Hey youtubers it's Charlie and yesterday in my Korra video I asked you all to submit Questions
so I picked a bunch to answer in this video so we could follow up on some of the really
big stuff. Lots of Zaheer Airbending Disciple talk. All very interesting.
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giveaway. I'll be messaging you on your channel for details. You basically win amazon gift
cards.
The next round of the giveaway will start when I post my episode 6 and 7 video next
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If you guys ever wondered why it's tied to comments it's actually because the most valuable
thing you can do to help me is leave a comment. It's how I learn how you feel about something.
Comments are where the community lives. And that's really the thing I care about the most.
So that's why.
Speaking of comments, let's do some questions. Careful for spoilers from this week's episodes
if you haven't seen them yet. I'll wait just a sec...Okay, here we go.
Question 1 - Lukas asks will we see a civil war in the earth kingdom (people against the
queen)?
Usually there are multiple conflicts that either overlap or go happen at the same time
during the finale. Like Korra will have her battle with the Team Zaheer plot and there
will be some sort of human versus human conflict.
Based on what we've seen so far, I don't see anyone else becoming the villain of that human
conflict. So yes to the Earth Queen versus her people. I don't know if it will just turn
out to be a straight up civil war, but no one will be killing anyone. That's not really
what Korra is about and it wouldn't fit with the Airbending philosophy that all life is
sacred.
The Earth Queen was subjigating all her citizens yes, not just Airbenders, but I think it would
be really cool if we saw those Earth Kingdom airbenders return to Ba Sing Se to help make
peace.
The Earth Queen is a lot like the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. Really over
the top crazy and comical. But I think there are a couple ways her plot could resolve itself.
One would be for Korra and the Airbenders to teach her the error of her ways, or some
of her power could be taken away and the Earth Kingdom could appoint a parliment. Like what
happened in the UK. The monarchy still exists, but over the last 100 years, the royal family
has slowly given more and more of their decision making power to the government.
To the point where Queen Elizabeth is more of a figurehead and Parliment does the day
to day job of making sure species 456 doesn't kill everyone. Shout out to all the torchwood
fans.
Question 2 - Camile asks what was so important about Korra that Team Zaheer couldn't do it
with Aang when he was still alive?
Good question, so Korra is almost 19 right now. So let's assume Team Zaheer was put in
prison the year she was born. They look like they're about the same age as Tenzin, so they
would have been in their early 30s when they were arrested.
I can think of two big reasons why they'd go for Korra versus Aang. The first is that
Aang was dying by the time they put their plan together. Like Aang was in his final
years and either wouldn't have had enough strength to do whatever Zaheer wanted the
avatar to do OR if they're just trying to convince the avatar to help them, Aang was
too stuck in his ways and would have never agreed to their mystery plan.
I think it's a combination of those two things. They saw Aang was on his way out, so they
thought it would be easier to raise a new avatar teaching her their philosophy, so Korra
would make things the way they wanted.
That's kind of a twist on what Unalaq wanted, except he wanted to kill Raava. I don't think
that's what Zaheer wants. There's still too much we don't know about him to guess what
his plan is.
I'm just going to call it his mystery plan until Zaheer does an evil guy monologue explaining
it all.
Question 3 - Wargaming (no avatar) asks Where did Zuko's Dragon come from?
In the Dragon Days comic, Aang saves the last Dragon egg. I'm assuming it's either the dragon
that hatched from that Egg. During Last Airbender they learned Iroh had protected Ran and Shaw
too.
We learned in that Zuko video game Nickelodeon released on their website that his dragon's
name is Druk. He was born around 18 years ago. Meaning it's about the same age as Korra.
It's funny to think that the birth of Zuko's Dragon and the birth of a new Avatar are connected.
But I can see why they would connect those two big events. I'm sure there are a lot of
big things that were connected to Korra's birth. Including Zaheer's mystery plot.
The takeaway is that Druk is probably the progeny of the dragons from last airbender
or his egg was laid when Firelord Sozin was killing them all and just survived to hatch
when Korra was born.
I've always thought that dragon eggs take forever to hatch, just because in all the
different fantasy series I've ever seen. Dragons are an extremely long-lived race.
Question 4 - Benjamin asks Do you think Aang was the one that taught Zaheer about Airbending?
Yes it's definitely possible. I saw a lot of you guys speculating that Zaheer was an
early air disciple when Tenzin was growing up and learned about something dangerous and
tried to do something crazy. Aang took his bending away and then years later when Zaheer
tried to kidnap Korra they were all locked away.
Making this like his third try to do whatever he's trying to do. And Harmonic Convergence
restored his bending that Aang took away. It would explain why he's so good. And there
wouldn't have been many people other than aang who could have taught him about airbending
30 or forty years ago.
Question 5 - Andre asks do you think Opals actually Lin's daughter?
No, I don't think it's going to be that complicated. I think that the whole Lin Suyin backstory
is going to be a simple take on their big differences. Like Beifong trying to be super
responsible and strict and Suyin being rebellious and getting away with everything.
Suyin said that Toph wasn't super proud of either one of them in the end, but Lin is
probably just bitter about Suyin never being held to account for her actions.
That explanation makes Lin seem like more of an emotional child in that she can't just
get over the fact they see the world differently. But I think we're meant to draw some similarities
in the way Lin and the Earth Queen are both behaving ridiculously and need to open their
eyes.
Lin is a good person, so I think she'll get there eventually.
Question 6 - Kevin (no avatar) asks Maybe the real antagonists are the White Lotus?
I think the real antagonist is ignorance. Like all the characters will have to get used
to change and that's the real obstacle to overcome. Zaheer just seems like the villain
right now because his plan takes him in opposition to Team Avatar.
The White Lotus people we've seen so far this season haven't done anything that make the
villains. They're really just following Zuko's orders at this point and Zuko isn't the villain.
It sounds silly but they'll all probably get to the point this season when a real change
will come and everyone in the world will just have to learn to deal. It kind of already
happened with Harmonic Convergence. But Zaheer could always be trying to bond the physical
realm with the spirit realm in a much bigger way.
That spirit Korra almost hit in Republic City said we're all the same, even the avatar should
know that. It just sounds very ominous to me, like everyone really will become the same
in a much more obvious way.
Question 7 - Chivaugh asks Is it just me or has the Dai Li and White Lotus gotten less
badass?
I think they just want to make the new characters, Kai and Team Zaheer, seem like bigger badasses.
They're more of a threat if they can take down the White Lotus and the Dai Li.
And since the world hasn't really been at war in a huge global way since Aang's time,
people might have gone a little soft. So the Dai Li and the White Lotus could both be more
like maintenance level benders, not the kind of superhero epic benders you see emerge during
times of war.
Question 8 - Danny Phantom asks Do you think Zaheer's Void has something to do with the
original Airbenders?
Not necessarily, but I do think it has to do with energy bending and transcending physical
existence. I know I mentioned conquering death in my last video, but the best way to do that
would be to exist as pure energy. That might not be what Zaheer is trying to do exactly.
But I don't think he's just trying to contact someone.
I think he's trying to energy bend everyone or some twist on the astral state we've seen
Korra and Aang go into when they get super Zen. Guru Pathik's Chakra's might get referenced
again.
Question 9 - iloveme asks Why did Nick take all the episodes down off Nick.com?
Probably because they want to try to increase live ratings for Korra. I don't think it will
work and I don't think that their strategy of not putting episodes on itunes quickly
is going to work either. Right now the only way to watch the show legally is to watch
it on Nickelodeon. But if you live in a country where Nick isn't available which is most places.
It really hurts their viewership.
It's a whole big thing. So my sympathies to anyone who's having trouble watching new episodes.
I can't allow any streaming links in the comments here, just because they are illegal, but that's
typically the only way to find Korra episodes. There's currently no legal streaming options
available.
Number 10 and last one, Scott in the comments pointed out some of the really cool voice
actors Avatar has had in the past and this season so I wanted to read his comment. Since
I haven't done a video just about the casting.
Some of these people you may have already recognized.
Jack DeSena was Sokka on Last Airbender, he doesn't have any Korra credits on IMDB
Eva Marie Saint is old Katara on Korra. JK Simmons everyone knows as shirtless Tenzin.
Mindy Sterling as Chief Cranky Pants Lin Beifong, DB Sweeney as old Aang on Korra.
Anne Heche is the new Suyin Beifong character, Lisa Edelstein you probably remember from
last season as Kya. Dante Basco was young Zuko on Last Airbender and Zuko's grandson
Iroh on Korra
Mark Hamill was Firelord Ozai, Grey DeLisle was young Azula and is now doing the armless
waterbender P'Li on Korra.
And Henry Rollins is playing Zaheer.
Nickelodeon for some reason never did a big casting announcement for the new Book 3 voice
actors, but they're really cool additions to the already giant list of awesome Avatar
people.
So next week there's two more episodes again, 6 and 7. I think they're going to resolve
the Metal Bending city story and move on to something new.
Since those two episodes will basically be the halfway point of the season I'm hoping
we finally get an explanation of what Zaheer is trying to do. I know everyone wants to
know what Toph is up to, but I don't think they'll explain that anytime soon.
I have seen a really cool theory on the Red Lotus as a possible alternative antagonist
as it relates to the Pai Sho game. I don't have a lot of information about that, so if
something develops I'll include it in a future video.
Right now click here for my review of the episodes and click here for my top 10 last
airbender characters.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight. High Fives!