Worth mentioning that it took all four of the Red Lotus with a sucker punch to take down Tenzin, when it was 1v1 Zaheer was getting completely powerwashed. He is talented, but talent isn't enough to beat a master who's been training his entire life.
I still think Zaheer is a stronger fighter in general, the main issue is that 1) he's fighting with an element Tenzin has so much more experience in and 2) Air is all redirection of strength so even if Zaheer is a stronger fighter and a more powerful bender, Tenzin's greater mastery over air specifically makes him the worst kind of opponent for Zaheer. He's basically a walking Zaheer counter.
He is even handling all three of them before he gets hit with the combustion. I love how the season shows Zaheer as being an incredibly gifted air bender, but he clearly isn’t all-powerful. They fail to get Korra in Zaofu and when he finally fights a true airbending master he is reduced to running away and taking hits from Tenzin.
@@Arkayjiya rederecting air?... Did you see that in show at least once? Don't try make Zaheer better then he is, he is already too good for freshly baked bender.
I'm such a dummy. I was just looking up if this was an animation error, or else FLGR showing off her power to manifest plot points at will! Props to your editor as I didn't catch that as added on afterwards at all.
The earth queens death shows this show is willing to do things you wouldn't normally see in a kids' show. Props to the creators because that's a huge gamble to take
Not a meaningless death either. It was also used to discuss anarchy, power abuse... This show was willing to talk about some deep and complicated stuff
The method of her death is what is horrifying to me. When he pulled out all the air from her lungs, that alone wouldn't have been, immediately, fatal. But with ALL the air removed, the lungs would be totally collapsed, and she wouldn't have been able to breathe in unassisted, because her diaphragm would have been fighting a vacuum to get them to inflate. It would take someone or something inflating her lungs from the outside to allow her to breathe again. And that after she collapsed, she was still alive for the several minutes for her brain to die of oxygen deprivation.
I remember seeing that one clip of someone who taped this episode live and in the middle of the earth queen’s death, a little banner with SpongeBob came up at the bottom. Good ol Nickelodeon
Agree it is quite a brutal scene. It really demonstrates the tone of the show and what Zaheer is capable of. What I only noticed for the first time in this reaction is the foreshadowing; that comment while Korra is in chains about not being able to remove air from the room... *shudders* This show is so well written.
I don't think LoK is a "kids' show" in the way that Avatar was one, it feels more like it was made for teenagers who watched Avatar as children and watched this when it ran years later.
Zaheers isn't really talent actually. Their goal was to train the avatar with their idealogy and to become her elemental masters. So she would open the portals and release Vaatu. But since the only airbending family is Aang's family he had no choice but to learn the techniques himself and be ready to teach her when the time comes. That's why he immediately gets the hang of it in prison and knows all about the airbending culture.
This is probably what Monk Gyatso did during the fire nation invasion back then. Sucking the air out of the room killing both him and all fire nation soldiers. The clothes of Gyatso were untouched and not burnt. You can see one of the fire nation skeleton reaching for it's throat so it is possible that monk Gyatso used this technique as a last resort. Gyatso was an airbending master, with decades of experience and training. If Zaheer could pull off that move after a week, Gyatso could easily do it in a small enclosed space.
Im glad someone else mentioned this. Yeah when airbenders fight they usually use air to push the enemy away, all those fire nation soldiers where just at Gyatso's feet. The new live action show on netflix might actually answer that question of if he does or not.
I feel like if he was such a master, he could have removed the air from the area the fire nation were in and left the air in the bit he was in? It's not hard to localise the area where the air is removed from (around the earth queen's head), surely Gyatso could have just done an area around those soldiers and not himself
@@willowtree9709 Honestly, it’s just an attempt to explain a plot hole. Gyatso being killed by firebending but having perfectly unburnt clothing would indicate that he must have been killed by some other means. Of course, it’s originally a kids show, so that’s likely the actual reason, but it’s at least fun to speculate.
The look on Zuko’s face when Korra told him she spoke to Iroh. Just think how long it has been since they saw each other and the fact he just found out he is in the spirit world. MY. FRIGGIN. HEART.
I would have loved, at the end of the season, or series to show a quick scene of Zuko and Iroh sitting down for some tea in the spirit world...Although I don't think my heart would be able to take it.
Bonus: iirc, her last interaction with Naga was when she was super grumpy about being at Zaofu. Kinda an extra element to how the acupuncture and resolving things with Suyin may have had an impact
I absolutely love that they didn't make it seem like Tenzin struggled when fighting Zaheer. He is a true air bending master, doing it is whole life, and he is fighting for the life of his family and nation, there is no way Zaheer could be his match. Only when it became 3 on one was he beaten.
@@mr_epic875 just making it 4v1, not "technically" . Pl'i is sniper and works best from distance so she was in her perfect spot. She dont need to be in hand to hand combat to be effective. She is in perfect spot to be deadly here
Zuko's dragon is called Druk. Not sure if this where they first confirmed his name, but they mention it in the official Art Book for Season 3, along with confirming that he is a descendent of Ran and Shaw from ATLA.
Last video: "I wonder if air benders can remove air from someone's lungs?" This video: "I don't want the earth queen to die..." Everyone else: "Well....about both those things...."
In regards to Bolin trying to make friends with Ghazan, I love the description the Avatar Legends Tabletop Role Playing Game gave him: “Bolin genuinely wants to befriend every single living being he meets, unless they’re trying to kill him... he only befriends some of the ones trying to kill him.”
I always find it amazing that Zuko is the great-grandson of Avatar Roku, is bestfriends with his reincarnated grandfather through Aang, while protecting and guiding the reincarnation of his grandfather/bestfriend through Korra. I love that this season finally made it come full circle. I just wished him and Korra could have talked more. I also wondered if Aang ever gave Zuko the opportunity to talk to his great grandfather Roku in later years for guidance.
I love how the last line of Chapter 10 is "This is only the beginning." The murder of the Earth Queen and the downfall of Ba Sing Se is only the beginning, that's a hell of a statement. Also, Tenzin unleashed will always be awesome. The Red Lotus needed all four members to finally overpower him.
I do love that, after generations power hungry tyrants, Zuko just decided to abdicate the throne to his daughter and retire. Didn't even train Korra in firebending like you'd expect, he just stepped aside for the next generation.
Man, I'm really glad they gave Tenzin some time to shine. And he absolutely did. Zaheer may be incredibly skilled, perhaps even naturally talented. But none of that compares to a genuine master airbender. Zaheer is lucky he has his team, otherwise I think Tenzin would have completely bodied him.
Man, I love that moment when Tenzin responds to Zaheer. Z.: "You don't have a choice." T.: "Yes I do." Legit, such a strong life lesson. We Always have a choice.
The scary deadly equivalent of blood bending and taking breath away for earthbending would have to be Gaara's sand coffin/sand burial technique. Also, love the braid
you’re the first reactor i’ve seen who was appropriately freaked at the “until im no longer breathing” line. i swear everyone else just seems to brush right past it but when this was airing live everyone was like UMMMMMMMMMKNN WTF
Notice how Zaheer doesn't even come close to beating Tenzin in a one-on-one fight. Yes, Zaheer's a natural prodigy. But Tenzin is the *only* Master Airbender in the world, and we've never seen him lose a single fight on-screen against anything but overwhelming odds. All Zaheer could do was stay alive and wait for his team to turn it into a four-on-one. I do appreciate them showing that natural talent is great, but doesn't let you beat an actual master. Aang was naturally gifted and ahead of Katara's waterbending when they were both just feeling their way through it, but Katara blew right past him as soon as they both got a proper teacher.
At first, Team Zaheer got us jazzed to see a cool, dark mirror version of a Team Avatar... and then they came for Tenzin. They came for *Dad.* Ding goes the evil meter.
A freaking love that scene with Tenzin. He's like "Screw your hostage situation BS, I'm not having that. I'm going to do what I can to save whomever I can" And by golly, he damn near pulls it off. Such strong force of will and might.
When you said you didnt want the earth queen dead i had an evil smirk on my face like shes has no idea whats to come lmaoooo. I also love the part where Lin gives Naga a treat cause it shows shes no longer so angry and actually likes Naga even if she wont admit it lol.
I’ve been waiting all season for this episode. It ends badly but all season Zaheer is shown as such a great air bender. A unstoppable force beating all he faces. Then he faces a REAL air bender master and gets rolled over the entire time. Shows how important it is to KNOW air bending when facing a air bender.
The moment where Zaheer said "unfortunately you do not have a choice" and Tenzin says "yes I do" is one of my favorite moments of ATLA and TLOK combined. Also him not giving up on Korra with the line "As long as I am breathing, It's not over" great writing.
I love the turn in this episode from most people seeing tenzen as a wet blanket theory teacher to a disciplined warrior. If that woman wasn't in the blimp he would've had them all
On top of that, we can argue Zaheer doesn't want to pull that trick... yet. Zaheer threathened to hurt the Air Nation to force Korra to surrender (under the premise that they won't be hurt, too much, if she gives up), the untimely killing of one of the Avatar's friends would give her enough reason not to trust Zaheer's deal.
So as of last episode you now know why Zaheer is so well-versed as an airbender: he was going to be the red lotus air bending teacher for the avatar. All his martial arts were based on airbending, which is why it only took a push to be fairly good at air bending. No where near tenzin of course, probably semi-equivalent with Jinora if anyone, tbh. But that fivht was 4v1 and they Still had trouble, and in 1v1 tenzin was winning. Id be willing to bet zaheer Couldnt take tensin's breath as a less skilled airbender. Also, season 1 finale had a murder-suicide
It's mentioned in Avatar: The Last Airbender that some friendships can transcend lifetimes: Monk Gyatso was a friend to Roku, and Aang's teacher. With Korra, we see that idea repeated - by this point, Korra has received guidance from several people close to Aang.
Absolutely the most brutal death in the Avatar universe. Finally we get to see what Monk Gyatso probably did to a whole room of comet-empowered firebenders all the way back in episode 3 of ATLA. Episode 11 really displays the difference between talent and mastery. Zaheer is an extremely good airbender, but he's no master. When he and Tenzin duel, Tenzin is using perfect spiral movements to minimize his economy of movement and dodge faster. Zaheer is jumping all over the place and throwing huge punches with his airbending, flashy and powerful, but not anywhere as effective. If that fight had gone on much longer, Tenzin would have had him.
"I think emotional moments are coming up for me..." No truer words were ever spoken. 😄 I've been looking forward to seeing you watch these, especially episode 11. I figured you would love seeing Tenzin go into full beast mode, ultimately taking on all of the Red Lotus gang himself. I didn't expect that you would be that scared for him. I admit that when I watched that last scene, when Tenzin says 'as long as I have breath...' and then seeing view pan him out of the shot, I wasn't very hopeful.
It's nice how the few characters they bring back from ATLA are able to have an impact on the story without undermining the core Korra characters. Always good to see them
The animal that attacks them in the desert is based on a real one, the sarcastic fringemouth, thankfully they are much smaller in real life and only live in the bits of the ocean where no sunlight reaches
remember way back in the early episodes of atla when aang finds gytaso? how he was surrounded by like 15 firebenders? the theory is that he did a zaheer to everyone in the room.
Fun fact there’s actually a theory that makes a lot of sense that Monk Gyatso in his final moments when the Fire Nation attacked the Southern Temple that he killed the Firebenders that attacked him by doing the same thing Zaheer did, by bending the air out of their lungs. There were numerous skeletons of Firebender soldiers that were beside his body, so Gyatso didn’t go down without a fight.
"Fun" fact: Stealing a person's air isn't illegal or anything like bloodbending is but it was/is a forbidden technique in Air Nomad society. Not only killed but killed ON SCREEN. Jet died in AtLA but that was off screen. Dragon is named Druk. Also if you ever wondered what Tenzin was really capable of... here was a very good demonstration, 3 on 1 and he was doing fine it took invisible explosives to tip the scales. Edit: Firebenders have been shown to be able to manipulate heat so... yeah probably... or perhaps adding heat without fire, kinda like microwaving someone...
when Zuko was talking about Aang being willing to sacrifice anything to protect the Air nation, but then talking about how he had larger concerns as the Avatar, I was like S%*! but thats Tenzin! What an episode, the fight scenes were epic. Tenzin and Kai going off. Love love love.
23:52 this is an actual thing in North Korea, if you rescue anything other than the portrait of the supreme leader first in a fire, the punishment is death
@@pistazieneis415”A North Korean woman is under investigation after saving her 2 kids from a house fire - but not her portraits of the Kim family” - Business Insider
Everyone talkingabout Tenzin, but can we all acknowledge how amazing it was that Kya, a healer first and fighter second, was holding her own against probably the best waterbender, second only to Katara? Just imagine how crazy powerful she would be with real fighting training and experience. Same with Bumi. That 60+ guy, new to airbending, also holding his own (somewhat) against Ghazan, who can lavabend? That's Aang's kids for you, everybody!
And now you know how Monk Gyatso took out an entire room of Fire Nation soldiers. :) After all, you can't fire bend if there's no air. ...Or live, for that matter.
@@mranima748 Except I don't think he protected himself in such a way at all, because he died in that room, too. I'm sure he _could_ have protected himself, but maybe he chose to lay down his own life in exchange for taking all those others; the Air Nomads were deeply pacifist people after all, and he probably felt immense guilt over taking these lives despite the horrifying circumstances. So perhaps forsaking his own life in the process was his way of penance.
@@TimeturnerJ The Air Temple was lost and the Airbenders outmatched with the comet in play. Odds are Gyatso sacrificed himself to avoid capture and interrogation - after all, it wasn't really the Airbenders the Fire Nation was after... it was the Avatar, and Gyatso more than anyone would know how to find him.
Things like bloodbending and bending the air out of someone is one of those things that people think about when they start watching the show and see all the creativity but never expect it'll actually happen in the show until it does.
I love your reactions. You holding your breathe while the earth queen lost hers was so real. Zuko hearing about his uncle was so heartwarming. Also, listen how good the music is. You didnt mention it in this reaction, but go back and really listen to it, it is so good.
Get ready. Things are about to get emotional. I was enjoying how amazing they were telling the story of Zaheer. Absolutely I was cheering him on. Henry Rollins being the former lead singer of Black Flag cast as Zaheer is masterful voice casting on multiple levels. I long for the world Zaheer envisioned. A very Star Trek type future. Where all needs are met. No rich. No poor.
the Tenzin v Zaheer fight reminded me of the quote "You can't truly call yourself peaceful unless you're capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. Important difference". Tenzin threw down like a BEAST. He made me think of Gyatso with all the Fire Nation skeletons.
And now you know how all those Air Nation Soldiers died in the Air temple, way back in ATLA S1. Did you notice the camels backing as far away from the dragon as they could? The small details... Maybe they could put the Red Lotus demonstrating the Elements? That'd be fun.
A little fun fact is that the technique that Zaheer used to off the Earth Queen was actually invented by avatar Yangchen(the air avatar before Aang) she was one if not the cruelest avatars but she is known in history as a saint and she is basically the role model for the “perfect avatar” although in reality she definitely wasn’t
I'm so thrilled you finally gotten to this episode ... there's a fan theory, one that I whole heartedly believe, that a mortally wounded Monk Giatzo did something similar to all of the Fire Nation soldiers in that room where Aang found him in the third episode of ATLAB ... as he was dying he just sucked all the air out the room and took as many with him as he could!!!
Now it's no longer a spoiler so...the reason Zaheer mastered air-bending so quickly is because since the Red Lotus wanted to train the Avatar themselves and they had masters of all elements except air, Zaheer took it upon himself to learn everything he could about the Air Nomads' culture and airbending to teach the Avatar. BTW, in my humble opinion, your personality seems most like a fire-benders' to me. Would explain why you don't like to get wet ^^'.
SPOILER AHEAD for Yangchen novels. . . . . . . . . . Fun fact: At 36:08, Kai used a bending move that Avatar Yangchen invented, to fight against combustion bending.
There aren't many moments where we see a character with their back against the wall as much as Tenzin in this episode. The man's fighting for his people, his family, and for Korra all at once. It's a small wonder that he handily has Zaheer on the run, holds his own in a 3v1 against some of the most talented benders the world has ever known, and only goes down upon the intervention of a fourth who-- it's worth mentioning-- is far removed from the fight itself. There's every possibility that if P'li had been anywhere nearby that Tenzin would have been able to whoop her too. As mentioned, the man had everything on the line-- everything to lose-- and showed his strength in a handful of minutes. Easily one of the best fights in the Avatar world, and doubly so when you know the stakes. Speaking of people who really stepped up to the plate: Kai. His arc from selfish brat to selfless hero isn't over yet, but it really hits home here how much growing the lad has done.
Her connection to the other Avatars isn't complete gone. She can't speak to them, but the Avatar State still imbues her with their collective power and experience.
In terms of body bending, Firebenders could probably stop your brain by redirecting the electrical signals, airbenders (if skilled enough) might be able to bend the air pockets in your bones. With earthbenders, most of your body’s minerals are pure metals which can’t be bent
I remember being scared for Tenzin, too but I think Zaheer respects Tenzin, in contrast to the Earth Queen. Their behaviour is even the exact opposite with Tenzin being a leader but no king and while the Queen even shouted at her people to sacrifice their lives for her Tenzin did the opposite. I really love the villains of Korra, and especially Zaheer who has his beliefs and acts true to them although his actions are shocking and terryfying for sure.
Next episode is coming y'all!! This season was so great, every time there's something big, like the Air Queen moment, there's still big moments coming!!! There's _____, and ______, and dont forget ______!!!!
There's such an irony here that Long Feng tried to convince the Earth King that team avatar was a part of an "anarchist cell" there to destroy them, when 70 years later that exactly happens
Worth mentioning that it took all four of the Red Lotus with a sucker punch to take down Tenzin, when it was 1v1 Zaheer was getting completely powerwashed. He is talented, but talent isn't enough to beat a master who's been training his entire life.
Yeah. Tenzin had moments before, but this episode truly shows how he is one of the strongest benders of era, especially when pushed.
I still think Zaheer is a stronger fighter in general, the main issue is that 1) he's fighting with an element Tenzin has so much more experience in and 2) Air is all redirection of strength so even if Zaheer is a stronger fighter and a more powerful bender, Tenzin's greater mastery over air specifically makes him the worst kind of opponent for Zaheer. He's basically a walking Zaheer counter.
@@Arkayjiya He isn't, your deluding yourself. Zaheer is a good strategist, and that's it, when it comes to power Tenzin is miles above him.
He is even handling all three of them before he gets hit with the combustion. I love how the season shows Zaheer as being an incredibly gifted air bender, but he clearly isn’t all-powerful. They fail to get Korra in Zaofu and when he finally fights a true airbending master he is reduced to running away and taking hits from Tenzin.
@@Arkayjiya rederecting air?... Did you see that in show at least once?
Don't try make Zaheer better then he is, he is already too good for freshly baked bender.
"Someone put a mustache on that picture" LMFAO I was definitely not expecting for it to actually happen
I laughed so hard. Her editor is good 😂 Nathaniel, right?
@@Hollycb12 I had a feeling you were right so I went to check. According to the description his name is actually Nathanael. Very close!
I'm such a dummy. I was just looking up if this was an animation error, or else FLGR showing off her power to manifest plot points at will! Props to your editor as I didn't catch that as added on afterwards at all.
Bolin has elevated fake mustaches to a new level, so adding a mustache is no longer an insult
NICE editing
16:56: "I didn't breath that entire time.."
Well, neither did the Earth Queen! *badum tssssh* (:
you beat me to this!!! hahahaha
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Damn, I should have read the comments before posting. Well, it stands to mentioned twice! ;)
#JusticeForBosco… it has been achieved.
LMAOOOO
The earth queens death shows this show is willing to do things you wouldn't normally see in a kids' show. Props to the creators because that's a huge gamble to take
Not a meaningless death either. It was also used to discuss anarchy, power abuse... This show was willing to talk about some deep and complicated stuff
The method of her death is what is horrifying to me. When he pulled out all the air from her lungs, that alone wouldn't have been, immediately, fatal. But with ALL the air removed, the lungs would be totally collapsed, and she wouldn't have been able to breathe in unassisted, because her diaphragm would have been fighting a vacuum to get them to inflate. It would take someone or something inflating her lungs from the outside to allow her to breathe again. And that after she collapsed, she was still alive for the several minutes for her brain to die of oxygen deprivation.
I remember seeing that one clip of someone who taped this episode live and in the middle of the earth queen’s death, a little banner with SpongeBob came up at the bottom. Good ol Nickelodeon
Agree it is quite a brutal scene. It really demonstrates the tone of the show and what Zaheer is capable of. What I only noticed for the first time in this reaction is the foreshadowing; that comment while Korra is in chains about not being able to remove air from the room... *shudders* This show is so well written.
I don't think LoK is a "kids' show" in the way that Avatar was one, it feels more like it was made for teenagers who watched Avatar as children and watched this when it ran years later.
Tenzin was 100% going to win that fight against Zaheer. There’s a difference between being talented and then being a master.
Yeah. Zaheer is martial arts master who uses airbending but Tenzin is a true air bending master.
Zaheers isn't really talent actually. Their goal was to train the avatar with their idealogy and to become her elemental masters. So she would open the portals and release Vaatu. But since the only airbending family is Aang's family he had no choice but to learn the techniques himself and be ready to teach her when the time comes. That's why he immediately gets the hang of it in prison and knows all about the airbending culture.
Additionally Tenzin was outnumbered and by different types of benders as well.
Tenzin had enough sparing sessions with Aang. So fighting Zaheer was like walk in a park.
The young prodigy vs the old master.
This is probably what Monk Gyatso did during the fire nation invasion back then. Sucking the air out of the room killing both him and all fire nation soldiers. The clothes of Gyatso were untouched and not burnt. You can see one of the fire nation skeleton reaching for it's throat so it is possible that monk Gyatso used this technique as a last resort.
Gyatso was an airbending master, with decades of experience and training. If Zaheer could pull off that move after a week, Gyatso could easily do it in a small enclosed space.
Im glad someone else mentioned this. Yeah when airbenders fight they usually use air to push the enemy away, all those fire nation soldiers where just at Gyatso's feet.
The new live action show on netflix might actually answer that question of if he does or not.
Yangchen was the one who invented it iirc
I feel like if he was such a master, he could have removed the air from the area the fire nation were in and left the air in the bit he was in? It's not hard to localise the area where the air is removed from (around the earth queen's head), surely Gyatso could have just done an area around those soldiers and not himself
it''s valid theory
@@willowtree9709 Honestly, it’s just an attempt to explain a plot hole. Gyatso being killed by firebending but having perfectly unburnt clothing would indicate that he must have been killed by some other means. Of course, it’s originally a kids show, so that’s likely the actual reason, but it’s at least fun to speculate.
The look on Zuko’s face when Korra told him she spoke to Iroh. Just think how long it has been since they saw each other and the fact he just found out he is in the spirit world. MY. FRIGGIN. HEART.
this the main reason I watched this, nothing gets the tearbending going like some Iroh-Zuko stuff
I would have loved, at the end of the season, or series to show a quick scene of Zuko and Iroh sitting down for some tea in the spirit world...Although I don't think my heart would be able to take it.
My head canon has Zuko entering the spirit portal, and finding his uncle, so they can visit .
@@agresticumbra that’s what Zuko and toph’s field trip will be
@@mranima748 Bravo! Excellent callback. One last teatime.
The fact Lin has treats for Pabu and Naga but Korra didn't always gets me 😂
Given Lin's pragmatist personality, I always assumed those were just her own jerky rations.
Bonus: iirc, her last interaction with Naga was when she was super grumpy about being at Zaofu. Kinda an extra element to how the acupuncture and resolving things with Suyin may have had an impact
She’s just pre-prepared to deal with things that annoy her
I absolutely love that they didn't make it seem like Tenzin struggled when fighting Zaheer. He is a true air bending master, doing it is whole life, and he is fighting for the life of his family and nation, there is no way Zaheer could be his match. Only when it became 3 on one was he beaten.
Actually he held up pretty good with the 3v1. His body gave out when he was hit by Pl'i during the 3v1, technically making it a 4v1.
@@mr_epic875 just making it 4v1, not "technically" . Pl'i is sniper and works best from distance so she was in her perfect spot. She dont need to be in hand to hand combat to be effective. She is in perfect spot to be deadly here
Zuko's dragon is called Druk. Not sure if this where they first confirmed his name, but they mention it in the official Art Book for Season 3, along with confirming that he is a descendent of Ran and Shaw from ATLA.
Didn't Zuko call the dragon "Fang" during the breakout of P'Li though?
@@RyanTheLion335 Fang was Roku's dragon.
after seeing the fate of the queen i bet we are all pretty glad that the airbenders are pacifists
Right?!
Remember ATLA episode 3 when Aang found his dead teacher Monk Gyatso and *a lot of* the firebender corpses lying around him... 💀
we gonna see that happening live real soon can't wait@@mori1bund
@@pistazieneis415 aged poorly eh 😬
Last video: "I wonder if air benders can remove air from someone's lungs?"
This video: "I don't want the earth queen to die..."
Everyone else: "Well....about both those things...."
This Video: “maybe Bolin can lavabend”
In regards to Bolin trying to make friends with Ghazan, I love the description the Avatar Legends Tabletop Role Playing Game gave him:
“Bolin genuinely wants to befriend every single living being he meets, unless they’re trying to kill him...
he only befriends some of the ones trying to kill him.”
Amazingly accurate!
I always find it amazing that Zuko is the great-grandson of Avatar Roku, is bestfriends with his reincarnated grandfather through Aang, while protecting and guiding the reincarnation of his grandfather/bestfriend through Korra. I love that this season finally made it come full circle. I just wished him and Korra could have talked more. I also wondered if Aang ever gave Zuko the opportunity to talk to his great grandfather Roku in later years for guidance.
"Their relationship started off... a little rocky."
"SLAPAPOW!!"
Just a bit
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I love how the last line of Chapter 10 is "This is only the beginning." The murder of the Earth Queen and the downfall of Ba Sing Se is only the beginning, that's a hell of a statement.
Also, Tenzin unleashed will always be awesome. The Red Lotus needed all four members to finally overpower him.
Aang: No, it's not over!
Tenzin: As long as I'm breathing, it's not over!
I do love that, after generations power hungry tyrants, Zuko just decided to abdicate the throne to his daughter and retire. Didn't even train Korra in firebending like you'd expect, he just stepped aside for the next generation.
“Long Live the Queen, pfffft. …although that could be passive-aggressive!”
Nope, juuuuust aggressive. 😆
Man, I'm really glad they gave Tenzin some time to shine. And he absolutely did. Zaheer may be incredibly skilled, perhaps even naturally talented. But none of that compares to a genuine master airbender. Zaheer is lucky he has his team, otherwise I think Tenzin would have completely bodied him.
Man, I love that moment when Tenzin responds to Zaheer.
Z.: "You don't have a choice."
T.: "Yes I do."
Legit, such a strong life lesson. We Always have a choice.
You know Zuko’a pretty good at getting around for a guy who’s probably pushing 90.
The back half of this season is absolutely insane
The scary deadly equivalent of blood bending and taking breath away for earthbending would have to be Gaara's sand coffin/sand burial technique. Also, love the braid
The video started and my brain went "I've seen enough of Ba Sing Se. And I can't even see!" 😂
😂 I miss Toph… Ba Sing Se is the worst
@@funnylilgalreacts Toph had some great lines. I love her so much and I love Lin even more 🥰
@@funnylilgalreacts I feel the same way BTW could you make a reaction video for the Invincible season 2 Part 2 Official trailer please
you’re the first reactor i’ve seen who was appropriately freaked at the “until im no longer breathing” line. i swear everyone else just seems to brush right past it but when this was airing live everyone was like UMMMMMMMMMKNN WTF
Notice how Zaheer doesn't even come close to beating Tenzin in a one-on-one fight. Yes, Zaheer's a natural prodigy. But Tenzin is the *only* Master Airbender in the world, and we've never seen him lose a single fight on-screen against anything but overwhelming odds. All Zaheer could do was stay alive and wait for his team to turn it into a four-on-one.
I do appreciate them showing that natural talent is great, but doesn't let you beat an actual master. Aang was naturally gifted and ahead of Katara's waterbending when they were both just feeling their way through it, but Katara blew right past him as soon as they both got a proper teacher.
At first, Team Zaheer got us jazzed to see a cool, dark mirror version of a Team Avatar... and then they came for Tenzin. They came for *Dad.* Ding goes the evil meter.
That's such a good point. Like, one of our heroes' dads is literally in play, but Tenzin is the spiritual father of the whole show.
At 36:55 when you said "what a move" about the move Tenzin used against Zaheer, that's the move we see Aang do in the intro🥺. Like father like son🥺
OMG I missed that!!
A freaking love that scene with Tenzin. He's like "Screw your hostage situation BS, I'm not having that. I'm going to do what I can to save whomever I can" And by golly, he damn near pulls it off. Such strong force of will and might.
And now we no longer have to worry about the Earth Queen :)
When you said you didnt want the earth queen dead i had an evil smirk on my face like shes has no idea whats to come lmaoooo. I also love the part where Lin gives Naga a treat cause it shows shes no longer so angry and actually likes Naga even if she wont admit it lol.
I’ve been waiting all season for this episode. It ends badly but all season Zaheer is shown as such a great air bender. A unstoppable force beating all he faces. Then he faces a REAL air bender master and gets rolled over the entire time. Shows how important it is to KNOW air bending when facing a air bender.
The moment where Zaheer said "unfortunately you do not have a choice" and Tenzin says "yes I do" is one of my favorite moments of ATLA and TLOK combined. Also him not giving up on Korra with the line "As long as I am breathing, It's not over" great writing.
I love the turn in this episode from most people seeing tenzen as a wet blanket theory teacher to a disciplined warrior. If that woman wasn't in the blimp he would've had them all
"There is no air in Ba Sing Se"
-Zaheer, in his head, probably
On the breath thing, remember Tenzin is also an airbender. He's not as helpless against having his breath stolen like the EQ was.
On top of that, we can argue Zaheer doesn't want to pull that trick... yet. Zaheer threathened to hurt the Air Nation to force Korra to surrender (under the premise that they won't be hurt, too much, if she gives up), the untimely killing of one of the Avatar's friends would give her enough reason not to trust Zaheer's deal.
“I was once a waterbender, it was just too wet, airbenders are much dryer”
@@lilunette9319 how come it being cold? airbenders can warm themselves with proper breathing technique 🤓☝
I was refrencing a quote from saltburn
“I used to be a lesbian, it was just to wet, men are much dryer”
"I don't want the earth queen die"
Zaheer: (Leonardo's laugh holding mini air ball)
I LOVE your videos! You seem so genuine. It's refreshing.
So as of last episode you now know why Zaheer is so well-versed as an airbender: he was going to be the red lotus air bending teacher for the avatar. All his martial arts were based on airbending, which is why it only took a push to be fairly good at air bending. No where near tenzin of course, probably semi-equivalent with Jinora if anyone, tbh. But that fivht was 4v1 and they Still had trouble, and in 1v1 tenzin was winning. Id be willing to bet zaheer Couldnt take tensin's breath as a less skilled airbender.
Also, season 1 finale had a murder-suicide
I love how Zuko’s face looks when Korra told him she spoke to Iroh. Like he was a teenager again
Zaheer: Give up old man, you're beaten.
Tenzin: I didn't... hear... no bell.
Some of the bending in this show just absolutely takes my breath away!
It's mentioned in Avatar: The Last Airbender that some friendships can transcend lifetimes: Monk Gyatso was a friend to Roku, and Aang's teacher.
With Korra, we see that idea repeated - by this point, Korra has received guidance from several people close to Aang.
I like to think that every avatar has met someone who knew their previous life
If I recall, Long Live the Queen was never actually aired on Nick, I watched it on their website where it was streamed for a short time.
in the netherlands it did air on nickelodeon
“the terror within” was the last ep to air on tv , at least in the states
Starts episode with "I don't want the Earth Queen dead.". [Insert the old grandpa from Holes] "WELL THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!"
Absolutely the most brutal death in the Avatar universe. Finally we get to see what Monk Gyatso probably did to a whole room of comet-empowered firebenders all the way back in episode 3 of ATLA.
Episode 11 really displays the difference between talent and mastery. Zaheer is an extremely good airbender, but he's no master. When he and Tenzin duel, Tenzin is using perfect spiral movements to minimize his economy of movement and dodge faster. Zaheer is jumping all over the place and throwing huge punches with his airbending, flashy and powerful, but not anywhere as effective. If that fight had gone on much longer, Tenzin would have had him.
"I think emotional moments are coming up for me..." No truer words were ever spoken. 😄
I've been looking forward to seeing you watch these, especially episode 11. I figured you would love seeing Tenzin go into full beast mode, ultimately taking on all of the Red Lotus gang himself. I didn't expect that you would be that scared for him. I admit that when I watched that last scene, when Tenzin says 'as long as I have breath...' and then seeing view pan him out of the shot, I wasn't very hopeful.
2:50 Examples of siblings that get along.... "I'm an earthbender!" "I'm not!"
It's nice how the few characters they bring back from ATLA are able to have an impact on the story without undermining the core Korra characters. Always good to see them
I love your reactions so much. You are so sweet and have the best input. The only youtuber who’s intros and outros i watch fully😅
It’s here, the episode we’ve all be waiting for
How much people dislike season 2, it really set up so much that makes this season absolutely phenomenal.
The animal that attacks them in the desert is based on a real one, the sarcastic fringemouth, thankfully they are much smaller in real life and only live in the bits of the ocean where no sunlight reaches
Combine that with a shark and the sand shark is technically a sharkastic finmouth
lol, untill I googled I was sure you made that name up.))
My immediate thoughts were: "Oh. So that's what monk Gyatso did to the dozen fire benders that were around his corpse. Holy shit."
remember way back in the early episodes of atla when aang finds gytaso? how he was surrounded by like 15 firebenders? the theory is that he did a zaheer to everyone in the room.
Yeah, that shows how strong gytaso was, and he wasn't holding back. He took them all during that comet when the fire benders were super powerful.
That "Yes I do..." always hits so fucking hard!
"It's not a crush." As she pets her own hair. Mmm hmm. I mean.. I get it. Dude's sick as hell.
Fun fact there’s actually a theory that makes a lot of sense that Monk Gyatso in his final moments when the Fire Nation attacked the Southern Temple that he killed the Firebenders that attacked him by doing the same thing Zaheer did, by bending the air out of their lungs. There were numerous skeletons of Firebender soldiers that were beside his body, so Gyatso didn’t go down without a fight.
"Fun" fact: Stealing a person's air isn't illegal or anything like bloodbending is but it was/is a forbidden technique in Air Nomad society. Not only killed but killed ON SCREEN. Jet died in AtLA but that was off screen.
Dragon is named Druk. Also if you ever wondered what Tenzin was really capable of... here was a very good demonstration, 3 on 1 and he was doing fine it took invisible explosives to tip the scales.
Edit: Firebenders have been shown to be able to manipulate heat so... yeah probably... or perhaps adding heat without fire, kinda like microwaving someone...
"And I think Combustion Man died..." - Sokka
@@craigpayne3265 oh yeah... not sure if that was confirmed but if it wasn't that scares me...
@@kennethmorgan8795 it could explain p’li’s existance because she is not 69 years old
when Zuko was talking about Aang being willing to sacrifice anything to protect the Air nation, but then talking about how he had larger concerns as the Avatar, I was like S%*! but thats Tenzin! What an episode, the fight scenes were epic. Tenzin and Kai going off. Love love love.
Watching people react to THAT scene with Zaheer and the queen never gets old.
23:52 this is an actual thing in North Korea, if you rescue anything other than the portrait of the supreme leader first in a fire, the punishment is death
sure, and Santa Claus made me a visit two months ago
Truth is stranger than fiction, so…
@@pistazieneis415”A North Korean woman is under investigation after saving her 2 kids from a house fire - but not her portraits of the Kim family” - Business Insider
Everyone talkingabout Tenzin, but can we all acknowledge how amazing it was that Kya, a healer first and fighter second, was holding her own against probably the best waterbender, second only to Katara? Just imagine how crazy powerful she would be with real fighting training and experience. Same with Bumi. That 60+ guy, new to airbending, also holding his own (somewhat) against Ghazan, who can lavabend? That's Aang's kids for you, everybody!
And now you know how Monk Gyatso took out an entire room of Fire Nation soldiers. :)
After all, you can't fire bend if there's no air. ...Or live, for that matter.
An airbender forms a bubble of air around their head, they then remove all other air in the room, horrifyingly effecient at killing
@@mranima748 Except I don't think he protected himself in such a way at all, because he died in that room, too.
I'm sure he _could_ have protected himself, but maybe he chose to lay down his own life in exchange for taking all those others; the Air Nomads were deeply pacifist people after all, and he probably felt immense guilt over taking these lives despite the horrifying circumstances. So perhaps forsaking his own life in the process was his way of penance.
@@TimeturnerJ that’s what I meant, they *could* do that. Mb, I worded it weirdly
@@TimeturnerJ The Air Temple was lost and the Airbenders outmatched with the comet in play. Odds are Gyatso sacrificed himself to avoid capture and interrogation - after all, it wasn't really the Airbenders the Fire Nation was after... it was the Avatar, and Gyatso more than anyone would know how to find him.
Things like bloodbending and bending the air out of someone is one of those things that people think about when they start watching the show and see all the creativity but never expect it'll actually happen in the show until it does.
00:45 "I don't want anybody dead, but..." - Yeah, you jinxed it! 😁🤣
Second time we saw someone die. Season 1 had a murder suicide in the finale.
I love how in the videos of you watching through all of Avatar and Korra you can slowly see more avatar merch showing up being you through the videos
I love your reactions. You holding your breathe while the earth queen lost hers was so real. Zuko hearing about his uncle was so heartwarming. Also, listen how good the music is. You didnt mention it in this reaction, but go back and really listen to it, it is so good.
Get ready. Things are about to get emotional. I was enjoying how amazing they were telling the story of Zaheer. Absolutely I was cheering him on. Henry Rollins being the former lead singer of Black Flag cast as Zaheer is masterful voice casting on multiple levels. I long for the world Zaheer envisioned. A very Star Trek type future. Where all needs are met. No rich. No poor.
the Tenzin v Zaheer fight reminded me of the quote "You can't truly call yourself peaceful unless you're capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. Important difference". Tenzin threw down like a BEAST. He made me think of Gyatso with all the Fire Nation skeletons.
And now you know how all those Air Nation Soldiers died in the Air temple, way back in ATLA S1.
Did you notice the camels backing as far away from the dragon as they could? The small details...
Maybe they could put the Red Lotus demonstrating the Elements? That'd be fun.
Two excellent episodes. Love that you put a mustache on the queen's picture.
The Earth Queen could not create her own air to breathe.
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Tenzen CAN.
A little fun fact is that the technique that Zaheer used to off the Earth Queen was actually invented by avatar Yangchen(the air avatar before Aang) she was one if not the cruelest avatars but she is known in history as a saint and she is basically the role model for the “perfect avatar” although in reality she definitely wasn’t
24:21 Haha, ya put a mustache on her lol
I'm so thrilled you finally gotten to this episode ... there's a fan theory, one that I whole heartedly believe, that a mortally wounded Monk Giatzo did something similar to all of the Fire Nation soldiers in that room where Aang found him in the third episode of ATLAB ... as he was dying he just sucked all the air out the room and took as many with him as he could!!!
(At 31:13) just imagine How his Iroh would have react if he heard his nephew's grandson was named after him.
Now it's no longer a spoiler so...the reason Zaheer mastered air-bending so quickly is because since the Red Lotus wanted to train the Avatar themselves and they had masters of all elements except air, Zaheer took it upon himself to learn everything he could about the Air Nomads' culture and airbending to teach the Avatar.
BTW, in my humble opinion, your personality seems most like a fire-benders' to me. Would explain why you don't like to get wet ^^'.
This episode really showed Zaheer didn’t really master Airbending, but was highly proficient in it and overall still very good
@@beckhambrooklynpenza1708 I said "mastered" as an expression to mean he became really good really fast. I didn't mean he officially mastered it.
“I thought he meant the sister”. Your poor soul has been scarred by Saltburn 💀💀💀
the earth queens death is one of the best "fight scenes" in korra in my opinion
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Fun fact: At 36:08, Kai used a bending move that Avatar Yangchen invented, to fight against combustion bending.
Tenzin kicked the shit out of Zaheer. Truly a match between A Master and A Prodigy.
Planting the seed of Zaheer ending the Earth Queen in one episode and then Tenzin's "...while I'm breathing..." in the next is some good writing.
There aren't many moments where we see a character with their back against the wall as much as Tenzin in this episode. The man's fighting for his people, his family, and for Korra all at once. It's a small wonder that he handily has Zaheer on the run, holds his own in a 3v1 against some of the most talented benders the world has ever known, and only goes down upon the intervention of a fourth who-- it's worth mentioning-- is far removed from the fight itself.
There's every possibility that if P'li had been anywhere nearby that Tenzin would have been able to whoop her too. As mentioned, the man had everything on the line-- everything to lose-- and showed his strength in a handful of minutes. Easily one of the best fights in the Avatar world, and doubly so when you know the stakes.
Speaking of people who really stepped up to the plate: Kai. His arc from selfish brat to selfless hero isn't over yet, but it really hits home here how much growing the lad has done.
"I don't mean death. I don't want anybody dead..."
**Cue Clown Music**
The Ultimatum is one of my favorite episodes of both ATLA and Legend of Korra! 🥺😭🙏🏽💪🏽
It took ALL of the Red Lotus to gang up on Tenzin to finally defeat him, and even then he held his own for a bit. Tenzin is an absolute beast.
FlilG: "Im so shocked that they killed someone in the show..."
Amon, his right hand man, Tarlok, Tonrak, Wan: "Am I a joke to you???"
Your stroking your hair suggest that you do have a little Gahzan crush! Along with a Ozai crush, Tenzin crush and I think a Zaheer crush too.
14:25 you shouting "DUNE!" right as a giant monster leaps out of the sand was hilarious
Her connection to the other Avatars isn't complete gone. She can't speak to them, but the Avatar State still imbues her with their collective power and experience.
In terms of body bending, Firebenders could probably stop your brain by redirecting the electrical signals, airbenders (if skilled enough) might be able to bend the air pockets in your bones. With earthbenders, most of your body’s minerals are pure metals which can’t be bent
@@lilunette9319 not yet, I know there is a form of bone manipulation, but I don’t know which bending style it was
According to the wiki, Zuko's dragon is named Druk, and he's been Zuko's mount since Zuko found him in his 20s.
I remember being scared for Tenzin, too but I think Zaheer respects Tenzin, in contrast to the Earth Queen. Their behaviour is even the exact opposite with Tenzin being a leader but no king and while the Queen even shouted at her people to sacrifice their lives for her Tenzin did the opposite. I really love the villains of Korra, and especially Zaheer who has his beliefs and acts true to them although his actions are shocking and terryfying for sure.
“Hello, Zuko here.”
Next episode is coming y'all!! This season was so great, every time there's something big, like the Air Queen moment, there's still big moments coming!!! There's _____, and ______, and dont forget ______!!!!
There's such an irony here that Long Feng tried to convince the Earth King that team avatar was a part of an "anarchist cell" there to destroy them, when 70 years later that exactly happens