WATERBENDING BATTLE 🌊😱 AVATAR: The Last Airbender "The Waterbending Master" 1x18 (REACTION & REVIEW)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this video, we review and react to the episode "The Waterbending Master" of the hit tv show Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's been a while since I watched this series, and it's the perfect time to refresh my memory and get my girlfriend into the show. Thank you for watching with us! ❣️
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Waterbending is so cool. They based the waterbending style on Tai Chi. Which also have healing techniques. Great reaction as always!
A lot of people don't realize how much of a prodigy Katara is. Bending is focused through martial arts. She has never seen another water bender before. So, she had to teach herself a martial art she'd never seen, and learn to use it to focus her bending for effects she'd never seen. Once she got the water bending scroll her abilities increased dramatically. Pakku definitely wasn't going all out, and he wasn't trying to injure her. But, he was impressed with how far she's come with absolutely no instruction.
Tbh, it never really made sense to me. Like, she's on a par with Azula, yet her first waterbending (Sokka mentions it as being cracking ice when she gets angry) wasn't conscious like Azula's first firebending was, nor did she receive as much training as Azula.
Well she isn’t a prodigy it was hard work it didn’t come natural she’s a fast learner
@@Tamashikushotraining doesn’t matter
It’s top tier benders with no training that’s still powerful
@@AmarZion Training doesn't matter? Regardless of how unrealistically short it was, Katara would still only be able to use the water whip if she hadn't been trained. Yes, there is such thing as natural power, but that's of very little use without training.
@@Tamashikusho she’s a fast learner and had experience fighting she fought throughout the series.
Azula never left the capital until she went after Zuko
And Zuko was still on the basics
9:00 You didn’t include the exact shot, but if you look closely at Zuko (and perhaps slow down) when the explosion goes off, you can see how he managed to survive
With GranGran's story you have to keep in mind that Katara has no actual knowledge of why she left. She is just projecting what she feels in the moment.
It is entirely possible that she did love Pakku, she just didn't want to live with the strict gender roles of that tribe (though the Southern Tribe still has gender roles, for example only the men are warriors, and Sokka, the son of the Chief is still considered as one of the leaders of the tribe even with so many adult women there)
We know that female water benders DID fight (not saying non water bending women did, whereas it seems waterbending AND Non waterbending males did) in the Southern Tribe but, by this point, except for Katara, they do not exist.
@@remo27 yes, and I agree that the southern tribe is much less strict in the gender roles than the northern, but they are still more strict than almost any other place we see
Spoiler:
Funnily, the swampbenders are all male too. What is it with waterbenders? XD
@@rekaesmate3733 There's a politically incorrect answer or answers: A) Wartime makes it imperative to save at least some of your breeding age women. The Southern Tribe failed to do this and is practically extinct. The Northern Tribe might have instituted its discriminatory practices for precisely this reason: and they are definitively thriving compared to the Southern Tribe. As for the "Swamp": Two possibilitys : B) A swamp is a much more dangerous environment than the North or South Poles or C) Quite a few more men are willing to live in a swamp than women: after all swamps aren't very clean, and tend to be smelly areas. It's possible only men ever settled The Swamp. Or , at least, the men were numerous and women scarce to start with.
@@remo27I know your comment is 7 months old but female swamp benders were actually shown during the invasion of black sun. People just tend to not notice them, but they were among the warriors
12:04 that’s Northern Water Tribesfolk cheering Katara. I think she’s about to accidentally start a feminist revolution
Great reaction 😊. There r a bunch of things I wanna say:
First the Four seasons is the Avatar cycle;
Winter - Water (for obvious reasons)
Spring - Earth (Earth is most fertile this time of the year)
Summer - Fire (once again obvious reasons)
Fall - Air (it's the season where it's windy)
Sokka is the prince from Southern Water Tribe. Kinda. He IS the chief's son.
What I like about the misogyny in the water Tribe is that it wasn't out of nowhere. We see someone else do it in Ep 1. Sokka.
Ok, Katara vs Pakku is actually my Favorite fight of BK1. Katara goes head to head with a Master. She doesn't win and I like that she doesn't win. It wouldn't make sense if she won thatd make a Master look really bad. She fights with whatever techniques she learned in her journey. Katara just proved that She's an absolute Queen in this episode.
I initially didn't like that Pakku accepted katara because she was his ex fiancées granddaughter but he does realize that these rules and culture was what drived Gran Gran away from him. And I don't think they could've gone about it in a better way in the one episode format. Also this isn't really a spoiler that he realizes his mistakes as a Master and does take more female students in the comics.
Also u talked about the Necklace and that Gran Gran passed it down because of tradition but I think it's the opposite. I think that when the marriage was arranged Gran Gran did love Pakku but maybe wasn't ready emotionally to get married. 16 is a very young age and I think she was afraid that if she got married shed have to have kids pretty much immediately and all her freedom would be gone so she ran away to the south pole, didn't return probably because shed be ashamed and ultimately passed the Necklace down because she loved him. (I ended up writing a mini essay lol).
We love your essays!!! 😁 that’s a good point I never realized.. I always correlated gran gran not loving Pakku to Yue not loving who she was betrothed to. But you’re right there’s a good chance that she did love him but left because of how strict the northern tribe was.
Also spoiler warning!! I did read the comic the north and the south so I do know what ends up happening to gran gran and Pakku 🥲❤️ -M
In the SWT the chief is elected. So Sokka's more like a president's son then a prince.
5:27 Iroh ain’t no snitch
And thus the Legend of Sokka the Backbender was made even more legendary.
Seriously, though, the "kiddie" portion of the show is now essentially over. It all ramps up from here now. Enjoy!
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I'm 10 seconds in and...CHECK YOUR ALEXA NOTIFICATIONS
LOL .. 🤭
The most incredible thing is that the most difficult thing for a waterbender is to quickly change between the 3 states of water and learning to do takes years of practice, Katara had learned to control ice when she arrived at the North Pole and only weeks had passed
Is there a source for that? If so Id like to check it out
@@frenchynoob In the Legacy book and on several official Avatar pages they mention it, If you search for "control of the 3 states of water in Avatar" several pages appear, I recommend the one called "Waterbending/Avatar Wiki"
Please dress up for book 2.
One of the best things about AtLA is how well it usually handles character growth, which makes Pakku's mini-arc kind of jarring since it feels (to me at least) like his turning over a new leaf comes out of nowhere. On the other hand, I really appreciate how Sokka learning his lesson about the same thing is handled. He makes the same kind of sexist comments a teenage boy would make (especially at the time the show was made), but once meeting the Kyoshi warriors forces him to accept that a girl can be just as good of a warrior as he is (or better), he doesn't keep having to learning the same lesson over and over again. It's doubly good because it's also the first time he admits that he has more to learn (also also the first time he asks someone else for help). Sure, he's a goof and the comic relief, but he really does learn and grow as a person a lot throughout the show.
6:58 they just became privateers
Age 16 is still the marrying age in some US states and some nations.
We are reaching the FIRST great finale. So much more to come. Season 2 has some of the saddest moments. And coolest.
I also just noticed...they make it clear that this episode and the next episode are sometime apart, maybe 2 weeks. The moon shown here is a crescent. In the next episode it is full.