Overanalyzing Korra: The Ultimatum
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Oktay Yildiz
2024-12-02 19:44:02 +0000 UTCWelp Patreon just ate my detailed diatribe on why Ming wa makes sense 😱😱😱 screaming to the void so let’s go. the short version. So Ming wa has phantom pains about her arms (phantom pains are real). Do you think water bending is more physically doing the motions or more spiritually doing the moves. That’s what makes her cool she understands her bending to the thought of phantom arms (even armless do you think her spiritual connection to water is any lessssss cuz she she can’t make the moves with her nonexistent arms). Toph was blind and the best earth bender, let another disabled character be the best water bender. The question is the moon doesn’t have hands or arms to push or pull, wtf does Ming wa have to have arms to push or pull.
Tiredhyperion
2024-11-27 01:00:27 +0000 UTCtracks... PERFECTLY
Punchster2
2024-11-25 23:23:26 +0000 UTCTenzin uses more traditional Baguazhang movements while Zaheer is more Capoeira-based.
Chibi
2024-11-24 18:36:57 +0000 UTCThat alien edit with tenzin was so fucking funny lmao
Abuzz03
2024-11-22 07:38:55 +0000 UTCBecause technology built to respond to brain waves is a little more complicated than H2O
maskofthedragon
2024-11-21 19:01:26 +0000 UTCWhat could be more interesting in the earth kingdom is if a couple competing car companies came about using earth benders rather than fossil fuels.
Lewis Williams
2024-11-21 17:59:37 +0000 UTCActually, the more I think about it, the more it makes a lot of sense. I know a guy who lost his leg and his doctor hooked up a mechanical leg to the nerve that were left in the limb. He was literally instructed to wiggle his toes, toes that he didn't have, but it worked in the machine. Ming-Hua still has the nerve endings for arms. Why couldn't a system like waterbending which has been shown to work psychically work with the phantom arms she would have?
Isbey Isbey
2024-11-20 17:59:41 +0000 UTCI've never actually thought about her bending with phantom arms. I wish they could have shown that a little better
Isbey Isbey
2024-11-20 17:51:32 +0000 UTCI get what you're saying. I've always thought it was a little weird that your character that doesn't have arms' super power is that they can have arms. Not as inventive as it could have been
Isbey Isbey
2024-11-20 17:49:34 +0000 UTCAlso regarding the fact that ba sing se doesn't have cars. Have you seen any European city? The roads were CLEARLY not built for cars; cities that old and that dense can't just build more roads like that, especially the long, wide, and flat roads needed for cars to function. It's honestly pretty believable that a lot of the technology is relegated to rich, relatively recently built cities; I mean we were literally building the golden gate bridge while custard was slaughtering native Americans and most Americans were farming in the great plains.
Brisken
2024-11-20 11:34:04 +0000 UTCI remember back when Korra was still airing, and we get to the end of this episode. After what happened to the earth queen, EVERYONE thought that Tenzin had died here, especially after the "as long as I'm still breathing" line. There was a tension in the air the entire week leading up to the next episode.
Brisken
2024-11-20 11:25:05 +0000 UTCI saw a video by Hello Future Me where he basically compared technological innovation in ATLA to the real world, and he pointed out that in the same time span between ATLA and Korra, most of the real world also didn't have access to things like radios or cars even though a few cities in America and Europe did.
Julian K
2024-11-20 04:29:07 +0000 UTCSomething about how Tenzin and Zaheer flip at each other looks wrong, makes me wonder if Book 3 was unfinished
maskofthedragon
2024-11-20 04:18:04 +0000 UTCI would have preferred if JInora had felt spurned into action more so than Kai, and that would have lended more credit to her earning her tattoos. I get they wanted some highlight moment for Kai, yet we've gotten that when he saved Jinora earlier. Plus, I think it could have been a sick moment to show Jinora fighting alongside Bumi
LMT_the_RMT
2024-11-20 03:19:26 +0000 UTCNice
Choppa
2024-11-20 01:19:05 +0000 UTCI think I can boil down my issue with Ming Hua as being just a little disappointing. I don’t have an issue with the water arms at all, but the show runners have been more creative in the past with disabled bodies adapting to be great benders. I guess I would have liked to see her take a deeper stance, more detail in her footwork, idk, something like that? Just a little more attention in her animation and that’d scratch my brain itch I think. It doesn’t REALLY bother me much, because I honestly don’t care at all about her character, but maybe that resonates a little better with you.
A Sack of Paincakes
2024-11-19 23:11:38 +0000 UTCI like to look at the lack of tech in the earth kingdom and ba sing se is somewhat an homage to China’s relatively slow modernization in the 20th century. I’m not sure how well that tracks into season 4 though.
William Babbitt
2024-11-19 22:01:19 +0000 UTCI've always read her armless water bending like Daredevil or something. the limitation unlocking her power. Like Toph with earth sense or truth seeing. other people doing toph stuff for more then like a second always weirds me out
Numbers
2024-11-19 21:55:04 +0000 UTCUnless she's half Cephalopod, even that flimsy headcanon doesn't track
maskofthedragon
2024-11-19 21:39:43 +0000 UTCIn Harry Potter (the books mostly) they're taught how to use spells without incantations, by basically saying them in their minds. Something about convictions and strong will or whatever. So what if the magic system in Avatar has a similar aspect? In my mind, Ming-Hua has the phantom limb syndrome. Which in Avatar's world, it translates to something similar to "saying the incantations in their minds". And if that's the case for all "psychic" bending, then because of Ming-Hua's no need to spend energy on actually using her arms, she puts it all on her phantom hands' bending movements or whatever, which is why her bending is more "powerful" than the typical bender.
Mo Alawami
2024-11-19 21:31:00 +0000 UTCTenzin's stand has always been an incredible moment in the show to me. I think, like you, my favorite in all four seasons. It *does* bring a tear to my eye. Every time.
SithHunter227
2024-11-19 20:55:34 +0000 UTCBased off only that scene of Granny hanging the portrait I have determined she is a metalbender
Sjsharks93
2024-11-19 20:52:56 +0000 UTCFirst
eggycrayfish
2024-11-19 20:50:21 +0000 UTCThanks for the new vid!
FurnoPhoenix
2024-11-19 20:33:59 +0000 UTCFirst!
FurnoPhoenix
2024-11-19 20:33:49 +0000 UTC
