Each episode of The Legend of Korra has, thus far, had a recap at the beginning narrated by the radio show host/pro-bending announcer. Except episode 7. The recap at the beginning of episode 7 is done by Tarlok because the announcer was knocked unconscious at the end of the last episode during the attack on the arena and hadn't yet regained consciousness.
Aang learned Toph’s seismic sense, to a degree. At the end of the battle with Ozai, right before he takes his bending, he uses it to sense where Ozai is so he could be restrained with earth bending.
@@TheMrPeteChannel The two aren’t really related. Toph’s seismic sense was solely related to main earthbending. Theoretically, it’s something any earthbender could learn with enough talent and patience. Spoiler Metal bending is a subset of earthbending and only 1/100 could do it. Lava is even rarer. These things appear to be genetic predispositions.
As a person who has a little sister himself, I felt Korra's internal scream on a spiritual level. Nothing more embarrassing than a younger sibling spilling private tea to either friends or crushes
What I love about the Avatar series as a whole is the depth of characters they create, the fact that they allow those characters to be wrong and learn from those mistakes. The trust they have built with their fans is well earned.
It's not a spoiler since the show won't explain it, but police officers in Republic City carry spools of metal cable/wire as part of their armor/uniform and that's what they use when metalbending. So when Lin shoots and manipulates those cables, she's metalbending.
They are using techniques too, but to make use of metal efficiently Toph had what became those suits with tools designed and developed. In ATLA after all, metalbending was very crude and more literally just… well, bending metals.
@michaelgarrett139 I mean, if you want to be technical, Katara in early book 1 is effectively flailing her arms because she doesn’t know the techniques yet, and the water does stuff.
@michaelgarrett139 Have you not seen Toph bending a chunk of meteor between her hands by only moving her fingers a bit? And now you're upset the people who are trained by Toph can do that too? This is just silly nitpicking because you decided you don't like the show. Which is fine, btw, you like what you like, but this is a silly argument.
Lin, like anyone else in her position, has reasons for being as abrasive as she is. I'm glad you're able to see her as a good person with flaws, instead of automatically disliking her
@@TheMrPeteChannel Idk about mature for Azula. Watch her interactions with anyone outside of a manipulative context and you see that she had no idea what was going on or how to deal with things maturely. (Case in point: The Beach) She had to grow up faster in a tactical, fighting type way, but emotionally she had no maturity.
To answer your questions: Yes, Lin is bending the meltal she uses to hang on stuff. Toph created those to facilitate the police's job when moving around the city. And, yes, she is also a skilled earthbender like her mother. And in my opinion she is also a quick thinker as well. I love her.
Well, actually it was Lin who created cable system in the current state. Yes, it was originally Toph's idea to metalbend cables, but they were attached to the belt, but Lin modified this idea into the current armor, where cables are attached to the back and being passed through under the armor sleeves and out over the wrist. And, in the original design, there was 2 cables in total, 1 from each side, while Lin's design consists of multiple cables going through each sleeve.
I just watched the entirety of Korra for the first time just so I could keep up with your reactions... and man, did I fall in love hard with this show. So excited for what's to come!
And to answer your question, I actually really enjoy when Korra makes bad decisions or says things she shouldn't, haha. I love when they're not afraid to have a character be openly flawed and imperfect, and Korra's flaws are very in-your-face. It makes me love her so much more.
29:30 If I recall correctly, in order to become an airbending master (and get tattoos) you had to be able to do a certain amount of moves *and/or* invent a new technique. For Aang it was the air scooter, for Tenzin it's the air wheel
In actual that is how you become a master. Your master teach you basic skills which is the advance techniques your master's master taught then your master teach you advance techniques wich is your master's mastery and lastly you create your own mastery yourself and call yourself a master that you will teach your students the advance techniques as basics then teach them your mastery as advanced. That is how everything evolve, you do not start from the easiest but the hardest till there's nothing to do more but to pass onto the next successor. ... That's why you are born, grow, develop then give birth to your new stronger self(the best version of yourself)... Your child and give the hardest upbringing to make them stronger not weaker than you are.
38:30 Asami's such a badass. The way Korra, Mako and Bolin just stare at her when she pulls up in the car looking fabulous, she could've had her pick of any of them.
One thing to remember in this series, Series 1 and 2 were ordered by Nickelodeon individually, so the writers had to write those seasons as standalone miniseries. Seasons 3 and 4 were ordered together, but they had some episodes cut. You def have to look beyond some plot points getting rushed due to the constraints they had.
From what I understand Asami was meant to originally be a villain but the writers really loved her voice actress (who also played Yue in the M Night abomination) and thought they could go in a different direction, so they rewrote her character entirely. Love that they made her an absolute ass kicker, driver, and inventor as well.
It's just a tiny bit too early to have said this, but now that you have yeah. It wasn't just the voice actress, but she also immediately became a fan favorite so they scrambled to change things. So the whole meet up with Mako feeling forced and too convenient. The father being so ready to sponsor them. It really was supposed to be that she was a traitor, and instead since it changed it made us feel like we pre-judged lol.
@@Saphthings I'd very much doubt that they "scrambled" to change things. The episodes came out one week apart and it takes months to animate a single episode. They had already made the change before the fans ever saw Asami.
i have to say what i most like about your reactions is you spend a good amount of time before the reaction, telling us where your headspace is, most reactors are straight into the episodes and then give a first reaction after...its really good seeing someone telling us how they are going to the episodes after they have taken the time to digested the storyline and characters
Fun facts about Asami Sato: Asami was originally created to be an antagonist but the creators love her character they decide against it. She was going to be a spy for Equalist using Mako to get close to Korra. Imagine if this was canon😵🤔 Her voice actress was actually the same actress who portrays Princess Yue in the live action movie Asami's mother name is Yasuko Sato. Her name was never mention in the show, only recently the comics last year and have a backstory of her. Gather around children.. Its story time! Yasuko was a successful architect who designed skyscrapers in Republic City, including Future Industries' school of engineering. She met and married Hiroshi Sato, and in 152 AG she gave birth to their daughter, Asami. Asami was interested in Yasuko's projects growing up, and came into her office as she was working on blueprints for a new skyscraper. She surprised her daughter when she told her one didn't have to be a bender to build a skyscraper, and educated her on the process, and had Asami make her a model skyscraper with a small scale model of notecards. She told her daughter that she was building Future Industries' new school of engineering, and happily encouraged her daughter's aspiration when she told Yasuko that she wanted to attend the school - though noted that it would be some time before she could study engineering. Yasuko would also design the headquarters of Future Industries to be built in downtown Republic City. The design would be considered a masterpiece of innovation and artistry.
I think one of the reasons for Lin's initial attitude toward Korra is as much to do with how close she was with Aang as it was with Tenzin issues. It can't be easy to see the reincarnation of your mentor and friend.
I totally agree with your "solid female characters" comment. The list of awesome and varied female characters (from young to old) in LoK is quite extensive. Korra herself, Asami, Lin, Jinora, and Ikki come to mind instantly, but that's just the first season. The list gets longer as the show goes on. That's one of the huge reasons why I got attached to this show.
Lin is amazing. And all the things she can do make sense when you think about it. She obviously learned everything she knows from her mom. P.S. Toph was and still is my favorite character
Not sure if anyone’s said this, but I remember seeing somewhere that Appa was the last _sky_ bison, with the bison you see in Korra being _air_ bison, which are a closely related species. Which is why their colours and some other features are slightly different. Not sure if that’s actually true but makes sense to me haha
I fell in love with your Last Airbender videos, and I’m excited to watch you react to Korra now. It’s hard to find a reactor who connects deeply with the characters. I wish you could upload everyday 😭
Its sooo awesome seeing you get excited and actually scream and growl with excitement 😁🙌 The chase scene was something that blee my mind, the whole combining Bending with modern technology is just 👌... Korra is probably my favorite character in the whole Avatar Universe, BUT this show definitely shines the spotlight on strong women 💪 Old, Young, Bender, Non-Bender, Hot-Headed, Soft-Hearted, i will always be a SIMP for the women in this show 🙌
You're totally right about how much of a game-changer the more technologically advanced,1920s-esque setting is. Makes me wonder what a futuristic or even cyberpunk-style avatar story would be like.
Eh, there are a lot of challenges to doing that If you want an actual cyberpunk story and not just its aesthetic. The genre is a bleak, dystopian setting to start and it's core tenants of predatory hyper-capitalist corporations creating a horrifically imbalanced high-tech/low-life world.. would essentially mean it has to be a story where the Avatar failed in their duty for such a world to even arise. True cyberpunk stories also have, at best, bittersweet endings. It's not a genre where plucky heroes beat the system, it's a warning of what happens when the system has already won before the story even started and the narrative is just about watching the characters trying to cope with that and scratch whatever small amount of pleasure they can from life before inevitably being consumed by said system. That doesn't really jive with the pretty lighthearted and hopeful Avatar franchise. Also given how much of the Avatar's role depends on how far above everyone else their Avatar-given bending puts them in terms of raw physical power.. I feel like the tech of even a near-future cyberpunk world would pretty heavily undermine the Avatar's impact. Bending itself seems to struggle pretty heavily just with 1920's esque technology in Korra. Like forget Aang being one-shot by a bolt of lightning from a once in a generation prodigy, what does the Avatar do in world where any trained soldier could achieve the same level of destructive power but from two miles away with a scoped rifle? What does the ability to bend earth or water mean in a world of brief-case nukes, corporate espionage and netrunners? There's definitely interesting things you could do with it, I just don't know if this is a franchise that would want to do them.
@@troikas3353 Oh, I don't disagree with any of that, but I can't help but wonder. Maybe not full cyberpunk, then, but certainly some kind of super-futuristic setting could be intriguing, though many of your points would still apply.
Master Jeong Jeong: "Water brings healing and life. But Fire brings only destruction and pain. It forces those of us burdened with its care to walk a razor's edge between humanity and savagery. Eventually, we're torn apart." Its so easy to wonder why its always a firebender but for them its so easy to accidentally hurt someone or worse. Great reaction, thank you for all you do.
So glad I found this channel. Loving your reactions to this thus far. Your insight to Korra based on your experiences as a teenager are great to hear. Taking notes as I see a lot of Korra in my 7 year old daughter. God help me 🤣🤣🤣
"If you're a non-bender you shouldn't fear Aman" First they came for the fire-benders and I said nothing as I wasn't one. Then they came for the... you know how it goes. One should always fear the power hungry.
Been loving your reactions to LoK so far! Episode 8 was a huge game changer, and I think it's the one that got me permanently hooked on the series. Also, man, I forgot how amazing the music is in this series. From start to finish, every track that plays is an eargasm.
28:58 Toph taught that move to Aang as well , she trained him by binding his eyes and throwing rocks at him , remember . and in the finale, Aang used that same move to defeat the fire lord 🙂 ruclips.net/video/5mgiBlxyKIE/видео.html ( aang leans to see with feet) ruclips.net/video/kXShLPXfWZA/видео.html (aang uses the technique on Ozai)
Hiroshi Sato isn't Daniel Dae Kim's fist role in this franchise. He played General Fong, the Earth Kingdom general who tried to convince Aang to focus on learning to control the Avatar state at the beginning of book 2 in ATLA
I have 4 daughters [all adults now] and I'll say that based on my daughters' teen years, I relate. Each of my daughters were different but all of them had aspects of Korra [and Asami] in them to one degree or another. No exact matches, but similarities. If I mix the memories of all 4, then I get real close to a mix of Korra and Asami.
Put it into perspective like this. Aang and Toph were both 12, Katara was 14, Sokka was 15, Zuko was 16, and Azula was 14. Yes, Azula was 14. Korra is 17 right now, Mako is 18, and Bolin is 17, Asami is also 18.
56:18 I was the opposite as a teenager. I was too concerned about consequences, so I never took any risks. My father expected perfection from me, so I never took a step where failure was a possibility, and, looking back, I missed out on so much...
You mention how much you recognize your young self in Ikki. As someone who used to be a 5 year old boy, they hit the right marks with Meelo. Little boys like fart jokes. Heck grown ass men like fart jokes. Point is they put just as much thought into him as they did the girls.
Korra is --and grows up to be-- a much better person than I am. I wasn't on board with Aang's entire show initially. My initial impression had been that the show was trying too hard to be "an anime." It won me over in spite of myself. Korra's show was easier to appreciate: she's older, but quite new to the world that was at once familiar to me (from Aang's days) but was also changing. There were times I wanted to hold her by the shoulders and shake some sense into her because she was being a dumb teenager the way I had been. Other times I wanted to comfort her (from an appropriate distance) because I knew her interpersonal pain. Stay on the journey with her, ma'am. It will surprise you.
I consider both theses shows as anime. ATLA was animated in Korea. You don't have to be Italian to make pizza. You don't have to be black to play basketball. You can make anime & not be Japanese.
While listening to the intro discussion, it reminded me about a post I saw about ATLA. At first, water bending was seen as a source of life and healing, and fire was a source of destruction. In book 3, we ended up learning how fire is also life and energy, but water is also deadly(blood bending). Also, poor cabbage corp 😂
The hardest thing about hearing Tenzin's kids talking about "Grandpa Aang" is that... Jinora is seven years younger than Korra. Aang never met his airbending grandkids. Also I love how Korra was just as open mouth shocked as Mako when Asami took down stick dude lol
When I first watched this series I was a teenager I kinda fell in love with korra... 😳😳😳so I also tgink that the girls of this shoow been written very good
It's cool that you relate so much to Korra. I was a teenage girl once, but I was one much more like Jinora (approximating age). Korra does have a lot to deal with. In addition to the hormones and figuring out what she wants, there's the way being the Avatar has changed, and the world has changed. Even if she were having better success with connecting to her past lives, I don't think they could tell her how to be the Avatar when everything you say or do is on the radios and in the papers almost as soon as it happens. How to be both public and publicized and only sixteen years old. It's also a thing that from the time she was discovered to just a few weeks or months ago, she *never left the White Lotus enclave.* She has been completely sheltered from the outside world, and now it's coming at her all at once. Re: Korra and Asami, they're very fair and gracious to each other, for the most part. There was the time when Korra made a move on Asami's boyfriend, but he was a participant in that, and I think they both regretted it. Asami is now aware her relationship might not be completely safe, but she isn't taking it out on Korra. And yes, it is incredibly refreshing that two girls interested in the same boy aren't reflexively horrible to one another. Korra gave Asami a chance and came to like her; Asami made an effort to be friends with her boyfriend's friend. Classy moves on both sides. Mostly. Mako is the one who looks bad: accusing Korra doing her duty of acting out of jealousy and delivering an ultimatum, then having to be told by Korra to stop talking to Korra and go be a good boyfriend to the amazing, stand-up girl who just rejected her father's crimes and became poor and homeless in one go.
Mako definitely doesn’t come out of Books 1 & 2 looking the best; he’s not the only one, but the fanbase as a whole turned on him impressively quickly. Ironically so for his namesake… even on the DVD Commentary they referenced it!
Hiroshi and Asami Sato are only the second group of people we've met in the entire series who have last names. The others are the Beifong family. Apparently in order to have a surname, you need to be super mega rich.
Setting up Mr Gan Lan's Cabbage Corp as Amon's backer is a nice continuity. It "makes sense" for him to be a prime suspect since we know that The Cabbage Merchant would not have had nice things to say about benders making life hard for him. Gan Lan is also a type of Chinese cabbage.
just in case you did not read that last time : ♫♫♫♫ Lin Beifong Lin Beifong shoots her cables they are strong She comes down from the skies catches thieves just like spies watch out Tophs daughter Lin Beifong pow pow pow ♫♫♫♫ to be sang to the title melody to spiderman.
I genuinely love Korra as a character. And she only gets better and more layered as the series goes. By the end I think she's really only outdone by Zuko in terms of character growth. I'm sure some mfs would argue with me about that though
She'd likely be more widely appreciated if it weren't for season two. All the seasons have their own problems but the effects of Nickelodeon screwing with the studio are most glaring in S2 and unfortunately the character of Korra herself suffers the most from the complete mess that season was.
I think most people hate her, because they want to see a hero with no mental breakdown, who doesn't loose any fight. But it was important to show her loose to kuvira to show how broken a person can when they are fighting their own minds. Its one of hardest, loneliest battle a person can fight. Its frustrating for us to see her loose, then think how frustrating it can be for people who are actually fighting it. I applaud the creators for showing her mental breakdown.
Kaia is what katara was called in the original pilot, they had to change her name to katara because there was a character called that in another show. They really liked the name Kaia so they used it for kataras daughter
Kya was from a video game and the studio feared that the other character would become too popular and make things awkward. Ended up binge watching much the ofher way around. Avatar was the overwhelming smash hit and being scared of a lawsuit with Kya dark liniage is the only reason i know that the game exists.
I’ve been so happy to see you reacting to this series too! Of course the original series will always be the original, but I feel like this series did a pretty great job overall of continuing the story and paying homage to the original while still being its own thing. I’m looking forward to seeing your reactions to the rest of the season/series!
One thing that I love about Tenzin is that while his main utility on the show is as a wise father figure, he really can whoop some butt when he needs to. He's kind of the Iroh of the show in that way.
Watching Korra again made me realise how much neurodivergent coded Ikki is. I used to find her kinda forgettable in comparision to Jinora and Meelo, but now she's kinda becoming my favorite of the trio.
The rage I felt I my heart when that dickhead turned the power off for the non benders in winter. It’s literally freezing out there! There’s snow on the ground they can’t breathe fire the power is vital!
I absolutely love watching you react to Avatar the last airbender and the legend of Korra because I’ve been watching both since I was little and so it’s fun knowing that there’s other people in the world that love it as much as me! ❤
Fun Fact Asami was originally supposed to join her father or just be evil all along and fake her relationship with Mako. However, she became such a beloved character with test audiences and so on that they changed the episode to make it to where she joins team Avatar and she became a huge part of the show going forward.
11:36 We've seen Tarlok waterbend briefly before this episode... It was when he, Korra, and the rest of the task force raided a chi-blocker training facility...
Not only did Sato make the weapon that took him down, but he also put the person (whom used his creation against him) through self-defense courses. I find it very interesting that Sato funded his own demise.
I remember watching this on Nick when I was just a kid, I kid you guys not my jaw dropped when it was revealed that Tarrlok was a bloodbender. I was 11 when Korra first aired and now I’m 23, where has the time gone? Heck I was only 8 when Sozin’s Comet aired and that’s the only Last Airbender episode I remember watching the day it aired.
i assume the reason why it's primarily firebenders killing people is because they have the advantage of the element, aside air, it's the only element always available to the bender.
If that is indeed the same cabbage guy, he might be one of the oldest characters we know in lok, he had to be at least 30 in the original series so he’s around 100 now
I think that was the first time tanho and his team cheated just going how everyone reacted. People were shocked about the cheating, if they regularly cheated everyone would be like oh there they go cheating again like they always do.
@@lilunette9319yeah but then why is everyone so surprised like this is something they haven’t seen before when if they had just cheated they would have seen it literally in the last match.
@@lilunette9319notice how I said everyone not just team avatar, so the people that did watch the match like you know the announcer and the audience. Lol that Amon quote don’t help you at all since ya know we saw when they cheated and he could just be talking about them cheating against team avatar. Hell maybe even Amon and and Hiroshi were the ones that paid for Tahno and them to cheat so they could make that cheater speech.
It never occurred to me that Appa and Momo might have been the last of their species. I assumed that without the monks the Air Temples were not capable of sustaining them. The Bison who knew and loved their monks may have lingered for sentimental reasons, but later generations would have migrated somewhere warmer, with more to eat.
alot of people gloss over the fact that only the avatar can tell other benders what the other elements truly feel like . a firebender will never understand how water bending feels..
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The comedic timing of "well, you still have blood... I wonder if he knows about that?" cannot be understated.
Each episode of The Legend of Korra has, thus far, had a recap at the beginning narrated by the radio show host/pro-bending announcer. Except episode 7. The recap at the beginning of episode 7 is done by Tarlok because the announcer was knocked unconscious at the end of the last episode during the attack on the arena and hadn't yet regained consciousness.
Oh I never thought about that wow
Aang learned Toph’s seismic sense, to a degree. At the end of the battle with Ozai, right before he takes his bending, he uses it to sense where Ozai is so he could be restrained with earth bending.
He uses it a couple of times. There’s a training scene, possibly in the runaway, where Aang is practicing it
@@Archius9 I think it is the Runaway... because Aang dodges the attack which then set off Toph and Katara fighting...
It's stupid that Bryke gave Aang seismic sense but....
Spoiler below......
He was never able to....
Metal bend.
@@TheMrPeteChannel The two aren’t really related. Toph’s seismic sense was solely related to main earthbending. Theoretically, it’s something any earthbender could learn with enough talent and patience. Spoiler
Metal bending is a subset of earthbending and only 1/100 could do it. Lava is even rarer. These things appear to be genetic predispositions.
@@TheMrPeteChannel avatars don’t have to have every ability
"Not my Cabbage Corp.!" I laughed *so* hard.
The cabbage guy is really inspiring. After all those destructions he still manage to be sucess.
@@keyboardevangelisthe truly is. lol
It's his son or grandson.
As a person who has a little sister himself, I felt Korra's internal scream on a spiritual level. Nothing more embarrassing than a younger sibling spilling private tea to either friends or crushes
As a younger brother, I've done that XD
Yet its one of the most lame and hated and anime trope bs things in the show that most fans agree is trash.
Well Korra should know better than to tell her love life to a bunch of pre-teens.
I think the internal scream was external. 😂😂
No@@michaelgarrett139
What I love about the Avatar series as a whole is the depth of characters they create, the fact that they allow those characters to be wrong and learn from those mistakes. The trust they have built with their fans is well earned.
Who learned what and then changed/adapted cuz of it?
'I wonder if he knows about-- I WASN"T SERIOUS!' wonderful moment of reaction :D
It's not a spoiler since the show won't explain it, but police officers in Republic City carry spools of metal cable/wire as part of their armor/uniform and that's what they use when metalbending. So when Lin shoots and manipulates those cables, she's metalbending.
Thought bending needed the kungfu to move the element? Now its just flail limbs and things move psychically?
They are using techniques too, but to make use of metal efficiently Toph had what became those suits with tools designed and developed. In ATLA after all, metalbending was very crude and more literally just… well, bending metals.
@michaelgarrett139 I mean, if you want to be technical, Katara in early book 1 is effectively flailing her arms because she doesn’t know the techniques yet, and the water does stuff.
@michaelgarrett139
Have you not seen Toph bending a chunk of meteor between her hands by only moving her fingers a bit?
And now you're upset the people who are trained by Toph can do that too?
This is just silly nitpicking because you decided you don't like the show. Which is fine, btw, you like what you like, but this is a silly argument.
@@Magere-KwarkI'm not a fan of Korra either, but yeah, metal wires are okay in my book.
The amount of times she said "Asumi" in that recap has me dying 😂
I died inside re-watching it 😂
It's understandable, she kept mixing her up with her grandmother Yueko.
Lin, like anyone else in her position, has reasons for being as abrasive as she is. I'm glad you're able to see her as a good person with flaws, instead of automatically disliking her
She's my hero
@@funnylilgalreactsyou may be there or past it on Patreon (& tbh it's not a spoiler) but that's something you have in common with Meelo 😊
Of all the characters who could be referenced, I'm so glad cabbage man is one of them to be referenced.
They really capture the differences between 7, 10, 13, and 17y old personalities.
They really do
Korra is a childish 17 year old bending prodigy while Azula was a mature 14 year old bending prodigy.
@@TheMrPeteChannel nah
@@TheMrPeteChannel If by "mature" you mean "insane" then sure.
@@TheMrPeteChannel Idk about mature for Azula. Watch her interactions with anyone outside of a manipulative context and you see that she had no idea what was going on or how to deal with things maturely. (Case in point: The Beach) She had to grow up faster in a tactical, fighting type way, but emotionally she had no maturity.
To answer your questions: Yes, Lin is bending the meltal she uses to hang on stuff. Toph created those to facilitate the police's job when moving around the city.
And, yes, she is also a skilled earthbender like her mother. And in my opinion she is also a quick thinker as well. I love her.
Well, actually it was Lin who created cable system in the current state. Yes, it was originally Toph's idea to metalbend cables, but they were attached to the belt, but Lin modified this idea into the current armor, where cables are attached to the back and being passed through under the armor sleeves and out over the wrist. And, in the original design, there was 2 cables in total, 1 from each side, while Lin's design consists of multiple cables going through each sleeve.
I just watched the entirety of Korra for the first time just so I could keep up with your reactions... and man, did I fall in love hard with this show. So excited for what's to come!
And to answer your question, I actually really enjoy when Korra makes bad decisions or says things she shouldn't, haha. I love when they're not afraid to have a character be openly flawed and imperfect, and Korra's flaws are very in-your-face. It makes me love her so much more.
@@SleawzorOmg, you are so me xd
I love and prefer her because she is imperfect and that makes her more relatable.
"You can't use bending against people who aren't benders"
Sokka, slayer of Combustion Man, has entered the chat
Ty Lee and Mai, destroyers of Azula's sanity, have also entered the chat
Suki waiting at the corner with her fans
Fun fact. Tenzin’s voice actor also won an Oscar.
and he still wants pictures of spider-man!!
And Katara's
He was also a great villain in the HBO show Oz.
29:30 If I recall correctly, in order to become an airbending master (and get tattoos) you had to be able to do a certain amount of moves *and/or* invent a new technique. For Aang it was the air scooter, for Tenzin it's the air wheel
I believe aang even mastered all the skills he’d need to be granted his tattoos except one, then he created his own lol. Real gifted kid stuff haha
In actual that is how you become a master.
Your master teach you basic skills which is the advance techniques your master's master taught then your master teach you advance techniques wich is your master's mastery and lastly you create your own mastery yourself and call yourself a master that you will teach your students the advance techniques as basics then teach them your mastery as advanced.
That is how everything evolve, you do not start from the easiest but the hardest till there's nothing to do more but to pass onto the next successor.
...
That's why you are born, grow, develop then give birth to your new stronger self(the best version of yourself)... Your child and give the hardest upbringing to make them stronger not weaker than you are.
I still admire how well the show has aged visually. it holds up so well still. also the music is everything to me
Love the reactions by the way!
38:30
Asami's such a badass. The way Korra, Mako and Bolin just stare at her when she pulls up in the car looking fabulous, she could've had her pick of any of them.
“NO! Not My Cabbage Corp!”
You got to love a good running gag.😂
"She's great! Be friends with her! ... Unless she's awful and I don't know it yet!"
It's like highschool all over again
"-sneeze- see? I can airbend, too!"
😂😂 girl you're too much
One thing to remember in this series, Series 1 and 2 were ordered by Nickelodeon individually, so the writers had to write those seasons as standalone miniseries. Seasons 3 and 4 were ordered together, but they had some episodes cut. You def have to look beyond some plot points getting rushed due to the constraints they had.
They had their budget cut, but we’re still obligated to make the episode count. How they did so… wait and see, Angela!
From what I understand Asami was meant to originally be a villain but the writers really loved her voice actress (who also played Yue in the M Night abomination) and thought they could go in a different direction, so they rewrote her character entirely.
Love that they made her an absolute ass kicker, driver, and inventor as well.
It's just a tiny bit too early to have said this, but now that you have yeah. It wasn't just the voice actress, but she also immediately became a fan favorite so they scrambled to change things. So the whole meet up with Mako feeling forced and too convenient. The father being so ready to sponsor them. It really was supposed to be that she was a traitor, and instead since it changed it made us feel like we pre-judged lol.
(there is no M. Night abomination in BaSingSe)
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@@Saphthings I'd very much doubt that they "scrambled" to change things. The episodes came out one week apart and it takes months to animate a single episode. They had already made the change before the fans ever saw Asami.
@@carlosbermudez537Joo Dee?
i have to say what i most like about your reactions is you spend a good amount of time before the reaction, telling us where your headspace is, most reactors are straight into the episodes and then give a first reaction after...its really good seeing someone telling us how they are going to the episodes after they have taken the time to digested the storyline and characters
Oh my goodness. 3 korra reaction videos in 1 week? Time to get the popcorn.
Fun facts about Asami Sato:
Asami was originally created to be an antagonist but the creators love her character they decide against it. She was going to be a spy for Equalist using Mako to get close to Korra. Imagine if this was canon😵🤔
Her voice actress was actually the same actress who portrays Princess Yue in the live action movie
Asami's mother name is Yasuko Sato. Her name was never mention in the show, only recently the comics last year and have a backstory of her. Gather around children.. Its story time!
Yasuko was a successful architect who designed skyscrapers in Republic City, including Future Industries' school of engineering. She met and married Hiroshi Sato, and in 152 AG she gave birth to their daughter, Asami.
Asami was interested in Yasuko's projects growing up, and came into her office as she was working on blueprints for a new skyscraper. She surprised her daughter when she told her one didn't have to be a bender to build a skyscraper, and educated her on the process, and had Asami make her a model skyscraper with a small scale model of notecards. She told her daughter that she was building Future Industries' new school of engineering, and happily encouraged her daughter's aspiration when she told Yasuko that she wanted to attend the school - though noted that it would be some time before she could study engineering.
Yasuko would also design the headquarters of Future Industries to be built in downtown Republic City. The design would be considered a masterpiece of innovation and artistry.
thanks for this! 👍🏼
I think one of the reasons for Lin's initial attitude toward Korra is as much to do with how close she was with Aang as it was with Tenzin issues.
It can't be easy to see the reincarnation of your mentor and friend.
I totally agree with your "solid female characters" comment. The list of awesome and varied female characters (from young to old) in LoK is quite extensive. Korra herself, Asami, Lin, Jinora, and Ikki come to mind instantly, but that's just the first season. The list gets longer as the show goes on. That's one of the huge reasons why I got attached to this show.
Lin is amazing. And all the things she can do make sense when you think about it. She obviously learned everything she knows from her mom. P.S. Toph was and still is my favorite character
Wait... did they make Tahno pronounce Avatar in that way as a dig at the movie? That's funny!
It triggered me 😂
@@funnylilgalreacts To be fair, you say Asumi instead of a Asami a lot ;) (Doesn't bother me, its just funny)
That's the first time I considered that! Now I'm curious.
Not sure if anyone’s said this, but I remember seeing somewhere that Appa was the last _sky_ bison, with the bison you see in Korra being _air_ bison, which are a closely related species. Which is why their colours and some other features are slightly different.
Not sure if that’s actually true but makes sense to me haha
I can't say anymore than this, but they ARE sky bison too. They explain it later in the series how they survived the 100 year war.
Ikki called them sky bison in this episode.
I fell in love with your Last Airbender videos, and I’m excited to watch you react to Korra now. It’s hard to find a reactor who connects deeply with the characters. I wish you could upload everyday 😭
Its sooo awesome seeing you get excited and actually scream and growl with excitement 😁🙌 The chase scene was something that blee my mind, the whole combining Bending with modern technology is just 👌... Korra is probably my favorite character in the whole Avatar Universe, BUT this show definitely shines the spotlight on strong women 💪 Old, Young, Bender, Non-Bender, Hot-Headed, Soft-Hearted, i will always be a SIMP for the women in this show 🙌
"I really love Lin Beifong. I REALLY love Lin Beifong." we definitely know her type lol same, girl. same.
You're totally right about how much of a game-changer the more technologically advanced,1920s-esque setting is. Makes me wonder what a futuristic or even cyberpunk-style avatar story would be like.
Eh, there are a lot of challenges to doing that If you want an actual cyberpunk story and not just its aesthetic. The genre is a bleak, dystopian setting to start and it's core tenants of predatory hyper-capitalist corporations creating a horrifically imbalanced high-tech/low-life world.. would essentially mean it has to be a story where the Avatar failed in their duty for such a world to even arise. True cyberpunk stories also have, at best, bittersweet endings. It's not a genre where plucky heroes beat the system, it's a warning of what happens when the system has already won before the story even started and the narrative is just about watching the characters trying to cope with that and scratch whatever small amount of pleasure they can from life before inevitably being consumed by said system. That doesn't really jive with the pretty lighthearted and hopeful Avatar franchise.
Also given how much of the Avatar's role depends on how far above everyone else their Avatar-given bending puts them in terms of raw physical power.. I feel like the tech of even a near-future cyberpunk world would pretty heavily undermine the Avatar's impact. Bending itself seems to struggle pretty heavily just with 1920's esque technology in Korra. Like forget Aang being one-shot by a bolt of lightning from a once in a generation prodigy, what does the Avatar do in world where any trained soldier could achieve the same level of destructive power but from two miles away with a scoped rifle? What does the ability to bend earth or water mean in a world of brief-case nukes, corporate espionage and netrunners?
There's definitely interesting things you could do with it, I just don't know if this is a franchise that would want to do them.
@@troikas3353 Oh, I don't disagree with any of that, but I can't help but wonder. Maybe not full cyberpunk, then, but certainly some kind of super-futuristic setting could be intriguing, though many of your points would still apply.
Master Jeong Jeong: "Water brings healing and life. But Fire brings only destruction and pain. It forces those of us burdened with its care to walk a razor's edge between humanity and savagery. Eventually, we're torn apart." Its so easy to wonder why its always a firebender but for them its so easy to accidentally hurt someone or worse.
Great reaction, thank you for all you do.
THE BLOODBENDING JOKE AND THEN IMMEDIATE “WAIT I WAS KIDDING” LMAOOO
Lets go! Love that you got into this series. I couldn't help the nostalgia and started to rewatch it 🤣
So glad I found this channel. Loving your reactions to this thus far. Your insight to Korra based on your experiences as a teenager are great to hear. Taking notes as I see a lot of Korra in my 7 year old daughter. God help me 🤣🤣🤣
"If you're a non-bender you shouldn't fear Aman"
First they came for the fire-benders and I said nothing as I wasn't one.
Then they came for the... you know how it goes. One should always fear the power hungry.
Been loving your reactions to LoK so far! Episode 8 was a huge game changer, and I think it's the one that got me permanently hooked on the series.
Also, man, I forgot how amazing the music is in this series. From start to finish, every track that plays is an eargasm.
28:58 Toph taught that move to Aang as well , she trained him by binding his eyes and throwing rocks at him , remember . and in the finale, Aang used that same move to defeat the
fire lord 🙂
ruclips.net/video/5mgiBlxyKIE/видео.html ( aang leans to see with feet)
ruclips.net/video/kXShLPXfWZA/видео.html (aang uses the technique on Ozai)
Really glad to see you enjoying this series, especially when it had such a rough reception when it debuted.
35:37 Tarrlok: "how is your airbending training going?"
Angela: "complete *breeze*"
Nice pun 😄
Hiroshi Sato isn't Daniel Dae Kim's fist role in this franchise. He played General Fong, the Earth Kingdom general who tried to convince Aang to focus on learning to control the Avatar state at the beginning of book 2 in ATLA
I have 4 daughters [all adults now] and I'll say that based on my daughters' teen years, I relate. Each of my daughters were different but all of them had aspects of Korra [and Asami] in them to one degree or another. No exact matches, but similarities. If I mix the memories of all 4, then I get real close to a mix of Korra and Asami.
Put it into perspective like this. Aang and Toph were both 12, Katara was 14, Sokka was 15, Zuko was 16, and Azula was 14. Yes, Azula was 14.
Korra is 17 right now, Mako is 18, and Bolin is 17, Asami is also 18.
I always call Aangs friends The Gaang and so do many in the fandom! So I don't mind the team avatar. Loved the reaction as always!
44:28 i love how this little mock by Tenzin has so much Katara in it :D
56:18 I was the opposite as a teenager. I was too concerned about consequences, so I never took any risks. My father expected perfection from me, so I never took a step where failure was a possibility, and, looking back, I missed out on so much...
You mention how much you recognize your young self in Ikki. As someone who used to be a 5 year old boy, they hit the right marks with Meelo. Little boys like fart jokes. Heck grown ass men like fart jokes. Point is they put just as much thought into him as they did the girls.
Korra is --and grows up to be-- a much better person than I am. I wasn't on board with Aang's entire show initially. My initial impression had been that the show was trying too hard to be "an anime." It won me over in spite of myself. Korra's show was easier to appreciate: she's older, but quite new to the world that was at once familiar to me (from Aang's days) but was also changing. There were times I wanted to hold her by the shoulders and shake some sense into her because she was being a dumb teenager the way I had been. Other times I wanted to comfort her (from an appropriate distance) because I knew her interpersonal pain. Stay on the journey with her, ma'am. It will surprise you.
I consider both theses shows as anime. ATLA was animated in Korea. You don't have to be Italian to make pizza. You don't have to be black to play basketball. You can make anime & not be Japanese.
@@TheMrPeteChannel the animation is korea doesn’t really affect it, family guy does that and they aren’t an anime
While listening to the intro discussion, it reminded me about a post I saw about ATLA. At first, water bending was seen as a source of life and healing, and fire was a source of destruction. In book 3, we ended up learning how fire is also life and energy, but water is also deadly(blood bending).
Also, poor cabbage corp 😂
The hardest thing about hearing Tenzin's kids talking about "Grandpa Aang" is that... Jinora is seven years younger than Korra. Aang never met his airbending grandkids.
Also I love how Korra was just as open mouth shocked as Mako when Asami took down stick dude lol
When I first watched this series I was a teenager I kinda fell in love with korra... 😳😳😳so I also tgink that the girls of this shoow been written very good
It's cool that you relate so much to Korra. I was a teenage girl once, but I was one much more like Jinora (approximating age).
Korra does have a lot to deal with. In addition to the hormones and figuring out what she wants, there's the way being the Avatar has changed, and the world has changed. Even if she were having better success with connecting to her past lives, I don't think they could tell her how to be the Avatar when everything you say or do is on the radios and in the papers almost as soon as it happens. How to be both public and publicized and only sixteen years old. It's also a thing that from the time she was discovered to just a few weeks or months ago, she *never left the White Lotus enclave.* She has been completely sheltered from the outside world, and now it's coming at her all at once.
Re: Korra and Asami, they're very fair and gracious to each other, for the most part. There was the time when Korra made a move on Asami's boyfriend, but he was a participant in that, and I think they both regretted it. Asami is now aware her relationship might not be completely safe, but she isn't taking it out on Korra. And yes, it is incredibly refreshing that two girls interested in the same boy aren't reflexively horrible to one another. Korra gave Asami a chance and came to like her; Asami made an effort to be friends with her boyfriend's friend. Classy moves on both sides. Mostly. Mako is the one who looks bad: accusing Korra doing her duty of acting out of jealousy and delivering an ultimatum, then having to be told by Korra to stop talking to Korra and go be a good boyfriend to the amazing, stand-up girl who just rejected her father's crimes and became poor and homeless in one go.
Mako definitely doesn’t come out of Books 1 & 2 looking the best; he’s not the only one, but the fanbase as a whole turned on him impressively quickly. Ironically so for his namesake… even on the DVD Commentary they referenced it!
Fun fact: the Mecha Tanks here were inspired by the Big Daddies from BioShock.
If you need a name for the "New Team Avatar", the fandom nicknamed them "the Krew".
"Krew"? Wasn't that the name of the tertiary antagonist of Jak II?
@@MatthewJamesKalaskyguess that makes Korra, Mako, Bolin & Asami the "Kore Four".
I thought they were the Losers cause they lose 98% of the physical and emotional fight
Spoiler below.....
Spirit Angel Jinora to the rescue!
@@leprovokateur7745”wow you guys lose a lot” - Suki to the Gaang
Hiroshi and Asami Sato are only the second group of people we've met in the entire series who have last names. The others are the Beifong family. Apparently in order to have a surname, you need to be super mega rich.
Setting up Mr Gan Lan's Cabbage Corp as Amon's backer is a nice continuity. It "makes sense" for him to be a prime suspect since we know that The Cabbage Merchant would not have had nice things to say about benders making life hard for him.
Gan Lan is also a type of Chinese cabbage.
just in case you did not read that last time
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♫♫♫♫
Lin Beifong
Lin Beifong
shoots her cables
they are strong
She comes down
from the skies
catches thieves
just like spies
watch out
Tophs daughter Lin Beifong
pow pow pow
♫♫♫♫
to be sang to the title melody to spiderman.
I genuinely love Korra as a character. And she only gets better and more layered as the series goes. By the end I think she's really only outdone by Zuko in terms of character growth. I'm sure some mfs would argue with me about that though
She'd likely be more widely appreciated if it weren't for season two. All the seasons have their own problems but the effects of Nickelodeon screwing with the studio are most glaring in S2 and unfortunately the character of Korra herself suffers the most from the complete mess that season was.
@@troikas3353How? I see a lot of change in her in Book 2.
Love her too.
And for me is it the opposite, I think Zuko is only outdone by Korra.
But the point is that she is amazing.
I think most people hate her, because they want to see a hero with no mental breakdown, who doesn't loose any fight. But it was important to show her loose to kuvira to show how broken a person can when they are fighting their own minds. Its one of hardest, loneliest battle a person can fight. Its frustrating for us to see her loose, then think how frustrating it can be for people who are actually fighting it. I applaud the creators for showing her mental breakdown.
Kaia is what katara was called in the original pilot, they had to change her name to katara because there was a character called that in another show. They really liked the name Kaia so they used it for kataras daughter
Kya was from a video game and the studio feared that the other character would become too popular and make things awkward. Ended up binge watching much the ofher way around. Avatar was the overwhelming smash hit and being scared of a lawsuit with Kya dark liniage is the only reason i know that the game exists.
I've been waiting for you to see Lin use her Earth/metal bending sense like Toph did. I knew you'd love it! :)
I’m glad you’re bashing these out 2 at a time because I’m so excited to see you get through it. Some episodes and scenes in this show are perfect
I’ve been so happy to see you reacting to this series too! Of course the original series will always be the original, but I feel like this series did a pretty great job overall of continuing the story and paying homage to the original while still being its own thing. I’m looking forward to seeing your reactions to the rest of the season/series!
36:20 Best airbending ever.
😂
"Kora's dope, Asami's dope, Lin is dope!"
....
Mako's a dope
One thing that I love about Tenzin is that while his main utility on the show is as a wise father figure, he really can whoop some butt when he needs to. He's kind of the Iroh of the show in that way.
"I grew up in Michigan, it might as well have been the arctic"
😂 love it.
Pro bowling omg I laughed so hard at that 😂😂😂😂
Watching Korra again made me realise how much neurodivergent coded Ikki is. I used to find her kinda forgettable in comparision to Jinora and Meelo, but now she's kinda becoming my favorite of the trio.
46:43 the timing is perfection 😂
The rage I felt I my heart when that dickhead turned the power off for the non benders in winter. It’s literally freezing out there! There’s snow on the ground they can’t breathe fire the power is vital!
“Dumb girl tension over a dumb boy.” On behalf of my gender,”Hey!”
I absolutely love watching you react to Avatar the last airbender and the legend of Korra because I’ve been watching both since I was little and so it’s fun knowing that there’s other people in the world that love it as much as me! ❤
I can't, I love her reactions!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
Fun Fact Asami was originally supposed to join her father or just be evil all along and fake her relationship with Mako. However, she became such a beloved character with test audiences and so on that they changed the episode to make it to where she joins team Avatar and she became a huge part of the show going forward.
Gald i found another fan of Lin. I really like her and we just never get enough of her.
Mako is my favorite character 🔥🙌
11:36 We've seen Tarlok waterbend briefly before this episode...
It was when he, Korra, and the rest of the task force raided a chi-blocker training facility...
Even though I knew what was going to happen, when Asami takes the glove, then whispers, "I love you dad," right before zapping him makes me cry.
Not only did Sato make the weapon that took him down, but he also put the person (whom used his creation against him) through self-defense courses.
I find it very interesting that Sato funded his own demise.
I remember watching this on Nick when I was just a kid, I kid you guys not my jaw dropped when it was revealed that Tarrlok was a bloodbender. I was 11 when Korra first aired and now I’m 23, where has the time gone? Heck I was only 8 when Sozin’s Comet aired and that’s the only Last Airbender episode I remember watching the day it aired.
22:00 "Don't bend babies!"
Toddler yoga instructors: pikachu face
The Korra team is usually called the Krew (like the Gaang) so that would be a nice little defrintiator
Love the glasses! 🖤
i assume the reason why it's primarily firebenders killing people is because they have the advantage of the element, aside air, it's the only element always available to the bender.
2 videos in one day! What a treat! Thank you.
Its always funny to see Tenzin 😂 watching him tryng to be calm like Aang, but always getting angry like Katara
If that is indeed the same cabbage guy, he might be one of the oldest characters we know in lok, he had to be at least 30 in the original series so he’s around 100 now
probably his son or grandson
Dude had fully gray hair in the original
@@joshuajordan6278 Yh he did, that completely failed to cross my mind, it’s probably his son then
@@mranima748Lau Gan-Lan is the name of the cabbage merchant's kid.
"She has blood though, wonder if he knows about that?"
Tarlock:So anyway I started blood bending
22:25 The notorious Anthony Firebender strikes again!
I think that was the first time tanho and his team cheated just going how everyone reacted. People were shocked about the cheating, if they regularly cheated everyone would be like oh there they go cheating again like they always do.
@@lilunette9319yeah but then why is everyone so surprised like this is something they haven’t seen before when if they had just cheated they would have seen it literally in the last match.
@@lilunette9319notice how I said everyone not just team avatar, so the people that did watch the match like you know the announcer and the audience. Lol that Amon quote don’t help you at all since ya know we saw when they cheated and he could just be talking about them cheating against team avatar. Hell maybe even Amon and and Hiroshi were the ones that paid for Tahno and them to cheat so they could make that cheater speech.
Imagine the balls you must have to try to spin a convertible car while racing your boss' daughter and the avatar
That man is an equalist for sure
I love Korra. I can't say she is my favorite avatar since it's hard to top the first.
34:10 Top Ten (not) Anime Betrayals
It never occurred to me that Appa and Momo might have been the last of their species. I assumed that without the monks the Air Temples were not capable of sustaining them. The Bison who knew and loved their monks may have lingered for sentimental reasons, but later generations would have migrated somewhere warmer, with more to eat.
alot of people gloss over the fact that only the avatar can tell other benders what the other elements truly feel like . a firebender will never understand how water bending feels..