Maddie: Zuko's really.... complex >>And that was the moment yet another girl developed her crush on Zuko, like every other girl before her and every girl who sees Zuko after this moment.
@@IamnotJohnFord I had a crush on him when I was 8 but by the time I was his age I just wanted to mother him lol wrap him in a blanket and send him to therapy
Maddie is so involved in the show I can see she’s genuinely enjoying and following it. Please invite her to watch other shows after ATLA, I’d love to see her watching anime with you guys!
yup, unlike the other blondie (the girlfriend's little sister) . i don't wanna sound like an asshole but God was she annoying! Maddie actually makes the videos better. i would love for her to become a fulltime part of the crew.
@@jacobleatherwood4298 hit the gym bro and stop making your UA-cam account like a Facebook profile. You're the one that seems upset with my comment for whatever reason
Here's one thing I always thought was really sad about Aang's backstory. While it may have been 100 years, for Aang, it felt like just a few days between when he was playing Pai Sho with Gyatso and when he saw Gyatso's skeleton :(
The Blue Spirit is definitely one of my favorite episodes. That ending between Aang and Zuko might be my favorite end of an episode in the whole series
The two episodes The Storm and Blue Spirit being in the middle of the season is a good flavor as they showed the parallels between Aang and Zuko and how an unstoppable force they would be if the two work together.
@@jhedjoardumago7691Makes one wonder if, if Aang and Zuko became friends, Aang could just do Zuko a solid and pretend to be caught so Zuko could go back to the Fire Nation and Aang would just get rescued again.
the crazy thing about when they started talking about airbending the air out of a person's lungs, is that the producers and writers mentioned and hinted at in the show that that's exactly what Gyatso did when the Fire Nation attacked in that room. Because they did expand on the full principle of the Air Nomads beyond just "every life is sacred". It was "every life is sacred, including mine so I cannot let it be taken"
Considering how there's no visual damage to his skeleton, I think he outright pushed the air out of the room, creating a vacuum, which suffocated both the soldiers and himself.
Can airbenders suck air from the lungs? If y’all remember Monk Gyatso’s skeleton, he surrounded by Fire Nation soldiers who don’t seem to have been blown away by the airbending. They were close to him, almost neatly stacked, like they all just collapsed on top of each other. It kinda hints to him sucking the air out of everyone’s lungs.
The visuals of the Fire Lord are really deliberate. It's worth paying attention to how he's drawn and animated and how it changes throughout the series. Also he's played by Mark Hamill which is awesome.
10:25 about the eyes of storms: I grew up on the coast of AL with plenty of hurricanes over the 90's-10's. They are real, all those winds and clouds become powerful because they are rotating together around a center point - and in the center there's always a gap of some size where it is similar to a tornado, with a pocket of air inside violent winds. Think of a drain with a bunch of water swirling down, when there is no water in the center - or like a tire spinning quickly. if you touch the center of a rotating tire, it won't feel like much or affect it - but if you touch the middle or outer surface, you could get your hand caught in it or at least feel the impact of the rotation.
... lol thats what we lean in school in physics and geography... basic level stuff. :) at least by my place. i never doubt it in the first place. its interssting, that your post is written in a way that everybody would doubt it :o
In the second episode you'll see Zuko being so competent with blades that he can hold out his own vs multiple benders without bending. Meanwhile he keeps losing most fights when firebending. It shows that his skills are high on hand to hand, which is why on ep 1 he is frustrated when Iroh doesn't want to teach his advanced fire bending sets. He knows he is really good at combat, but he is really not a powerful fire bender at his current state because not everyone is a prodigy. But when wielding blades, Zuko is probably on par with Jet. If only he learns how to combine firebending and blades.
These are probably my two favorite episodes in the first season. Great ones to watch back to back. Zuko's origin and becoming the Blue Spirit do so much for the character (especially with what happens in the later seasons).
All the elements have the potential to be really lethal, and they only showed 2 of them to be actually lethal while the others could be a lot more gruesome if the target audience weren't kids...
For the sake of a better understanding fire benders don't create fire out of nothing, they bend energy which is literally everywhere but it's important to know the distinction later. To avoid spoilers the reason the commit is such a big deal for the fire bends is it's a tremendous source of raw energy they can use to fuel their bending. And in this very episode you saw Iroh redirect the lightning that was going to hit the ship, he was redirecting the flow of energy.
Very good assessment for people with questions. Yes fire bending is very much tied to inner chi/ energy. One of the reason fire benders were so powerful since they could just bend while everyone else has to use the raw element.
@@sphinx3749 I'm referring to literal physical energy, spiritual energy is its own separate thing deep into that is what I think you're referring too but let's not get too deep into that cause it hasn't come up in the show yet
@@sphinx3749 I'm referring to literal physical energy, spiritual energy is its own separate thing true, but let's not get too deep into that cause it hasn't come up in the show yet
It is really sad to see that people won't even watch the "The great divide" to decide by themselves if it is good or not. It is just a 20 min ep how long will it take. People just collectively decided that "The great divide" is the wrost as if there was no charecter, no story, or anything.
Agreed, maybe it's not important storywise, and can be considered filler, but it establishes Aang as a good, impartial mediator. Which is the biggest roll an Avatar has in this world.
Literally I just enjoy watching the characters and bending and stuff. People are so mad at this episode being irrelevant to the plot they every reacting channel stopped watching this ep? A bit much
IMO it’s not even that it’s not relevant to the plot. The thing that gets me most is the ending is so out of character for Aang. You’d think he’d come up with a good solution for everyone but he pretty much just lies to everyone and that’s supposed to be a good conclusion?
If they kill Aang he's reborn in either the Northern or the Southern Water Tribe, who already are enemies of the Fire Nation and crazy far away, it's not like killing a bot and waiting for it to respawn a couple of meters away xD, so not the best call. Still, it's better than letting him leave like at the end of the episode. He (or she) would still need to grow up before posing a threat, so bad call from Zhao there as well xD.
Yeah if he's born in the Northern tribe, the Fire Nation will have a larger problem dealing with it especially if the Earth Kingdom realizes that and forms a blockade around the Northern circle.
SPOILER WARNING OF TLOK!! 12:08 when he said that "if an airbender could basically unalive someone by taking the air of out the lungs" the answer is yes because in the series the legend of korra one of the villains kills the bang sing sae Queen by taking the air out of her lungs. Btw I highly reccomend yall to watch the legend of korra
Firebending bares distinction among the other bending arts in that firebenders manipulate their chi (metaphysical energy that flows through all things) to produce fire. They also draw power from the Sun as well as ambient heat, much like how waterbenders draw power from the moon and ambient moisture. Firebenders can also control already present flames much like the other bending arts that require a nearby source of their respective element.
The lightning control is more of a child flow thing. Not all foreigners can do it, and you don't even have to be particularly talented in firebending to do so
To answer their question, Airbending air out of someone or suffocating someone by preventing air going to them is possible and is a powerful ability. Though it takes a high skill to air bend something you can't see, like it was hard to pull water underground during the Freedom Fighters episode. Good thing the Air Nomads are pacifist monks, huh? There is a popular fan theory than Monk Gyatso died in a tent with dozens of fire nation soldiers because he removed the air from the whole place so he can take them all down as he dies.
Please watch E11 even if it is off camera. It may not have anything to do with the story but I still enjoy the episode. Tired of people screeching to skip it every time fresh watchers come to it
In the 61 episodes of ATLA, like 59 of them are 8 out of 10 or better. King of Omashu is like a 7, and the Great Divide is like a 5. I usually don't have a problem with people skipping it, it's so far below the standard of the rest of the show.
I think it depends on the vibe you're getting from the people you're watching with. When I tell people to watch the show I say they have to at least make it to episode 12, because I feel it's the episode that lines up the most compelling parts of the story. Really all the episodes from the solstice to the blue spirt are setting up future character or plot payoffs... Except for 11, which is directly between Jet and the Storm, which are very heavy episodes. I honestly think the great divide wouldn't be nearly as hated if it came right after episode 5 or 6, but it's an episode that just doesn't belong in between an episode about extremist insurgency and sacrificing families, and one about child abuse and the trauma of survivor's guilt. When you look at it that way, I think it makes a bit more sense why episode 11 is often skipped.
Something that helped me understand why firebending can create fire rather than needing it to pre-exist like earth or water, is thinking of it more as heatbending than firebending: when you heat air to a certain temperature, the chemical reaction that results is the fire/flames we can visually see. Think about it: we see Iroh a few episodes before heating his shackles without any visible flames, and in that same episode he talks about heating the water in the little pool he's chilling in.
You skipped the great divide? But that’s such an important episode. It shows how people have been dealing with the war and you see the consequences of the war
I think the whole reason most og fans hate it is becasuse when it was airing on TV, they replayed this episode for SO MANY TIMES so we just have a very deep hatred towards it now.
Yeah, you need those occasional insight into the world and how it's affecting the citizens. The Great Divide, Avatar Day, and a few others are a good brief break from the main plot to develop the world a bit. It's definitely a skippable episode on a rewatch if you want, but not really fair to make a new watcher skip it when they don't know what's going on.
I don't think you should skip any ATLA episodes. There are a lot of meanings and foreshadowing to The Great Divide which you may pick up in the later episodes throughout the series. It is a pretty relevant character development and foreshadowing story for especially Kitara and Aang when they have to face their ultimate decisions later on down the line. I won't go into details to explain the relevant references cuz that would spoil the fun of discovering and connecting later when the lightbulb hits!😄 I consider it to be a good storytelling writing not just a mere filler imo. The reason why ATLA is so great is because there is so much depth than what meets the eye. Hope you figure it out and understand it's purpose later.
Agree, I think it’s dumb a lot of reactors skip that. Sure it’s one of the weakest, but every episode is so strong that it’s still a great episode. They’re 20 minutes like how hard is it to watch one more 😭 every episode still builds the characters and it’s fun to see Aang be cheeky at the end lol
yeah episodes like great divide and cave of two lovers get so much hate for being "boring", but they literally flesh outthe point of what this entire series is really about and the important takeaways and gives context to all other episodes... they're severely underrated
I don’t think airbenders “create” air like firebenders create fire. We live in an atmosphere, air, so the potential for wind is always there. Airbenders just “push” or “pull” atmosphere however they choose. I would think the only way to stop one is by locking them in a vacuum. Or I suppose underwater. But just like an earthbender they would have to be kept far enough away from atmospheric conditions so they couldn’t manipulate them.
Fire benders forces a spark for a fire to start. Problem is fire is "alive" and will consumw everything if not tamed. I think they train firebenders in 3 steps: -How to make a spark -How to contain the fire created -How to redirect the direction as intended. Fire is the hardest element to master.
2:07 you would be surprised how floor/ground sleeping can improve your health and sleep quality. The ground basically press massages tension out of the muscles and you become more durable, less joint pain. Beds suck unless you aren’t an able bodied person and require extra comfort. Beds cripple us in the end tho. To the point laying on the ground at all hurts us. Look into floor sleeping if you’re interested: it’s a surprising change. Takes a week or 2 to get used to but it’s amazing how well rested it leaves you.
omg after rewatching the show many times and watching ppls first reactions to it cause i love ppl loving this series- JUST noticed that iroh might also have been looking away from zuko's burning cause he also couldnt watch his LITTLE BROTHER become an absolute monster
While The Great Divide certainly isn't the best episode, I don't think it should just be skipped on a whim. There are far worse episodes in other series that don't get skipped
i knew the extra girls they had for the show weren't gonna stick around. you can just tell when people have no interest. their loss, hard to feel bad for em.
Besides being as far away from a storm as possible, the eye of the storm is calm, because the storm itself is pushing outward and expanding, so the eye is the calmest part of a storm
A couple things fire benders heat up the air to create fire but second Zuko captured Aang in the blue spirit episode because he wanted to catch the avatar before Zhoa but since zhoa had been promoted he needed to go under cover hence the blue spirit mask.
Further in the series and movies, fire benders need a fire source, only the most powerful benders can create fire from their own chi. I love that the series and sequel, also talk about the darker side of bending, including removing the air from a persons lungs!
yes, an airbender can, in fact, take the air out of someone else's lungs. It's a technique called Vacuum Bending and it's portraid in Legend of Korra. What I do believe happens in firebending is that benders can make the oxygen from the air around them spontaneously combust due to their energy and then it creates fire, since fire can't burn without oxygen. It's like with the magic in the Harry Potter Universe, what wizards do to create stuff with magic is basically convert air atoms into other atoms, it's purely physics when you think about it.
12:20 yes you can air bend out of the lungs. Season 3 korra, and monk giatso did it, or rather created a vaccum in the room at least. Also aang blew the room up but left his corps untouched
Something not related to the video: I love how this channel has a whole playlist named ATTACK ON TITAN separated from the rest of the playlists lol This channel is THE ONLY one that I feel belonged to love you guys
I just thought of a little headcanon just now. The Firelord probably hears news about Zhao and his encounters with Zuko, so I imagine when Ozai hears that Zhao is causing problems for Zuko he decides to do a little trolling and promotes him so he has every edge possible to capture the Avatar and screw Zuko over. That sounds exactly like something Ozai would do in my opinion lol.
12:20 what y'all are talking about happens in legend of korra the season 3 baddie (I think his name is zahyr prolly spelling it wrong tho) can draw the air out of someones lungs and suffocate them. air is the most op element for sure
fun fact! the way the Airbenders knew Aang was the avatar- he picked the relics from his past lives, which is the same way the real life Dali Lama is identified! So much of the lore/rituals in this show are based on real traditions and def worth a wikiwander ❤
The great divide it's a filler episode, aaand, yep it could be a little boring, BUT, it shows the abbility of Aang as a leader and also as person that can resolve conflicts between ppl
Skipping perhaps the poorest episode of a show because you prefer not to waste your or someone else's time shows nothing more than considered selectivity. That's all. "Immaturity"? Please. 🙄
@@HickoryDickory86they shouldve let Maddie decide for herself if she thought it was boring or not. They really shouldn't skip episodes whenever they feel like it.
I was super confused ( I have watching your channel for like a week and specifically this series for ATLA) when I didn’t see the reaction for episode 11 so I was like “ ok ???” And then I remembered that it was The Great Divide 😂 … GOOD CHOICE ! It is the one episode in the series that doesn’t really need to be an episode!
Maddie: Zuko's really.... complex
>>And that was the moment yet another girl developed her crush on Zuko, like every other girl before her and every girl who sees Zuko after this moment.
They feel like he has a good heart, and they want to fix him. A bad boy with a just heart.
I grew up whatching him and i did have a crush on him
@@IamnotJohnFord I had a crush on him when I was 8 but by the time I was his age I just wanted to mother him lol wrap him in a blanket and send him to therapy
yeah. puppy love, bad boys are often liked by young girls at school
Maddie is so involved in the show I can see she’s genuinely enjoying and following it. Please invite her to watch other shows after ATLA, I’d love to see her watching anime with you guys!
Please up the video quality to 4K60fps :)
THE STORM really should not have been the episode with the fewest couch members!
Exactly 🤦🏽♂️
arguably the best episode of the season(rivaled only by the finale, but I prefer "The Storm")
Apart from the guys who’ve already watched the show , they’d be staring at their phones half the time
I like maddie, she really gives the show a chance
Maddie's dope fr
yup, unlike the other blondie (the girlfriend's little sister) . i don't wanna sound like an asshole but God was she annoying!
Maddie actually makes the videos better. i would love for her to become a fulltime part of the crew.
She's not basic compared to those other two princesses
@@TomathiasDon’t tell me you’re actually upset lol. That’s sad.
@@jacobleatherwood4298 hit the gym bro and stop making your UA-cam account like a Facebook profile. You're the one that seems upset with my comment for whatever reason
Here's one thing I always thought was really sad about Aang's backstory. While it may have been 100 years, for Aang, it felt like just a few days between when he was playing Pai Sho with Gyatso and when he saw Gyatso's skeleton :(
The Blue Spirit is definitely one of my favorite episodes. That ending between Aang and Zuko might be my favorite end of an episode in the whole series
The two episodes The Storm and Blue Spirit being in the middle of the season is a good flavor as they showed the parallels between Aang and Zuko and how an unstoppable force they would be if the two work together.
@@jhedjoardumago7691Makes one wonder if, if Aang and Zuko became friends, Aang could just do Zuko a solid and pretend to be caught so Zuko could go back to the Fire Nation and Aang would just get rescued again.
and when aang ask zuko if they could’ve been friends if the situation are different it feels like a foreshadowing for the next seasons iykyk
Brig looks gorgeous with that new wig.
I prefer the original look.
Haha, I tried my best
bruh. i was lookin for Brig after readin this. til i caught the joke. "but i dont see Brig" 🤦🏾🤣🤣🤣
@@jackson_carterI think they were calling Maddie That bro 😂
@@jackson_carteryeah come on jack they were talking about me :))
the crazy thing about when they started talking about airbending the air out of a person's lungs, is that the producers and writers mentioned and hinted at in the show that that's exactly what Gyatso did when the Fire Nation attacked in that room. Because they did expand on the full principle of the Air Nomads beyond just "every life is sacred". It was "every life is sacred, including mine so I cannot let it be taken"
Considering how there's no visual damage to his skeleton, I think he outright pushed the air out of the room, creating a vacuum, which suffocated both the soldiers and himself.
13:32
Maddie: Mckay aligns with dark characters.
Sibling knows. He just want to watch the world burn😂
😂😂😂
Can airbenders suck air from the lungs? If y’all remember Monk Gyatso’s skeleton, he surrounded by Fire Nation soldiers who don’t seem to have been blown away by the airbending. They were close to him, almost neatly stacked, like they all just collapsed on top of each other. It kinda hints to him sucking the air out of everyone’s lungs.
This is answered in Legend of Korra.
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what was the answer/
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@@jeremyankamah4737zaheer
@@jeremyankamah4737watch Legend of Korra 😁
The visuals of the Fire Lord are really deliberate. It's worth paying attention to how he's drawn and animated and how it changes throughout the series. Also he's played by Mark Hamill which is awesome.
McKay: You can't airbending space.
Can't wait for ATLA: Space edition🤣🤣
Surely there's rocks in space, maybe not air or water, but definitely rocks
Space Earth
@@allthingslexi6046 someone's gonna go Katara on that statement
@@kingkaidelam2997 that’s what I’m waiting for lol
10:25 about the eyes of storms: I grew up on the coast of AL with plenty of hurricanes over the 90's-10's. They are real, all those winds and clouds become powerful because they are rotating together around a center point - and in the center there's always a gap of some size where it is similar to a tornado, with a pocket of air inside violent winds. Think of a drain with a bunch of water swirling down, when there is no water in the center - or like a tire spinning quickly. if you touch the center of a rotating tire, it won't feel like much or affect it - but if you touch the middle or outer surface, you could get your hand caught in it or at least feel the impact of the rotation.
Okay, Mr. Science and Reason Lover
... lol thats what we lean in school in physics and geography... basic level stuff. :) at least by my place. i never doubt it in the first place.
its interssting, that your post is written in a way that everybody would doubt it :o
I hope Maddie will be there until the end of the serie! She is really involved into it so I hope!
McKay: "Zuko's backstory is pretty dark but his father only burnt half of his face"
This backstory episode shows the parallels of Aang and Zuko perfectly
THIS is the episode when people who are still in the fence about Avatar tend to get more invested
In the second episode you'll see Zuko being so competent with blades that he can hold out his own vs multiple benders without bending. Meanwhile he keeps losing most fights when firebending. It shows that his skills are high on hand to hand, which is why on ep 1 he is frustrated when Iroh doesn't want to teach his advanced fire bending sets. He knows he is really good at combat, but he is really not a powerful fire bender at his current state because not everyone is a prodigy.
But when wielding blades, Zuko is probably on par with Jet. If only he learns how to combine firebending and blades.
Maddie's face at 9:08 is the best.
These are probably my two favorite episodes in the first season. Great ones to watch back to back. Zuko's origin and becoming the Blue Spirit do so much for the character (especially with what happens in the later seasons).
Jackson sitting on the other end of the couch really changes the whole dynamic
"Imagine bending the air out of someone's Lungs" lol
I mean if you've watched Korra
@@2swift4ducks Exactly what I thought!! 😂 I was just asking myself if he knew while talking about it or just speculating
I was gonna tell them cause I’ve seen Korra but didn’t want to spoil anything
All the elements have the potential to be really lethal, and they only showed 2 of them to be actually lethal while the others could be a lot more gruesome if the target audience weren't kids...
@@mialaura9257 they mentioned before that they didn't watch korra
I love Maddie's perspective and appreciation for the show so far! 💛
guys please don't spoil how bending can be used. It takes away from the reveal when it actually happens.
No it doesn't.
be quiet
That’s why they didn’t say anthing about blood or metal bending
Just wait til they see bone bending
@@boots1801 Eren stans eweeeee
For the sake of a better understanding fire benders don't create fire out of nothing, they bend energy which is literally everywhere but it's important to know the distinction later. To avoid spoilers the reason the commit is such a big deal for the fire bends is it's a tremendous source of raw energy they can use to fuel their bending. And in this very episode you saw Iroh redirect the lightning that was going to hit the ship, he was redirecting the flow of energy.
Very good assessment for people with questions. Yes fire bending is very much tied to inner chi/ energy. One of the reason fire benders were so powerful since they could just bend while everyone else has to use the raw element.
they dont bend energy, energy bending is a whole different thing
@@sphinx3749 I'm referring to literal physical energy, spiritual energy is its own separate thing deep into that is what I think you're referring too but let's not get too deep into that cause it hasn't come up in the show yet
@@sphinx3749 I'm referring to literal physical energy, spiritual energy is its own separate thing true, but let's not get too deep into that cause it hasn't come up in the show yet
I mean fire is a combustion
This is when the show turns from good to great.
It is really sad to see that people won't even watch the "The great divide" to decide by themselves if it is good or not. It is just a 20 min ep how long will it take. People just collectively decided that "The great divide" is the wrost as if there was no charecter, no story, or anything.
Agreed, maybe it's not important storywise, and can be considered filler, but it establishes Aang as a good, impartial mediator. Which is the biggest roll an Avatar has in this world.
Let’s keep flying.
Honestly I really don’t mind the great divide episode, sure it may not contribute a lot to the story but I think it’s still kinda fun to watch
Literally I just enjoy watching the characters and bending and stuff. People are so mad at this episode being irrelevant to the plot they every reacting channel stopped watching this ep? A bit much
IMO it’s not even that it’s not relevant to the plot. The thing that gets me most is the ending is so out of character for Aang. You’d think he’d come up with a good solution for everyone but he pretty much just lies to everyone and that’s supposed to be a good conclusion?
Zuko is one of the best characters in the show.
If they kill Aang he's reborn in either the Northern or the Southern Water Tribe, who already are enemies of the Fire Nation and crazy far away, it's not like killing a bot and waiting for it to respawn a couple of meters away xD, so not the best call. Still, it's better than letting him leave like at the end of the episode. He (or she) would still need to grow up before posing a threat, so bad call from Zhao there as well xD.
Yeah if he's born in the Northern tribe, the Fire Nation will have a larger problem dealing with it especially if the Earth Kingdom realizes that and forms a blockade around the Northern circle.
There would also be nobody to teach them air so Zhao double messed up 💀
"Can you just airbend the air out someone's lungs?"
Zaheer: Let me introduce myself
SPOILER WARNING OF TLOK!!
12:08 when he said that "if an airbender could basically unalive someone by taking the air of out the lungs" the answer is yes because in the series the legend of korra one of the villains kills the bang sing sae Queen by taking the air out of her lungs.
Btw I highly reccomend yall to watch the legend of korra
12:11 They should ask Earth Queen about this. My Pretty sure sure she have first hand experience on this field
😂
Firebending bares distinction among the other bending arts in that firebenders manipulate their chi (metaphysical energy that flows through all things) to produce fire. They also draw power from the Sun as well as ambient heat, much like how waterbenders draw power from the moon and ambient moisture. Firebenders can also control already present flames much like the other bending arts that require a nearby source of their respective element.
the way firebending works is really just a bending of natural energy. thats why they can also control lightning
The lightning control is more of a child flow thing. Not all foreigners can do it, and you don't even have to be particularly talented in firebending to do so
Zukos father fire lord ozai is voiced by the man, the myth, the legend himself mark hamil
To answer their question, Airbending air out of someone or suffocating someone by preventing air going to them is possible and is a powerful ability. Though it takes a high skill to air bend something you can't see, like it was hard to pull water underground during the Freedom Fighters episode. Good thing the Air Nomads are pacifist monks, huh?
There is a popular fan theory than Monk Gyatso died in a tent with dozens of fire nation soldiers because he removed the air from the whole place so he can take them all down as he dies.
Please watch E11 even if it is off camera. It may not have anything to do with the story but I still enjoy the episode. Tired of people screeching to skip it every time fresh watchers come to it
It's the first episode of avatar I ever saw and it's what got me into the show. Love it as a standalone episode.
Cant stand the episode. I promise they’re not missing anything. This group is already getting smaller every episode
@@wthisdaftpunk6847Right they tripping. Y'all forget we WANT them to like it. skip the fortunetller to hell 😅
In the 61 episodes of ATLA, like 59 of them are 8 out of 10 or better. King of Omashu is like a 7, and the Great Divide is like a 5. I usually don't have a problem with people skipping it, it's so far below the standard of the rest of the show.
I think it depends on the vibe you're getting from the people you're watching with. When I tell people to watch the show I say they have to at least make it to episode 12, because I feel it's the episode that lines up the most compelling parts of the story. Really all the episodes from the solstice to the blue spirt are setting up future character or plot payoffs... Except for 11, which is directly between Jet and the Storm, which are very heavy episodes. I honestly think the great divide wouldn't be nearly as hated if it came right after episode 5 or 6, but it's an episode that just doesn't belong in between an episode about extremist insurgency and sacrificing families, and one about child abuse and the trauma of survivor's guilt. When you look at it that way, I think it makes a bit more sense why episode 11 is often skipped.
Something that helped me understand why firebending can create fire rather than needing it to pre-exist like earth or water, is thinking of it more as heatbending than firebending: when you heat air to a certain temperature, the chemical reaction that results is the fire/flames we can visually see. Think about it: we see Iroh a few episodes before heating his shackles without any visible flames, and in that same episode he talks about heating the water in the little pool he's chilling in.
Happy belated birthday Carter... Loved the reaction as always
The Legend of Korra does an amazing job at diving into the diverse bending within an element.💕
"Can you airbend the air out of someone's lungs?"
Me: sips on drinks and looks away.
Really hard to do like bending water underground when you can't see and barely sense it, but 👀
@@jhedjoardumago7691 ...I mean...if I say anymore, it's spoilers.
The Great Divide is now a metaphor for everyone. We have two large groups divided on a subject. May we all learn from this episode.
Bruh. The Great Divide is a rite of passage you cannot skip. 😤
You skipped the great divide? But that’s such an important episode. It shows how people have been dealing with the war and you see the consequences of the war
"Meh, let's keep flying"
I"m sure you'll get it.
@@datnobodyking13 lol i rmber that. though while I do think the great divide is a completely skippable episode, its still entertaining to watch.
I think the whole reason most og fans hate it is becasuse when it was airing on TV, they replayed this episode for SO MANY TIMES so we just have a very deep hatred towards it now.
Yeah, you need those occasional insight into the world and how it's affecting the citizens. The Great Divide, Avatar Day, and a few others are a good brief break from the main plot to develop the world a bit. It's definitely a skippable episode on a rewatch if you want, but not really fair to make a new watcher skip it when they don't know what's going on.
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insert "nuts". well avatar has always been ahead of its time
I don't think you should skip any ATLA episodes. There are a lot of meanings and foreshadowing to The Great Divide which you may pick up in the later episodes throughout the series. It is a pretty relevant character development and foreshadowing story for especially Kitara and Aang when they have to face their ultimate decisions later on down the line. I won't go into details to explain the relevant references cuz that would spoil the fun of discovering and connecting later when the lightbulb hits!😄 I consider it to be a good storytelling writing not just a mere filler imo. The reason why ATLA is so great is because there is so much depth than what meets the eye. Hope you figure it out and understand it's purpose later.
Agree, I think it’s dumb a lot of reactors skip that. Sure it’s one of the weakest, but every episode is so strong that it’s still a great episode. They’re 20 minutes like how hard is it to watch one more 😭 every episode still builds the characters and it’s fun to see Aang be cheeky at the end lol
Literally so annoying then don’t watch the whole episodes if you gonna skip 🙄🙄
Ember Island Players: meh lets keep flying...
yeah episodes like great divide and cave of two lovers get so much hate for being "boring", but they literally flesh outthe point of what this entire series is really about and the important takeaways and gives context to all other episodes... they're severely underrated
these two episodes are some of my favorites in the entire show because of how they humanize Zuko so organically and just complicate his character
Its crazy that you mention bending the air out of someone's lungs to kill them because that has happened in the Legend of Korra... its pretty dark XD
I don’t think airbenders “create” air like firebenders create fire. We live in an atmosphere, air, so the potential for wind is always there. Airbenders just “push” or “pull” atmosphere however they choose. I would think the only way to stop one is by locking them in a vacuum. Or I suppose underwater. But just like an earthbender they would have to be kept far enough away from atmospheric conditions so they couldn’t manipulate them.
Fire benders forces a spark for a fire to start. Problem is fire is "alive" and will consumw everything if not tamed. I think they train firebenders in 3 steps:
-How to make a spark
-How to contain the fire created
-How to redirect the direction as intended.
Fire is the hardest element to master.
She says she wasn't shocked but her face clearly exhibited full on shock!
LMFAO, it zooms in with the arrow about to kill the Blue Spirit, and right before impact, I got thrown into ads!! The transition was immaculate
Same for me! Then after the ad, it replayed the last second again; arrow to the mask a second time. Lol
@@Xaverick I just got the echoing ping lol
This group is becoming smaller and smaller with every episode. Can't wait to see the empty couch and a mic watching it by themselves
That's definitely what I'm expecting lol
10:25 yes! There’s even a mayday accident investigation episode about it
The Great Divide isn’t that bad. It’s the re-run “filler” story but it still has a lot to offer to the main plotline
“Zukos so interesting and complex” SHE GETS IT!!
2:07 you would be surprised how floor/ground sleeping can improve your health and sleep quality. The ground basically press massages tension out of the muscles and you become more durable, less joint pain. Beds suck unless you aren’t an able bodied person and require extra comfort. Beds cripple us in the end tho. To the point laying on the ground at all hurts us. Look into floor sleeping if you’re interested: it’s a surprising change. Takes a week or 2 to get used to but it’s amazing how well rested it leaves you.
You have to have air for both firebending and airbending. It seems that firebenders can create heat though.
omg after rewatching the show many times and watching ppls first reactions to it cause i love ppl loving this series- JUST noticed that iroh might also have been looking away from zuko's burning cause he also couldnt watch his LITTLE BROTHER become an absolute monster
While The Great Divide certainly isn't the best episode, I don't think it should just be skipped on a whim. There are far worse episodes in other series that don't get skipped
they are moving pretty slow through it. with different people each episode. so at this point it’s whatever imo
“Could you air-bend the air out of someone’s lungs?”
👀
Addie was like Jim from the Office for me looking at the camera 😂
21:08 Jackson is funny, gotta see the reaction in real time 😂
I just knew her mouth was open in surprise lol
i knew the extra girls they had for the show weren't gonna stick around. you can just tell when people have no interest. their loss, hard to feel bad for em.
bending the air out of someones lungs is done in the legend of korra
Besides being as far away from a storm as possible, the eye of the storm is calm, because the storm itself is pushing outward and expanding, so the eye is the calmest part of a storm
9:07 same Cannon, I don't remember that happening lol
27:23 good choice you two, woo Ike!!
You guys should what the legend of korra once you’re done with ATLA, you’ll get your answer on airbending the air of out people’s lungs lol
@12:28 she's pretty close to a couple spoilers here
Zuko one of the greatest characters of all time
Nickelodeon All Stars (Smash Bros mimic) has Aang, an earth bender, and a water bender all available as fighters and they are so much fun to play as!
That idea about airbending the air out of someone's lungs actually happens in the sequel series, Legend of Korra.
The possibilities of bending are nearly endless
legend of korra must be watched to answer the oxygen out of lungs question
"Could you airbend the air out of somebody?"
Queen Hou Ting:
I like that now it's a smaller group of people because there's less distraction and talk over, tbh.
A couple things fire benders heat up the air to create fire but second Zuko captured Aang in the blue spirit episode because he wanted to catch the avatar before Zhoa but since zhoa had been promoted he needed to go under cover hence the blue spirit mask.
Further in the series and movies, fire benders need a fire source, only the most powerful benders can create fire from their own chi. I love that the series and sequel, also talk about the darker side of bending, including removing the air from a persons lungs!
Happy late birthday Carter!! 🥳🥳🎂🎂
"Could you airbend the air out of someone's lungs?"
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About bending air from someone’s lungs, not sure if you’ve seen Legend of Korra but check it out is all I’ll say
yes, an airbender can, in fact, take the air out of someone else's lungs. It's a technique called Vacuum Bending and it's portraid in Legend of Korra.
What I do believe happens in firebending is that benders can make the oxygen from the air around them spontaneously combust due to their energy and then it creates fire, since fire can't burn without oxygen.
It's like with the magic in the Harry Potter Universe, what wizards do to create stuff with magic is basically convert air atoms into other atoms, it's purely physics when you think about it.
12:20 yes you can air bend out of the lungs. Season 3 korra, and monk giatso did it, or rather created a vaccum in the room at least. Also aang blew the room up but left his corps untouched
the people who watched the show before looking at each other when Iroh redirects lightning was just perfect
I developed my crush on Zuko after the Blue Spirit episode haha. Everyone love complex characters with good hearts.
these are the best episodes of season 1 and in the whole show
I can’t wait for y’all to start season 2 because that’s where the story really picks up and we gets some amazing characters
Bruh the 11th episode is by far one of the greatest episodes because you learn a lot about the mind of katara and sokka.
Something not related to the video: I love how this channel has a whole playlist named ATTACK ON TITAN separated from the rest of the playlists lol
This channel is THE ONLY one that I feel belonged to love you guys
the fire "navy" is hilarious
I love that we could actually hear Jack being closer to the mic.
I just thought of a little headcanon just now. The Firelord probably hears news about Zhao and his encounters with Zuko, so I imagine when Ozai hears that Zhao is causing problems for Zuko he decides to do a little trolling and promotes him so he has every edge possible to capture the Avatar and screw Zuko over. That sounds exactly like something Ozai would do in my opinion lol.
12:20 what y'all are talking about happens in legend of korra the season 3 baddie (I think his name is zahyr prolly spelling it wrong tho) can draw the air out of someones lungs and suffocate them. air is the most op element for sure
fun fact! the way the Airbenders knew Aang was the avatar- he picked the relics from his past lives, which is the same way the real life Dali Lama is identified!
So much of the lore/rituals in this show are based on real traditions and def worth a wikiwander ❤
13:37 lmao that face, such wit
12:11 this might be a spoiler
but this actually happens in the legend of korra
The great divide it's a filler episode, aaand, yep it could be a little boring, BUT, it shows the abbility of Aang as a leader and also as person that can resolve conflicts between ppl
This show is so good dude✨ Great reaction💜
Skipping the great divide shows immaturity. Its the first time he shows leadership
I mean it doesn’t make it a good episode tho, like I skip it pretty much every time I rewatch
Skipping perhaps the poorest episode of a show because you prefer not to waste your or someone else's time shows nothing more than considered selectivity. That's all.
"Immaturity"? Please. 🙄
@@HickoryDickory86they shouldve let Maddie decide for herself if she thought it was boring or not. They really shouldn't skip episodes whenever they feel like it.
@@llaytonshuemaker3830sure, you can skip it everytime you rewatch it, but someone who's watching the show for the first time should still watch it
@@HickoryDickory86 Its important to the story. Poor is a matter of opinion. Take your eye rolls elsewhere
I also did not remember Iroh doing that
I swear it didn’t
I was super confused ( I have watching your channel for like a week and specifically this series for ATLA) when I didn’t see the reaction for episode 11 so I was like “ ok ???” And then I remembered that it was The Great Divide 😂 … GOOD CHOICE ! It is the one episode in the series that doesn’t really need to be an episode!
Chillest group of people ever