Unlike the last episode i found this one more engaging. I look forward to what you have to say about it. To be completely honest i waiting for Episode 6.
It would be a fun twist if Asami was actually a stalker who purposfully hit him with a moped to Ask him for a date. Would somehow be less ridiculus then what actually happened
@@sjoerdmanshanden5162 Yeah and the creators really didn’t know what to do with her pass season 1, she pretty much became everyone’s transportation provider and shipping fodder for the rest of the series.
Dude I totally thought that was her whole shtick the whole time, they don't even mention/frame it enough for it to be an intentional red herring. The whole thing just feels odd in hindsight. Plus it felt almost fanficy the way it all happened, which tbf season 1 of Korra struggled with *cough* General Iroh *cough*
Your monologues during the Mako section were literally more accurate to my thoughts than I could ever put into words, how'd you do that? Please keep this a gag throughout the series, I beg of thee.
The man has a choice between the most powerful bender in the world who's pretty hot too and a supermodel billionaire chick AND HE FUCKS IT UP WITH BOTH OF THEM, because he's a god damn moron, dude literally turned his 2 gfs into lesbians (I know that's not how it works irl but it's a funny joke)
To answer your question, Tarlok is the only council member with a gavel because he was appointed chairman by the other members. If he wasn’t appointed chairman, it probably rotates on some basis of time.
Yeah the whole thing with Asami being so convenient for Mako really only makes sense if you go by their original character before she was rewritten, where she was supposed to be an equalist spy secretly working for her father.
This is why I watch this guy , his jokes are hilarious, the whole “ yea this super model chick hit me with her moped …..” part killed me, I can’t wait till you get to season 2 , the jokes will be unreal
Re-watching this I just realized Asami, a rich heiress would definitely want to seek out/date a professional athlete like Mako. This could've been written so much better
11:30 Basically, Tarlok sees it as a win-win situation. If Amon doesn't show, it gives the public perception that's he's weak. If Korra beats Amon, well it was his task force that enabled her to succeed. And if Korra is defeated by Amon and loses her bending, Tarlok can use it to rally benders and justify more actions against non-benders; Amon even says this to Korra about being a martyr.
Just like having shrimps for food at every part of the day except for night. If you eat shrimps for dinner they won't hop up and down all around in your stomach.
Tarlok's aim as I see it: Korra wins: Ammon dealt with Amon wins: Tarlok gains emergency powers and becomes a defacto tyrant, with Korra becoming a Martyr. This also fully explains why Amon doesn't take her bending away, he's actually right.
He might have also been trying to get rid of Korra as she represented a potential major political rival. It's even plausible he was counting on her losing in order to use her as a martyr while sidelining her from politics.
@@yashma4187 Or took a page out of Zaheer’s book. No person should have that much power. Taking away her power then killing her in the avatar state would permanently end the threat forever and he nearly succeeded.
At around 7:30 when you talk about the paparazzi, I never thought it was strange, I always thought that they were subtly implying that Tarlok set up the paparazzi to be there, put pressure on Kora and ask her the "are you scared" question specifically because he picked up she was at dinner and knew that would call her bluff and get her to join the task force. Hence him pushing her to answer the questions. It would be harder to imply he manipulated the situation if the paps swarmed her when she arrived. Just a thought
I think Tarlok's plan was what Amon avoided. If Amon took Korra's bending away right there he would have a way to get the support of every bender and nation to fight amon. Tarlok not knowing that Amon is his bloodbending brother probably also gave him the confidence that he would beat him. After gaining this support and defeating Amon, Tarlok would have all the political power he wanted all this time. Korra would become a martyr and Tarlok would be the savior. The reason he does take Korra's bending away at the end of the series is because he needed the time to prepare. At the beginning Amon mentioned that they had to prepare and act faster then what he planned because of the avatar returning to Republic City. So in my opinion it's logical that Amon didn't do what Tarlok had planned (taking Korra's bedning away). Instead he waited for the right time to do it. This also explains the evil grin on tarlok's face when Korra asked to duel Amon. At best she would be defeated and have her bedning taken away, thus causing Tarlok to receive massive amounts of political power I previously mentioned. And at the worst Amon would be taken care of by Korra.
to me the whole Amon sparing Korra here was more an "i'll set an example of you, not by taking away your bending, but by crippling your spirit, only once that's broken, i'll take your bending away" in the end, Amon's "goal" for his group (atleast his group believes this) is to get rid of benders so everyone is equal, Korra being the avater and able to bend all 4 elements poses a problem for his ideal. what garners more support from the general public that aren't benders, an avater outright defeated and her bending taken away, or showing that even the Avatar in all her might can loose a fight, but is so scared of the opposition that she can't do anything anymore.
@@DarkDyllonThe only problem with that "cripple the spirit" plan is NOT CAPTURING KORRA. You have her, she's here, tied up, outnumbered 15 to 1. You were already planning your Houdini-level escape, knock her out and take her with you! Now the council will have to escalate, oppressing non-benders in a full-on paranoia. Now the city police will have to look for Korra with Lin Beifong leading the investigation, so you can even accelerate your whole "defang the police" part of the master plan by using Korra as bait. Even if it doesn't work out, you can just release the Avatar as a show of good faith. Now I know that would never fly with Nickelodeon, but that's a Doylian reason, not a Watsonian one.
Exactly. From Tarlok's point of view, either outcome of the fight would escalate the conflict between benders and equalists, benefitting him in his pursuit of power. But he has to pretend he doesn't support Korra fighting so that he can't be blamed for sending her to her doom if she loses.
But that could backfire for Tarlok. If the Avatar was supposed to be under his watch and she got her bending taken away, that looks really bad for him. Like, he failed to protect the Avatar.
I heard that they originally planned for Asami to be a villain, and they based her character design off of Lust from Full Metal Alchemist for that reason. In any case, she certainly unnerved the hell out of me the first time i watched this episode.
Amon was an awesome villain, perfectly creepy and mysterious. It’s a shame that korra went down the path of a new villain every season. There was enough potential with Amon, that you could have done multiple seasons maybe even all four. I really enjoyed all of the information we got on his backstory and I think that could have been greatly expanded on.
I agree, it felt like it ended a bit too easy. All this build-up just to end like it did. They couldve expanded the amon storyline so much further and not given korra her powers back so easily. The romantic scenes between the characters were also too easy. There was no actual bonding between any of them and the romance felt forced. Not a bad series tho, much better than I expected before i started watching.
As much as ao agree, I completely understand why they didn't, it's cus Korra didn't have multiple seasons at first and they didn't just want to leave Amon not beaten
this was my thought exactly as well. it would also have been nice thematically to have the resolution of ATLA (the ability to take away a person's bending) be the main threat throughout LoK.
IIRC the decision to have a new villain every season was largely due in part to Nickelodeon not guaranteeing a second season, then not guaranteeing the third, and then not guaranteeing a fourth
I think the Asami/Mako meeting was meant to be that "convenient" because I feel at the start they were planning on making her more in league with the Equalists and getting in touch with Mako would get them in contact with Korra. Unfortunately it doesn't really end up going that way. Mostly basing this off the fact the show never really knows what to do with Asami in the future which makes the most sense if she wasn't really supposed to play that big a part later on
@@TheRock3tDoctor Not originally no, but just because a show got more seasons than it initially was supposed to is neither an adequate reason nor excuse for the way the show ended up handling its characters. Aside from this we have the fact that the other "main characters" have something to do in the show later on while Asami is left pretty much completely idle with her focusing on her dad's company being a bit of a have your cake and eat it too thing with the writers wanting to have a non-bender in the main cast but not willing to actually put in the effort to make it work.
I think it would've been interesting if Asami was an Equalist or at least an Equalist sympathizer but in a way where you understand where she's coming from. She doesn't hate benders, but she is wary of them since she's seen how innocent people are taken advantage of by gangs like the Terra Triad and agrees that people like that should have their bending taken away. You could even add that when her father was starting up his business, he was threatened with protection money by firebending gang, and when he couldn't immediately pay it, they took his wife hostage, and she died when he couldn't come up with the money. She does eventually turn against the Equalist when she sees how insane they've become and have started to oppress innocent benders like Mako and Bolin, which is not what she wanted.
She was originally supposed to be on her father's side with being an equalist but the creators liked her so much they wanted to keep her around so they changed it. Unfortunately they clearly didn't know how to deal with her throughout the entire rest of the show so it was a poor decision on their part.
i do like the way they handled her attitude simply because of the way it sets up her conflict with dad. if she supported the equalists too at some point, it'd be unlikely that her dad would have hidden his tracks quite as well around her. the dishonesty is half the betrayal
I don't like the idea of having your bending stripped away as a punishment. As we see with Korra in this episode, it is simply too cruel. Just throw em in prison, like in Avatar. Forbid bending. But if they are born with it, I feel they have a right to it, it feels like taking it away is a handicap or restricting their human rights
At the very least, take it away temporarily. But there should be more punishment than just that. Don't have bad guys roaming the street just because their bending was taken for a few weeks or months lol
I think having prisoners use their bending for work (such as the lightning generation job) would be a good use of the prisoners time, that's just one possibility they wouldn't otherwise be able to do
They should have made Asami actually hit him because of her negligence. She would have had a reason to invite and spoil him a bit to not get sued or something. Also her dad funding their team makes a lot more sense like this.
The reason Tarloq has the gavel is for similar reasons sometimes only one city council member has the gavel while the others don't. It's not because they have more power or anything like that, it's simply a ceremonial or procedural role that rotates between members meaning anyone and everyone on the council can and/or has had the gavel at one point or another. Also, the reason Mako looks disheveled is that he might've just gotten off his shift from shooting electricity into generators. If you look in the background you can actually see a power plant behind him. That's just my theory anyway. Love your videos.
it's kinda the same when someone in a meeting gets to be in charge. in most team meetings you have someone who writes down notes and someone who makes sure everyone gets a turn and every point from the previous meeting is discussed, this was Tarloq's role i believe, don't think he stands over everyone else, it's just how they do it, which is fine.
Man, I love how fair you’re being. I think so many content creators come in with a positive or negative mindset, and that mindset heavily affects their perceptions and what things they choose to point out, but I can clearly tell you’re making an effort to try and understand why a choice was made and are clear when something you don’t like is due to preference or something you feel is less subjective. I’m sure you’re going to tear some things apart (specially book 2), but you’re giving me the confidence that your trying your best to not be biased or at least point out your biases (as everyone has bias on some level) You continue to impress the hell out of me man.
To me Korea crying like that at the end just came across completely pathetic. Even Aang as 12 yo wasn't that much of a coward and not to mention stupid. If you're going to duel one on one actually do it in public where you can't be poisoned or ganged without it not being seen
@@excalibur2772 I think that’s absolutely absurd. Aang got scared all the time, and he was never put in a position where he could have gotten his bending taken away. Korra crying at the end shows the facade she was trying to put up was broken down. She wanted to be the stone wall you think she should have been, but she’s lived a sheltered life where her entire existence was based on her abilities as a bender. Of course the thought of losing that would be terrifying, and Korra hadn’t grown into the avatar that could deal with it yet. If Korra wasn’t allowed to show fear because it’s “pathetic,” then she’d be less of a character.
@@excalibur2772 we saw her scared, but we saw her trying to push down those fears, which is why she made the move you called dumb. Her desire to not be scared impacted her judgement. And, idk what to tell you. If you think crying after nearly losing your entire sense of self is pathetic, frankly, I find that pathetic. I want my characters to be able to express intense emotion, make mistakes, and suffer low points where they struggle with the challenges they are about to face. Characters should be allowed to be vulnerable at particular low points, or they stop feeling real
@@excalibur2772The whole sequence has the imagery of a gang r**e; it was a hundred people holding her at their mercy, rendering her completely powerless and cut off from outside help, and she only got out of it with her health and her life because they chose not to harm her. Nobody is pathetic for breaking down sobbing from that experience.
2:22 Asami's smart, quick, and a skilled driver, she could have easily avoided Mako by just swerving around him, the bike's pretty thin. But instead she turned it to it hit him longways with the body of it. She 100% wanted to just hurt some random person.
Lol, chuckled a lot at the repeating and extending of the new love interest. Also, that light that's seemingly coming from Korra, is actually coming from the guy in front of her, if you look closely he had a light. The same light is being seen after when she's crying to Tenzin. Doesn't look right, but it's the "source"
Amon's reasoning for not crippling Korra now might also foreshadow how his power isn't real energy bending. His brain bending wouldn't stop the next Avatar from being reincarnated, but genuine energy bending might have
How? Bloodbending and energy bending would stop her bending, either way she'd be a martyr for others to rally behind. Saying he doesn't want her to be a martyr doesn't point to one of those methods over the other.
janet varney work with Korra really is incredible, several moments she delivers the characters emotion through dialogue extremely well, and this episode where we see a nervous, overwhelmed and affraid Korra whos trying to hide all of that from everyone has a lot of good moments showing all of these emotions. i think more people should recognize these parts of the show really, the voice acting is awesome with Korra herself being a big highlight.
I feel like another reason Amon didnt take Korras bending is that he wasnt sure he could do it, after all Aang was imune during the avatar state and she would probably enter it during great distress and defeat him
What I never got over when watching season 1 was how earthbenders would be insanely effective against the chi blockers. Like, literally just make a rock armor suit like toph makes. They wouldn't be able to hit your weak points to stop your chi, the rock would stop electricity, and you could still just bend the rock around you to attack them. Metal benders could do it with metal, (again like Toph does), and it would be the same. But rock would probably be better as it wouldn't conduct electricity. Maybe creating a rock armor suit is advanced earth bending, but most of the people fighting chi blockers are police, who are metal benders, which already means they're advanced earth benders. So they would most likely be able to make a rock armor suit as well.
@@iantaakalla8180 The only reason Toph could originally metal bend is cause she felt the rock that was still left in the metal. It's not "metal" bending, but bending the earth in the metal. It's why they can't do titanium cause it's too refined.
Rock armor is considered a master earth bender technique. You have to fluidly bend rocks as you move instead of the blunt flinging rocks that anyone can do.
@@aprophetofrng9821 toph wrapped herself in rock and metal and moves it expertly like living skin. The metal benders that aren't toph use segmented metal plates that are pre-formed and seem to have leather connections like typical real life samurai armor that can move on its own. It's not remotely the same
13:02 The light source looks like it might actually be a lanturn held by the Chi blocker on the left, closest to the camera. (The one on the left of the gap.) It's hard to make out but it does look like a light source. Doesn't explain why it's lighting up a circle around Korra and not the Chi Blocker holding it, but at least there is A light source.
5:09 Normally if something like this happens you either wake up with 1 less kidney or she tells you that the two of you can only be together if you kill her father so she can inherit his wealth because he’d never approve of the two of you being together… then she pins the murder on you and plays the innocent card, using her crime tears to convince everyone you simply snapped. So you get sent to jail for 20 years while she elopes with some 7’3” Water Tribesman.
I agree, It's all very weird and feels a bit like they had to hamfist in some drama. But I also remember that I really wasn't bothered by it when I watched Korra as a teenager. In some way, some aspects of Korra's love drama feel genuine for the age the characters have in the show. Love at that age is just generally messy and stupid. There is also just a bunch of really lazy writing too...
@@TibovlI think what hurts it the most is no payoff. You get korra and asami going into the spirit world together but CN wouldn’t just go for it. Making it feel un satisfying
I'd say creating really interesting villains and conflicts only to resolve them rather messily 3/4 of the time was the biggest let down. I can ignore the romance stuff, but the overarching plot being like this?
@@KaiHung-wv3ul At least that can be explained due to the fact that Korra was only intended to be a one-season mini series, and then later being told for a season 2, 3, and 4.
8:14 this type of glasses called pince-nez. They are held in place by pinching the bridge of the nose. They were popular in the 19th and early 20th century.
I heard somewhere that Asami was originally supposed to be a Equalist, which was changed after this episode, and actually, that would make everything in this episode suddenly make sense, because then she would have been intentionally going after Mako to get him to Amon.
That confrontation legitimately scared me the first time. Not too much i felt that. For me that specific scare was a bit of a one trick pony. It was a baller move on Amon’s part. But i also liked his reasoning. I wish more villains thought through antagonizing the chosen one here like Amon. “I can’t take you out now because that could radicalize my opposition. So i will save you for later.”
It is a really cool moment and I like his reasoning for not just taking down Korra a lot. It sadly gets ruined by him starting a literal war shortly after
Amon's shoulder-chop is probably supposed to be a Chi-blocker-looking strike at the jugular or carotid (idk which, I'm not a blood doctor). Stopping bloodflow to the brain for a couple seconds will make anyone pass out (Jiu Jitsu chokeholds use this), this is maybe just like an action-shot take on the idea.
Im glad they had a reason in universe not to kill Korra that was very reasonable, similarly to how in Avatar they were never going to kill Aang because he would simply be reborn. Having a good reason to not kill the main character outright is good, even if in this case its only a temporary measure.
I agree but imagine if some random fire bender soldier kills Aang and he gets reborn and Ozai’s like “Fuck I have to find the Avatar again!”. Wait Azula tried to kill Aang. Azula would’ve either been treated a hero or banished for life or something
Technically taking bending doesn't physically kill them but in a way it's the equivalent of having one soul ripped out or being crippled so it psychologically kills them
@@Blueian742The only problem with the "don't kill Aang" thing is that the Fire Nation doesn't ... really care if he's reborn. If the Comet is coming and the Fire Nation is intending on using it for anything substantial (like taking Ba Sing Se or the North Pole), the Avatar would only be a small infant by the time the comet came, passed, and another nation got deleted. I understand Zhao wanting to be the "hero who captured the Avatar", but just straight-up not killing him doesn't really make sense.
I don't think the plan of invading the earth kingdom with Sozins Comet was already laid out in season 1. From what Zhao knows the war might aswell last another 100 years so it makes sense to not kill him. I guess he could have crippled Aang or something but obviously the show wouldn't go that far
When I first watched this episode 10+ years ago, I straight up thought that Korra would turn into Aang at the Island the same way Aang turned into Roku or Kyoshi when they felt they needed to. It wouldn't have made no sense since when Roku possessed Aang, he had literally no formal avatar training (he even admits to it). If not that, then at least the Avatar State should have triggered seeing as how that's the entire point of it being a defense mechanism for life or death situations. I also wanted to see Aangs statue start growing the same way the paintings and shrines of past avatars did when Aang went into the Avatar state at the Southern Air Temple
So you actually just brought up a very cool point in this. Amon can take away Korras bending which takes away her Identity as the Avatar. Unavatu was trying to destroy Raava which would end Korra being the Avatar meaning shes still lose herself. Zaheer attempted to kill Korra as she was in the avatar state to end the cycle of the avatar entirely. Kuvira was the only villain in all of Korra to not personally attack Korra because of her avatar status and ability and thats actually pretty cool that 3/4 of the villains attempt to end the avatar in their own way.
*DAYUM!* You're starting off strong at 0:03 ! Also, I love Korra's little "spin the guy around using earthbending and then sparta-kick the guy away" maneuver. XD
I feel like the villians are the only decent thing in Korra. Bolin feels like a weaker reguritated Sokka - he's not funny and he's not endearing, Mako is ... jesus just Mako, Asumi is forgetable, and Korra (especially later Korra) is so arrogant that it's unlikeable. However, Amon, Zaheer, and Kuvira are all decent - with Zaheer being the best imo.
I believe the number of wires in the shot at 2:15 is intentional do indicate a more industrial area, and the room at 4:45 is probably like a really nice restroom/powder room
Korra has such an odd place in my heart. After my annual binge of ATLA I always watch Korra and get an odd sense of love and disappointment. She’s a strong avatar when necessary to the plot but weak everywhere else. It reflects human psychology more accurately but also goes against how powerful the avatar can be. She had so much potential with being a toddler already water, earth and fire bending but then she can barely fight an average bender in the first season. So conflicting
Yeah, Korra was really contradictory, and yeah, deals like they had 3 studios trying to make one show together, but each studio has a different idea on how to do things which makes Korra look weak then suddenly she starts dominating just because now korra could defeat the main big bad minion because she's getting help
This honestly makes me love Korra as a character more, sure they could’ve rounded it out in some areas but her lack of that public presence as the avatar is evident and really cool
13:03 The light source is coming from a lantern held by the equalist immediately to the left of Korra, though it does appear to be lighting the room disproportionately to it's actual location in the frame
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They could just make moon Not Full. To hide the point that Amon can't take Korra bending when is Not Full Moon. And just after reveal of blood bending we get that.
@@SatinPolar Amon and Tarloq’s father was a notorious criminal that could blood bend without a full moon. He used blood bending on Aang to try and escape but Aang used the avatar state to overpower him and used energy bending to take his ability to bend away. He retreated to the southern water tribe and assumed a new identity but when he learned his kids could water bend, he forced them to learn to blood bend just like he once could so they could carry on his legacy. Both Tarloq and Amon can blood bend without the full moon as a result of their enhanced ability and training, but Amon is a significantly stronger blood bender than Tarloq who learned how to use blood bending to essentially permanently chi block and take away someone’s bending. That’s also how he is able to win in all his martial fights against benders (such as in the underground meeting when he challenged the people who’s bending he was taking to a fight) because he can subtly blood bend without anyone noticing to give an advantage to himself.
I always thought it was strange that Tarlok would be on the task force as a front or even second-line fighter. No one even comments on it, but I wish they addressed it, like make the raid executors a call-up of Tarlok's old unit in the war or something. I know that doesn't make sense timeline-wise, but I think a senator essentially having the skills of a Navy SEAL should raise some eyebrows.
I *never* would have caught the correlation between "Air" and "The voice in the night" when Amon started speaking on the radio at... well, night. You define the separation between amateur and professional. This is why you're paid the most likely just well off at most bucks!
The philosophy of the equalist is one I always vibed with. One thing I HATED about legend of Korra is that it made Sokka and his contributions feel WOTHLESS. Like in this world you ONLY mater if yoy are a bender. I don't know, it felt like it had alot of interesting things to say and Amon was a great villian to do that
Asami is by far the most likable character in the entire show. The writers really did her wrong over the course of the series. Multiple times actually. I didn't really think about how she met Mako while I was watching the first time, but when you actually talk out the way they met like that, it does seem extraordinarily contrived.
This episode highlights one of the biggest issue of LoK: Writing it one season at a time meant that they had to rush introductions for many major characters. Mako and Bolin had this issue, and for Asami it's even more obvious. If they had more time (or more direct continuity between seasons) they could have taken it more slowly - introduce her as a potential sponsor early, but keep her to the background, as tensions rise she gets concerned with the team and tries her best to help them stay safe, so by the time the Equalists attack the arena, she has naturally grown closer to them and you can set her up as a full member of the main cast going into season 2. Instead they had to make her a part of the team throughout season 1, which resulted in this rushed "btw, Asami is a thing now!"
13:05. You ask where the light source is coming from when Korra's in the dark, but the closest Chi Blocker on the left side of the circle is just holding a lantern.
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0:36 Most city councils have some sort of council president or council leader, elected by the members of the council itself. Tarrlok probably has the gavel because at some point the council chose him to lead their meetings and/or be their public spokesman.
Interesting thought: We're told by Tarlok that he's got eyes on the island and that he will immediately act if something goes amiss. Later that night something goes TERRIBLY amiss and there is no reaction from Tarlok or any of the supposed backup that he said he was bringing. When I was first watching these episodes this actually made me straight up believe that Tarlok was Amon. It was a "never seen either of them int he same room" kind of feeling that I affirmed by Korra not receiving any help like Tarlok said she would. It's only further into the season that we find out that this scene was just an inconsistency, but from a first watch standpoint, that was straight up evidence in my brain that Tarlok and Amon were the same person.
I will also note that even though it is an inconsistency, it also has the side effect that it clues the viewers in that Tarrlok was worse than just a politician wanting power.
13:02 You can barely see it, but one of the chi blockers is holding a lantern... Still doesn't make it any less weird that the light is centered around Korra specifically though.
Ah yes. The episode that actually scared our protagonist to her very core. While Amon would eventually regret his decision to not finish off the Avatar right here and now. This is the scene that made me want to give Korra a hug. Then again Tenzin did a good job comforting her like the good mentor that he is.
If he can block someone’s chi paths to stop their bending indefinitely then it makes sense if he learned the chi paths and chi blocking this would have to be very advanced chi blocking though since he is the only person that knocks someone unconscious with chi blocking so you probably have to apply the exact right amount of pressure on the exact right place also 15:43 is closer to the scene
Going deeper into the link between korra's identity and her bending: it's also important to note that she's known she's the avatar since she was like 4. Other avatars were allowed to grow and have a childhood before the secret was revieled and their training began. But for Korra, her identity as the avatar is all she realy has because their was never realy a time in her life when she had the opportunity to build anything else.
Tarlok being the only one with a gavel is actually decent world building, it suggest that's he the equivalent to the House Speaker. Every legislative body has a similar position to it, and it makes perfect sense that this council would elect amongst themselves someone to keep order during deliberation. You could make the claim that Tenzin would be better suited to it, and should have the role, but if you want to microanalyze it you can come to the conclusion that at some point in the past Tarlok weaseled his way in to that position in the pursuit of ever more power which fits his character.
Amon making an exemple of Korra here is such a powerful scene. He could take away her bending, yes, but it would bring way too much attention at a time he isn't planning on it (remember, this fight was Korras idea, his plans are on pace to want this attention later). Just letting her go, without any consequences to her bending, is WAY more than enough, she's terrified. She has her bending, but is afraid to use it, afraid to fight, so she probably will be afraid to step in suddenly in his plans again for the foreseeable future. It's probably harder for her to try to stop him now that if he had taken it and made her enraged, because she still has something to lose Btw i THINK Satos "backstory" about how he just suddenly thought about cars is supposed to mirror real-life poor-to-millionaire backstories. Im not sure its intentional but "Ow i was just a regular worker like every one of you than i just decided to be a genius and conquered everything i have" is like the number 1 story to ignore/cope with privileges, and considering how he ends up, i think it makes sense Also the Mako bit was hilarious, im still laughing about it
My guy, he's literally Henry Ford. Like, Ford was a mechanic of some kind rather than a shoe shiner but he came from an immigrant family of farmers. Even the wiki notes the parallel cos it's blindingly obvious. "Despite some fan misconception, Hiroshi did not invent the automobile in-universe, but was the person to develop it into a viable technology for everyday use. Furthering the parallels, Ford is also frequently mistaken as the inventor of the automobile, but was instead the first person to create a truly viable version of it." This was the 1800's US you actually COULD get rich with luck and hard work back then. The old money wasn't entrenched. I mean it's also survivour bias but his backstory in the time period is belivable given it's based on a real guy.
@@vivusthevivusthing6182 I didn't deny that, tho I really didn't know about Ford's backstory as a shoe shiner. If that's the case, it's even more blatant parody of what I had talked about because if he really is like Ford, he isn't quite the person to make the first CAR, but the first really sucessful car production, which is even less accessible for people on the working class, specially at the time and specially for a non-bender in a world so unfair to them as Korra's. Both Hiroshi and Ford definetly had a way less difficult past that they tell or had some miraculous opportunities fall onto their lapses
@@adv78 I said in my comment ford was a mechanic from a immigrant farmer family not a shoe shiner. Also that haroshi didn't invent the car but made them more affordable like ford did. And yes they both did get extremely lucky which Hiroshi's shoe shiner speech doesn't deny his whole point in that line (though actually a veiled plot to get the avatar more invested in pro bending for equalist reasons) was that he knows that if you pounce on one good opportunity you can go from nothing to a lot. He wasn't denying the need for a lucky break he was offering one.
Crazy how you were hesitant to do this series because you weren’t sure that you had enough to say. Curious to see at what point your opinion changes, because so far you’ve had a lot of positive things to say. It’s actually made me appreciate LoK a lot more than I already had, and I liked Korra plenty.
This is the only episode of Korra I'll give a ten out of ten, the set up the story telling, characterazion is perfect and sets up something about Korra that makes perfect sense
2 things I think this show has over ATLA are the fights and how punchy they are, and the emotion. Characters in ATLA could get pretty emotional at times, but LoK takes it to a new level imo. They kind of do a sort of happy middle between that ugly/raw crying in Arcane while also keeping it a bit more subdued. If I remember correctly, this isn't even the only time we get that kind of emotion from Korra and friends in the series. And I like that a lot. I always get a little disappointed when characters don't get to release their emotions in ways that aren't outbursts of anger and frustration. Doesn't have to be crying or whatever, could be a panic attack or just a shutting down (like S4)
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Unlike the last episode i found this one more engaging. I look forward to what you have to say about it.
To be completely honest i waiting for Episode 6.
Got something in my eye right after I liked the video. Bliss was ruined.
@AmmojerseyRTA RIP
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I agree Asami’s introduction was completely believable. It actually has some similarities to how I met my sexy, lawyer, heiress wife
I completely believe you @onehuman4853
@@nyetloki yEaH tHiS sUpERmOdEl cHiCK hIt MeE WitH hEr MoPeD
I met my big tiddie goth gamer girlfriend in a similar way.
It would be a fun twist if Asami was actually a stalker who purposfully hit him with a moped to Ask him for a date. Would somehow be less ridiculus then what actually happened
i believe that's how things were supposed to be initially
She was supposed to be a villain, right?
@@sjoerdmanshanden5162 Yeah and the creators really didn’t know what to do with her pass season 1, she pretty much became everyone’s transportation provider and shipping fodder for the rest of the series.
@@kurhanchykindeed it was
Dude I totally thought that was her whole shtick the whole time, they don't even mention/frame it enough for it to be an intentional red herring.
The whole thing just feels odd in hindsight. Plus it felt almost fanficy the way it all happened, which tbf season 1 of Korra struggled with *cough* General Iroh *cough*
Your monologues during the Mako section were literally more accurate to my thoughts than I could ever put into words, how'd you do that? Please keep this a gag throughout the series, I beg of thee.
The man has a choice between the most powerful bender in the world who's pretty hot too and a supermodel billionaire chick AND HE FUCKS IT UP WITH BOTH OF THEM, because he's a god damn moron, dude literally turned his 2 gfs into lesbians (I know that's not how it works irl but it's a funny joke)
by the end of the series, half of the episode will be reciting that gag
every time he monologued about that I was picturing the *god forgive me* meme
It happened too often for me, I'd prefer to tone it down or even just hear the final monologue
It's too funny I swear
To answer your question, Tarlok is the only council member with a gavel because he was appointed chairman by the other members. If he wasn’t appointed chairman, it probably rotates on some basis of time.
"yo guys it's my turn with the decision hammer"
Why isn't he like, in the center then? Why he is at the end of their half-circle council table?
Your forgetting the obvious answer...he brought it from home.
@@metaroxas21like zuko and the sandal
This was one of those "I obviously know why, but it drives up engagement" questions, shit now I've fallen for it too
Yeah the whole thing with Asami being so convenient for Mako really only makes sense if you go by their original character before she was rewritten, where she was supposed to be an equalist spy secretly working for her father.
They really should have stuck with that considering how much she's wasted after this season.
Honestly that makes way more sense
Not even working for her father, she had the role of her island
Well I mean... she at least introduced Bolin to Varryk
@@6thgraderfriendsit would have also led to a fsr better story than a love triangle with her trying to “right her wrongs”
This is why I watch this guy , his jokes are hilarious, the whole “ yea this super model chick hit me with her moped …..” part killed me, I can’t wait till you get to season 2 , the jokes will be unreal
I’m ready to see what he has to say about Varrick lol
@@saltyass7856really hoping there will be a running joke to do with "do the thing"
@@saltyass7856 I don't know why, but I have a feeling Overanalyzing won't like Varrick as much as us? I hope I'm wrong though
@@saltyass7856 I imagine that he adores his character (as in the Varrick's character) but probably has stuff to say about execution.
Re-watching this I just realized Asami, a rich heiress would definitely want to seek out/date a professional athlete like Mako. This could've been written so much better
11:30 Basically, Tarlok sees it as a win-win situation. If Amon doesn't show, it gives the public perception that's he's weak. If Korra beats Amon, well it was his task force that enabled her to succeed. And if Korra is defeated by Amon and loses her bending, Tarlok can use it to rally benders and justify more actions against non-benders; Amon even says this to Korra about being a martyr.
so true
My favorite part of LOK was when the phone guy told Korra “the spirits tend to be a bit quirky at night”
FNAF FAN ALERT YAY
Just like having shrimps for food at every part of the day except for night. If you eat shrimps for dinner they won't hop up and down all around in your stomach.
something something chomp something 87
The gag about Asami is hilarious, never stop
imagine misspelling a word lmao
Tarlok's aim as I see it:
Korra wins: Ammon dealt with
Amon wins: Tarlok gains emergency powers and becomes a defacto tyrant, with Korra becoming a Martyr.
This also fully explains why Amon doesn't take her bending away, he's actually right.
He might have also been trying to get rid of Korra as she represented a potential major political rival. It's even plausible he was counting on her losing in order to use her as a martyr while sidelining her from politics.
Amon is actually right...
... until he starts a war and antagonizes the other nations anyways lmao.
@@yashma4187
Or took a page out of Zaheer’s book.
No person should have that much power. Taking away her power then killing her in the avatar state would permanently end the threat forever and he nearly succeeded.
Good eye
At around 7:30 when you talk about the paparazzi, I never thought it was strange, I always thought that they were subtly implying that Tarlok set up the paparazzi to be there, put pressure on Kora and ask her the "are you scared" question specifically because he picked up she was at dinner and knew that would call her bluff and get her to join the task force. Hence him pushing her to answer the questions. It would be harder to imply he manipulated the situation if the paps swarmed her when she arrived.
Just a thought
Yeah me too
The developing Asami monologue that got longer and longer was absolutely brilliant. Had me laughing every time!
I loved that he started frome the very beginning every single time ; you can only respect that level of commitment to the bit.
I think Tarlok's plan was what Amon avoided. If Amon took Korra's bending away right there he would have a way to get the support of every bender and nation to fight amon. Tarlok not knowing that Amon is his bloodbending brother probably also gave him the confidence that he would beat him. After gaining this support and defeating Amon, Tarlok would have all the political power he wanted all this time. Korra would become a martyr and Tarlok would be the savior. The reason he does take Korra's bending away at the end of the series is because he needed the time to prepare. At the beginning Amon mentioned that they had to prepare and act faster then what he planned because of the avatar returning to Republic City. So in my opinion it's logical that Amon didn't do what Tarlok had planned (taking Korra's bedning away). Instead he waited for the right time to do it. This also explains the evil grin on tarlok's face when Korra asked to duel Amon. At best she would be defeated and have her bedning taken away, thus causing Tarlok to receive massive amounts of political power I previously mentioned. And at the worst Amon would be taken care of by Korra.
to me the whole Amon sparing Korra here was more an "i'll set an example of you, not by taking away your bending, but by crippling your spirit, only once that's broken, i'll take your bending away"
in the end, Amon's "goal" for his group (atleast his group believes this) is to get rid of benders so everyone is equal, Korra being the avater and able to bend all 4 elements poses a problem for his ideal.
what garners more support from the general public that aren't benders, an avater outright defeated and her bending taken away, or showing that even the Avatar in all her might can loose a fight, but is so scared of the opposition that she can't do anything anymore.
@@DarkDyllonThe only problem with that "cripple the spirit" plan is NOT CAPTURING KORRA.
You have her, she's here, tied up, outnumbered 15 to 1. You were already planning your Houdini-level escape, knock her out and take her with you!
Now the council will have to escalate, oppressing non-benders in a full-on paranoia. Now the city police will have to look for Korra with Lin Beifong leading the investigation, so you can even accelerate your whole "defang the police" part of the master plan by using Korra as bait.
Even if it doesn't work out, you can just release the Avatar as a show of good faith.
Now I know that would never fly with Nickelodeon, but that's a Doylian reason, not a Watsonian one.
Exactly. From Tarlok's point of view, either outcome of the fight would escalate the conflict between benders and equalists, benefitting him in his pursuit of power. But he has to pretend he doesn't support Korra fighting so that he can't be blamed for sending her to her doom if she loses.
But that could backfire for Tarlok. If the Avatar was supposed to be under his watch and she got her bending taken away, that looks really bad for him. Like, he failed to protect the Avatar.
I heard that they originally planned for Asami to be a villain, and they based her character design off of Lust from Full Metal Alchemist for that reason. In any case, she certainly unnerved the hell out of me the first time i watched this episode.
How come I've never noticed this?
That's what she looks like? I can't unsee it now
Amon was an awesome villain, perfectly creepy and mysterious. It’s a shame that korra went down the path of a new villain every season. There was enough potential with Amon, that you could have done multiple seasons maybe even all four. I really enjoyed all of the information we got on his backstory and I think that could have been greatly expanded on.
I agree, it felt like it ended a bit too easy. All this build-up just to end like it did. They couldve expanded the amon storyline so much further and not given korra her powers back so easily. The romantic scenes between the characters were also too easy. There was no actual bonding between any of them and the romance felt forced. Not a bad series tho, much better than I expected before i started watching.
@@Flutflutflap yeah, romance was definitely not a strong point for the series. Although I did have a soft spot for the Bolin and opal thing .
As much as ao agree, I completely understand why they didn't, it's cus Korra didn't have multiple seasons at first and they didn't just want to leave Amon not beaten
this was my thought exactly as well. it would also have been nice thematically to have the resolution of ATLA (the ability to take away a person's bending) be the main threat throughout LoK.
IIRC the decision to have a new villain every season was largely due in part to Nickelodeon not guaranteeing a second season, then not guaranteeing the third, and then not guaranteeing a fourth
I think the Asami/Mako meeting was meant to be that "convenient" because I feel at the start they were planning on making her more in league with the Equalists and getting in touch with Mako would get them in contact with Korra. Unfortunately it doesn't really end up going that way.
Mostly basing this off the fact the show never really knows what to do with Asami in the future which makes the most sense if she wasn't really supposed to play that big a part later on
there was never planned to be another season
@@TheRock3tDoctor Not originally no, but just because a show got more seasons than it initially was supposed to is neither an adequate reason nor excuse for the way the show ended up handling its characters. Aside from this we have the fact that the other "main characters" have something to do in the show later on while Asami is left pretty much completely idle with her focusing on her dad's company being a bit of a have your cake and eat it too thing with the writers wanting to have a non-bender in the main cast but not willing to actually put in the effort to make it work.
Fun fact, Tarrlok is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, the voice of Appa, Momo, Naga, Pabu, and pretty much all the animals in the show
Not only does he voice those characters, he also voices the clones from the animated Clone Wars show. My man was busy.
I think it would've been interesting if Asami was an Equalist or at least an Equalist sympathizer but in a way where you understand where she's coming from. She doesn't hate benders, but she is wary of them since she's seen how innocent people are taken advantage of by gangs like the Terra Triad and agrees that people like that should have their bending taken away. You could even add that when her father was starting up his business, he was threatened with protection money by firebending gang, and when he couldn't immediately pay it, they took his wife hostage, and she died when he couldn't come up with the money. She does eventually turn against the Equalist when she sees how insane they've become and have started to oppress innocent benders like Mako and Bolin, which is not what she wanted.
She was originally supposed to be on her father's side with being an equalist but the creators liked her so much they wanted to keep her around so they changed it. Unfortunately they clearly didn't know how to deal with her throughout the entire rest of the show so it was a poor decision on their part.
i do like the way they handled her attitude simply because of the way it sets up her conflict with dad. if she supported the equalists too at some point, it'd be unlikely that her dad would have hidden his tracks quite as well around her. the dishonesty is half the betrayal
I don't like the idea of having your bending stripped away as a punishment. As we see with Korra in this episode, it is simply too cruel.
Just throw em in prison, like in Avatar. Forbid bending. But if they are born with it, I feel they have a right to it, it feels like taking it away is a handicap or restricting their human rights
At the very least, take it away temporarily. But there should be more punishment than just that. Don't have bad guys roaming the street just because their bending was taken for a few weeks or months lol
I think having prisoners use their bending for work (such as the lightning generation job) would be a good use of the prisoners time, that's just one possibility they wouldn't otherwise be able to do
They should have made Asami actually hit him because of her negligence.
She would have had a reason to invite and spoil him a bit to not get sued or something. Also her dad funding their team makes a lot more sense like this.
It probably was the intention with Mako and Asamis dialogue. But the animation team probably dropped the ball
The reason Tarloq has the gavel is for similar reasons sometimes only one city council member has the gavel while the others don't. It's not because they have more power or anything like that, it's simply a ceremonial or procedural role that rotates between members meaning anyone and everyone on the council can and/or has had the gavel at one point or another. Also, the reason Mako looks disheveled is that he might've just gotten off his shift from shooting electricity into generators. If you look in the background you can actually see a power plant behind him. That's just my theory anyway. Love your videos.
it's kinda the same when someone in a meeting gets to be in charge.
in most team meetings you have someone who writes down notes and someone who makes sure everyone gets a turn and every point from the previous meeting is discussed, this was Tarloq's role i believe, don't think he stands over everyone else, it's just how they do it, which is fine.
It would be nice if something like that was established in the cannon but it's just kind of not explained is it?
Man, I love how fair you’re being. I think so many content creators come in with a positive or negative mindset, and that mindset heavily affects their perceptions and what things they choose to point out, but I can clearly tell you’re making an effort to try and understand why a choice was made and are clear when something you don’t like is due to preference or something you feel is less subjective.
I’m sure you’re going to tear some things apart (specially book 2), but you’re giving me the confidence that your trying your best to not be biased or at least point out your biases (as everyone has bias on some level)
You continue to impress the hell out of me man.
To me Korea crying like that at the end just came across completely pathetic. Even Aang as 12 yo wasn't that much of a coward and not to mention stupid. If you're going to duel one on one actually do it in public where you can't be poisoned or ganged without it not being seen
@@excalibur2772 I think that’s absolutely absurd. Aang got scared all the time, and he was never put in a position where he could have gotten his bending taken away.
Korra crying at the end shows the facade she was trying to put up was broken down. She wanted to be the stone wall you think she should have been, but she’s lived a sheltered life where her entire existence was based on her abilities as a bender. Of course the thought of losing that would be terrifying, and Korra hadn’t grown into the avatar that could deal with it yet.
If Korra wasn’t allowed to show fear because it’s “pathetic,” then she’d be less of a character.
@Pierceson-up8fs We already saw her scared during it. I think it's the way she cried tbh idk how to explain exactly
@@excalibur2772 we saw her scared, but we saw her trying to push down those fears, which is why she made the move you called dumb. Her desire to not be scared impacted her judgement.
And, idk what to tell you. If you think crying after nearly losing your entire sense of self is pathetic, frankly, I find that pathetic. I want my characters to be able to express intense emotion, make mistakes, and suffer low points where they struggle with the challenges they are about to face. Characters should be allowed to be vulnerable at particular low points, or they stop feeling real
@@excalibur2772The whole sequence has the imagery of a gang r**e; it was a hundred people holding her at their mercy, rendering her completely powerless and cut off from outside help, and she only got out of it with her health and her life because they chose not to harm her.
Nobody is pathetic for breaking down sobbing from that experience.
Wow, Mako is so lucky in this episode. I sure hope he doesn't screw it up somehow later in the series.
God the mako story recap that gets increasingly more unbelievable each time effing got me good
2:22 Asami's smart, quick, and a skilled driver, she could have easily avoided Mako by just swerving around him, the bike's pretty thin. But instead she turned it to it hit him longways with the body of it. She 100% wanted to just hurt some random person.
Katara likes to steal, Asami likes to commit vehicular crimes.
Lol, chuckled a lot at the repeating and extending of the new love interest.
Also, that light that's seemingly coming from Korra, is actually coming from the guy in front of her, if you look closely he had a light. The same light is being seen after when she's crying to Tenzin. Doesn't look right, but it's the "source"
Amon's reasoning for not crippling Korra now might also foreshadow how his power isn't real energy bending. His brain bending wouldn't stop the next Avatar from being reincarnated, but genuine energy bending might have
How? Bloodbending and energy bending would stop her bending, either way she'd be a martyr for others to rally behind. Saying he doesn't want her to be a martyr doesn't point to one of those methods over the other.
@@bbjygmmartyr implies dying
@@sebaschan-uwu A bender losing their bending is worse than death. Being a bender is awesome!
@@sebaschan-uwu If you're the Avatar with no bending, you may as well be dead. That's what he means.
@@sebaschan-uwu'Implies' but does not 'mean'
janet varney work with Korra really is incredible, several moments she delivers the characters emotion through dialogue extremely well, and this episode where we see a nervous, overwhelmed and affraid Korra whos trying to hide all of that from everyone has a lot of good moments showing all of these emotions. i think more people should recognize these parts of the show really, the voice acting is awesome with Korra herself being a big highlight.
I loved the scene where Korra chases a bad guy into an abandoned pizzeria, and finds out Freddy Fazbear already got him.
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@@2goodsharks I hate that I instantly understood this.
I feel like another reason Amon didnt take Korras bending is that he wasnt sure he could do it, after all Aang was imune during the avatar state and she would probably enter it during great distress and defeat him
What I never got over when watching season 1 was how earthbenders would be insanely effective against the chi blockers. Like, literally just make a rock armor suit like toph makes. They wouldn't be able to hit your weak points to stop your chi, the rock would stop electricity, and you could still just bend the rock around you to attack them. Metal benders could do it with metal, (again like Toph does), and it would be the same. But rock would probably be better as it wouldn't conduct electricity. Maybe creating a rock armor suit is advanced earth bending, but most of the people fighting chi blockers are police, who are metal benders, which already means they're advanced earth benders. So they would most likely be able to make a rock armor suit as well.
I guess the implication is that the metalbenders are too specialized in metalbending such that they cannot earthbend as easily anymore.
@@iantaakalla8180 The only reason Toph could originally metal bend is cause she felt the rock that was still left in the metal. It's not "metal" bending, but bending the earth in the metal. It's why they can't do titanium cause it's too refined.
Rock armor is considered a master earth bender technique. You have to fluidly bend rocks as you move instead of the blunt flinging rocks that anyone can do.
@@nyetloki And fluidly bending metal around their bodies isn't a master technique?
@@aprophetofrng9821 toph wrapped herself in rock and metal and moves it expertly like living skin. The metal benders that aren't toph use segmented metal plates that are pre-formed and seem to have leather connections like typical real life samurai armor that can move on its own. It's not remotely the same
13:02 The light source looks like it might actually be a lanturn held by the Chi blocker on the left, closest to the camera. (The one on the left of the gap.) It's hard to make out but it does look like a light source.
Doesn't explain why it's lighting up a circle around Korra and not the Chi Blocker holding it, but at least there is A light source.
The "Yeah this supermodel chick hit me with her moped and then" killed me every time
I totally forgot Tarlok was supposed to be a red herring for Amon! Good job on bringing that up.
5:09 Normally if something like this happens you either wake up with 1 less kidney or she tells you that the two of you can only be together if you kill her father so she can inherit his wealth because he’d never approve of the two of you being together… then she pins the murder on you and plays the innocent card, using her crime tears to convince everyone you simply snapped. So you get sent to jail for 20 years while she elopes with some 7’3” Water Tribesman.
Chloe?
R/Oddlyspecific
Can’t wait for what you do next! Korra has its ups and downs, but the romantic stuff certainly is the biggest ‘down’ in the show.
I agree, It's all very weird and feels a bit like they had to hamfist in some drama. But I also remember that I really wasn't bothered by it when I watched Korra as a teenager. In some way, some aspects of Korra's love drama feel genuine for the age the characters have in the show. Love at that age is just generally messy and stupid.
There is also just a bunch of really lazy writing too...
@@TibovlI think what hurts it the most is no payoff. You get korra and asami going into the spirit world together but CN wouldn’t just go for it. Making it feel un satisfying
@@mcdabb7226what payoff would you have wanted to see
I'd say creating really interesting villains and conflicts only to resolve them rather messily 3/4 of the time was the biggest let down. I can ignore the romance stuff, but the overarching plot being like this?
@@KaiHung-wv3ul At least that can be explained due to the fact that Korra was only intended to be a one-season mini series, and then later being told for a season 2, 3, and 4.
7:06
There really needs to a counter for Korra assaulting people
To be fair, that guy was pretty much bothering her 24/7. A little kick to the butt isn’t gonna kill him.
8:14 this type of glasses called pince-nez. They are held in place by pinching the bridge of the nose. They were popular in the 19th and early 20th century.
Like the ones Morpheus wears in The Matrix
I heard somewhere that Asami was originally supposed to be a Equalist, which was changed after this episode, and actually, that would make everything in this episode suddenly make sense, because then she would have been intentionally going after Mako to get him to Amon.
I also heard that making her a secret bad guy is the reason her character design resembles Lust from Full Metal Alchemist
It makes sense but also it's very sloppy bc they didn't go back and rewrite while they could have
9:17 I love that little sample of silhouette from Naruto when korra does the Naruto run😂
Korra doing that fire kick in her dream seems like how it would be punching someone in your dreams, like it not landing or having impact
the overanalyzing series is so nostalgic because it feels like im waiting for episodes to drop every week again. thank you.
That confrontation legitimately scared me the first time. Not too much i felt that. For me that specific scare was a bit of a one trick pony.
It was a baller move on Amon’s part. But i also liked his reasoning. I wish more villains thought through antagonizing the chosen one here like Amon. “I can’t take you out now because that could radicalize my opposition. So i will save you for later.”
It is a really cool moment and I like his reasoning for not just taking down Korra a lot. It sadly gets ruined by him starting a literal war shortly after
Something about this man's style. I'm glad you stayed around after Airbender and love all your work.
Amon's shoulder-chop is probably supposed to be a Chi-blocker-looking strike at the jugular or carotid (idk which, I'm not a blood doctor). Stopping bloodflow to the brain for a couple seconds will make anyone pass out (Jiu Jitsu chokeholds use this), this is maybe just like an action-shot take on the idea.
11:08 You gotta keep the Mako with Bolin’s eyebrows gag for the love triangle episode
Im glad they had a reason in universe not to kill Korra that was very reasonable, similarly to how in Avatar they were never going to kill Aang because he would simply be reborn. Having a good reason to not kill the main character outright is good, even if in this case its only a temporary measure.
The Avatar series have good plot armor, unlike most other shows that just "coincidentally" never have the main character die
I agree but imagine if some random fire bender soldier kills Aang and he gets reborn and Ozai’s like “Fuck I have to find the Avatar again!”. Wait Azula tried to kill Aang. Azula would’ve either been treated a hero or banished for life or something
Technically taking bending doesn't physically kill them but in a way it's the equivalent of having one soul ripped out or being crippled so it psychologically kills them
@@Blueian742The only problem with the "don't kill Aang" thing is that the Fire Nation doesn't ... really care if he's reborn. If the Comet is coming and the Fire Nation is intending on using it for anything substantial (like taking Ba Sing Se or the North Pole), the Avatar would only be a small infant by the time the comet came, passed, and another nation got deleted.
I understand Zhao wanting to be the "hero who captured the Avatar", but just straight-up not killing him doesn't really make sense.
I don't think the plan of invading the earth kingdom with Sozins Comet was already laid out in season 1. From what Zhao knows the war might aswell last another 100 years so it makes sense to not kill him. I guess he could have crippled Aang or something but obviously the show wouldn't go that far
When I first watched this episode 10+ years ago, I straight up thought that Korra would turn into Aang at the Island the same way Aang turned into Roku or Kyoshi when they felt they needed to. It wouldn't have made no sense since when Roku possessed Aang, he had literally no formal avatar training (he even admits to it). If not that, then at least the Avatar State should have triggered seeing as how that's the entire point of it being a defense mechanism for life or death situations. I also wanted to see Aangs statue start growing the same way the paintings and shrines of past avatars did when Aang went into the Avatar state at the Southern Air Temple
asami not being an equalist was a missed opportunity, it would've helped with how convenient mako's meeting with asami was
I love the gag you created with pointing out how ridiculous Mako's story is. Comedy gold
So you actually just brought up a very cool point in this.
Amon can take away Korras bending which takes away her Identity as the Avatar.
Unavatu was trying to destroy Raava which would end Korra being the Avatar meaning shes still lose herself.
Zaheer attempted to kill Korra as she was in the avatar state to end the cycle of the avatar entirely.
Kuvira was the only villain in all of Korra to not personally attack Korra because of her avatar status and ability and thats actually pretty cool that 3/4 of the villains attempt to end the avatar in their own way.
*DAYUM!* You're starting off strong at 0:03 !
Also, I love Korra's little "spin the guy around using earthbending and then sparta-kick the guy away" maneuver. XD
Really glad to see you doing Korra finally giving it the exact same treatment, can't wait to see what you think of Zaheer and Kuvira lol
I feel like the villians are the only decent thing in Korra.
Bolin feels like a weaker reguritated Sokka - he's not funny and he's not endearing, Mako is ... jesus just Mako, Asumi is forgetable, and Korra (especially later Korra) is so arrogant that it's unlikeable.
However, Amon, Zaheer, and Kuvira are all decent - with Zaheer being the best imo.
That joke about Mako getting hit with the moped just never gets old. Endlessly funny. Nice work haha
12:51 Very similar to foggy swap style but no spinning arms, shows how skilled of a water bender she is as she has learned many styles.
god these consistent uploads again are so fucking nice! loving this series so far, excited to have alot more videos to come as you go through korra
Man you are literally the only reason I will set foot in UA-cam. Thank you for the incredible content
The lizard popping up at the mention of subscribing had me ROLLING 🤣
3:17 Truly LoK had a more mature and realistic romance than ATLA.
The ever-extending Mako-monologue may be your greatest bit outside of Moon Rage.
Korra's weak point appears to be her ankles. And her mounts ankles. Maybe her Ankle Chakra is still locked, and it weakens everyone else's ankles.
I believe the number of wires in the shot at 2:15 is intentional do indicate a more industrial area, and the room at 4:45 is probably like a really nice restroom/powder room
Korra has such an odd place in my heart. After my annual binge of ATLA I always watch Korra and get an odd sense of love and disappointment. She’s a strong avatar when necessary to the plot but weak everywhere else. It reflects human psychology more accurately but also goes against how powerful the avatar can be. She had so much potential with being a toddler already water, earth and fire bending but then she can barely fight an average bender in the first season. So conflicting
Yeah, Korra was really contradictory, and yeah, deals like they had 3 studios trying to make one show together, but each studio has a different idea on how to do things which makes Korra look weak then suddenly she starts dominating just because now korra could defeat the main big bad minion because she's getting help
She actually suck ass at fighting too
Aang has way more Ws than her
I mean I’m not asking you to just be a robot and put these out all day everyday but. That’s what I need. Can’t get enough keep it up dude!
This honestly makes me love Korra as a character more, sure they could’ve rounded it out in some areas but her lack of that public presence as the avatar is evident and really cool
I had to laugh increasingly harder, everytime the "... And she bought cloth, and her father is rich, and..." Joke came xD
13:03 The light source is coming from a lantern held by the equalist immediately to the left of Korra, though it does appear to be lighting the room disproportionately to it's actual location in the frame
I really appreciate Korra's series, I luv ur videos bc i get to enjoy the show all over again with a perspective I also appreciate 🎉 so glad i found ur channel!
They could just make moon Not Full. To hide the point that Amon can't take Korra bending when is Not Full Moon. And just after reveal of blood bending we get that.
That’s genius, why didn’t they do that…
Isn’t Amon’s whole thing that he could blood bend even when the moon isn’t full?
@@SumoLucas I didn't remeber any of that. But could be a cool redherring
@@SatinPolar Amon and Tarloq’s father was a notorious criminal that could blood bend without a full moon. He used blood bending on Aang to try and escape but Aang used the avatar state to overpower him and used energy bending to take his ability to bend away. He retreated to the southern water tribe and assumed a new identity but when he learned his kids could water bend, he forced them to learn to blood bend just like he once could so they could carry on his legacy.
Both Tarloq and Amon can blood bend without the full moon as a result of their enhanced ability and training, but Amon is a significantly stronger blood bender than Tarloq who learned how to use blood bending to essentially permanently chi block and take away someone’s bending.
That’s also how he is able to win in all his martial fights against benders (such as in the underground meeting when he challenged the people who’s bending he was taking to a fight) because he can subtly blood bend without anyone noticing to give an advantage to himself.
The Asami gag is going to get so long and I'm so here for it.
I always thought it was strange that Tarlok would be on the task force as a front or even second-line fighter. No one even comments on it, but I wish they addressed it, like make the raid executors a call-up of Tarlok's old unit in the war or something. I know that doesn't make sense timeline-wise, but I think a senator essentially having the skills of a Navy SEAL should raise some eyebrows.
I *never* would have caught the correlation between "Air" and "The voice in the night" when Amon started speaking on the radio at... well, night.
You define the separation between amateur and professional. This is why you're paid the most likely just well off at most bucks!
The philosophy of the equalist is one I always vibed with. One thing I HATED about legend of Korra is that it made Sokka and his contributions feel WOTHLESS. Like in this world you ONLY mater if yoy are a bender. I don't know, it felt like it had alot of interesting things to say and Amon was a great villian to do that
It’s implied that the reason why Mako’s hair was disheveled was because he just got off a shift from the “electricity bending” factory
Asami is by far the most likable character in the entire show. The writers really did her wrong over the course of the series. Multiple times actually. I didn't really think about how she met Mako while I was watching the first time, but when you actually talk out the way they met like that, it does seem extraordinarily contrived.
Man, I cracked with every "Mako telling his unbelievable story" bit
This episode highlights one of the biggest issue of LoK: Writing it one season at a time meant that they had to rush introductions for many major characters. Mako and Bolin had this issue, and for Asami it's even more obvious. If they had more time (or more direct continuity between seasons) they could have taken it more slowly - introduce her as a potential sponsor early, but keep her to the background, as tensions rise she gets concerned with the team and tries her best to help them stay safe, so by the time the Equalists attack the arena, she has naturally grown closer to them and you can set her up as a full member of the main cast going into season 2. Instead they had to make her a part of the team throughout season 1, which resulted in this rushed "btw, Asami is a thing now!"
13:05. You ask where the light source is coming from when Korra's in the dark, but the closest Chi Blocker on the left side of the circle is just holding a lantern.
6:49 officially marking this video as Not Safe For Work--as in, I'm stifling cackling laughter while at work and it's noticeable
Im glad he mentioned the sun in the west, this is why we subscribe, keep up that over analysing hard work
edit, Love the supermodel bit
I don't know your name, but I really really like your narration style and how your voice matches to it. I know you have covered some different topics besides Avatar on your channel, but regardless of the topic, your narration and the visual cues in the way you edit your videos to match the former it's just too good. One of the reasons I started watching your videos is because I'm also an Avatar fan and boy it's been proven their worth.
I'm looking forward to see any topic being covered by you, if you have the time to do so or if there are also other topics you're passionate about.
Hope your channel grows tenfold.🎉
0:36 Most city councils have some sort of council president or council leader, elected by the members of the council itself. Tarrlok probably has the gavel because at some point the council chose him to lead their meetings and/or be their public spokesman.
Interesting thought: We're told by Tarlok that he's got eyes on the island and that he will immediately act if something goes amiss. Later that night something goes TERRIBLY amiss and there is no reaction from Tarlok or any of the supposed backup that he said he was bringing. When I was first watching these episodes this actually made me straight up believe that Tarlok was Amon. It was a "never seen either of them int he same room" kind of feeling that I affirmed by Korra not receiving any help like Tarlok said she would. It's only further into the season that we find out that this scene was just an inconsistency, but from a first watch standpoint, that was straight up evidence in my brain that Tarlok and Amon were the same person.
I will also note that even though it is an inconsistency, it also has the side effect that it clues the viewers in that Tarrlok was worse than just a politician wanting power.
13:02 You can barely see it, but one of the chi blockers is holding a lantern... Still doesn't make it any less weird that the light is centered around Korra specifically though.
Ah yes. The episode that actually scared our protagonist to her very core. While Amon would eventually regret his decision to not finish off the Avatar right here and now. This is the scene that made me want to give Korra a hug. Then again Tenzin did a good job comforting her like the good mentor that he is.
"Its Garys night tonight" "Oh good, he's good at that" man i cant
13:44, Chi Blocking? It can paralyse limbs, hitting someone with it to the neck knocking them out makes perfect sense to me.
If he can block someone’s chi paths to stop their bending indefinitely then it makes sense if he learned the chi paths and chi blocking this would have to be very advanced chi blocking though since he is the only person that knocks someone unconscious with chi blocking so you probably have to apply the exact right amount of pressure on the exact right place also 15:43 is closer to the scene
@@Sandy-rw2fj, No it’s not? That time stamp is the patron shoutouts right?
The voice he uses to describe the Mako/Asami relationship sounds like a FilmCow (Charlie the Unicorn, Llamas with Hats) voice
Going deeper into the link between korra's identity and her bending: it's also important to note that she's known she's the avatar since she was like 4. Other avatars were allowed to grow and have a childhood before the secret was revieled and their training began. But for Korra, her identity as the avatar is all she realy has because their was never realy a time in her life when she had the opportunity to build anything else.
God, I hope the contrived Asami moments become a running gag. They’re definitely hilarious
Tarlok being the only one with a gavel is actually decent world building, it suggest that's he the equivalent to the House Speaker. Every legislative body has a similar position to it, and it makes perfect sense that this council would elect amongst themselves someone to keep order during deliberation. You could make the claim that Tenzin would be better suited to it, and should have the role, but if you want to microanalyze it you can come to the conclusion that at some point in the past Tarlok weaseled his way in to that position in the pursuit of ever more power which fits his character.
its also possible that a house speaker is a rotating position and it just happens to be Tarlok's turn.
The sudden Bolin eyebrows on Mako made me cackle
I love how you went from no way they could have night vision to they probably have night vision in 5 seconds.
The content is so good that it is impossible to miss a single video of yours 😘🥰
Amon making an exemple of Korra here is such a powerful scene. He could take away her bending, yes, but it would bring way too much attention at a time he isn't planning on it (remember, this fight was Korras idea, his plans are on pace to want this attention later).
Just letting her go, without any consequences to her bending, is WAY more than enough, she's terrified. She has her bending, but is afraid to use it, afraid to fight, so she probably will be afraid to step in suddenly in his plans again for the foreseeable future. It's probably harder for her to try to stop him now that if he had taken it and made her enraged, because she still has something to lose
Btw i THINK Satos "backstory" about how he just suddenly thought about cars is supposed to mirror real-life poor-to-millionaire backstories. Im not sure its intentional but "Ow i was just a regular worker like every one of you than i just decided to be a genius and conquered everything i have" is like the number 1 story to ignore/cope with privileges, and considering how he ends up, i think it makes sense
Also the Mako bit was hilarious, im still laughing about it
My guy, he's literally Henry Ford. Like, Ford was a mechanic of some kind rather than a shoe shiner but he came from an immigrant family of farmers. Even the wiki notes the parallel cos it's blindingly obvious.
"Despite some fan misconception, Hiroshi did not invent the automobile in-universe, but was the person to develop it into a viable technology for everyday use. Furthering the parallels, Ford is also frequently mistaken as the inventor of the automobile, but was instead the first person to create a truly viable version of it."
This was the 1800's US you actually COULD get rich with luck and hard work back then. The old money wasn't entrenched. I mean it's also survivour bias but his backstory in the time period is belivable given it's based on a real guy.
@@vivusthevivusthing6182 I didn't deny that, tho I really didn't know about Ford's backstory as a shoe shiner. If that's the case, it's even more blatant parody of what I had talked about because if he really is like Ford, he isn't quite the person to make the first CAR, but the first really sucessful car production, which is even less accessible for people on the working class, specially at the time and specially for a non-bender in a world so unfair to them as Korra's. Both Hiroshi and Ford definetly had a way less difficult past that they tell or had some miraculous opportunities fall onto their lapses
@@adv78 I said in my comment ford was a mechanic from a immigrant farmer family not a shoe shiner. Also that haroshi didn't invent the car but made them more affordable like ford did. And yes they both did get extremely lucky which Hiroshi's shoe shiner speech doesn't deny his whole point in that line (though actually a veiled plot to get the avatar more invested in pro bending for equalist reasons) was that he knows that if you pounce on one good opportunity you can go from nothing to a lot. He wasn't denying the need for a lucky break he was offering one.
Normally, I use incognito mode to bypass youtube's adblocker blocker, but I turned my adblocker off just for this video!! Keep the series going!!!
Crazy how you were hesitant to do this series because you weren’t sure that you had enough to say. Curious to see at what point your opinion changes, because so far you’ve had a lot of positive things to say. It’s actually made me appreciate LoK a lot more than I already had, and I liked Korra plenty.
This is the only episode of Korra I'll give a ten out of ten, the set up the story telling, characterazion is perfect and sets up something about Korra that makes perfect sense
2 things I think this show has over ATLA are the fights and how punchy they are, and the emotion. Characters in ATLA could get pretty emotional at times, but LoK takes it to a new level imo. They kind of do a sort of happy middle between that ugly/raw crying in Arcane while also keeping it a bit more subdued. If I remember correctly, this isn't even the only time we get that kind of emotion from Korra and friends in the series. And I like that a lot. I always get a little disappointed when characters don't get to release their emotions in ways that aren't outbursts of anger and frustration. Doesn't have to be crying or whatever, could be a panic attack or just a shutting down (like S4)
0:32 i'm assuming maybe he's the chairman of the council or something like that and that's why he has the gavel.