@@pedropimenta896 It's not a predator, it's not hunting to eat the bison. It's like when there's a fly buzzing around your head. You don't care what happens you just want it gone, so you swat it. Dead or not, if they fly is gone the problem is over.
I think it’s a funny headcanon that Toph got bored of telling the same stories over and over again to the point of underplaying them to the point she does here now.
Hard to tell stories in detail, when you can't see for shit and have to rely on hearing as well as feeling vibrations in the ground to navigate the world.
pulled up to a school, stole the hottest girl from the school bully, had a dance party where he hit rizz on an older woman (younger? idk) then disappeared to remain nonchalant
I like how Toph said that it was hot the day they fought the Fire Lord. I hope that was an intentional callback to when Toph said "That's a lot of fire, isn't it?" while she was in one of the airships. A blind girl is way up in the air and yet, she could tell how much fire is scorching the Earth Kingdom just by feeling the heat. It was a pretty neat way to tell the audience how much Sozin's comet has powered up the firebenders and the scale of Ozai's plan to literally burn everything to the ground.
I think a lot of people miss just how much heat radiates out from large flames cuz they've never been around actual massive MASSIVE fire. I was at Disney world and they do fire shows on the lake at Epcot, these things shoot house sized flames 100 feet in the air and it's about a half mile away and it feels like a large fire is only 10 feet away it's nuts
11:20 "sometimes you don't need help doing a thing, but sometimes you need help getting to the point where you feel like you're enough to do something on your own" that was actually quite beautiful. well done, overanalyzing avatar
my headcanon is the future development of prosthetic limbs being most successful with earthbenders using clay, as it is malleable yet in theory could be hardened Although given Ming-Hua I guess waterbending breaks that whole idea
To harden clay, you have to get rid of any moisture. Earthbenders can absolutely bend clay, but to harden it they would need a waterbender or firebender
Toph could do claybinding as early as The Drill, admittedly with Katarra... but definitely in Tales of Ba Sing Se. Remember the beauty-mask-alien claybinding?
I like how you talked about Toph's arcs relating to herself and Korra. It's a nice touch I had either forgotten about or never realized. Specifically, the Korra not wanting anyone else's help just like Toph. You're right, they are small plot points but still powerful enough that makes sense for those characters.
But unlike korra she never really needed help she was pulling crazy feats like carrying a giant library between worlds while unable to protect appa due to sand being unique to her seismic sense But for korra it wouldve been korra THINKING she could do all of what toph did but realizing the best she can do is allow the library to fall and appa to be captured leading to two subplots that ultimately don't matter to the story I'd say toph sees a problem and adapts vs korra that never adapts and prays the hard headed approach to a problem will definitely solve it (Amon: challenge him w/ no plan Kuvira: challenge her w/ no plan Unalaaq: challenge him w/ no plan Red lotus: literally chase him after a near successful plan by said red lotus because obviously you can 1v4 him, in other words they used ur tactic, did it better, and you still had to give them a victory after their loss)
But isn't it a bit ironic that Toph says "the problem is you are disconnected from your loved ones for too long", while she is the one who did not see her own daughters for years???
4:27 I'm not sure if we should use the novels as an unquestionable reference, but according to Yangchen's novel the air monks are generally vegetarian, but each temple can vary in how strict they are about this. At the west temple, the one Yangchen comes from, they are generally vegetarian, but may eat meat if food is scarce, or if they are invited to someone else's table so as not to be disrespectful to the host, so they are vegetarian but not inflexible about it.
@@adthay4636 The defining feature of a nomad is not staying in one place for too long. That's why the air nomad 'territories' are so small, and why Aang was so knowledgeable about the world despite leaving home and getting trapped in an iceberg BEFORE the traditional world-traveling training journey of the Avatar happened.
It might make sense too for a cultural revitalization movement to become stricter in ways like that, to better feel as a distinct group and to feel more personally secure that you're "the real deal" so to speak
@@adthay4636all babies are born in the east or west temple. boys move either to the north and south temple once they’re old enough i think while girls stay in the west or east temples
7:34 I'm pretty sure Korra told her about all her villains she faced, for Toph to then shrug it off and pretend she doesn't care only to bring it up here. That makes the most sense.
3:10 i think toph's blindness makes her tell the story like this. after all, she was on a metal ship most of the time, all she experienced was mostly a feeling of heat
I mean there's still the internal reactions. When it comes to storytelling what is happening externally and actually occurred is only half of it. Sometimes not even that. Toph could have talked about how she was afraid or those moments where she thought she might lose her friends. Like when you ask someone to share war stories, you don't really care about what they saw. You care about how they felt in that moment (which could have been in response to what they saw but it could really be anything they experienced and how they internalized that). Of course it's Toph so she didn't share that . She isn't overly open with her emotions and especially wasn't going to get that vulnerable with Korra as an old woman.
@@vullord666 Yea i always felt a bit it was glossed over for a comedic moment. It must have been way more overwhelming to her... Because she literally almost died. She was hanging by sokka's hand and sokka was like "I don't think the boomerang is coming back" and tears were coming out of toph's eyes right before suki saved them.
I think that in Kyoshi's case it has more to do with her being the Avatar. It's likely that she lived so long by being in the Avatar State for most of her adult life, and that temporarily halted her aging like it did for Aang while he was in the iceberg; but without the strain he suffered from sustaining it for 100 years straight.
Lets break the villains down. Amon: Did apparently genuenly genuenly want equality but less because he actually cared about non benders and more that he was abused because of his bending and thus hated it and he also wanted to spite his dad. Unalaq: Bro just deadass wanted to be the anti christ because he was a evil bastard and thats honestly about it even saying that he cared about spirits while maybe true is pretty much just talk. Zaaher: Actually belived in his cause but because he was a anarchist it just made him into a edgelord and well most people want freedom in some way. Kuvira: Since she wasen't here the take is that her being a facist nutcase is truly reprihensable and genuenly irredemable sure hope they won't pull some bs that avatar made fun of to make her seem sympathetic.
I just realised that the banyan tree and being connected to the whole world is likely an allegory to Buddha reaching enlightenment whilst meditating under a tree. You also really see the Buddhist influences with the prayer flags and the stupa Jinora is trying to meditate by. Appreciate the show's attention to detail if nothing else.
You'd think OA would hear the word "enlightenment" and put 2 and 2 together. There's like only one internationally influential figure in history who got that. Fun fact: Gautam Buddh(the Buddha) was a hindu prince, who got disenchanted by the sorrows of life and sat under a tree until he got the answers to everything. I've been to the very place he did it too, it's in Gaya, India. Very cool place.
@@TheBluePhoenix008 I'm pretty sure he said it when going over the Last Airbender episodes? Though I didn't make the connection between that & the tree being literally connected to the entire physical & spiritual world until Vincent here pointed it out.
I see the avatar state being blocked by the poison as a subconcious thing. Even if she didnt actively know it was there she might have felt it subconciously. And the last thing that happened to her when she was poisoned before losing herself was desperately trying to hold back the avatar state to stopthe red lotus' plan. I can eadily see her subconcious running on the logic of "i cant allow myself to use the avatar state while this poison is in me"
Toph has always been seen to be able to do things like tell when people are lying, and even by the end of last airbender she goes from needing to focus when talking to jet and smellerbee to being able to tell through her feet (albeit not well) when azula was lying during day of black sun. it always kinda made sense that after decades of continuing to make her bending better and probably a bit of meditation, toph would be able to focus and feel the vibrations of peoples voices through their bodies and into the ground. It might come off as like a faint whisper but seeing as she was friends with the last avatar and "do you really think friendships can last more than one lifetime" line it wouldnt surprise me if toph is pretty sentimental and keeps an eye on korra occasionally
2:44 Ikki deserves all the strays. 11:57 The Avatar State was unblocked by a rock to Aang's nerve damaged spine against Ozai. So maybe it was in her spine?
6:23 She also removed her arm in the prevoius clip when you were talking about the map. It also reminds me more of the moment where Aang took his head out of the stockade than with his earth handcuffs.
6:24 I'd say the moment where Aang gets girl advice from prisoners and takes his head and arms out of the stocks that were too big for him also matches that pattern.
7:55 I think that’s the point of Tophs monologue here anyways. A part of Korra finds parts of these villains agreeable and that is really difficult for her to reconcile with
8:10 This is a good point I feel often missed about this show. Is that most of the villains in this show are psychological or philosophical villains there's very few who are just flat out evil or are powerful villains. IN airbender most villains want power, pride, or greed all very surface level things. Such as the pirates, zhao, azula, and zuko at the begginning. There are some grey area characters like hebai because just acting out of rage, zuko's character arc, and the firebending master who's name I forgot, and the sword master too. Airbender seemed a lot more focused on characters challenging the avatar like a rare pokemon or wanting to stop the avatar so they can do their evil selfish plan. The focus is less on villains compared to korra too which is really interesting. Korra really feels like puberty compared to airbender's childlike nature. Korra is just a really good representation of puberty I feel whether the creators intended it or not from the narrative to the awkwardness.
I really like the concept of Toph having visions, like, completely blind and then just a spirit vision and she's just like "What the fuck bro is this what seeing is like" (esp bc if she went into the spirit world she wouldn't be able to bend and therefore couldn't "see")
I love millo Dude is a fusion of aang and sokka , specifically when 2 bro's use the same brain at the same time but they always forget who's turn it is ,its nice😊
“It’s not a cultural thing, as far as you can tell.” But it is. Aang thought that being a vegetarian was a part of his culture. And while he rethought something, he still could teach his son of this cultural aspect, especially when his son was air bender.
I would like to note... Not everyone can agree on freedom and equality. As seen by the world today. Although certainly what Toph says is a bit reductive, especially for Zaheer.
I like the scene coming up in a few episodes where Korra Fights Kuvira; it shows that PTSD is never something you fully get over. That is a constant fight and there’s no easy way to get rid of it
The way they use Toph as a mouth piece to try and reaffirm what the past villains wanted never sat right with me. Amon didn't care about equality, he just hated benders because his dad was mean to him. Unalaq was somehow less of a character than Ozai to the point where they had to have her attribute something Korra did to him. Since she's the one who left the portals open, thus "bringing back the spirits". And Zaheer was just an idiot who maxed out his "cool" factor.
Amon hated Bending because his father was an abusive scumbag who raised him as a weapon instead of a person and probably beat his wife and kids. If anything, he wanted to end the oppression of the weak by those with power, something that is never actually addressed. Unnalaq had a god complex like Ozai but without years of build up as a looming threat and acknowledgment that he is a monster. Zaheers not just an idiot he's a dangerous, death cult, lunatic, that they retroactively made a shortsighted fool.
"Bringing back the spirits" isn't even an accomplishment, those portals could have been opened at any point in 10,000 years. Korra was just the 1st Avatar stupid enough to do that And spirits just sit in the background and get ignored in the narrative anyway until it's time to praise their floating around in the human world
@@robhillen8007in universe conveniences that might be true aren’t as valuable as the writers being more careful and intentional with how they write it. Not a bad idea though: might even be interesting rhetoric about the weaknesses of “mass consensus.”
4:18 She probably needs a special spiritual place. Like, you could see some kind of stone slab under the tree. What she should have done is send Meelo and Ikki to get headlight fluid, or if the shop didn’t have it, some elbow grease.
When Toph says Zaheer believes in freedom, it's not totally wrong. He wants anarchy i.e., negative freedom or the absolute freedom to do whatever you want to. There are different ideas of freedom and in our everyday life we adhere to positive freedom or freedom set within boundaries. The idea of freedom gets thrown around a lot, especially in America, but the issue is that no-one seems to agree what they mean, when they say freedom.
I believe the reason airbenders are vegetarians isn't just because Nickelodeons wants to parrot Tibetan/Buddhist monk culture. I for one think just like going bald, a vegetarian diet has its practical reasons. For one thing, due to the Air Nomads living so high up in the mountains. The only animals they could get a hold of are birds or the occasional flying lemur and neither are in great abundance. Furthermore, meat tends to pack on a lot of weight to the body. That's not good when airbending requires one to be agile and would be pretty hard, if not dangerous for an obese airbender to achieve liftoff and remain airborne.
Toph visits Lin and Zaofu at an unknown frequence so the idea that she'd know about the Korra villains from her makes sense to me, maybe she was interested in knowing what happened to her friend's reincarnation
4:30 how is air nomads being vegetarian not a cultural thing? In season 3 ep 2 Tenzin even says: “There’s nothing more nutritious than our vegetarian diet” when trying to recruit a new airbender. It’s definitely a group practice, and furthers their connection to real world buddhism.
2:16 What?? Sokka was spitting bars during that Yue scene, and he's the only character to have two girlfriends over the course of the show! I'm guessing he got it from Sokka's side for sure.
I think that the swamp is in the middle of the physical world like the tree of time is in the cebter between the north and south portals. I can see them being related.
It looks likes the Grove Tree's roots might collect into the Tree of time. The place where Korra sat in the tree of time might even have been the seed.
7:02 It might be just be perspective Korra and toph appear to about the same hight in this shot which caught me of guard since in every other scene korra's like a foot taller than her
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9:08 I think the obvious answer that you’re missing is that the swamp just really hates sky bison
Natural predator to all things flying!
@@pedropimenta896 It's not a predator, it's not hunting to eat the bison. It's like when there's a fly buzzing around your head. You don't care what happens you just want it gone, so you swat it. Dead or not, if they fly is gone the problem is over.
Funny. Laughed.
True
@@TheBluePhoenix008am I insane for reading this like the DK rap
I think it’s a funny headcanon that Toph got bored of telling the same stories over and over again to the point of underplaying them to the point she does here now.
The way I see it, Toph is not a storyteller, and she never was one. In my headcanon, she never told these stories 'properly', it's always like this.
Hard to tell stories in detail, when you can't see for shit and have to rely on hearing as well as feeling vibrations in the ground to navigate the world.
@@der_saftmonfeeling the vibrations of literally only ONE place between the four major battles
@enigmatic2878 we don't wanna forget, that those vibrations are entirely localized onto one blimp.
I mean, she didn't see Ozai vs Aang
Wild that the chemistry between the airbender siblings in this episode is better than Korra's team Avatar throughout the vast majority of the show
Even more wild that it took 3 and a half seasons to show it
As much as I love Korra, I hate to agree lol
I hate Korra so this is easy to agree with
Her team avatar being so shit is extremely disappointing
The Team Avatar in Legend of Korra needs so much work. Also oh god why did they all date each other??
2:18 You forget that he has visible hair now. Aang with visible hair had ALL the rizz.
pulled up to a school, stole the hottest girl from the school bully, had a dance party where he hit rizz on an older woman (younger? idk) then disappeared to remain nonchalant
Daydreams about being under water? nah you right
“Baby you’re my forever girl”
I like how Toph said that it was hot the day they fought the Fire Lord. I hope that was an intentional callback to when Toph said "That's a lot of fire, isn't it?" while she was in one of the airships.
A blind girl is way up in the air and yet, she could tell how much fire is scorching the Earth Kingdom just by feeling the heat. It was a pretty neat way to tell the audience how much Sozin's comet has powered up the firebenders and the scale of Ozai's plan to literally burn everything to the ground.
Yeah that line really hit
I think a lot of people miss just how much heat radiates out from large flames cuz they've never been around actual massive MASSIVE fire. I was at Disney world and they do fire shows on the lake at Epcot, these things shoot house sized flames 100 feet in the air and it's about a half mile away and it feels like a large fire is only 10 feet away it's nuts
11:20 "sometimes you don't need help doing a thing, but sometimes you need help getting to the point where you feel like you're enough to do something on your own" that was actually quite beautiful. well done, overanalyzing avatar
Well he is in his 50s
@@hyperdragon2846 WHAT
@m4rcyonstation93 he made a jokecabout it in a video a while ago and in his streams he confirmed it
@@hyperdragon2846 that's crazy I thought he was like 21
@@m4rcyonstation93 WHAT?!? I thought like at about 25-30. Cool.
5:07 have Earthbenders discoverd clay bending? Can they solidify earth like Waterbenders freeze water?
I don't see why not. Clay is a part of earth.
They way it looks to me the ground looked rather muddy, hence the malleability.
my headcanon is the future development of prosthetic limbs being most successful with earthbenders using clay, as it is malleable yet in theory could be hardened
Although given Ming-Hua I guess waterbending breaks that whole idea
To harden clay, you have to get rid of any moisture. Earthbenders can absolutely bend clay, but to harden it they would need a waterbender or firebender
Toph could do claybinding as early as The Drill, admittedly with Katarra... but definitely in Tales of Ba Sing Se. Remember the beauty-mask-alien claybinding?
I like how you talked about Toph's arcs relating to herself and Korra. It's a nice touch I had either forgotten about or never realized. Specifically, the Korra not wanting anyone else's help just like Toph. You're right, they are small plot points but still powerful enough that makes sense for those characters.
But unlike korra she never really needed help she was pulling crazy feats like carrying a giant library between worlds while unable to protect appa due to sand being unique to her seismic sense
But for korra it wouldve been korra THINKING she could do all of what toph did but realizing the best she can do is allow the library to fall and appa to be captured leading to two subplots that ultimately don't matter to the story
I'd say toph sees a problem and adapts vs korra that never adapts and prays the hard headed approach to a problem will definitely solve it
(Amon: challenge him w/ no plan
Kuvira: challenge her w/ no plan
Unalaaq: challenge him w/ no plan
Red lotus: literally chase him after a near successful plan by said red lotus because obviously you can 1v4 him, in other words they used ur tactic, did it better, and you still had to give them a victory after their loss)
But isn't it a bit ironic that Toph says "the problem is you are disconnected from your loved ones for too long", while she is the one who did not see her own daughters for years???
4:27 I'm not sure if we should use the novels as an unquestionable reference, but according to Yangchen's novel the air monks are generally vegetarian, but each temple can vary in how strict they are about this.
At the west temple, the one Yangchen comes from, they are generally vegetarian, but may eat meat if food is scarce, or if they are invited to someone else's table so as not to be disrespectful to the host, so they are vegetarian but not inflexible about it.
Do those novels ever explain how new airbenders are born? It's a gender segregated society and I've always wondered how that works
@@adthay4636 The defining feature of a nomad is not staying in one place for too long. That's why the air nomad 'territories' are so small, and why Aang was so knowledgeable about the world despite leaving home and getting trapped in an iceberg BEFORE the traditional world-traveling training journey of the Avatar happened.
It might make sense too for a cultural revitalization movement to become stricter in ways like that, to better feel as a distinct group and to feel more personally secure that you're "the real deal" so to speak
We should use the novels as references as Brike signed off on and co-wrote them
@@adthay4636all babies are born in the east or west temple. boys move either to the north and south temple once they’re old enough i think while girls stay in the west or east temples
7:34 I'm pretty sure Korra told her about all her villains she faced, for Toph to then shrug it off and pretend she doesn't care only to bring it up here.
That makes the most sense.
3:10 i think toph's blindness makes her tell the story like this. after all, she was on a metal ship most of the time, all she experienced was mostly a feeling of heat
I mean there's still the internal reactions. When it comes to storytelling what is happening externally and actually occurred is only half of it. Sometimes not even that. Toph could have talked about how she was afraid or those moments where she thought she might lose her friends. Like when you ask someone to share war stories, you don't really care about what they saw. You care about how they felt in that moment (which could have been in response to what they saw but it could really be anything they experienced and how they internalized that). Of course it's Toph so she didn't share that . She isn't overly open with her emotions and especially wasn't going to get that vulnerable with Korra as an old woman.
@@vullord666
Yea i always felt a bit it was glossed over for a comedic moment.
It must have been way more overwhelming to her... Because she literally almost died. She was hanging by sokka's hand and sokka was like "I don't think the boomerang is coming back" and tears were coming out of toph's eyes right before suki saved them.
I agree
@@vullord666 you’re right but her answer suited her more haha
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD HE'S BACK - seriously though i missed my weekly episodes
Meelo inherited his grandfather's attraction of older taller girls 😂😂
Aang has taste
FINALLY. FINALLY. The only good thing in my life is back. Thank you.
I'm sure it's not. You at least have pizza too.
Hope you’re going okay Jo 😊
2:18 Hey now, Sokka was pulling girls without even trying. That’s his Great Uncle you’re talking about 😤
yeah but he didn't know how to flirt when he *was* trying so still counts.
Unironically toph should still be alive in the next earth avatar series. Earthbends before have had long lives bumi over 100 and kiyoshi was like 300
She also happens to be the greatest earthbender ever
I think that in Kyoshi's case it has more to do with her being the Avatar.
It's likely that she lived so long by being in the Avatar State for most of her adult life, and that temporarily halted her aging like it did for Aang while he was in the iceberg; but without the strain he suffered from sustaining it for 100 years straight.
@@Schneeregen_lao ge also from the kyoshi time was Saïd to have lived for hundreds of years
@@Schneeregen_no it’s a secret master earth ending technique that generates cells that kept her alive for so long
WELCOME BACK!! We fucking love you!!
Lets break the villains down.
Amon: Did apparently genuenly genuenly want equality but less because he actually cared about non benders and more that he was abused because of his bending and thus hated it and he also wanted to spite his dad.
Unalaq: Bro just deadass wanted to be the anti christ because he was a evil bastard and thats honestly about it even saying that he cared about spirits while maybe true is pretty much just talk.
Zaaher: Actually belived in his cause but because he was a anarchist it just made him into a edgelord and well most people want freedom in some way.
Kuvira: Since she wasen't here the take is that her being a facist nutcase is truly reprihensable and genuenly irredemable sure hope they won't pull some bs that avatar made fun of to make her seem sympathetic.
I just realised that the banyan tree and being connected to the whole world is likely an allegory to Buddha reaching enlightenment whilst meditating under a tree. You also really see the Buddhist influences with the prayer flags and the stupa Jinora is trying to meditate by. Appreciate the show's attention to detail if nothing else.
You'd think OA would hear the word "enlightenment" and put 2 and 2 together. There's like only one internationally influential figure in history who got that. Fun fact: Gautam Buddh(the Buddha) was a hindu prince, who got disenchanted by the sorrows of life and sat under a tree until he got the answers to everything. I've been to the very place he did it too, it's in Gaya, India. Very cool place.
@@TheBluePhoenix008 I'm pretty sure he said it when going over the Last Airbender episodes? Though I didn't make the connection between that & the tree being literally connected to the entire physical & spiritual world until Vincent here pointed it out.
@ That video came out years ago, I don't remember. I started watching from the drill but I watched the others too.
@@TheBluePhoenix008not really
He can be pretty oblivious at times
13:35 I KNEW IT WAS CHANGING BETWEEN EPISODES I THOUGHT IT WAS A MISTAKE
2:21, CLEARLY the important difference is Meelo now has his own hair so he no longer needs to ask others for theirs
I see the avatar state being blocked by the poison as a subconcious thing. Even if she didnt actively know it was there she might have felt it subconciously. And the last thing that happened to her when she was poisoned before losing herself was desperately trying to hold back the avatar state to stopthe red lotus' plan. I can eadily see her subconcious running on the logic of "i cant allow myself to use the avatar state while this poison is in me"
Toph has always been seen to be able to do things like tell when people are lying, and even by the end of last airbender she goes from needing to focus when talking to jet and smellerbee to being able to tell through her feet (albeit not well) when azula was lying during day of black sun. it always kinda made sense that after decades of continuing to make her bending better and probably a bit of meditation, toph would be able to focus and feel the vibrations of peoples voices through their bodies and into the ground. It might come off as like a faint whisper but seeing as she was friends with the last avatar and "do you really think friendships can last more than one lifetime" line it wouldnt surprise me if toph is pretty sentimental and keeps an eye on korra occasionally
Ikki also pulls her arm out of the binding ropes at 5:11 when you were talking about the map
Ikki took it after her grandfather. Aang did simillar move in "Avatar Day" while talking with criminals.
2:44 Ikki deserves all the strays. 11:57 The Avatar State was unblocked by a rock to Aang's nerve damaged spine against Ozai. So maybe it was in her spine?
Deeply missed seeing Sokka on thumbnail's left side. 😉
It's usually on the right
He changes it based on the video so he dose not block anything in the shot he picks
Great to see you back!
The tree in the swamp allows you to see everything and the tree of time allows you to view all of time one tree for space and one for time
I don't believe I have ever heard Overanalyzing Avatar speak with such passion before @2:43
I'm glad you've kept this going I love your content and pray it continues long and forever
6:23 She also removed her arm in the prevoius clip when you were talking about the map. It also reminds me more of the moment where Aang took his head out of the stockade than with his earth handcuffs.
I like this episode because it finally shows more about the airbending kids personality
6:24 I'd say the moment where Aang gets girl advice from prisoners and takes his head and arms out of the stocks that were too big for him also matches that pattern.
the champ is here, thank you for uploading again. We missed you! I hope things are better now 💚
6:50 My brain like half of the time now a days.
given how bending is tied to mysticism, it makes sense to me that the greatest earthbender in the world is up on her spiritual stuff
thank you for coming back to make fun of this show 🙏🙏🙏
11:03 The pure indignation with which you said that is frying me.
7:55 I think that’s the point of Tophs monologue here anyways. A part of Korra finds parts of these villains agreeable and that is really difficult for her to reconcile with
This is a 13 episode season with a clip show and the pacing is still molasses
welcome back dad, glad youre feeling better
8:10 This is a good point I feel often missed about this show. Is that most of the villains in this show are psychological or philosophical villains there's very few who are just flat out evil or are powerful villains. IN airbender most villains want power, pride, or greed all very surface level things. Such as the pirates, zhao, azula, and zuko at the begginning. There are some grey area characters like hebai because just acting out of rage, zuko's character arc, and the firebending master who's name I forgot, and the sword master too.
Airbender seemed a lot more focused on characters challenging the avatar like a rare pokemon or wanting to stop the avatar so they can do their evil selfish plan. The focus is less on villains compared to korra too which is really interesting. Korra really feels like puberty compared to airbender's childlike nature. Korra is just a really good representation of puberty I feel whether the creators intended it or not from the narrative to the awkwardness.
It's only been two weeks but I'm still relieved that you're back
I really like the concept of Toph having visions, like, completely blind and then just a spirit vision and she's just like "What the fuck bro is this what seeing is like" (esp bc if she went into the spirit world she wouldn't be able to bend and therefore couldn't "see")
wow thats a great thought!
Jayfeather vibes.
I love millo
Dude is a fusion of aang and sokka , specifically when 2 bro's use the same brain at the same time but they always forget who's turn it is ,its nice😊
I dunno, having the ability to play "Blue" by Eiffel-65 being applied to any electronic device sounds like a personal hell.
1:10 *"And you've got some pretty big ears, don't you?"* ~ Meng
“It’s not a cultural thing, as far as you can tell.” But it is. Aang thought that being a vegetarian was a part of his culture. And while he rethought something, he still could teach his son of this cultural aspect, especially when his son was air bender.
Aang and Sokka would be proud of Meelo’s rizz bending
since their both dead that makes meelo the last rizzbender
13:38 I love that this is the first true thing about a patron shout-out
Nah, there's definitely a true one at the Airbender finale:
"Fritz Sullivan, who was my first 'fuck you' money patron, and never missed a month."
I would like to note... Not everyone can agree on freedom and equality. As seen by the world today. Although certainly what Toph says is a bit reductive, especially for Zaheer.
Even the people who don't still lie about it because they recognize how universally appealing the ideas are.
I like the scene coming up in a few episodes where Korra Fights Kuvira; it shows that PTSD is never something you fully get over. That is a constant fight and there’s no easy way to get rid of it
2:43 Milo understood that when things don't go your way, the most important thing in life is to assign blame
6:51 buuulllll frogg
The way they use Toph as a mouth piece to try and reaffirm what the past villains wanted never sat right with me.
Amon didn't care about equality, he just hated benders because his dad was mean to him.
Unalaq was somehow less of a character than Ozai to the point where they had to have her attribute something Korra did to him. Since she's the one who left the portals open, thus "bringing back the spirits".
And Zaheer was just an idiot who maxed out his "cool" factor.
Amon hated Bending because his father was an abusive scumbag who raised him as a weapon instead of a person and probably beat his wife and kids. If anything, he wanted to end the oppression of the weak by those with power, something that is never actually addressed.
Unnalaq had a god complex like Ozai but without years of build up as a looming threat and acknowledgment that he is a monster.
Zaheers not just an idiot he's a dangerous, death cult, lunatic, that they retroactively made a shortsighted fool.
"Bringing back the spirits" isn't even an accomplishment, those portals could have been opened at any point in 10,000 years. Korra was just the 1st Avatar stupid enough to do that
And spirits just sit in the background and get ignored in the narrative anyway until it's time to praise their floating around in the human world
Toph is not Iroh, she says a lot of bs
Maybe OA was right about her not knowing politics and assumed they were righteous because she could only seismically sense people agreeing with them?
@@robhillen8007in universe conveniences that might be true aren’t as valuable as the writers being more careful and intentional with how they write it. Not a bad idea though: might even be interesting rhetoric about the weaknesses of “mass consensus.”
Enjoyed this episode. Slower, peaceful, reflective, sweet, a lot of lush green colours.
I love these.
Did I miss it, or was "some sorta bear face" missing from the name callout at the end?
Oh I miss the Bear Face
Maybe he just forgot to say it this episode, right? ....Right?
The whole LoK feels like they had some good ideas but too much is shadowed by bad ideas+execution
Glad your back
7:33 she said it earlier. She can see everything with the vines of the swamp.
4:18 She probably needs a special spiritual place. Like, you could see some kind of stone slab under the tree. What she should have done is send Meelo and Ikki to get headlight fluid, or if the shop didn’t have it, some elbow grease.
Don’t know if I’ve ever been so excited to see one of these
Im glad youre ok O.A./K.! Have a great weekend!
2:43 this came from the heart 😂😂😂😂😂😂
2:43 my video paused here and started buffing and i genuinely thought it was some elaborate bit before i realized
2:07 I was really confused on what this was but I’m pretty sure it’s just the wall behind them zoomed in 200%
Pretty sure it's the fog of lost souls (where Aiwai ended up after Zaheer yeeted him in)
When Toph says Zaheer believes in freedom, it's not totally wrong. He wants anarchy i.e., negative freedom or the absolute freedom to do whatever you want to. There are different ideas of freedom and in our everyday life we adhere to positive freedom or freedom set within boundaries. The idea of freedom gets thrown around a lot, especially in America, but the issue is that no-one seems to agree what they mean, when they say freedom.
6:27 I always felt like it was more of a callback to Avatar Day with the stockade he was in, but I guess they are basically the same gag
After discovering Overanalyzing The Last Airbender a month ago, I have finally caught up to the present
Toph? Have a vision? @7:40
LMFAO
I just all ways assumed the banyanbo tree and swamp were just the grown vines from a previous hermonicconvergence
2:32 Aang never met any of his grandkids :(
5:12 She takes her hand out of the ropes and wipes her nose, then puts it back in the trap LOL
I believe the reason airbenders are vegetarians isn't just because Nickelodeons wants to parrot Tibetan/Buddhist monk culture. I for one think just like going bald, a vegetarian diet has its practical reasons. For one thing, due to the Air Nomads living so high up in the mountains. The only animals they could get a hold of are birds or the occasional flying lemur and neither are in great abundance. Furthermore, meat tends to pack on a lot of weight to the body. That's not good when airbending requires one to be agile and would be pretty hard, if not dangerous for an obese airbender to achieve liftoff and remain airborne.
He’s back 🗣️🗣️
heyyy how are you? not going to lie missed your 3 weeks break. great to see your still good
I don't know why but the "FUCK you Ikki" at 2:42 killed me, totally justified too
Toph visits Lin and Zaofu at an unknown frequence so the idea that she'd know about the Korra villains from her makes sense to me, maybe she was interested in knowing what happened to her friend's reincarnation
Damn, you were gone a while. Missed these sorta weekly vids
You know were really comeing to the end of this show i cant wait to see what you do in the future
4:30 how is air nomads being vegetarian not a cultural thing? In season 3 ep 2 Tenzin even says: “There’s nothing more nutritious than our vegetarian diet” when trying to recruit a new airbender. It’s definitely a group practice, and furthers their connection to real world buddhism.
There’s something really funny about implying Toph had *visions* in the swamp.
Maybe the swamp put them in tophs mind
4:57 this has got to be like, damp clay, right? Is this the first time we've seen slightly moist claybending?? That's pretty neat
2:16 What?? Sokka was spitting bars during that Yue scene, and he's the only character to have two girlfriends over the course of the show! I'm guessing he got it from Sokka's side for sure.
Funny, I was just thinking I hadn’t seen any of your videos recently and wondered if I had missed one. Then bang! A little later vid 😂
Omg I was literally looking for a video earlier today😩
I think that the swamp is in the middle of the physical world like the tree of time is in the cebter between the north and south portals. I can see them being related.
love your work. please, keep it up. i started following you in book 1. I guess the live stream got cut, don't do anything I would do.
‘Toph had to deal with her own visions’💀
5:06 We saw it in takes of ba sing se when toph was in the spa and made the mud on her face do that to scare the spa people
Quality of episode aside. This was my favorite on my first watch through and it still is
Nice to see you got your voice fixed when seeing normal animals
It looks likes the Grove Tree's roots might collect into the Tree of time. The place where Korra sat in the tree of time might even have been the seed.
8:43 Is that Hisuian Goodra?
On the poison thing at the start, it is a metalloid poison so it's gonna be heavy on her along with it probably not being a lethal dose.
7:02 It might be just be perspective Korra and toph appear to about the same hight in this shot which caught me of guard since in every other scene korra's like a foot taller than her
The swamp vision is probably put Toph there even though it doesn’t make sense for her to be there or the swamp to work like it does for her
3:36 Does anyone else see that the bags look like appa or just a bison in general? Looks funny
I really like the idea of the swamp just knowing and being weird. Kinda reminds me of sprits from avatar