I'm such a dummy. I was just looking up if this was an animation error, or else FLGR showing off her power to manifest plot points at will! Props to your editor as I didn't catch that as added on afterwards at all.
Worth mentioning that it took all four of the Red Lotus with a sucker punch to take down Tenzin, when it was 1v1 Zaheer was getting completely powerwashed. He is talented, but talent isn't enough to beat a master who's been training his entire life.
I still think Zaheer is a stronger fighter in general, the main issue is that 1) he's fighting with an element Tenzin has so much more experience in and 2) Air is all redirection of strength so even if Zaheer is a stronger fighter and a more powerful bender, Tenzin's greater mastery over air specifically makes him the worst kind of opponent for Zaheer. He's basically a walking Zaheer counter.
He is even handling all three of them before he gets hit with the combustion. I love how the season shows Zaheer as being an incredibly gifted air bender, but he clearly isn’t all-powerful. They fail to get Korra in Zaofu and when he finally fights a true airbending master he is reduced to running away and taking hits from Tenzin.
@@Arkayjiya rederecting air?... Did you see that in show at least once? Don't try make Zaheer better then he is, he is already too good for freshly baked bender.
The earth queens death shows this show is willing to do things you wouldn't normally see in a kids' show. Props to the creators because that's a huge gamble to take
Not a meaningless death either. It was also used to discuss anarchy, power abuse... This show was willing to talk about some deep and complicated stuff
The method of her death is what is horrifying to me. When he pulled out all the air from her lungs, that alone wouldn't have been, immediately, fatal. But with ALL the air removed, the lungs would be totally collapsed, and she wouldn't have been able to breathe in unassisted, because her diaphragm would have been fighting a vacuum to get them to inflate. It would take someone or something inflating her lungs from the outside to allow her to breathe again. And that after she collapsed, she was still alive for the several minutes for her brain to die of oxygen deprivation.
I remember seeing that one clip of someone who taped this episode live and in the middle of the earth queen’s death, a little banner with SpongeBob came up at the bottom. Good ol Nickelodeon
Agree it is quite a brutal scene. It really demonstrates the tone of the show and what Zaheer is capable of. What I only noticed for the first time in this reaction is the foreshadowing; that comment while Korra is in chains about not being able to remove air from the room... *shudders* This show is so well written.
I don't think LoK is a "kids' show" in the way that Avatar was one, it feels more like it was made for teenagers who watched Avatar as children and watched this when it ran years later.
I absolutely love that they didn't make it seem like Tenzin struggled when fighting Zaheer. He is a true air bending master, doing it is whole life, and he is fighting for the life of his family and nation, there is no way Zaheer could be his match. Only when it became 3 on one was he beaten.
@@mr_epic875 just making it 4v1, not "technically" . Pl'i is sniper and works best from distance so she was in her perfect spot. She dont need to be in hand to hand combat to be effective. She is in perfect spot to be deadly here
The look on Zuko’s face when Korra told him she spoke to Iroh. Just think how long it has been since they saw each other and the fact he just found out he is in the spirit world. MY. FRIGGIN. HEART.
I would have loved, at the end of the season, or series to show a quick scene of Zuko and Iroh sitting down for some tea in the spirit world...Although I don't think my heart would be able to take it.
Zuko's dragon is called Druk. Not sure if this where they first confirmed his name, but they mention it in the official Art Book for Season 3, along with confirming that he is a descendent of Ran and Shaw from ATLA.
Bonus: iirc, her last interaction with Naga was when she was super grumpy about being at Zaofu. Kinda an extra element to how the acupuncture and resolving things with Suyin may have had an impact
Zaheers isn't really talent actually. Their goal was to train the avatar with their idealogy and to become her elemental masters. So she would open the portals and release Vaatu. But since the only airbending family is Aang's family he had no choice but to learn the techniques himself and be ready to teach her when the time comes. That's why he immediately gets the hang of it in prison and knows all about the airbending culture.
This is probably what Monk Gyatso did during the fire nation invasion back then. Sucking the air out of the room killing both him and all fire nation soldiers. The clothes of Gyatso were untouched and not burnt. You can see one of the fire nation skeleton reaching for it's throat so it is possible that monk Gyatso used this technique as a last resort. Gyatso was an airbending master, with decades of experience and training. If Zaheer could pull off that move after a week, Gyatso could easily do it in a small enclosed space.
Im glad someone else mentioned this. Yeah when airbenders fight they usually use air to push the enemy away, all those fire nation soldiers where just at Gyatso's feet. The new live action show on netflix might actually answer that question of if he does or not.
I feel like if he was such a master, he could have removed the air from the area the fire nation were in and left the air in the bit he was in? It's not hard to localise the area where the air is removed from (around the earth queen's head), surely Gyatso could have just done an area around those soldiers and not himself
@@willowtree9709 Honestly, it’s just an attempt to explain a plot hole. Gyatso being killed by firebending but having perfectly unburnt clothing would indicate that he must have been killed by some other means. Of course, it’s originally a kids show, so that’s likely the actual reason, but it’s at least fun to speculate.
In regards to Bolin trying to make friends with Ghazan, I love the description the Avatar Legends Tabletop Role Playing Game gave him: “Bolin genuinely wants to befriend every single living being he meets, unless they’re trying to kill him... he only befriends some of the ones trying to kill him.”
you’re the first reactor i’ve seen who was appropriately freaked at the “until im no longer breathing” line. i swear everyone else just seems to brush right past it but when this was airing live everyone was like UMMMMMMMMMKNN WTF
Last video: "I wonder if air benders can remove air from someone's lungs?" This video: "I don't want the earth queen to die..." Everyone else: "Well....about both those things...."
I always find it amazing that Zuko is the great-grandson of Avatar Roku, is bestfriends with his reincarnated grandfather through Aang, while protecting and guiding the reincarnation of his grandfather/bestfriend through Korra. I love that this season finally made it come full circle. I just wished him and Korra could have talked more. I also wondered if Aang ever gave Zuko the opportunity to talk to his great grandfather Roku in later years for guidance.
I love how the last line of Chapter 10 is "This is only the beginning." The murder of the Earth Queen and the downfall of Ba Sing Se is only the beginning, that's a hell of a statement. Also, Tenzin unleashed will always be awesome. The Red Lotus needed all four members to finally overpower him.
The scary deadly equivalent of blood bending and taking breath away for earthbending would have to be Gaara's sand coffin/sand burial technique. Also, love the braid
Man, I love that moment when Tenzin responds to Zaheer. Z.: "You don't have a choice." T.: "Yes I do." Legit, such a strong life lesson. We Always have a choice.
A freaking love that scene with Tenzin. He's like "Screw your hostage situation BS, I'm not having that. I'm going to do what I can to save whomever I can" And by golly, he damn near pulls it off. Such strong force of will and might.
Man, I'm really glad they gave Tenzin some time to shine. And he absolutely did. Zaheer may be incredibly skilled, perhaps even naturally talented. But none of that compares to a genuine master airbender. Zaheer is lucky he has his team, otherwise I think Tenzin would have completely bodied him.
I do love that, after generations power hungry tyrants, Zuko just decided to abdicate the throne to his daughter and retire. Didn't even train Korra in firebending like you'd expect, he just stepped aside for the next generation.
The moment where Zaheer said "unfortunately you do not have a choice" and Tenzin says "yes I do" is one of my favorite moments of ATLA and TLOK combined. Also him not giving up on Korra with the line "As long as I am breathing, It's not over" great writing.
When you said you didnt want the earth queen dead i had an evil smirk on my face like shes has no idea whats to come lmaoooo. I also love the part where Lin gives Naga a treat cause it shows shes no longer so angry and actually likes Naga even if she wont admit it lol.
I’ve been waiting all season for this episode. It ends badly but all season Zaheer is shown as such a great air bender. A unstoppable force beating all he faces. Then he faces a REAL air bender master and gets rolled over the entire time. Shows how important it is to KNOW air bending when facing a air bender.
At first, Team Zaheer got us jazzed to see a cool, dark mirror version of a Team Avatar... and then they came for Tenzin. They came for *Dad.* Ding goes the evil meter.
I love the turn in this episode from most people seeing tenzen as a wet blanket theory teacher to a disciplined warrior. If that woman wasn't in the blimp he would've had them all
"I think emotional moments are coming up for me..." No truer words were ever spoken. 😄 I've been looking forward to seeing you watch these, especially episode 11. I figured you would love seeing Tenzin go into full beast mode, ultimately taking on all of the Red Lotus gang himself. I didn't expect that you would be that scared for him. I admit that when I watched that last scene, when Tenzin says 'as long as I have breath...' and then seeing view pan him out of the shot, I wasn't very hopeful.
Notice how Zaheer doesn't even come close to beating Tenzin in a one-on-one fight. Yes, Zaheer's a natural prodigy. But Tenzin is the *only* Master Airbender in the world, and we've never seen him lose a single fight on-screen against anything but overwhelming odds. All Zaheer could do was stay alive and wait for his team to turn it into a four-on-one. I do appreciate them showing that natural talent is great, but doesn't let you beat an actual master. Aang was naturally gifted and ahead of Katara's waterbending when they were both just feeling their way through it, but Katara blew right past him as soon as they both got a proper teacher.
So as of last episode you now know why Zaheer is so well-versed as an airbender: he was going to be the red lotus air bending teacher for the avatar. All his martial arts were based on airbending, which is why it only took a push to be fairly good at air bending. No where near tenzin of course, probably semi-equivalent with Jinora if anyone, tbh. But that fivht was 4v1 and they Still had trouble, and in 1v1 tenzin was winning. Id be willing to bet zaheer Couldnt take tensin's breath as a less skilled airbender. Also, season 1 finale had a murder-suicide
It's mentioned in Avatar: The Last Airbender that some friendships can transcend lifetimes: Monk Gyatso was a friend to Roku, and Aang's teacher. With Korra, we see that idea repeated - by this point, Korra has received guidance from several people close to Aang.
It's nice how the few characters they bring back from ATLA are able to have an impact on the story without undermining the core Korra characters. Always good to see them
Things like bloodbending and bending the air out of someone is one of those things that people think about when they start watching the show and see all the creativity but never expect it'll actually happen in the show until it does.
remember way back in the early episodes of atla when aang finds gytaso? how he was surrounded by like 15 firebenders? the theory is that he did a zaheer to everyone in the room.
when Zuko was talking about Aang being willing to sacrifice anything to protect the Air nation, but then talking about how he had larger concerns as the Avatar, I was like S%*! but thats Tenzin! What an episode, the fight scenes were epic. Tenzin and Kai going off. Love love love.
Absolutely the most brutal death in the Avatar universe. Finally we get to see what Monk Gyatso probably did to a whole room of comet-empowered firebenders all the way back in episode 3 of ATLA. Episode 11 really displays the difference between talent and mastery. Zaheer is an extremely good airbender, but he's no master. When he and Tenzin duel, Tenzin is using perfect spiral movements to minimize his economy of movement and dodge faster. Zaheer is jumping all over the place and throwing huge punches with his airbending, flashy and powerful, but not anywhere as effective. If that fight had gone on much longer, Tenzin would have had him.
Fun fact there’s actually a theory that makes a lot of sense that Monk Gyatso in his final moments when the Fire Nation attacked the Southern Temple that he killed the Firebenders that attacked him by doing the same thing Zaheer did, by bending the air out of their lungs. There were numerous skeletons of Firebender soldiers that were beside his body, so Gyatso didn’t go down without a fight.
On top of that, we can argue Zaheer doesn't want to pull that trick... yet. Zaheer threathened to hurt the Air Nation to force Korra to surrender (under the premise that they won't be hurt, too much, if she gives up), the untimely killing of one of the Avatar's friends would give her enough reason not to trust Zaheer's deal.
I love your reactions. You holding your breathe while the earth queen lost hers was so real. Zuko hearing about his uncle was so heartwarming. Also, listen how good the music is. You didnt mention it in this reaction, but go back and really listen to it, it is so good.
the Tenzin v Zaheer fight reminded me of the quote "You can't truly call yourself peaceful unless you're capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. Important difference". Tenzin threw down like a BEAST. He made me think of Gyatso with all the Fire Nation skeletons.
And now you know how all those Air Nation Soldiers died in the Air temple, way back in ATLA S1. Did you notice the camels backing as far away from the dragon as they could? The small details... Maybe they could put the Red Lotus demonstrating the Elements? That'd be fun.
Everyone talkingabout Tenzin, but can we all acknowledge how amazing it was that Kya, a healer first and fighter second, was holding her own against probably the best waterbender, second only to Katara? Just imagine how crazy powerful she would be with real fighting training and experience. Same with Bumi. That 60+ guy, new to airbending, also holding his own (somewhat) against Ghazan, who can lavabend? That's Aang's kids for you, everybody!
The animal that attacks them in the desert is based on a real one, the sarcastic fringemouth, thankfully they are much smaller in real life and only live in the bits of the ocean where no sunlight reaches
I'm so thrilled you finally gotten to this episode ... there's a fan theory, one that I whole heartedly believe, that a mortally wounded Monk Giatzo did something similar to all of the Fire Nation soldiers in that room where Aang found him in the third episode of ATLAB ... as he was dying he just sucked all the air out the room and took as many with him as he could!!!
Her connection to the other Avatars isn't complete gone. She can't speak to them, but the Avatar State still imbues her with their collective power and experience.
A little fun fact is that the technique that Zaheer used to off the Earth Queen was actually invented by avatar Yangchen(the air avatar before Aang) she was one if not the cruelest avatars but she is known in history as a saint and she is basically the role model for the “perfect avatar” although in reality she definitely wasn’t
Next episode is coming y'all!! This season was so great, every time there's something big, like the Air Queen moment, there's still big moments coming!!! There's _____, and ______, and dont forget ______!!!!
And now you know how Monk Gyatso took out an entire room of Fire Nation soldiers. :) After all, you can't fire bend if there's no air. ...Or live, for that matter.
@@mranima748 Except I don't think he protected himself in such a way at all, because he died in that room, too. I'm sure he _could_ have protected himself, but maybe he chose to lay down his own life in exchange for taking all those others; the Air Nomads were deeply pacifist people after all, and he probably felt immense guilt over taking these lives despite the horrifying circumstances. So perhaps forsaking his own life in the process was his way of penance.
@@TimeturnerJ The Air Temple was lost and the Airbenders outmatched with the comet in play. Odds are Gyatso sacrificed himself to avoid capture and interrogation - after all, it wasn't really the Airbenders the Fire Nation was after... it was the Avatar, and Gyatso more than anyone would know how to find him.
"Fun" fact: Stealing a person's air isn't illegal or anything like bloodbending is but it was/is a forbidden technique in Air Nomad society. Not only killed but killed ON SCREEN. Jet died in AtLA but that was off screen. Dragon is named Druk. Also if you ever wondered what Tenzin was really capable of... here was a very good demonstration, 3 on 1 and he was doing fine it took invisible explosives to tip the scales. Edit: Firebenders have been shown to be able to manipulate heat so... yeah probably... or perhaps adding heat without fire, kinda like microwaving someone...
I remember back when I watched “The Puppetmaster” back in ATLA, it got me thinking about all the darker sides to bending. For water, it’s bloodbending. And then I thought, ‘what if Airbending could be used to suffocate someone?’ When I finally got to this episode of TLOK, my question was answered in the most brutal way possible 😃
Fun fact: U said something about fire benders making someone's body temperature go up, water benders are actually the one who could do that, on the Kyoshi novels there's a water bender healer that cools down people's body to slow it down and they don't bleed out fast, so she can come back to heal them properly later
I remember following Legend of Korra on Nickelodeon and suddenly they switched over to website only. For the longest time I didn’t know why and due to having poor internet connection I wasn’t able to finish out the seasons. It wasn’t until later I realized it was because the earth queen has an on screen death (which was brutally awesome 😂)
Get ready. Things are about to get emotional. I was enjoying how amazing they were telling the story of Zaheer. Absolutely I was cheering him on. Henry Rollins being the former lead singer of Black Flag cast as Zaheer is masterful voice casting on multiple levels. I long for the world Zaheer envisioned. A very Star Trek type future. Where all needs are met. No rich. No poor.
In terms of body bending, Firebenders could probably stop your brain by redirecting the electrical signals, airbenders (if skilled enough) might be able to bend the air pockets in your bones. With earthbenders, most of your body’s minerals are pure metals which can’t be bent
Killing the earth queen (more or less) on screen raised the stakes for the season so much. It really felt in "The Ultimatum" like no one was safe anymore.
There's such an irony here that Long Feng tried to convince the Earth King that team avatar was a part of an "anarchist cell" there to destroy them, when 70 years later that exactly happens
