Avatar The Last Airbender 3x5 (Book 3)

First of all, this seems mean-spirited and I don't understand what for. Second, she called out Azula and company for over analyzing because they were in the middle of an argument. Have you ever had someone go "I know what your problem is" in the middle of an argument? It's positively infuriating and doesn't help to reach a healthy conclusion. Now, what does that have to do with her pausing to talk about the show? She's a streamer and a reactor. That's what she does and it's quite literally her job. Third, the word you're looking for (if it applied here, but it doesn't) is hypocritical, not ironic. A smoker who tells someone not to smoke is a hypocrite. The Titanic being called "unsinkable", yet sinking on its first voyage is irony. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk/lecture on literary devices.

Dreadnought

It’s ironic you call them out for over analyzing when you can’t let a single scene play out to completion.

Nathan Elkin

this is so good aaaa again your insight adds so much to this

Winter Turnip

cringe polyamory rant ngl

Nim

I love how the first encounter with the assassin was done without music. Just the sound of grunting, bending, and explosions.

Tim Moree

Id go so far as to say Azula’s rizz is worse than Zuko’s

Karystma

This is one of my favourite episodes too :D Getting to have the Fire Nation Teens be *both* villains *aaand* reveal genuine traces of depth, vulnerability and, honestly? Good. They're still kids, they could go either way at this point, and that really shines through here

DaniDeFig

I feel Alica has an off take on Mai. Mai is invented and shut off, any response other than removing herself from the situation, or staying quiet can be considered positive and Zuko gets that.

MrBogThing

Good for you, I guess? Or cry about it? I dunno, take your pick.

AlexXis Amadeus

Okay? Did you expect me to care?

AlexXis Amadeus

Bro no one cares about your shitty hamfisted political inserts

SapphireRose

love this episode too

Jose Perez

No shows perfect, but this ones closer than most. Fun fact the org season 3 script was gonna have azula in a arranged marriage lol. So they were already fixing things.

Dylan McDonald

Thank you for the episode! You're such a sweetheart Alicia I look forward to the day you get to become a mom you'll do such an amazing job. Much love <3

Lemon Rat

The way I see it. Lighting is more a more precise and deadly technique, often a total death sentence if you don't know how to redirect it or have a powerful healer. The Explosions however are a very delicate technique that offers incredible destruction over a wider area but as seen with how Aang dispersed it, their is room for creative defence. Not only that but the Lighting would travel much faster. Lighting is fast and high single target damage. Explosion is a slightly slower but more devastating AoE. It's also cool as fuck.

Crustacean Monarch

Mild disagree about the episode. Larger disagree about your pointless polyamory rant.

Nik Nak

yikes

Princess Paladin

I love this episode but im even more exited for you to reaact to the next one

I both love and hate this episode. On one hand, it’s dense as fuck, capturing a whole suite of storytelling elements and realistic emotional circumstances. From humanizing Azula, exploring Zuko’s mental state, all of their relationships, and for dessert, the gAang meets a Terminator. Brilliant On the other hand, it makes 2 big mistakes in my opinion. Firstly, it snubbed and opportunity to actually explore Azula’s mental faculties, which is probably the most understated crucial element of this show. I can’t too into it here because it’s spoilers. The other mistake is that the resolutions felt kinda slipshod. Some of the back and forth and flip flopping was a bit Hammy, but you gotta do what you can with the time budget you have, right? Then there’s the house burning, which while funny and slapstick, doesn’t really feel like an appropriate resolution to anything that happened here. Basically a non-sequitur done by asshole teens to other teens that literally did nothing wrong except inviting these disturbed maniac into their home. Sure, sure, enjoy you schaudenfruede against some rich boys for the crime of being rich and not being humble about. The probably got their asses beat worse than Zuko did after this. Also, just gonna say it, every single example of “”””polyamory””” I’ve ever seen has either been a bunch of simps desperate for the taste of one ditz, I.e. attention seeking behavior, which seems pretty indicative of 90% of human nature to me, Or, it fell apart quickly for a whole host of reasons. Seems like a pretty dumb, sub-optimal relationship dynamic, but I guess you just gotta be of a “certain kind” to make it work.

AlexXis Amadeus

I think they would be great together... right up till she discovers he's a firebender. Then I worry it would be the same as that time in the earth village.

Qarl McGreggin

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Chanfyr

4:25 soft Stalactites

Chanfyr

Fair point.

James Gheen

you saying "it's not that deep", i was like, "no, no! that's the entire point of this episode! it is that deep! they have deep seated issues, and ember island is bringing them out so they can deal with them!" XD

Princess Paladin

Hope for the best between you and the Babymaker, also did you notice how Zuko picked up the habit of finding beauty in things like seashells from Iroh when he collected them in the beginning of season 2?

Mieguy

I always thought it was just an advanced form of firebending, where he delays the moment his qi becomes fire until the last minute, which makes an explosion effect. But like Jacob said, they never really expain it

Ninjawithafro

She's Def my favorite character in this show.....purely for her being such a good villain, and her being a tragic character at the end of the day and only 14.....and she's probably one of the only characters in the show that you easily forget her real age because of what you see from her

TrinitytheApostle

Thanks for the episode

TrinitytheApostle

they never explain how that guy blows stuff up, my personal head cannon is that he has mastered his own chakra (mostly because of the third eye thing) and he does the same thing Zuko did while trying to use lighting but uses the flow of chakra he sees with his third eye to project it where he is looking.

Jacob

I love how this episode just shatters the trope of the "anime beach episode".

Sage Ryoku

ALSO I HOPE THE BEST FOR YA GET DEM BB'S MAMA ALICIA O7

AyatoMisubi

i love your reaction to this, your talk and breakdown of how the characters work is so nice to hear, feel like most others there watches something like this wouldn't get it. But you understand them so perfectly, excited to see more in the future

AyatoMisubi

That isnt gilf energie anymore thats more like necrophilia

Simon

azula has some of that pent up gamer rage but league of legends doesn't exist in this world so she fight like a yasuo one trick irl

Jacob

"She just called your aura dingy! Are you gonna take that?" Is one of my favorite lines in the entire show. Its just so funny to me

Divi Forrester

Oh yea, explosion man here is 10/10 the most POWERFUL firebending attacks in the franchise. Lightning isn't even as violent as this thing.

Dyno

Congrats to you and the Babymaker, and thanks for putting out these videos, they're always a high point of the day.

Liesmith

Nah, even Azula she just hides it really well. She was still insecure about taking to boys, and even though she insults Tai Lee she still apologized and opened up to her in relative privacy. She even opened up at the end for a moment and let her walls down only to immediately bring them back up

Shadowsofpain

Except Azula. She cray cray.

James Gheen

We must all wish for the best for the Clever and Beautiful dynasty.

James Gheen

I really like how this episode showcases how these four are ultimately just teenagers in this war, not all that unlike the gaang. They're just kids too

Nik Nak

Shout out to the babymaker! Wish you all the best Princess, you got this!

Joey Cat

Yay the beach episode! As for saggy booba i just call them deflated fun bags. Another one of my favorite episodes and glad it's become one of yours, looking forward to the next episode :)

Joey Cat

Alicia talking about how she always shows up an hour late to parties made me have two thoughts go through my head: 1.) Can't be late to a party your hosting 2.) Not me showing up to parties hours before and staying hours after in order to help setup and cleanup.

Rmimaru

Love you girl! Babymaker do your THING! (When time comes, for now help her walk up the stairs or something, protect the girl from evil dog that steal her walker)

Ivan

And this is why Avatar is a masterpiece. Lower tier shows are fine just using a beach episode for fanservice and comedy. ATLA's goes absolutely HAM with the character development for the villains. And you are kind of bubbly and goofy, but I'd have you no other way :)

James Gheen

As much as I like this episode for Zuko's healing, I like it even more for Azula. She plays it off, but at the end of the day she is just a young gir,l and admitting that she thought her mom saw her as a monster shows the trauma she hides under her bad bitch energy.

Stuart Hanmore

Also wanted to add, thanks for the video, having a terrible day and this really helped me feel better <3

TheTrashBandit

Zuko x Jin will always be the supreme ship, Zuko x Mai seems so toxic to me, they don't have a whole lot of chemistry in my opinion. Don't get me wrong though, I still like Mai because she's a mood.

TheTrashBandit

Closer to the end of the episode I was gonna something like “something tells me Zuko isn’t happy with the decision he made at the end of Book 2”, but then the episode spelled it out.

Sander

God it feels so good going back through avatar every once in a while, keep strong Alicia!

SimplyMocha

Not sure how Ty Lee meant it with the line to Zuko but if I were her I'd be thinking "Yo it's cold and you're a firebender👀." I'm glad Zuko and Azula gang got their Breakfast Club moment.

Munir

I always really loved this episode, because it adds so much to the characters and gives an insight into their personalities. But also how much it makes Azula look more human, with having problems talking to people or being jealous, but also how she called the heartfelt moments of the others "Performances", but opening up after that and immediately closing up and making a joke about it.

Boki

What the merc is using is "combustion bending" it is to fire bending as metal bending is to earth bending. The tattoo is the focal point.

Trevor Appel