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Avatar: The Last Airbender Reaction Book 3 Episode 8! (Patreon)

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2026-05-24 16:35:24
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SPOILER ALERT! - If you have not watched the show before, don't read the following review until you have! :)

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I wasn't ready for this one...

Hope you had a great week, guys!!

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Time

Haven’t seen the video yet but I hope you have a good day veggie.

Emma

SUPER excited for you to watch this episode. Its definitely unique! I am patiently counting down to when we get to my absolute favorite episodes of the series, which are in this book! 🥰

Son of Shadows

Just woke up, dog-sitting for 2 dogs I love and have lived with previously for years, cozy on the couch, I've genuinely been excited for you to see this episode for months, I'm lucky to I be cozied up here with the dogs to watch, that makes me very happy It does so much for the magical world building in this universe, bloodbending feels like a real evolution of waterbending, and it genuinely feels so violating, it's especially dark for something that aired on Nickelodeon. I really appreciate the pity for Hama, she's a monster, but just like azula, she was conditioned into being who she is, in almost exact opposite ways You'll definitely enjoy the kyoshi novels, they weren't AT ALL what I expected, very different but also very much avatar.

Cinnamon troll

Hey Veggie, are you going to check out the avatar netflix adaptation? It's worth watching in my opinion, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it Anyway, chilling episode. Hama is so much like Jet but much darker. This show really excels at portraying war and trauma. I appreciate your compassion towards Hama, I feel the same

Gabriel

There's a lot to say about this episode. First, I love that every season have a creepy episode. Season 1 had Koh the face stealer, season 2 had Joo Dee and "there's no war in Ba Sing Se" e season 3 has this one. Second, there is a lot o foreshadowing, starting in season 1 episode 4, when Aang is drowning after riding the Unagi and Katara has pull the water from his lungs to save him, showing that is possible to bend the water inside a human body; then there is the swamp episode, when is shown that is possible to control a living being by bending the water inside. Third, her morals and the choice to attack innocents to get revenge remind me a lot of Jet. Fourth, I don't think that it's confirmed who's the women with Kama, but the consensus is that is Gran-Gran. And last, about Katara's mother, you can just wait.

James McCarthy

Woo great episode, the show and it's sequel Legend of Korra really love exploring the depth and variety to which every element can be used (: Hama was a great villain, creepy and cool but tragic

James McCarthy

An interesting point of note is the first time Hama looks scared is when Katara does something she has never seen, she uses waterbending like an earthbender. Waterbending is all abotu redirecting your opponents attacks and water or shielding from it but at one point Katara just counter attacks and breaks Hamas attack like an earthbender and you see Hama look stunned (: The Avatar crew really pick up tricks for eachother

PumpkinSparks

Super random and unimportant, but I love that shirt! I'm a sucker for everything plaid and the fit is great on you. Dude, either I'm having a stroke or I might be in love with your brain. Did you actually put in the effort to edit the intro, so it does the *dwrummm* sound everytime you say bandit or sparky sparky boom man? Since you put in the thing to call yourself out on not understanding generations, you might actually have put in the effort for your own giggles. I'm pretty sure that you are the only creator I know who edits their patreon uploads - facinating!

PumpkinSparks

This episode gave me nightmares when it first aired!!! Hama and the whole idea of blood bending is so freaking scary. And then the way she kinda dark force tutores Katara? Goosebumps! What I love most about this episode (besides the darker possibilities of bending) is that we understand where Hama is coming from, but we also understand that she is the villain. To put it into real life relation: if you look at the life of the majority of people who turn to crime, you understand why they do what they do. Even if you look at the worst of the worst like serial killers, once you do a deep dive into their lives for most you kinda get how they got there. But that is an explanation, not an excuse! Most people in Hamas situation once she got out, would have felt terrible about what she was forced to do but either lived in solitude or found a way to built a new life. Hama chose to torment people for decades because they happened to be born into a nation that harmed her... In my opinion she is the most terrifying villain in this world. It's like how Umbrige is more terrifying than Voldemort to me. Sure, we have the whole story villain who wants to take over the world and remake it in his ideal - but then we have the minor villains who we know about in our real life, and that makes them super scary to me!

Tim H.

I LOVE how you now have that jingle in here, I noticed it for the first time in your reaction, even tho I saw that episode about 10 to 20 times before Also I never really got that the dough from Avatar day just wasn't baked on purpose, I thought it might be some chinese food tradition or something

Steven

Hama was mentioned by gran gran in the last Airbender movie! This episode is in my top 3. Loooove the morality of it

felipeluzz

About your earthbending comment, remember that the Fire Nation has a huge blockade preventing people from coming in (way back in the solstice episode from book 1). So, non-fire nation people in the fire nation must be absurdly rare, so the ordinary people would never even consider it.

Grace

I told you this season really is Katara focused. Adding blood bending to the mix is dark but incredible. When i first watched this show, I wondered if you could control someone's body with water and I never thought the show would go that far but they did.

Cari Ann

My favorite episode of book 3 right here, I loved the creepy feel of the whole episode it was so great and the fact the show actually went there in discussing something people had thought about since we saw them bending water in vines...theres a lot of water in people. I loved the idea of being a water bender since the first episode, but this made it feel so dark I was questioning if I would actually want this type of power. I do feel for hama too.

Fusssel

Yeah, it sadly happens too often, that victims turn into perpetrators themselves. If Hama only took her revenge by attacking soldiers, I wouldn't have called her a villain but civilians who had nothing to do with it? Yeah, there is no excuse.

Shadowwolf21687

Aang was indirectly responsible for what Hama had become. If he hadn’t ran away and disappeared for 100 years,then Hama and the rest of the Southern Water Tribe water benders wouldn’t have been captured. The fire nation presumed the the next Avatar would be born in the water nation,so they captured all the water benders for precautionary measures.

Madikuma95

I'd be up for Vox Machina! It's cool seeing the Gaang saving Fire Nation villagers from a Waterbending villain! It's like a reversal of the earlier seasons. Personally I think what Hama is doing is wrong. What happened to her was horrible, but not an excuse for her to treat others the same way, especially when they had nothing to do with it.

Diego Zenhäusern

Wow, I've never realized that! That's absolutely incredible and also very subtle writting!

Lukas

If he hadn't run away, he MIGHT have been captured and imprisoned, similar to what Zhao had planned in "Blue Spirit". But most likely he would've been killed just like the others. After all, he was untrained and thus no different than all the other monks to the soldiers. Meaning exactly nothing would've changed, except that now there wouldn't be any hope at all anymore. So much for "indirectly responsible" ...

Lukas

Re point 3: I'm not sure if I ever made that comparison before, but when watching it now it really hit me, that she, just like Jet, invoked Kataras mother as justification and motivation why Katara should become like them and support their mislead fight against the firenation.

Lukas

Good point regarding "most people in Hamas situation". Veggie mentioned that the firenation destroyed her life by taking her prisoner and treating her as they did. And surely that time cracked her. But she was still a relatively young adult when she broke free (she spoke of "years" perfecting the bloodbending, so likely less than a decade, and while it's hard to judge, she seems like she is still in her 20s when she leaves). As you said, she could, and most people would, have gone on to live by herself to try to get back to her home. Work through the trauma, get back to a somewhat normal life. Instead she chose to stay and take "vengance" on innocents, which seems to be what truly destroyed her life. She kept the hate alive and let herself be consumed by the hate. Another interesting note: Not sure if that is a mistake of the writers or intentional, but she seemed to have all the time in the world when she broke out. She calmly stood and pushed the guard back to the ground, when he regained consciousness. No other guards in sight. Yet she chose to leave all her "brothers and sisters", as she called them, behind. She had the key right there and was in full control of the only guard, but she chose to go alone and not even try to free anyone else. She is the only one to escape because she didn't care to help anyone, or even just share her discovery so they might try it themselves.

Lukas

You mention a few times that Hama herself had been just a civilian, when she was abducted (just like she abducted civilians). While true on some level (she was no soldier), she DID partake in the defense against the raids, thus becoming a combatant and thus fair game for imprisonment. That is not to put any blame on her for defending her home, just to point out that her being imprisoned by the firenation as an enemy combatant is still on a different level than her imprisoning random villagers.

PumpkinSparks

That is such a good point! I actually never realized. But yeah, she did leave all her "friends" even though she had plenty of time to free them. As someone who has a very unhealthy obsession about the psychology of the worst kinds of humans, I actually think it might have been intentional by the writers. She has the brain makeup who turns their own trauma into an excuse to hurt others. I would make the argument that she lies somewhere on the sociopathic/narcisistic spectrum. She certainly lacks empathy, but is able to fake empathy very convincingly - so probably more sociopathic. I don't think it even occured to her as a viable option to free the others. It wouldn't have benefited her to get them out. They just would have slowed her down and increased the chance of recapture.

Margarita Pizza

This episode makes me sad. I can't help but feel for Hama and what she went through. If only she'd used her powers for the war effort instead of venting her rage on civilians.

Antonio

@⋆｡˚꒰ঌ & ໒꒱˚｡⋆:Les vengo a compartir el Evangelio!!!: Isaías 41:10 “Así que no temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no te angusties, porque yo soy tu Dios. Te fortaleceré y te ayudaré; te sostendré con la diestra de mi justicia..” Este versículo es una promesa directa de Dios para cuando te sientes cansado, con miedo o a punto de rendirte. Dios no solo te dice “aquí estoy”, sino que Él mismo te da fuerzas, te ayuda y te sostiene cuando ya no puedes solo. En el nombre de Jesús decimos?

Antonio

🌷:No quiero ofender a alguien pero estoy tratando de difundir el evangelio!!: Isaías 41:10 “Así que no temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no te angusties, porque yo soy tu Dios. Te fortaleceré y te ayudaré; te sostendré con la diestra de mi justicia..” Este versículo es una promesa directa de Dios para cuando te sientes cansado, con miedo o a punto de rendirte. Dios no solo te dice “aquí estoy”, sino que Él mismo te da fuerzas, te ayuda y te sostiene cuando ya no puedes solo. En el nombre de Jesús decimos? Amén 🙏🤍

Antonio

Dios perdóna un pecado cuando lo pedimos de corazón y nunca más lo volvemos a hacer

STAYoung

I also interpret it as awe in a show of her strength. If anyone has swam at the beach and tried to fight the waves then you know that the easiest/best way to do it is to either cut through it or flow with it (like a waterbender). Katara did take an earthbender approach but more than that she essentially shoulder charged the wave and didn't move a muscle. There's the easy way, the right way, the unorthodox way, and then there's Katara flexing on Hama

qowkerf uinbfesd

Classic case of "two wrongs don't make a right" on this one. Yes, Hama went through incredible injustice, abuse and trauma, but letting it out on civilians who have never seen the war front and just happen to be born in the wrong nation is definitely not the play. How many of them elected Ozai? That's right, no one. I interpret her obsession with puppets as her learning anatomy. Which muscle groups do what, how can certain joints be moved, etc., she's perfecting her technique by studying the human body.

mizu

i think the adaption does the original a huge disservice

Cinnamon troll

I think it is a different interpretation of the original, and there are many great things about it in my opinion, even if some aspects are not so good. Anyway I think it would be nice if Veggie decided for himself whether he likes it or not, but I guess that's not happening

Eudaimonist

Consider this: if a waterbender can control the blood in someone's body, they can probably do with it whatever the can do with other water, including freezing to kill instantly.

Klaus

Late to the party but deffo check out the one piece live action. It single handedly got me interested in the anime and all other animes. Such a good watch