Overanalyzing Avatar: The Swamp

right off the bat in this episode we can see a cart carrying mask stroll by and one of them is the blue spirit mask zuko clearly hit up this cart because the other blue spirit mask he had was probably torched when he was nearly assassinated what's even cooler is that you can hear a little bit of the blue spear music as it passes super quietly these are split second moments but we can see guitar studying the scrolls pacu gave them and saku sharpening his machete little stuff like that really makes these characters feel alive i don't know when we said to learn earthbending i would have to wait and listen and now i'm actually hearing the earth do you want me to ignore it yes i don't know there's something ominous about that place it's a tad strange that saka gets this foreboding feeling the same as everyone else but then once they're actually stranded in the swamp piece mr science and reason love are all over again okay this is a total nitpick here but in my head the three kids look like they're gigantic as they get flung here right it's also really weird how they get dragon ball z through a mile of trees and then just fall directly downwards into the swamp without a scratch on them i mean last season egg went flying through some trees and he got beat to hell saka you've got an elbow leech where where where do you think why do things keep attaching to me this line might feel a little weird unless you remember last episode when soccer was covered in pentapuses we need to find oppa as fast as we can i've always liked these little predator moments not only in avatar but in pretty much everything it's used in a lot of stuff it's a really good way to show that your character is being watched but without it being given away as to what's watching which makes the whole situation a lot more interesting [Music] momo there's no way they can hear us what do you mean there's no way they can hear you what if they can like hear you with their ears this is a really strange shot it shows the gang set up their camp in a holiday tree but then the next shot literally hinges around them being able to be seen from all sides and there's only like this little i guess wall of tree behind them that's a really weird mistake to make what animal do you figure is making that noise the closest i could think is a badger frog which isn't in my top 10 threatening avatar animals might be number like 15. it's a fun little cutaway king of the jungle lapa baby oppa probably is the biggest thing in the swamp at the moment by a wide margin so it probably doesn't have anything to fear other than the most dangerous creature of them all it turns out it's man ah i'm getting some original evil dead vibes here man and if you've seen that movie you know those are bad vibes so it turns out hugh was bending the vines right but dude has to be mastered among masters to be doing this attacking three different people precisely running in different directions dude must be a god [Music] look at this abba fears no creature land rc i'm having a tough time coming up with an animal alive in this time period that isn't assumed extinct at least that could take a sky bison [Applause] why the sock insists on having his mouth open in very sketchy bodies of water freaks me the [ __ ] out man okay so saka being a skeptic about anything being screwy is fine good works for his character great but when he sees a literal incarnation of the moon spirit who he's personally acquainted with it's instead to put some dose in his mind i think considering he's been to the spirit world and all you just couldn't have a show with fusion animals and not put in the whole when pigs fly thing could you guys [Music] is that a little hairy fella around that thing no that's what they call a limu someone at a traveling show once real smart they say betty tastes a lot like possum chicken you think everything tastes like possum chicken dew drops this possum chicken line but i bet you never noticed that they literally show you a possum chicken like 30 seconds prior there he is and he's in my nightmares too and yours nothing to worry about we just fix nature would you say that for where we are but you don't have to tell them that well how'd i know they'd understand me this is an interesting little piece of evidence for the argument that oppa literally understands human language that is you know that he clearly gets what was just said but there's more evidence later in the show too it's just a tree it can't call anyone for the last time there's nothing after us and there's nothing magical happening here he's still technically right up to this point between shatsu the gang does a little switcheroo in places so sake can get chased and grabbed avatar is really good at this realistically what the hell is soccer gonna do in this fight swing his machete at the regenerating vine monster he doesn't really have a role to play but they still find a way to have him be important in the scene he's being captured or held onto for some unknown reason so he's still involved it keeps him from just being a cheerleader on the sidelines which is really smart i feel like a lot of shows fall into that trap here's another one of guitar's classic i'm gonna run up really close to whatever i'm fighting for no reason moments you're a water better katara throw water at you dummy that's another thing in this episode like before when i got said flying through all the trees dbz style people get ragdolled and sent flying tens if not hundreds of feet in this episode to no injuries i don't like that makes the action feel cheap yo this is a crazy little detail remember the tiara momo broca tara back of the blue spirit he domes do here with it that's awesome now what would a limu need a shirt yet another yeah that makes sense moment where the viewer isn't explicitly told that waterbenders can bend vines or plants but it's just a natural extension of the magic system so the viewer can easily just accept it and say yeah that makes sense i get how the tree is one big thing but the whole world sure you think you're any different from me or your friends or this tree if you listen hard enough you can hear every living thing breathing together you can feel everything growing the little talk from hugh is really nice it doesn't talk down to its audience even though it's expected to be kids sorry to interrupt the lesson but we still need to find oppa and momo i think i know how to find them everything is connected all right this is a pretty wild little guru power that aang never exhibits again the swamp may be helping him since it's a place that's literally all connected but gee this would have been really useful during the seven or so episodes where oppa is literally gone hey you guys are water benders you too that means we can is this where the meme originated from this is literally the same picture right this is the meme this is the meme where'd you say you was from the south pole didn't know there was water vendors anywhere but here they got a nice swamp there do they that's pretty interesting they didn't know about any other waterbenders is this like an uncontacted tribe it can't because though said he went to a traveling show once how is it possible they don't know about other waterbenders what about the visions i told you we were hungry i'm eating a giant bug [Music] but what about when the tree showed me where ab and momo were that's avatar stuff that doesn't count he's right more moon continuity all right it was a full moon last episode avatar you can't have two in a row get out of here and here's how zuko gets his swords again too in a lot of shows i feel like that could have just been swept under the rug like oh zuko just has his blue spirit gear but it wouldn't have made sense considering the circumstances this is the kind of long-term continuity and care and detail that makes avatar so special so i gotta be honest this is another pretty weak one if you ask me not a lot happens it's just mostly the gang wandering around the swamp with some gags here and there and cutaways to open momo which are just more gags and honestly it's not that funny of an episode the vision idea is cool i guess but it doesn't really go anywhere it hints at tough but the rest of the visions just eat the time code and don't really mean much we already know katara misses her mom but i guess it is nice to see that saga still thinks about you it just took too much time for me personally the action is also kind of weirdly over the top which doesn't really feel like avatar like people get destroyed and sent flying it just feels weird and unlike some other weaker episodes this doesn't have a lot of zuko and arrow to come in and save the day patriot shout outs if you want to see the next episode of over analyzing avatar right now you can support me on patreon for just a few bucks you'll be one episode ahead going forward if you help me out on there biggest shout outs have all got a fritz sullivan who can speak 26 different languages three are of unknown perhaps extraterrestrial origin and keegan scott who bench pressed the school bus off of a kid's leg who got pinned under it seriously look it up other huge shout outs go to my other top patrons be my valentine coconut dj jacks derek cornwell i said that out of order do mutual aid garmer glintlock mana nicholas abbott parkler glass skylo super sniper and thiago nacimento [ __ ] it i'm keeping that take next one up is avatar day which is just one more one more until the blind bandit

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Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Wed May 26 2021