I feel like it’s easy to forget Korra’s been training for her entire life. She’s not “naturally good”, she’s just an 18-year-old who’s had professional training since she was a toddler.
@@adriancamaquin I was about to say the same thing, she struggles a lot with everything that isn't the physical aspect of bending. Diplomacy, spirituality, people skills, relationships, conflict resolution etc are the issues that the show focuses on and the one's she struggles with
@@gamerbear84 Gotta agree, that comment from Nat had me scratching my head lol of all the sub-bending skills, metal feels like the most obviously up Korra's alley, it wouldn't make sense for her to struggle with it.
Bruh, Kuvira is a fking boss and honestly looking back after s4 I wish she would have done more like being able to go toe to toe with anyone from the red lotus
@@samlung2724in an alternate timeline i could see Kuvira being the metalbender of the red lotus because like damn she took metal bending to the next level. There’s a reason why there’s a debate on whether Toph or Kuvira would win in a 1 on 1
I think it’s funny that a lot of people miss the fact that it’s not only Airbenders who are spiritual when we clearly see that Iroh, a firebender, has a strong connection to spirits as well. I don’t believe you need to be a bender to have a spiritual connection so Zaheer already had a strong spiritual connection before he was an air bender
Yep, Guru Pathik was a very spiritual nonbender in the original series, for example. Imagine him but instead of pursuing a life of detachment you develop a strong belief in anarchy.
Exactly. Every nation has their own way of connecting to the spirit world. The first time Aang went into the spirit world was in an earth nation forest, then in a fire nation temple, then in the north pole's spirit oasis. The moon spirit was once a girl from the water tribe. Last season's villain was a spiritual water bender. The avatar, as the most spiritual human to exist, reincarnates in every nation equally. It just so happens that the air nomad culture is one that almost exclusively focuses on detatchment of the natural world, while the others are more in tune with nature and humanity. Ironically almost no air bender ever really reached spiritual enlightenment, even so almost all of them devoted their whole life to it. In 10,000 years only two of them reached the state Zaheer did. So having a spiritual culture does not necessarily mean that their people generally have a stronger connection to the spirit world.
What I find so interesting with Lin are the bits and pieces we find out about the past and her past. -She used to be in a relationship with Tenzin but broke up for some reason. -We know Pema "stole" Tenzin and now they have A LOT of kids. -Based off Lins backstory it seems Lin was focused on making her mother proud by living up to her legacy and upholding the city her mother brought up. -But at the same time pushed away her lover at the time, Tenzin. -Tenzin who was probably focused on his fathers legacy and bringing back the Air Nation so he probably wanted kids. -But having a lot of kids would stop Lin from ever being Chief of Police and working as an officer. So Pema probably appealed to that part of Tenzin, of him wanting a large family and willing to have one with him. So Lin sees how she had to give up everything to live for her mothers legacy, her mother gave up her own legacy to save Suyin and was never proud of Lins efforts. Then Suyin who had no responsibility ended up happy and with everything she could ever want. Then everyday since the fallout, Lin has had a scar as a reminder of her families collapse.
@@mrgroovy5113 Seriously. Even if you look at just the bending side of things, she struggled with airbending for a whole season and is hardly a master with it yet. She struggled with spiritbending for a bit, and she still only has rudimentary healing. The reason she picked up metalbending is because she has a clear affinity for earthbending, which is another reason airbending is far from natural for her. Meanwhile, Aang is 12 and becomes adept with water fairly easily, would've learned fire just as quick without the trauma of hurting Katara to overcome, and struggled with earthbending for one episode. Barely anyone complains that he struggled enough. I'm personally fine with it (though, I kind of wish his journey took the better part of two years rather than a few months), but find it disingenuous to only point these things out with Korra.
@@brycelloyd3592 Right? People criticizing Korra always just conveniently ignore that the only thing that ever held Aang back from mastering the full elemental spectrum in a week was having to go personally hunt down teachers from around the world during a global war. The most he ever struggled with learning a new element was needing a whole day to come to grips with earthbending.
I agree! I think she struggles a fair bit in many areas and has had years become a proficient (not sure if she is a master) bender in 3 of the elements. Personally, I hated how long it took her to learn air but it made sense for her personality.
It REALLY frustrates me when people say everything is easy for Korra cause that's simply not true. Yes, she's a gifted bender but learning the 4 elements is not her journey, that was Aang's history. Her conflict is 100% spiritual and emotional. She was sheltered and lied to her entire life, people manipulate her for their own sake, they have unrealistic expectations on her just because she's the avatar and they forget she's just a teenager!! Of course she's emotionally emature!!! She was raised with no social interaction other than her parents and coaches!!! And yet, she manages to grow emotionally and spiritually despite NOBODY believing in her, nor the characters nor the audience
People accused the character of being a "Mary Sue" type but that label never fit. Sure she had a lot natural talent but she's consistently had to overcome things to be who she is. This series shows the viewer many times she's a flawed character and is wrong in many scenarios.
@@chaost4544 which also like wouldn't Aang be "Mary Sue" like he master air at 12, and excelled at waterbending faster than katara (at the beginning), sure he stumped on earth bending and fire, but evenly he got to be proficient in a matter of MONTHS, where korra is a trained professional for over 13 years when we saw her at 17 in book 1: air. i think people overlook this because we see aang progress in show, where for korra we only see her training for air in terms of bending.
24:42 zaheer is really good at the spirit world because he was locked up 13 years! a lot of time to practice when thats your only way out of your prision
The Terror Within and the Stakeout start an incredible sequence of episodes that just ups the stakes so much and that doesn't end until the finale. I mean come on, the Red Lotus infiltrating Zaofu and everyone figting, Korra managing to answer Aiwei without lying once, the crew having fun before shit hits the storm and the fight at The Misty Palms Inn and everyone getting captured... I *love* these episodes, and the fact that they aren't even my favorites of season 3 speaks volumes.
Hot take, but Lin is ABSOLUTELY in the right here, her sister fucked her up and took no accountability. Just sayin Edit: the most common reply here seems to be "oh it's been so long lin should get over it"... the Fuck? You people are willing to just sweep emotional neglect, disfigurement and straight up criminal activity JUST cuz it's "been a long time"? What the fuck is wrong with you people?!
@@MidoriDad because they both did Lin dirty and acted like "its everyone's fault", when the fact is, Suyin was first at fault, Toph was second for trying to cover for her, Lin literally did nothing wrong
From Lin's perspective, she did everything right, and the world just kept punishing her for fun. She tried to help Suyin, who ended up scarring her for life. Suyin's punishment? Toph resigns, and Suyin gets off "scott free." She also doesn't believe her actions/attitude made Tenzin break up with her. It's just that she wasn't good enough. Again. From her perspective, she does everything right, and still fails. Picard would say "that is life." And I'm sure Lin would agree, believing that she's always destined to lose. The only time she wins is by sacrificing part of her idetity. She saves Pema and her children by sacrificing her bending. She reconciles with her sister by just giving uo her anger and forgiving her without even one apology. She can only win by losing. ETA: Telling someone with unresolved anger issues, parental issues, mental scars and other trauma to "grow up" is just....ick. Like, where the heck did you leave your compassion? Lin didn't WANT to do this. She was forced into it by everyone badgering her to forgive someone who NEVER APOLOGISED! You put pressure on someone, break them, and act shocked that it DOESN'T magically fix everything? Wow. Just... wow. It disgusts me how litte care or sympathy Lin gets before she's forced to act all nice for everyone's benefit. She doesn't WANT to be "bitter." She wants to be hapoy as HERSELF, and no one will let her. No one apologizes, no one leaves well enough alone. They just keep berbally and mentally beating on her until she snaps, and declare themselves the good guys. Ugh.
One thing I wanted to mention about the Kya and Zaherr fight is that Kya is trained as a healer more than a fighter. So imo she held her own against a trained martial artist and newly acquired Air bender pretty well!
I never did like Su, she never actually apologized to Lin for hurting her and damaging her relationship with their mom. Like she scarred Su for life and never said I am sorry for what I did to you.
I'm not sure about the "damaging her relationship with their mom" part. Everything seems to point to Toph just not being a great parent. She's not terrible.... but she wasn't great.
@@Shirospyre you got a point but also that doesn't justify harming your sister like she is still responsible every criminal ever could say my parents were not very present in my life
Oh please Lin needed to grow up. They invited her to get together and talk things over but she rejected. Like Su said, if she had accepted she would have found out she changed and would have definitely gotten an apology. Instead she chose to carry all that bitterness for those years. That's her problem not anyone else
@@emmanuelarthur5471Has she changed though? She’s still perfectly fine with lying to Lin to let Korra go after known dangerous criminals and harboring Varrick despite him being a wanted man. All she’s done is get fancy.
@@AzarathMetreon She openly admits she was a rebel because of how much freedom their mom gave them. She became a devoted family person. All her kids turned out to be good people. She founded the city of Zaofu and became the matriarch of the Metal clan.Let's be for real please because someone who hasn't changed doesn't achieve all that just by being fancy. Also everything you listed is just insignificant and absolutely doesn't negate that she had changed. Heck even the story from that moment going forward showed that she had changed. What's all these weak reasons to make her seem like a villain.
I wouldn't say Korra's effortlessly good at everything. Season 1 she couldn't Airbend no matter how hard she tried. Also it took her 17 years to become a Master of the other three elements. It took Aang 1 summer to do that. As he was already a Master of Airbending at the age of 12.
also it was stated in book 1 that he would have to try to master the elements before the comet, but that plan fell apart after ba sing se, and day of black sun failed. After that he gave up the main plan of mastering them. it was impossible.
He was not a master at 12. Toph even said before the comet his earthbending needed more work. And he was competent with firebending but in no way a master.
The big difference is in atla it wasnt much about the movement but more about understanding the mental and mindset of the element. In Korra its just punching and she can airbend, or just focus for 10 seconds and metalbend. Also in the atla you required seismic sense to metalbend, they never showed Korra having that ability. Dont want to shit much on the legend of Korra i enjoy watching it, but it amazes me how bad it actually is and not so deep as atla.
@@babyboy5276011 in 2023 I don't feel that's a hot take. I've had years to watch both series and season 3 of "Legend of Korra" remains extremely memorable for me. All the plotlines I was invested in, the main antagonist is probably the best in both series, and all the characters we follow seem to really evolve in this season. Overall, the writing in this season was top tier even compared to peak Avatar.
There is so much of myself that I see in Lin during these episodes. Truly believing I didn't have to talk about or deal with my feelings. Using repression as a coping mechanism to avoid my feelings and lasing out when people tried to help me. You're totally right, it takes therapy to work through and get passed.
@@CrownePri Exactly this 🤣🤣 the first commenter is right but Lin is getting blamed when she did nothing wrong and was eventually just too fed up with other people so she hit "fuck it" mode
It’s funny how Natalie mentions that Lin can still have family despite not having a partner or kids of her own. I remember when the first show came out it was pretty much a meme on tumblr that Mako was her adoptive son. Momboss and Detective Son. Was anyone there during that era?
I love "The Stakeout" for the simple fact that Zaheer actually sat down and spoke with Korra face-to-face, explaining his mission and beliefs. It was such a breath of fresh air to have an Antagonist actually do this!
Having strong spirituality isn’t something only airbenders have in the atlaverse; Guru Patik and uncle Iroh both have a strong spiritual connection in atla. Zaheer isn’t just gifted at what he does for no reason; he’s highly skilled because he spent a lot of his life studying airbenders and the spirit world
Korra's whole story is about her struggles to find her place as the avatar. Why do people always overlook that. Can you not recall s1 where she was a small town girl finding her way in a big town, struggling for 16 years to airbend? Struggling to navigate a civil war and build emotional intelligence when she had zero exposure to people with different motives and manipulation in her childhood? Struggling with the outcome of a difficult choice to leave the spirit portals open? Gee, everything sure was easy for her.
Right? While it's arguably that she does take to bending elements easily (outside of Air, which took her a long time to do.. like her entire life, and losing all other elements), she struggles with the spiritual, and as well just finding a place for herself among others. Her struggle is internal. Also.. people forget Aang easily learned water bending as well as Katara pretty quickly.. if not even surpassing her quickly, and only took him an episode to learn Earth bending once he was with Toph.. and while he couldn't control it easily, he did learn Fire as well quite fast in season 1.. and once he was with Zuko, was able to perfect it quite fast as well.. like that's just an Avatar thing
One detail that is often overlooked is that Zaheer, although he just became an airbender, was already a pretty op fighter and had a lot of knowledge about the spirit world and the culture of the air nomads, so it really makes sense for him to be this good, he literally was imprisoned in a high security cell for crimes he commited being a non-bender, who was, on top of that, the leader of a group of benders, that alone tells you how powerful and terrifying he is
In fairness, I think with A:TLA, we saw Aang spend an entire season mastering one element at a time. With Korra, we see her already having mastered 3/4 by the time we meet. For her spiritual training, she kinda perfected it off screen, as she only really had the help with Jinora or Raava in the Season 2 finale. And as for airbending, it's a little more coherent but it kinda suffers the same fate the rest of the series does where the development takes a back seat to the villain of the season
@@frenchynoobyou do realize the next season had months inbetween of training… remember mako was now a police officer it took awhile before she fully mastered it
I remember Natalie saying the same thing when Korra managed to spiritbend for the first time and I was super confused, because it happened super late into season 2 and she tried plenty of times before that moment and failed miserably (one of these fails resulted in her being consumed by a spirit and losing her memory) so I really didn't understand it. Also, of course Korra would be able to metalbend, she's the Avatar, a fantastic earthbender and metalbending is pretty rare, but not exactly super rare. Natalie accepted Aang learning earthbending in a day with minimal struggle and getting energybending from a Lion Turtle, I don't really get why she's so hung up on this.
Since when has Korra been good at everything effortlessly? Didn’t she notoriously suck at both Airbending and the spirit side of being the avatar? And also struggles with relationships. Has lost plenty of fights. I don’t get why she gets the rep for being a Mary sue when she struggles probably more than Aang did. And she ironically also gets crap when she struggles with stuff.
Yeah and Aang Mastered Everything except earth bending immediately too. And even with earthbending he got it by the end of the episode. People really have short memories.
@@christopherb501 in the beginning there was a time skip, sure she could bend 3 of the 4 elements effortlessly, but so could Aang. If you're talking about Korra as a baby, well I would give that to her personality, she's daring, adventurous and reckless at times. She's also achievement driven so she probably wanted to do as much as she could as soon as she could. Aang not doing the other elements as a child from what we know is also probably due to his personality, he's reserved, more disciplined. etc. He probably never tried bending other elements cause obviously his sole discipline was air bending, so he was disciplined enough to focus only on that. We also see Aang very easily pick up water and fire bending, albeit, he was reckless with fire bending, but did it quite easily initially. Aang also had one or two struggle episodes with earth bending, then once he finally stood his ground defending Sokka, because he couldn't use any of the elements as they weren't working, he unlocked his earth bending. Same thing with Korra, she lost all other bending, and on the brink of losing her love interest and his bending to Amon, she finally unlocks air bending. Both Aang and Korra, after unlocking the difficult bending for them, seemingly were quite proficient at that bending style, we just don't see the extra training they do.
@@MelkacAang still needed Katara and more scrolls in Book 2, cause he didn't Master Water. Toph says his Earth bending still needed some work in Book 3, but yes Drag down what made the Franchise to fail and build up an inferior spinoff with Parody versions of classic characters. Not like any other Spinoff fan bases uses the same talking points .. oh wait.
I'm 100% convinced Sokka was Suyin's dad and it was just kept quiet for whatever reason -- darker skin, collects meteorites, and the way she bends metal looks a lot like waterbending. I wish we knew for sure, it's so interesting!
@@chrisbergsten1429It really feels like the fortune teller prediction came true for Sokka. I like to believe he still did great things in the shadows, but never got the credit he deserves and probably wanted. Maybe he found peace that way. Katana apparently embraced being a healer when she didn't want to be just that in season 1 so who knows. Also if suyin isn't his child, then I chose to believe Varrick is. It might not make much sense, but I like the idea.
Su: *permanently scars her sister and never apologizes, tells her to get over it* Reactors: "Yeah, Lin, you're just a bitter loner." Lin: *pops the dog's ball* Reactors: "WTF LIN"
@@danimolusco Lin definitely needs some emotional healing, she's not in a good place mentally and she takes it out on innocent people, like Opal. But the people who think Su did nothing wrong are just insane. Lin has that emotional baggage BECAUSE OF SU. And Su just acts like Lin is bitter and crazy by choice. "We moved on, now it's your problem," from the abuser is just heinous gaslighting.
Season 3 really started to showcase what Legend of Korra was capable of as a show. It was really great seeing Suyin and Lin. Older female characters are not often represented this compellingly. Also you are absolutely killing that deep V in episode 2.
"I wish she would struggle with metal bending" It wouldn't make any sense for her to sruggle with it considering the element she feels more comfortable with is earth. Also, did she completely forget how much Korra struggle to learn how to airbend?
You're right. Earth bending is easy for Korra. So metal-bending also would likely be. Also, I hope people aren't forgetting that Toph also learned metal-bending relatively quickly. So she better be thinking the same way with Toph.
Is it just me who finds it a bit questionable that Nat immediately went to "Oh, Lin must be jealous of having a happy family." Feels a little patronizing.
@@joris55516 After a lot of training lol. She learned about the forms, movements, and ideology, but couldn't actually bend air yet. She was ready, but what made it happen at that moment was having three elements blocked by her chi, leaving her with only one to channel during her moment of determination to save Mako. Also, I'm pretty sure that every episode that started with Aang getting his first lesson in an element didn't end before he could bend that element. Korra had to wait a whole season.
“I wish Korra wasn’t effortlessly good at everything” Conveniently forgets Korra tried and failed bending air until the end of S1. Same for spirit bending in S2.
Something I love is that Mako does know that Bolin can make the shot, he isn't just saying it, as he saw him do it in the game with the twins. Also Korra did well not lying to Aiwei, she has grown a lot to think things through and not just charge ahead.
Su is also brown-skinned like the Water Tribe, only a little lighter tone so it's probably a mix of both parents. Sokka also didn't end up with Suki, and Toph doesn't want to talk about any of it either. All those made sense if Sokka is indeed the father.
Toph's other crush was Zuko, and Lin certainly seems to have a stubborness and determination to match Zuko's, along with earning herself an impressive facial scar.
@@MysteryToonGamer Maybe. If Toph did have an affair with the Firelord, there are a lot of reasons to keep it a secret, perhaps even invent a cover story about the father. Perhaps the real reason Toph left the Metalbenders, is because another Truthseer turned up, and she wanted to ensure a big secret never came out.
Without spoiling in what regard I'm talking about: Every time I go through Legend of Korra I forget how much of a background character Kuvira was in season 3
When I first watched LoK it was years after the fact and I already kinda knew what was up, so it was really cool when she appeared for the first time in such a subtle way, and I was like "is that...?"
1:20 Lol THANK YOU! This was a good palette cleanser after another channel currently watching didn't recognize him and thought Zaheer was a magic shapeshifter when he was found out.
10:41 I'd say her fighting her sister is the reason she feels better now. She got all that frustration out of her system and then rested for a long while.
Edit 2: if you're about to reply telling me I'm wrong about Varrick being the best character in the series, save us both some time and just fucking DON'T. There's a reason I wrote " _most_ people agree"... It's crazy how much she _hates_ Varrick when most people agree he's the best part of this series Edit: everybody keeps replying "no no he is annoying until the redemption arc in season 4" DUDES. THE SEASON 4 REDEMPTION IS ARGUABLY THE WORST PART OF THE CHARACTER. The best thing about the character WAS that he's a piece of shit, who SOMEHOW keeps helping out the heroes basically as a byproduct of helping HIM OWN SELF-INTERESTS. The Redemption arc IS interesting, but it is the LEAST interesting bit of the character, cuz now he's just ANOTHER "good guy"...
People really give Su too much of a pass. She escaped police custody, assaulted an officer trying to flee the scene of a crime and then caused the police chief to resign because she covered her arrest up. Su got everything handed to her and no consequences (traveling the world is what she wanted anyway), Lin got nothing but consequences. 30 years is a long time to be angry, but no one should ever be made to accept someone that hurt them.
What I love about this series is the serious issues they cover, some of them from the original ATLA series, but times 20. Still, for a family show, to have themes like family trauma is amazing. Makes it so relatable and much more powerful
I can’t wait for the last part of this. AND I’m SO glad you finally got to hear Zaheer’s plan. He said he thinks his path is a righteous one to restoring freedom and the natural order of disorder. He’s a terrifyingly powerful villain but he’s not even wrong. He genuinely believes what he’s doing is best for everyone. He’s not power hungry or corrupt. He doesn’t want to kill the Avatar for the sake of himself. He just wants everyone to be free. He’s the Thanos of the AtLA universe.
I've been binging this channel (first MCU, then Avatar) and I love the evolution of your style!! I'd love to see some fit checks occasionally. Just from what I can see of the tops they look amazing 🔥🔥
@@RabbitShirakthe thing is she wss able to bend the other elements as a child but then just failed completely to ever bend even a little air until the end of season 1.
It is funny to see the difference in reactions of seeing shaved Zaheer. Spartan and Pudgey are reacting to this season. He couldnt grasp that that was Zaheer, he thought he morphed his face and change his voice to become someone else.
I hate the idea that Su is “forgiving” when the entire thing is 75% her fault, with the other 25% being Toph’s for being such a shitty mother Lin spends literally her entire life doing the right thing and trying to make her mother proud and ends up with nothing. Su is a selfish fuckup who has managed to avoid ever being held responsible but through pure blind luck and special treatment has ended up with everything she could want and her mother’s approval.
Lin doesn't want Su's life at all. The whole "cool mom with a bunch of kids" is not Lin's thing. She is not jealous, she is just hurt. She tried her hardest to be a good daughter and do everything right, but always got hurt in the end. And her sister who messed up all the time got everything she wanted in life. Su is s good person and I do like her, but I think she is the one eho should be apologising for everythingshe pout Lin through.
Why do ppl keep saying korra is so effortless, it took her like 12 years to pick up 3 elements just cause she can do it doesn’t mean she’s good straight away , it took her all of book one to get air bending, aang picked up earth pretty quickly after he got out of his funk , he was better at water bending than katara at the start and got the secrets to fire bending and pretty quickly could do impressive feet’s with it , they all learn at there own pace but korra is naturally more physical so yes my have an easy time but she still struggles with spiritual , and saying she gets stuff straight away takes credit away from her effort, like we see her try stuff multiple times and not get it , it may not always be in ur face and obvious but it shouldn’t have to be , a lot of stuff with her is more subtle
@@TheUltraYusuf Natalie just got this habit of trying to act smarter than the stuff she's watching. It's not to point where you want to shut it off but it can be really pretentious and annoying sometimes
korra literally struggles at every point in the series...literally since episode 1. She didn't even get air bending down until the end of the first season, struggles with spirituality, had a 1000 year spirit ripped out of her after being betrayed by her own family and experiences her own internal genocide by herself but yeah def annoying that she's a good bender and can metal bend
"I wish she wasn't effortlessly good at this like everything else" literally took a whole season and Korra losing every thing to Air Bend. Also Korra may be good at the physical side of bending but is rarely good at the spiritual side. Honestly Zaheer is more of a master in that sense than Korra. Also unlike Aang she legitimately struggles with life and her mental struggles
Airbenders could levitate before. They had no earthly tether. Then they met the sky bisons. And got their earthly tether. They lost the ability to levitate, but they gained a friend for life. I don't know if this is canon, but I sure hope so.
It's so funny how you're saying Korra needs to struggle more when the main complaint people have against Korra is how much she struggled and lost fights lol
What do you mean Korra doesn’t struggle? In the first season, she couldn’t even airbend until the last episode. Even Aang didn’t take that long to master earth bending. Likewise, she also struggled with her spiritual connection. Korra is not a Mary Sue.
Zaheer was already a spiritual guy and a big fan of air nomad culture before he got bending. He spent 13 yerars in prison, probably a lot of that time in the spirit world.
I allways love coming back to season 3 episode 8 soley to listen to Joey richter voicing hong li (the framed guard) What the starkid fans dont do for their heroes
after binge watching all night I finally caught up w my wife videos 😤 n i love out of all the reactor creators my love done recognized Zaheer instantly 🤧 my heart 💙
Toph giving her daughters too much freedom is also a result of her own parents sheltering her way too much when she was little. Idk if you remembered that from The Last Airbender
"everything is so easy for her, it's kind of annoying" Korra's air bending in season 1: "Am I a joke to you?" jokes aside, it's probably easier for her to learn metal bending, because earth bending itself came very early to her, she had after all figured it out herself very quickly when she was just a kid. a lot of people have interpreted Toph's "I'm the chief of police, I can't have a daughter in jail" as Toph being worried about her reputation, but let's be honest, you probably wouldn't want your own daughter amidst all those people you have single-handedly arrested yourself, that sounds incredibly dangerous.
It's like she's blind to Korra's struggles. Plus, bending earth is easy for Korra, so of course Metal would be too. Also, I hope no if forgetting how Toph learned Metal bending quick too.
that point about toph not wanting her daughter in jail bc of the people she put in is great! i never even thought about that -but yah makes perfect sense
Thank you for knowing it was Zaheer right away! I watched a different channel's reaction at this point and one of them believed he was a shape shifter more than him just casually shaving everything off 😅
@SpartanandPudgey Damn, I was NOT expecting a Spartan and Pudgey reply on this channel 😂 Still loving the reactions tho guys! Looking forward to what you think of book 4!
Korra: “he can’t hurt me in the real world if we’re both in the spirit world” Zaheer: “Por Que no los dos?” Natalie: “PORQUE NO LOS DOS!!” 😂 The season finale reaction can not come soon enough lol
Oh boy. The rest of the season is going to be a hell of a roller coaster for you. You ended at the perfect place considering how the rest of the episode flow right from one to another.
The thing what i like about legend lf Korra is the fact that it shows the old gang was nog perfect. They were not perfect parents. Like all people have flaws so did they. It makes sense given ghe position they were in.
I feel like it’s easy to forget Korra’s been training for her entire life. She’s not “naturally good”, she’s just an 18-year-old who’s had professional training since she was a toddler.
exactly and plus they made it so that she's great at anything physical but her emotional and spiritual self wasn't as good
@@adriancamaquin I was about to say the same thing, she struggles a lot with everything that isn't the physical aspect of bending. Diplomacy, spirituality, people skills, relationships, conflict resolution etc are the issues that the show focuses on and the one's she struggles with
8:12 Nat: "I wish she would struggle a little bit more."
The show: "...And I took that personally."
The show: "...pre-emptively, cause I already covered this. But since you're ignoring it..."
She struggled almost an entire season with air bending lol
@@gamerbear84 Gotta agree, that comment from Nat had me scratching my head lol of all the sub-bending skills, metal feels like the most obviously up Korra's alley, it wouldn't make sense for her to struggle with it.
this comment didn't make any sense, s1 and s2 of Korra was her struggling with everything lol
Zaheer's team is totally OP, but I appreciate that the Zaofu guards are actually effective. The "useless henchmen" trope gets a bit old sometimes.
lol, when that guards captain is another OP character in the series
More like all the time now. Love how the guards were able to put up a fight.
@@saddocatto9245 This. The guard with speaking lines in this episode isn't to be trifled with either.
Bruh, Kuvira is a fking boss and honestly looking back after s4 I wish she would have done more like being able to go toe to toe with anyone from the red lotus
@@samlung2724in an alternate timeline i could see Kuvira being the metalbender of the red lotus because like damn she took metal bending to the next level. There’s a reason why there’s a debate on whether Toph or Kuvira would win in a 1 on 1
I think it’s funny that a lot of people miss the fact that it’s not only Airbenders who are spiritual when we clearly see that Iroh, a firebender, has a strong connection to spirits as well. I don’t believe you need to be a bender to have a spiritual connection so Zaheer already had a strong spiritual connection before he was an air bender
Yep, Guru Pathik was a very spiritual nonbender in the original series, for example. Imagine him but instead of pursuing a life of detachment you develop a strong belief in anarchy.
I agree it doesn’t matter what bender they are it depends how much of spiritual you are and connected to the spirit realm
Exactly. Every nation has their own way of connecting to the spirit world. The first time Aang went into the spirit world was in an earth nation forest, then in a fire nation temple, then in the north pole's spirit oasis. The moon spirit was once a girl from the water tribe. Last season's villain was a spiritual water bender.
The avatar, as the most spiritual human to exist, reincarnates in every nation equally.
It just so happens that the air nomad culture is one that almost exclusively focuses on detatchment of the natural world, while the others are more in tune with nature and humanity. Ironically almost no air bender ever really reached spiritual enlightenment, even so almost all of them devoted their whole life to it. In 10,000 years only two of them reached the state Zaheer did. So having a spiritual culture does not necessarily mean that their people generally have a stronger connection to the spirit world.
Nat clocking Zaheer immediately meanwhile other reactors think he’s literally a shape shifter 😭😭
lmao Spartan & Pudgey in shambles.
tHat CAn'T PoSSiblY BE zAhEer.
@@ODARuination PLEASEEEE. I HAD JUST SEEN THEIR REACTION AND I WAS DYING. 💀🤣
@@ODARuination😂
Kinda made me appreciate Nats reaction more when she clocked it right away. Glad I wasn’t the only one that thought of Spartan and Pudgey lol
Zaherr is such an incredible antagonist🤘🏽 great way to start a Monday morning
It's evening in my country.
@@vetarlittorf1807🤡
The best antagonist of the whole Avatar universe for me
@@Loliston No. Azula.
@vetarlittorf1807 good for your country. They're talking about their own
What I find so interesting with Lin are the bits and pieces we find out about the past and her past.
-She used to be in a relationship with Tenzin but broke up for some reason.
-We know Pema "stole" Tenzin and now they have A LOT of kids.
-Based off Lins backstory it seems Lin was focused on making her mother proud by living up to her legacy and upholding the city her mother brought up.
-But at the same time pushed away her lover at the time, Tenzin.
-Tenzin who was probably focused on his fathers legacy and bringing back the Air Nation so he probably wanted kids.
-But having a lot of kids would stop Lin from ever being Chief of Police and working as an officer.
So Pema probably appealed to that part of Tenzin, of him wanting a large family and willing to have one with him. So Lin sees how she had to give up everything to live for her mothers legacy, her mother gave up her own legacy to save Suyin and was never proud of Lins efforts. Then Suyin who had no responsibility ended up happy and with everything she could ever want. Then everyday since the fallout, Lin has had a scar as a reminder of her families collapse.
I feel so bad for Lin
Lin and Suyin walked so Encanto could run
“I wish she would just struggle a bit more” she’s gonna like the next season
It has always bugged me when people say that. Korra has been struggling!
However, you're right. She will definitly like the next season then.
@@mrgroovy5113 Seriously. Even if you look at just the bending side of things, she struggled with airbending for a whole season and is hardly a master with it yet. She struggled with spiritbending for a bit, and she still only has rudimentary healing. The reason she picked up metalbending is because she has a clear affinity for earthbending, which is another reason airbending is far from natural for her. Meanwhile, Aang is 12 and becomes adept with water fairly easily, would've learned fire just as quick without the trauma of hurting Katara to overcome, and struggled with earthbending for one episode. Barely anyone complains that he struggled enough. I'm personally fine with it (though, I kind of wish his journey took the better part of two years rather than a few months), but find it disingenuous to only point these things out with Korra.
@@brycelloyd3592 Right? People criticizing Korra always just conveniently ignore that the only thing that ever held Aang back from mastering the full elemental spectrum in a week was having to go personally hunt down teachers from around the world during a global war. The most he ever struggled with learning a new element was needing a whole day to come to grips with earthbending.
I agree! I think she struggles a fair bit in many areas and has had years become a proficient (not sure if she is a master) bender in 3 of the elements. Personally, I hated how long it took her to learn air but it made sense for her personality.
Yeah, seriously. Korra goes through the wringer.
It REALLY frustrates me when people say everything is easy for Korra cause that's simply not true. Yes, she's a gifted bender but learning the 4 elements is not her journey, that was Aang's history. Her conflict is 100% spiritual and emotional. She was sheltered and lied to her entire life, people manipulate her for their own sake, they have unrealistic expectations on her just because she's the avatar and they forget she's just a teenager!! Of course she's emotionally emature!!! She was raised with no social interaction other than her parents and coaches!!! And yet, she manages to grow emotionally and spiritually despite NOBODY believing in her, nor the characters nor the audience
People accused the character of being a "Mary Sue" type but that label never fit. Sure she had a lot natural talent but she's consistently had to overcome things to be who she is. This series shows the viewer many times she's a flawed character and is wrong in many scenarios.
@@chaost4544 which also like wouldn't Aang be "Mary Sue" like he master air at 12, and excelled at waterbending faster than katara (at the beginning), sure he stumped on earth bending and fire, but evenly he got to be proficient in a matter of MONTHS, where korra is a trained professional for over 13 years when we saw her at 17 in book 1: air.
i think people overlook this because we see aang progress in show, where for korra we only see her training for air in terms of bending.
People say she's a mary sue, but then say that she loses all the time and is weak. Pick a side
24:42 zaheer is really good at the spirit world because he was locked up 13 years! a lot of time to practice when thats your only way out of your prision
Natalie recognized Zaheer after he shaved his head! Most reactors have no idea who it is at first
For some reason lol
That voice is so distinct its hard to believe anyone wouldnt hear its zaheer
spartan and pudgey even got to the scene where kya recognized him and still swore that it wasn't zaheer or that zaheer shapeshifted lmao
How, his voice and face are so distinct, he also wears the same clothes
@@af3897 ikr lol
The Terror Within and the Stakeout start an incredible sequence of episodes that just ups the stakes so much and that doesn't end until the finale. I mean come on, the Red Lotus infiltrating Zaofu and everyone figting, Korra managing to answer Aiwei without lying once, the crew having fun before shit hits the storm and the fight at The Misty Palms Inn and everyone getting captured... I *love* these episodes, and the fact that they aren't even my favorites of season 3 speaks volumes.
Hot take, but Lin is ABSOLUTELY in the right here, her sister fucked her up and took no accountability. Just sayin
Edit: the most common reply here seems to be "oh it's been so long lin should get over it"... the Fuck? You people are willing to just sweep emotional neglect, disfigurement and straight up criminal activity JUST cuz it's "been a long time"? What the fuck is wrong with you people?!
She said that her and Toph both tried to settle things but Lin was unwilling to. So it's Lin's fault honestly
No worries, there's plenty of fault to lay at everyone's feet!
Lin's side is so much more understandable once you get the whole scar backstory.
Facts. Suyin was awful.
@@MidoriDad because they both did Lin dirty and acted like "its everyone's fault", when the fact is, Suyin was first at fault, Toph was second for trying to cover for her, Lin literally did nothing wrong
From Lin's perspective, she did everything right, and the world just kept punishing her for fun.
She tried to help Suyin, who ended up scarring her for life. Suyin's punishment? Toph resigns, and Suyin gets off "scott free."
She also doesn't believe her actions/attitude made Tenzin break up with her. It's just that she wasn't good enough. Again.
From her perspective, she does everything right, and still fails. Picard would say "that is life." And I'm sure Lin would agree, believing that she's always destined to lose.
The only time she wins is by sacrificing part of her idetity. She saves Pema and her children by sacrificing her bending. She reconciles with her sister by just giving uo her anger and forgiving her without even one apology.
She can only win by losing.
ETA: Telling someone with unresolved anger issues, parental issues, mental scars and other trauma to "grow up" is just....ick. Like, where the heck did you leave your compassion?
Lin didn't WANT to do this. She was forced into it by everyone badgering her to forgive someone who NEVER APOLOGISED! You put pressure on someone, break them, and act shocked that it DOESN'T magically fix everything?
Wow. Just... wow.
It disgusts me how litte care or sympathy Lin gets before she's forced to act all nice for everyone's benefit.
She doesn't WANT to be "bitter." She wants to be hapoy as HERSELF, and no one will let her. No one apologizes, no one leaves well enough alone. They just keep berbally and mentally beating on her until she snaps, and declare themselves the good guys.
Ugh.
Thank you for writing this comment. I love Lin 💕💕
One thing I wanted to mention about the Kya and Zaherr fight is that Kya is trained as a healer more than a fighter. So imo she held her own against a trained martial artist and newly acquired Air bender pretty well!
I never did like Su, she never actually apologized to Lin for hurting her and damaging her relationship with their mom. Like she scarred Su for life and never said I am sorry for what I did to you.
I'm not sure about the "damaging her relationship with their mom" part. Everything seems to point to Toph just not being a great parent. She's not terrible.... but she wasn't great.
@@Shirospyre you got a point but also that doesn't justify harming your sister like she is still responsible every criminal ever could say my parents were not very present in my life
Oh please Lin needed to grow up. They invited her to get together and talk things over but she rejected. Like Su said, if she had accepted she would have found out she changed and would have definitely gotten an apology. Instead she chose to carry all that bitterness for those years. That's her problem not anyone else
@@emmanuelarthur5471Has she changed though? She’s still perfectly fine with lying to Lin to let Korra go after known dangerous criminals and harboring Varrick despite him being a wanted man. All she’s done is get fancy.
@@AzarathMetreon She openly admits she was a rebel because of how much freedom their mom gave them. She became a devoted family person. All her kids turned out to be good people. She founded the city of Zaofu and became the matriarch of the Metal clan.Let's be for real please because someone who hasn't changed doesn't achieve all that just by being fancy. Also everything you listed is just insignificant and absolutely doesn't negate that she had changed. Heck even the story from that moment going forward showed that she had changed. What's all these weak reasons to make her seem like a villain.
I wouldn't say Korra's effortlessly good at everything. Season 1 she couldn't Airbend no matter how hard she tried. Also it took her 17 years to become a Master of the other three elements. It took Aang 1 summer to do that. As he was already a Master of Airbending at the age of 12.
it took korra 12 years(5-17) to be a master of 3, aang mastered at most 2 in 12 years. in book 3 of atla it is stated he didnt master earth or fire
also it was stated in book 1 that he would have to try to master the elements before the comet, but that plan fell apart after ba sing se, and day of black sun failed. After that he gave up the main plan of mastering them. it was impossible.
He was not a master at 12. Toph even said before the comet his earthbending needed more work. And he was competent with firebending but in no way a master.
@@mackyronni You think Toph would call Korra a master earthbender?
The big difference is in atla it wasnt much about the movement but more about understanding the mental and mindset of the element. In Korra its just punching and she can airbend, or just focus for 10 seconds and metalbend. Also in the atla you required seismic sense to metalbend, they never showed Korra having that ability. Dont want to shit much on the legend of Korra i enjoy watching it, but it amazes me how bad it actually is and not so deep as atla.
In my opinion the next few episodes has some of the best fight scenes in the whole series
In the whole Avatar franchise if we being honest
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@@sheryll1536hot take this season is better than any avatar season
@@babyboy5276011 in 2023 I don't feel that's a hot take. I've had years to watch both series and season 3 of "Legend of Korra" remains extremely memorable for me. All the plotlines I was invested in, the main antagonist is probably the best in both series, and all the characters we follow seem to really evolve in this season. Overall, the writing in this season was top tier even compared to peak Avatar.
@@babyboy5276011 Cold take, every real fan knows that.
There is so much of myself that I see in Lin during these episodes. Truly believing I didn't have to talk about or deal with my feelings. Using repression as a coping mechanism to avoid my feelings and lasing out when people tried to help me. You're totally right, it takes therapy to work through and get passed.
It also does not help if you're just trying to do the right thing and pple close to you act like you're nuts n work against you but hey....
@@CrownePri Exactly this 🤣🤣 the first commenter is right but Lin is getting blamed when she did nothing wrong and was eventually just too fed up with other people so she hit "fuck it" mode
@@kuivia 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@CrownePriand they just expect her to get over it. She should get over it for her own sake but she’s justified if she doesn’t want to forgive them
It’s funny how Natalie mentions that Lin can still have family despite not having a partner or kids of her own. I remember when the first show came out it was pretty much a meme on tumblr that Mako was her adoptive son. Momboss and Detective Son. Was anyone there during that era?
I love "The Stakeout" for the simple fact that Zaheer actually sat down and spoke with Korra face-to-face, explaining his mission and beliefs.
It was such a breath of fresh air to have an Antagonist actually do this!
No not fresh air.
Pun intended?
@@Jupiter-T No.
@@jsmithers. I wasn't asking you, lol
Yes@@Jupiter-T
Having strong spirituality isn’t something only airbenders have in the atlaverse; Guru Patik and uncle Iroh both have a strong spiritual connection in atla. Zaheer isn’t just gifted at what he does for no reason; he’s highly skilled because he spent a lot of his life studying airbenders and the spirit world
Korra's whole story is about her struggles to find her place as the avatar. Why do people always overlook that. Can you not recall s1 where she was a small town girl finding her way in a big town, struggling for 16 years to airbend? Struggling to navigate a civil war and build emotional intelligence when she had zero exposure to people with different motives and manipulation in her childhood? Struggling with the outcome of a difficult choice to leave the spirit portals open? Gee, everything sure was easy for her.
Right? While it's arguably that she does take to bending elements easily (outside of Air, which took her a long time to do.. like her entire life, and losing all other elements), she struggles with the spiritual, and as well just finding a place for herself among others. Her struggle is internal. Also.. people forget Aang easily learned water bending as well as Katara pretty quickly.. if not even surpassing her quickly, and only took him an episode to learn Earth bending once he was with Toph.. and while he couldn't control it easily, he did learn Fire as well quite fast in season 1.. and once he was with Zuko, was able to perfect it quite fast as well.. like that's just an Avatar thing
This is an incredible season. The final four episodes are breathtaking and mind-blowing. 😉
a shocking season finale
LMAO
The ending can be pretty crushing though 😂
hahaha
The ending is very socking
As a dude with a little brother who has too much lip, trust me, she didn’t need the rest after the fight, she needed the fight.
One detail that is often overlooked is that Zaheer, although he just became an airbender, was already a pretty op fighter and had a lot of knowledge about the spirit world and the culture of the air nomads, so it really makes sense for him to be this good, he literally was imprisoned in a high security cell for crimes he commited being a non-bender, who was, on top of that, the leader of a group of benders, that alone tells you how powerful and terrifying he is
"I wish she would struggle a little bit more" she did, with airbending, and her spiritual training
right that’s what i was gonna say?
Bullshit, she threw one punch out of desperation, and then she could just do it next season
In fairness, I think with A:TLA, we saw Aang spend an entire season mastering one element at a time. With Korra, we see her already having mastered 3/4 by the time we meet. For her spiritual training, she kinda perfected it off screen, as she only really had the help with Jinora or Raava in the Season 2 finale. And as for airbending, it's a little more coherent but it kinda suffers the same fate the rest of the series does where the development takes a back seat to the villain of the season
@@frenchynoobyou do realize the next season had months inbetween of training… remember mako was now a police officer it took awhile before she fully mastered it
I remember Natalie saying the same thing when Korra managed to spiritbend for the first time and I was super confused, because it happened super late into season 2 and she tried plenty of times before that moment and failed miserably (one of these fails resulted in her being consumed by a spirit and losing her memory) so I really didn't understand it. Also, of course Korra would be able to metalbend, she's the Avatar, a fantastic earthbender and metalbending is pretty rare, but not exactly super rare. Natalie accepted Aang learning earthbending in a day with minimal struggle and getting energybending from a Lion Turtle, I don't really get why she's so hung up on this.
20:00 *Nat:* _"Oh Varrick, get out if here! No one wants to see you anymore!"_
I do! 🙋🏼♂️
Since when has Korra been good at everything effortlessly? Didn’t she notoriously suck at both Airbending and the spirit side of being the avatar? And also struggles with relationships. Has lost plenty of fights. I don’t get why she gets the rep for being a Mary sue when she struggles probably more than Aang did. And she ironically also gets crap when she struggles with stuff.
She was great at the other three elements from the outset...and yeah, not much else.
Yeah and Aang Mastered Everything except earth bending immediately too. And even with earthbending he got it by the end of the episode. People really have short memories.
Aang: *Masters earth by the end of an episode*
Korra: *Takes an entire season to learn air*
Everyone: Wow what a mary sue!!!
@@christopherb501 in the beginning there was a time skip, sure she could bend 3 of the 4 elements effortlessly, but so could Aang. If you're talking about Korra as a baby, well I would give that to her personality, she's daring, adventurous and reckless at times. She's also achievement driven so she probably wanted to do as much as she could as soon as she could. Aang not doing the other elements as a child from what we know is also probably due to his personality, he's reserved, more disciplined. etc. He probably never tried bending other elements cause obviously his sole discipline was air bending, so he was disciplined enough to focus only on that. We also see Aang very easily pick up water and fire bending, albeit, he was reckless with fire bending, but did it quite easily initially. Aang also had one or two struggle episodes with earth bending, then once he finally stood his ground defending Sokka, because he couldn't use any of the elements as they weren't working, he unlocked his earth bending. Same thing with Korra, she lost all other bending, and on the brink of losing her love interest and his bending to Amon, she finally unlocks air bending. Both Aang and Korra, after unlocking the difficult bending for them, seemingly were quite proficient at that bending style, we just don't see the extra training they do.
@@MelkacAang still needed Katara and more scrolls in Book 2, cause he didn't Master Water. Toph says his Earth bending still needed some work in Book 3, but yes Drag down what made the Franchise to fail and build up an inferior spinoff with Parody versions of classic characters. Not like any other Spinoff fan bases uses the same talking points .. oh wait.
I'm 100% convinced Sokka was Suyin's dad and it was just kept quiet for whatever reason -- darker skin, collects meteorites, and the way she bends metal looks a lot like waterbending. I wish we knew for sure, it's so interesting!
@@chrisbergsten1429It really feels like the fortune teller prediction came true for Sokka. I like to believe he still did great things in the shadows, but never got the credit he deserves and probably wanted. Maybe he found peace that way. Katana apparently embraced being a healer when she didn't want to be just that in season 1 so who knows.
Also if suyin isn't his child, then I chose to believe Varrick is. It might not make much sense, but I like the idea.
Su: *permanently scars her sister and never apologizes, tells her to get over it*
Reactors: "Yeah, Lin, you're just a bitter loner."
Lin: *pops the dog's ball*
Reactors: "WTF LIN"
Yesss 👏👏 i don’t understand why so many people don’t see lin’s side. I feel like the show even makes it seem like it’s Lin’s fault.
@@danimolusco Lin definitely needs some emotional healing, she's not in a good place mentally and she takes it out on innocent people, like Opal.
But the people who think Su did nothing wrong are just insane. Lin has that emotional baggage BECAUSE OF SU. And Su just acts like Lin is bitter and crazy by choice. "We moved on, now it's your problem," from the abuser is just heinous gaslighting.
Season 3 really started to showcase what Legend of Korra was capable of as a show. It was really great seeing Suyin and Lin. Older female characters are not often represented this compellingly. Also you are absolutely killing that deep V in episode 2.
"I wish she would struggle with metal bending"
It wouldn't make any sense for her to sruggle with it considering the element she feels more comfortable with is earth. Also, did she completely forget how much Korra struggle to learn how to airbend?
You're right. Earth bending is easy for Korra. So metal-bending also would likely be.
Also, I hope people aren't forgetting that Toph also learned metal-bending relatively quickly. So she better be thinking the same way with Toph.
Is it just me who finds it a bit questionable that Nat immediately went to "Oh, Lin must be jealous of having a happy family." Feels a little patronizing.
"I wish she would struggle"
Did...did you forget everything that happened in the last two seasons?
yes, she completly forgot, and that happens when you dont really like a character, even a person, you tend to overlook they suffering and struggles.
Wdym she just punched and she could airbend
@@joris55516 After a lot of training lol. She learned about the forms, movements, and ideology, but couldn't actually bend air yet. She was ready, but what made it happen at that moment was having three elements blocked by her chi, leaving her with only one to channel during her moment of determination to save Mako. Also, I'm pretty sure that every episode that started with Aang getting his first lesson in an element didn't end before he could bend that element. Korra had to wait a whole season.
What I love about Zaheer is that he brings up pretty vaild points. Especially about the existance of The Avatar later.
Love this season so much. Definitely the best
“I wish Korra wasn’t effortlessly good at everything”
Conveniently forgets Korra tried and failed bending air until the end of S1. Same for spirit bending in S2.
She always says stuff like that towards female characters. Very odd.
@@TheUltraYusuf This comment is the odd one
Something I love is that Mako does know that Bolin can make the shot, he isn't just saying it, as he saw him do it in the game with the twins. Also Korra did well not lying to Aiwei, she has grown a lot to think things through and not just charge ahead.
A popular fan theory is that Sokka is Su's father. Personally, I believe it. I mean, she collects meteorites!
Su is also brown-skinned like the Water Tribe, only a little lighter tone so it's probably a mix of both parents. Sokka also didn't end up with Suki, and Toph doesn't want to talk about any of it either. All those made sense if Sokka is indeed the father.
Toph's other crush was Zuko, and Lin certainly seems to have a stubborness and determination to match Zuko's, along with earning herself an impressive facial scar.
@@dargron7614 We know Lin's father, though.
@@MysteryToonGamer Maybe. If Toph did have an affair with the Firelord, there are a lot of reasons to keep it a secret, perhaps even invent a cover story about the father. Perhaps the real reason Toph left the Metalbenders, is because another Truthseer turned up, and she wanted to ensure a big secret never came out.
All of the children of Team Avatar were close. Maybe Su got that hobby from his uncle Sokka?
Without spoiling in what regard I'm talking about: Every time I go through Legend of Korra I forget how much of a background character Kuvira was in season 3
When I first watched LoK it was years after the fact and I already kinda knew what was up, so it was really cool when she appeared for the first time in such a subtle way, and I was like "is that...?"
I haven't rewatched the show since season 4 first ended, so hearing Kuvira's voice randomly in this video was very fun
Season three and four are such masterpieces, I’m so excited for the rest of your reactions
this just made my day thank you
"I wish she would struggle just a bit more, everything is so easy for her" Oh god, you gonna wish you never said that.
1:20 Lol THANK YOU! This was a good palette cleanser after another channel currently watching didn't recognize him and thought Zaheer was a magic shapeshifter when he was found out.
10:41 I'd say her fighting her sister is the reason she feels better now. She got all that frustration out of her system and then rested for a long while.
Edit 2: if you're about to reply telling me I'm wrong about Varrick being the best character in the series, save us both some time and just fucking DON'T. There's a reason I wrote " _most_ people agree"...
It's crazy how much she _hates_ Varrick when most people agree he's the best part of this series
Edit: everybody keeps replying "no no he is annoying until the redemption arc in season 4" DUDES. THE SEASON 4 REDEMPTION IS ARGUABLY THE WORST PART OF THE CHARACTER. The best thing about the character WAS that he's a piece of shit, who SOMEHOW keeps helping out the heroes basically as a byproduct of helping HIM OWN SELF-INTERESTS. The Redemption arc IS interesting, but it is the LEAST interesting bit of the character, cuz now he's just ANOTHER "good guy"...
Haha he’s my favorite character.
I think she will have a change of heart by next season
The "why do you think I built this boat?" followed by speeding away is an all time favorite
she already likes him on patreon
I also didn't like him till season 4
Aiwei uses his earthbending the same way Toph could to feel vibrations in the earth and detect heartbeats increase when people were lying
People really give Su too much of a pass. She escaped police custody, assaulted an officer trying to flee the scene of a crime and then caused the police chief to resign because she covered her arrest up.
Su got everything handed to her and no consequences (traveling the world is what she wanted anyway), Lin got nothing but consequences. 30 years is a long time to be angry, but no one should ever be made to accept someone that hurt them.
What I love about this series is the serious issues they cover, some of them from the original ATLA series, but times 20. Still, for a family show, to have themes like family trauma is amazing. Makes it so relatable and much more powerful
I can’t wait for the last part of this. AND I’m SO glad you finally got to hear Zaheer’s plan. He said he thinks his path is a righteous one to restoring freedom and the natural order of disorder. He’s a terrifyingly powerful villain but he’s not even wrong. He genuinely believes what he’s doing is best for everyone. He’s not power hungry or corrupt. He doesn’t want to kill the Avatar for the sake of himself. He just wants everyone to be free. He’s the Thanos of the AtLA universe.
Yeah I never thought about that. Hot take but Zaheer is Thanos but done better.
I've been binging this channel (first MCU, then Avatar) and I love the evolution of your style!! I'd love to see some fit checks occasionally. Just from what I can see of the tops they look amazing 🔥🔥
"I wish she would struggle [to do something]"
Did you forget the bit ... all of season one? Where it took her like 16 years before she could bend air?
Did Tenzin really teach her that long? Looked like she only started training Airbending once in Republic City. Which seems odd the more I think of it.
Yeah... that was a pretty dumb take. Korra has been struggling!
@@RabbitShirakthe thing is she wss able to bend the other elements as a child but then just failed completely to ever bend even a little air until the end of season 1.
8:12 "I wish she would struggle!" Oh believe me, she gets chewed in this season and the next.
There's something about Korra and Asami that is so heartwarming
Not true, they have not spoken to each other until this very episode.
@@opinanlosjovenesrd3477 Not even close to true.
yeah sure they are almost like sister ☺
so wholesome
@@caruzo9631 Gals being pals!
@@Jeremy_theGentdefinitely
I rate Natalie's outfit 11/10 she is so breathtaking...
It is funny to see the difference in reactions of seeing shaved Zaheer. Spartan and Pudgey are reacting to this season. He couldnt grasp that that was Zaheer, he thought he morphed his face and change his voice to become someone else.
I hate the idea that Su is “forgiving” when the entire thing is 75% her fault, with the other 25% being Toph’s for being such a shitty mother
Lin spends literally her entire life doing the right thing and trying to make her mother proud and ends up with nothing. Su is a selfish fuckup who has managed to avoid ever being held responsible but through pure blind luck and special treatment has ended up with everything she could want and her mother’s approval.
“everything’s so easy for her” you’ve got a big storm coming
Lin doesn't want Su's life at all. The whole "cool mom with a bunch of kids" is not Lin's thing.
She is not jealous, she is just hurt.
She tried her hardest to be a good daughter and do everything right, but always got hurt in the end. And her sister who messed up all the time got everything she wanted in life.
Su is s good person and I do like her, but I think she is the one eho should be apologising for everythingshe pout Lin through.
Why do ppl keep saying korra is so effortless, it took her like 12 years to pick up 3 elements just cause she can do it doesn’t mean she’s good straight away , it took her all of book one to get air bending, aang picked up earth pretty quickly after he got out of his funk , he was better at water bending than katara at the start and got the secrets to fire bending and pretty quickly could do impressive feet’s with it , they all learn at there own pace but korra is naturally more physical so yes my have an easy time but she still struggles with spiritual , and saying she gets stuff straight away takes credit away from her effort, like we see her try stuff multiple times and not get it , it may not always be in ur face and obvious but it shouldn’t have to be , a lot of stuff with her is more subtle
Dude I don't get it. She saw the first two books and even commented on the fact that Korra would make mistakes. Now suddenly she doesn't?? So weird.
@@TheUltraYusuf It's like she's blinding herself to Korra's struggles.
People often seem to, I wonder a lot of the time if it's because she's a headstrong female character.
@@TheUltraYusuf Natalie just got this habit of trying to act smarter than the stuff she's watching. It's not to point where you want to shut it off but it can be really pretentious and annoying sometimes
@@elistewart3170 ok whoa , let’s not get mean , it’s frustrating to see but lots of ppl also over look korra .
This book is like - Red Lotus on screen: 😃
Suying show up: 🙄
Red Lotus on screen: 😃
Kai on screen: 🤮
truth seeing is an earthbending power that Toph had, sensing vibrations from the person's heartbeat and breathing
6:16 It's giving "PEOPLE DON'T CHANGE, YOU'RE SLIPPIN JIMMY" from Better Call Saul
korra literally struggles at every point in the series...literally since episode 1. She didn't even get air bending down until the end of the first season, struggles with spirituality, had a 1000 year spirit ripped out of her after being betrayed by her own family and experiences her own internal genocide by herself but yeah def annoying that she's a good bender and can metal bend
"It looks like Oz and Switzerland made a city together" - a line that could only come from a Natalie Gold reaction 😀
"I wish she wasn't effortlessly good at this like everything else" literally took a whole season and Korra losing every thing to Air Bend. Also Korra may be good at the physical side of bending but is rarely good at the spiritual side. Honestly Zaheer is more of a master in that sense than Korra. Also unlike Aang she legitimately struggles with life and her mental struggles
Henry Rollings as Zaheer really pulling on all his Charles Manson interactions 😏
Ah, thank you! His voice is so unusual, it felt like "stunt casting" but I couldn't place it for the life of me. Rollins is an interesting choice
i will not stand for the Varrick hate lmaooo. hes my favorite character in the show
Airbenders could levitate before. They had no earthly tether.
Then they met the sky bisons. And got their earthly tether.
They lost the ability to levitate, but they gained a friend for life.
I don't know if this is canon, but I sure hope so.
17:25 well i never noticed.. nice comptency from the Captain of the guard
Im glad you didn't stop after season 1/2 season 3 IS ELITE
Lin was absolutely in the right!
It's so funny how you're saying Korra needs to struggle more when the main complaint people have against Korra is how much she struggled and lost fights lol
Remember in season one when Korra had a dream the Equalist attacked and paralyzed her in her own room? talk about a nightmare come true.
What do you mean Korra doesn’t struggle? In the first season, she couldn’t even airbend until the last episode. Even Aang didn’t take that long to master earth bending. Likewise, she also struggled with her spiritual connection. Korra is not a Mary Sue.
Zaheer was already a spiritual guy and a big fan of air nomad culture before he got bending. He spent 13 yerars in prison, probably a lot of that time in the spirit world.
The final is gonna be all the feels!!! And I’m here to see it!
9:48 Su pushed the 'Tenzin' button, she shouldn't have did that
I’ve never been so early and I’ve never been so ready 😭❤️
Same 🤣
the watermelon is one of my favorite references and in case anyone forget, here it is: "I AM MELONLORD"
I allways love coming back to season 3 episode 8 soley to listen to Joey richter voicing hong li (the framed guard) What the starkid fans dont do for their heroes
after binge watching all night I finally caught up w my wife videos 😤 n i love out of all the reactor creators my love done recognized Zaheer instantly 🤧 my heart 💙
Toph giving her daughters too much freedom is also a result of her own parents sheltering her way too much when she was little. Idk if you remembered that from The Last Airbender
"everything is so easy for her, it's kind of annoying"
Korra's air bending in season 1: "Am I a joke to you?"
jokes aside, it's probably easier for her to learn metal bending, because earth bending itself came very early to her, she had after all figured it out herself very quickly when she was just a kid.
a lot of people have interpreted Toph's "I'm the chief of police, I can't have a daughter in jail" as Toph being worried about her reputation, but let's be honest, you probably wouldn't want your own daughter amidst all those people you have single-handedly arrested yourself, that sounds incredibly dangerous.
It's like she's blind to Korra's struggles. Plus, bending earth is easy for Korra, so of course Metal would be too. Also, I hope no if forgetting how Toph learned Metal bending quick too.
that point about toph not wanting her daughter in jail bc of the people she put in is great! i never even thought about that -but yah makes perfect sense
please watch the whole scream series!! i would love that
I always get so excited to see your Legend of Korra posts!!
Season 3 of Korra is simply my Favorite, followed very closely by the 1st season.
Thank you for knowing it was Zaheer right away! I watched a different channel's reaction at this point and one of them believed he was a shape shifter more than him just casually shaving everything off 😅
i wonder which channel that was! 😂😂😂
@SpartanandPudgey Damn, I was NOT expecting a Spartan and Pudgey reply on this channel 😂
Still loving the reactions tho guys! Looking forward to what you think of book 4!
Zaheer is so unbelievably based
Korra: “he can’t hurt me in the real world if we’re both in the spirit world”
Zaheer: “Por Que no los dos?”
Natalie: “PORQUE NO LOS DOS!!”
😂
The season finale reaction can not come soon enough lol
Book 3 only gets better and better. It’s just so good. Can’t wait for the last episodes!
Oh boy. The rest of the season is going to be a hell of a roller coaster for you. You ended at the perfect place considering how the rest of the episode flow right from one to another.
Have you heard the theory that Sokka is the father of Suyin? If you look at Suyin's kids they look a lot like Sokka. Especially Baatar Jr.
I don't like to rush youtubers, but my god I am too excited to see your reaction to the finale
The thing about the Truth Seeker is the old saying, “Who watches the watchers?”
Long live the queen to enter the void, let go of earthly attachments , empty and become wind.
I like how the show handles how flawed the original GAang were as parents and how that shaped their children's relationships to each other
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Zaheer is a very spiritual human before he got air bending I just think that it increased his spiritual ness😂
The thing what i like about legend lf Korra is the fact that it shows the old gang was nog perfect. They were not perfect parents. Like all people have flaws so did they. It makes sense given ghe position they were in.