BLOODBENDING! Avatar The Last Airbender Book 3 Ep 8 REACTION | ATLA 3x8
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“It’s like my brain has a mind of its own!” -Sokka
The one thing Katara did that really shocked Hama was that direct blocking move. It was not waterbending style at all, which involves flowing, pushing, pulling, and redirecting. Katara developed it from watching Toph's earthbending techniques; a solid, immovable stance.
Its giving.. iroh's development of lightning redirection
People have also pointed out that the move she followed up with was similar to an airbending technique; indicating she also developed some moves, by watching Aang.
Yes. Katara becomes like Iroh, who also uses techniques of other bending types. While Iroh can't bend water, the lightning redirection is a Waterbending technique. Katara becomes the next Iroh.
katara is a master so she should be using water like fire air and earth . aang should be able to bloodbend too since there's oxygen in the blood
That’s pretty cool! I’ve re watched this so many times and have never picked up on this
I love how they make bloodbending look so unnatural and creepy. This is a great episode.
I remember reading it was done on purpose. It's supposed to demonstrate that blood-bending was painful, frightful, and unnatural. It's worst than mind control because you have all your mental faculties about, but you are powerless to control your own body.
6:49 "I'm so sorry for calling you sus"
I had a good chuckle at this one
Hama wasn't Nini, Nini was in Katara's Moms generation, Hama was in Katara's Grandmothers generation, which is why Katara said "she kind of reminds me of gran gran", and when Hama mentioned it was over 60 years ago when the raid started (katara's mother wasn't even in her 50's when she died) and when you mentioned thats defo katara's mum, it was actually a young gran gran
Blood bending such a OP and terrifying ability
Absolutely. There is no counter besides beeing the stronger blood bender.
@@thefiendish186 and Hama invented it. Only she and Katara know it exists. Meaning as far as the rest of the planet is concerned there is no counter to bloodbending. Waterbenders are untouchable 1 day out of the month
@@elevate07 Going by probability, someone else out there probably discovered Blood Bending as well, but had no need to perfect the technique on the level of Hama in this era as there are very few Water Benders around except for the swamps and north pole.
@@NameIsZ It's all about having "an open mind", people that are surrounded by water probably never think about it. The same reason why Iroh was the only one to learn lightning redirection, firebenders generally dont have to think about that because they never need to fight lightning benders.
@@MrDzoni955 Yeah, though it makes me wonder what other forms of bending can be refined that just aren't in the series that we haven't see yet.
What I always loved about this episide, is how masterfully it juggles the "Halloween TV special" tropes, by making us believe that nothing scary is actually going on, and the characters are just making it all up and being paranoid of the poor old woman.
So when we least expect it, brushing every scary vibe as "Nah, this is just a Halloween episide!", the reveal hits so much harder
They build her up as the obvious twist villain but then surprise! She's not actually a villain, but then surprise, again! She is the villain! It's the rare triple twist.
First, Happy Holidays Melon!
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The Puppetmaster
Hama acquired her Inn years ago when its former owner mysteriously disappeared …
Hama is the only known southern waterbender in existence besides Katara. Hama was the last known waterbender in the village until Katara was born. That was almost 50 years without a waterbender at the South Pole. The Fire Nation took the waterbenders because they posed the biggest threat.
5:56 This is actually Kanna. Katara and Sokka’s grandmother. Hama and Kanna were friends.
Tress MacNeille, the voice of Hama, also voices Dot from the show Animaniacs as well as other prominent roles such as Daisy Duck.
10:14 This is an Owl Cat. You can tell by its distinctive meow-hoot.
This episode does a wonderful job of answering a question that many fans had since the beginning of the show. Since blood is made up of roughly 70 percent water why don’t waterbenders just use this method? Bloodbending is considered a dark form of waterbending and is sometimes referred to as the "puppetmaster technique". This episode is considered an Avatar Halloween story.
Fact: Those who practice this technique open themselves up to madness. In other words, they go crazy with power.
Bonus: the fire nation ship that you see Hama and the other waterbenders trapped in ice during this episode, is the same exact ship that Katara and Aang explored in the first episode of the series.
Out of all the main characters, Katara is by far the one most guided by her morals and principles. Had any of the others learned or been forced to use a similar ability, I suspect they would have been less distraught. However, for Katara, that she had done it meant recognising that she herself was capable of - and had inside of her - such level of evil.
I feel Aang has a strong moral compass too but I do agree that Katara has a good character.
@@Ezlife1997yea Aang and Katara are the most morally driven and because of that they are the most scary when they are out for blood
@@mitcheltillman2461no..momo is far more dangerous. You'll see in the last two episodes if you haven't finished the series. Momo was ready to bloodbath when aang was waiting for ozai momo was there too until aang told him to go away.
Momo is the most dangerous in the series. He even fought appa using only one sword while appa wielding three swords.
there is actually nothing inherently evil about blood bending, if you are willing to kill your enemy it doesn't matter the method you use to kill them
Since it's not explicitly said in the show and I don't see any comments talking about it. There was a woman right at the front of the crowd when Hama was loaded onto the fire nation ship, that was Katara and Sokka's grandma Kana. She actually mentions Hama in one of the first couple episodes, but she passes over her name so quickly and casually that nobody ever remembers.
I know these were recorded a while ago, but just the fact that they went out of their way to be able to post something even on Christmas really made my day!!
Thank you as always and Merry Christmas!!
Don't see many FoE names around.
This is my favorite episode. Blood-Bending is such a dark concept and the implications are horrifying!
Waterbending is extremely OP when you think about it. Even without bloodbending you theoreticaly could just freeze your enemies brain in an instant.
That'd be one hell of a brain freeze
That actually gets kinda explained as to why it wouldn't work near the end, but to explain might be considered spoilery.
So here are some spoiler buffers.
Another one.
Maybe enough.
This should be enough.
Eh, another buffer line, just in case.
So part of why you can only Bloodbend under a full Moon is because to Bend you need to move your chi out of your body and still control it.
When the finale occurs and Spiritbending is explained, it's mentioned that to control the energy of another your own spirit must be unbendable.
So from these we can deduce that people have inherent control over their own chi. To overrule their control requires immense skill and power.
Controlling someone's blood or freezing the water in their brain would require similar levels of control and power.
@@MrGBH Oh yeah thats reasonable
it all sounds op until you realize, lore-wise, they way they balanced it was that very few people are powerful enough to do something like that. Very few waterbenders can do bloodbending at all, and only during a full moon because it's like an ability that's at the absolute top limit of waterbending in terms of skill/power. Only a couple characters in the second series (won't spoil) are shown ever using bloodbending outside of a full moon, and that's only because of their inherited genetic traits that made them extremely, unusually strong waterbenders. So unless you win the genetic lottery and train for literally years and years, you aren't going to be able to "freeze someone's brain".
@@thekamotodragonokay, how about pulling the blood straight down away from their brain causing them to pass out within 3 seconds and die shortly after if you hold the position?
The Halloween special in Christmas day, nice.
Thinking about how difficult it is to keep Waterbenders captive made me realise. How would you keep an Airbender captive?
Sozin realised how.
You don't bother, and instead just wipe them out.
Love this episode. It gets super dark and I love when shows that can't normally get too deep into that stuff find a reasonable way to walk along that line. Also my favorite detail of Katara's story about Nini is about her being blue and that in this world spirits are canonicaly blue so it's entierly possible it's true.
5:59 thats not katara mom...... is her grandmother, obviously
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DAMN ONLY NOW I REALIZE, after having seen this episode a million times, when Sokka discovers the puppets, that's how she keeps training her bloodbending when it is not full moon and she can't do it with real people.
K. Copypasted comment from other vids lol.
I don't know if anyone has pointed this out but Hama's voice actress is Dot from Animaniacs.
I love how fast you switched up from “don’t snoop” to “open the box!”
This is an example of why this show is SOOO sick.
Definitely one of the darkest episodes of this show. Merry Christmas everyone!
There it is, that’s my second favorite episode from the entire series besides the finale. That’s why I love Katara. She protects people she loves and she’s so powerful. Thank you for reacting to this amazing show. ❤❤❤❤
The flashback was over sixty years ago... Katara and Sokka's mom wasn't in her 80's lol. Hama is not Nini. The girl you thought was their mom was actually Gran Gran, their grandmother.
If Hama directed her anger at the Fire Nation military, she could've been another awesome ally who helped Team Avatar at the Invasion or during Sozin's Comet
One of the really dark episodes of the show. Not many think highly of waterbending since unlike the other 3 elements water is not readily available, but this shows the dark potential of it, Hama’s story was also tragic being from the same tribe as Katara and Sokka who like them grew up constantly fighting the Fire Nation raids on their village slowly watching as her fellow waterbenders dwindled slowly then spending years as a prisoner of war. Its hard not to see why she developed her extremist views to the point she targeted innocent Fire Nation civilians. Katara also had it bad wanting to learn more from a southern waterbender only to be cursed with knowledge of an art she doesn’t want but had to use to save Sokka and Aang.
water is just as abundant as earth and fire and air its apart of both earth, water and air
ther is a side effect of blood bending it effects the mind of the user as well
It should be katara said that it held a very bad memory of their people. That memory being the last of your benders being captured certainly fits.
Something to think about. Bloodbending is the dark side of waterbending. And in episode S1 E3 The Southern Air Temple it is implied that Monk Gyatso killed those Fire Nation solders by creating a vacuum and removing the air from their lungs. So, that starts the question, What are the dark powers of Earth and Fire bending?
There’s a theory that earth would be able to control the minerals in your body, and fire would control your temperature. But it’s not confirmes
Hama was kataras grandmothers friend. Over 60 years had passed. Kataras mom was not that old.
Keep in mind they can only use bloodbending during a full moon (when waterbending is strongest). So it is pretty restricted, but very OP.
Dont know if its been said, but there is a theory that they captured all the waterbenders in the south pole and imprisoned them, but after Hama escaped they realized how powerful they actually were and decided the kill the rest instead. In essence, Hama may be the reason why they killed Kataras mother.
Nah, Hama might be evil, but she's not responsible for other waterbender's deaths. That's entirely on the Fire Nation itself, Hama had a right to escape.
I remember this terrifying ability and it is so awesome. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Thank you for everything you have done for everyone with your videos and keep being yourself and an awesome streamer and gamer. Merry Melon Christmas and Happy Holidays.
there is more than enough water in the desert to use the techniques to rip it out of the atmosphere
one of the episodes ive been most excited about you getting to :) i kept forgetting how late into the show this was. right? its intense!
Hi Melon
This episode was crazy
Ok no judgment from anyone from what i am about to say here ok but Hama was the first Avatar the last Airbender to actually scar me
Because Bloodbending is a awful power to have
You could hurt so many people with it Hama was blinded years of hatred for the Fire benders and their nation
She was trying to use Katara as a weapon of hatred
And even though Katara used Bloodbending to stop Hama now she knows that she can do it and it scary to hear because what if she used that power for evil like Hama did
Plus seeing Katara so sad at the end of this one all ways get to me any one else wish they could give Katara a hug because i know i wanted to
Oh Melon Merry Christmas
And a happy new years
thanks for watching along as i rewatch. i developed a crush
keep in mind, it took all of Katara's experience and journey to start tapping into all the water in the environment. Water that dwells in life, and expelled from her own body. Hama showed her more, but it still takes a deep understanding and practice to command....because the element is less abundant and more dispersed. Oftentimes in bending, concepts and knowing are half the battle, but its never a complete lightswitch effect. You've seen, it takes proper form and concentration to control the element. The more its done, the more effortless it "looks," but the principles still apply. It's true that a little water can become a deadly weapon, but even with all this, its still not Katara's style. Like, she won't be making ice nails on her fingers for example. Katara cuts and fashions weapons and attacks, but she essentially uses it as a tool
It's so creepy that even when captured in the end...Hama won in a sense and she laughs all the way.
That's because she knows she can probably escape later that night. If not that night, then the next full moon.
@@kwanarchive She's not escaping. The show will never show it, because you know, it's a children cartoon, but she can literally bend people's blood on full moon. If tying her hands for perpetuity isn't enough to stop her, the fire nation is absolutely going to be cutting off her hands at this point, they're not taking any risk with her now that they know what she can do.
@@Arkayjiya What are the chances any of the villagers, let alone the soldiers in/near the village knows how to deal with a bloodbender? Hell, she's still powerful enough of a waterbender to extract water from plants and the air.
She literally could have escaped as soon as she went off screen. No one in the vicinity, except Katara, literally the only other person in the entire world, would know how to deal with her.
@@kwanarchive"What are the chances any of the villagers, let alone the soldiers in/near the village knows how to deal with a bloodbender"
That would be a good point if the way to deal with her wasn't exactly the same way to deal with almost any bender.
With a few exceptions (Bumi, Sparky Sparky Boom Boom Man and Noatok's bloodline) benders use their limbs and especially their hands to bend.
Cutting her hands off would literally be the first thing they think of even if they know nothing of bloodbending.
"She literally could have escaped as soon as she went off screen."
No she couldn't. They're holding her cuffed hands specifically to prevent bending. That woman is done. She doesn't have any escape master plan, she's just done.
@@Arkayjiya "They're holding her cuffed hands specifically to prevent bending."
No they're not. They're holding her cuffed hands because that's how most people apprehend most people. Are cops trying to prevent people from bending when they cuff people? No. Because it has nothing to do with bending. It's just arresting people with cuffs.
"That woman is done. She doesn't have any escape master plan"
She doesn't need any new escape master plan. She already has one. She can pull water out of anywhere. She can bloodbend that night. That's her escape plan. She has survived alone in the Fire Nation for decades.
Iroh was in cuffs after he was captured by Earth benders. Was he unable to fight back (even momentarily before being outnumbered by soldiers)?
You must be naive if you think some cuffs would stop someone like Hama, who has survived on her own inside the Fire Nation for decades. Hama, who can pull water out of the air with her fingers, which the cuffs do not prevent from moving. They don't even have cuffs on her feet.
I think of healing and bloodbending as closely related.
Waterbending would be the most OP bending, if the series wasnt PG ^^
"Oh look, an Enemy, let me just bend the liquid out of your Eyes", "I just stopped a tiny amount of blood in your veins... have a nice Heartattack" or "I show you Brainfreeze... by freezing the liquid that your brain is swimming in"
none of that is possible because of the limiations of each element. a group of MIT students did a study and concluded that firebending would definitely be the most powerful element , than earth, than air than water last
Reminder. Morals aside, Katara can only bloodbend during the full moon. She can't do it whenever she wants. Yes its incredibly powerful, but its nerfed to one night per month.
Not gonna lie, when i was a little kid i tried to open bloodbending powers during the full moon 😂 because it was such an extremely op ability. If this ability wouldn't have restrictions like full moon that would be just broken ability
It's still OP. Honestly, Katara, Aang, and Toph could attack the Fire Lord in his own castle during a full moon and probably kill him and be gone without a trace. The full moon restriction is a restriction. But, it's still a crazy strong technique with no real counter.
@@IamnotJohnFord Real counter is the avatar state.
I think Katara just more powerful water bender to Hama because she has trained more especially since she has been in fire nation territory for about 60 years
There's one other technique that you could theoretically use with waterbending that would be super OP, and nobody ever uses it as far as I know. Waterbenders are able to control the temperature and the state of water so that they can freeze and thaw it at will, right? So shouldn't it also be possible to heat water until it's scalding hot or make it turn into steam? With hot water and steam, you could replicate the effects of airbending and firebending, and with ice, you can replicate the effects of earthbending, so it seems really OP if steambending is possible. You could even replicate combustionbending (what Combustion Man does with his eye) by causing water to flash to steam and explode, which is how phreatic volcanic eruptions work.
no none of that would be possible steam can explode but no where to the level of combustion bending and steam is not hot enough to replcate the effects of firebending and you couldn't replicate the effects of airbending by steam bending steam doesn't have the airpressure and would instantly rise
There's not a single example of water bending making water hotter. They can only freeze it or turn it to mist.
I've never hit the like button so quickly
This is my favourite episode
Nini is actually dead.....Hama knew Gran Gran when they were younger before she was captured.
It's sad when you realize the only reason the Fire Nation was kidnapping Waterbenders is because they thought the last Avatar (Aang) had passed, so they thought the reincarnation cycle continued into the next nation. 😞
and if they killed the waterbenders it would have passed again. maybe that was the plan? accelerate it to an avatar born to the fire nation and raise said avatar into their ways?
@@saphcal If they killed all the waterbenders, including the new avatar, then it would just go to the Earthbenders - a nation strong enough to resist them for a century. If they could kill all the earth benders to ensure the Avatar passed to the fire nation once more then they wouldn't NEED to: they'd already have won.
@@gork8468 exactly.
Que episodio mas genial. Feliz Navidad para el que llegue a leer este mensaje
you should check out legend of korra afterwards i dont really compare the 2 shows they are both amazing and its more of the same universe! could do a few episodes for pateron and see if you feelin' it :D
Merry Christmas 🔥 bless up 💯
why didn´t katara say "come with us we bringt you to the firelord"😅
Because 1. Hama wants to make all fire nation to suffer or even die. 2. The power only works under a full moon. 3. She can only bloodbend up to, two people at a time
Lmao a Halloween episode on Christmas.
Lighting bending can be used if y master it at such a level you can control the electric current in a human body by the nerve system And lift rocks metal but the ultimate form of lightning bending is mind bending controlling the electric current in the brain to control the mind once you profit this bending art you can control entire armies
none of what you said is remotely true
Watching a Halloween special on Christmas, are we?
Hama isn’t the little girl in the story even though it feels like they imply it by the story. The ages don’t match up.
It's not implied. People just assume they can spot a twist a mile away and make stupid guesses. It's a very common reaction channel thing to do.
14:42 Those two laughs... :)
Is not katara s mom. She says it's 60 years ago. That's grand grand
Katara does also say that Hama reminds her of Gran Gran.
@@nathanielreik6617well considering gran gran and hama were best friends
So, can you tell that this episode first came out around Halloween?
I'm curious based on what you said on your last reaction if this episode changed your mind on finding Katara "boring at times" cause iwl I've rarely if ever heard that opinion I thought she was always put on the pedestal
Gracias
fun theory, Earth benders; similar to water benders blood bending, can Bone bend to control people.
Bones are not earth.
@@KeijiMaeda86 calcium absolutely is. big factor in bones. is calcium. its the 5th most abundant metal in earth's crust. not trying to be cocky and mean, but pick up a book.
calcium isn't the type of metal that could be bent there are no earth particles in calcium@@dustinherk8124
these dumbass theories are never going to happen. "hurr durr air benders can bend the oxygen in your blood" stfu
I think earthbender able to bloodbending too because blood contains iron
waterbending lowkey op, healing, bloodbending, water literally everywhere, sharp and controlling ice, massive force
But I mean its still not as cool as lightning tho
Please nobody mention the other episode let it come as a shock as it did here
I'd like to see you react to The Legend of Korra after this! Don't listen to the people saying it's so bad you shouldn't watch it! It's not perfect, but it is great in lots of ways; let's hear what you think of it, and how you think it might have been better.
im pretty sure she already confirmed in a pinned comment on one of the past episodes that she is gonna do korra.
5:55 katara's mom was not even born yet. It's probably katara's grandma. Also, Hama cannot be Nini because she was captured way before katara's mom was born. Nini supposed to be the same age as katara's mom, or even younger. But i doubt Nini even existed.
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4:32 - 4:36 Toph 😂😂😂😂
Wow wow that is crazy bro wow wow that is crazy
Its my personal theory that the reason Katara just all of a sudden stands up and says "My bending is stronger than yours" is because Yue herself stepped in and helped her
Could be but she also pulled the water from the ground inside her and basically bend herself free. You can see how the liquid in the grass vanished when she first moved her fingers.
Could be both. Yue giving her a pep talk like Goku did for Gohan in the BoJack movie
Yue doesn't have the power to enhance an individual benders powers
Dumb theory
I have a list of episodes U want to see her reaction to. 12, 16, 19, 20 and 21.
That's katara's grandma
3:20 Yeah! Who is she, a Filler Charakter from Pokemon?
If she hates the fire nation army, why not actually fight against them in the war and win the whole thing on her own?
Melon Lord. 😂
I'll keep typing this (whenever I watch your reaction), till THEN.
5:56 60 years ago? Don't you mean her grandma?
9:55 Because it's a kids show, this makes no sense. So get everyone down here and what, keep delivering food and feed them?
Right because it's a kids show they won't show outright brutality of killing. And there's a certain higher level of malice keeping someone alive just torture them.
Honestly I don't see anything wrong with bloodbending. I mean, it can be used for wrong yes, like Hama did. You can kill with it or capture. But you can also stop people from fighting, which I think is good. As long as you have good intentions you can use it for good and that kinda applies to all bending.
You are exerting your will on another person, and it is implied that it is not a pleasant experience. Very easy to compare to r*pe.
some people believe that taking another's agency away, even the agency to do bad things, is reprehensible. thus any form of body control of another person is always unjustifiable, to those people.
by that logic grappling would be bad@@saphcal
@@saphcal Weird people. According to that logic, putting under arrest or handcuffing a criminal would be something evil because the cop is taking away the criminal's agency and violating his/her free will to commit the crime or run away.
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It is cool that she has this ability to control other people, but Katara being who she is, would probably never use it on someone else. I mean unless she really hated them.
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And remember, blood bending is not an evil technique. Violating someone's free will or taking away someone's agency is not always an evil or unethical thing. Cops do it all the time when handcuffing or putting a criminal under arrest. This bending can come in handy for self-defense or defending others.
Also, I can say the same about carrying and using a gun for self-defense.
lol grandma and old lady are not synonymous. i dont think she ever had kidd
Hama did nothing wrong. Free her!😭
I love this episode, but it's really about Katara selling out her principles for short-term goal, which is why it isn't really supposed to be hype.
Weird episode