BLOODBENDING TIME! | Part 48 | "The Puppetmaster" | Avatar with Montana for Her First Time
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- We have finally arrived at the INTRODUCTION TO BLOODBENDING WITH HAMA! This episode was SPOOKY, and Montana's prediction back in the swamp episode finally came true!
Avatar, Book 3, Episode 8, "The Puppetmaster"
Next part, "Nightmares and Daydreams," coming on Thursday, 9/24 at 12 pm est!
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But that's the thing with Hama, she IS nice. She does these nice things for them genuinely out of the kindness of her heart. But that woman is mentally completely broken and driven by madness and hate. I found this episode amazing psychologically.
Youre so right❤❤
Fun fact, in the Hama's flashbacks they waterbend a fire nation ship up on ice. That's the same ship Aang and Katara sneak into in episode 1.
fo exipni No need to be rude. Believe it or not there are some people that wouldn’t make the connection. Just because it’s obvious doesn’t mean anything.
@fo exipni no need to be rude. If you don't have anything nice to say don't say it
fo exipni what he said wasn’t annoying you just have a problem what is wrong with u
Damn wtf never noticed the ship lmao THANKS ig I haven’t watched the first episode in a while
Lol when they go in the ship I like to count that as their first date 🤣🤣
Katara standing to face that powerful water blast coming her way was so earthbender like. Normally, waterbenders would redirect it but she said nope, I'm gonna deflect this. Talk about drawing wisdom from other bending nations as Iroh said.
That’s why Hama was so surprised, didn’t expect that earthbending stance.
@@uhohmykokoro1616 I think she just plain didn't expect Katara to blast all the water apart lol.
The Faerie Prince It’s still more of an earthbending tactic. Like Lincoln mentioned waterbenders tend to redirect rather than deflect.
The whole time aang was learning earthbending, katara was learning in the back 😂
:| You just blew my mind a little bit
For a person like Katara - young, caring and emotionally expressive - the concept of bloodbending seems like a human violation. One that goes against her own morals and what it means to be a bender.
I think its also implied that bloodbending works as an addiction. The sensation of being able to control someone's body - literally bending them to your will - slowly corrupting you. Making you power-hungry over time. Hama for instance became way too comfortable using it. Yes shes driven by her trauma and imprisonment but I do think the power itself has the ability to change who you are.
Love the addiction comparison. We see the power-hungry part play out in TLoK.
That definitely fits with what we see with the LoK bloodbenders.
@@shaykhmhssi3246 with how much i disliked the love triangles and sudo destruction of world building i have to say they did that part some what right.
Sunday Girl never thought of it that way but the comparassion makes sense. Though it is hard to map magic systems to real life. ( it would be hard to describe it like that in a kids show )
@Sunday Girl i think it's even more than that like blood bending is the absolute dominance of one person's will over another, imagine how genuinely horrifying that must be to experience and imagine the enormous power it must give to those who can blood bend.
Controlling someone's body seems profoundly evil. It's almost like a form of rape... It's understandable that Katara doesn't want to bloodbend. I feel like some lines you never wanna cross, not even during a war.
I think freezing a person’s body, which for all intents and purposes would be a slow and painful death, and something character’s have done multiple times, is a lot worse, but no one has any problems with that.
@EN KVN instant death is a peaceful death, and I don't think kyoshi ever used it on anyone who wasn't deserving.
@EN KVN No one is defending Hama.
Yeah KeeN yo if this were a straight up adult show, Hama would be able to rip the blood right out of ppl. That’s scary
EN KVN I’m not talking about what Kyoshi did, I’m talking about what loads of other people do in the series which should be much slower, and much more painful. It should also kill them.
Clarifications:
1. The puppets in hamas inn was foreshadowing. If you look closely, you see that each puppet is made to be a replica of each one of hamas prisoners under the mountain
2. Katara was able to fight her way out of hamas grip because katara realized she could control the water in her OWN body. Since Kataras bending is more powerful than hamas, she had a stronger grip on the water in her own body than Hama did. That’s also how katara was able to pick up bloodbending another person a few minutes later
oh damn! I never realized she broke free by bloodbending herself!
It also explains why Katara drained the water from the grass underneath her before breaking free of Hama’s control: she absorbed the water she was bending into herself to help override Hama’s control
That also explains in LOK how Noatok was able to overcome __________'s attempts to bloodbend him
I'm actually shocked that Montana wasn't so creeped out by it. It's literally leaving someone powerless and violating them. For someone as loving and empathetic as Katara, this is a nightmare for her. Now Katara has to live with knowing she can do that to other people like Hama has.
Yes SO MUCH YES. Literally only ever seen ONE reactor understand this ever. And I've watched a lot of these. Just because you were forced to learn how to torture or assault someone doesn't mean you should go around doing it to whomever you want to overpower. That would make you no longer a victim, but a horrible person.
@@angeljaceherondale I barely ever see people who really understand how terrible bloodbending is.
I can see where it comes off as a violation, but I can see the good it's capable of. Just that it'd corrupt most people who learned.
If it left people powerless Katara wouldn't have been able to get out of it.
@@late_prince8945 As an epileptic, I kind of understand the body not letting you have control over it.
Definitely the creepiest episode of the series. And the one episode that comes to mind when I hear that ATLA isn’t a kid’s show.
Considering everything that happens with the Dai Li, that's saying quite a bit.
It’s a kid’s show by Japanese standards
Paulinus Nwosu couldn’t have said it better myself 😂
Me: 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙆𝙤𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙧
It's a kid's show that doesn't assume its viewers are stupid
Katara's mother was most likely killed because of Hama since she escaped from thier prison using booldbending and the fire nation didn't want that happening again so they started killing water tribe prisoners.
There's also a theory floating around that the fire nation was actually looking for Hama - or someone like her (since their intel seems a bit fuzzy). They didn't actually know there was a new waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe, but rather one that escaped who may have returned to her tribe.
Did you get this from Reddit? Saw a post about this recently.
That's a drastically incorrect theory.
I think the reason they were rounding up water benders was bc in the avatar cycle, it would be reborn into the water tribes.
they were already killing them in prison, remember Hama ended up being the last one left.
I don't know if it's canon confirmed, but there's a theory that the reason why Katara and Sokka's mom was killed on sight was because Hama escaped. They usually only imprisoned water benders, but once Hama escaped, the fire nation realized that the water benders could bend anyways, so they killed them all. Again, I'm not sure if it's canon or not, but it's one theory that makes sense, and you questioned about it in your reaction. I hope it helped!
That would explain why she was killed in cold blood
@@noahschultz9031 also the mom expected to be captured and the Fire Nation guy said something along the line of "No prisoners this time" indicating an expectation of imprisonment on her end and a change of policy on his end
If I remember correctly the puppets are modeled after the people Hama took.
Why is she doing that? Now that's creepy.
Yup. Each puppet represents a fire nation citizen tortured to death. Metaphor for "skeletons in the closet" 😐
@@mahadaalvi thx, what a lovely day... 😊
fo exipni And fed them, let them use the bathroom, and washed them everyday? Lol I don’t think so
@fo exipni Yeah, that's why Toph heard screaming, Hama was checking in on them.
One thing I like to remind myself about is that they’re literally kids. Katara is like 14 and super compassionate so seeing this violation by blood bending is so wrong to her
I know!!! People treat the Gaang as if they are like 30 wtf they are 12-15
It's what you get when you write children and teenagers as more capable than they realistically should be. Most will not care, ignore, or forget how young they are and frankly I can see many adults who'd be distraught at using it.
Aang - 112 (12)
Toph - 12
Katara - 14
Sokka - 15 (will be 16 in Live-action Netflix)
Zuko - 16 (will be 17 in Live-action Netflix)
Yue - 16
Mai - 17 ("15 years older than Tom Tom")
Tom Tom - 2
“Can’t bend if they’re poisoned” my mind: wait till she watches Legend of Korra
and what she doesn't know about airbending :D
Commented something similar on the first episode of Korra.
To me this was the best episode of the entire series. And yes I’m serious. Because the episode was so dark and it forced Katara to face the reality that some if not many of her people had become dark, hateful monsters due to the war and Hana while you felt sorry for her, was by far the creepiest and ominous character in the series.
And the reason why her making katara bloodbend in the end of the episode is so significant is because she essentially made katara lose some of her innocence doing that. Katara had always prided herself as being a virtuous character who never hurt people unless it was absolutely necessary and she did her best to never resort to violence and by bloodbending Hana to save her friends, she did the darkest thing a water bender could do. And she had to dwell on the fact that she was powerful enough to completely control and harm another person and that thought scarred her because she never wanted to harm someone else.
The episode is so good and it definitely is the reason why ATLA is more than a Nickelodeon kids show.
I agree with everything you just said 🙌🏽
Also, another scary factor to this episode is that I feel Hama represents what Katara could have become if she more fully gave into her bitterness and rage from having lost her mother to the Fire Nation.
This seems to especially become apparent after what happens in the episode where Katara and Zuko track down the soldier who killed Katara's mom. During that episode, she is going down that path herself, until at the last minute when she holds back the ice spikes in midair, she gets off that path and is no longer headed towards turning into a Hama 2.0.
@@johnwalker1058 Yes. You said it well.
Your explanation couldn’t have been any better. I’d also have to add the facts that the voice acting for Hama is amazing and that the pacing of this episode is VERY good, too (it’s over 25 minutes but feels more like 15 minutes long)
And just in general I love how serious, yet inviting The Last Airbender is. It’s entertaining for all ages, even adult men like myself!
While I loved The Last Airbender as a kid, with age it only gets better. As I got older, my nativity decreased and now knowing what makes a television show good or bad, I can appreciate the quality of the of The Last Airbender more (with my main praises going to the authenticity, complex characters, and phenomenal character development)!
Absolutely one of the best television shows ever created :)
I love the 4th wall breaks when you stare at the camera. It’s like Jim from the Office.
Katara used earthbending technique (stand your ground) to fight Hama is so cool!
I love that. Their fighting evolves so much over time as they gain experience with new people.
Aang charging Azula in the season 2 final and such is another example of this.
I think Katara broke out partly because she's stronger than Hama, but I also think the Moon spirit Yue gave Katara a little power boost over Hama.
That’s a fun theory I had never considered before!
Girls supporting girls 🥰
Blood benders are immune to blood bending
Edit: I realize i was wrong and i often forget Legend of Korra Exists. Please stop commenting telling me I was wrong. I am sorry. Gonna go live in a hole now, not because of you, but because the dogs make it look so relaxing.
@Anastasia Emhoolah you obviously haven't seen The Legend of Korra.
thats not how it works. spirits can empower humans but it mutates them, unless their is a harmonic convergence
That girl in Hama’s flashback who cried over her being taken away, that’s Katara’s gran gran when she was young, it’s crazy how much Katara looks so much like her grandmother.
She will definitely see it coming after “The Swamp”, but excited to see the reaction to Katara
This is episode is so creepy bc I’m pretty sure it was aired during Halloween
It was on November 9, 2007 👌
@@monzed.3948 yeah but it was meant to be a Halloween episode
@@huskylicous7963 Technically you are both right since it was suppose to be a halloween episode, but it wasnt Aired on halloween like Monserrat pointed out.
@@lvlHive yeah I know I'm just sayin it was made for the purpose of halloween
@@huskylicous7963And i'm just saying you both are correct.
one of the best lines from this episode that always gets overlooked is "once i mastered the rats, i was ready for the men."
Must feel like torture having your individual muscles and cells ripped from your own control, like your insides just being twisted and pulled and stretched and you can't do anything about it. Add on top of that the helplessness you'd feel being overpowered with an ability like that, there's literally nothing you can do. It's like atla's version of the imperius curse from harry potter, just an evil thing to do, and completely unforgiveable
I gotta say I'd use it if there was nothing else I could do, like if my life was totally threatened.
Doing it to innocent people is evil, but blood-bending someone who is trying to kill you is ok.
I love how when Hama drains all the water out of the lilies they look like they've been scorched by fire.
It's a nice hint as to Hama having become just as bad as the people she hates.
"Recruiting her, like a baby witch situation" love it! 😂
Although blood bending is super powerful its also super inconvenient. I've seen a few reactions scream at Katara to blood bend but people forget she can only do it during a full moon.
She may have bloodbended without the full moon that one episode, which wouldn’t surprise because she is really powerful and a prodigy. But she didn’t practice it obviously, so she never mastered it though she easily could have
@@crazycamo66 no, In that one episode you refer it is also shown to be a full moon
Christian Corpi I’m not denying that, I’m just saying by the time they got there as they showed the moon when they were traveling not actually there. And I think it was to make a point that she was so angry that she bloodbended without the full moon
Actually Tarlok, Noatok and Yakone have all bloodbended during the day. It’s just that the only knowledge of bloodbending came from Hama who could only do it on a full moon due to her being weak
@@crazycamo66 no, a Korra flashback states that bloodbending would normally be impossible without the moon but Yakone's family were the only ones who could do it without it, Katara has never done it without a full moon
In case it wasn't clear, Hama was the little girl from the story. Also, Hama is the reason the Fire nation came to kill what they thought was the last southern water bender. They were looking for Hama and killed Katara's mother instead.
The ending of this episode makes me cry for Katara.
The gang really help and each other, like Uncle iroh said "it is important to draw wisdom on different places, if you only take it from one place it will become rigid and stale".
Katara stood her ground stopping hama's big water attack like an earthbender and she was light on her fight during the fight like airbender, thats why hama was shocked
A bit late to the party, but here are my two cents on bloodbending:
First, you have to remember that Avatar is loosely inspired by chinese mythology, in particular Chi. Chi is the energy that is in everything, and the medium through which bending is done. Everybody has Chi inside them, not just benders. I think that's the reason why bloodbending requires the help of the full Moon: without it, the waterbender cannot overpower the target's inner Chi.
Second, on why bloodbending is considered such a heinous act, even compared to murder. I think the complete overpowering of someone's body, and then the usage of that body on the bender's whim, can be compared to acts such as torture or rape. Whether those acts are worse then murder or not is not something I wish to discuss, but their complete immorality is clear.
If it was a real ability, most would certainly get corrupted by it.
I would argue that using Bloodbending to control someone is wrong but using it to defeat someone is ok.
Things like making opponents disarm themselves, knocking people out, or even killing when there is no other choice.
All the arguments against the use of bloodbending in such a way also apply to just doing those same things to them in other ways.
It isn't bloodbending that is wrong, it is puppeting that is wrong.
12:13 You also gotta remember the events in the show lasted for a year in their timeline from iceberg to the end of the war. So it was probably still fresh in Sokka’s mind
Less than a year actually
I’m definitely more sympathetic to Hama. She was a POW, tortured by the fire nation for so many years. The fire nation basically wiped out all Waterbenders in the South Pole (representative of indigenous cultures). So their colonization lead Hama to fight back. She did what she had to do to escape. While I don’t think her kidnapping is justified, the resolution, her being handed back to the people who imprisoned her and tortured her for years does NOT make me feel good and I don’t think her returning to being a POW in the Fire Nation, a nation that tortures and murderers countless innocents, is a good ending. I’d’ve liked for her to be defeated. Not necessarily reformed/instantly good, but allowed to live nonetheless
Agree with everything you said. What she did to the fire nation citizens is fucked up, but I don't think it's justice to return her in the captivity of a group of people despising her and clearly set out to make her suffer. I wish that the comics would address Hama in some way, maybe return her to the South Pole and let her live under house arrest there.
4Tom4lepus4 Yeah. Too bad life can often have a downer ending. I find this so story interesting because it shows how marginalized ppl tend to radicalize in order to cope with a society hostile to them.
@@Bogfrog1 There are a few things I wish the live-action show on Netflix would do. I'd love to see Sokka's relationship with Yue given more time as well as see the ground troops in the Earth Kingdom fighting against the fire nation during Sozin's comet, as well as Sokka's dad and the others. This episode too. I think there's a complex lesson to be learned her about imperialism and the lengths people go to to preserve their freedom and culture, and to what extent "the ends justify the means" when the aggressor is different, or if you can even call a colonized person fighting back however they can as an "aggressor" even *if* innocent people get caught in the crossfire. Sadly, since Netflix is more interested in profit than telling a competent story, (something which screwed TLoK over massively with Nickleodeon) causing the writers to leave, I don't think we'll see such nuance.
Her story is definitely sad, but attacking civilians isn’t the way to go. And let’s not forget that Hama is the reason Kya(katara and sokka’s mum) is dead. They stopped taking prisoners after she escaped via bloodbending
@@johanstevens5824 No no no no no nopedy nope nope nope. Hama is not to blame bc she escaped decades of torturous and wrong imprisonment. The only ones that are to blame and the only ones that "are the reason" are the Fire Nation soldiers who attacked the Southern Water Tribe.
Katara was crying not because she now has a new power, but because that the power is so evil and so controlling. Sometimes too much power isn’t healthy for a person. Also blood bending is the only type of bending that effects a persons mental state so if katara practices blood bending regularly like Hama did, she could possibly go insane just like Hama did
Since when did blood bending affect a person’s mental state? Hama just went insane from the torture, Yakone was just a criminal, Amon was just a radical, and Tarlock wasn’t really insane.
Yeah KeeN I’m not exactly sure to be honest when I first learned about it, I just remember it being confirmed by the creators in one interview
@@cyrusgudino1708 You got a link to this interview that can corroborate your claim?
When there are so many scary moments that you nees to divide between Scary, Creepy and Hama Scary
Montana's idea of using blood bending as s non-lethal way to defeat Ozai is so interesting! Just imagine if Aang had tried to do that in the final episode :O
its later explained in a comic that she uses the puppets to try and see what her limits were i mean bloodbending has some creepy movments even without the bending aspect
I love the 4th wall breaks- the very subtle look of " you know, and I know what's about to happen- and it isn't good" is so great.
I reckon these were the recent hostages, maybe dating back a few months. But Hama's been doing this for years, I bet those people were never found
Thinking about the math of that, it’s honestly horrifying the amount of victims she’s had. Let’s start at the beginning. When she was taken, she looked to be around late-teens, early-twenties. The raids happened roughly 60 years ago. When she escaped, she said she’d walked free for the first time in “decades.” The plural there means she was imprisoned for at least 20 years. That leaves 40 years of her free and living in the Fire Nation.
There are 479 months in 40 years. So if she took one person every month, that’s literally hundreds of people. But we do know she can control more then one person at a time, so the actual count is probably even higher.
I did my best to count the people in the cave, assuming there were more on the other side of the pillar we couldn’t see. I got 20-24 people. So even just the people we see in that cave, it’s possible the ones who’ve been there the longest were there for TWO YEARS.
To add even more horror to it, there’s where her victims came from in the first place. A small village like that would definitely notice if almost half a thousand of them went missing. Plus, the way they were talking made it sound like it was a more recent development. Not enough to start mass panic, but enough to pick up on the pattern. But Hama has been living there for quite a while, if she has an established building and reputation with the townsfolk.
The only answer I can think of is she preyed on the travelers who came through her Inn. People with no connection to anyone in the village, who might not even be known to be missing until they didn’t show up to where they were heading(if they even had a destination in mind and weren’t just wondering.)
I love how hard you were trying to keep your poker face as she was so enthusiastic about a potential Hama + Katara mentor duo LOL
Have you noticed that Aang's fire nation outfit still has the arrows on his arms and legs, and the headbend has the tip.
For me my favorite episode for a reaction video in the whole series..... But especially excited for the one from yall!
I would actually imagine that Blood Bending could be used to cause immense pain. Imagine causing a stroke or aneurism by freezing some blood in the brain. Or just straight up draining the water from the blood in a person the way they pulled water from plants. It’s just one of those techniques that is too dangerous for it to be ok to be widely known.
Katara's ghost story gets a lot more chilling when you remember that spirits in the physical world are always colored a cool shade of blue.
"very similar to the way they moved the vines in the swamp"
kenny: "hm"
getting better at acting nonchalant every time ahhahaa love to see it
Hama's plan was to leave a legacy. which she did.
'It's like my brain has a mind of its own"
I only just recently found this channel a couple days ago and was instantly in love with you two. You're so cute together. Binged the whole series and can't wait for this one.
19:47 The reason Hama looks so shocked is because the way Katara faced the water head on instead of reforming/bending it is an earth bender move. Hama didn’t expect that...
Me as a kid was crying in my sisters room watching this episode
After watching this episode for the first time, I and my sister play pretend bloodbending. When I was pretending to bend it felt fun and cool and all but when it was my turn to be "the puppet" it felt somehow really bad and scary and after that even pretending to bloodbend want that fun anymore.
This is the episode I've been waiting for Montana to see! I just wanna know how she is gonna feel about blood bending and everything, I'm so hyped!
I just learned something heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time, it never gets said or really implied in the series, but the writers intended Momo to be Monk Gyatso reincarnated
She is gonna be so shooketh
I remember watching this episode when it came out. It aired on Halloween, so it was their spooky special.
Montana actually makes a good point with blood-bending ozai or azula being more humane than killing them
The one detail that I thing really goes to show how twisted Hama's mind has become is actually the puppets in her house. If you look at them, they're designed after the people Hama had imprisoned. That's a whole other level of f*cked up.
Notice the earthbending “stand you’re ground move” from katara? Iroh’s wisdom getting to everyone. Also very excited for Korra season 1 !
It's weird that no reactors have understood how violating bloodbending must feel. Katara was crying the second she felt it.
Some may not care.
How could they? they never done it before so they wouldn't be able to feel anything same with you.
This episode was literally the Halloween episode of Avatar. Also the effectiveness of bloodbending on Waterbenders tends to run the gambit, though it seems like the most powerful Waterbenders are able to resist bloodbending, which is why Katara was able to fight it.
You two are Top Tier ATLA reactors hands down ! You're both so funny and Montana is Analytical Af. Can't wait till she watches Korra! I think she'll love her personality
I think Toph was blushing when she opened the box because Sokka was so close. Note that she stops blushing when Katara gets between them. Another Tokka moment!
I know it's not as pivotal to the plot as some of the other fights, but I think Katara vs. Hama was one of my favorite fights in the series regardless. The momentum, flow and impact of the water bending fighting was just spot on.
Her reaction when the puppets fell out 😂💀😂
Fun theory: when Hama escaped the fire nation assumed she went back home. Realising how scary her power is they changed their stance on capturing benders and instead decide to kill them. Hence why the raid killed Kitara mother instead of taking her prisoner.
It fits pretty neatly into the story but is not confirmed unfortunately
yea i highly doubt they knew about her blood bending. they wouldn't have resorted to regular tactics, they would have simply stayed outside of the village and launched chemical weapons at them or something. hama most likely killed the guard
A popular theory as to why Katara was immune to bloodbending: Yue rules the skies with compassion and...lunar goodness. It's completely possible that Katara gets like, an extra moon boost during the full moon because of her connection to pre-spirit Yue.
Hahaha the deception from you to Montana in this vid, “pretty cool right?? She’s from the southern water tribe!” Hahaha you’ve gotten way better and not hinting anything! Nice job!
I used to wonder how katara picked up bloodbending so fast, and I might have an answer. Firstly, katara is a master waterbender, so she's very familiar with her element and ANY new techniques would probably be picked up pretty quickly.
But also, I'm thinking when katara fights her way out of hama's grip, that's when she learns it. Like she can feel her own blood being bent and can counter it. In a sense that she's forced to learn it on herself to break free from hama
LOVING the actual discussion about bloodbending/Hama/morality. i always felt like so many people demonize bloodbending more than it necessarily deserves - such a great discussion you got going on!! love your guys' reactions so so much
My theory on bloodbending is that, normally, the water in a person's body is so dispersed that any hold a waterbender could have over it is weaker than just that person's muscle movements. On a full moon, however, the waterbender is able to overpower them and control their bodies.
"Why is this worse?" Well, they show it as just controlling people, but think about the rest of the episode though. It's all framed around taking water out of different sources. First Katara talks about using her sweat as water. Then Hama shows her to take water out of the air. Then Katara talks about bending plants. Hama shows her how to take the water out of the plants. Hama shows her bloodbending.... It's a kids show. But there is definitely an implication here that they can pull the blood out of people and kill them that way.
Hama was definitely the reason Katara's mom died. They knew there was one waterbender left in the southern water tribe BECAUSE of Hama.
bloodbenders are capable of making the someone faint or die. maybe its possible because they might be able to take the blood/water out of them.
That would makes sense air can literally bend the air out of your lungs like in legends of korra
I love that the shop they show in Hama’s story is the same ship that Aang and Katara explores in the beginning 💕
Ship*
Bloodbending is a tricky subject as far as morality. You’ve got a point that you could make a battle end quickly and avoid bloodshed, but you also have to remember that it’s a total loss of bodily autonomy, which can be extremely traumatic.
As far as Katara’s emotional reaction goes, it’s very important to remember that she’s an exceptionally strong believer in freedom. Bloodbending removes that by nature. Everything about that technique goes against her values and it deeply disturbed her to do that. She definitely understands how valuable it could be in battle, but she just couldn’t do it on good faith and the guilt would eat her alive.
Like every war, this one left many scars, wounds, grudges, and pain. Hama is a perfect example. It was a mirror action, taking innocent people to be locked up, as she was. But she, in the end, become just as ruthless and sadistic as her captors. "If you expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate" - Monsoon, MGRR
Blood Bending is so overpowered. When Katara finally does it at the end, always gives me chills, the way Hama says that she's a bloodbender now. And yeah, as bloodbending is kinda bad, controlling another person, I still think like you said, it could be useful in certain situations.
Look how much bigger and structured the Southern Tribe village was in Hama's youth. Without benders to keep it up, it fell to the non-benders, and later to probably just Sokka, to upkeep. Which is why the Northern Tribe is so much grander and fancier.
OHHHHH HOOOOO HOOOO AWWWW MANN I CANT WAIT FOR THIS REACTION!!!!!!!!!
I love how she wasn't expecting anything
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The timeline with the fire nation taking water benders as prisoners and Hamma escaping seems to coincide with Kya being murdered, they started murdering water benders AFTER Hamma escaped and the Fire Nation readily believed Kataras mom was the water bender BECAUSE they were looking for Hamma, an adult female from the southern water tribe.
So in conclusion, Hamma is inadvertently responsible for Katara and Sokka's mothers death.
“Katara would never kill someone who isn’t bending.”
Looooooool.
Whats funny
Blood bending uses the same movements one would use when controlling marionette puppets. She uses the puppets to practice the bending without the full moon.
Also, Katara is already a controlling person, this comes with the "Mother" role she has in the group, bloodbending is just the next step in her controlling the lives of other people, going from management to "owner" of sorts.
Although you got a point, you're utterly vilifying Katara, Katara might want to be in control of even others actions, however there's one detail more that also comes from her motherly personality, and is that said desire comes from her care, she's caring and wants to control since she doesn't want people around her feel bad or be at risk, that's why bloodbending doesn't entirely fit her.
@@juanmanuelmoramontes3883 You're right, I think I was in a head space when I typed this because Katara is the sweetest character in the whole show and later examples of blood bending don't match up with this at all.
Cool interpretation is that Katara used an earthbending principal to stop the water head on in the fight. Like Iroh she gathered principles from other bending styles and applied them into her own technique.
Not only was Hama impressed by her strength but also because she did something very different from traditional waterbending which is redirecting momentum
(Hama Scary Counter exists)
Little did they know, someone with the same power would be even scarier.
When toph said she heard screaming on the mountains and then STOP
That was the chill for me
If I remember correctly the puppets in her house were modeled after some of her prisoners
Did you notice the ship in Hamas story was the same ship in the first epsiisode that aang and katara booby trapped into.
I love the connecting of the all the stories.
Was just screaming "SHE ISN'T READY!!!" the whole time haha! Also loving your "4th Wall Breaks"
I just read a wild fan theory that Hama was the reason Kya (Katara and Sokka's mother) was killed.
She was supposed to be last the waterbender taken from the tribe, and she escaped. The Fire Nation sent troops back to the Southern Water Tribe to look for her, but they only knew to look for an adult female. When Kya thought they might find Katara, she surrendered herself, expecting to be captured like all of the other benders. But this time they weren't going to risk being controlled by bloodbending again, so they killed her instead...
I really liked the observation that Hama was using the puppets to practice her movements with. My additional thinking and now head cannon. If you examine the puppets closely she had them modified to put Water in them(arms legs neck hands etc.). That way she could practice without the full Moon. I also think that it's actually an offshoot of the healing side of Water Bending. And it could be used for SO MUCH GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally agree it doesn't have to be used for EVIL!!!!!! A Blood Bender should be able to plant bend!!!!!! When Katara first used Blood Bending she actually used it on HERSELF!!!!!!!!! Like she had to PSYCHICALLY MANIPULATE HERSELF to regain control!!!!!!!!!! At that point Hama had already lost. She just didn't know it yet. I'm also convinced an Earth Bender can learn how to Blood Bend because of the various Metals in the Blood. An Earth Bender Blood Bender shouldn't be able to plant bend. No metals in Plants. Unless a botanist knows something differently.
Fun fact: In the episode of THE SOUTHERN RAIDERS, the last waterbender of the southern watertribe that the firenation was looking was HAMA. She's a threat to the firenation and they looked for her. Katara's mom was killed instead protecting Katara.
The firebenders didn't kill their prisoners. Hama invaded people's personal space and held a grudge against the whole Fire Nation though only a select few people did her harm. She was messed up in so many ways.
corection: they did not kill their prisoners BEFORE hama escaped. im pretty sure hama's ascape is the reason they started killing thier prisoners like kaia/katara and sokkas mom
@@astridwikstrom9295 Ok, fair enough. So Hama did really initiate a massacre.
@@rumaristo129 they would've only killed Kya. Because Katara was the only waterbender to remain. But she was a child.
@@HomoErected they whould probebly kill the last waterbender of that tribe whoever it was...
@@HomoErected Did you think fire nation gave a shit when they killed all the air nomad children and elderly? and to OP, Hama is the unfortunate result of a genocidal war, she is reacting out of a deep rooted anger over the injustice of what happened to her people.
rewatching this series (again) and kenny's 4th wall breaks in this episode are incredible
This may have been my favorite video of you guys so far. I loved watching Montana’s reaction to Hama for the first time because I watched this episode for the first time when I was 11 and every time I have watched it since then I know what is coming. I felt like I understood the writing decisions better now seeing someone watch the episode with no prior knowledge.
I love how serious yet inviting this show is. It’s entertaining for all ages, even adult men like myself! One of the best television shows ever :)
I always head cannoned that the reason a water bender can only blood bend during a full moon is because they aren't just bending the water. When Aang was learning about his Chakra it was described as a pool of energy. So maybe bloodbending is also the bending of someone's chakra to truly gain control over them. I know the chakra isn't actually water, but its the only thing I could think of to make it fit.
Fun fact its Hamas's fault katara's mom is dead. They were hunting for Hama in the raid where they killed her mom
They were looking for Katara. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Kataras dad was looking for a water bending teacher for Katara in secret but somehow the fire nation was tipped off. So then they came for Katara.
Where was that confirmed? They said that the last remaining water bender they were looking for was Katara. If they were looking for Hama why would they look in the southern water tribe when she wasn’t there?
wait but in the southern raiders episode katara says “my mom was protecting the last water bender... me”
@@HomoErected no it was confirmed that it was hama
Is it though? Like, are you really gonna blame Hama for escaping prison after decades of horrible treatment? No. It's the fire nation's fault, and they didn't hunt for Hama, they hunted for a water bender in general and killed Kya because they didn't want to take any more prisonders after Hama's escape.
Bloodbending is one of the worst ways of bending ( I think we can all agree that in LoK we see the worst way of bending by an airbender), it’s just the violation of your body, not being able to control yourself, it’s kind of another form of rape, because you lose all control of yourself. It is so sad that Katara is forced to learn bloodbending, but it makes me so proud seeing how strong she is and how amazing she’s become (not that she wasn’t amazing from the beginning), that earth move in the fight just gives me goosebumps, I still think she’s the best waterbender that’s ever lived, no one can change my mind.
Did you know that in the scene where the gaang are unpacking groceries, you can see Hama's face in the cabbage Katara picks up? (5:53)
Right as she was saying “she kind of reminds me of Gran-gran”. Though I didn’t realize it was Hama’s face. I just knew it was an old woman’s face.
All the puppets are mini versions of all the people she captured, nice little detail that I didn’t noticed at first
Imagine every single muscle in your body cramping all at once, that must be how being bloodbent feels like
Notice Toph not giving a solitary fuck in 7:24 as Hama startles everybody else. The blind girl was the one who knew she was there the entire time. I always thought that was a cool little detail. I also love how that means that Toph KNEW she was there the entire time and proceeded to try opening her shit anyway lol.
Its weird how they just let katara be a water bender in their town. Hama literally outed her and no one noticed or what
(maybe a little spoiler...)
A theory that I have: Either the other prisoners already died or the guards killed off the other waterbender prisoners after Hama escaped because they wouldn’t let another waterbender control them like that. They were looking for the ‘last’ known waterbender (Hama) at the south pole where she came from. Because the (SPOILER) southern raiders said that they got word that there was a waterbender from the southern tribe somewhere and by that they meant Hama. Katara was only a child at that point and the southern tribe was very small so it’s just really unlikely that word of a child waterbender would have made way to the firenation. That and the water tribe would NEVER willingly release that information. The raiders had no idea that another waterbender was just born there. Thats also why the Raider accepted an adult (Katara’s mother) as the one they were looking for. Kya offered that they would take her as their prisoner because she knew that the previous raids meant being imprisoned. Yon Rha then replied with: “I’m afraid I’m not taking prisoners today” so why change the procedure if not because they knew about Hama’s powers and were afraid of them. And since he thought Kya was Hama he just killed her. They stopped taking prisoners after Hama’s escape because they were afraid of her powers. In conclusion: The southern raiders were never looking for Katara, they were looking for Hama.
Omg that makes sense 🤔
While I agree that Hama is definitely the reason why the fire nation stopped taking water bending prisoners, I’m not sure if I agree with the theory that she’s the one they were looking for when they took and killed Kya. Because even if the southern raiders were looking for Hama, along with any other fire nation ships and soldiers, wouldn’t they have been aware that Hama is a fairly older woman at that point since several years had obviously passed since she escaped?
Katara and Sokka’s Mom was likely only in her early to mid twenties when she was killed, and the fire nation would surely have to be smart enough to know Hama wouldn’t have been that young. I don’t know, your theory is interesting but I just think it’s kind of reaching. I could be wrong though.
Joshua Bobo yeah that’s the one thing I’m not sure about too. Maybe the information on Hamas age hasn’t spread until the southern raiders but I don’t think the firenation would send raiders that don’t even have all their information out on an important mission... so I agree