BLOODBENDING is METAL AF!! // Avatar: The Last Airbender S3x8 "The Puppetmaster" REACTION!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Sean, Dustin & Morgan rock the SPOOKY AND METAL AS HELL introduction to BLOODBENDING with Ep 8 of Season 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender 'The Puppet Master"!! Hit up Patreon.com/SeanTanktop to watch the UNCUT Full reaction to S3E9 & 10 for $5 RIGHT NOW!!
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Sean is it just me or doesn't it seem like Appa is sort of like the Eeyore of Nickelodeon? 🤔🤣🤣
Morgan(I think is her name) was spot on about "puppet bending" before Blood bending was revealed at the end.
Love when Morgan is determined to take the channel down 🤣🤣 honestly so funny, and loving your reactions to the series so far! 😁
Why was Hama keeping all those people prisoner? Revenge. Plain old spite and rage. She dosen't care that they're civilians. She likes the fact that she's hurting the Fire Nation the way they hurt her.
The way Morgan gleefully chooses violence is lowkey terrifying yet sweet haha
"I know they are framing it as the ultimate evil...but IT'S COOOOOOOL."
Note to self never piss off Morgan....
Eh, not a big fan of the type that wishes digsusting violence and war crimes on "evil" people. That kind of attitude is just ridiculous to me. "Witch did nothing wrong", because she can just nab random from the fire nation and enact self-satisfying justice on them? That's definitely not right. Sure, when she was captured, it was fair game to get free that way, but other than that, bloodbending is assault and, yes, it seems cool, but encouraging her to use it, is just disgusting. It's like telling someone to go and rape people (even if those getting hurt are "evil")
The reason Katara was so devastated to be able to bloodbend is because she sees her bending as a beautiful part of herself, and blood bending is a perversion of what water bending is meant to be. It’s like being a culture that cherishes food and meals, and then Hannibal Lecter comes along and tells you that you either eat what HE cooked, or the people that your closest to die
I think it be more, like you are an amazing chef you love food and you make beloved family recipes, then Hannibal comes in and forces you to cook your beloved recipes but using people. like you re not just being forced to consume it and be participant in it but forces you to inflict it kinda become the monster yourself.
I think they were keeping the water benders ALIVE just in case one of them was the Avatar... they had wiped out the air nomads, and years went by with no sign of the avatar, so they assumed the cycle had passed onto the water tribe... and keeping the Avatar alive would have allowed them to continue conquering
SPOILERS:
Since this was about 50 years ago we can assume the fire nation wasnt as cruel, so for this theory pretend that they kept them imprisoned and didnt want to kill them. From episode 16 we learn that katara's mom pretended to be the last waterbender, and that they found out that there was one last waterbender in the tribe. Im thinking that when they found out that waterbenders can bloodbend and that you couldnt really imprison them, and they didnt know how many bloodbenders were out there, the new rule "Kill all capured waterbenders" was made so that there would be no one that had power to stop the fire nation. So when they heard an adult southern waterbender escaped they assumed she went back home and went back to the tribe. When they asked who was the last one an adult who looked like the discription, katara's mom, said they were the water bender and they believed her. But because she was dangerous and obviously could bloodbend her way out of jail, they killed her to prevent it. Hama(or whatever her name is) is the indirect reason katara's mom was killed. At least thats what i think🤷🏾♀️
@@poisecritikal It makes a lot of sense!
@@poisecritikalI wanted to say the same about the "new rule" after Hama's escape, I agree. But I disagree that they went looking for Hama when they killed Katara's mom. They aren't close in age at all, Hama likely escaped long before Katara was born, unless you think they were continually returning until they found Hama, but that wouldn't make sense to me.
@@Andy-roid i think that they kept returning just to make sure they got the last of the water benders. Hama was the last to fight before she was captured so they knew for sure that hama was the last waterbender. It was known that there was at least one more southern bender out there after she escaped. So while i think now that it wasnt cuz of the description of hama, i still believe it could still be cuz she escaped.
@@poisecritikal Yeah I think Hama definitely influenced them in being much more thorough, if that's what you're getting at now. They also know that with every new gen there's the possibility another bender is born. I just don't think they believed they were looking for the escapee specifically on the day they got Kya. I think there was some fresh intel they got, considering how they wouldn't leave until they got the one bender, meaning they had confidence.
You are literally taking another person's free will away from them and making them watch like that fucking scene from Get Out. Can you imagine being forced to watch as you stab your friend to death? Yeah, I don't blame Katara for being freaked out about it.
It makes me rethink every time Xavier pulled the same trick in X-Men media 😬
exactly! and that’s why it became illegal during legend of korra. i swear it was mentioned that katara fought hard to go against the use of it because it makes the bender go manic over time
I love that when Hama waterbends the flowers, it looks just like she left a scorch mark.
It goes to show any element can leave a scar.
One thing I find interesting is that adults watching avatar for the first time seem more pragmatic I guess about bloodbending while when I was kid watching this and all the other kids were talking about it we were horrified for katara. I always figured part of the evil of it is that the more you bloodbend the more addicted you get to the rush of power and the more it corrupts. Like the dark side, maybe lol.
I guess its more of being more interested in the rated r possibilities. Its a bit easy to disregard the innocence of the characters and morals when they have a lot of other show references to compare to.
@@missdifficulty905 ooo that is a great point!
you’re right! with it being a sign of a bender going to the “dark side”. it consumes you and makes you go insane the more you use it. which is specifically why katara outlaws it during legend of korra..it’s unethical and wrong to her
Nope, Hama isn't Nini. Nini fell victim to a blizzard, not the Fire Nation.
Although the episode was released in November 2007 in the US, it was released on October 25 in the UK, closer to Halloween. And it's mind-blowing Dot from Animaniacs and Hama have the SAME voice actress...Tress MacNeille. She's talented
Nini would also be sane age as katara’s mum
Spoilers (kinda)
She also voices avatar Yangchen
@@jessjms1181 Yep, Katara specifically said that she was friends with their mom. Not to mention, Hama is even older than their Gran-Gran.
bloodbending is a violation of another person's body, its dark and continued use can deaden you on the inside. Just look at hama, she was a good person before she was captured and became a serial killer.
also wanted to add that Morgan's argument was giving "good guy with a gun" energy.
EXACTLY!
Bloodbending taints the soul (Spirit) of the person who uses it. (like a Dark Side Force, Sith Power)
It's why Hama's statement, "Congratulations Katara. You're a Bloodbender now!" sounded like such a Declaration of Damnation! (because it was)
Which why Katara broke down afterwards. Because she knows she is no longer "pure" (even if she only used it ONCE to save the lives of her friends) & she will forever have the temptation of further corruption in her.
@@pri2x0x Well, they are at war, fighting for their right to live in this world. I wouldn't mind that kind of ,,gun" to defend myself from the people whose ultimate goal is to wipe out my entire culture. And Katara is not Hama or Jet, she knows the difference between fighting military and hurting some peasants for revange.
@@VantolStark That's the thing though, Bloodbending is shown as a very extreme kind of taboo, comparative to something insidious like rape. It's the point of, does the ends justify the means.
@@VantolStark Spoilers
Tfw Katara uses it on an innocent person the very next full moon after she learns it.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" if katara didnt fear that power I would definitely fear her as a villainous character
I loved and hated Animal Farm when I read it in English 2 in highschool. Taught me so many things about how the real world really works and how it got that way.
20:00 the Fire Nation actually did stop taking waterbender POWs after Hama's escape, and switched to killing them.
A very important detail for a future episode
Yep, probably because of what Hama did.
This is one of the most memorable and dark episodes in the series. Season three has several of those. They made the notion of bloodbending really horrible and with dark implications. It is the most feared form of bending.
the earth queen might disagree with that being the most feared form
Katara: "And I won't allow you to keep terrorizing this town!"
Hama: G E T B E N T
Also Hama: "Congratulations Katara, you're a Bloodbener now!"
Random Fire Nation Person: "Excuse me what?"
they think shes crazy though even if it was the case where they realized what Hama meant, they probably wouldn't tell seeing how distraught Katara was over the whole thing and that they were literally rescued.
Hama's like a double edged space sword
she was both good and bad. She deserved more screen time
She feels bad because there is a hubris to owning power, especially when it comes to literally enforcing your own will upon people. Most people think that they'd make the right decisions because they think they're "good" but once you have that power, if someone gets on your nerves or you have a bad day, you are vulnerable to showing how abusive you can be because you're not some saint or Jesus, you're human. Katara is very well aware of that.
Once you learn something you can’t just unlearn it. That power is now part of her and the temptation to use it will always be there.
Something we later see demonstrated during the Southern Raiders.
Even Katara isn't above abusing her power, if she feels it's justified.
Bloodbending is framed as the darkest form of bending because it isn¨t "just" an attack - You grab into other people's bodies and take control. It is a complete disregard of consent.
I think Hama just chained them up to let them die inside the mountain like she and the other waterbenders was chained up to die in the firebender prison.
"Once I had mastered the rats, I was ready for the men" is so iconic ngl
What I always liked about this episode is that Hama is kind of like a warning to Katara, in the sense that if Katara lived through the war much longer, she too would resort to darker types of bending just to get an edge over the Fire Nation. If Katara lived through the 100 years that Aang was missing, she probably would've been through so much that I don't doubt she would've resorted to blood-bending.
Katara is young and hopeful, but has a deep hatred for the Fire Nation due to her mother's death.
Hama was probably hopeful too, but saw all of her fellow water-benders either be kidnapped or die until she was captured and imprisoned for years.
Exactly. One of the main themes in a lot of Katara's arcs is how people handle revenge because of the war. When she first meets Jet she sympathizes with his loss but then sees how revenge can consume you to harm innocent people, just like how Jet wanted to wipe out a town of innocent people for the sake of hurting the Fire Nation. Then as you said here, Hama is an example of the danger of going a step too far. While it may be effective in fighting the Fire Nation, there are boundaries that you can be in danger of overstepping, a line which you can't really go back from. Then we see her finally confront it... well you know when... not gonna post spoilers lol. But the point is, Katara keeps meeting people who have suffered from the war and sees to the lengths to which revenge can take them.
19:58 To borrow from your many claims of 'it's a kids show', I imagine there was plenty of awful shit that would have happened in that prison that simply could not be mentioned on nickelodeon. It is also probably the reason they were kept alive...
And the fire nation probably killed the remaining prisoners after Hama escaped and bloodbent.
@@danisetsuko they did. its also why Kataras mom was murdered on the spot and not taken.
@@danisetsuko Always wondered why Hama didn't deliver her fellow comrade in the same time as her.
@@mariebourgot4949 maybe because she was weak and could only use a limited number of times
I think comparing bloodbending to war crimes kind of makes sense. I think the reason Katara is so against using it is because it feels wrong and when you start justifying wrong things for the greater good it's a slippery slope that could end up at something like Jet. Justifying evil can corrupt people.
Also imagine what it feels like, having no control over your body whatsoever would be traumatizing on it's own, but to that you add the fact that it probably feels like all of your interiors wanting to get out of your body in the directions you are being bent at
Katara not only used it she suffered it from both perspectives, one of a person being controlled and someone seeing their loved ones / comrades suffering through it
I'm a Patreon and I watch the full cuts but I look forward to these edits so much! Ahaha you guys are awesome
Morgan’s emotional investment into pissbending is so pure
🤣🤣🤣
The uncomfortable associations of entering somebodies body without their permission and forcing them to do something they don't want to do.....
......rhymes with grape lol.
i agree, it is very much like an ape
@@nimblesheepvenomous3811 🤣🤣🤣
It's sort of like rape I guess, enforcing your will upon somebody else. Not entirely the same but you get the concept.
understand what you’re trying to say but i disagree. Unless you force them to do a sexual act then its no sexual assault at all. Its like telling someone to give them your money with a gun to their head. No rape involved in that. Just wanna be clear as to not water down sexual assault.
@@aeris44 rape in the sense of violation of he body, though not of the sexual kind is probably what they meant.
rape has 3 definitions in the dictionary and the oldest one means "an act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a person by force" which is exactly what happens but even by the modern definition the only part that doesn't match the description is a sexual nature that could never be on this show anyway. I think if it sounds like rape and smells like rape theres at least a healthy parallel especially when the archaic definition lines up point by point
Yeah I always saw it as a metaphor for rape
It’s the cruciatus curse. You can control them and it hurts like hell.
When you realise that Hama has been doing this for years from the time she moved to that Fire bending town. So technically she would just leave them there so if nickelodeon wanted, they would show rotting bodies and skeletons
Idk man bloodbending has always felt akin to rape to me. Completely removing someone’s bodily autonomy and enforcing your own will over them? Feels like it would always be bad. Still a metal name tho
“Why is nobody piss bending” literally made me LOL
I always took it that she was keeping the fire Nation people imprisoned just so they would be forced to know what she felt like. Chain them up and keep them just barely alive and let them rot there like the fire Nation did to the water benders. Basically just an eye for an eye.
Don't forget that Katara experienced being the victim of bloodbending at the hands of Hama, so she has firsthand experience of just how awful and traumatic it is. She would never want to inflict such a horrible thing onto someone else (can't say anymore without delving into spoilers).
You know the slow motion part where Katara stops a water bending attack from Hama, and Hama’s all like hooooly shit! I think it’s because traditionally, the water bending style is to return your opponent’s move back at them, but this time Katara used an Earthbending technique and stopped that attack in its tracks, because she faced it head on like a rock. Very cool scene. What do you think?
Great remark!
LMAO I appreciate The Craft references but yeah, bloodbending in that way is definitely not cool. Blind Wave watching this mentioned that it's like rape and it kind of is. People like to debate about how it can help with science and medicine but I wouldn't call that blood bending, it's more like a form of healing. I read that you all finished the show already so I don't consider this a spoiler but Katara has only done this from a place of pain and rage like in this episode and later on. I also want to point out how Katara is a prodigy to be able to pick it up just like that, Hama had to practice it. Katara's waterbending is much stronger than the average water bender.
I have been waiting for yall to react to this episode for ages, and can I just say, did not disappoint 👏.
"Bloodbending" chills every damn time
fun fact: the puppets in the in were the same as the people she kidnapped
Hama is too old to be Nini since NiNi was their mom’s friend. The girl from the flashback was Kana, aka GranGran (she had on the necklace I believe). Also, Katara is someone who is too good natured to want to willingly reach into someone and control them painfully.
@@therainbow5562 yeah it is
@@therainbow5562 yeah that’s what I said. Their grandmother’s name is Kana. It was mentioned when The Aang Gang was in the North Pole.
Mo contemplating blood bending with that wine chillingly reminds me of Cersei Lannister
You know what's creepy on rewatch? Hama doesn't seem genuinely happy at any point except when she's bloodbending. Not when she's taking misplaced revenge on people, but when she's bloodbending anyone. Or passing it along to Katara. ...It seems like the bending itself has become this weird, all-consuming obsession for her. She doesn't even seem to care that she's being taken back to a Fire Nation prison (you know, the thing that traumatised her so badly that she's been torturing innocent civilians for - presumably - decades to try and get back at her captors) because she's been able to pass along the secret of bloodbending.
It really ties into the Dark Side idea. There's this sense that the power itself is somehow a corrupting influence. You have it, and you're tempted to use it even if it horrifies you...
I am genuinely worried about this lady's moral compass, this is the sort of mindset that enables atrocities to happen.
Ah yes in this cartoon
While the bloodbending aspect is incredible(regardless of how you feel about it) in itself I had to respect Katara's actual waterbending fight. Waterbending is about redirecting an attack but she fought like an earth bender and stopped the water full force. It just goes back to what Iroh was talking about in that you can learn from other fighting styles(like how lighting redirection is based off waterbending)
Have you ever heard the story of Elizabeth Báthory? She was a bona fide serial killer, not only that she was the worst type of sadist. She tried her hardest to keep her victims alive for as long as possible so she could torture them. Obviously, ATLA being a kids show, can't show explicit violence, but it was clear to me that Hama kept her victims alive as a form of torture, she drew pleasure from it. I'm sure eventually they would've died.
«If there’s one little old lady war criming against the entire army then I’m good with it”
Words of wisdom
Morgan, the reason why Katara is crying is because bloodbending is an invasion of the body. Controlling every muscle, every vein in the body, it can be used to break lumps, torture people, burst blood vessels and even kill.
And that’s not even discussing the mental trauma it has on the person it’s being inflicted upon. To have your will be taken from you, to his have limps turn against you and being forced to do something you don’t want to do but are unable to stop is absolutely terrifying. It’s almost like being possessed by a demon.
Bloodbending was created by Hama to harm people out of revenge and she twisted it and corrupted into something dark and evil, and that’s why Katara is crying. Because Katara has never been for random acts of violence, never one to attack out of malice and or to kill, but now she knows this awful technique now, this evil bending that she cannot unlearn. And she can’t handle that
Bloodbending may be “metal” to you, but for Katara it goes against everything she knows and against her personality as a whole.
Morgan is pro War crimes? she’d love Attack on Titan
IVE BEEN SAYING! I want them to react to it so bad
Psycho young me watching this wondered about bending the water in blood after like 3 episodes and then immediately thought how simple it would be to burst a main artery in the brain... It wouldnt even require precision or finesse... Just yank a few drops of water from one spot to another and you can mow down whole armies
Waterbending is beyond OP
Being an innkeeper is the perfect cover for Hama it lets her keep a normal appearance while supplying her with a plethora of travelers whom no one notices when they go missing.
Maybe keeping the villagers alive & imprisoned was Hama dealing them eye-for-an-eye style revenge, worse than death.
It's terrifying, you know. Hold such kind of power to abuse someone's free will & took them under control, even if that's only when full moon night. Just like the ticking bomb, waiting the power to corrupt that person and fell into the dark side . .
You guys know it’s not nini right? Like, because it happened to kataras mom, not her grandma, so she’d be younger, and also nini’s spirit was right there, so she died as a little girl.
It’s our first watch.
@@SeanTanktop Since being wrong about something or missing information during a tv show isn’t actually a bad thing, just a thing that happens to everyone, you don’t need to excuse or defend it. I was just concerned because you had the timeline muddy and there are things in the episode that make it clear.
But if you want to make it into a thing that needs an excuse and that’s the excuse you want to go with then it means 13 year old me was smarter than you.
of course blood bending is metal, there’s iron in the blood 😏🤘🏻🔥🍻 MASTER, MASTER 6:29 hahahaha brilliant Dustin
I love how other people reacted to blood bending as a cold hearted bad thing and then here they are being like HELL YEAH 😂😂
I feel as if it wasn't the blood bending itself that Katara hated at that moment but more of the way the lady manipulated her into learning it and also giving her exactly what she wanted by teaching someone else to bloodbend, I would have been pissed and crying too just knowing I gave her even a portion of what she wanted,and especially with that creepy laugh she did
Hama wants to take revenge on the fire nation so much that she's willing to kill the avatar to level up 1 waterbender.
Has anyone in these comments heard of the fan theory that Hama learning bloodbending is why Katara's mother was murdered?
Yeah. Seems likely.
You kinda feel the age restriction on this ep bc if this was a TV-PG show Hama would just be bloodbending villagers off a cliff.
For me blood bending is "cool', but i have always imagined it as being very painful. There is no way that someone could endure that and not feel immense pain and psychological torture
Yeah... I always thought in the final scene where they're all consoling Katara, aang and sokka should have been pretty distraught as well, considering that they were just bloodbended, but I suppose that would create a lot of tension that the series just is too tight to have time to address. No room for a ptsd from bloodbending episode
@@Nomadic813 Yeah agreed
Her- Blood bending doesn't have lasting. . .
Me- Laughs in L.O.K
If you can, try and find the original audio of the bloodbending scenes. There were more sound effects that were toned down when the show was made into dvds and put on netflix, but it makes that fight at the end even more chilling to watch and listen to.
Now lets hope they dont forget that it can only be done during the full moon, because everyone forgets that for some reason
Hama has Magneto type of back story.
12:03 Funny, another reactor suggested the same thing.
“I could whip out my little Avatar and just peebend my way out.”
I would die to watch a live-action of this episode on theatres with surround sound
Morgan would turn into a sith lord like sooo quick... lmao.
The fire nation was looking for the next avatar. The world assumed Aang was killed during the air nomade genocide, so the next avatar would be from the watertribe. They did not kill the waterbenders they captured because if they did and one of them was the avatar, they would have to start their search all over again in the earth kingdom.
Also if the imprisoned waterbenders were to piss bend, the guards would have noticed. As Hama said, " any sign of trouble was met with cruel retribution."
Hama is keeping them alive but imprisoned as a vengeance on how *she* was kept prisoner for years by the Fire Nation.
When you think about it... the whole song and dance the Fire Nation put Hama through was likely a response to all the pissbending that happened previously.
I love this episode, though it does sit uncomfortably with notions of what is the "correct response" for someone captured by a colonizing nation and forced into prison for decades, purely because she was seen as both dangerous and lesser. Like, sure, Hama probably shouldn't be murdering people and violating their autonomy... but the Gaang also trusts the Fire Nation to meet out appropriate punishment? The same Fire Nation which violated Hama for decades?
In any case, Hama probably skedaddled the next full moon. She IS a blood bender still.
Fun fact that shows how skilled a Bender Katara really is. she pulled an iroh by taking an earthbending stance to stop the giant water ball. using skills she's saw from others like Toph to incorporate it in her own skills.
Lol the metal edits cracked me up, good stuff.
Wow... out of all the times I have watched ATLA and the reactions to it, I have never noticed the cabbage looked like it had a face. No wonder the Cabbage Merchant keeps saying "MY CABBAGES!"
"bloodbending is cool" is not really a good thing to say. 😅
As it is considered like Rape or using Imperio from Harry Potter. Taking control of or actually invading someone else's body for your own person gain.
Lol imagine having every drop of blood in your body taken hostage, it’s gotta be the most painful and psychologically scarring thing bending wise.
Blood bending is the cruciatus curse or the dark side of the force. I can see why she wouldn’t want that power.
Imperius works a little better.
@@maraudentium2607 I forgot about that one. But crucio is more of a torture so I think that’s still valid
i think the survivability of both hama and the villagers come down to the fact that it's a kids' show, and they're protected by plot armor LOL but i think morgan might change her tune on this particular war crime as you all progress through everything. it gets pretty intense as far as kids' programming is concerned, and even just in general, tbh. great reaction, keep up the good work! :)
another great reaction guys! Trying to figure out all the different sub bending techniques was something me and my friends debated all the time when we watched the series. Fire benders have lightning and combustion bending. Water bending has blood bending and vine bending. Earthbending has metal bending. the only one that is tough to come up with is air bending.
Waterbenders can also have healing abilities, and sandbending might be a subset of earthbending (Toph struggled with it at first).
Legend of Korra addresses some others. Without spoiling anything, there's another subset of earthbending not seen in AtLA, and one or two skills that seem unique to airbenders (although one of them was only ever mastered by two airbenders in all of history).
I always wanted to see airbenders tap into soundbending as a sub element. Aang did it a little in the tales of ba sing se episode when he used airbending to enhance the bison whistle
You guys had me in tears laughing at the Hama blood bending announcement
Spoiler alert:
Bloodbending is the only bending in the avatar universe known to destroy a bender's mental state.
Huh? It's not the bloodbending that made Hama evil, it was the torture and the obsession with revenge after the torture that did it. Others who bloodbend have similar stories, in that their mental state was affected by their experiences, not the blood bending itself.
@@AnnekeOosterink Where in my comment did I say "Bloodbending is what made Hama evil"? All I said was that bloodbending can cause mental issues if used oftenly. Look it up, ask another fan, it's part of the lore.
@@OutOfPocket-h9e When does it happen then, in canon?
@@AnnekeOosterink It's literally mentioned in almost every Avatar fandom page. Bloodbending is the highest and darkest form of waterbending. It is also the only bending known to damage a user's mentality. I mean c'mon literally every bloodbender we have seen has shown signs of aggression that were too far. Hama, Yakone, Amon, Tarlakk, and even Katara.
@@OutOfPocket-h9e Again, where in CANON is that? Hama was tortured, Amon and Tarlakk were both conditioned and brainwashed by the way their father raised them. It's not the bloodbending that causes this, the way they were raised caused acceptance of bloodbending. Hama's torture caused an obsession with revenge which made her accept any kind of weapon as acceptable to get that revenge. Again, their mental states were caused by the things they experienced not the bloodbending. Katara decides to use bloodbending when she's being consumed by the idea of revenge, again its not the bloodbending that caused her wish for revenge, that would be the fact that her mother was killed, her tribe attacked and basically killed off by a genocidal dictator and her father being forced to fight said dictator. None of this is caused by bloodbending. Yakone is the only one where we don't know the backstory so we can't say what happened to him (if anything).
Fans can read this however they like, but I haven't seen a single argument that actually uses things that happen in the shows.
The Fire Nation probably left the water benders alive on the off chance that they could be the Avatar. Since Aang disappeared the next Avatar in the cycle would be a water bender and killing the Avatar would mean they would have to find the next one. That is my guess at least.
Imagine being able to control every blood cell in someone’s body. You could do things like make their liver explode, stop blood flow and make their heart stop, or causing a BRAIN ANEURYSM, leading to hemorrhagic shock. What most people don’t grasp about bloodbending is that it isn’t just flat out telekinesis, your body is being moved from the INSIDE. Imagine someone with those powers at their disposal.
13:20 Oh my god I loved that you used a Full House reference! 😄
Dustin: at this point why just don't kill them?
Me: 😬
I love the metal music in the intro 😂!!!! Such a nice touch!
Ive always wondered about the medical side of blood bending, like if she were to use it to heal people. That would be so game changing and could possibly help so many people, but I also see how damaging it could be, and I don't know how the good and the bad would weigh out.
it’s just morally wrong to use bloodbending because your essentially taking away someone body autonomy, also it’s moving your blood and water around not levitating your actual body which means it HURTS BADLY if you guys end up watching Legend of Korra you’ll see just how horrible it is
Morgan: I might have committed some... light war crimes.
Sean, the editing jokes were top fucking notch. This was one of y'alls best A:TLA reactions, which is saying something.
That intro brings back memories of my high school death metal phase. 😪🤟🏻
15:35, "Bend That Lady Blood!" Lol!
I think Katara was feeling violated in some way. She felt how it was to be controlled and now she knows how to control others.
I remember Morgan predicted Bloodbending in a season 1 video and a bunch of comments were like "NO ONE SPOIL THEM!!!!"
I can see one good use for blood bending, imagine making Firelord Ozia just being made to walk his ass in to a waiting prison cell.
This episode is Metal AF.
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sean be baked as hell i love it
I'm pretty sure bloodbending wouldn't be considered a war crime simply because Hama's the one who invented it and nobody else knew it even existed.
a lot of reactors bring up pissbending. lol I think because they were kept severely dehydrated, they actually couldn't pee.
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I agree that bloodbending could be used in dire situations but on the other hand just imagine if someone used it on you. Like, for me it would feel super invasive. It's probably painful too, I mean, BLOODBENDING. And if it's physically painful, we don't know the rules but it can't be good for your body having someone messing around with something that you literally need for living.
man wish this had come out on october. perfect episode for the spooky seasons.
**watches intro** Well... that's a new reaction that big reveal...
If someone losses an arm, Katara can bloodbend the Blood back in and maybe heal it back together.
"Bloodbending"
And it was at this point that Nickeloden regretted letting the Avatar team do a Halloween episode.
Also just remember blood bending is only able to be done during a fool moon.
Love the reactions but the 2nd half of season 3 is where the shit get real, cant wait.
I can confirm that bloodbending is not mentioned in the Geneva Convention.