning bending for things like power plants!
Factsss love seeing the practical side of bending
I think that things like lightning bending WAS possible for more people, but it was seen as something more difficult/reserved for royal family only.
I heard a quote somewhere, that once people realise that something is possible, a lot of people can figure out how to do something. I think the original quote was talking about running some distance. (a mile?) It was thought impossible, but once one person did it, more started doing it
That scene after Amon took the dude's firebending is (I think) word for word the same dialog between Aang and Ozai after he removed his bending
A lot of people had issue with other fire benders being able to lightning bend, thinking it was some unique ability only the elite firebender should have. But that right there is the problem, it's not. That's just how it seemed in atla because the rich and powerful horded the knowledge of lightning bending for themselves despite it being an ability all firebenders can do and should have the opportunity to learn. Sure it's not as powerful as what we've seen in the past with ozai, iroh, and azula, but the rich and powerful shouldn't be the only ones allowed to learn it.
Exactly. The first known lightning bender in the Avatar world was a crime-lord anyway.
It wasn't the rich and powerful. It was only the royal family. No one else who from wealth in Fire Nation had it neither. Projecting much by referring them as the "rich and powerful" rather than being specific.
They kept it for themselves which you could say was wrong. Even though it is very dangerous bending style. One hit and your dead.
13:00 the movie I believe you're referring to is "Office Space" from 1999, specifically where the "Bob's" are talking to Peter about who they are about to fire.
Fun fact, Amon is voiced by the incredible Steve Blum, best known as the English voice of Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop and "Tom" from Cartoon Network.
It wasn't chi blocking Amon did. His speech was going on about how "the spirits gave him a gift that lets him remove bending". In essence, without giving anything away, his whole Equality movement is based around the idea that he learned how to energybend. The same technique Aang used on Ozai before, now being used on all benders regardless of who gets affected or any consequences that doing so can result in. And that's all I can say on the matter without ruining the whole season ahead of time.
He was bloodbending. He can sever the chi in a person's body so he/she can not bend again.
@@unathisilo4941 delete
@@unathisilo4941spoilers man, you should delet this
@@unathisilo4941You should delete this, remember they're watching it for the first time
@@13canekThey've already watched it. They are ahead on patreon
Amon's second in command is voiced by Lance Henriksen, he was the main character in the television series Millennium, was the Synthetic Organism Bishop in Aliens (and Charles Weyland in Aliens vs Predator), and the old man in Detroit: Becoming Human whose android painted a masterpiece. He's also one of my all-time favorite actors, and I love every second he's on screen - or when he does voice over work!
He also played a cop in the first Terminator movie.
Amon voice actor is the same as zabuza from naruto. The first villain they faced
I love Korra
Do you recognize that Korra is not just a hot head but pretty ruthless at some point? Remember that for later.
Yup. Amon is a great talker and a hypocrite at some point. But as our villain here, he is not stupid, competent supporters like the Lieutenant with his Spark-Man Power sticks. And Amon's power is real. Dangerously real.
Beth said the villian's voice was familliar, thats cause the voice actor plays subzero from MK, also orochimaru and zabuza from Naruto. plus a whole load of famous characters
Iirc, animated Wolverine is a big one?
He plays everyone, he’s probably the single most distinctive American male VA.
I know it is a hard question... But on a personal cuteness level. Pabu? or Momo?
Personally, i cannot say. It is a perfect tie for me.
the whole public "execution" of that scene reminds me of the Street Fighter live action movie. M.Bison had a bunch of soldiers lined up and faced off with them until he dealt with them. or another way: that episode of The Walking Dead where Rick Grimes and a few of his friends are lined up and executed by bat and throatslits. also, i think Amon is voiced by Steve Blum.
I can’t wait to see the other episodes with you guys. I know you’d love em.
Thanks guys. Have a nice Christmas
That weapon reminds me of Batman partner Nightwing he have the same type of weapons lighting shock escrima sticks
10:11 that's not bending. Haven't you ever heard of
technological advancements???
Amon is such a cool villain. Steve blum is great
@@earendilthemariner5546 much as I’d love to agree. I just can’t get past when Blind Wave reacted to this show and compared Amon and the Chi Blockers to “Backstreet’s Back”. All the way to the point where when Amon showed up, their editor would add the “alright” into the backing music (even slowed down during a menacing part in S4), and gave Aamon a full tribute to the song after the season 1 finale.
Real Everytime I hear him I just think of subzero
That's a good theory Ken
Oh yes! Now the *fun* starts!
Here we do see Mako at some of his best just trying to provide for his family. Man was orphand from a young age and had to take care of Bolin witch is probably a whole hassel.
Now for anyone wondering about Bolins IQ man willingly whent with a guy who unironicaly calls himself shady Shin and he knows the guy is a triad from before. Now granted we never actually see the job so it could have been legit but still not the best move.
Now I of course can't confirm or deny wheter either option is true at this point but very few people think that Amon is a grifter at this point in time because well in avatar there is porvably spirits fucking around so it actually is a posibility where as in our world its very easy to say that such talk is just that. Amon is very diffrent from many other villains in that he is basically right in that there is inherently a imbalance between benders and non benders. Unlike a diffrence in skintone being abel to bend is inherently a power that you can use. We even see in avatar the basically casual look that many have that non benders are lesser. Even Toph had som moments early on where she just dissed Sokka just because he wasen't a bender and we saw that Sokka eventually got some big issues with it. Amon also gives a as far as we know fair fight hell he tecknically has a disadvantage. He also just lets Korra go so he can spread more terror on the benders. Hell Korra did lowkey assult the equalist barker. Now the guy did say that whatever their bending firend gets subjected to is deserved so bro aint exactly on the straight and narrow but its still a moment that basically just proves the rethoric right.
The romance yeah we will get to that because well you already know some of it but it is definatley a part that needlessly demonises Mako for his haters.
Now saying that anyone who claims to have the support of a higher powers is deserving of any discrimination thrown their way is certanly a take. Best to keep it at that otherwise you start to beaf with most of the jewish population and thats a can of worms best left closed. Also the Jews are not being compared to worms here its a figure of speach you pendantic bastards.
Mako also lays it out pretty well, they use to work with the Triple Threats when they were younger, so Bolin and Shin already have some familiarity. But it feels like Bolin is desperate to help and prove he can help Mako as well. Enough factors stacking up can make an understandable case.
TYLEE LIVES ON
A lot of people don't like / get irritated at the lovey dovey stuff.
And even though it's not my favorite part of the show either, it would be dishonest to make a show about teenagers and not deal with all the hormonal crap.
THANK YOU my god idk how people don’t understand that
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👀 thats a theory
7:48 👀
Mako would never hurt bolin.
Hm...
I’d probably reword it, “would never intentionally hurt Bolin.”
With years of TV and games i love that me an Bethany are 100% on the same page when it came to the equalist cult and amon. Sassy and unimpressed with yet another cult.
Yeah only thing holding this series back for me is the terribly written romance and side characters are likable but not really as deep as the first.
To be fair initially the writers were only given 1 season to tell the entire story.
@@gottaloveanimeyeah and then they got asked to make more and we have more. Having to squeeze stuff in one season didn’t give them a lot of time and it was done right away. Aang had to wait 3 seasons to get his love korra mako and asami got theirs in the first season.
More seasons really didn't help just look at the main relationship and how big of a L it was.
oh no teenage hormone love plot is weird and chaos....
some people like you i wonder if they had any feelings for someone in their teen years....or it was such a disaster that they have to hate it everywhere they see it
@@derfritz4550 sorry that you are triggered. Its just to me the romance is done poorly compared to the last airbender (a teenage show) and many other shows, it being teenage based show is no excuse , and I don't generalize stories to being bad because they have teenagers. Raise your standards a bit. Merry Christmas.
I like the show, but it’s not the last air bender, obviously
Steve Blum did too good of a job voicing Amon and the build-up was too great for their own good. Not only did it not live up to the hype they've created, but really dropped the ball with him.
16:55 Why I hate Mako so much...😡
Bolin does worse tho.