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People say that Sokka is acting weird this episode... but remember.... Sokka barely had entertainment his entire life... isn't it normal to go crazy once he can actually enjoy himself???
@@vetarlittorf1807 Well, I think nerd in this context isn't a bad connotation. He becomes more of a nerd as the show progresses. From that misogynistic "muscle-head" young boy to a strategist that's excited about airballoons and smelly bombs :3
@@capeisdead2987 Another possible reason that I like to think is the Earthbending wrestlers (The Boulder, Gopher, etc.) tell the description of Toph as a big muscular guy when they were being interviewed by the writer of Ember Island theatre play. Since, it would hurt their pride from the thought that a bunch of muscular guys were beaten by a little blind girl.
It honestly feels so weird revisiting Season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender now because I'm so weurd not seeing Toph with the gang. Just goes to show how much of an impact she made in the series.
@@masterofmeow8894 Fun Fact: Why the hell are you in an Avatar Video if you consider it overrated, honestly in my opinion Avatar is a Great Show, why didn’t you like it that much I would like to know
I’m visually impaired. I can see a few feet ahead of me, but I am legally blind and have a white cane. I love Toph. I’m also constantly dropping blind jokes. I was making them long before I actually watched, to the point where people kept telling me to watch ATLA lmao. I love that she really only brings up her blindness as a joke, when the other characters forget she’s blind (because she’s so badass).
My dude YES my closest friends were stunned when they realised I hadn’t watched ATLA and I’m so glad they pointed me in this show’s direction! My only wish now is it could’ve been around when I was younger so that I could’ve had Toph as an aspirational role model in how to embody my disability while growing up. Her being a girl was hugely appreciated too since disabled characters in general were often boys - not always oh course but most disabled girl characters were usually the ones needing protecting or curing so Toph really was a radical change in representation
The criticism that Sokka was “over the top” in this episode is something I would have to disagree with. First off, Sokka would roughly be about 15 in this season. If you’re gonna put a teenage boy into a wrestling type environment, I would expect nothing less than obnoxious loudness from him! Sokka is also indulgent. He likes what he likes and he likes liking it-so seeing him let loose and go a little crazy at a bending match he’s been newly introduced to just means he’s excited and hyped. He’s gonna go all out. This intensity might seem even more exaggerated because everyone else’s focus isn’t actually on the entertainment aspect of the matches, but rather a more serious goal. I find it quite in character that Sokka would be an annoying teenage boy in this setting 😂 if anyone else were to have been acting so invested in the bending battles that would have seemed out of place!
I agree. I could EASILY see him act the exact same way in the later seasons...hell, we see him act like this in the last episode before the finaly when he the actor that plays him uses the jokes he came up with. Sokka is an over the top dude. He might be a bit more chill in the later season ofcourse but he hasn't really change all that much. He have gotten over his sexism, have gotten more confident as a leader and have learned how he can properly contribute to the group...but he is still the same over the top energetic goofball when in a more peaceful environment. Even at the end of the series he paints Suki to firebend in his drawing of the group simply because it would be cooler....He is without a doubt an annoying teenager at heart XD
Add on top; for much of his life there was basically no entertainment at all in the Southern water tribe. So like. Yeah. It makes sense for him to let loose here!
It’s crazy to think that Avatar Analysis/Video Essays still exist on UA-cam, 16 years after its debut and all of them feel refreshing and new each time Says a lot about how perfect the series was
The fact that Sokka becomes such a fan of the Boulder so quickly makes perfect sense to me. A lot of Sokka's character (especially early on) comes down to his issues with masculinity. He's super sexist in the first few episodes of the show and it's revealed that his father told him to take care of the village and his sister after he's told he's not allowed to go with the other men into battle because he's too young. His whole image of himself is wrapped up in being this perfect warrior. Someone super strong and traditionally masculine like the Boulder would be exactly the kind of person Sokka would look up to.
One of the things that I love about avatar was how the show did Toph’s relationship with the rest of the gaang. Katara in particular was really, really thoughtless in an incredibly mean way for quite a long time. Take The Chase, for example. One of the big through lines of the episode is that Katara is unhappy that Toph isn’t acting as a team player. But Katara belittles Toph throughout, at one point criticizing her for sleeping under a rock tent instead of with the others as they fall asleep while watching the stars. Which is an incredibly dense/cruel thing to say to a blind person who has never and will never see the night sky. The show makes a big emphasis on how Toph needs to rely on others, but I actually think how Katara changes away from this is more interesting. Seeing this side of her makes it all the better when the gaang is trapped in the Siwong Desert and Katara has to get her act together to keep everyone alive. When Toph is at her weakest and unable to “see”, Katara steps up and takes care of her, even as Sokka and Aang are themselves falling apart and need help.
Agreed. To add to this, The Runaway ep specially made it clear how the relationship of Sokka/Katara is, aswell as Toph/Katara. Here we see that they still have their differences and can fight from time to time, but as soon as they have their time off and Sokka explains to Toph why Katara is the way she is and opens up with her about not even remembering right the face of their mother but instead Katara's, it speaks volumes as to how important of a role model or support Katara can be. Right after this, they device the plan and so on but the important thing is that they understood each other better and for Toph to understand it and ask for help to write the letter, shows how much she now trusts Katara.
I thought Toph was being just as thoughtless in The Chase since she wasn't understanding what being part of a group meant. She was acting as a tag-along that only took care of herself, which makes sense considering her sheltered upbringing and self-reliance but that doesn't make it less frustrating for the rest of the group
I really love those episodes. Personally, since I relate more to katara I saw tophs actions as worst. But now that I am older and I rewatched it, I can see the wrong and right in both. That's what I like so much about ATLA. The characters feel real; and according to our own personalities/priorities, we sympathize more with one character than with another. The show also makes clear that neither characteristic (katara's group mentality and motherly personality vs toph's individual mindset and blunt personality) is wrong or worst. They both are good but each can also have flaws. And I like how throughout the show we see them work through it as the gaang gets closer. Like how u mentioned the desert episode, by acknowledging their flaws and compromising woth each other, it actually strengthens the good parts of their characteristics.
Fun fact: Zuko was the first of only two characters to bleed in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He bled for the first time in "The Avatar State" when Azula scratched his forehead with her nails. The second character to bleed was Appa in "Appa's Lost Days".
@@enkiimuto1041 There is more than 4 in the animated franchise. I remember at least 5 but they might be more. Avatar the last airbender : - Katara - The old woman who teached her about bloodbending Legend of Korra : - The criminal which got is waterbending removed by Aang - Amon - Amon's brother (can't remember his name)
Toph is without a doubt one of my favorite characters introduced to Season 2 because although she is blind it didn't let it be a hindrance to her as she was able to do Earth Bending as she was taught by the Badger Moles, along with helping Aang to become an Earth Bender. Plus, she has a unique sense of humor especially in the episode, "The Library".
Also the fact that many forget is that, Toph's own family hid her. Remember the kids that the gaang interviewed about the family said so "They don't have a daughter"
Jesse Flower really brought Toph to life, like it would be weird if she wasn't there. In Korra, as a adult woman, she has responsibility as a New Republic officer, while taking care of her daughters, yet till can roast Aang at age 40 (voiced by Kate Higgins, aka Saukra from Naruto) Then she becomes the Yoda figure to Korra when she really needed it, and RIP to Philece Sampler, who recently passed.
It's amazing how well the show and characters were written. Before Toph was introduced into the Gaang, you had a sense that the group was complete, but after Toph joins, you can't imagine the Gaang without her.
What I like about Toph was not only how strong she was in spite of her disability (which she made a strength) but how well-written she was as a CHARACTER. The fact that she was disabled wasn't her identity or the sum total of her character but simply an aspect of it. She was as self-conscious as she was publicly arrogant & compassionate as she was obstinate but she never let pride nor arrogance get in the way of admitting her shortcomings or learning there was more than one way of going about things. She genuinely progresses as a character as the story goes on ,especially when juxtaposed to Aang in being his mentor & bringing him out of his shell, she learns there's just as much strength in vulnerability & relying on others as there is in being independent & relying on her own strength. There's so much care & attention paid to her journey & growth (both as a person & a bender) that all the other factors like her blindness or her being child become inconsequential or secondary in light of that. In fact the reason why a lot of the blind jokes land so well is because Toph IS so capable that the gang legit forgets she has a disability.
It helps that the jokes always hit so freaking well. Probably because she is the one that always makes the joke and no one else. "I can't see a thing!" '"Ohh no, how terrible...""sorry.." "there it is! Is what it will sound like when one of you guys see it!" *Waves hand infront of face to show she can't see* "Its upside down, isnt it?..." "well, it sounds like a piece of paper but I assume what you are refering to is what is ON the paper!" The fact her feeling a need to independent to the point where just puring her tea makes her feel like she is being patronized is an amazing and believeable character trait for her to overcome. She is so afraid of being seen as a weakling that needs help and gets babied that she does everything in her power to not show any weakness in the beginning but slowly learns to accept help from her friends. Even asking Katara to write a letter for her to her parents is amazing very subble character development.
As a blind person myself I've always admired the character of Toph because she's one of the few, and I mean very few blind characters in television who isn't defined by their blindness. She isn't used for cheap inspiration bait, or some lame self-empowerment message. She's powerful, but not overpowered. She doesn't feel like a character who was put into a show to appeal to a disabled market. She exists equally alongside the entire cast, and her blindness is only ever brought up when it has something to deal with the plot, or in rare cases the development of her character. On top of that, she takes pride in her blindness. It's not something she wants of course, but it's not going away anytime soon so she takes control of it and starts using it to her advantage. There aren't many blind characters, or I'd even go as far to say disabled characters in general, on TV who act like that. It's not easy to write a character like her either, but the Avatar team managed to do it. Big respect to them.
@@blahthebiste7924 she is overpowered in that way, but not in the Captain Marvel kind of sense where nothing ever hurts her and she never has to struggle. She's powerful, but in the scale of the show it makes sense. I think what I'm trying to get at is that her blindness doesn't turn her into a walking suit of plot armor.
@@Oznerock I suppose earthbending could very well turn her into a suit of armor. Imagine trying to fight somebody and then they come at you in a whole Rock suit.
Agreed, season 1 is just decent. None of the characters have gone through their important development yet, and Toph isn't even there. Toph is the character I loved so much that it kept me watching, Zuko is the character whose development made love the show overall
I always viewed toph’s blindness as a riff on the trope in Greek tragedies where the blind person is the only one who can truly “see” as toph is the only one who can see earth bending moves ahead of time, she can see the earth in metal bending, and she can see if someone is telling the truth.
Toph has always been, by far, my favorite character. Oh, it was the earth to metal bending that absolutely blew my mind, in fact its one of the biggest standouts of any anime ive ever watched. She made something unique out of something sooooo many people use on a daily basis, but she alone transformed it into something new. Just mind blowing.
I relate too much to Toph. She’s got a disability, but never lets it slow her down. She’s tougher than she looks and can hold her own in a scrap. She’s earned my respect and then some
"tougher than she looks and can hold her own in a scrap" that is one hell of an understatement, she's the strongest character in the show by a decent margin
@@blahthebiste7924 agreed she can probably beat all except azula and ozai(cause lightning bending) the vatars for obvious reasons and the white lotus GM's however according to some comic she went to a draw with king bumi
@@aspreedacore I really want to see that fight between "the greatest earth bender in the world" and "the most powerful earth bender you will ever meet"
Toph is one of the reasons that helped put ATLA into god-tier shows. Love that the creators got Foley to voice the Boulder, one of the Rock's greatest rival and friend. The detail that they got Mark Hamill to voice Ozai was a magnificent call. Azula, Toph, Iroh, & Zuko really upgraded Avatar as a series
Regarding Dwayne Johnson, Transformers Prime was able to get him to voice Cliffjumper in the first episode. The character gets killed almost immediately. Like, within the first five minutes. Which makes me wonder just exactly how expensive it was to afford the Rock for a voice role, that Avatar wasn't able to get him, but Transformers somehow could for essentially a throwaway role.
From what I understoood, it wasn't that he was unwilling to do it, or a matter of expense, there was a just scheduling conflict and he had his friend Mick Foley step in for him.
Sokka's arc throughout the show is my personal favourite arc. As you touched on, how he grows from this goofy kid with no understanding of the elements, to the leader of the team who fully understands the elements and how best to use them. It's chef kiss brilliant. Zuko's arc is arguably more emotional for the viewer - and definitely more explosive. But Sokka takes first place for me.
Toph and Iroh are the best characters in the avatar universe and it's SO fitting that they got to meet, away from all their allies, and they just got along like two peas in a pod. Sokka isn't being immature! He's just hyped! It's excited by what's happening. It's like watching sports or theater. It's not immature to enjoy it.
My favorite thing is that her hesitance to go with the Gaang makes sense. Her biggest issue with her parents and the people in that part of her life is that they view her ENTIRELY as blind. Shes not a person who happens to be blind to them. ALL they see is the disability. Nothing else matters. And at first, it seems pretty clear to her that the Gaang only see her as a means to an end. She is the tool to teach Aang. So of course shes not gonna uproot her life just to trade one group that doesnt see her as a person for another. But then, as she starts interacting with them, she starts seeing that they view her as HER first, and a potential teacher second. And everything changes.
Great vid! Though I'm kinda sad you didn't mention the episode where she kinda tries out the "girly" thing for once, like a spa and make-over. I thought that was awesome! Not many shows get that right even today: That just because a lass is a brawler / really not your stereotypical girly girl, doesn't mean she can't be interested in those things to, want to try it out, or actually be good at it. These are not mutual exclusive opposites, just different aspects to a personality. I love what they did with that, and how they went about it.
I also like how she's just another kid. She's young and has a lot to learn, and I think if she was a big jock people outside of the gaang would've regarded Toph with some intimidation. This way she fits the theme of the gaang being a bunch of kids that grow into powerful fighters, and she does so many things people wouldn't expect of her. Not just because of her disability, but because of her size, age, and gender.
This just shows the immense importance of Aaron Ehaz and how underrated he is. Even Mike and Brian acknowledge how Aaron kept them grounded in the writers room. No joke avatar wouldn’t be what it is without him and I believe for a spin-off to reach the level of avatar they need Aaron.
I am convinced that is one of the many reasons why LoK was so lackluster. That is not to say Mike and Brian are not talent, and Dragon Prince was fun and all, not nearly as good as avatar. They were a team, and should really stick together.
She is a great example of a "physically strong" female character. She is a total badass, arrogant, and a jerk. You understand why she is like this and they still make her character very vulnerable in a number of ways. Recent pushback against a number of upheld popularized female characters is bred from their failings in writing the characters correctly. While Avatar does right by all their female characters, IMO Toph and Mulan are the prefect examples of strong battle ready female characters. The remake of Mulan strips her of her development and vulnerabilities being things she needs to overcome.
When I was doing my first watch through, my cousin was telling me how excited he was for me to get to Toph and the way he described Toph, I really expected a big huge jock and not a blind little girl, so her reveal was so cool for me.
Toph is my favorite character in avatar. I love her tougher personality even though she isn't always that easiest to get along with, also her strong sense of confidence in herself and her abilities. She rarely doubts herself or what she can do, and I admire her for that.
@@BlueBlazeKing Yup, that's how it goes. A lot of people like to do the absolute opposite of what their parents did. My mother's parents were very absent which gave her a lot of freedom, but IF they ever found out about her drinking and such, they were incredibly mad about it. Which is why my mom was very involved and overprotective, and at the same time 100% cool with us smoking pot in the family living room at 18. Just so long as she knows about everything, it's all fine. The perfect opposite of her parent's approach.
Toph had the BEST character introduction. Nobody else was so mysterious or hyped with the visions and her being introduced as the Blind Bandit... She's holding her belt over her head and the "camera" makes her look huge, only to zoom out and she has two show girls towering over her. All of it.
Toph as how i would describe her: Toph is an girl with humor. She’s small but don’t underestimate her power. She’s got confidence in herself. And Although she’s humorous she isn’t afraid to show what she’s thinking out loud. If she’s angry with you you’ll know. Overall she’s easy to get allong with in time aslong as you learn her boundaries and accept and deal with them. She’s someone who deals with her own problems. Yet if you need her on an battlefield she isn’t afraid to step in. She’s an trust full person when she considers you an friend.
I think Toph is really incredible for how well she was able to join the main cast. The show spends a little more than a season developing the dynamic between Aang, Katara, and Sokka that it feels like it would be hard to integrate someone else in. Then they take Toph, a character who until this episode was only seen in a vision by Aang and put her with gang, and she fits perfectly. In just a few episodes she feels like a core part of the group and she became one of the fan favorite characters.
I love how you point out Sokka being such a kid during book1 and the beginning of Book2. I think it also parallels real life growth young men go through, from wanting to be cool and flashy to strong, secure and stable.
What I love about Toph, just as a fixture of the show, is that she represents the excellent collaboration that went into Avatar from ALL of the staff that would make it so good. If the head writer hadn’t fought for the change, we would have had a very different character and it probably wouldn’t have worked as well. It reminds you that great shows are a team effort.
Another thing with Sokka, he’s more self-serious in Season 1 (especially early on); he’s actually getting to be more expressive in early Season 2 because he’s more relaxed despite the mission they have ongoing. But he learns balance later this Season and becomes the competent leader in Season 3.
That's the first episode of avatar i showed my friends. They really enjoyed it. We listened to the rest of the series starting from here. you can understand evrything if you start here. Its one of the best episodes.
I love Toph. When I was a kid watching Avatar she was my favorite character. Now being grown I realize that I had parents who were very much like her's. It really makes me wonder if I subconsciously chose her for that reason. I do not talk to my parents at all now.
Correction: Mick Foley became popular as Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love with WWE in the 90s, he did wrestle in the 80s, but he hit the mainstream in the mid-to-late 90s Also the Fire Nation character seems like a nod to Sergeant Slaughter after his heel turn in the 80s
How did I not get the "Boulder" "rock" reference ! Once you see it you can't un see it . I cannot imagine the rock on Avatar but I think I would have still loved it
I'm glad they made Toph a little girl, she's tiny in stature but huge in personality and power. She also didn't care for propriety or being meek like she was raised to be, she was unapologetically herself, which is a great example for young girls who grew up watching Avatar.
Something I like about Toph’s fight style is her closeness to the ground I mean, as an earthbender, the moment you jump is the moment you lost. I know Toph has to stay glued to the floor so she can see, but it is also the best way to fight
One of my favorite episodes, the not so subtle Pro Wrestling satire with a Randy Savage impression is great. Also Sokka’s unwillingness to see anything but brute strength as a measure for power fits into his character at that point imo.
I feel like that anecdote at the beginning perfectly illustrates how Aaron filtering and refining Mike and Bryan's ideas is what allowed them to capture lightning in a bottle.
Mick Foley was a wrestling legend who was mostly active from the mid 90s to early 2000s. He is also an accomplished writer and was the Rock's tag team partner in The Rock-n-Sock Connection. He's awesome and the Boulder role is perfect for him. It isn't that he isn't self aware, but that he is aware of how over the top that type of character is and plays him as slightly silly. He plays it as a spectacle over everything character to highlight how Toph is blunt and straightforward
I like how Toph uses her bending. As you said, her style is completely different than the other earth benders. If her style was the same hard hitting, overpowering bending, it'd be weird. Like, she's a strong earthbender, but she's still a teenage girl with no muscles. She's not gonna be as strong as these buff grown men.
The best use of depicting disability in a fictional show. She has weaknesses and the gaang jokes about it with her but she isn’t defined by that. She’s defined as the best Earth bender in the world!
The gang was amazing when it was a trio but toph made the gang feel complete which is very rare. I remember when the Rugrats added Kimmi, And it felt like a gimmick especially when they added dill or when the ferry odd parents had a baby
There's definitely a part of me that would be curious about how a more conventional jock type character would affect the group dynamic, but I do think that Toph is such a novel and well done character that I doubt it would have been better without her. Also for someone introduced somewhat late into the show they really do a great job making her feel like an organic addition to the group to the point that it feels normal to have her around pretty soon after she joins and even sometimes feels weird watching book 1 or the beginning of book 2 and not have her as part of the Gaang
What I loved most about toph being a girl was that it stopped Katara being ‘the girl’ so many shows have where it’s a mainly males cast and one girl. you mention Cordy from buffy in this and I felt same happen when she moved to the the cast of Angel and they added Fred a season regular in season 3 and it gave her a chance to go beyond that ‘only female character’ box she could have been in.
Bro Sokka has every right to be as excited as he is in this episode because he’s a peasant kid from a tiny settlement seeing wrestling for the first time in a big city how he acts makes sense. it wouldn’t make sense if he’s toned down because bring any 16yr old to a wrestling match they’re going to be HYPED
When I want to rewatch the Avatar series, I don't always want to watch everything from the start. For some reason, in the past, I always start in this episode, not only because it is my most favorite episode, but her introduction is my most favorite of all media.
This is a really small thing, but I like the little visual detail of how Toph doesn't necessarily face the person she's talking to. Like where she points at The Boulder without turning her head towards him- it's just a nice bit of attention to detail in keeping in mind how her blindness affects how she interacts with the world in little, inconsequential ways as well as bigger, more obvious or plot-relevant ones.
I saw a reddit post the other day saying: I love that the second place to look for an earthbending master, was a wretlemania kinda turnament, after the school didnt pan out for them. That's exactly the logic a 12-year old would come up with.
What's your favorite episode of Book 2?
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People say that Sokka is acting weird this episode... but remember.... Sokka barely had entertainment his entire life... isn't it normal to go crazy once he can actually enjoy himself???
The way he reacted to Aang's kidnapping was not normal though.
It's completely in-character regardless of his history with entertainment imo. He's a nerd. Of course he's going to nerd out.
@@undercoverduck In what universe is Sokka a nerd?
@@vetarlittorf1807 Well, I think nerd in this context isn't a bad connotation. He becomes more of a nerd as the show progresses. From that misogynistic "muscle-head" young boy to a strategist that's excited about airballoons and smelly bombs :3
@@D3Kn1ght I didn't say it was a bad thing. But Sokka is more of a jock than a nerd. Just not a stereotypical jock.
Toph's representation in "The Ember Island Players" is a riff on the creators original idea for Toph.
Sort of. I think her original male version was also redesigned as Roku’s Earthbending teacher in Season 3
I like to think it's because the the playwrights didn't dare show that one of the people giving the Fire Nation trouble is a 12 year old blind girl
@@capeisdead2987 Another possible reason that I like to think is the Earthbending wrestlers (The Boulder, Gopher, etc.) tell the description of Toph as a big muscular guy when they were being interviewed by the writer of Ember Island theatre play. Since, it would hurt their pride from the thought that a bunch of muscular guys were beaten by a little blind girl.
@@jankyyard5610 that’s really good
It’s a parody. The boulder is what Toph’s original idea is meant to be
It honestly feels so weird revisiting Season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender now because I'm so weurd not seeing Toph with the gang. Just goes to show how much of an impact she made in the series.
I know it’s like the group was never really complete until she joined
@Greg Elchert Omg she's Meng the girl who crushes on Aang!
Yes it is weird honestly. Toph completed the group so well.
Fun Fact: Toph is the only character to roast two avatars in her lifetime, What a MADLASS
Fun fact: ATLA is one of the most overrated shows of all time.
@@masterofmeow8894 Fun Fact: Nobody Asked
@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 Fun fact: It's the internet, no need for 'asking'.
@@masterofmeow8894 Fun Fact: Why the hell are you in an Avatar Video if you consider it overrated, honestly in my opinion Avatar is a Great Show, why didn’t you like it that much I would like to know
Not even Sozin could manage that
I’m visually impaired. I can see a few feet ahead of me, but I am legally blind and have a white cane.
I love Toph. I’m also constantly dropping blind jokes. I was making them long before I actually watched, to the point where people kept telling me to watch ATLA lmao.
I love that she really only brings up her blindness as a joke, when the other characters forget she’s blind (because she’s so badass).
My dude YES my closest friends were stunned when they realised I hadn’t watched ATLA and I’m so glad they pointed me in this show’s direction! My only wish now is it could’ve been around when I was younger so that I could’ve had Toph as an aspirational role model in how to embody my disability while growing up. Her being a girl was hugely appreciated too since disabled characters in general were often boys - not always oh course but most disabled girl characters were usually the ones needing protecting or curing so Toph really was a radical change in representation
@@capeisdead2987 "There it is!"
*everyone looks that way*
"That's what it'll sound like when one of you spots it"
@@capeisdead2987 My favorite is when she smacks Aang around and confidently asks for her belt back only to get smacked in the head with it
BEING BLIND IS ONE OF THE CRAZIEST CHALLENGES, LIVING THAT WAY IS SO TOPH. (SOUNDS LIKE TOUGH)
The criticism that Sokka was “over the top” in this episode is something I would have to disagree with. First off, Sokka would roughly be about 15 in this season. If you’re gonna put a teenage boy into a wrestling type environment, I would expect nothing less than obnoxious loudness from him! Sokka is also indulgent. He likes what he likes and he likes liking it-so seeing him let loose and go a little crazy at a bending match he’s been newly introduced to just means he’s excited and hyped. He’s gonna go all out. This intensity might seem even more exaggerated because everyone else’s focus isn’t actually on the entertainment aspect of the matches, but rather a more serious goal. I find it quite in character that Sokka would be an annoying teenage boy in this setting 😂 if anyone else were to have been acting so invested in the bending battles that would have seemed out of place!
I agree.
I could EASILY see him act the exact same way in the later seasons...hell, we see him act like this in the last episode before the finaly when he the actor that plays him uses the jokes he came up with.
Sokka is an over the top dude.
He might be a bit more chill in the later season ofcourse but he hasn't really change all that much. He have gotten over his sexism, have gotten more confident as a leader and have learned how he can properly contribute to the group...but he is still the same over the top energetic goofball when in a more peaceful environment.
Even at the end of the series he paints Suki to firebend in his drawing of the group simply because it would be cooler....He is without a doubt an annoying teenager at heart XD
Add on top; for much of his life there was basically no entertainment at all in the Southern water tribe. So like. Yeah. It makes sense for him to let loose here!
I disagree with your disagreement.
Bro I would pay money to see a rework with katara getting wild at the bending match. It might actually make me like her character.
@Joyful Jalen i disagree with your disagreement about his disagreement
It’s crazy to think that Avatar Analysis/Video Essays still exist on UA-cam, 16 years after its debut and all of them feel refreshing and new each time
Says a lot about how perfect the series was
16 years? Jesus you made me feel old
EXACTLY!!!! Couldn't have said it better myself!!!
Most people only watched it s adults when it came to Netflix
Dude, 16 years makes me feel old.
Yeah and I'm still looking for more
The fact that Sokka becomes such a fan of the Boulder so quickly makes perfect sense to me. A lot of Sokka's character (especially early on) comes down to his issues with masculinity. He's super sexist in the first few episodes of the show and it's revealed that his father told him to take care of the village and his sister after he's told he's not allowed to go with the other men into battle because he's too young. His whole image of himself is wrapped up in being this perfect warrior. Someone super strong and traditionally masculine like the Boulder would be exactly the kind of person Sokka would look up to.
Chads are drawn Chads. Maybe that's why The Boulder showed up for the eclipse battle, supporting a fellow king.
One of the things that I love about avatar was how the show did Toph’s relationship with the rest of the gaang. Katara in particular was really, really thoughtless in an incredibly mean way for quite a long time.
Take The Chase, for example. One of the big through lines of the episode is that Katara is unhappy that Toph isn’t acting as a team player. But Katara belittles Toph throughout, at one point criticizing her for sleeping under a rock tent instead of with the others as they fall asleep while watching the stars. Which is an incredibly dense/cruel thing to say to a blind person who has never and will never see the night sky. The show makes a big emphasis on how Toph needs to rely on others, but I actually think how Katara changes away from this is more interesting. Seeing this side of her makes it all the better when the gaang is trapped in the Siwong Desert and Katara has to get her act together to keep everyone alive. When Toph is at her weakest and unable to “see”, Katara steps up and takes care of her, even as Sokka and Aang are themselves falling apart and need help.
Agreed. To add to this, The Runaway ep specially made it clear how the relationship of Sokka/Katara is, aswell as Toph/Katara. Here we see that they still have their differences and can fight from time to time, but as soon as they have their time off and Sokka explains to Toph why Katara is the way she is and opens up with her about not even remembering right the face of their mother but instead Katara's, it speaks volumes as to how important of a role model or support Katara can be.
Right after this, they device the plan and so on but the important thing is that they understood each other better and for Toph to understand it and ask for help to write the letter, shows how much she now trusts Katara.
I thought Toph was being just as thoughtless in The Chase since she wasn't understanding what being part of a group meant. She was acting as a tag-along that only took care of herself, which makes sense considering her sheltered upbringing and self-reliance but that doesn't make it less frustrating for the rest of the group
I really love those episodes. Personally, since I relate more to katara I saw tophs actions as worst. But now that I am older and I rewatched it, I can see the wrong and right in both. That's what I like so much about ATLA. The characters feel real; and according to our own personalities/priorities, we sympathize more with one character than with another. The show also makes clear that neither characteristic (katara's group mentality and motherly personality vs toph's individual mindset and blunt personality) is wrong or worst. They both are good but each can also have flaws. And I like how throughout the show we see them work through it as the gaang gets closer. Like how u mentioned the desert episode, by acknowledging their flaws and compromising woth each other, it actually strengthens the good parts of their characteristics.
Fun fact: Zuko was the first of only two characters to bleed in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He bled for the first time in "The Avatar State" when Azula scratched his forehead with her nails. The second character to bleed was Appa in "Appa's Lost Days".
Wow, interesting!
This is hilarious to think about considering there are 4 bloodbenders in the animated franchise
@@enkiimuto1041 4? Who is there other than Katara and the old woman I can't remember the name of lol
@@enkiimuto1041 There is more than 4 in the animated franchise. I remember at least 5 but they might be more.
Avatar the last airbender :
- Katara
- The old woman who teached her about bloodbending
Legend of Korra :
- The criminal which got is waterbending removed by Aang
- Amon
- Amon's brother (can't remember his name)
@@raphiki4780Hama, Yakone, and Noatuk - idk how they're spelt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Toph is without a doubt one of my favorite characters introduced to Season 2 because although she is blind it didn't let it be a hindrance to her as she was able to do Earth Bending as she was taught by the Badger Moles, along with helping Aang to become an Earth Bender.
Plus, she has a unique sense of humor especially in the episode, "The Library".
“IM THE GREATEST EARTHBENDER IN THE WORLD AND DON’T YOU TWO DUNDERHEADS EVER FORGET IT” -Toph
Earth Bender
EVER*
*bends metal for the first time* "Toph, you rule"
If Toph turned out to be a big buff guy like it was originally planned to, I don't think the character would have the same impact.
It would basically be just another Sokka.
Toph was the one through which the writers were brainstorming ideas after ideas.
I genuinely think Toph is the person that *completed* the team Avatar
Nah, Zuko
Toph is literally the rock of the team.
@@masterofmeow8894 Zuko was kind of there the whole time.
@@quinesanno?
Also the fact that many forget is that, Toph's own family hid her.
Remember the kids that the gaang interviewed about the family said so "They don't have a daughter"
i completely forgot about that. i thought her parents sucked ass before but wow.
Jesse Flower really brought Toph to life, like it would be weird if she wasn't there.
In Korra, as a adult woman, she has responsibility as a New Republic officer, while taking care of her daughters, yet till can roast Aang at age 40 (voiced by Kate Higgins, aka Saukra from Naruto)
Then she becomes the Yoda figure to Korra when she really needed it, and RIP to Philece Sampler, who recently passed.
It's amazing how well the show and characters were written. Before Toph was introduced into the Gaang, you had a sense that the group was complete, but after Toph joins, you can't imagine the Gaang without her.
What I like about Toph was not only how strong she was in spite of her disability (which she made a strength) but how well-written she was as a CHARACTER. The fact that she was disabled wasn't her identity or the sum total of her character but simply an aspect of it. She was as self-conscious as she was publicly arrogant & compassionate as she was obstinate but she never let pride nor arrogance get in the way of admitting her shortcomings or learning there was more than one way of going about things. She genuinely progresses as a character as the story goes on ,especially when juxtaposed to Aang in being his mentor & bringing him out of his shell, she learns there's just as much strength in vulnerability & relying on others as there is in being independent & relying on her own strength.
There's so much care & attention paid to her journey & growth (both as a person & a bender) that all the other factors like her blindness or her being child become inconsequential or secondary in light of that. In fact the reason why a lot of the blind jokes land so well is because Toph IS so capable that the gang legit forgets she has a disability.
Well said! I agree!!!
It helps that the jokes always hit so freaking well.
Probably because she is the one that always makes the joke and no one else.
"I can't see a thing!" '"Ohh no, how terrible...""sorry.."
"there it is! Is what it will sound like when one of you guys see it!" *Waves hand infront of face to show she can't see*
"Its upside down, isnt it?..."
"well, it sounds like a piece of paper but I assume what you are refering to is what is ON the paper!"
The fact her feeling a need to independent to the point where just puring her tea makes her feel like she is being patronized is an amazing and believeable character trait for her to overcome.
She is so afraid of being seen as a weakling that needs help and gets babied that she does everything in her power to not show any weakness in the beginning but slowly learns to accept help from her friends. Even asking Katara to write a letter for her to her parents is amazing very subble character development.
I still feel like Toph should have just defeated Kuvira
As a blind person myself I've always admired the character of Toph because she's one of the few, and I mean very few blind characters in television who isn't defined by their blindness. She isn't used for cheap inspiration bait, or some lame self-empowerment message. She's powerful, but not overpowered. She doesn't feel like a character who was put into a show to appeal to a disabled market. She exists equally alongside the entire cast, and her blindness is only ever brought up when it has something to deal with the plot, or in rare cases the development of her character. On top of that, she takes pride in her blindness. It's not something she wants of course, but it's not going away anytime soon so she takes control of it and starts using it to her advantage. There aren't many blind characters, or I'd even go as far to say disabled characters in general, on TV who act like that. It's not easy to write a character like her either, but the Avatar team managed to do it. Big respect to them.
She is kinda overpowered though. That's her role on the team, she's The Muscle. Totally agree about her relationship to blindness though.
@@blahthebiste7924 she is overpowered in that way, but not in the Captain Marvel kind of sense where nothing ever hurts her and she never has to struggle. She's powerful, but in the scale of the show it makes sense. I think what I'm trying to get at is that her blindness doesn't turn her into a walking suit of plot armor.
@@SirLightsOut99 Oh totally. She's the strongest fighter, but she's not omnipotent or anything
@@SirLightsOut99 It doesn't turn her into a suit of armour, that's true!
You know what does, though? That's right, earthbending!
@@Oznerock I suppose earthbending could very well turn her into a suit of armor. Imagine trying to fight somebody and then they come at you in a whole Rock suit.
The Fire Nation wrestler guy even had a Russian accent, so definitely a nod to the USSR caricature - I love it
I have trouble watching any of ATLA, prior to Toph's introduction. She (and Azula) really elevated the show to it's legendary status.
Agreed, season 1 is just decent. None of the characters have gone through their important development yet, and Toph isn't even there. Toph is the character I loved so much that it kept me watching, Zuko is the character whose development made love the show overall
Toph is not only an Earthbender and a Metalbender, but also a LIEbender.
Truthbender, come on the joke wrote it self!
I always viewed toph’s blindness as a riff on the trope in Greek tragedies where the blind person is the only one who can truly “see” as toph is the only one who can see earth bending moves ahead of time, she can see the earth in metal bending, and she can see if someone is telling the truth.
She's hitting a lot of the blind tropes. Trust me.
Toph has always been, by far, my favorite character. Oh, it was the earth to metal bending that absolutely blew my mind, in fact its one of the biggest standouts of any anime ive ever watched. She made something unique out of something sooooo many people use on a daily basis, but she alone transformed it into something new. Just mind blowing.
Possibly my favorite scene in Avatar
I relate too much to Toph. She’s got a disability, but never lets it slow her down. She’s tougher than she looks and can hold her own in a scrap. She’s earned my respect and then some
"tougher than she looks and can hold her own in a scrap" that is one hell of an understatement, she's the strongest character in the show by a decent margin
@@blahthebiste7924 agreed she can probably beat all except azula and ozai(cause lightning bending) the vatars for obvious reasons and the white lotus GM's however according to some comic she went to a draw with king bumi
@@aspreedacore I really want to see that fight between "the greatest earth bender in the world" and "the most powerful earth bender you will ever meet"
Toph is one of the reasons that helped put ATLA into god-tier shows. Love that the creators got Foley to voice the Boulder, one of the Rock's greatest rival and friend. The detail that they got Mark Hamill to voice Ozai was a magnificent call. Azula, Toph, Iroh, & Zuko really upgraded Avatar as a series
Regarding Dwayne Johnson, Transformers Prime was able to get him to voice Cliffjumper in the first episode. The character gets killed almost immediately. Like, within the first five minutes.
Which makes me wonder just exactly how expensive it was to afford the Rock for a voice role, that Avatar wasn't able to get him, but Transformers somehow could for essentially a throwaway role.
Especially considering that Avatar had Mako, Jason Isaacs, George Takei, René Auberjonois, and Mark Hamill. I doubt they came cheap
From what I understoood, it wasn't that he was unwilling to do it, or a matter of expense, there was a just scheduling conflict and he had his friend Mick Foley step in for him.
I think that The Rock is currently the highest paid actor in Hollywood.
@@p.d.l7023 Likely so. But not the case 15 years ago.
Sokka's arc throughout the show is my personal favourite arc. As you touched on, how he grows from this goofy kid with no understanding of the elements, to the leader of the team who fully understands the elements and how best to use them. It's chef kiss brilliant.
Zuko's arc is arguably more emotional for the viewer - and definitely more explosive. But Sokka takes first place for me.
Toph and Iroh are the best characters in the avatar universe and it's SO fitting that they got to meet, away from all their allies, and they just got along like two peas in a pod.
Sokka isn't being immature! He's just hyped! It's excited by what's happening. It's like watching sports or theater. It's not immature to enjoy it.
My favorite thing is that her hesitance to go with the Gaang makes sense. Her biggest issue with her parents and the people in that part of her life is that they view her ENTIRELY as blind. Shes not a person who happens to be blind to them. ALL they see is the disability. Nothing else matters. And at first, it seems pretty clear to her that the Gaang only see her as a means to an end. She is the tool to teach Aang. So of course shes not gonna uproot her life just to trade one group that doesnt see her as a person for another. But then, as she starts interacting with them, she starts seeing that they view her as HER first, and a potential teacher second. And everything changes.
Toph is just an INCREDIBLE character in personality and in creativity. The fact she's blind also makes her even more fun.
Great vid! Though I'm kinda sad you didn't mention the episode where she kinda tries out the "girly" thing for once, like a spa and make-over. I thought that was awesome! Not many shows get that right even today: That just because a lass is a brawler / really not your stereotypical girly girl, doesn't mean she can't be interested in those things to, want to try it out, or actually be good at it. These are not mutual exclusive opposites, just different aspects to a personality. I love what they did with that, and how they went about it.
Toph is hands down one of the funniest and most interesting characters. She really changed the whole dynamic of the group.
I also like how she's just another kid. She's young and has a lot to learn, and I think if she was a big jock people outside of the gaang would've regarded Toph with some intimidation. This way she fits the theme of the gaang being a bunch of kids that grow into powerful fighters, and she does so many things people wouldn't expect of her. Not just because of her disability, but because of her size, age, and gender.
This just shows the immense importance of Aaron Ehaz and how underrated he is. Even Mike and Brian acknowledge how Aaron kept them grounded in the writers room. No joke avatar wouldn’t be what it is without him and I believe for a spin-off to reach the level of avatar they need Aaron.
I am convinced that is one of the many reasons why LoK was so lackluster. That is not to say Mike and Brian are not talent, and Dragon Prince was fun and all, not nearly as good as avatar. They were a team, and should really stick together.
She is a great example of a "physically strong" female character. She is a total badass, arrogant, and a jerk. You understand why she is like this and they still make her character very vulnerable in a number of ways.
Recent pushback against a number of upheld popularized female characters is bred from their failings in writing the characters correctly.
While Avatar does right by all their female characters, IMO Toph and Mulan are the prefect examples of strong battle ready female characters. The remake of Mulan strips her of her development and vulnerabilities being things she needs to overcome.
When I was doing my first watch through, my cousin was telling me how excited he was for me to get to Toph and the way he described Toph, I really expected a big huge jock and not a blind little girl, so her reveal was so cool for me.
Toph is my favorite character in avatar. I love her tougher personality even though she isn't always that easiest to get along with, also her strong sense of confidence in herself and her abilities. She rarely doubts herself or what she can do, and I admire her for that.
Toph's parents barely gave her any freedom in the Last Airbender.
Toph gave her daughters too much freedom in the Legend of Korra.
I mean that’s usually what happens, when a child has strict parenting they’ll either follow or go to the opposite extreme
@@BlueBlazeKing Yup, that's how it goes. A lot of people like to do the absolute opposite of what their parents did.
My mother's parents were very absent which gave her a lot of freedom, but IF they ever found out about her drinking and such, they were incredibly mad about it. Which is why my mom was very involved and overprotective, and at the same time 100% cool with us smoking pot in the family living room at 18. Just so long as she knows about everything, it's all fine. The perfect opposite of her parent's approach.
Toph had the BEST character introduction. Nobody else was so mysterious or hyped with the visions and her being introduced as the Blind Bandit... She's holding her belt over her head and the "camera" makes her look huge, only to zoom out and she has two show girls towering over her. All of it.
Toph is the reason I got into the series. I never watched it as it aired, only after both it and Korra were complete.
I finally watched Avatar when it came on Netflix after years and years of being told to watch it. And I had no idea Toph existed as a character.
And how exactly did you fail to notice Toph when you watched Avatar? I don't get what you're trying to say.
Always a good day when there's a new captain midnight take but its an even greater one when its avatar content
Toph as how i would describe her: Toph is an girl with humor. She’s small but don’t underestimate her power. She’s got confidence in herself. And Although she’s humorous she isn’t afraid to show what she’s thinking out loud. If she’s angry with you you’ll know. Overall she’s easy to get allong with in time aslong as you learn her boundaries and accept and deal with them. She’s someone who deals with her own problems. Yet if you need her on an battlefield she isn’t afraid to step in. She’s an trust full person when she considers you an friend.
I think Toph is really incredible for how well she was able to join the main cast. The show spends a little more than a season developing the dynamic between Aang, Katara, and Sokka that it feels like it would be hard to integrate someone else in. Then they take Toph, a character who until this episode was only seen in a vision by Aang and put her with gang, and she fits perfectly. In just a few episodes she feels like a core part of the group and she became one of the fan favorite characters.
I love how you point out Sokka being such a kid during book1 and the beginning of Book2. I think it also parallels real life growth young men go through, from wanting to be cool and flashy to strong, secure and stable.
Toph was always a certified badass, favorite member of the Gaang since childhood.
In loving memory of Ana Lúcia Menezes, Toph's BR VA, who passed away this year due to Covid. You were a star and we'll never forget you
What I love about Toph, just as a fixture of the show, is that she represents the excellent collaboration that went into Avatar from ALL of the staff that would make it so good. If the head writer hadn’t fought for the change, we would have had a very different character and it probably wouldn’t have worked as well. It reminds you that great shows are a team effort.
Another thing with Sokka, he’s more self-serious in Season 1 (especially early on); he’s actually getting to be more expressive in early Season 2 because he’s more relaxed despite the mission they have ongoing. But he learns balance later this Season and becomes the competent leader in Season 3.
You know ur doing something right when I like a video before i watch a second of it
That's the first episode of avatar i showed my friends. They really enjoyed it. We listened to the rest of the series starting from here. you can understand evrything if you start here. Its one of the best episodes.
I love Toph. When I was a kid watching Avatar she was my favorite character. Now being grown I realize that I had parents who were very much like her's. It really makes me wonder if I subconsciously chose her for that reason. I do not talk to my parents at all now.
One of my favorite episodes. Toph is presented as a straight-up superhero, and it’s so much fun to watch.
0:51 I think they ended up using Zuko as a counterpoint to Sokka instead. While we have Sokka the nerdy joker, we have Zuko the serious brooder.
I never thought of comparing her to Anya, Sawyer and Jayne, but it makes so much sense
Correction: Mick Foley became popular as Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love with WWE in the 90s, he did wrestle in the 80s, but he hit the mainstream in the mid-to-late 90s
Also the Fire Nation character seems like a nod to Sergeant Slaughter after his heel turn in the 80s
avatar is a series that the more you analyze the more you find, cause the world building is just so interesting
How did I not get the "Boulder" "rock" reference ! Once you see it you can't un see it . I cannot imagine the rock on Avatar but I think I would have still loved it
I'm glad they made Toph a little girl, she's tiny in stature but huge in personality and power. She also didn't care for propriety or being meek like she was raised to be, she was unapologetically herself, which is a great example for young girls who grew up watching Avatar.
Toph is legit the best character of the show. She's the perfect blend of cool concept, well written personality and a great backstory.
Toph is a cook character she offer up a new dynamic to the group when she joined.
Something I like about Toph’s fight style is her closeness to the ground
I mean, as an earthbender, the moment you jump is the moment you lost.
I know Toph has to stay glued to the floor so she can see, but it is also the best way to fight
One of my favorite episodes, the not so subtle Pro Wrestling satire with a Randy Savage impression is great. Also Sokka’s unwillingness to see anything but brute strength as a measure for power fits into his character at that point imo.
Toph and Zuko are my favorite characters in Avatar.
I feel like that anecdote at the beginning perfectly illustrates how Aaron filtering and refining Mike and Bryan's ideas is what allowed them to capture lightning in a bottle.
This is one of my top favorites just for the scenes where we get to see her use her powers so creatively. I love watching her technique.
Mick Foley was a wrestling legend who was mostly active from the mid 90s to early 2000s. He is also an accomplished writer and was the Rock's tag team partner in The Rock-n-Sock Connection. He's awesome and the Boulder role is perfect for him. It isn't that he isn't self aware, but that he is aware of how over the top that type of character is and plays him as slightly silly. He plays it as a spectacle over everything character to highlight how Toph is blunt and straightforward
I love toph she’s really awesome and badass
It's 2021 and I'm still binge watching all the content that is being created about this show, what a legacy (take note Game of Thrones).
Toph’s addition really helped the viewers understand the nature of bending and it really helped advanced bending techniques make more since
I like how Toph uses her bending. As you said, her style is completely different than the other earth benders. If her style was the same hard hitting, overpowering bending, it'd be weird. Like, she's a strong earthbender, but she's still a teenage girl with no muscles. She's not gonna be as strong as these buff grown men.
they really have a character whos arc is "shes the best at fighting and her arc is realizing that" and it actually works
rewatching this episode later seeing toph in different ways was more relatable than when I first watch it.
One thing on Mick Foley. His hey day was the mid 90’s to the early 00’s.
Toph trained two Avatars.
So did gyatso sort of
@@fulltimeslackerii8229 gyatso was more of a 'classmate' of Roku
The best use of depicting disability in a fictional show. She has weaknesses and the gaang jokes about it with her but she isn’t defined by that. She’s defined as the best Earth bender in the world!
The gang was amazing when it was a trio but toph made the gang feel complete which is very rare. I remember when the Rugrats added Kimmi, And it felt like a gimmick especially when they added dill or when the ferry odd parents had a baby
There's definitely a part of me that would be curious about how a more conventional jock type character would affect the group dynamic, but I do think that Toph is such a novel and well done character that I doubt it would have been better without her. Also for someone introduced somewhat late into the show they really do a great job making her feel like an organic addition to the group to the point that it feels normal to have her around pretty soon after she joins and even sometimes feels weird watching book 1 or the beginning of book 2 and not have her as part of the Gaang
Toph is my favorite character in in the entire Avatarverse. Kyoshi is a close second
This perspective made me realize that Ember Island Toph is the writers saying "Here's our first draft, knock yourselves out"
What I loved most about toph being a girl was that it stopped Katara being ‘the girl’ so many shows have where it’s a mainly males cast and one girl. you mention Cordy from buffy in this and I felt same happen when she moved to the the cast of Angel and they added Fred a season regular in season 3 and it gave her a chance to go beyond that ‘only female character’ box she could have been in.
We call those belt factories “McDojos”
Bro Sokka has every right to be as excited as he is in this episode because he’s a peasant kid from a tiny settlement seeing wrestling for the first time in a big city how he acts makes sense. it wouldn’t make sense if he’s toned down because bring any 16yr old to a wrestling match they’re going to be HYPED
Toph is my absolute favorite character in all the stuff i've watched so far
One of the best animated characters ever...
I will always see the Hippo as a call-back to king hippo from punch out
I see the wrestler King Kong Bundy.
Toph is my favorite avatar character and probably one of my top 5 favorite characters in any animated series
Is it weird that I get excited everytime I see a new video from Captain midnight?
When I want to rewatch the Avatar series, I don't always want to watch everything from the start. For some reason, in the past, I always start in this episode, not only because it is my most favorite episode, but her introduction is my most favorite of all media.
The background music is so wow!!!
The Crestors say some really interesting things about how much they love Toph in episode 5 of the avatar podcast.
This is a really small thing, but I like the little visual detail of how Toph doesn't necessarily face the person she's talking to. Like where she points at The Boulder without turning her head towards him- it's just a nice bit of attention to detail in keeping in mind how her blindness affects how she interacts with the world in little, inconsequential ways as well as bigger, more obvious or plot-relevant ones.
Toph? Don't you mean Tough? The blind Earth Bender that sees by using echo location?
AAAAAAAAAH!
6:41 Darn, I was just waiting for you to say "she's been living her life under a rock" lol
I saw a reddit post the other day saying: I love that the second place to look for an earthbending master, was a wretlemania kinda turnament, after the school didnt pan out for them. That's exactly the logic a 12-year old would come up with.
Can't spell Toph without OP..
Cant spell sokka without an okka
By far my most rewatched episode
It’s impossible to hate Toph in any way. Even when she’s too stubborn for her own good, Toph is awesome.