What you do is insanely cool, keep up the good work Mr. Overanalyzer.

Space sword moment

The only channel I actually look forward to seeing videos from keep up the fantastic work your humor and analysis would be great on any series; if you haven't already watched it HunterXHunter has themes I feel you'd enjoy looking at Love the videos!!!!

What're you gonna do when you finish avatar by the way? I hope you dont stop your channel. Maybe review Korra?

As someone who’s been disarmed by a fencer, it really is that easy to have your sword very literally “just pushed away from you” if someone knows what they’re doing and you don’t. They’ll barely move their wrist and your shit will be on the other side of the room.

C-Plot has jacked Iroh. And who can hate a jacked Iroh.

To me it’s the intent but the execution wasn’t good. He failed really badly with most basic tasks but was too good with the sword fight (I know it wasn’t actually serious but we had not see anything that level of skill from Sokka with a sword even with the tricks). And the rest of the gaang seem really incompetent. And I liked the schedule in the prior episode, it’s this one that makes a joke out of it. And Iron gets fit too fast in the timeline and I don’t know if him pretending to have lost his mind did anything. Maybe it would be easier to judge if we saw the break out.

@@sarasamaletdin4574 1) The extent of his failures were jokes. I'd assume in a non-cartoon environment they'd be more grounded. 2) The swordfight was him implementing his basic/subpar knowledge of sword fighting with his general tactical intuition. 3) The gaang started out extremely competent, and only had hiccups when it came to planning, which is something they've never really done before. 4) Sacrificing time for ability, when is comes to setting up an *8 minute invasion* seems like a fair tradeoff. Especially when the ability is learning swordsmanship from a literal master. 5) For a normal man. 6) " "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" ~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War " ~ Uncle Iroh, Probably.

A good day for Sokka fans and therefore the world

And when Sokka isn't there, everyone should be asking "Where's Sokka?"

Lmao

Moon is horny

the moon spirit has just been giving Sokka and Anng light for their journey...

That makes a lotta sense

Instant headcanon

But the southern water tribe didn't really use swords. None of the nations do, really, now that I think about it. Huh...

​@donkeyman9992 zuko used swords and sokkas master did... so I guess its a fire nation thing

@@KD-ou2npzuko and sokka also had the same master

really? when is that said?@@walkermorales337

​@@KD-ou2np makes sense, swordmaking would be easier if you had easy instant fire

he was? when did it say that

@@galacticpheonix5328 comics

“I didn’t know you were skilled with broadswords, Prince Zuko.” -Zhao

@@Zer00utcast oh ok so that's why i've never seen it before

Wait. Fuck. Really?

It's true, but for me it was kind of ruined by the fact that he was A) given a choice of material, and B) able to use a meteorite to make it at all. Not all metals are created equal, especially when it needs to be durable enough to withstand battle. There's a reason steel is so widely used, and even before steel was invented there wasn't a huge selection of options when making weapons. It's highly unlikely that it would have been able to work that way

@@_Stormfather meteoric iron is common (as far as meteors go haha)

@@_Stormfather interestingly enough, iron meteorites have actually historically been made into swords, usually for royalty or military elite due to the rarity of the material. A more recent example was a piece that Man at Arms made that’s actually a real-life rendition of Sokka’s sword that was made using iron from a meteorite that hit Argentina

@@_Stormfather , Russia uses gold from meteorites in their Olympics if they win first place in the Olympics, and as Martin White brought up the people at Man At Arms used a meteorite from Argentina to make their real life Sokka sword, so yes besides royal or militant people using meteorite swords and people at Man At Arms building their own meteorite sword the people in Russia made their own golden medals out of meteorites.

@@_Stormfather While technically not a sword, a more modern example (because I guess that's what we're doing now) is dual 1911 Pistols that were created from a Meteor. As far as I know however, the inner workings aren't rock like the external shell, but regardless, it has happened.

Never heard that before but that's some pretty cool extended lore if it's true. Makes sense logically though since both Iroh and Piandao are White Lotus.

@@marshallscot I can definitely take it as head-canon that Iroh pulled some strings to make sure Zuko had a teacher who shared a lot of his own philosophy.

@@marshallscot it's factual about Piandao. It's part of the avatar pop up videos, and in the comics Zuko tells Sokka he trained under piandao

This makes him one of the only characters to have two confirmed benders as parents. Which is ironic since he himself is a non-bender

@@joaopedroauriemo Yo, it would be crazy if the mom cheated and Piandao turns out to be a non bender which shouldn't be possible genetically

I really hated that about Jeong-Jeong. He was an AWFUL teacher. And we really didn't get to see him bend at all. I really expected more out of him.

@@Hugs_4_Bugs_ I think that was the point of jeong jeong though? he saw fire bending as dangerous with the war and tried to instill it on the avatar how dangerous it is which contrasts how aang learned fire bending with zuko by how it gives life

it’s one of the very many things that make this show epic, and a different level from LoK. they even have a selection of teacher types and they all feel real, and it shows you why the teachers might have the flaws they do, and then you have characters like piandao and iroh to model two types of teaching and mentoring where they’re masters at teaching.

@@nurainiarsad7395 people really like to pull the smallest tidy bits ever to just trash on Korra just because. one can literally overanalyze that Tenzin for example wasnt a great teacher but it was also part of good character demonstration for him for a myriad of reasons which is actually true.

I think that's something that's very beautiful about this show is how teaching is portrayed. There isn't one single lesson Aang can learn that defeats all lessons. He learns from Guru Pathik that he has to let go of earthly attachments to unlock the avatar state, which is true, and Iroh tells him that pleasure and joy are important aspects of life too, which is also true. Jeong Jeong tells him that fire is destruction and very dangerous, which is true, but the dragons tell him that fire is a giver of life, which is also true. In The Blind Bandit you really get a feel of Earth Kingdom culture and traditions, how it feels lived in and it has standards, which makes Toph teaching something completely different feel all the more meaningful. And we see both of them work, there areqñ many earth benders which are incredibly talented without being Toph, and many could have discovered metal bending, since bending the impurities is something that was known well before Toph actually discovered it, only that nobody tried to, or managed to figure out how to, actually do it. I think it really reinforces the Buddhist idea of balance and the Chinese philosophical idea of yin yang, the two opposing forces that don't cancel each other out, but rather complement each other.

their dynamic has always been pretty awesome-especially when he and toph had a serious talk when she fought with katara in the scam episode

​@@anotherday-anotherslayToph had the closest connection to Sokka in the Gaang, with Katara for close second. It's clear that out of the entire team, she bonds the most with Sokka, with The Runaway and Sozin's comet quartet proving so.

Sokkas supposed to be smart, he really should've known better than to think he'd get to stab people in a kids show

@@firewaffle222 Burning people alive is fine though. So is controlling people using their blood.

@@name4758 if blood is on the ground, it’s no longer a kid’s show. Hence how Clone Wars managed to be a kid’s show despite multiple stabbings and brutal deaths.

@Harrison Gist exactly yet the sequels still show alot of blood for some god damn reason

@@name4758 And crushing people with a rock

"Ha ha! You sliced my arm! Well done! But now, I will thrust into your abdomen. Prepare yourself!"

Iroh does the same thing in Tales of Ba Sing Se

@@assordante2205 sus

So...Inigo Montoya?

That's one way to mess with your opponent's head.

A good teacher learns to adapt to the needs of the student. Anyone can put a book in front of someone else, grab their head and stuff their head into it and say "learn" But only teachers can take the book, figure how best to have the student learn and what their needs are.

Exactly. Iroh had no idea that Aang was still alive. He really thought Zuko's betrayal killed the Avatar. At that point, he realized it was up to himself to save the world. I think he was fully ready to kick Ozai's ass when he broke out.

@@Hugs_4_Bugs_ he probably was gonna assemble the white lotus to try and stop Ozai himself, very likely he would try to help Zuko see the mistake of what hes done, we could see he still cared about him and despite greatly dissapointed was still sad to see that he was ultimately unhappy, and he knew he would be by choosing the path he decided to walk, but he wouldnt be able to get himself to harm him after everything, specially seeing that Zuko wasnt far gone, he was still just a confused and traumatized kid with a good but misguided heart.

@@unkindled6410 It’s not even that he was disappointed, he was afraid for Zuko. He had to know what he was in for when volunteering to travel with him, and the risks.

​@dude5240 oh yeah some weaks of physical training would be enough to match ozai who had peak physicality, skills and power? I don't think so. Irohs plan wasn't to just 1v1 ozai. It would be foolish. Iroh knows his limits. Iroh for example wouldn't attempt to go against the avatar if he was firelord. The avatar is literally the only person capable of beating ozai and only in the avatar state.

@@divoulos5758I disagree entirely. Iroh isn't certain that he can match Ozai, but Zuko is. Zuko is comparable to Aang in terms of firebending, and Zuko absolutely bodies Azula in their final fight. If Azula learned her firebending from Ozai, I don't see why Iroh is behind Ozai, especially since Iroh has the teaching of the Sunwalkers.

Its been awhile since I heard this but I think the Fire Nation said at some point the timeline for when they were going to invade the North using that you can figure out how long they were training in the North Pole before the fire nation arrived. It was at least 2 weeks.

@@Puckett. In all likelihood, it's actually much shorter than that - Zuko's bruises from episode 18 haven't healed by the start of episode 19. So the visual evidence implies that, like Sokka, she only trained for one or two days. But because the show doesn't state this outright, it's much easier to handwave away Katara's impossible skill progression than Sokka's.

Additionally, we saw that Katara had really powerful waterbending when she cracked Aang out of the iceberg and that she was trying to create her own techniques. We also saw her take on Pakku with an impressive display of bending. Sokka, while showing combat experience, was always more of the boomerang guy. Sure he had a club and a machete(?), but never a sword. Swords have much more presence in media in general, so maybe that contributes to the shock in his fast improvement. Most of Sokka's training was the philosophical too, not even involving a sword. This is unlike Pakku's "moving water vs feeling the push and pull", as there was at least waterbending on screen.

@@Puckett. I believe that it's actually explicitly stated that it has been three weeks.

@@jordancampbell8597 its been awhile since I've seen it. I just remember hearing it and thinking that's a reasonable amount of time to show that progress.

Well, he did, but the FIGHT was epic lol

It seems like Sokka in general was the exact type of student Pian Dao was waiting for.

@@ajdominguez1002 fun fact, toph got it back for him later.

@@edwardbo4666 Wait what? Source please?

@@edwardbo4666 on God?

I love that too besides the Mechanist i can't think of many others. Jeong Jeong refers to him as an oaf, Pakku is dismissive of him and gave him no gift at the start of season 2 despite Sokka welcoming him into the family, even Bato who loves him rolls his eyes a few times. I hated the way everyone treated Sokka.

@@Ray_D_Tutto That's why I love the Mechanist. He may be a terrible dad, but he's a better friend to Sokka than anyone else in the series.

@@augustrempelewert4377 He was an engineer not a Mechanist. Mechanics fix things, engineers design things.

@@Hugs_4_Bugs_ That's cool and all, but "The Mechanist" is the only name the show writers gave the character, so I have literally no choice but to call him that.

@@Hugs_4_Bugs_ you know a mechanist and a mechanic are two TOTALLY different things, yes?

I think the name lee is just so plain bland that it just works. It's unassuming, not overly drawing of attention.

The kid in Zuko Alone's name is Lee and makes it so Zuko doesn't have a name in that episode until he says who he is.

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@@ambrosekillpack4841 ^This. It's basically the Asian equivalent of "John"

@@nagger8216 and yet John got into a really cool song accompanied by an equally cool short where Lee did not

He also mostly taught him the philosophy of swordsmanship over the moves because he secretly knows it's a nickelodeon show and Sokka can't actually kill someone on screen, hence the fight where Sokka probably would have just killed him with that wall lunge if Piandao didn't dodge fast enough.

Yeah no piando would definitely do that is the thing

@@Superdude403 yeah, when you are a literal sword master, I feel like you've practiced dodging quite a bit.

Mhm makes sense

@@redeye4516 Piandao’s words about the sword as an extension of the hand sound in the context of the fact that Robert Patrick, who voiced him, played the T-1000. This robot could make swords out of hands

I agree with you but I think how the karate kid had it was also good, it made Daniel to be able to think about his moves in his mind but it also reinforced that even if he didn’t learn super advanced stuff like cobra kai Daniel probably did the wax on wax off motion hundreds of times, a good quote that was on at my dojo was “I’m not scared of the man that knows a thousand kicks, I’m scared of the man that has done one kick a thousand times” (I probably went way overboard going deep into it lol)

I feel like part of the lesson in "wax on, wax off" was a combination of humility, patience, trust, and respect. Different lessons for different students.

actually, Miyagi's teaching method is just as good as Piandao's. By being so not-to-the-point, by restraining that information, he did force Daniel to think. He let Daniel come to that conclusion on his own, and experience it first hand, rather than just serving it to him on a gilded platter.

@@kirillzakharov7336 2 months later, but. He did have to show Daniel. Directly. Ultimately Daniel didn’t figure it out any more than any other demonstration of a move. Up until he actively got him to use the move in a practical way and what it would be used for, he was completely oblivious to it. I have minimal experiences with martial arts aside from that (most) of the kids I knew when I was younger would lose just to physical advantages I had if we wrestled. But whenever I saw a technique, and what it was used for, it still gave me more options in the future just by thinking on it. Whether to use it or avoid it. Something Daniel was deprived of for a very long time since he didn’t realize it had a practical application.

​@@firstnamelastname9237 I feel like it's important to note that Mr Miyagi's intent was self-discipline above all, the martial application was secondary. I mean, Daniel's accusation essentially forced him to demonstrate the technique. Mr Miyagi was probably hoping he could teach Daniel some valuable life lessons, let the whole tournament be forgotten, and either continued normal training later or moved on from it entirely.

You'd WHAT

@@joelvicente1052 Say Sokka and Toph are best friends

😤😄😢💓 lol

@@joelvicente1052 lmao my mind was in the gutter too. Thanks for making me burst out laughing

@@LilC1deep no problem

If I could pick one avatar character to have in my corner, its Iroh no question. He's a badass, but he's just so wise and kind. He's the kind of person everyone should strive to become.

@@MercuryA2000 Yeah having Iroh in your corner in a fight might result in the fight not even happening. He could just be like "come now,is it really necessary for you to solve this by fighting?"

@@CanadianFabe Absolutely. And I'd call that a win. I just meant my corner in general.

@@MercuryA2000 yeah I understand. if your backs were to the wall or you had to fight to protect other having Iroh at your side would be great

maybe he just knows basic hygiene and doesnt wanna risk getting some disease by whathever nasty thing lies in the cell floors, which is extremely possible considering the conditions, i dont even see a place for him to piss in that cell, that place must stink badly.

@@unkindled6410Realistically, you never see a spot anywhere in this show for anyone to go to the bathroom. Which does get me a little curious because there’s only one joke about there not being bathrooms in the spirit world.

@@Andrew-ColletDidn’t Aang use the toilet in the South Pole in the very first episode? He even made a comment about how everything freezes.

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Nah. Fam you're dead ass wrong. Iroh and Piando should be tied because both were awesome for reasons equally valuable. We literally just don't get to see as much of Piando

Dude was complimenting Sokka through their entire fight. He’s so chill

I would totally choose Piandao as a master over Iroh. He has more to offer, unless you're a firebender. But Piandao would make you more skilled I believe. Iroh is cool as shit, but I'd rather have him as a close friend rather than a teacher.

Jeong jeong too

But Zuko visited him once

@@EaterOfGeese not this episode right

@@jeltje50 idk

@@jeltje50 I guess you are right, people are liking your reply

Not a bender? I dare say he's a heart bender, he's *that* endearing.

​​@@Voltaic_Fire he's also a back bender

duude... great observation

Sokka's been a bender for a long time. A lady bender. No, I'm not taking that back.

That is actually a really cool theory.

If he was a kid… his father could have also died in the siege. With Iroh leaving making his fathers sacrifice be in vein

I really like this comment and it’s cool to think about. It’s weird how a culture that is so rigid and respectful of power has this guy completely shit on one of the greatest fire benders and brother to the “king”. He is definitely angry at Iroh and personally upset

damn okay what an epic idea

Toph just tosses Sozins commet back into the air away from the planet, screwing Ozai over.

@@robertkovarna8294 more like "Oh so you like your commet huh? Why don't you KEEP it!"

@@carloguerrero6583 Perhaps. But it sounds funnier to imagine Toph Earthbending Sozins comit so far away, that the world doesn't have to worry about it.

@@robertkovarna8294 Do you mean the comet just floats in space after being flung, or so fast it goes to another planet with living creatures and does irreparable damage to it and it’s living beings?

i feel like what sokka had to learn was mostly philosophical things about combat, not the specifics of swordplay. And most importantly, I think he needed to learn how to practice/improve from where he was at

I was just going to post this same thought .. Sokka is not a novice in the sense that he has never held or wielded a weapon. He is a seasoned warrior. Two days with a master would definitely be beneficial...

I think it would have worked better if Pien dao gave him some scrolls about sword play so he could practice while adhering to the schedule

Some martial artists accounts mention visits to masters that were short out of necessity, apparently a true master can cram a lot of valuable teaching into two or three days.

Id say the hardest part about swordsmanship, and a lot of other weapon arts as well, is getting the basics right. You cant parry a sword if you cant read your opponent and you cant cut your opponent if you cant keep the sharp edge towards them

"happened" do you know this show? nothing here is an accident, in fact, the painted lady exist probably just to have this episode in this moment

No he turned the water into ice and then crushed it. That's how you make snow bro. Katara also blows air when she's turning water into ice.

I was about to comment something similar, but you said it better than I ever could

I’ve only had some experience with bokkens before but i agree, very well said

This was my jam back when I fenced. I was great at catching the foil like this and getting the touch with just the disengage.

I came to comment the exact same thing. The master outweighs soka by at least 2 to 1 as well so it would be supremely easy for this disarm to work

And at this point sokka has not sparred with a sword so I don’t think he would know how to control the bind or the weak and strongs of a blade

You're joking right?

I originally got that with Ti Lee.

@@k_tess No not at all. I know Sokka has always kinda been comic relief, but This episode highlights and sets him up for being a great fighter along with a genius.

@@Enchie I totally get that, and same with the kioshi warriors. I just feel like its deserving that sokka got it too.

@@consistentsuffering2542 Yeah with Ty Lee being the only exception, the only time a master of a nonbending art is shown defeating a bender at anything, is when the bender is a complete and total novice. To put it mildly Sokka learning sword fighting in this world, is like bringing a sheleighly to a nuke fight. It's stupid. Sokka is stupid, and we're stupid for playing along, that sword and Sokkas new skills were never gonna be any use in this world. And in the end they weren't. If you're in range to shove a sharp stick at someone who can summon unlimited amounts of fire, and blast it at you. Then you're in range to get barbecued. Face it, this episode the writers realized they had made Sokka useless, and besides making the audience laugh, he had no purpose being on the team. In a real world scenario they would cast him out sometime in season 1 just because hes not worth the rations he eats. And so to make the audience not think about this, they made a stand alone episode were Sokka learns a useless skill, and the rest of the team suddenly becomes too stupid to breathe without him. But logically he was just a hinderance through3 the show.

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Thanks for the co fact

Really, I thought it was Pakku the water bending master or something

And that creativity and ingenuity is well disguised behid a layer of silly names (AIRSHIP SLICE!), sarcasm and Sokka just generally being a bit goofy.

Correct Me if I'm wrong but wasn't he the one who figured how how to break the drill in season 2 granted aaang mentions Togh teaching him not to all his force into any one strike and to push his opponents off balance that go for the finishing move but the idea was mostly on sokka he also figured out how to get plans for the drill to start with.

Here to hoping you made it.

Hope you made it!

A sword made by a “non-bender” from the “water” tribe, under the guidance of a member of the White Lotus from the “fire” nation, lost to save an “earth” bender, in the fight of the phoenix king and the last “air” nomad, the “Avatar”. The unity of the four nations, forged from material that fell from the sky. The Stem of the White Lotus.

actually, it did not die, toph got it back for him afterwards.

@@edwardbo4666 Was this in the comics?

@@mitch_universe4058 no it was in the show

Like life it is not how long it takes but rather how much you grow. Some people grow and change more in 2 years than others change in 10.

Sokka out showed all the Gaang by going "Yeah but if you had no powers would you win?"

@@Voltaic_Fire Good point

Is it really two days though? It takes weeks to forge a sword, it may have just been executed poorly, but could iroh’s gains and sokka’s sword be representation of the passing of time? It always struck me off, that the guard would come in every single day and ridicule iroh

@@nodishtoodeep3053 that's a fair observation.

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But aang is just jacked. He lifted it up there

@@garrettcooper58 which seems strange for a vegetarian.

Steroids. They never want to admit it, but it's always steroids

He outright states that he knew from the start Sokka was Water Tribe. Not sure about him knowing about the Avatar, though it could make sense.

@@nemohimself2580 I can't be sure without going back and watching but I think he mentions that as well. I mean Jeong Jeong and Pakku are members of the White Lotus too, probably word got around, and when he mentioned his name Piandao was like "Oh, hey, I bet this is that kid!"

@@nemohimself2580 Pian Dao tells Aang at the end of the fight, "I'm a little old to be fighting the avatar." Pretty sure he knows they're all from different nations.

“Sokka, that’s an unusual name.” (Clearly not a Chinese/Japanese name like other Fire Nation names are) “I’ve been all over the world.” (Few people in Aang’s world are considered well traveled, but Sokka’s a kid and he’s saying that) - Rolled a huge meteor uphill in relatively little time, proof of earthbending - Sokka being a nervous wreck when he claims he’s from the Fire Nation colonies, therefore clearly lying Piandao had quite a few legit reasons to believe that he was in the presence of the Avatar, even without relying on his warrior’s instincts to know that he was in the presence of some very strong benders.

Finlay?

I would like your comment, but it's at 69 right now and I won't be the one to ruin that.

@@assordante2205 You're the real hero

Another example is also Brock from Pokemon explaining such basic things why attacks are effective or ineffective, because reasons. Makes the fights just fall flat.

I personally thought of Naruto, particularly the Chunin Exams where approximately 40-60% of any given fight consists of the spectators commentary or exposition as to what’s happening.

I've been trying to find a way to watch the extras again forever

@@_Stormfather dude same

I’m genuinely upset that the pop up trivia is never a bonus feature

The whole list is on the wiki

@@trumanderee2366 it’s just not the same

I get the world building and trying to establish some sort of power for non benders, but from what we see from benders like Aang, Katara, Toph and Azula, they should be so dominant and non benders like Piando, Mae and Ty Lee really shouldn’t be a problem for them.

If you notice the last attack he does on sokka he purposely over extends so if he was to make contact it would be with the hilt and he stoped the blade to not hit sokka. Or did I see that wrong

I don't think that's what he's saying. Piandao would be smart enough to know that he can't fight the avatar. But, what is being shown is that he knew Aang was the avatar all along, which is badass on its own (kinda like when Jeong Jeong could tell Aang had only mastered air and water in season 1 just by looking at him).

@@acgandhi This. Although, a small correction: at that point, Aang had only mastered Air, not Water

i think he wouldnt be afraid to fight the avatar, but i highly doubt he could truly fight aang, i would give him a chance just because aang didnt have avatar state at that point, and because aang wouldnt go for the killing blow, but besides that, benders are just demi gods, and the avatar is crazy powerful

I think that's somewhat intentional. Iroh is a particularly skilled fighter because he draws from each discipline. It appears strength training is pretty central to earth bending whereas fire benders usually seem like sprinters. Since he's also a member of the White Lotus, I believe Boomie himself gave Iroh that wisdom.

Technically, that is how some bronze swords are made, but yes, the pouring sword mold is very much an inaccurate Hollywood trope. Game of Thrones also does it. The meteor metal also acts like adamantium, when realistically, it’d just be iron, so maybe this meteor metal acts like bronze in terms of smithing. Platinum acts like steel in Korra.

The laws of metallurgy are not consistent with actually existing reality in the avatar world.

well, using molds would not affect the ability to temper the weapon per se. Folding and hammering steel was don for 2 main reasons. first one, you need really high temperatures to melt iron to a liquid form, so hammering a red hot ingot is easier. Second one, metals, specially refined with old techniques, can have a lot of impurities, cutting and folding the metal brings them to the surface, where they flake off. so it reduces the effects of those impurities. one you have the shape done, whatever the means for shaping it was, you make the blade hot and quickly cool it by quenching it. this makes the outside of the blade compress quicker than the inside, tightening the internal structure. This makes the metal harder, but more brittle. By tempering it, wich means heating it t a target temperature, the metal softens a bit. This reduces the effects of the quenching and, if done properly, brings the sword to a nice middleground between hardness and flexibility, so the sword dosn't crack with the first hit, but it can still hold an edge. So you could properly temper a molded weapon, or even a cut from a metal panel one. The main disadvantage of using molds is the posibility of air bubbles in the metal. though that would be fixed with a bit of hammering.

@@Niyucuatro How about damascus steel and whatnot?

I feel like I watched a video where someone tried to make a sword out of meteorite before. The metal was just too brittle and cracked all the way through to properly forge. It would just crack after a while. They ended up needing to cast it into a mold to get it into any discernable sword shape. It was a while ago when I watched that though, and I'd imagine that not every meteorite is like that.

Fucking underrated comment right here. Just looked up the VA, and yep, Robert Patrick did both. What a great bit of trivia! Thank you

I had always wished he got this type of episode earlier in the series. This is coming from a guy who grew up watching Dragon Ball, but characters not being allowed to also have cool abilities and being more on the sidelines always felt bad to me.

I really like this type of episodes because it develops side-lined characters more, but I think Toph really needed an episode like this because she seems under-developed because of how scarcley she has to be used

Its weird, sokka has the 2nd most screentime in the show, second only to aang. but he still felt like a side character more than the main group, they should have shown more of his talents earlier in the series, like the gaang relying on him for plans or being able to hold his own in a fight. The best we saw of him in combat was ALL in the 3rd season, and that was barely anything.

@@Cyver It has more likes than the pinned comment because you're spitting straight facts

Sokka was that meteor. He just had to be refined.

@@Ray_D_Tutto That's a good way of putting it.

Osmium is dense af though, not something to swing lightly

@@carloguerrero6583 Not just that, but iridium is also pretty dense. Their alloy's density falls somewhere between the two densities, but it just goes from too heavy to wield to REALLY too heavy to wield. Then again Sokka may just be jacked as all hell

@@blazingbuizel7194 I mean he could push that rock in the garden, which if you do the math, is quite heavy

@@blazingbuizel7194 plus avatar is still a cartoon, i mean azula and zuko do superhuman stuff occasionally and ppl live over 100 pretty casually, so idk

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I really hope so!!

Hmm

"it belongs to FOOLISH SAMURAI WARRIOR"

Can you clarify what you mean? I feel like those were more world building episodes

Generally speaking I think avatar could have been even better if there was a longer 3rd season. I feel like a lot of things like the avatar and the fire lord as well as the things you mentioned had enough going for them that I would have enjoyed them being fleshed out more.

I like to call that final season syndrome, where the stuff introduced or brought up in the final season of a show doesn't feel like it had time to properly expand and pay off

I feel blood bending didnt need to be developed further, it was shown that katara thought it was cruel and didnt want to use it

@@supremeseal8972 also katara: *immediately uses it*

What if the polluted river in the painted lady was the secret river and it was too slow, so they ditched it and found out they could make much better time?

It also compares to irohs part in the episode and what you said about him in the beginning about not being prideful and doing what he preaches, the guard belittles and makes fun of him but iroh doesn't care because he is confident and knoes who he is. Exactly what sokka learns in this episode. Maybe i should watch the whole thing and write way too lomg comments at the end lol

He still isn't as good a fighter as the others. Sokka deserved more 1v1s.

You're mom's maturing into a young man!

@@christhechrischris9226 yeah you tell em

where do you guys get these asspulls lol, pakku did it, and we've literally seen katara snowbending multiple times as well.

the way I saw it was he used water bending to make the snow, then air bending to disperse it

@@123newjersey3 Pakku's snow was just really white water with a bit of ice. I could barely tell it was meant to be snow. Katara just made white ice

Snow is powdered ice... ice is water in solid state... we know water benders can create ice... therefore water benders can create snow... seriously, why do people need to make it more complicated than it actually is?

@@123newjersey3 That’s true but Katara spends every day around an air bender and Pakku spends his entire episode blowing hot air out his own ass so both of them have some connection to airbending as well as waterbending so it’s still possible

@Ah man shut up!

Let me relive my childhood in peace

Yeah I'm 23 now lol

avatar isnt a kids show, it just isnt

Yeah it’s awesome

Thanks a lot, jeong jeong

I wish I could tell you that. I can’t tell you that. This comment makes no sense but it’s supposed to make sense. Maybe you understand what I’m trying to say? Why do you know this anyway?

I remember this also happening in Percy Jackson and the lightning thief.

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but this isn't the first time toph's shown romantic interest (remember the scene in the serpents pass) and her denying it later is a very i have a crush thing to do

@@justanothercommenterwithan9089 Growth isn't just a first time :)

@@The_Starfleet_Ensign generally you don't show the character blushing when feelings are platonic. That, plus the other similar instances, definitely give the impression that it was a romantic interest. The strange thing is that it never goes anywhere. Maybe they wanted to do something with it later, but didn't have time.

@@The_Starfleet_Ensign I don’t see your point i never mentioned growth that was something you were on about not me

@@justanothercommenterwithan9089 that's correct, should've been more clear. I ment to explain how growth isn't just a one time thi, it stays..but to be honest it doesn't matter enough for a full on discussion. besides my point is kinda weak anyway :P

It actually makes reasonable sense. Katara's bending is garbage in episode 1, and Sokka has no experience with other benders, and probably not the best education. His experience with firebenders is that over an industrial empire who mostly benefits off bending based on how it can work with shit they have built. As far as he knows, waterbending is a flashy parlour trick. By the end of the opening double feature he has seen a small child use water bending to utterly demolish an entire ship crew and nearly scuttle a giant metal monstrosity. He learned his lesson early.

I'd still say he's pretty chiseled though

@@DirectorOfChaos9292 oh absolutely. He’s absolutely got a six pack under there