Legend of Korra 2x7 Reaction Early Access!

Please reupload guys. I've been watching the Last Airbender and Korra for the first time alongside your reactions, this was a fantastic episode and I would have loved to have seen your reaction to it

Starkiller100

It’s blocked 😭 Fix it please

Cls

How can I watch this? I just payed $10 to follow you guys and the YouTube video is blocked? Am I missing a link somewhere?

Tyler stokes

It seems like what Eric's trying to say is that the elements were GIVEN by the Lion-Turtles but then they learned to BEND and use it as an extension from the dragons, moon, sky bison, badger-moles, etc, just like Wan learned from the dragon in the episode.

Jim

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Where's the episode?!?!?!

hays collins

NEED muh avutar fix pls

What's the ETA for ep. 8? Thx! :)

René Dijkema

How many Avatars does it take to bring a season back from the brink of mediocrity? Wan. I'll leave.

Raven McShan

TFW the best episodes of the season doesn't include the main character XD

Coogman3

No one gonna mention how the oasis-scene is very reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away"? No? Okay. :)

Missy

according to the creators, they were given the elements from the turtles, but learnt how to utilize them as an extension of themselves from the "original benders" sky bison, dragons (hence the scene) badger moles and the moon

Avrumi Ravitz

Fun fact: The actor who voiced Avatar Wan was actually Steven Yeun (Glenn from The Walking Dead)

MF SWOON

I guess I'm one of the few that didn't really like these two-parters (don't hate me). I don't like Wans story, or the history of the avatar/world. I thought the dialogue was cringy at times aswell. I did however LOVE the ending battle. I'm just here waiting for season 3 to be honest...

Can't wait to see their reactions to Season 3 and 4. I never liked Season 2, including these episodes. But their reactions and discussions really sell it. Also when are we getting more Chronicles of Grandpa Whiteley??

Anonamai

I need part 2 right now... Can't you guys release it as a bonus this weekend?

René Dijkema

Wow Eric came pretty close to guessing one of the airbending specialties.

dont worry guys it all comes together nicely

Kris

Avatar fans like you are so annoying.

Moi

No

Jay M

Fun fact there is a theory that the lemur spirit is actually MOMO in atla just in a mortal form. Since friendships can transcend lifetimes. ;)

Herrizal Nazari

Worst season of Avatar ever besides these two episodes

Roy Lohman

okay tbh I think everyone noticed the change in animation style

Roy Lohman

I'm having mixed feelings about this 2-parter. In fact, I hate that I DON'T like it, that I can't like it the same way. Yes, the animation is gorgeous, draws very heavily from Miyazaki, and it has the look and feel of ATLA - but if I'm honest, I think that the only reason I liked this so much when it first aired and let all of it's problems go was because by this point, I was so sick of Korra and co.'s shit and starved for lore that I couldn't help but just accept anything that they threw out there. It's no secret that there was some HARDCORE executive-dicking during Season 2 that greatly hampered the story that the writers and artists wanted to tell and how they wrote their characters, and it really shows, years later. However, the fans - myself included - have been diehard for years on ignoring these gaping flaws because Avatar is perfect always and never has problems/inconsistencies that could be improved ever. This 2-Parter completely undermines EVERYTHING that ATLA built in its world and how it works. In this, the "power" to bend the elements was given, and not EARNED. "Power", an easy way to explain to small children and the superhero/fighting-anime crowd instead of that deep, thought-provoking explanation and journey of human beings discovering how to bend and master the energy within themselves for hundreds of thousands of years before they could bend the world around them (and learn to live with it). It's just power, you know? Kamehame-ha. Looks like Sokka was right about calling it "magic" - no spirituality or cosmic enlightenment or hard work or self-discovery or humans achieving anything on their own, here. (Wonder if a blue-shelled lion-turtle can give my Yoshi the power of air-bending?) The environmentalist message that was subtle and effective in ATLA has been simplified here to a condescending low of "humans bad, nature good" (even though the spirits have been shown on many occasions in both LOK and ATLA to have just as much, if not more, tendency to be dicks than people). I don't know. I love this series, I really do - flaws and all, I could never hate it - but I could also never accept LOK as canon after this because it just doesn't work. So...good episode for an unrelated Avatar-story.

Sky Sirak

agreed, Season 2 really does get some undeserved hate imo, as it does finish up strong after a few slow episodes to reintroduce the Korra universe.

Bradley Nelson

I'm so glad the Blind Wave crew noticed the change of animation, as this marks the triumphant return of Studio Mir, whom animated the original Avatar The Last Airbender and Korra Season 1. Korra Season 2 was instead handled by Studio Pierrot in episodes 1-6 and 9, however Studio Mir was eventually asked to come back and finish this season as well as do seasons 3 and 4. This art style for Beginnings Part 1 and 2 seems akin to classic Japanese drawings on scrolls, or watercolor paintings, pretty neat :D

Bradley Nelson

Korra full length is the only full length that ever makes me download it but it says it may cause harm to my laptop

cant watch full length?

Timmy

Fuck! I went ahead and watched part 2 and I teared up watching it.

Matthew Rudolph

I did not know this! Thank you!

Matthew Rudolph

The guys need to read this comment! Yep the people to became better benders learned from the ones that could do it naturally. Wan moves like a dragon. Just as Zuko and Aang did, and how Toph learned to sense like a Badgermole. Sorry to retread what Trent wrote

Matthew Rudolph

Fun fact: the spirit oasis wan visits is the same spirit oasis in the North Pole from avatar the last air bender

Love these so I can't wait to see how everyone likes part 2! And oh gosh those air specialties.......

Sassafrasarah

Are you guys going to be watching part 2 this week? Please tell me you are!

GoldArthur

They still havent released it :/

Björn Järlestedt

Still no Full Lenght on google drive?

Björn Järlestedt

Agreed

Love love love This episode!! The Animation is SO good.. I was excited for This reaction 😁

LOL so true. To be fair its mostly one member who tends to have these outlandish theories.

DSP

What I love about blindwave is that they always pay close attention to every detail and nail their theories for just about every show they watch. If The Normies were to watch this episode you would have them talking throughout the whole episode then come up with some crazy theory that Wan will learn that teleport move from that lemur spirit and some how go to the present world and help Korra. They wouldn't even think about Brava being the spirit for the avatar state until it happens lol

Walter Carreno

Bending and real life Martial Arts are very much linked. We all have limbs and we can fight using them, but that isn't martial arts. That's the way I understand this. The lion turtle can give them the ability to make fire and manipulate it, but that isn't bending. He learned bending from the dragon, he could only learn because he had the gift of fire.

Where is the Full Lenght? Ive been waiting for you guys to see this episode so bad! Its one of my favourites of all Avatar episodes :)

Björn Järlestedt

We saw Wan match his firebending to a dragon this episode with the Dancing Dragon, so I think it's implied benders got the skill from lion turtles, but honed their combat styles by studying nature.

Jude Miller

Full Length?

Jordan Malloy

The voice actor for Avatar Wan is Steven Yeun. If you guys were missing Glenn.

Other Fun Fact - The leader of the Hunters from the Fire Lion Turtle City is voiced by Travis Willingham. Best known to folks around here as the voice of Col. Roy Mustang, The Flame Alchemist of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

G0d_Ginrai

So stoked for the rest of the series! Can't wait for more reactions!! &lt;3

Seana

Ya but, he doesn't know everything, so 10,000 things might be more accurate lol

Joseph

Eric nailed it: humans got the *power* of bending from the Lion Turtles as stated in Korra, then later they *learned how to use it* from the dragons/air bison/moon/badger moles as stated in ATLA. No contradiction here. It's not so much a retcon as showing previously unrevealed details. Spoilers below! I remember way back when I was playing around with ideas for a homebrew tabletop ATLA game that never came together, and I came up with some Air specializations because Water and Fire have three specializations each (Plantbending, Bloodbending, and Healing for Water, Lightingbending, Combustionbending, and Sun Warrior for Fire) and I wanted everyone to have the same number. IIRC I went with Flight, Astral Projection, and Meditation (which was a self-buff sort of thing based on Guru Pathik). I also had to add one for Earth because it only had two (Sandbending and Metalbending) in ATLA, so I added Lavabending. (Which of course turned out to be a thing.) Nonbenders had Kyoshi Warrior (which included chi-blocking at high levels), Swordmaster, and Yuyin Archer. (If I did a Korra-era version I'd probably replace Kyoshi Warrior w/Equalist and Yuyin Archer w/Mecha Pilot). The Lion Turtle Aang met actually IS the one Wan grew up on--you can tell from the symbol on its forehead. The other Lion Turtles have different markings.

Jen A. Blue

Wan was given fire bending by the turtle, but he learned how to use it as "an extension of his body" from the dragon. If you think about it like that then it shows that bending is both a natural talent and something that can be honed. Which is something we've already seen. Katara, throughout the entire series, has been able to bend, but as the show goes on she gets better at bending.

Wan's story is the best part of season 2.

Albert Johfur

It doesn't sound like a retcon if you look at it this way: It makes more sense that they were given the element by the lion turtles, and then they mastered their given elements by observing and learning from the Moon, dragons, badger-moles and sky bison.

Ian

Wan (万) means ten thousands in Mandarin.

Jackie

You have made it through the only crappy korra episodes boys. Enjoy your rewards with the rest of this season and season 3 and 4 it only gets better from here

hays collins

About learning bending, they got it from the lion turtles (and eventually born with it) but they LEARNED how to use it by watching the different original masters, we see this in the episode when Wan learned to really use fire bending from the dragon.

I was waiting all week to see this. I'm glad you're liking the change in style. As an aside, I don't believe 10,000 years is the exact amount of time Raava and Vaatu were struggling since the number 10,000 holds great significance in Chinese philosophy. The phrase "10,000 Things" refers to all of reality so rather than saying Raava and Vaatu have been fighting for 10,000 years I think it's more appropriate to say that they have been fighting forever. As another example, think back to the owl spirit from the library. His title was "he who knows 10,000 things" which basically means he who knows everything.

Craig Starbird

Fun Fact - Wan is played by the legendary Steven Yeun from the Walking Dead

The power of the element =/= bending. The power of the element is just a power, a capability. Bending is "the power of an element" taken to create a martial art. Bending is more of a human invention in this regard, developed by observing the dragons, moon, sky bison, badger moles, to use the elements as Wan did; as an extension of your body. In short, you may have arms and legs and know how to throw a punch and a kick, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you know Karate, or Kung Fu, or Jiu Jitsu along with all of their nuances and complexities.

Joseph

The most important thing is to understand that humans were given the power of the elements. Bending is a series of martial arts that were developed by observing things like the dragons(shown here with Wan), badger moles, sky bison, and the moon. The lion turtles role is as the key to unlocking/granting the ability, just like it was for aang with energy bending. Not a retcon at all, just more information. They wanted to put Wan in Last Airbender, so they knew this stuff then as well.

Trent Deuster

Yay!

Cody Enos

You guys are going to love part 2

OMG!! They are finally to the Wan episodes!! Ever since I first heard that you guys were gonna react to this series, I couldn't wait for you guys to meet Wan. Can't wait till you see Part 2!! 👏🏽🙌🏽

Nicolas Cooper

HYPE!

Tone

Next week :)

TbcAlex

PLEASE post part 2

Joseph

So happy now! Can't wait for part 2 reaction!

Jonathan Azares

I have been waiting for this since ur first korra reaction I'm so excited to see what u think!!!

Callie

In my opinion this is where S2 gets wayyyyy better.

Pheonix

DUDESSSSSS

Perfect if you to post this on my lunch break.

Markeezy

First like and comment wats up

Nathaniel