DARKEST FORM OF BENDING? 🫣🩸 AVATAR: The Last Airbender "THE PUPPERTMASTER" (Reaction & Review) 3x8
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2024
- In this video, we review and react to the episode "The Puppetmaster" of the hit tv show Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's been a while since I watched this series, and it's the perfect time to refresh my memory and get my girlfriend into the show. Thank you for watching with us! ❣️
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My personal theory/headcanon was that after Roku died & Aang became the Avatar The Fire Nation wanted to speed up the Avatar Cycle to get another Firebending Avatar to help them conquer the planet. So, the Fire Nation used the comet to destroy the Air Temples so the Avatar would be reborn as a Waterbender. Because of this, the Fire Nation started kidnapping Waterbenders like Hama to figure out which of them was the Avatar, but since Aang didn't die the Fire Nation likely realized the Airbending Avatar survived. As a result, the Fire Nation spent decades on conquering the Earth Kingdom where they thought the Avatar was hiding even though he was near the South Pole the entire time.
Makes sense
Oh wow, interesting point here! That would make so much sense too
I love the Avatar fandom for theories like this that enrich the lore of the IP. This is so spot on and makes perfect sense.
love that theory
Didn't Zuko explicitly say in like the first episode that the reason they were at the south pole is because the avatar should have reincarnated in the water tribe. It seems that until Aang showed up they thought they had killed the air nation reincarnation of the avatar.
Granted that may have just been early in ATLAs development before they fleshed things out, since we have the flashback in a few episodes that suggests Zuko at least checked for the potential of the Airbender surviving
as u keep watching, PLEASE remember that Katara can only blood bend during a full moon... Cuz so many reactors lose their minds screaming "JUST BLOOD BEND" over and over cuz they never remember that its not a power Katara has access to most of the time.....
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She also said in this episode shell never use it.
@@hasicazulatv2078 the problem is that ppl think Kataras vow to never blood bend is the only reason she won't. So they see it as either a self-imposed nerf, or even a plot hole whenever she doesn't use it.
Cuz I still think she absolutely would use it in a desperate situation, especially to save the ppl she loved.
if you’ve seen Overanalyzing Avatar, you’ll know that in the ATLA universe its more often a full moon than not 🤣 Its actually surprising how many episodes feature a full moon considering the whole story takes place over 6-8 months
@@0hReactions i still feel like 3-4 years worth of shit happened in that half year timeframe lol.
A cool little thing I read somewhere was you can really see how each of the gang learns from each other, in turn making them stronger fighters.
Waterbending is all about flow, redirection, and using your enemies energy against them. That’s why Hama is so caught off guard when instead of redirecting the big water attack, Katara stands her ground and puts her hand out to fully stop Hama’s attack. That’s an earthbending technique. Learning from Toph. It’s so amazing to see that even this late in the series they’re still learning and getting better.
Learning from your friends! I'm loving that theme 🥹
That move always stood out to me as novel but I couldn't articulate why. Thanks for the insight! It expands on the tradition we first see from Iroh of borrowing from other cultures and bending disciplines to grow and enrich yourself.
That scene where Katara directly stops Hama's attack with the big half sphere of water always give me goosebumps. Seeing how each member of team Avatar grows from their exposure to one another is so cool.
As the guru stated, the separation of the four elements is an illusion. Here we see Katara use a earth bending stance to perform a water bending technique when she did that block. Hama knew she was outmatched at that point.
Also, the Avatar is so much more powerful than everyone else because they learn all these different styles. It's not just being able to bend each element, and it's not just being able to use all those past lives to connect to their elements. They see how one blends into the other, and how separation is a myth.
Avatar Kuruk was famous for his bending abilities in individual elements and to unify the elements together
Feel so bad for Katara, constantly being used and having her boundaries crossed. Her trust always betrayed. Even by her own tribe
Agreed😪
For all Hama's craziness she did have a point: in a war of annihilation, Katara needs all the tools she can get. Bloodbending doesn't have to be used, but Katara should have it available.
Trrruueee
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@@MeeshDeeReactsif you guys didn't notice the girl in hama flashback during the attack was gran gran
Hama: “So you can carry on the southern tradition when I’m gone🥰😙”
The tradition: blood bending😈🩸
There’s a theory that Nini from the scary story was actually a spirit that Kya saw. When Aang projected his spirit with Heibai and when uncle Iroh saw him he was distinctly blue tinted 👀 kinda scary if you think about it
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oh shit that’s a good ass theory😂
wow i’ve seen avatar more times than i can count, and never considered this 👍🏻👍🏻
That wouldn't make since because katara said it was there mom's friend. And she turned blue so how is it she's a spirit the whole time ? unless she died in the snow.
I also think hama was about to kidnap them but when she heard water tribe she offered to help them instead
Fun fact: this was aired as a Halloween special.
When Katara exploded the water attack from Hama with her hand, she was using a earthbending stance by standing her ground and facing it head on. This is what essentially makes the Gaang better than an army. Its not just Aang who learns from the 4 nations, each person somewhat influences another person in the group and the result is each member becoming more versatile or in Uncle Irohs words "it helps them become whole". It's very cool 😁😁.
For a one time antagonist, Hama was a pretty fantastic character. As we saw, she wasn't always this way, but because of war and how the Fire Nation treated her and her fellow tribesmen, she was warped into this person. It's pretty sad to see honestly, how someone could turn so resentful that they start to do onto others what was done to them. In a way Hama was basically Jet but worse and to the point of no return.
And despite Hama being locked away again, she still essentially won in the end. She laid out her terms, which was to bring another bloodbender into the world, and she succeeded. That's why Katara cried in the end. She not only fulfilled Hama's twisted wish, but because waterbending is a part of her, this "evil" technique is now a part of her. She was forced to learn a technique that she never wanted to learn and can never unlearn now. To say the least, it's pretty traumatizing. It's also why I've always saw this episode as a loss of innocence, because it's like Katara was tainted because of what she had to do. Such a dark episode!
And bloodbending is only OP for Katara if there's a full moon and she's willing to actually use that technique (seeing as she seems to hate what it represents).
Great reaction 😆😊. Hope u have a wonderful day ahead ☺️.
The PERFECT Halloween special! Think we're going to have to make it a thing to watch this every year around Halloween now lol
I love how you brought up how they all learn from one another and to become more balanced and "whole" as you said. So on point! Just a great takeaway from life in general too.
A very dark episode indeed! These show writers are something else...just so damn good! 😭
Hope you have a great Monday! 💚
"each person somewhat influences another person in the group and the result is each member becoming more versatile" - that's so true! I don't want to spoil anything so I keep it vague, but Katara later uses a certain breathing move from **** to defrost the ice in a certain fight. ^^
the syncrhonized "OH, HELL NOooo" is so funny
LMAOO sometimes we don't even realize we be doing that at the same time 😂😂
I felt for Hama. Being taken from her home, having to watch all her friends pass away over the decades she was imprisoned, and the way she was treated. Only to be put back in prison at the end. Although I’m sure she probably could just break herself out again.
That scene in the end: Katara Crying always gets me. Why she cries? Cause she is the most human of the whole group. She feels the pain that the other ones have. So, why this powerful bending was a gift to the person who always likes to do ever right? That’s nuts! Beside the finale this is my one of my favorite episodes from the entire Series. See soon girls. ❤
I think she cried for hama
@manulopez4697 agreed! -D
Getting closer to the series finale!! 🥹🫶
@@MeeshDeeReacts Mmm I think we still have a lot to watch. Just enjoy it 😉😊
Hama's lips do be looking crazy 😭
LMAO right?! hella dusty 💀
-D
I appreciate how in ATLA and LOK, the characters' bending styles connect to their personalities.
Toph's Southern Praying Mantis form embodies neutral jing -- listening and waiting and responding quickly and decisively.
Hama's aggressive waterbending with claws and spikes reflects her sinister nature. Before sapping the lillies of their lifeforce, Hama first displays her ice claws, which feels simultaneously cool but it's in direct opposition to Katara's more defensive style focused on redirecting energy, which fits her adaptable spirit. Katara uses force when absolutely necessarily -- even when choosing to finally bloodbend Hama, we can see she does it as a last resort with regret on her face as she immobilizes her opponent.
Seeing how each character fights gives insight into who they are inside. I love how their unique bending expresses deeper aspects of their character and motivations.
Also, Hama’s bloodbending style is actually based off Qinna/Chin Na, which involves directly exploiting a target’s physical structure, including joint locking. If proper discipline and force is used (too much breaks/dislocates bones and too little allows a target to muscle their way out), then the hyperextension of fingers, arms, and other body parts that have joints is an example of Qinna. It causes pain, and it can make a target move or stay still, according to the attacker’s will, in an instinctive attempt to avoid a dislocation of joints. Even pulling an ear (which is made of cartilage instead of bones) can be a basic Qinna technique. Notice how after Hama declares her control over Katara, not only is Katara dragged with her arm straightened, as if Hama was hyperextending her arm *while* pushing and pulling her, but Hama’s hands when dragging Katara are positioned as if she is hyperextending Katara’s arm. Bloodbending is ranged Qinna, and true to the nature of the element of control, it also pushes and pulls the target by exploiting their physical structure’s need for water to survive, and like someone faced with a Qinna fighter, a target who physically cannot disobey the bloodbender, must obey the bloodbender.
This is my favorite epi. Literally blood curdling
Favorite episode. I love me some witches breaking out of prisons.
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3:00 "OH HELL NOOO" 💀
😂😂😂😂😂😂
8:30 that’s Gran gran btw
It’s not confirmed. We don’t know when she left the northern tribe
It’s so disgusting how Hama was the main reason why katara mom got killed. Especially with how the story lines up with katara as the southern raiders were looking for Hama after her escape and when kya gave herself up Yan Rah said that he wasn’t taking any prisoners that day making it think that kya was Hama.
Hey Meesh and Dee "Happy Monday". Congratulations on passing 4k subscribers. This was great episode. A very dark one. I like that this episode was Katara focus but sad for that she learned how to Blood Bend in which you can see the fear in her that terrified her.
I wasn't surprised Hama was a bad guy. But I did felt bad for her because of her backstory and how she became a prisoner. And what it shaped her into. Even I don't agree with her actions. She reminds me a little of Jet from season 1. Someone who life was ruined by the Firenation that they wanted revenge so bad that they're willing to hurt the innocent. But anyway I hope you two have a wonderful day. Stay safe, take care and stay amazing.
Happy Monday, Rob!! Thanks for the continuous love and support here - Can't believe we have 4k+ community! 🎉
Hama definitely reminds me of Jet too and trying to get all the revenge on the Fire nation. Her water bending skills are seriously no joke! What a crazy episode - definitely one of our favorites! Hope you have a wonderful day and rest of your week 🤩
@MeeshDeeReacts You're two are welcome and anytime. You two have been killing it with reactions. Yes Hama abilities are insane and crazy powerful. I hope the rest of you two day are enjoyable 😁
It's amazing how a "kids show" can ask so much of its viewers to tread through topics that have a lot of moral ambiguity. Hama has to be stopped. Also, she's not wrong.
I always read Katara's "Stop, please," was more a warning than a plea. She didn't want to have to take Hama down-she wanted Hama to stand down because she generally believes in giving people a chance to redeem themselves.
hands down one of my favorites
This episode goes SO hard
"Oh hell no" in stereo. That was great. 🤣
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Dee, your reaction was so good. You looked how I felt the first time I watched it 😂
Just makes me wonder though, could an earthbender do the same by bending the iron in our blood? Or the calcium mineral in our bones? Terrifying! 😬😱
Haha omg I can’t even imagine watching this when it originally aired like 17yrs ago! Lol I’m an adult now and Hama still gives allll the creepy vibes 🤣
That would be crazy if earthbenders could bend iron in our blood 🤯 now that would be OP.
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Bones maybe. But I don't think it would work. Otherwise. Remember humans have more water in their body than they do Any other element.
feel like its leaned on the comfort woman situation. but made it child friendly
The good thing about katara learn bloodbend is her not using it to other person she use it to herself to get out of hama bloodbending as you can see how hama shocked when katara move and able to fight her back. #Openforcorrection 🤔
Hama shoulda fled to the northern water tribe and shared bloodbending with the commanders of the northern army.
Honestly this is how you do a Halloween themed episode 😂
Edit: the fire nation really did create a lot of villains 😂
This episode used to creep my out so bad as a kid. I love it though, but I always wondered why she didn’t free the other waterbenders that were imprisoned there with her. 🤔
If this wasn't nicleodeon, the fire Nation wouldn't take prisoners
technically water benders can just freeze the water inside of people for an op af one shot
LETS GO!!
LFG!!
A lot of people start suspecting Hama of being Nini when they watch this episode, but remember, Nini was a friend of Katara's mother when she was younger... and Nini was a little girl too...
Hama is really old and the backstory she told started 60 years ago....
If you look at Katara's father, he's clearly not a seventy to eighty year old man...
So unless he had kids with a woman who's double his age, there's no way Hama could have been a little girl at the same time Katara's mother was a little girl...
Hama was friends with gran gran. That makes it more sad tbh.
DEE wait till you watch The Legend Of Korra when you see more special bending from Earth Benders. Metal Bending is one of them the other Special Bending has existed long before Toph Metal Bending founded Metal Bending.
I love you both
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Hama was right idc
Not a kids show.
-sokka, long time ago -
I want moarrrrrrrrrrr reaction videos
Hama is the best ❤❤
This episode is a perfect example of how Katara's progression is bull crap.
At the North pole it took at least a week to become a "Master" and it's been stated multiple times that the bending forms take years to perfect.
Now Hama being a blood bender took a lot of time to get right and I am to believe Katara got it right away? Yeah it's bull crap. Not hating the character just don't like how unrealistic her development was handled.
Maybe because Katara is a far more powerful water bender? Also it’s not like she was forcing Hami to do the most complicated movements ever, she only made her go down, I would imagine than doesn’t take as much training as forcing a guard to break you out of prison
That’s your argument? Not very well thought out to be honest. So tell me guy how is it that Katara was able to break out of Hamas grip and Hama couldn’t break out of Katara’s
@@redfieldwong717 how? Katara at this point is a far more powerful water bender and the grand daughter of arguably the best water bender of her time, not to mention how dedicated she was to protect her friends, her emotions always fueled her powers, we see that the very first episode. The first thing we see Hama blood bend a rat to subdue it and make go on the ground, basically the same thing Katara did but a longer scale. Why is BS that Katara wouldn’t be capable of at least bloodbending someone/thing to stay still?
Serious question: Why is it only ever Katara that gets those kinds of comments?
Potential spoiler upcoming. You're fine if you're 3+ episodes ahead of the videos, but I'm putting the warning here just in case.
Why not Zuko getting first try lightning redirection against the most powerful firebender in the world? Or Toph figuring out Metalbending within a few minutes? Or Aang going from being useless at Earthbending to better than anyone not named Toph in an instant? All of these are similarly ridiculous, but gee I wonder why it's Katara's feats getting questioned.
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Katara and Zuko are NOT born talented.
If given the chance I would’ve pointed it out. Both Zuko and Katara had to struggle to achieve greatness. Zuko couldn’t achieve lightning generation and wasn’t able to come close to Azulas skill of fire bending. The trope is annoying of how we can criticize male characters but god forbid we can’t point out a female’s shortcomings.🙄
Plus if you really read my comment I stated no hate on the character