Overanalyzing Avatar: The Avatar and The Firelord

Samuel Bradley

Usually every Tuesday but with copyright claims times very. Sometimes he can upload them no problem. Sometimes he goes through issues with copyright. His videos are very obviously fair use, but he still has to go through the process of them getting okayed off they get hit with a copyright claim.

Saixah

Is there a specific day these go public?

EvySpaghetti

Okay hear me out… Sozin had knowledge about the other elements fighting and therefore bending techniques so he studied water bending to invent heat bending. Just like how Iroh studied water bending to invent lightning redirection.

complete cannon

Yeah, that's on the websites end. Neither thr youtube upload or the file on my computer have the audio issue. Hopefully the copyright will clear on youtube and I can just forget about this one

gamebuster800

I'm happy to see a new video but the audio quality and website aren't... "the usual standard". Great video though :)

John Ajaka

I mean couldn't it eventually have been dug out just like we find artifacts today? I guess that might be a bit headcannon-y lol

complete cannon

Not much of an artifact then eh

Wolffe

Ok. How did they get it off the island?

I think the royal artifact was Iroh’s since he too was once the crown prince and he just passed it down to Zuko , just like Sozin did many years before.

Maybe he was just playing with the idea of betraying him at the time and hadn't made his mind fully up yet. They were friends for a very long time leading up to that moment, it was probably quite hard for him to betray Roku.

Sozin's betrayal doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. Why would he go through the trouble of flying to help Roku if he was just going to let him die???

Wolffe

Such a missed opportunity that you didn't say once in a crescent moon since you know this world only has full moons

These just keep getting better and better. And this is a fantastic episode too. The metaphor with the bars and Zuko, brilliant!

Kola

You did an AMAZING job analyzing the camera shots between Iroh and Zuko. I never would've noticed that!

Gratz on 2k patrons!

One of my favorite episodes personally

complete cannon

Yeah, that's definitely on the websites end. Neither the youtube upload or the file on my computer have that issue.

Ototo

Audible distortion on your voice this time, it sounds like Limiter distortion to me or possibly bitrate issues, if it's the limiter just increase the threshold and lookahead Could also be an encoding problem

Nice little thing about the Fire Lord portraits, it looks like Azulan is standing on top of a lion turtle that’s been set on fire? He’s a character that has so little said about him and it makes sense because we need the 100 year gap but how weird would it be if he was like “I need to do something cool other than this war and my son apparently killed the last dragon… I know I’ll hunt lion turtles!“

Chad Chadley

I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but when you start to speak the audio starts so sound a bit jank. Kinda like little pops, very noticeable while wearing headphones for me

So Monk Gyatso was in about his 70s/80s when he was killed and still managed slaughter dozens of fire nation soldiers powered up by Sozins comet. Neat

This episode gets compared to The Storm a lot. I think that makes a lot of sense seeing as they utilize the same trope with different plot points. “When It All Began” is super interest narratively when we’ve been dealing with the Fire Nation invasion the entire series without knowing *why* it is that it happened. Similarly the reveal as to why Aang was trapped in an iceberg, or Zuko obsessively hunts the avatar is equally as interesting. I think out of the two episodes I mentioned I prefer this one. The Storm shares some traits I dislike from early season one Avatar that aren’t as present in this one, and The Avatar and the Firelord carries the weight of the coming eclipse in my mind, although it’s never actually mentioned.

Dhaval Shah

Ugh hate that you’re forced to use bitchute which is a hub for far-right neo nazi content

I always thought the age and reigns of each firelord was kinda wack in the show. I never bothered to do the math. But I intuitively knew it was wrong when they showed this episode, and the backstory of azulon. But I never bothered to do the math. I just always let it fly, it's obvious the hundred years of time between aangs disappearancd and the shows start was done becuase 100 is an easy round number kids get is big.

How do I get the video to go into landscape mode 😭

Ohwowgr8

Can’t believe I never thought about Sozins age

Skylar Lee Mills

To your point about Aang seeming to both have rules and not have rules about how and when he can contact roku. I think you actually nailed it while being confused by it haha. I think as the show goes on it’s easier and easier for Aang to figure out how to contact his past lives. In the beginning when he has to go to the temple to talk to roku, it was because he had no other way of bridging that spiritual connection. But now that he’s learned how to control that, and learning more how to control it it just makes sense that he’s be able to contact past lives easier and easier That being said, I’ve only watched the first two minutes. I’m ready to watch the rest now gaha