Whatever explanation would hardly make sense. Ever since I first saw Firebenders I’ve been saying that very same thing. Same with Waterbending freezing stuff instantly, like specs mentioned earlier.
Based on how strong a person’s diaphragm is, an attempt like that would probably just propel a person rather than burst their lungs. I think throwing hollowtip needles that hit a blood vessel then pumping that area with air would be super deadly, slow and evil.
Jesus. Airbenders = Stinger Knives, except airbenders actually work.
(Amon being a Firebender is…an interesting theory from multiple angles as has been discussed.)
All this talk about Toph just reminds me how much I miss the casual jokes about Toph’s blindness.
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He (or she) avoided getting impaled long enough to throw Lin off and slam her to the ground, knocking her out. I’m not sure what’s confusing about this.
Heh. I admittedly didn’t notice that until the second time I watched. Arguably, though, he’s flying the zeppelin unless the butler or Bolin was since everyone else was in the back. Was Bolin in the back? I can’t remember, but it would make sense that all of the police know how pilot the blimps given that those are their versions of police helicopters.
Same.
Lol. Such hypocrisy just to shortchange Azula.
You say that she was actively aided by “plot devices” to beast people, which may be true (if you stretch and squint and ignore her getting away from and playing everyone while powerless). And then you bring up her losing in a “head-to-head”…against two people…while she had the plot device of being in the middle of a fucking complete mental breakdown stacked against her. Yeah, Zuko sure “worked” her, which is why he was only stalemating her that entire time before he decided to take a bolt for Katara after tripping up Psycho Azula a grand total of once; it also ignores that Katara was forced to run her life since she knew she couldn’t take Azula head-on, especially backed by the comet.
It’s not fanboying to say that Azula was pretty busted. She wasn’t invincible by any means, but was she was extremely exceptional and top tier, especially for her age. Honestly the only other Firebenders on her level when she was stable that probably stood chance against her were Jeong Jeong, Ozai and maybe Iroh, whose chances increase after he buffs up; Iroh’s age seemed to be greater factor to him than Jeong Jeong’s did, though we saw way more of Iroh, so it’s difficult to tell–Iroh was certainly pudgier though before his imprisonment, so that was also a negative factor.
Regardless, notice all these people are at least twice, if not thrice, her age. If Azula was helped by plot devices all of the time, then it would have not only been egregiously transparent after a while but also made all these characters (and Firebenders in general) look weaker.
You have the benefit of being audience member to the characters’ “play”. Sure, that might have been beneficial, but considering the characters were fighting for their lives after being ambushed, it’s not like they had all day to think of potentially sounder strategies against an unknown enemy. It’s not like Amon’s forces are just going to sit there all day and give them time to think.
You also have the benefit of speculative hindsight of not knowing what works:
The Metalbender cops seemed to be doing decently enough until they found the mechs had tasers. The hard way. Whoops. Like in real life, they didn’t exactly get a “do-over” after they found that out because they were knocked unconscious. Sure, maybe they could have guessed it might have had some electrical weapon due to what happened at the arena, but it’s not like it was apparent or that they could have done much else to restraint it given what little time they had before they started getting attacked.
Lin was doing extremely well until she happened to get grabbed. Not exactly sure how that’s a fuck up given she did the most solo and it’s not exactly like they had the benefit of being able to gang up on each mech eight-on-one while the other four mechs waited their turn like an RPG.
Same with Korra getting grabbed despite using the seemingly obviously “metal holds heat well” strategy with Firebending, which was actually working to push Hiroshi back, especially alongside Tenzin’s support. She honestly seems to be more comfortable with Firebending than Earthbending anyway.
Tenzin probably should have stayed on the ground since Aang showed us last series that Airbenders have god-like mobility even on the ground. He probably was setting up something big against the window, though, since everyone else was going down and Lin at least showed that the windows were an obvious weak spot. Too bad the mechs had electrified, automated bolos, which he should have of course known about since Amon is obviously Batman; I mean, how could Tenzin not have known about them even though the mechs were completely new entities and it was a trap and they knew he and the others were coming and they probably know what he can do since he literally seems to be the only adult Airbender…
Sarcasm aside, let me saying that speculating what characters could have done and they could do in the future is fine. Saying that a character “should” have done something else given the situation, however, is usually being self-important with the benefit of hindsight at best and pointless, ignorant whining at worst, made even worse when one usually doesn’t know all the variables; usually saying what a character “should” have done is only valid it was really out of character (for an otherwise stable, known character) or an egregious spike in stupidity (in a character who isn’t usually stupid).
Hell, we still don’t even know if the regular cops can even Earthbend. I might just be Lin and Korra, who have only really started getting “along” since last episode and Lin was doing her own thing trying to actively disable one of mechs/pilots. Similarly, we also don’t know how much of that floor was still earthen to Earthbend (with actual earth, rather than metal-on-metal crimes). We only saw Bolin bend a small chunk of it when he and the others barely escaped.
Refreshing, isn’t it? Especially given that it’s on Nick/has a PG rating, not that everything needs to be “Darker and Edgier”.
I’m not entirely convinced she was going for outright death rather than just not giving a fuck if she killed the person trying to kill her while trying to disable it, but, yeah, she’s ruthless. I’m still kinda wondering if she killed those people she probably launched off the roof in “And The Winner Is…”.
I find this entirely more humorous than I think I should.
Let’s just not bring science into an animated series. Because your explanation in real life would mean that instantly stopping all those molecules would result in an explosion equivalent to 80 grams of TNT.
Wouldn’t stopping molecules cause the water to freeze because kinetic energy turns into heat and absence of heat = cold? #forgotchem101
Is it true there’s no new episode tomorrow
(I am reminded that I need to teach myself proper physics still since I’ve never had a formal class.)
The same probably applies to chemistry and a bunch of other things, but, yeah, the stopping–well, slowing since stopping would be absolute zero, right?–molecules should freeze the water, though I don’t think LoyalSol is necessarily disagreeing with that.
Checking ahead on my TV because you said this, yeah, it looks tomorrow the intro episode is replaying.
Makes sense as to why there was no preview for the next episode at the end of last weekend’s episode. Shame.
There wasn’t a preview to last weeks episode until like the Thursday before that.
(Filler.)
Still wondering what Airbending’s secondary is, especially if “Energybending” falls under Firebending like how specs just mentioned, which would make sense.
Pretty sure that’s not right since I don’t watch Nick any day except Saturday and I knew about last week’s episode right after “And The Winner Is…” ended. So either we got different things based on our viewing locations, which seems unlikely since its Nick and not a local network, or you just missed the preview until then.
Shrug.
I swear, all bad people in Avatar are Fire-benders. My parents was killed by a firebender, my wife was killed by a firebender, my (insert someone) was killed by a firebender. My pet was cooked up and eaten up by a firebender. My wife was raped by a firebender (yes, the last two are obviously sarcasm intended).
Really? Are Firebenders the Anti-Secret Evil unit here or something? Why can’t we have a renegade air-bender who defies the teachings and utilizes it to more dangerous and potent potentials. Also, I would like to state that waterbending would actually be just as powerful and deadly as Airbending here.
Your body is made up of 60% water, and the air vacuum idea is most excellent, however remember that a human brain is composed of 70% water, so imagine a powerful enough waterbender manipulating your brain to burst from within. I could imagine all sorts of things that a waterbender could do to a human body simply because of the water content within it.
In theory couldn’t firebenders manipulate just heat then? I mean, if they can control the temperature of their fire or the tone of it then wouldn’t the potential to just control heat itself be possible? If so, whats to stop them from cooking a human being up from the inside out? There are so many possibilities with the ability to create 1-hit KO tactics.
However it’s obvious that they don’t resort to showcasing such things simply because its a US cartoon, and as such incorporating it into the series wouldn’t make it a G-Rated cartoon anymore. This obviously isn’t the eastern philosophy anime cartoons which can contain heavy violence, gore, nudity and all.
Most importantly I feel that they restrain most benders here is because if they allowed actual benders to become this powerful then the series itself would become a laughing stock.
Armies of waterbenders imploding peoples brains, Airbenders vacuuming people to oblivion etc, etc, yeah, that nonsense would get stale real fast. I like it that benders within the Avatar world have a limitation to some degree, besides the Avatar himself.
The bending that I want above all else in the Avatar world (although water is my favorite of the 4 elements) is Energy Bending, now that sounds almost like a statement to Chi or Ki energy, considering it states bending life energy and chi/ki is a harnessing of such energy. So it makes me wonder if you could then have the potential to start throwing out :qcf: :hp:.
Now that would become serious stuff.
Can’t wait for tomorrow, 7 days of pain for only less then 30 minutes of happy time, so sad.
I thought Energybending was supposed to be the origin of all bending and not associated with any one type of bending.
If you cool down the water instantly the heat has to go somewhere. For somethin to get cold something else has to get hot. Explosions happen when energy is rapidly released. So actually if we apply science you would expect water bending into ice to have an opposite effect where the target actually gets burned or for it to cause an explosion.
My point is lets just leave science out and just enjoy the show.
waterbenders would obviously be the strongest because they could just bend all the water to outer space and everyone would die.
airbenders could do that with air if there wasn’t literally only 3 of them.
you guys are great, still arguing the realistic merits of a children’s show.
Something else waterbenders can do with the water in someone’s body is they can draw it out. Hama pulled water out of flowers without the aid of a full moon.
From what I read of the Avatar wiki it says Energy bending was the bending of life energy, which from my assumption sounds like our own reality or statement of “chi”. At least, that’s what I feel it sounds most like, and within other portrayals of bending such energy you could harness it into energy that could be projected. Much like what we see here at srk.com with the storyline of SF with projectiles etc.
Obviously this is just my theory fighter statement on Energy Bending, which to me needs more limelight, because the only thing we’ve seen so far with it was what Aang did to Ozai with the removal of bending. For me personally I would go bonkers if Korra went Avatar mode, utilized Energy Bending and released her own version of the “Hadouken”, my boner meter would go up 10 notches.
Now that you mentioned that, I remember that part now. It would be crazy to see a scene in Avatar in which someone pulled water out of their opponent. I could imagine it looking a bit like when Mags pulled Wolverines Adamantium out of his body back in X-Men issue #25 (still remember it!). As I said earlier, waterbending is slick, and can be super OP.
Dear Lord…only about 1 hr and 30 mins to go…cannot wait any longer.
There is no new episode this week or next. They’re replaying the pilot. There won’t be a new episode till June 2nd I believe.
:tdown::tdown::lame::crybaby::sleep: …Tis a sad, sad day.
Well I got up early for no reason today.
Fuck my life. Running out of shows to watch. Just put me in a hyperbolic time chamber.
So that you have to wait even longer?