gang or whatever they're saying that we were at war with the fire nation what's this fire nation drill doing here then huh people are bossing same that the dial is true you could actually spin it that way he could be like it was a collaboration project we have a drill but maybe move it from being punctured into your own building stupid ass they built walls around it that's the part that blows my mind it's like so you did try to hide it but you did the worst possible job they're putting a blanket over it and I would have better actually it's fine it's fine that's like oh whatever it's covered up enough okay I don't get paid for this I get paid to I get paid to spin propaganda and cool wear this cool uniform I don't get paid to hide gigantic drills that's someone that's other people's work so something that didn't quite sit well with me was Zuko at the beginning of season two is told that all is forgiven and you can come home and sit by his father's side like that's the thing that you really want and of course Azula's betrayal is revealed by that very and very useful captain take the prisoners away prisoners wait a minute at Azula says like you're a failure the only way you're ever returning home is in a prison cell or something like that and obviously Zuko's like shaking in that scene and I really like it because like that's probably the most earth shattering news you could ever experience the whole goal of redemption has just been spat out in the sense that you can't actually redeem yourself now you're fucked and to the point especially to Zuko yeah and you also have to consider that she um she's just dramatically betrayed him under their father's orders which is very intense and then she actually goes for the kill shot on him she avatacadabra's him but uh uh Iroh stops it yeah that's gonna be an intense so your sister was about to kill you yeah because obviously he doesn't know how to deal with lightning at that point in the story so he'd be dead yeah he would have been so like I like all that apart from the stupid captain but then at the end of season two she's like if you help me beat the avatar you can totally come home and he's like ooh and then he eventually takes her up in the offer and I was like why would you like this woman and you have Iroh the back of being like he says that I have a problem with the dialogue in the show he says uh it is time for you to choose good oh like oh so thuds with like you know you wouldn't quite argue it like that typically I don't think as a character instead of just being so simplistic it's like be a good and he's like okay okay um I suppose my issue is just the I get it like what that what is being gone for here it's the the everything he wants since the beginning but now he's questioning all of that because uh that's how far he's come they make that very explicit in a lot of his dialogue do you remember the one where he says um why am I so bad at being good I think so yeah yeah it's a lot he tries to help people out and every time he helps people out it ends up worse I think he's looking at a family portrait in one episode and he's like I have everything I want but it's not what I really want and like for me I'm just like oh they really don't let me uh I feel like it's the kind of stuff we should be saying if you know what I mean not the characters besides the point the I find it almost an impossibility that he would in any way trust Azula because they've they fight um during season two and obviously that beginning of season two she's like lying to him all the time she's horrible she tried to kill him and then he's like almost making friends and then he's presented if you kill the avatar with me you'll be you'll be accepted and I'm just like why would you ever trust her because he wants to he wants to so bad that's a pretty interesting flaw that people tend to have especially with characters who want something so badly that he wants to even though he might want to it seems that he wants something else now they might he might not be he might be going away from desiring what he's wanted and desired for instance the beginning of the episode from episode one of season one uh he's presented with here's everything he wanted here's everything he ever wanted this uh come with me I'll convince you know it's really easy to make the connections but like that happened in the beginning of season two as well yeah I mean it's he's uh he even has to say that Azula always lies he has to have a mantra for himself that Azula always lies because Azula is a powerful like a really really talented liar it's really hard to see it's really hard to tell when she lies even though if you tell yourself that she's always lying it's really hard not to believe her sometimes especially when you can see a route to which she would actually be if you even you don't trust her there is a route where you can trust her even like it's just a route we can see she's a talented liar of her reputation is liar yeah she is a good I mean it's you can even if you know she's lying she says things with such confidence and such poise that it's really difficult to I mean this is a scientific thing people really even if you know someone is lying it's really hard not to listen to them as how cult leaders work actually so this is almost a cult leader that aspect but she has that charisma she has that poise and confidence that's really difficult for Zuko to say no to that especially if he can kind of see how she can bring him back into the fold and get him whatever he wanted back and he still kind of sees that sees himself going back to the way things were going back into the family fold and then even though he doesn't he still thinks that yeah maybe this is not exactly what I want he hasn't made his mind up yet like okay maybe it's not what I wanted but now that's back on the table again I want it again and I can I want to do what it takes to get that back my issue is just him believing it's even on the table as well and my my quick fix because I think this works but like you could probably make it better I guess would be that she gives him the offer he refuses because he doesn't trust her and then she hands him a letter from the father and it's got like his seal unbroken or something like that oh yeah he opens it up oh yeah gives him the offer directly from his dad I feel like that wouldn't nail it I mean it would change things but it would it would change things to it would show a different aspect of Zuko showed that he was different in his mental state so then oh no I'm not going to believe you Azula you're a liar and that's the thing okay here's the paper good progress that he's been so far away from them for so long he's now gone to the point where he will not believe her ever oh yeah but he gets like he's like almost like he's trumping her but then she trumps him with the with the letter this theoretical letter I feel like that would be pretty effective I think in the how it's done originally it shows a more tragic portion to Zuko's desperation because he's Zuko is he's emotional but he's very he keeps things he's very stoic at the same time he keeps his emotions inside he doesn't express things as freely so we get to see a new portion a new aspect of his emotional instability and his desperation when he instantly believes Zula who has lied to him since childhood who has betrayed him and tried to kill him on multiple occasions and it shows us the audience how desperate he is how absolutely desperate and and the hungry he is to return to life as the way it was and to get his country back get his role back to get his father back his family his everything and I think that's the difference between because if he had a letter it wouldn't be it would yeah I might be able to fix it but it wouldn't be as it wouldn't show us his desperation but on the other hand I would have him like fucking shaking while he's reading it yeah yeah because that's that's it there's the offer you gotta gonna do it are you gonna not do it and then you can keep Ira with the whole you know don't do it it's a good point personally I like the way it was originally because it shows his desperation shows a little more tragic element to Zuko's character at that point that's why I like that's why I like it personally I thought it was really funny that after Zuko frees upper he goes into like a coma and it's because Ira says his body like being an evil but hard-haddle the Goodman decision he made now I'm not gonna I'm not trying to speak about psychology and how it can affect you physically right I'm not saying it's an impossibility I'm strictly talking about the way that I've sort of accepted all this information so he's like incredibly stressed because he's done a thing that is just not his position to be doing typically and so he's just like ah but um I would have thought that if you're like supposed to be going for a bad guy finally choosing to do something good would give you that that sense of like I I had like I nailed it I did a good thing this feels great that's sort of like sort of turning but let's say okay fine it stresses him out enough that he goes into this like state the thing for me is like I really think we should have had that happen after the scene we sort of looked at the beginning of season 2 after his family member tries to kill him and he was baited in by his dad to go to prison he's like shaking when he fights series is like exasperated and obviously he was about to be beaten I feel like going into some form of a stress coma after that experience would not only be more suitable but um it could be a very physical representation of like the uh a metamorphosis like you know a caterpillar into butterfly sort of thing um yeah while doing it after he frees upper strange to me and I feel like they did it to to put him on the shelf for an episode because it's not until the end and that he's fixed back up to normal like they didn't know what they wanted to do with him What was the context for him saving Appa? Was it just out of kindness? I think he stumbles across Appa and releases him because I guess it was That's the right thing to do? Yeah I think he's hoping that it'll go back to Aang because that's that's what I remember is that he just freed Appa big out of kindness because he's he's changed as a character and uh since that he's kind of it takes out Zuko a long time to get to this point where he's not this uh going from it's quite a quote evil side which I think is represented by this bald and ponytail look but I think uh it's because of intention that's the difference here what was the other reference he used well one from um what it would it would have been better if he went to the coma before what was it what was it?  Oh no I was trying to highlight uh if this was stress related oh okay stress related okay okay I think in that instance where you said that he will he fell into this coma because he did a good deed I think it's uh about intention because it's it's the same it's a change of mindset because in the mindset in season one and I think most of season of at least a good portion he's in season two he is a firebender he is a fire nation soldier he's the prince of the fire nation and he's been raised to fight the fire nation's enemies and to see them as lesser than he is because that's that's how they treat everybody and then he's going through this journey that changes his character his heart and his mind and he sees that what he has been doing is somewhat wrong on the unethical side of the spectrum so he's when he does something for once on his own out of the goodness of his heart just to help someone out well not out of not for honor not for uh prestige not to get back to his family then that is a huge psychological difference it's a disconnect from what he was once was the prince of the fire nation and it's the intention of doing something good as opposed to just suffering one psychological blow after another because he's been through that all his whole life this is actually something positive in his life something new something exhausting because his body and his mind is not prepared for that and it's more of a spiritual thing I think because spiritual the spiritual element of things is a heavy part of the avatar universe they they've shown that so that's what I think it's more of intention and a difference of a motivation I think mechanically it's sound I just I was thrown off by it I was just like I would have thought you'd even be comfortable like you like the drama for him would be like that felt good it shouldn't you know and then Iro is like hey hey that's good stuff man I was just saying so yeah I don't know it's just a just a thought Iro knows best he's not bad oh yeah so you remember Azula turns up with her to gal pals and they're dressed in the dialy outfit is it that no wait the amashu the kiyoshi kiyoshi that's the one yeah the they are so that those warriors are trusted and of course he's like oh you guys can help us and they're like more ha ha ha the like first thing the earth king tells them or I guess it's the earth king he's like hey they're coming up with this great plan to attack the fire they should during a solar eclipse where they're at they're weakest I'd like Azula just lifts him in the head like oh I was like oh jeez like because he's a bubbling fool character I was just like oh the earth king is an idiot yeah um that's that's like you know like I'll let him have that the part that gets me is that um Saka meets them and he's like clearly aware because he's obviously current on off again on again girlfriend is Yoshi warrior he sees their outfits and he manages to not conclude in any way shape or form that they would have stolen it from them meaning they're compromised meaning Suki's potentially compromised meaning their whole plan for the eclipse is compromised because she knew it as well he doesn't put those dots together whatsoever it blows my mind they didn't have a line from to comment on the fact is like oh do you guys know Suki you don't even have that you just he's just like oh hey and I was just like wow what's going on have a good day of course because that compromises the whole black sun episode and it's just like yee yeah it's kind of strange I don't know I don't know about that one but uh what actually I don't know the context exactly what does he just say hello when they just kind of passing the street yeah I uh I would get you like the screenshot of him seeing the like all he needs to do is see them for me to be like oh damn you should probably content right now but he's uh he's very casual and it's never mentioned and I'm assuming it's not mentioned because they need to be surprised that the Fire Nation have prepared for them on the black sun episode okay where we going okay yeah so Azula finds out that a faction of people in the earth capital are against the earth king and so naturally she's like let's maybe work with those guys so her plan is I'm going to get captured and then I'm going to meet with their leader and I was just like watching them like whoa like that's super risky why can't you just instead be like hey earth king can I speak to your prisoners to try and find out what their plans are for blah blah blah you know she's a kiyoshi warrior you can trust her like instead her plan and I was just like man what if like what if you were just imprisoned indefinitely because she's captured by the Dai Li yeah and the Dai Li bringing it to their leader and then she manages to broke her deal with the leader and I was just like dude careful like all kinds of things could have happened as a result of that I mean Azula is characterized as she's kind of like Ozai she's very egotistical she's very charismatic and confident and so her plan was to just get captured and be taken to the to the leader of the people and they took her to like a normal prison first off she would have manipulated people into taking her over there somehow that's what she does if she doesn't have to fight if she doesn't need to fight she doesn't need to then she won't fight she'll just manipulate people with her words she's sharp with her mind and she's very she's like a social butterfly and wait what she needs to be she's not really good and personal experiences like unless it has something to do with business she's good at it something to do with manipulating people she's good at it because she's I think she's depicted more of like a sociopath sort of like a Jeffrey Dahmer type who just cares about her father and then but she I'm pretty sure she can't she wouldn't with a plan with if she had that sort of confidence she usually does I just would have thought like considering a character she would she would probably first of all just walk into the place that he's captured she should be like fuck it I can go here who's gonna stop me I mean I think she liked it better as a play of dominance she tends to do that sometimes that's what I mean wouldn't that be the play of dominance well I mean she takes in she's taken in as a prisoner and they think she they have her on the ropes they got her they have her helpless and then she despite her helpless as opposed to helplessness still takes over everything so manipulates him into becoming one of her pawns and I like the I like that line where she goes where he goes um you beat me on my own game and she says you're not gonna you're never even a player or poor long thing I love that part that was fantastic because she's somehow ousted the loyalty of the dialy because she was so much stronger a leader than he was no yeah I mean she convinces them all to join her cause or she's I mean she's more powerful than him so why not but I would follow Azula I liked Azula until she kind of broke in the last few episodes it just went insane so yeah the in the first episode of season three Ang like has a bit of a crisis and um rest of golf on his own and he almost like drowns in the ocean cause he can't quite get through it and then he's given like a pep talk by Roku and the the moon spirit and like immediately after he goes full like water bending pro tsunami mode where he's just like traveling through the ocean really fast like fucking Aquaman stuff and I was just like how did you did you not know you could do this before I was like okay there's a some of these I think it's sometimes they develop these new powers or these new techniques because they're in an in a situation where they need to get out of a situation right they they uh they're in this new place where if I don't get out of this if I don't think of something new I'm gonna die so to me this is after they do tend to do pull these sorts of things after they've been trained after they had some technique and some some uh you know they had some lessons or they've learned new things along the way so when they pull out something like this it's more like okay I want to use what I know that you're using knowledge kind of like learning uh martial arts I'm gonna use this technique that I've learned put this together and maybe this will work and so when they put out new moves like that if they've already trained and learned new techniques by that point then to me it's acceptable especially since as I said Aang isn't as a prodigy in all forms and he's his best friends are all prodigies thanks thanks to fate or whatever so I mean to me it seems to be like a technique he's cobbled together out of other techniques I mean I'm fine with that sort of interpretational viewing I just for me watching I was just like oh damn you can do that yeah I understand yes so that's that's it seems to be what the one of the beauty the beautiful things in Avatar is that it does so many things that would traditionally see be seen as horrific or wrong and according to writing like there's already a chosen one trope which is absolutely horrific I would suggest ever using a chosen one trope at all because it just dilutes everything but they use it very well because they they add it to the world as a piece of essential cornerstone foundational lore and it's the so Avatar The Last Airburner is the one one of the few franchises that would say yeah chosen one aspect where to go did it right they did correctly all right so this one this one's gonna be weird so Team Avatar have provided a guide in Basingsay called Judy and when she fails to prevent them from getting to the the upper ring party she's taken to the lake for brainwashing I guess and she's replaced with another guide for them who claims to be the literal same person and they're like no you're not she's like yes I am but they're like oh it's like nice and eerie and creepy I kind of like it but then it gets weird because you find out the loads of women of being brainwashed into becoming Judy specifically and like the first time I saw that I was like why would you just have them be different women like one of them could be Judy one of them could be you know Jane what you can make a bunch so from there Team Avatar are like unnerved naturally I think we'd all would be yeah I think they would be two episodes later I think the old Judy comes back she's like knocks on the door and they're like oh my god old Judy and she's like no I've always been this Judy and they're like and then they're like how is this possible how do you switch bodies how how how how and she's just like nope I'm always Judy and there's this weird moment like go you could go check out the scene people listen to this they um she she just like brushes that off and then they go so why are you here and I was like whoa what no we can't just skip over the fact we've got this lady that switches bodies like you kidding me and then she's like ignored by them and uh she goes back to Longfang like this following scene and she explains that like they don't trust her and he's like disappointed and wants her to be brainwashed again I was like what did you expect you've been giving them different bodies like I like if you want to say like Longfang isn't a great strategist they're like okay there's other things you can try buddy it's like oh they're just those pesky kids don't trust me even like why in the world would they trust you it was it was funny they all looked like to me I don't know can that trust you all I would say is like guys when you brainwash them just give them different names and tell them there are different people it's fine we'll just do that that was that was I think it was done for comedic effect or something it's odd because the fact that they just brush it off they're just like all right fine you're a different body anyway why are you here if I was in that room I'd be like what are you in their defense they are country kids they are from the south pole they they don't know what actually goes on in the big city so maybe just people to switch bodies in the big city brainwash anybody who thinks that's weird anyone who thinks that's weird they're invited like loud guy that's at least now that's a meme I'm in on I don't know what's going on dude I mean this is just I I can answer this myself but I may as well throw it out there how did how did Ang and Oppa survive being frozen for a hundred years just because it's just definitely just because like because I've had some people tell me it's like Avatar State those like Appas are the Avatar State how did I guess it's just I think it's just traditional movie logic you trapped a nice you can live forever it's just the matter of you getting thought out because he said young he was frozen in ice yeah well it's because I probably levy the same criticism of Gates the MCU for that one it's kind of just like you don't so in the same way right because you can get away with that quote unquote but principally you shouldn't get away with it and what I mean by that is like we have a character who is ejected into space and he's floating around out there and then someone grabs him one day and brings him back down and he's the character again be like it's space is different no because we we accept space is death like in movies so you died space unless you're like I guess in like a like a parody kind of thing you can survive you know like that sort of yeah inverting rules on purpose but um if you're watching Jimmy Neutron and you can literally breathe in space and be good to go but like you have like I think Batman and Robin they freeze people and then they're like they have to be thawed within 10 minutes otherwise they won't be fine and you're like I don't think that's how that it's like okay and then they get they get a round a lot of stuff when it comes to Mr. Freeze because he freezes people and then they can't really have him being that big of a mass murderer because he loses his well they um sympathetic card I wish I had the the rafters for you but I remember there's several points in Avatar where they freeze people but they leave their head they leave like a space for it implying that it's like you have space to breathe and I'm I'm always sitting there like but but I didn't have space to breathe because I think they don't want people questioning like wait mom why is it the they put ice all over does that guy is that guy dead now or the parents like no if someone gets frozen like that I guess in combat then it might be as soon that they're dead at least so Aang put like a little orb around himself that was filled with also filled with ice so I don't know maybe it's some weird Avatar magic that allows him to be frozen it's a distant ancient water-bending technique whatever happened whatever reason that's what that's what ended up happening so here's a question how did the Fire Nation attack and destroy all of the aeromads in the air temples when you can only access them through flight Aang actually asked that question he's like as in the first few episodes there's no way how they conquered the air temples because you have to get to there by flight and then they get over there and they're all conquered so I guess they maybe they buried underneath somehow or maybe it didn't really answer that question it is you just figure out that they did you know that they did but you don't know how there's some stuff to work with being first and foremost they did attack them during Sozin's Comet passing and we know that Ozai can fly while Sozin's Comet is passing so I think Asula can fly on her own normally just the jet boots can she jet boost technique yeah she has a jet boost technique where she can put fire underneath her feet that's how she was able to survive a fall I think huh Jesus she's OP well yeah cool I mean because I know the guitar almost kind of sort of uses a flight type thing at the end of season two she just needs a large body of water I think aren't the aren't the air temples on a mountain it could have been so uh wait I don't know this was the thing I was gonna say let's say because not all the Fire Nation can fly we know that because like Saka's plan and the finale relies on that if some of them got up there I I'm not like the the air people they're pretty good at their job right they'd be able to because I feel like air would be a really good counter to fire blast a flame at you and you just you know loop it back and uh you can use I don't know I just it is interesting to me I am curious and then of course the whole nomads part of it I don't know I just I wouldn't have called them nomads I don't think they're nomads anymore but I think they might have been nomads at one time maybe they're traditionally called nomads good but they're clearly not nomads in the show anymore that's what I mean just don't call them nomads that's all that's all that's all a bugs if you maybe that's two of the does I don't know but it's clear that the a lot of Fire Nation people did die in the conquest of those air temples and I could see that someone being a commander or someone a general maybe that the Fire Lord at that time being so because that's the one person those are the one people they want to exterminate because that's what that's where the avatar was going to come back he was he was going to he's an airbender they're trying to kill the avatar so there's a lot of motivation to conquer all of these air temples so I could see a general or the Fire Lord being so anxious and aggressive and so dead set on conquering all of these temples they kind of handle the barcuit and had all of their tremendous and I'll climb the mountain and wave after wave of Fire Nation soldiers sacrificed until they managed to destroy all of the air nomads and conquer the temple yeah like I said it's just sort of like a moment of just hmm I guess you have to sort of figure out how you think it could have worked it's one of this space it's just one of these mystery boxes it's just one of those mystery boxes why would Iroheatup is tea with this firebending when surrounded by refugees from for the Fire Nations war like Zuko calls him out for it but I was just like damn Iroh is supposed to be like one of the smartest characters in the whole show why the hell did he do that well he's wise but I mean he has his weaknesses too he just really likes good hot tea and something he can't really do without like it can get him and his very surrogate sudden killed yeah but he really likes tea he really needs his hot tea and he thought maybe he thought no one would notice he just teed up drink it real quick and they wouldn't be that big of a deal but he's that's his weakness his tea this is more of a dissatisfaction one as well but uh Saka spends the whole the whole episode like acquiring his space sword and he uses it a couple times he ends up throwing it at a platform slices through it almost magically because it's an amazing throw that it just falls and he's lost it forever I was like why did they do that ripped space sword Saka is the smart guy the group he's just a world smart guy but he's not always the wisest now again in the moment it's like this is a good idea I'll just throw my space sword and get this thing done oh it doesn't come back to me because I used to I used to use I used to using a boomerang just have it did some kind of string whip chain thing attached from like Kratos style and he uses a stylifying like that just so he can keep it and also be awesome that's that's all I'm so I'm saying I like this losing the space sword I like the space sword too it was a really cool concept because it was made from a meteor and and he used the earth from space that kind of thing they call it space earth like is it really called earth if it's in space and but it was really neat because it was this rare ultimate material and he got this awesome sword and it was really cool but he lost it and I think it was I think the the intention there was that oh he's really cool with this awesome space sword but that's not who he is and it shouldn't be who he is so that he loses it so that he continues to be awesome without this space sword acting as a crutch and again they actually call it a space sword I like that like oh my space sword I like that so when we're learning about avatars there's there's one who's representative of like a fire avatar and he bursts and controls four volcanoes at the same time and I was just like why would you show me that and then also show me Roku having incredible trouble in the avatar state trying to deal with what volcano or that guy knew the secrets and he couldn't tap into that guy's secrets I don't know it's just because like you know I don't know I'm not going to pull out the he's old defense because that's a meme in my community but when you're in the avatar state you have the knowledge and power I'm assuming you are vulnerable of course but you're still extremely powerful I just like I was surprised that he was defeated by that volcano to be honest with you it shouldn't happen again this is brand new computer so I would be very very peeved if it does with Roku I mean I think this is where it comes in with the why all avatars need training and they don't specifically say this okay I know that but if I were to make a conjecture it's that maybe avatars can type into the power of previous avatars but they can't always tap in or maybe they don't really tap into the previous techniques of previous avatars it's not all of them especially if they're like what three generations ago which is why they need to train on their own get their own techniques and are able to with training use utilize those techniques inside the avatar state I can't remember if Aang ever used like a specific technique that was used by previous avatar other than maybe some like a form or a fighting style but not a specific technique like controlling volcanoes I'm not really I can't remember that that well I would just like Godzilla right like yeah holy moly how is it that an eclipse prevents firebending when the sun is still there and it still actually is shooting out some level of light like it's not pitch black but then nighttime doesn't take their power away on that part I'm not really sure like it could be because traditionally like it misses this and everything eclipses eclipses are not just blocking out the sun it's it has a whole bunch of other mystical elements to it so it it might be that the eclipse here is not just blocking the blocking of the sun it might also be doing something else because I think it's what the moon too it's this is ever to tell you what exactly is walking out the sun because usually something to do with the shadows oh so this this is the interesting thing right because my first thought was it's the moon and the lunar eclipse solar eclipse whatever and so with the moon spirit and moon blah blah blah I was like there's gotta be maybe some argument there for why it's fucking with the firebenders but then I was like surely like at night time when the moon is just chilling out there that that would have to fuck with firebenders at that point right like I'm sure they are depowered but I don't see why they wouldn't just lose their ability entirely if that's what it does when they get an eclipse you said the the only the only conclusion they come up with on that question is that it's something special happens something more magical or mystical happens during an eclipse that never happens any other time it seems to be the only thing that seems to be plausible in that scenario it sort of slips into the category of just like it's just how it works it's like okay like it's not it's pretty tough to make a functioning I guess you could call it magic system right I think some people do call it a magic system very tight very much tied to spiritual mysticism elements so it gets complex when you try and sort of distill it into a mechanic yeah but of course the show still needs these mechanics because a lot of the drama is based on them so it's just like a matter of just like but what about and it's like yeah like all right I thought it was really strange that like you get these animals are teaching people it's not that they teach them like they give them the ability to bend it's that that everybody is either got the ability or doesn't like genetically and then the animals teach you how to use that I guess potency that you have naturally and of course the the badger moles I think do earth the oh yeah dragons do fire and the skybison do air then water is done by the moon and I was like what and this is the idea that the moods gravity is obviously pulling and controlling the tides and that people watch that and they learn how to water bend better and I was just like so surely like harsh wind would teach them how to water bend then too and the gravity of earth affects water like obviously it seems odd to me like what okay the other ones didn't freeze it just to stop working different there's a difference it I could do everything else it is not no programs would run anymore for so amazing oh I was just talking about how like I guess bending seems to work and where they got it from and and the only other animals and everything yeah and the only other thing I was gonna say was the Godzilla thing I would have thought he'd be like man this will be super useful for a future battles potentially to save the world but I guess it's like too risky to do anything with him because like you know he goes into the water at one point and I was just like could you just travel to the fire nation and fuck shit up I don't know you know I don't know there seems to be some some contrivances there and carry the fish in a bucket and put the special water there and make sure you already travel during moonlight or whatever I don't know just it might be it might be the fact that I don't really care because they're animals interfere with the situations of mankind there's there to teach you but they're not there to solve problems for you that sort of thing I mean we don't solve that we don't solve the problems for the dragons so but yeah a lot of it's like it's a bit I just have to do a bit of hand wavy stuff and I'm just like yeah that's how it works go away I think it's supposed to play into more like it's supposed to play into more like the nature holds wisdom you go into nature to get the wisdom but nature can't really do things for you or else you wouldn't really need the wisdom in the first place on the day of the Black Sun they the Financians plan is to sort of delay them enough so that the eclipses over and they get their their powers back and trick them into thinking that Ozai was in his throne room turns out he's not but then the the heroes conclude he's still going to be nearby because he's got a command people and they're right about that I thought that was so strange I was like surely you wouldn't want to be anywhere near the place because that's the one place they want to try and get him and stop him and everything's over for him if he's captured or or killed and he's got like nobody to send messages to what I mean by that is he doesn't everyone's doing what the plan is if you know what I mean like what is it that he needs to do and of course so that's just odd to me but then they also let a significant portion of their men remain unaware that they're about to lose their powers on that day to the point where a lot of them are easily defeated I thought that was strange I understand the idea that they're trying to essentially trap or convince these our heroes that they're winning when they're actually going to you know get counted significantly but like why wouldn't you just allow your soldiers to be aware of that anyway and just have them you know don't waste so many of them I guess is where I'm going with that I mean if you remember what the what the reason Zuga got banished in the first place because they were they did just that they uh they're going to sacrifice a bunch of people just for the sake of getting a victory and that wouldn't put the past to do it again yeah no that's fair I just it's just like I guess if I was on the in the boardroom I'd be like really guys I would rather us just drop our bed into a cat and to fire it at them but this point like at least they'll be more useful it's kind of like a long shanks you know the movie Braveheart where they're all his men are all fighting he starts to shoot arrows into them to the melee anyway yeah that's that happens in Game of Thrones season six that does happen yeah and then this this is getting very specific but it I I really do feel this permeates a tab through the season but this will be like my primary sort of reference when and she her whole goal is to delay them that's what she needs to do until the eclipse is done so that she and Ozai and everyone else gets their fire powers back second all right so they arrive and if you remember Toph immediately captures her as she puts her in like a rock prison but then she's burst out of the rock prison because there were two earthbenders the two Dai Li in the room as well my first thought was like wait how didn't Toph detect them like that's her whole thing like because they're a surprise they're they're they're attached to the the ground of the ceiling if you know what I mean like the whole room is one material and and they're on the ceiling I was just like she should know they're there secondly like I don't see how she can't there's two Dai Li and a jumping around Azula these guys fought the entirety of like the earth capital earthbenders like all of them at once Toph she annihilates them she's incredible and like they spend the whole scene Toph awkwardly pushing people away with rocks and then Aang just firing air blasts at Azula over and over again and like it it really bugs me because I'm like dude if you hit her with one of those what happens then she just gets back up you're firing air at her you've got to capture her with earth and he can do that he just doesn't and then they um if you remember they go down a corridor thing and Saka's like she's trying to fucking distract us we need to go find Ozai ignore her and then she's like I've got your girlfriend and he like loses his shit and goes to attack her but she has a knife and for a moment I was like oh shit are they about to do something thingy and then Toph just like flick of her fingers just captures Azula with a piece of rock that attaches to her hands and to a wall and she's done and I was just like why don't you do this like more often because Toph Toph is involved in so many fights where I feel like she should just be able to do that but then sort of just doesn't until the plot is like it's time for her to do it now um of course that's made worse than by once the eclipse is over Azula's surprise hits them with leg firebending if you know what I mean how didn't Toph see that coming her whole thing is to be able to detect movements before like the as the moves are being made by people and so she would easily be able to counter that by just attaching more rocks in terms of like a rock prison but then Azula just bursts out of it as well like and I was just like man like Azula as much as I think she's awesome I don't think she can beat Toph like uh Toph would just you know embed her into the soil I just feel like Toph is depowered a lot when we're fighting against important people and I think I think the other people all her friends are keeping Toph back I think I mean I really like Toph she's uh oh yeah Toph is awesome is this I think she's so used to being on her own and then at that point she kind of kept her guard down and uh she kind of started trusting other people and it kind of held her back because he's you know okay well other people can pick this up other people are going to do these things and I can't fight to my full power anymore because there's other people have to take care of and not make sure they don't get hit by my earth bending that sort of thing so it might well very well be that Toph is being held back by Sok I wouldn't put that past anyone Sok is totally dying I'm not asking for Toph to kill anyone I just wish she would use her capture abilities more consistently I guess because like they're so OP it's kind of the same for Katara and freezing she does it really casually in different fights but then sometimes she just sort of doesn't do it the best example I can think of is when she's do you remember the end of season two when they're surrounded by firebenders and Aang decides to try and commit to the um the Avatar state and obviously he's struck down and Katara is like oh my god and so she's tsunamis to get over to him which covers all of the firebenders in the room in that and I was just like wait freeze it as soon as you've covered all of them freeze it freeze it freeze it freeze it freeze it I'm just like well Katara do it she still manages to escape so you know it's all good it's just the um she her final fight with Azula um that's like a two fold confusion for me she spends like a million years finally figuring out she can freeze her which I was like constantly asking to do and she finally does at the end only she like breathes her way out of it but like she like turns her side into water and then fishes around and attaches like cuffs to Azula but Azula like all of the other firebenders can melt ice by breathing outward like that's a thing that they all do if ever you freeze a firebender they can go like they can you know blow out their nose or their their mouth and um it'll melt the whole thing right and Azula is like a really powerful fire breather too because it's like a few seconds later she starts cackling and then she starts breathing fire and they're like whoa and they have to get away from her obviously yeah I remember that fight I don't know the specifics of the fight but yeah sometimes you have you think they should be freezing someone or using some they're earthbanging to capture someone and it's it's in a fight you might know the techniques and everything and in a fight you might be able to see through things but when you're up against someone who's like Azula who's like a prodigy or a master or is puts you off regarding she breaks your confidence that's part of her power and when you're in a fight sometimes you can do things when you have more confidence you can fight guys you can fight bad guys with a better effect than you would someone who's a fellow master someone who's on or above your level and sometimes you just honestly you just can't think of the technique to you at that time this happens uh you remember it even happens in fighting games you're going to have two masters of a fighting game together and they just I should have done this or I should have done that show them that technique so it's a it's all a matter of the chaos of battle the chaos of mealy and you can't always think about that because it is it is chaos and it is you're worrying about so many things at once and they aren't they still aren't adults they are still kids and everything and you might take that as an excuse but to me that's that's where it fits that's why I can I can accept it in my personal opinion all right so sticking with the the day of the black sun do you remember it ends with them basically deciding like we're kind of screwed and the despite us having our collective here not all of us can escape and so they decide that all of the children will escape on opera and the rest of the adults will be captured so I have a couple of issues with this first of all let me show you quickly you can easily fit a couple more people on there at the very least opera is an extremely powerful beast and like it frustrates me that they're willing to give up a few seats to no one because I guess they're all adults that are left so it'll be awkward and yet episodes later they go on a crazy potential suicide mission to save just Kitara's dad who is in this crowd right now the almost cost obviously Saka, Zuko and Suki the all three of them and the people they meet in the prison very risky I think it's Suki I think she's there so that frustrates me but then what really kind of super gets me is they've got Ang and Tof and they're standing on earth and they're concerned that they can't all get on to opera nor can they all escape because the Fire Nation are coming do you remember how Tof can literally like and Ang they can just borrow huge tunnels whenever they want oh yeah over there so like just go down you're on earth right now go down cover up the top and then just burrow keep burrowing until you get really far out and before anyone thinks of like well you know that could take a long time and it's kind of risky it's like you've got an airbender you can get oxygen to everybody pretty easily and it's better than a Fire Nation prison especially when you just tried to essentially overthrow their kingdom you guys are in for trouble like this is absolutely worth any kind of risk and besides Arpa can get everyone to safety and then come back Ang can stay with obviously the people who are burrowing and he can whistle him in and you can take another selection of people and siphon them all away to safety instead they're like well you're all gone too bad it's like wow I don't know it just really bothered me as the sort of finisher to this I was just like you're gonna let all these people potentially die just because you can't fit a few of them onto Arpa nor can you use Tof this incredible earth bender to your advantage I mean was it a time constraint do they have enough time to do all that well it's the thing burrowing like is something that they do super fast in the show they do it at the end of season two which is this is after and um when they're crossing the snake pass way if you if you remember their um uh Tof like lifts a platform for them that's like several meters tall and it has everybody on it like I know they're capable of doing these things and they're capable of doing it fast well I mean it could have been just uh they that matter of time matter they just didn't have enough the instance to start that burrowing or anything like that uh you know honestly they probably didn't they probably didn't think of it I mean I'm talking about the riders they probably the riders probably didn't think of it ha ha ha ha I mean that's they're gonna keep it kind of escape it's fine it's got it's my my my thing here is just trying to explain like what bothered me pretty much what I was watching I was just like boo and I know loads of people will not have problems with these things I get it yeah and it's but it was far more dramatic for it to end that way it's far more dramatic to separate the kids from the parents and everything yeah so uh it's it's it's more forgivable on people's eyes because the drama kind of covers it up oh yeah about that rock to make I think it was serpent past I think that's what it was called so they come to a portion of it that's uh overrun with water and so you like how do we cross this and the first thought I had was like oh we'll just get tough to rebuild it right she's like super earth bender instead they decide to have Katara generate an air bubble for them to walk down into the water and back up onto the surface and I was like damn that's risky like compared to just making a platform it's so much more cool I guess it is it is more cool yeah um it's far more cool and then you have the crazy serpent attacks like all right so they all get you know separated tough mix the platform Katara makes an ice bridge and I was like no tough make a rock bridge because an ice bridge is slippery but no it's fine they all run across it even a pregnant lady running across I was just like wow all right yeah fine no I'm okay with it I think it's feasible that you can run across a frosty bridge so she made it very sturdy and uh non-slippery right I think during that time wasn't um tough really scared because it wasn't it wasn't as earthy as you wanted to be I mean there's so much water around them this is what I was gonna say I have a oh no she well this is my problem right so she should have made the rock bridge regardless but they run off on the frost bridge and they don't look at the fucking blind girl they just leave her I'll pull this up for you now I'm gonna go battle it there she goes with her frosty bridge they've all crossed over and all of them have forgotten about tough for some reason and then they have this shot and I just really want to highlight this because it makes me laugh the literal aesthetic look at her she's t-posing and she's a blob like what is that and yeah I guess on a serious no I just can't believe that it was it was upsetting to me that they all made it this far without realizing tough and even done anything and then uh again they're so used to tough being so on her own because that's what she her whole characterization was she was being on her own she was uh trying to be as independent as possible because she was blind she liked the fact that people were waiting on her hand and foot and it's only now that finally she is vulnerable part of my issue is that um she manages to protrude this rock out of other rock and now she's like ah I can't cross a frost bridge it's like yeah make yourself a rock bridge and these powers I'm just like pull out of that why did I know you guys can do these things as far as you can maybe she doesn't have the confidence anymore maybe she just can't just can't it's not enough earth to manipulate or she can't uh see or take enough earth to manipulate because I'm not sure if her senses go underwater well I mean she's she's touching water uh earth with her feet right now right and we saw that she was able to look how high up she managed to push this pretty thick platform all I would suggest is um straighten it out into one line forward oh it's just straight now at the platform into a bridge yeah go for it I don't see why she can't she I mean I don't know if you remember she's um she is a powerful earth bender at her best I remember she uh fought the boulder and no one no one defeats the boulder and this is tough this whole assault I was um man our team are on point to the to the degree I was like you guys should just go and attack the fight I should you'll be fired also yeah Katara kicking absolute ass she throws them all in there and freezes them immediately and it's like damn if you only did that with the fucking important plot people yeah check this bit out now this is such a like is there any one who could beat toff in a fight he just turned all the stairs flat yeah up they go and make it an elevator but yeah there's just a lot of times where I'm sitting there like no do the thing and they don't do the thing I was like I mean it looks like sometimes it takes I mean every time you see someone bend they have to have some sort of confidence it's very uh it's usually if they're scared or emotionally compromised it's it looks like it's hard for them to bend I don't know because have you ever seen someone bend that whether they're scared or terrified and they have to have this like bring themselves back to well I assumed Katara's bloodbending was done out of fear for um and that was that's what I was thinking uh that particular scene that she was afraid while she was being bloodbend and then she gained confidence and started bloodbending back oh I was actually talking about when she bloodbent it was out of fear for because what the woman was doing was having soccer with his sword forward fly into Ang like the point being she was going to have him kill him and then it was uh the her bending the old lady that saved them so I assumed that you could argue she did that out of fear she was like no no no no and then you know I like the phrase bending the old lady Katara's so mean for specter I was just bending up the old lady just put her in the box put her in the mystery box I think the only thing I can think of is maybe Toph wasn't as confident or in the right emotional state at that moment to make that bridge to utilize her powers to the full capacity because even even that example she seemed to be strained she has to have a supreme concentration to be supreme confidence in her abilities to make that those stares into a slip and slide thing and this is back with when she's scared when she's um she feels vulnerable the first one of the first times in her life she actually feels un-incapable of defending herself then uh it might might have compromised her abilities I think that's why they set it up like that in the first place because they they even pointed out that she's really scared and unable to really help herself because of said fear well uh because there's a thing right they're at the bottom of the ocean it's not that far that well they're they're on the pass but it's uh enough of it's submerged right and so the bubble is popped they're all under water but then she immediately pushes a big platform up so that they can be rescued I would say like if she's capable of that under these most severe circumstances she shouldn't probably be able to just make up that bridge right and that's not including the fact that I still think they should have opened with that I really like the the stupid air bubble thing I was like just make a bridge yeah but in their defense it was way cooler from crossing an air bubble okay you got sometimes you have to sometimes you have to do is to obey the rule of oh dude I if ever I want to make anything that I want it to be as cool as possible right and you try and find every way you can to make cool because they are you don't want to go too far and end up being like hey what about how cool a hyperspace kamikaze would look and then you're like Ryan stop that right now get out of here Ryan Johnson what are you doing here you're but it's so cool do you remember what do you hate everyone Zuko is trying to decipher a a scroll does that sound familiar to you is it the one is it the very end of the series or towards the end it is season it's early season three because it's before he leaves the fire nation actually I think I should be able to show you this one I remember him trying to decode a scroll or something but I forgot why exactly does it have to do with the avatar Roku or something so the way it works is that Iro has broken out but Iro leaves him a note I think saying you need to read the history of Sozin and the avatar and at the same time Aang is getting taught the history by Roku like okay and I'm fine with that you could you could call it extreme coincidence they're both learning about that history at the same time but like whatever it's it's that's that's fine maybe the part that I I think it's elementary the the element is that it's mirroring their two journeys right so that's that's good I like that sort of writing so he gets given a scroll that says on it to like look into that history and Zuko's frustrated because he doesn't know where he can find that information and so this this scene happens well so he's he's like annoyed he can't get the information so just check out uh what happens oh wait I might have to pause it a couple times well what does it mean he angrily threw it because he can't figure out what it means that it landed on a candle that revealed a secret message rather than birding it like this kind of stuff would always be so why I don't understand why because what he finds out is he needs to go to the catacombs or the dragon combs I can't remember what they call them and he just read the dragon scrolls in the catacombs that's that's what this secret message says and I'm like if this is a secret message provided secretly by Iroh why wouldn't it just say go read the dragon scrolls in the catacombs like what what happens if that falls into the wrong hands to be like oh no someone was hoping to read something you know what I mean like I was like why have this contrived nonsense where he throws it randomly and it lands on a candle that lights up the secret but I was like we know sometimes these things happen okay they do these things happen he's you know there was the first was the inventor of the cornflakes then the inventor of Coca-Cola now Zuko found a secret message oh yeah so this again I I guess this is like just a couple contrivances so Katara spots Zuko in Ba Sing Se finally like it's been a whole season she finally happens to spot him which I'm okay with but it also happens to be the very moment that telling the king about it means that the the disguised Azula will find out about it she just arrived and so she now knows where Zuko is I was just like oh I think there's just bad luck on that part because he had so much good luck I suppose he had so much good luck and now it's time for the luck to change and of course Rams up the stakes they don't have time to utilize any goodness that comes out of that you know they don't utilize any positive that comes out of it Azula already knows and she's already she's already coming for him that's what Azula does why didn't Toff's parents send anybody else after she stopped the two people in season two that is something I've always asked why did they just stop they just they just give up they seem to pretty they seem pretty predictive of their daughter and then they I think they might have forgotten about that plot point a little bit she defeats the people who went after her in the first place and then they kind of just stopped yeah yeah I guess everything maybe they learned that she's cable of handling herself after she beat some a group of tough guys but I don't know they seem to be I think because I think they learned that she was a really good fighter or something and they still wanted to protect her so she had to run away so I don't know I don't know why they didn't send any more people I always ask that where's some more people coming after Toff should she have a big bounty on her head by now yeah because they look super rich yeah they're a really really rich influential family so yeah so this you might be able to just help me out on this one because it just it seems so strange to me but essentially the the villain of season two without once the villain of season two eventually turns into a Zula but as it stands it's a long thing why would he like claim that his civilization will fall apart if they were aware that war was happening and to have that position when they regularly have many refugees from war entering the capital and you might be like well they're brainwashing people who talk about it I'm just like yeah no I know it's just like you're gonna so he's concerned that his economy is going to crash if they find out a war is happening which is fascinating to me compared to the idea that you're like I'm sure it won't have any detrimental effects on my civilization you have like roaming brainwashing squads that puts people in like abject fear I was just like I don't know this is so odd to me and they've been they've done it successfully are we supposed to assume like a hundred years because it says he's kept the 100 year war a secret on his wiki page I was just like he managed to make it so that an entire century passed and they haven't figured it out yet or if they did they were brainwashed just like wow he's really good at his job he's apparently really really good at his job except when it comes to drills there's a polite spot okay I don't think anyone has tried that before I was like a new thing he's like whoa wait a minute what is this that drills approach when it first arrives it's so slow that I was like oh my god as this did they originally as this been like did they activate it before season one like was it like slowly leaving like the fire nation it's like he's gonna get took a while to get there he said it activated really really early but eventually got there I found it really hard to believe that the king wouldn't have been aware of it when he had the five war generals who are very aware of the war that he he like values their input I don't understand why they established that while simultaneously establishing that the guy has no idea there's a war going on they're probably I mean they're probably like manipulating the king on the behalf of long fang no no no those generals got knocked out by long fang because they're they're good guys oh yeah yeah so so he's so what happened in that context with that he really like he really respected the generals but they got taken about long fang that would happen well long fang is proven to be a fraud and then like we plan for war and then the five generals are just introduced they're just like yeah we're just the five earth capital generals of war and that the the king will trust whatever our conclusion is in terms of the war and I was just like what we're what like we you we're what where are you guys and again this could be something I've missed detail wise which is totally possible for all of these things it's just that I found that really weird again this I guess so this is sorry I meant to mention this one I do that a lot with this the the turning of water into ice and into fog water into fog so like the ability to essentially alter what you could call the molecular process I don't I don't know the specifics the particles at the very least is amazing as a as a waterbender they can change the temperature on the fly of the thing they're bending and I wonder if that applies to the other benders can they I guess it does to fire because they can make blue fire right which is like a hotter fire I assume yeah I think you could do I think there was green in there somewhere but I don't think anyone actually used it yeah and if you can turn water into fog can you not because I my answer to this question myself would just be that it's just a really high hard move to do but pull water out of fog if you know what I mean oh yeah change fog back into water act as a dehumidifier pretty sure you could do that I don't see why they mention it's possible we never see anyone do it though I don't think yeah I mean that'd be so useful in war just it's an instant smoke grenades let's get some waterbenders and have them throw fog at the end dude just tsunami and freeze that's the way that's like ultimate ability ever tsunami freeze go just bringing tons and tons of water and tsunami and freeze this was we kind of covered this earlier I just wanted to make sure the thing I thought it was boring that Jong Jong is like absolutely not going to teach hang and then dude shows up and says you will and he goes okay because it's partly to do with the fact that I consider Jong Jong to be quite a wise character by the looks of these very seasoned he's aware of the the downfall of fire bending and he's obviously been involved with the fire nation quite quite an interesting character say the least and then he's like absolutely not and then Roku's like yeah you will he's like I think he's even I think he's a rebel at that point isn't he he's like an outcast or yeah yeah criminal yeah yeah I mean he's a usually traditionally masters only accept students are only supposed to accept students when they once they prove themselves and yeah that's what I thought they were going to do was have like Ang do something that would have earned and he just says no and Roku's like yeah you do it okay that's what I kind of should have been done but I think I don't know maybe because I think Zhong Zhong was kind of that's a jerk or something I don't know yeah it's kind of I guess I always thought it was like he's got a huge history that justifies it you know like he's he's gone through some shit because obviously he has because he's turned against his own nation that's pretty that's pretty big to fight against your own people for the sake of others because you you and you yourself think that principally he has gone astray so that's huge it's huge especially for a general like him I think he was like a top tier general or something before he turned tail so I think it's more of a pompous sort of thing maybe it's an ego sort of thing oh yeah I just I'm clearly talking just from a satisfaction level like does it make sense that this fucking incredibly powerful being just came to you and said you will teach him would you agree with that I was like yeah probably you'd be like oh my god don't kill me um I just think that it could have been cool for Ang to prove himself to Zhong Zhong in some way I mean I would have been really cool I mean that's what it should have been done usually traditionally should have been that but I think in this case he uh he really bowed to Roku because he's fighting his own people because he believes his people have gone astray and Roku represents a time I think I believe when uh the foreign nation was not had not gone astray and he he probably really respects he's probably like a Roku fan boy and said okay I'll teach him for Roku and I'm pretty sure on Avatar Roku's and he's like okay enough of this we don't have time for this stuff just teach him firebending we need to get this we need to get on with this stuff we need to get to the final like the finish line of this thing um do you remember Heibai in early season one-ish it's before the winter solstice he's a Heibai he's a spirit who is angry because the forest has been spirit of the forest yeah spirit of the forest okay yeah I remember this one was weird to me he um he in one night destroys like four I want to say four houses on a watch tower I think before kidnapping Saka and leaving they tell us that he's attacked three nights previously he did that level of destruction in the fourth night I was just thinking to myself like dude leave like he's he's wrecking like the town itself it feels like he's destroyed a quarter of the town in one night and he's been there for three others and I'm just like is there just one building left and the weird thing is when he's smashing them they're kind of watching it like this is awkward it's like oh my god dude that's where you like live and um they move on to say the ag needs to stop it before the winter solstice because when he does the when the winter solstice comes around he's gonna be super pissed he's gonna annihilate the whole place it's like I think he already has so it was funny to me obviously uh I'm not sure what they were going for exactly he was weird I just thought it was funny that they Aang managed to solve all of this by giving it an acorn and without context like here's the the only reason why the acorn represented hope to Aang is because Katara came to him and say hey Aang these are everywhere and they'll grow back the forest will go back because there's acorns all over this place Aang just gave the spirit an acorn and just turned around and left like the spirit didn't know that the spirit didn't know that the forest grows back apparently he needed ag to sort of connect those dots I just thought it was kind of strange, kind of funny but the thing is I can accept it also because yeah maybe he didn't know I mean it's not really portrayed as an intelligent spirit it's more like an animalistic primal spirit maybe he didn't know and maybe Aang giving that spirit the acorn he being the avatar in between peace offering yeah because the the avatar is basically the emissary the ambassador to the spirits from the mortal realm so uh I think it would be it's meaningful to the spirit if the avatar gives it to the spirit the hope being the avatar's hope becomes the spirit's hope so I think it's probably what would happen to me just look kind of funny okay I got an acorn now I'm I'm fine do you remember the beach episode yes that's one of the most infamous episodes I think wait why because because everyone always refers to it because it's a it's the fan fiction episode or the fan service episode it's all the fans? Jesus I uh I think it's the worst episode of avatar by far I think it's a filler right is it a filler is it a hangout I guess you could at least it works yeah they're attacked by vagina head man who like blows him up with his lasers that shit man that I was not prepared Sparky Sparky boomer I when that first I was like the funny thing is I think ER has shown it in his videos before but I somehow managed to like forget about it because when I saw it I had no reference I was like what the what what is this like it's just like it's like a variation of uh fire bending I guess apparently it's some sort of like secret fire bending technique we can bend fire out of his brain or something it felt uh like it wasn't real when you first did it because I was just like I was not we're not prepared for that but the thing is the I guess you could call that the B plot the A plot is um our villains who have caused some destruction across the time they've been on this show being like hyper childish and again you might be like well that's their age and I'm like yeah I know it feels incongruent with like how threatening they can be as as as villains while simultaneously being like these really young teens who are still living about love and I'm like oh I guess so and obviously I'm referencing stuff like the guy kisses Azula and then she does like the Darth Vader speech to him she's like we could take over the world together that he's like whoa I'm out of here and I was like that part is you reference that part is you reference to show her social awkwardness where she's she's really good when it comes to business like she's really good when it comes to manipulating people for her own ends or for the ends of the fire nation but she's not really good in personal to person like personal relationships just like Zuko isn't they're both pretty socially awkward is that Azula can hide it better because she's a social butterfly wouldn't she needs to be but when it comes to just talking to people doesn't really work that well well there's just so much stuff going on that episode that like threw me for a loop the um the acrobatic one who like paralyzes like eight guys all in a big highly yeah I was just like wow hopefully there's no repercussions for that you could just sort of do that and it'll be fine when they like wreck the whole place at the end of the episode and finish all like smiley faces everything's happy I was just like geez I get that they're villains but like whoa um you know Zuko's still not quite made it to good guy territory at that point I guess um not yet not yet he's still kind of evil and yeah and then you know you have like you're just jealous because I'm hot and she's like you're a freak and there's just like crying and she's like don't cry I am kind of jealous like oh okay like the dialogue throughout that episode makes me want to kill myself uh the the the the fireplace discussion they have where they all basically explain their back stories one by one in a matter of about four minutes I don't think I've ever seen like a more blunt way of expositing to the audience exactly how these people feel and they justify by being like this is the beach that does that it makes you want to say these things and get a clean slate and I was just like okay I mean that's this is them talking it's uh because they're supposed to be friends technically technically speaking Azula is friends with my entirely uh they're just not traditionally friend they went to school together I think well yeah I mean I still remember because it was just it's that blunt it's like she grew up with a whole family of people who looked similar to her so she wanted to kind of go acrobatic mode and join the circus style thing to become individual because she hates the idea that like she'll she'll never be able to stand out from the crowd next one she was like an only child and constantly did everything her parents said she should do acted accordingly and she's lived well because of it and that's why she's reserved and doesn't have outbursts but she does at the end of that sentence because that's when she's revealing things Azula is upset because the mum never loved her as much as she loved Zuko despite the fact that she was like called her a monster yeah because Azula was she wasn't a monster she was she's a sociopath pretty much I mean she burns dolls she probably torture animals as she she wanted to I don't know she's she was a pretty crazy kid very manipulated from from day one pretty much it was a very scary person a very scary person so but she is socially awkward like she can't really handle real relationships so her her relationship between Mai and Ty Lee is held together by fear and you see that why I think I think at the boiling rock where they finally betray her because they're finally not they've currently much of the courage or I think Mai even says this so she found something more than she fears she loves Zuko more than she fears Azula that's how she breaks free but there's essentially other than that their friends technically speaking as as close of friends you can be with someone like Azula and so they just hang out together they talk because they're at a beach and just make conversation I think it's kind of like a finally they're able to relax sort of thing I like the fact that Azula when they're finally playing volleyball Azula then instantly points at everyone's weaknesses like this person was hurt here and go back over here to exploit their weakness like I thought it was so goofy because she's like that woman is walking awkwardly on that right leg but she probably had childhood trauma and I was just like okay exploit it exploit that childhood trauma you know like the Darth Vader speech like okay now we are a couple now you will join me and conquering this world it's like an airline I wasn't I didn't come here for that come over this mess you didn't pay me enough for that I'm out do you remember again about the anthology episode Toff is like what I would call kind of single-dimensional and this is the thing I really like Toff and I think that in the same way that Jack Sparrow is like these are characters that are very static but they're so entertaining that it doesn't really matter they drop like an anvil of development on Toff in the anthology episode they reveal like the she's like I don't care how people see me because she's she's blind she doesn't know anyway but then she gets made up and then she's made final for it and she reveals that like that does hurt and and like I was I was like oh my god like this is this is intensely important I want to know more about this and it's you know one off fifth of a one episode I was like what the hell I mean they kind of built it up a little bit they kind of hinted at a little bit since her first introduction to the show where she's um trying to break out of this of by becoming a fighter and her parents are coddling her and coddling her and coddling her and she hates that she hates being treated special or being mocked or made fun of and because it hurts she's she's tough on the outside and she's really tough when it comes to this is so much more things like that should have been like a thing like a whole lot yeah you mean like they should have developed done it more you mean I I mean that's my like crack yeah seeing characters develop over a significant issue over time it's like oh give me and yeah I like I said I like Toph and so seeing that in the anthology episode I was like oh my god expand this into a huge episode maybe even more than one and fortunately Toph is a really really reserved character she's uh she's she's tough she's she has guards up all the time at all the times but there's a one other part I like where she talked with Iro I don't think she even knows she's a bad guy her enemy but she just has a nice little heart to heart talk with Iro which is great straight for a character which is but really good for a character um do you remember when they fight Azula in um like a like a dusty almost like a western town they're the western town thing yeah let me try and find a few as well it takes what five of them to beat her Jerry T to spend her off well I think it I think it was that point where she realized I need to get some help there's a couple of things about that that whole scene and it's kind of stuff I've been alluding to before as well so our whole team is pretty much assembled and they're all anti Azula which is good stuff um though it's like where is Toph well should be here right because she was with Iro and it's like oh she is and look at that she spun the ground to make her slip over Toph why are you not capturing it capture just just puncture her down into the ground in any way, shape or form like you always do like she does in the Black Sun episode but no she just fiddled with it and then sort of stands there and they're like oh hey Toph and then she starts running away again so it's like all right yeah I guess and then he's like oh hey now she's surrounded what's she gonna do and um yeah I guess I'll just do this sort of one at a time because this scene really bugged me um I'll tell you something I really like that Iroh for a moment looks at all of the kids to see that they're okay I'm assuming right because that tells I think that's a good thing that he's like concerned about all these these kids fighting yeah she notices that and so she goes to attack him and she's successful um why didn't Toph do anything look at the movement she's doing like look they don't even react like all of them do but Toph doesn't because she's blind but like Toph grab her and then what they do in response is she fires dust at him a hair sorry like Toph what are you doing and this is the thing Toph is so powerful that I think it kind of fucks up a lot of the minutiae of a lot of fights and episodes because you have to nerf her a lot in order for things to happen because like all of them bend their respective abilities against Azula and she somehow manages to blast them all away look at that man and she's a prodigy no no my point isn't that she shouldn't be able to do it I guess if we like fine I guess she can do it but like that should have fucked them up look at what I did it's like a bomb and she's just gone I'm not exactly sure how but it's fine she flipped away and then another thing that bothers me about this right so he's like super upset Iro just doesn't die from this he's hit and then we see him next episode he's got a bandage on he's okay which he's Iro he has tons of hit points yes the problem however is Zuko's like upset naturally and Kitarra being someone who can heal is like I can he's like no she says I can help right which isn't exactly clear on what she means and he says no go away I think it's completely out of character for Kitarra to just accept that and go I think she'd be like I can literally heal him you ass let me do it but no she just leaves and I was like oh my god Kitarra why'd you let people dial stop it I think in that point it was the humane I think it's like a problem with discord or something at this at this point just what does act up everyone's smile if it updated itself while I was streaming EFAP I was like oh thanks is this like yeah that's what's happened now so yeah the last thing I think I heard you say was you gonna talk about I think at that point it's basically she can she can connect with the humanity because Iroh she can kind of tell that Iroh to Zuko was like Kitarra and her mother like he she might be able to see that he's also prideful and doesn't want to help from an enemy or someone he considers to be an enemy even though she knows she has the best best of intentions you know what I need is for her to insist I think it's a I think she's that altruistic Kitarra cares to help good people I get that he was like get out of here it's just like I would it would only be that if she made it clear she can actually heal him and then he actually threatened to kill her that she would have like that would I would accept it then but even then I think that they would just be like Zuko fuck off she can heal him and Toff would probably insist to be honest with you it's possible Toff would like grab Zuko with rocks and just be like go away like getting him you know but uh yeah um I would assume that uh that that at that moment to because Zuko had shot flames at them as a warning that uh it's kind of like a rabid dog at the moment I mean it's Kitarra probably totally it's just I just I would imagine their perspective is Zuko doesn't understand that we can help this person we just need to help him understand that because he clearly thinks that we're a potential danger right um why would Azula suspect that Aang survived her lightning attack because um this is this is gonna this is a double criticism right so first of all she tells Ozai that she wasn't the one who hit Aang and killed him it was actually Zuko actually this is a triple criticism so first of all she has to just hope then that no other soldier reveals the truth of the matter secondly that um Zuko would go along with it instead of just revealing the truth because he's he's not one to hold on to lies like that thirdly she says she does it in case Aang survived which I don't understand how in the world she would ever expect that to be a possibility Zuko would because he knew about the Healyjuice but she didn't and for some reason she just suspects it and then finally she says she's doing it in case the avatar is alive therefore she wouldn't look like an idiot when Zuko will instead he'll look like the failure but I was like but you're advocating that he was successful so you would have screwed up as well so like the whole the whole thing just doesn't sit well well with me from Azula I guess because she she used the attack she was the one who killed or supposedly killed the avatar in the first place yeah I would assume that maybe she knew that she didn't truck a killing blow and that well she did right because the we find out that the only reason he's alive is the super Healyjuice yeah the super Healyjuice but she might have said that maybe maybe that didn't kill him maybe because she said that she suspects right that she suspects that she killed him maybe it's in terms of maybe maybe it's a not a lethal attack or maybe it is a lethal attack it's it's it could be either one you know in other movies you have a heroes get shot or something like that and the villains think well we just go find them because they might not have died from that it's maybe it's an if and or it's an or maybe they died maybe they didn't that's that strike should have killed them but maybe it didn't kill him because he can survive more than more than the most people probably can I still think that I don't see why she wouldn't see that Ozai would think she's an idiot too because she's she's celebrating the fact that Zuko was successful too and she was there so you know what I mean like I don't just like a weird separation I'm just like what do you think that's going to do Azula like you're still going to be a dumb ass as well do you remember the the Zuko Azula fight in the finale Katara is just standing in the arena but to the side and it makes her like a huge obvious target and I was just myself I was thinking she must be in some kind of safe area because Zuko wants to fight thingy alone which by the way I think is really stupid because this is about saving the world not about Yurigo but he needs to do that apparently which is the same by the way for they say like Ang has to be the one to face Ozai alone and I was like why this is about saving the world this isn't about can the avatar defeat the Fire Lord like it's like no no no we need to get everything to help Ang do this Tof go with him Tof please go with him Tof go with everybody to defeat anyone ever I feel like that would be the the key to most battles but yeah they do that sort of logic and it really frustrates me whether it's like no it has to be you versus him the way it has to be it's an anime trip actually it has to be this it has to be this way like if you've ever seen the elaborate although all of our friends want to go with her at the very end and she goes no I have to do this alone why why because that's how it's done oh well if that's how if that's how it's done then that's how it must be it's it's kind of that logic and yeah so if guitar is not going to help Zuko in the fight it's like guitar hide behind something so that she can't randomly fire lightning at you she's like oh no lightning yeah I was going to mention earlier as well I think we I mentioned it but like I don't know why she guitar didn't open with the tsunami in the finale of season two she's like oh no she's trying to whip some people with a water whip and it's like hey if you have a tsunami powers I would that's the one I'd be going for that would be my tsunami freeze tsunami free tsunami freezes that's just I'd become a water bender and just use tsunami freeze all the time that would be my thing I mean they never as far as I know the show never like tells us that it costs anything to bend oh uh whether they need to eat sometimes I'm trying to remember if they ever get exhausted from bending no but it probably probably takes exertion but it seems that they can bend relatively without consequence kind of yeah I try to think of harder techniques the harder techniques doesn't really cost them too much more is as long as they know how to do it it's fine but that's fine with me and it's just it's just a matter of knowing what techniques to use and what time and in what situation that's really the the thing that really tests them coming back to Zhao the defense for this the even I would suggest is going to be he's an idiot he is kind of yeah he's really dumb as where is it the dessert going to be sharing some clipper runes with you again sorry about the format for this it's so awkward it's just like this is the best I could do all right I really liked that he he hurt Katara while firebending I thought that was that was excellent because it shows his flaw his personality flaws and that he can make mistakes and they can mess things up so badly that he actually hurts people instead of thinking that he killed Chewbacca and transformed him him coming back in the next scene so he thinks like how do I destroy the ships because the fire nation are chasing them first with them I know I will jump on them and as Zhao attacks me he will set them on fire and like when I was watching this for the first time I was like oh come on like really he's just set them on fire but it was made worse by the fact that he has no idea by the way not until Ang reveals it to him in about two minutes from now he doesn't realize he's even on his own boat he's that like dense I'll obviously I'm just playing the clip you're gonna get it in a second because Ang is like you've been defeated and he's like you've not even landed a single blow and then he's like take a look or something like that and just watch the Zhao's reaction to realize like what he just did for like oops yeah I was just like Jesus how are you with this rag you're like hucks how did you manage to fuck that up yeah he's kind of he's an idiot he's self-absorbed he is self-conf... he's very self-confident I know that it's possible that he it's fitting to his character so more accurately to say he's it's fitting for his character to get so absorbed with conquering the avatar and bringing back the avatar so they can get all the rewards one chance to come back that he would be so focused he wouldn't notice that he's attacking his own ships that's I can see that happening with his my suggestion would just be Aang is redirecting his fire and he doesn't realize where it's being redirected to until it's too late if you know what I mean he's shooting it at Aang specifically and Aang is throwing them back in different areas and maybe Zhao is almost convinced that like Aang is just so bad at this he can't even deflect it back at him and he doesn't realize because maybe his back is facing his own ships and it's not until it's too late that he turns around to realize those fireballs weren't actually missing you know that sort of thing instead of he's on his boat he is firing balls at his own boat and that he's like wait a bad thing I understand I understand where you're coming from I just think it's it is still fitting with his character that well this is so self-absorbed that this is a character so focused on conquering the avatar who is told he's going to usher in what is essentially the apocalypse if he kills the fish that he just does it like that I mean he is kind of an idiot really is he's characterized he's characterized as that from the beginning he even got he even lost to Zuko because he's so pompous that he just thinks he can take out Zuko with no sweat at all I got a prince who has been a razor focused on training every second of the day so he can capture the avatar he thinks that he's going to be a walk in the park and he gets defeated by Zuko and he's dishonorable enough to try to stab him in the back he's kind of he is an idiot he is that's his character he's kind of a an idiot made it made stupid by his his ego and how focused he is on being the prideful one the best one and being the one who's on top of it all just to I'll try and run through do you remember that that creature that can smell people and pretty much no matter where they are oh yeah that one with the the bounty hunter I thought the dialogue was so hilarious when they're like here is Aang's stick where is Aang it sniffs it and the lady says your friend doesn't exist and this is when Aang is on the line till and they're like doesn't exist he's dead and she goes no no he's not dead he just doesn't exist I'd like I wish I had like a screenshot on my face I was just like question marks all over my face I was like what how does how does she reconcile that all you need to do to fix this is have her say he's out of range he's so far away that we can't actually trace a scent that's it instead she says he doesn't exist I want her to tell me I want to jump into the universe and ask her what that means just for her to be like he no longer exists upon this plane also there's like what the why are you so comfortable with that process that explanation also I feel like the fire nation would have captured all of those things since the most useful animal like that ever existed for what they essentially want to do which is chase people I don't know maybe they just didn't just didn't if she has she has the only one or maybe it's it's a rare animal who knows that's why I got from it it's like a rare animal like only she really has or there's so few or there's so like they're from an exotic part of the world that no one has explored yet or something um yeah uh Zuko and May's relationship I had no fucking clue that was even going on I was just blowed away with the fact that they started up I was like whoa and they started kissing everyone's well yeah and they it's quite a payoff too because she betrays Azula for that relationship and I was just like damn and that's on top of the fact that they gave us a short story about Zuko finding love in Barsing say I was just like they did what the hell yeah that's really what he goes to he goes to like he takes her out on date they kiss and I thought they were going to develop that but I realized as I probably should have faster an anthology episode is going to be forgotten yeah didn't work out too well not for Zuko because he's Zuko and nothing works out well well for you um do you remember the guy he's gonna be squishing that remember the guy in the library who wants to stay there to read while it's all being engulfed in sand remember that he's like the I don't think so I don't think so he's like the dude who comes along with them and they're about to leave while Toph is struggling to keep it from being like completely engulfed by sand and he's like no I want to stay there's so much knowledge in this library I could read forever and there's this shot where he's reading a scroll and there's like several piles of sand building up around him because the whole place is going to be buried and I was just like what and you might be like who cares it's just some random dude I'm like no I know it's just so silly like why would a person do that I just yeah it's fine it's just like okay he's so dedicated to his studies that he really care I gave you I think I saw a long time ago an anime called Alostar it was on Toonami and there was one professor who didn't care he just wanted as long he didn't care if he died as long as he found out the knowledge that he was searching for that knowledge is more important to him this knowing is more important to him than giving it out or getting famous on the knowledge so that could be that could have been his personality too I thought it was just a funny coincidence that they turn up right before Azula is crowned fire lord he reminded me of Shrek where they're like I object I am with a do-lock it's park one I object yeah and I guess the only other thing off the top of my head because this is the thing I didn't re-watch the show I think we'll try and talk a bit about the positives before we close this off as well this will be the last criticism off the top of my head but like do you remember Bumi has a civilization a city he decides he's going to let the fire nation in because he figures that's the best way to do it without like causing too much trouble and then once his time comes he's going to break out and save the whole city from the fire nation right so why wouldn't he just repel the fire nation regardless because if the worry is they will come back they will be coming back regardless of when he picks them out obviously but we didn't break free though I forgot what he did on the black sun episode so there was still a whole significant portion of a season left before the fire lord is defeated so if you did it on the black sun I mean they have no no bending ability so I guess he oh yeah for sure what I'm arguing is that he breaks the bridge to the city once he's forced them all out and by the way he's an amazing earthbender he picks up like I think he's sitting the strongest whenever yeah and just blings them out and so I'm just sitting there like why couldn't like surely you guys can put up with a full scale war for many years with the kind of power you have yeah when I was rewatching the first season I was like this it must be a real pain to besiege an earth kingdom city because they they have walls they just rebuild with no gates yeah they can just and they they can open a gate anywhere on the wall so you have to keep a constant eye on every inch of that thing and this because that's your traditional siege is just a bunch of gates that you can keep an eye on but in an earth kingdom city it's anywhere anywhere can be an opening it's almost impossible to siege one no wonder iroh didn't do it um so yeah I guess I would be very concerned about letting my city be taken by the fire nation when they've been very very over about killing benders oh yeah or capturing them put them in horrible circumstances so you're like what's the alternative defend the city it's like yeah and I think he proved on the black sunday that whether or not they have fire bending he he alone can defend that city very very well he could throw enormous boulders at whatever machines they may have they're already on like he can bend with his face he can bend with his face that is true so yeah I just found that whole thing strange and uh I guess I guess yeah I guess that's it that is that is pretty much it I can't remember what his plan was because I haven't seen I didn't really watch that episode well he was just hoping to but my best faith interpretation is he wanted to create as little like conflict in his city as possible until the time comes that he absolutely had to but it just makes me wonder about what he really thought would happen to his his citizens and the was it worth it I guess and the surely if the worry was the fire nation would return with that if the fire lord stays we never actually see that even happen so it's all very I have lots of question um but yeah I do want to say I think the voice acting is like fantastic I think a lot of the animation works pretty well I um I like a lot of the writing what I might call writing scaffolding like the what is there there's like a really there's like like the operation man there's like a body but it's got loads of holes and and and maybe organs in the wrong place just like it's still I like absolutely what they're going for and this is this is why the scale of good bad is a little bit useless until you you know try and be more specific this is worlds away from something like TLJ but I also do I don't want to say that this is like great content to me I feel like this is um I try I want to I would rather save that sort of classification for other things because I just I think this one makes it has a lot of a lot of things are pushed in directions arbitrarily and and luckily I think a lot of the character work is is like good in ideas and then the just the execution needs a more more time because there's a lot of what I would call filler episodes while simultaneously having some ideas that happen way too quickly and need a lot more breathing room obviously the tough one I was talking about like the whole you can make like an arc out of the Zhong Zhong thing I feel like all of the the bigger benders could have had a way bigger influence on Aang the just different different high points different big payoffs and then just rules being clearer to me but again I still think like the show I could totally see why someone would love this show I do get that but but I don't know after after sort of going through all of them I just that would be my experience as well as obviously a lot of stuff I haven't mentioned that is good and a lot of stuff I haven't mentioned that I also have problems with it's felt like a lot of the individual episodes had the smaller you know like the throwing the scroll on the candle like that sort of thing was happening here in there enough times that I was getting frustrated because um and you know they're better problems to have than constantly assassinating all of your characters that have lasted for 40 years you know that I I understand that I just um I think a lot better I think yeah what are you what do you think it's not only just killing off your characters but just killing off the personalities all that good stuff all the things you love about them and I think I still think that Avatar Last Airbender is a pretty it's a very masterful work all together considering everything together how it flows for one point to the next doesn't really meander it goes it goes in different directions but at the end of the day at the end of the seasons they all it all builds up to a few things like the first season they're trying to get to the North Pole and along the way they have a lot of trials and tribulations and then at the end at the end of the season they get to the North Pole and it's not what they wanted it's not exactly what they were hoping for and um there's a huge confrontation with the Fire Nation at long last with their with the enemy Admiral what's it what's his name Zhao yes for saying whatever his name it's got but uh it's speaking they have like a a lot of complexity and the characters a lot of is not just a two-dimensional villain as far as the main villains go so you have a three-dimensional Azula where she seems like there's a manipulator an evil manipulator but you learn that she has problems and she has weaknesses and she has her own priorities and flaws and everything same thing goes for pretty much all the main characters the only one that's really two-dimensional would Ozai he's just a bad guy which is which is fine but he's uh everyone they they focus their narrative structures on everything else for the for their narrative character development on everyone else on the you know the Azulas the the Mai Yang and the gang I think they call it the gang for the as as a group and all the stories all the fleshing out the world building all the good stuff so narrative narratively speaking as a whole it's it's a complete cycle we have the cycles of Aang and his development over time Saka Katara all of them have their own cycles of development maybe the least of all might be Toph but she does change a little bit she does open up she starts off as someone who is standoffish and becomes someone who trusts friends more and trusts other people more and narratively it's sound and it's uh it tells a great story great development every time it ends it ends on something huge it ends on something that's really changes the game and I think it's it's nice a tight story with only three seasons so you have a beginning a middle and an end and there's so much there's a lot of good things about it the relationships the the trials they go through the things they develop it's uh it's overall fantastic work and there we have it that's uh because what what I was trying to obviously achieve with this was to have my grievances is while having someone to advocate for the show and I think the people who are looking for that have have got hopefully what they want because I um I'm really not passionate about avatar so I don't have much of a drive to do anything else I was just I was hoping to talk about some of these things and uh move on to whatever else because I I'm not going to make a video on avatar I uh nor my I might reference it you know in a positive or negative light in future who knows but I don't right like like a I don't have a need to sort of go on go in depth and out like with star wars I get very passionate because I watched that when since I was super young which and all the way up to now and I just so I'm fully invested while this I I literally saw once and it was after many recommendations I really don't have an attachment to it so but I know people wanted to hear what my issues were so hopefully that's that's been done and they've been presented to somebody who very much likes the show and and defended two different degrees so yeah um I guess thank you very much for having this conversation do you want to um talk a bit about your uh well anything you want actually maybe talk about your channel and discover I mean discover literature devil.com I'm not there's a devil.com but literature devil on youtube there is a literature devil.com it's a blog but it's I've scarcely updated I won't update it more but it does exist I do still own the domain I'll say that but at literature devil on youtube and I cover a 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