This deal was made in an effort to compete with Disney+ and their nostalgia-filled catalog. I NEVER thought about the fact that the human body is 60% water and then they went ahead and made blood bendable . Love the idea open and scary concept of waterbending! The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Netflix live action ATLA series, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. Discussion. They befriend an old innkeeper named Hama, who reveals that she is a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe. I focus on her personality, emotions and the relationships she has with other characters. And this power makes sense to exist. As mentioned here, an interest has been shown in watching and discussing each episode of A:TLA, one episode a day until we finish the series.So let's begin! When you consider that 60% of the human body is water, it makes bloodbending a terrifying power. Update April 11th, 2020 by Louis Kemner: By now, Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra have proven themselves some of the most popular animated American TV shows of all, and they are often lumped in together with Japanese anime (since they share visual styles). Zuko discovers that Roku is his maternal great-grandfather. -Hama's flashback reveals that the Fire Nation ship that Aang and Katara ventured onto in "The Boy in the Iceberg" was uprooted by the Southern waterbenders. Her quasi pacifism is really put to the test and challenged whereas in Raiders, we always sort of knew what the outcome was going to be even if it doesn't make it any less crucial for her character. The invasion is four days away, and Aang begins to feel nervous about confronting the Fire Lord. Avatar: The Last Airbender was a smash hit, and in many ways so was the follow-up series (Avatar: ... During the episode "The Puppetmaster" fans were proven all sorts of correct on that count. Not everyone is going to pull and Iroh and come out of jail ripped and ready for action. The Puppetmaster! That one has a more solid emotional core, but this one has the edge in terms of the ethical dilemmas so central to Katara's character. hide. I recommend reading all other opinions about those episodes in the previous threads, perhaps you will rethink them. Discussion. Watching ATLA on Netflix. Archived. You're fighting a war! Every word Hama said alluded to the end and built her character more and more as a deranged angry old lady. This is super late but I think it’s similar to when someone discovers something, while it took forever for them to figure it out, you can teach it to someone smart/talented enough pretty quick cause its the theory crafting part. When I was rewatching it today, I realized how much build up there was in Hama's teachings to Katara. 6. It was a really sad episode. That's plain wrong - Yue can't give waterbenders extra strength at a full moon, all waterbenders get stronger at night and at full moon. spoiler. After Aang receives a vision from his predecessor, Roku, and Zuko receives a letter from Iroh, they each learn about the relationship between Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin; their childhood friendship, falling out, and Sozin's eventual betrayal of Roku to his death. :D Before anyone says anything I know that the second song is … While everyone in this series has a dead relative story, I thought Hama was the first character to really show the psychological damage that war and imprisonment can have on people. I seriously loved that episode. Avatar: The Last Airbender was originally created by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko for Nickelodeon in 2005. Here's my new creeptastic trailer for the "Puppetmaster' episode! This is the subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Netflix live action ATLA series, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. Discussion. Even an insane and scary psychopath has a sympathetic backstory and important lesson attached. SCARY AF episode but a great Halloween special. This ship has haunted my tribe when Gran-Gran was a little girl. (remember firebending from the sun fire benders taught that fire is energy and life) It's basically dirty fighting that serves no natural purpose other than to control and manipulate other living beings. That's some messed up shit there. The Puppetmaster. I nearly cried when Hama told her story over dinner, about how she was the last survivor of a genocide, Katara said she was honored to meet her, and Hama said she didn’t think she’d ever meet another southern tribe water bender. -Aang is disgusted when Hama mentions stewed sea prunes. I just rewatched The Puppetmaster, and I'm amazed. Hi everyone and welcome back! After three straight days, it takes the collaboration of Sokka, Toph, and Katara to get him to finally sleep and feel confident about facing the Fire Lord. Thanks for watching and see you soon as… Blood bending is a bit of a taboo form of waterbending that very few advanced benders acquire. 149. An in-depth analysis of the character Katara in Avatar: The last airbender. Hama broke out long ago, and has spent the rest of her life as a normal Fire Nation citizen, trying to forget her painful imprisonment. I perhaps like Book 3 even more than Book 2, but I am not sure. 149. I especially freaked out when Hama's veins began to enlarge. Katara discovers Hama is kidnapping civilians with a dark ability, bloodbending, to enact her revenge. They're a rag-tag group of kids against an entire country bent on killing or imprisoning them and everyone else for the rest of their lives. Created Jul 21, 2010. She overheard Katara tell a story about Nini, a Southern Water Tribe girl, and made herself known to the team. Posted by. Hama says she was the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe and yet Katara has waterbending. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the TheLastAirbender community. The Puppetmaster Written By: Tim Hedrick Directed By: Joaquim Dos Santos Storyboard By: Ian Graham, Kenji Ono, Sang Jin Kim, Tomihiro Yamaguchi, Joaquim Dos Santos, Lauren Montgomery Animation By: JM Animation Co, Ltd Transcribers: Avatar_Mom, Psycho Silver [Introduction sequence includes clips from "The Boy in the Iceberg", "The Siege of the North, Part 1", and "The Runaway".] With Zach Tyler, Mae Whitman, Jack De Sena, Michaela Jill Murphy. The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra … Press J to jump to the feed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Not only is bloodbending an actual ability – but Katara herself learned it. Perhaps the scariest episode of the series and one of the darkest examples of what a waterbender is capable of. That was very emotional and I think Hama meant everything she said, even if she ended up manipulating Katara in the end. They befriend an old innkeeper named Hama, who reveals that she is a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe. Sokka's Master and The Beach, specially the latter, were quite decent and interesting too. Fans. Katara is pretty much a master waterbender at this point, and like others have said she didn't have to invent the technique, simply learn it. Iroh explains to Zuko that the legacy of the struggle between Roku and the latter's paternal great-grandfather, Sozin, lives on as the struggle between good and evil within Zuko himself. Let's talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender 3x8 "The Puppetmaster" and speculate on what else is possible in Avatar!! WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY!!!! Having the power and using it are two separate things - was curious as to y'alls thoughts. Posts; Archive; Katara Analysis: The Western Air Temple. The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movie and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. That episode had the best character development of any one episode character in the series IMO. It fits better tonally and structurally in the season as a whole than some of the other episodes in the first half, This episode fucked me up as a kid. Bloodbending overrides an opponents will and uses their own water in their body against them. Decades after her escape from the Fire Nation prison, Hama discovered Team Avatar camping in the woods near the village where she lived. "The Puppetmaster" marked a major turning point in the Avatar mythology with the introduction of bloodbending, which would go on to become a key part of The Legend of Korra: Book One. This is because Gran Gran Kanna was a waterbender from the Northern Water Tribe ("The Waterbending Master") and her bending came down the line to Katara. It was a show that so perfectly captured reality, with characters that were believable, stories that rang true... ...and seriously scary stuff. 8 years ago. You could see a relatively happy, normal Hama slowly becoming deranged to the point of total madness, and her crazed delight in Katara mastering bloodbending. Most of the applications that I thought of while watching were mostly inappropriate. S3E8 - The Puppetmaster. #YaBoyRoshi #AvatarPATREON: http://Patreon.com/YaboyroshiBACKUP CHANNEL: http://youtube.com/ybrsznJOIN THE DISCORD! 8 The Puppetmaster Creepy things are afoot when the gang meets a mysterious old innkeeper with a secret. Pocket. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Nickelodeon’s iconic animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is soon to be the newest addition to Netflix’s ever growing catalog due to an agreement between Netflix & Nickelodeon made in late 2019. Katara discovers Hama is kidnapping civilians with a dark ability, bloodbending, to enact her revenge. Ranking Every Episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender Part Three: Season Three. Because all those things gives them a chance to survive. The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movie and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. Adored by kids and adults alike, this show remains popular even 15 years after its debut. The Puppetmaster . ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ on Netflix: Relive the greatest moments. She was horrified by its nature and later was behind the movement to ban it. Hama's last words, were perfect. report. 2 Survival. However, what he learns leaves him uncertain of what he … I mean, we're talking about people who have been in a bloody, gruesome war for 100 years. Besides how freaking scary it was for a kid's show, it took waterbending beyond the norm. Sokka is wary of random puppets in a random creepy old ladies house and I don't blame him! Previously on Avatar ... Katara You're looking at the only waterbender in the whole South Pole. Totally agreed. Puppet Master is an American horror film series which focuses on a group of anthropomorphic puppets animated by an Egyptian spell, each equipped with its own unique and dangerous device (although not in all installments of the series are the puppets portrayed as threatening) and are represented as heroes, antiheroes and antagonists. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos. Legend . The Puppetmaster is by far the freakiest episode after going through my recent playthrough of TLA. Email. The last sentence in your comment reminded me of this scene from Eurotrip. Both books were amazing and highly acclaimed. Makes one think if Katara's mum was also a waterbender, and if that is why the fire nation killed her. "The Puppetmaster" (mentioned only) (only mention) Nini was a character in a ghost story Katara told to her friends. Who would have though about blood bending? SR at least gives Katara a moral choice and showcases her growth both within episode and across the series. On another topic, it really bugs me that Katara became a blood bender in a few minutes (enough to overpower Hama) when Hama said she practiced for years before successfully controlling the guards, it’s hard to believe. The gang visits a creepy village where many mysterious disappearances have occurred. Yue The legend said the moon was the first waterbender. -This episode was conceptualized with the name "The Dark Side of the Moon". Feeling that he is unprepared, he trains constantly and his anxiety causes him a string of nightmares, whereas his lack of sleep results in mad daydreams. This episode is so dark and well done! I absolutely love seeing the elements and their benders take them to places you would not normally think. They need every advantage they can get, and she just kinda says "Well, I don't feel comfortable doing that". It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks. share. I think you have a fair point in terms of how quickly Katara was able to learn to do it, but I think within the context of the story it makes plenty of sense. This episode had some amazing bending choreography during Katara and Hamma’s fight! Pin. Hama's last words are downright chilling. 8.7k. -Katara refers to the events of several previous episodes when recalling times she waterbent in hard situations. Just love the nuance of this show. save. Close. I like that this, more so than some other "filler" plots, actually tests a character and expands on her while planting a setup for her big arc payoff. Yeah, I felt the rules weren't well layed out in this episode. This also probably causes massive trauma and unnecessary pain and tortue to be placed under blood bending. Avatar has never been afraid to consider the villain's perspective, and "The Puppetmaster" fully embodies that tradition. She becomes Katara's mentor and shares with her the tragic story of her life as a prisoner of the Fire Nation. This thread is archived. The only other instance we see in the Avatar universe of someone learning how to bloodbend is Unaloq and Tarlokk, and they were very young and inexperienced benders, so it makes sense to me that it took them so long and Katara such a comparatively short amount of time. Share. The Fire Nation had been fearful of the Avatar's rebirth into the Southern Water Tribe, so they sent raiding ships to capture the waterbenders, taking them away and leaving them in horrible prisoner-of-war camps, with virtually no water to bend or space to move. D: Close. 727k. Euuughhh. Katara did the same when she was hunting down the man who killed her mother, she even used bloodbending to do so. Avatar Roku [Narrating a preview.] I was just glad that they actually mentioned the fact that everything has water in it, and that an extremely powerful water bender is really scary. The innkeeper invited them to stay at her inn, warning th… I definitely think of Koh as a lot scarier than Hama, even though it is only for a few minutes that Aang has a conversation with him. The resulting battle forces Katara to use the technique against Hama to save her friends. 918k Fans It's one of the absolute best of the series. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the TheLastAirbender community. This is a reference to "Bato of the Water Tribe", in which he tried stewed sea prunes and hated them. Ah yes Hama the Puppetbender and Bloodbender. Press J to jump to the feed. Grow up bitch! Book 1 was by far the more inconsistent. Join. Meanwhile, Zuko learns about an upcoming war meeting. Log In Sign Up. The whole thought of blood bending gave me chills, and even Katara breaking down at the end of the episode iced the cake on that. With bloodbending you can kill your enemy instantly. Here it is! I think of it as a sadistic martial art where instead of bending the elements of nature like all the other traditional forms, this one is designed with the intent to kill, cause harm, and destroy. She kind of did walk that line, as Hama's insanity was fueled by rage and revenge. Everything you can argue about "The Puppetmaster" (PM), SR also does. User account menu. Katara's reaction kind of pissed me off. Hama, being take… The Puppetmaster Discussion So I'm watching Avatar for the first time in my early 20's and just watched The Puppetmaster episode and holy shit... are we sure this is a kids show. All episodes are available in the archive . She lost the battle but won the war, as the saying goes. Hama, being taken away in cuffs, is pleased because she feels she has passed on her dark legacy to the new generation. The gang visits a creepy village where many mysterious disappearances have occurred. 91% Upvoted. Share. Press J to jump to the feed. 5K Shares. I don't know how unpopular this is but I think this is the definitive Katara centric episode of the season, maybe of the entire show (But I think The Desert is underrated for how much Katara is the MVP of it and The Painted Lady's just underrated in general), more so than The Southern Raiders which is the one I've seen most people say this sort of statement of. 0 comments. Avatar: The Last Airbender has returned to Netflix and has been topping the streaming charts for nearly a month now as folks check it out for the first time or snuggle up again with the fantastic series. There are so many applications and uses of waterbending that the normal person in the show never even thought of. Watch S03E08 now, or read the episode synopsis and information here, then fire away with your questions, comments, and observations. A scene-by-scene analysis series of Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was interesting to see someone who had actually been mentally broken by the war. Reddit. Hi, I've been seeing a lot of things online recently saying that yue gave Katara extra strength during her fight with Hama. I just love her eternal strength, she is truly the heart of the entire gang as well as the heart of the story. Katara also is one of the strongest water benders in the world, and her friends almost died so she prob tried whatever she could. Katara can Blood Bend! Closest thing there was to horror in the series. Additionally the flashback shows a young Kanna, Sokka and Katara's grandmother. Posted by 1 day ago. She becomes Katara's mentor and shares with her the tragic story of her life as a prisoner of the Fire Nation. Rewatching the series on Netflix - why is Katara so upset/crying at the end of the episode on the realization that she is also a bloodbender? The journey to Sozin’s Comet was like a flame that just kept getting bigger.
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