Working on Korra Video IV 2:3

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00:00:00All the Water Tribe members have K in their names, not all of them.
00:00:07Unrock doesn't.
00:00:09He has a Q, but it's got a K sound.
00:00:12Senna doesn't.
00:00:16Desna doesn't.
00:00:24Hama, yep.
00:00:31UA.
00:00:33Yep, UA.
00:00:44Sokka, Sokka does.
00:00:48Is the rule A, then?
00:00:49There's no specific rule.
00:00:51Like, naming conventions, like, there's a lot of similarities in a particular culture's naming conventions,
00:00:56but it's not like you will always find, like, one particular letter in a culture's names.
00:01:18It's just that, like, when you have white writers,
00:01:22it's really easy to just use K as a shorthand for indigenous names.
00:01:34I don't think it's specifically malicious,
00:01:38it's just a lot of commonly understood indigenous words have a K sound in it.
00:01:53Hmm.
00:02:05Good to know, thank you, Lily.
00:02:11It's like when writers want to take a really quick and dirty shortcut for, like, a Chinese name,
00:02:16they'll put an NG in there somewhere.
00:02:19O.
00:02:21A-N-G, O-N-G, I-N-G.
00:02:25It'll be there somewhere.
00:02:29Probably the most egregious example, Cho Chang.
00:02:34Right, thought that was bad.
00:02:37Hmm.
00:02:47See, for me, unless it's really obvious, like, Cho Chang,
00:02:52I'm gonna, a lot of that is gonna go right over the radar for me.
00:02:56Aren't some of them Inuit names?
00:02:58Yep, I think the Water Tribe is based mostly off the Inuit, but a few others as well.
00:03:07Hmm.
00:03:14The Earth Kingdom's largely based off China, China with a little bit of Korea.
00:03:17The Fire Nation's based off China with a little bit of Japan.
00:03:21The Air Nomads are from Tibet.
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00:03:34NG is a common Vietnamese surname.
00:03:36I'm talking about the sound.
00:03:42Hmm.
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00:03:44That season crashed and burned.
00:03:45I'm sure the next season will be fine.
00:03:46Right, Bray?
00:03:47Why are you smiling like that?
00:03:48Yeah.
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00:03:50That's another example.
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00:04:15Black names having the ending name of Q-U-A sound like Monique.
00:04:18Oh, yeah.
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00:04:42I was thinking earlier about how small the Avatar world is
00:04:44or how fast their transportation is.
00:04:47I think the Avatar world is about as big as ours.
00:04:51It definitely wasn't small when it was in Avatar The Last Lord.
00:04:56Granted, Aang was going in a zig-zag direction, but it took a while for them to get from the
00:05:04south to the north.
00:05:11Between each destination, there are implied weeks of transportation.
00:05:19There are instances where that was squashed and stretched for plot convenience, but...
00:05:24Remember, like, Appa, like, well, the thing is, is like, is that with the kind of, uh,
00:05:29is that flying will always be very fast because you can take a direct route anywhere,
00:05:34and both Appa and Aang can fly.
00:05:42Due to the limitations of the medium.
00:05:44Uh, I don't really think a world feeling big is very important.
00:05:49Like, it doesn't matter, really.
00:05:51Right.
00:05:58I would much prefer a world feel focused than big.
00:06:07Italian names ending with I or O?
00:06:10Oh, yeah, you ever see, you ever see, um, you ever see, uh...
00:06:13You ever see a racist dipshit trying to communicate with someone in Spanish?
00:06:23They'll just stick O on the end of every word and think that works.
00:06:27Oh, right.
00:06:30Don't think it works like that.
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:40For the Paul Guy to obsess over Guru Laghima.
00:06:43Uh, let's see.
00:06:44What's another, what's another, what's another, what's another late,
00:06:48what's a, what's another I-can't-be-arsed way of writing names?
00:07:10Yeah.
00:07:25You know what's funny?
00:07:28People keep making jokes about, like, J.K. Rowling, uh,
00:07:31introducing an Irish character named Potato Fam and Car Bomb.
00:07:34But she literally had a character named Seamus Finnegan.
00:07:40Yeah, it's very subtle.
00:07:41Whose whole schtick was he gonna, can't go 10 seconds without blowing shit up.
00:07:48Ending with off for Russian names that's not even correct.
00:07:54Oh, right, uh, trying to write a, uh, it's like if, like, peop, uh,
00:07:58people just making up Japanese surnames and it's, like,
00:08:01seven syllables long and ends with G, A, or M, I.
00:08:05Oh, yeah.
00:08:09Just research Natasha Rona, fuck off.
00:08:27Can't be that hard to do proper research on it.
00:08:29Hang on.
00:08:33Wouldn't it have been O.V.?
00:08:35Jewish names ending with Berg or Stein.
00:08:37Yeah.
00:08:39Which is ironic because those are, like, those are German names.
00:08:49Claim she had a Jewish character, something Stein.
00:08:51Oh, Anthony Goldstein.
00:08:52He is in the books.
00:08:54He's mentioned, like, twice.
00:09:00Romanova, Romanova.
00:09:02Romanova, Romanova, since she's a woman.
00:09:10But it's her surname, though.
00:09:12Or am I missing something about Russian names?
00:09:15Hmm.
00:09:29It's weird.
00:09:30You and your brothers, uh, like, all have Slavic names,
00:09:32despite the fact that you aren't Slavic.
00:09:35Yeah, my mother, my parents just want, just chose those for us
00:09:39because they just wanted to be different.
00:09:41Russian names and last names are all gendered.
00:09:43Ah, okay, got it.
00:09:44Thanks, friend.
00:09:45I think Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, etc.
00:09:47Uh, gender, yeah.
00:09:50I saw a video on Zuckaland about if J.K. Rowling made a Latin character.
00:09:53Oh, God.
00:09:57My father wanted to name our, name my older brother Elric,
00:10:02but my mom was like, yeah, no, we're not giving our first child a nerd name.
00:10:06So they just, they just demoted that to his middle name.
00:10:09My name's, like, my name's based on a assigned gender at birth
00:10:13were set it, were like, set in stone before, like, before I was even conceived.
00:10:20My father, it's like, my father, my father wanted to have a son
00:10:23he could name after himself.
00:10:25And my mother had a pact with her sisters that the first girl
00:10:28any of them had would be named Courtney.
00:10:30And my mother had a pact with her sisters that the first girl
00:10:33any of them had would be named Courtney.
00:10:41So I didn't even, I didn't have a chance.
00:10:45No, you did not.
00:10:47Much better to.
00:10:50In times like that, you have, you have no choice but to choose your own name.
00:10:54Yeah, like Fullmetal Alchemist.
00:10:55Oh, no, this was years before.
00:10:57This was decades before that.
00:10:58He was named after Elric of Milne Benay.
00:11:03The pasty dragon rider guy.
00:11:06Man, people continue to struggle with the con,
00:11:08with the concept that media before 2010 exists.
00:11:12Right.
00:11:13Talk about dodging a fucking bullet.
00:11:29My family all wanted religious names,
00:11:32but not the actual religious names, they wanted them in different languages.
00:11:48So I got the equivalent of John.
00:11:55You know, it's funny, in spite of the fact that my dead name
00:11:57is like an extremely common name.
00:11:59My entire life, I was the only person in my generation I ever met who had that name.
00:12:05Which to me, so like, ironically, my name ended up being extremely rare
00:12:09to the point that I was at a school of 1500 people,
00:12:12and they would just and they would just say,
00:12:14Jerry, please come to the office.
00:12:15And it's like, immediately, everyone knows they're talking about me
00:12:18because I was the only one.
00:12:20Don't like that.
00:12:22So I, so when I changed my name,
00:12:24I chose the single most common trans girl name to ever exist.
00:12:28Yeah, I chose my name.
00:12:31I chose, I thought I was choosing the conventional means of spelling it,
00:12:35because with my old name, no one could spell it right,
00:12:37because my parents decided to spell it weird.
00:12:40And I was like, OK, I'll go, I'll choose this name,
00:12:42and I will choose the conventional way of spelling it.
00:12:45Apparently, everyone spells it with a Y.
00:12:48Or a C-H and an E-A.
00:12:51Yeah, I have, I have, I was named after my mother's friend,
00:12:55but she told everyone it was after my, oh, oh, interesting.
00:13:02Like, I've generally found it doesn't matter how simple your name is.
00:13:06My name is literally L-I-L-Y.
00:13:09People still spell it wrong all the goddamn time.
00:13:12Never underestimate the bounds of human stupidity.
00:13:16OK, so, I am going to have to, all right, let's bring up my scripts here.
00:13:31First things first, Wren sent me this while it was, while everything was playing.
00:13:36Thank you, Wren.
00:13:40Bask in her glory.
00:13:42Oh my, I just realized, oh my god,
00:13:44I just realized she's suffocating the viewer.
00:13:48Oh.
00:13:56Is that more or less cursed than the reference I was going to make to Naruto?
00:14:03I don't know.
00:14:04Somehow it's less cursed.
00:14:14Oh, this is gorgeous, Wren.
00:14:16You really do outdo yourself multiple times.
00:14:19This is beautiful.
00:14:23Wait, who is this?
00:14:23This is Avatar Neva, character I made.
00:14:32Breathtaking.
00:14:38Zaheer popped up, and for some reason, and for some reason,
00:14:41Zaheer popped up, and according to some people in the fandom,
00:14:44just took everyone's breath away.
00:14:52God, like, the oversize, like, people have said it's like,
00:14:54oh, you deliberately infantilize Neva by giving her, like, oversized sleeves.
00:14:59Honey, when she starts airbending,
00:15:01that billows around in the wind like a terrifying ghostly spirit.
00:15:06Like, yes, oversized clothes on somebody is cute as fuck,
00:15:10but let's not deny that it's not also potentially terrifying.
00:15:14Also, Wren does this thing with her dress that I quite like,
00:15:16putting this really interesting leaf pattern on the inside.
00:15:21Oh, fuck, that's good.
00:15:27Simple outside, complex inside, like Neva herself.
00:15:35That was also Wren's trademark glow.
00:15:37Wren just does things with, like, glow that is so neat.
00:15:43Of some, I'm, I wish I could replicate it.
00:15:46Like a still image having bloom effects.
00:15:51I would steal this look if I could.
00:15:57And that is a compliment.
00:16:00That is a Frostlass Banshee lady.
00:16:03I do like Banshee, I do like Banshee imagery and Banshee motifs.
00:16:09Oh, yes.
00:16:11The clothing is just cool.
00:16:13It just makes nice silhouettes.
00:16:16Oh, fuck, it just, oh, fuck, it just occurred.
00:16:19Yeah, something just occurred to me.
00:16:22Airbenders can do this thing where they can actually amplify their own scream to be deadly.
00:16:27So, like, when Neva's massacring the Red Lotus
00:16:30when Neva's massacring the Red Lotus
00:16:31after being led to believe that Lavi's been killed, she's literally keening.
00:16:37Ooh.
00:16:39I can teach you how to make it glow.
00:16:40It's very simple.
00:16:41Well, it looks like the both of you, the both of you are getting a lesson.
00:16:48I wish I could replicate how Wren adds blush to everything she draws.
00:16:51Oh, yeah.
00:16:53Wren, like, she always does, like, this texture on the face that I love.
00:16:57I've always loved, that looks great.
00:16:59Oh, yes, that's so good.
00:17:00I've been, I've been trying to put that on my stuff, too.
00:17:07Airbender banshee scream, let's fucking go.
00:17:14Korra yelling, she's gone when Rava gets pulled.
00:17:17Oh, come on, don't do that.
00:17:23See, this is how you know Wren's a great artist.
00:17:25She's willing to share her secrets.
00:17:29Hmm.
00:17:55I've met, it's not even a secret, it's just, it's just Gaussian blur.
00:17:59Oh, yeah, I can kind of see it.
00:18:02Okay, I tried Gaussian blur.
00:18:04Like, I don't know if I'm just, like, overthinking it.
00:18:06It's just, like, every time, it feels like every time I try, it just doesn't work.
00:18:15Now, let's take a look here.
00:18:29So, let's just make a little,
00:18:35let's just make a little streak.
00:18:38We'll grab it, copy it, and then.
00:18:46Oh, there it is.
00:18:47Hmm.
00:18:59That's neat.
00:19:03I do actually have a brush that has, like, this glow built into it.
00:19:08I imagine that's probably how it does it.
00:19:17Hmm.
00:19:29Like how it's so simple, yet you blow us, uh, blow us away.
00:19:33Oh, there's the, the end, it's erased.
00:19:36It's erased on the end.
00:19:38Oh, okay.
00:19:48Hmm.
00:20:03Huh.
00:20:06That's cool.
00:20:08Oh.
00:20:17Hmm.
00:20:21It's like when I did the, uh, the, like, the way that, uh,
00:20:25it's like when I did that thing for the Spy Family video,
00:20:27where, like, I had this weird bounciness to the editing.
00:20:31And I basically just said, yeah, no, you just, you just zoom in at the end,
00:20:35zoom out of one clip, zoom out at the front of another clip,
00:20:38and then vertical blur it for, like, two frames.
00:20:42Oh, yeah.
00:20:47Hmm.
00:20:49So, yeah, it's like two frames, zoom in,
00:20:52and then transition into a vertical blur,
00:20:54and then the next clip, zoom out, and transition out of the vertical blur.
00:20:58You don't need anything in terms of how I do stuff, just, just ask.
00:21:02Hmm.
00:21:06Clip Studio Paint.
00:21:07Every artist I've ever met all uses a different, uh, different program.
00:21:11It's neat.
00:21:12I tried to get Clip Studio Paint working, but, like,
00:21:16like, nowhere if I could find a bit, like, included, like,
00:21:20like, a key.
00:21:23Oh, I could probably sort that out for you.
00:21:26Oh.
00:21:34I have been told that Blender can do 2D art,
00:21:37but I have not been able to find anyone who can actually explain how that's done.
00:21:42So, getting back on Avatar, it's, like, one thing about Avatar I'd quite, what, oh, fuck.
00:21:50Oh, I need to, I need to close that before I end up bringing it onto the stream.
00:21:54Uh, so, one thing about Avatar that, uh, I've always found interesting,
00:21:58but, like, because of the way fandom works could never, could never happen,
00:22:02I would actually like, like, like to see less lore dumps
00:22:06and more characters offering their own thing.
00:22:10Characters offering their own theories on how things work.
00:22:15I did a version of this with Bakay yesterday, where I basically did, I,
00:22:18I drafted up this, uh, this thing where Neva comes to the, uh,
00:22:22Neva, uh, comes to the conclusion that because the Avatar always seemed to have,
00:22:27uh, because, like, a lot of the Avatars, like, while they may have had a team,
00:22:30there was always, like, at least one person, uh,
00:22:33that they were especially close to above all else.
00:22:36Sometimes a friend, sometimes a lover.
00:22:38In the case of Jets, in the case of Jetsune, an adoptive sibling.
00:22:42And so Neva comes to the conclusion that every, uh, that, uh, every Avatar,
00:22:46that every Avatar, uh, has a quote-unquote better half out there somewhere.
00:22:53Ooh!
00:22:54Ooh!
00:23:05Sort of like a pension llama to the, to the, uh, Avatar's Dalai Lama.
00:23:10Ah!
00:23:11Oh, I like that.
00:23:13But, like, this wouldn't actually be, like, an established piece of lore.
00:23:16It's just, it's just one Avatar's opinion.
00:23:19An opinion very much colored by her, uh, by her, uh, by her closeness with her sister.
00:23:29More unhinged Absolute.
00:23:41Yeah, just give us a little, give us more asides where characters just talk about stuff.
00:23:47Yeah, like, that's part, that's part of the, a big thing about, like, the,
00:23:51the way the Avatar state, like, changes.
00:23:53It's like, well, I thought the power from the Avatar state comes from the past lives.
00:23:56That's not like something, that was not something that was ever set in stone.
00:23:59That's Roku's opinion.
00:24:01That's Roku's, uh, that's Roku's interpretation based off the information he has available to him.
00:24:06Because Roku isn't aware of Raava.
00:24:09Most of the Avatars aren't aware of Raava.
00:24:12So based on that theory, Roku's other half was, uh, Sozin?
00:24:15Yes.
00:24:16And it was when their friendship ended was when, uh,
00:24:18Roku's ability to be the Avatar was significantly hampered.
00:24:27Roku couldn't bring himself to fight Sozin.
00:24:40Oh, man, that makes it worse.
00:24:42Holy shit.
00:24:44Mm-hmm.
00:24:46Mm-hmm.
00:24:53Okay, now I've got to get to work on, uh, I got to get to work on this script.
00:25:02That he's actually take a full, uh, full, uh,
00:25:04because it's setting her up to take a full, for, trust me.
00:25:13Oh, that's Korra herself.
00:25:15That's the wrong one.
00:25:37It's either Asami or Bolin.
00:25:38I think, like, I think if you run with this theory and just immediately always assume
00:25:42it's the Avatar's lover, you're probably goofing up.
00:25:45Right.
00:25:48Like, you're, you're, you're, you're focusing your own Amata normativity onto it.
00:25:52Like, suddenly, here's the thing.
00:25:53It, while it is the case, while it is the case for a lot of people,
00:25:56it's not the case for everyone that their partner is the closest person to them
00:26:01and their biggest priority and their first priority in everything.
00:26:05Everyone's different.
00:26:06Like, I think if you were to apply this theory to Aang, it would be Monk Gyatso.
00:26:11Right.
00:26:16Hmm.
00:26:28Because Gyatso's lesson on the, on, uh, airbending and the Air Nomads and basically
00:26:33Aang's memories of Gyatso and, by extension,
00:26:36the small piece of Air Nomad culture he got to see in his, in his, in his brief lifetime,
00:26:41pretty much form everything about Aang as a character.
00:26:45Hmm.
00:26:47Korra, the other half, then, could be, could be Tenzin.
00:26:49It, like I said, it's going to be different for everyone.
00:26:54You can't take, like, one character, you can't take this concept and just
00:26:58rigidly apply it, apply it in the most rigid sense to everyone.
00:27:02Hmm.
00:27:15Hmm.
00:27:24Open enough for each of us to say it's different characters.
00:27:27Yep.
00:27:29Trying not to, but struggling with it.
00:27:31Yeah.
00:27:33Like, okay, what would Korra, what would Korra's be?
00:27:36I want to say Bolin.
00:27:38Korra and Bolin kind of click and their friendship doesn't have any of the, uh,
00:27:43doesn't really have any of the conflict that she has with other people.
00:27:46Bolin's the one person in the cast Korra is always, is always in sync with.
00:27:55Hmm.
00:28:10Hmm.
00:28:12Hmm.
00:28:25Hmm.
00:28:43Hmm.
00:28:45Bolin was also the first person Korra really met when she went to Republic City.
00:28:51After Tenzin's family.
00:28:53Not going to lie, the concept of reincarnating into an animal high key freaks me out a little.
00:28:57Yeah, I think it, I think it freaks everybody out.
00:29:07Because I don't like the everything in the world is, I don't much care for that theory
00:29:11because I don't like the everything in the world is connected.
00:29:13Are you referring to, like, Miva's theory of, uh, the avatar, uh, of the avatar having another,
00:29:18have a, uh, of the avatar, like having, uh, another half or just,
00:29:24or, uh, Gyatso reincarnating as Momo?
00:29:31Because if it's the latter, I think that theory is just into,
00:29:34the monkey Gyatso was Momo's thing.
00:29:36Oh yeah, that's generally just bored.
00:29:38That's just, that is the, uh, that is the fandom automatic, that is the fandom stock theory.
00:29:45It's basically, like, trying to find the I am your father moment for anything.
00:29:49You ever know, you'll probably notice that.
00:29:51Fan theories always amount to, like, secret twists or secret connections.
00:30:00Yeah.
00:30:02They want the corkboard and string theories.
00:30:04Not what's thematically appropriate.
00:30:26I think it's pretty particular, uh, like Miva's theory works because, like,
00:30:29at, like, taking Sozin and Roku as an example,
00:30:32uh, their friendship falling apart proved to be, uh, to be a very,
00:30:38a very damaging, a very damaging moment for Roku,
00:30:41because Rava is just as hurt by these things,
00:30:44by these relationships breaking down as her avatar is.
00:31:02Like, uh, Sozin was just as much Rava's friend as, uh, as he was Roku's.
00:31:09Gyatsoon is just as much Rava's sister as she was Yang Chen's.
00:31:14Oh.
00:31:31Ah, you too.
00:31:33It's like, okay.
00:31:35Uh, alright.
00:31:37Either stop making political stories if you're gonna just shone in your way out of them,
00:31:41or go ahead and make a political story, but stop being such a goddamn teenager about it.
00:31:45Hmm.
00:32:11Is Rava conscious? Yes!
00:32:13We see Rava speak with people!
00:32:17Mm-hmm.
00:32:19How would you not believe Rava's conscious?
00:32:29Never watched Avatar, who dis?
00:32:31I just assumed it was only in the Avatar.
00:32:33No!
00:32:39It's not like Rava's in stasis.
00:32:43No.
00:32:45Rava talks to people all the time.
00:32:47That's so much more depressing.
00:32:51How?
00:32:53You know what? I'm gonna time you out,
00:32:55because, like, you clearly haven't watched the show,
00:32:57so please stop offering up your opinions.
00:33:01Okay, uh,
00:33:03because what we end up with...
00:33:07Because what we end up with is just...
00:33:09What we end up with is just...
00:33:11Considerably less interesting...
00:33:13Less interesting...
00:33:15Interesting than what you'd been...
00:33:17What you'd been setting up.
00:33:31And it seemed like Brake...
00:33:33It seemed like Brake agreed...
00:33:35Agreed, because there was an entire...
00:33:37Agreed, because the next two seasons...
00:33:39The next two seasons...
00:33:41Because the next two seasons don't do anything like this.
00:33:43Don't do anything like this.
00:33:45There's no bait-and-switch.
00:33:47There's no bait-and-switch.
00:33:49Bait-and-switch. Characters say exactly...
00:33:51Characters say exactly what's going to happen.
00:33:53What's going to happen.
00:33:55Happen, and then it does.
00:33:57And then it does.
00:33:59And it does.
00:34:01And then it does.
00:34:03And then it does.
00:34:05And then it does.
00:34:07And then it does.
00:34:09And then it does.
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00:40:35Of the end of the world, I mean.
00:41:05I thought this was the only reason.
00:41:07Is this Bolin's section?
00:41:09Yes it is.
00:41:15So they shouldn't have done it.
00:41:17Bolin basically, it's like.
00:41:25Out of everyone in the cast.
00:41:27Bolin is tied with Korra.
00:41:29Bolin is tied with Korra.
00:41:31For the most shafted character.
00:41:33For the most shafted character in later seasons.
00:41:35In later seasons.
00:41:37In later seasons.
00:41:39After a very strong opening.
00:41:41After a very strong opening.
00:41:43Where Bolin ends up.
00:41:45Being the most well-rounded character.
00:41:49Well-rounded character in the crew.
00:41:55He gets demoted to comic relief.
00:41:57He gets demoted to comic relief.
00:41:59He gets demoted to comic relief.
00:42:03Half the season is devoted to him getting into an abusive relationship with Cora's cousin, Eska, a cold and brutal woman
00:42:32who brings her brother with her on double dates.
00:42:52The amount of ads on Twitch. Look, it's either a lot of ads every hour or a few ads every ten minutes.
00:42:59Yeah.
00:43:02A cold and brutal woman who brings her brother with her on double dates and sees a partner as synonymous with slut.
00:43:23And sees a partner as synonymous with slave.
00:43:32And hey, if that's your thing, more power to you.
00:43:44More power to you.
00:43:46But the combination of Bolin's very visible distress and every other character practically laughing at his situation is just fucking disgusting.
00:44:05It's just fucking disgusting.
00:44:14Won't yuck your yum, but that's a fr- Won't, uh, hey, I won't yuck your yum, but, um, yuck.
00:44:33You know, I won't yuck your yum, but, uh, yuck.
00:44:38And trauma, but Rava does, and that's sad to me.
00:44:43Especially with it being somewhat of a lonely existence as their separate entity from the avatar and act more as a passive observer.
00:44:49Though I guess Rava isn't human, so.
00:44:51Eh, I don't think it's as passive as you think.
00:44:53They are one. Like, Rava and her avatar are one.
00:45:08Hell, it's right there in the first avatar. We are one.
00:45:14Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
00:45:26Rava's a boring character. I wish they came up with something better.
00:45:28Cool. Anyway, laughing at his situation is just fucking disgusting.
00:45:34Disgusting. And when he gets away from Esca, he just moves on to starring in weirdly racist propaganda films.
00:45:47Propaganda films. You know, you know, like, look.
00:45:54Look, I'm well aware, look, I'm well aware that, aware that films back, back in ye olden days, back in ye olden days generally didn't get, didn't really...
00:46:04Consider something like hiring people from, hiring people from the ethnicities portrayed on screen, portrayed on screen, screen.
00:46:22But this was just a few years, a few years after Avatar itself, itself got in trouble for doing that.
00:46:29In trouble for doing that. Doing that with Water Tribe characters.
00:46:34With Water Tribe characters too.
00:46:36So Nuk-Tuck, Nuk-Tuck, Hero of the South.
00:46:44The South is a little on the nose. A little on the nose. I mean, you did that shit.
00:46:49You did that shit. It's a little on, it's a little on the nose.
00:46:59I don't have, it's like, I don't have much to say about, much to say about Nuk-Tuck beyond that.
00:47:05Beyond that it's a flash Gordon thing.
00:47:10It's a flash Gordon thing, let's just...
00:47:13And that's it. However, it's like, however, as the season starts, as the season starts wrapping up, wrapping up, Bolin really comes into his, Bolin really comes into his, comes into his own as a character.
00:47:27Own, comes into his own as a character. He's a much more, he's a much more powerful earthbender.
00:47:33Hmm, hmm.
00:47:40Try to help Korra with anything, with anything.
00:47:42Hell, he's the only one, he's the only one who really, really, who really resents the fact that, the fact that Team Avatar has effectively broken up.
00:47:59And it being laughed at in the text is, so the show claiming to be mature.
00:48:02Korra's a, Korra's a, Korra's a teenage show, not a kid's show.
00:48:07Korra's intended for teenagers.
00:48:09Right.
00:48:16Korra is degrassi.
00:48:33He's the only one who really resents the fact that Team Avatar has effectively broken up, and when it's time to fight...
00:48:44He gives, when it's time to fight, he gives it his all.
00:48:52Korra's captured, showing an emphatic desire to find her that exists solely to fuel this insuff, this insufferably love triangle, insufferable love triangle.
00:49:01Insuh, this insufferable love triangle.
00:49:05And you'd think after, and you'd think after them get, after them getting together in the end, after them getting together in the end, in the end that she would, that, that this would all be over, would all be over.
00:49:17But it seems like, but it seems that Brake, Brake is incapable of actually writ, of actually writing relationships.
00:49:27Writing relationships, rela, relationships.
00:49:29Again, again, Season 1 was made, was made under the belief, the belief it would be the only one.
00:49:37It would be the only one.
00:49:38So basically, so going into Season 2, Season, Season 2, so going into Season 2, the writers start, the writers start hitting the reset button.
00:49:50Reset button immediately.
00:49:51Hitting the reset button immediately.
00:49:53Cora and Mako are at each other's throats, constantly at each other's throats in the most contrived ways possible.
00:50:05Possible. Hang on a second.
00:50:14Do an edit of like Mako misspeaking in the early, in the early episodes and Cora storming off.
00:50:20This episode is brought to you by men.
00:50:23We don't know what we did.
00:50:27Oh no.
00:50:32Don't know what we did.
00:50:33Don't know what we did.
00:50:37And later on, Mako, Mako just arbit, Mako arbitrarily, arbitrarily to arbitrarily takes stances against anything Cora is doing.
00:50:48Anything Cora is doing, rather doing, rather tokenly as well.
00:50:54Rather tokenly as well.
00:50:55Well, he's just made to be, he's just made to be this, to be this unrelenting douchebag for pretty much no reason.
00:51:04Pretty much no reason. No reason.
00:51:08Mako in season, season one Mako basically, season one Mako certainly was a, something of a jackass, jackass.
00:51:16But he wouldn't basically jackass, but I can't see, but I can't see season one Mako, Mako taking advantage.
00:51:23Taking advantage, advantage of, advantage of someone's amnesia, amnesia to take back a breakup, breakup like an evil, like an evil inverse, like an evil inverse Maxwell Sheffield.
00:51:47Like an evil inverse Maxwell Sheffield.
00:51:54The love triangle shit comes right back, shit comes right back, comes right back as, back as Cora and Mako, Mako breakup, breakup.
00:52:02He, he fucks around with Asami.
00:52:06Asami takes the breakup back, back when Cora, when Cora loses her memory, memory pissing off Asami.
00:52:15Asami, the only satisfying payoff, payoff to any of this is at the end, is at the end when, when they both break up amicably.
00:52:35Squabbling wasn't absurdly one-sided.
00:52:46Season of bickering and squabbling wasn't absurdly one-sided.
00:52:49I don't know what the writer, I don't know why, like the writers just don't seem to know what to do with Mako.
00:52:58Seem to know what to do with, what to do with Mako as he,
00:53:04what to do with Mako as he,
00:53:11Mako, and they seemingly make him, seemingly make him a cop for no, make him a cop for no other reason than,
00:53:21and they seemingly make him a cop for no other reason than just,
00:53:25than just, well, than just the bad boy, the bad boy to good cop pipeline, I guess.
00:53:35I mean, him being a private eye could have been cool.
00:53:45I mean, he could have been a private, he could have been a private eye, he could have been, I mean, he could have been a private eye, he could have been,
00:53:54hmm.
00:54:02It's like he could have been any, any, anything, but basically anything, but the plot needs, but the plot needs, but the plot needs to, needs to have some
00:54:12mystery regarding, regarding Varric and Varric and the false flag attacks,
00:54:18attacks to solve, and Mako just, and Mako is made a cop, is made a cop just to, just so he can do that.
00:54:26Is made a cop just so he can do that. I don't know if he even continued being a cop in the next season.
00:54:34They just threw him where, they just, they just threw him wherever.
00:54:39Thanks for that, I'll call this back.
00:54:42Wherever he could cause the most crap, crap for other characters. They just threw him wherever he could cause the most crap for other characters.
00:55:06Could have been a private eye, he could have been a fucking journalist.
00:55:11Could have been a reporter, he could have been anything, but the plot needs to have some mystery of Varric and the false flags attacks to solve,
00:55:16and Mako is made a cop just so he can do that with, just so he can do that without, like, just so he can do that, do that.
00:55:22They just threw him wherever he could cause the most crap for other characters.
00:55:35Love Triangle because of the aforementioned problem of Bryke being really weird about women.
00:55:42Bryke being weird about women.
00:55:44Asami isn't really, Asami isn't in Season 2 a whole lot. Season 2 a whole lot.
00:55:50A whole lot, there's a plot, there's a subplot about, about her trying to get Future in.
00:55:59Off the ground, off the ground, but, but, but, but every single avenue she uses to do that, uses to do that just gets...
00:56:12Just gets no-celled immediately, immediately.
00:56:16Huh, sell mechatanks to the...
00:56:23Selling mechatanks to the southerners.
00:56:31But did you like to gr...
00:56:33I'm sorry for going off topic.
00:56:35Look, if you're going to apologize preemptively for going off topic, you should probably take that as a sign to not go off topic.
00:56:44Contain yourself.
00:56:48No restraint.
00:57:05No restraint.
00:57:09No restraint.
00:57:15No restraint.
00:57:21No restraint.
00:57:29No restraint.
00:57:35No restraint.
00:57:47No restraint.
00:58:05Hm.
00:58:27Hm.
00:58:35Hm.
00:59:06Hm.
00:59:14Uh, that, that subplot beginning with, uh...
00:59:18Bolin and Asami meeting with Varric.
00:59:21When I was just a wee mckay.
00:59:24When I was still in my egg.
00:59:26I thought that was, uh, I thought that was the show setting up an Asami-Bolin romance.
00:59:35Hm.
00:59:41Hm.
00:59:45Me too!
01:00:01It would have been cute, I'll give it that.
01:00:06Would have been quite cute.
01:00:12Oh sure, they're about to pair the spare.
01:00:16That's a horrible way to put it, but...
01:00:18One second.
01:00:20Hm.
01:00:34Ah.
01:00:36Hm.
01:01:06Ultimately it ends up being Varric.
01:01:08Varric, but how this, but how this affects future industries is ultimately...
01:01:14Industries is left into, is left...
01:01:17Is left up in the air until, uh, until Season 3.
01:01:21So...
01:01:23Without the love triangle, Asami's just...
01:01:25Not even there.
01:01:29And this doesn't, and this doesn't change in future...
01:01:32In future seasons. And this doesn't change in future seasons.
01:01:35Asami's largely on the per-
01:01:37Largely on the per-
01:01:38Largely on the sidelines.
01:01:40On the sidelines, giving, uh...
01:01:42Giving the crew expensive equipment.
01:01:48Crew expen- giving the crew expensive equipment.
01:01:50And in Season 2...
01:01:52And in- I'm sorry.
01:01:53And in Season 4 is the, uh, is the one Korra is writing letters to.
01:02:00Instead of everyone else.
01:02:02Like Korra's attraction to, uh...
01:02:08Mako, her relationship with Asami basically comes up-
01:02:11Just popped up- just popped up out of the blue one day.
01:02:14Out of the blue one da- out of the blue one day.
01:02:16And that's largely because...
01:02:18And that's largely beca-
01:02:20And that's largely beca-
01:02:22Because the exhaustion with the love triangle...
01:02:28Triangle in Season 1...
01:02:32Season 1 led a lot of people...
01:02:34People to ship Korrasami.
01:02:36Korrasami, which was-
01:02:38Which was accepted right from the get-go.
01:02:40Which was accepted right from the, uh, right from the word go.
01:02:43Go as a crack ship, because they fuck- they just wouldn't.
01:02:47As a crack ship, because there's no way they would.
01:02:53Would. At least until-
01:02:54At least until the 11th hour.
01:02:5611th hour when Bryke went...
01:02:58When Bryke went...
01:03:00Hey, let's just-
01:03:02Hey, let's just do it.
01:03:04Hey, let's just do it.
01:03:05And then they did. Kind of.
01:03:06And then they did.
01:03:08And then they did. Kind of.
01:03:10Kind of.
01:03:11There's a lot of myth-making-
01:03:12There's a lot of myth-making, basically, about...
01:03:15About how Bryke was supposedly-
01:03:17Bryke was planning this from the start.
01:03:20From the start, and Nickelodeon...
01:03:23Nickelodeon pulled the show, uh...
01:03:27From air onto streaming.
01:03:31Because of the LGBT themes.
01:03:35But, like, the show had no LGBT themes.
01:03:39Themes.
01:03:40Bryke basically admitted-
01:03:41Bryke admitted it was a last-minute decision.
01:03:43It was a last-minute decision.
01:03:45Last-minute decision.
01:03:47And if Nickelodeon...
01:03:49Nickelodeon had, uh...
01:03:51Had such an issue with it...
01:03:54And if Nickelodeon had such an issue with it...
01:03:56With it, they would've just-
01:03:58They would've just-
01:03:59They would've said-
01:04:00They would've just...
01:04:02Told them no.
01:04:03They would've just told them no.
01:04:05Not...
01:04:06Not pull some weird-
01:04:08Some weird, passive-aggressive, mean-girl shit.
01:04:14I don't know how you'd, like-
01:04:15It's always weird, it's like-
01:04:16Oh, there's a secret conspiracy to stifle the LGBT themes in this show!
01:04:21Girl! They're the fucking studio!
01:04:23They could just say no!
01:04:24If they wanted to get rid of it that badly, they could just say no!
01:04:31Oh, the studio was actively against there being gay characters in Korra.
01:04:36Did Korra and Asami get together at the end?
01:04:38Yes.
01:04:39Did it air?
01:04:40Yes.
01:04:41Is it canon to the series?
01:04:42Yes.
01:04:43Then they didn't!
01:04:55Well, the funny thing is, studios do have a lot of power.
01:04:57Which is why these conspiracy theories make-
01:05:00Conspiracy theories break down in the face of simple logic.
01:05:03I.e., why would Nickelodeon pull the show onto-
01:05:06Pull the show from broadcast TV onto the airway-
01:05:12Onto streaming?
01:05:14To stifle LGBT content, when they could've just murdered the LGBT content in the crib.
01:05:22Yeah.
01:05:23It was 2013.
01:05:24It was 2013.
01:05:25They wouldn't be facing a shitload of backlash.
01:05:31Mean girl shit.
01:05:32Like, it was 2013.
01:05:33It was 2013.
01:05:34They wouldn't have faced-
01:05:35They wouldn't have faced a lot of backlash for basically just going-
01:05:39A backlash for going,
01:05:40Yeah, no, fuck you.
01:05:41Yeah, no, don't do that.
01:05:42Yeah, no, you can't do that.
01:05:45It was 2013.
01:05:46They wouldn't have faced a lot of backlash for going,
01:05:48Yeah, no, you can't do that.
01:05:49Most of these conspiracy theories just constantly break down.
01:05:54Theories break down in the face of simple logic.
01:05:59Simple logic like this.
01:06:05Can't bring your logic and facts in here.
01:06:08Like I said, I keep coming back to Voltron,
01:06:10Where basically they really fucked up the gay rep,
01:06:13And then basically people were going,
01:06:15Oh, blame Dreamworks, it's the studio's fault.
01:06:17Blame Dreamworks.
01:06:18And then Dreamworks came out and said,
01:06:20We told them specifically not to do it this way.
01:06:23We had fucking consultants specifically for this,
01:06:27And they didn't listen to them.
01:06:29They did whatever they want.
01:06:35Like, yeah, no studio has to dance around any issue.
01:06:40They can just do whatever the fuck they want.
01:06:42There is never a situa-
01:06:44Like, there is never a situa-
01:06:46Like, there is never a situation
01:06:48Where a studio is going to be doing this, like,
01:06:50Weird, behind-the-scenes Machiavellian plot.
01:06:53It's either they let it air, or they don't.
01:06:57And if they let it air, they let it air without cuts.
01:07:01It's kind of like when people say, like,
01:07:03Oh, uh, She-Ra had to resort to subterfuge.
01:07:06Like, uh, I think Nate-
01:07:08Nate Spaces said that, uh,
01:07:10She had to- she had to do everything subtly,
01:07:12And get the story to a point where, like,
01:07:14It's like, you know,
01:07:16It's like, you know,
01:07:18It's like, you know,
01:07:20It's like, you know,
01:07:22It's like, you know,
01:07:24It's like, you know,
01:07:26It's like, you know,
01:07:28It's like, you know,
01:07:30It's like, you know,
01:07:32It's like, you know,
01:07:34It's like, you know,
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01:09:44It's like, you know,
01:09:46It's like, you know,
01:09:48Especially when you-
01:09:50Especially when you can- Oh, hang on a second.
01:10:04Especially when it's a lot more fun to basically
01:10:06describe She-Ra as basically saying
01:10:08codependent cat girl incest
01:10:10to the rhythm of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
01:10:14One, two, three,
01:10:16four, codependent cat girl incest.
01:10:24That's terrible and I love it.
01:10:36A studio doesn't have to dance around
01:10:38an issue like this. If it aired and made it
01:10:40into the show, the studio signed off on it.
01:10:42And that's really
01:10:44where Asami's character
01:10:46ends.
01:10:48Character ends.
01:10:50Ends. Her existence,
01:10:52like, hell, she was
01:10:54supposed to be a mole.
01:10:56A mole for the Equalists.
01:10:58Equalists?
01:11:00But Brake liked her chara-
01:11:02But Brake liked
01:11:04her so much
01:11:06they kept
01:11:08her in as an
01:11:10ally, but after
01:11:12that point
01:11:14there really was nothing
01:11:16to do with her.
01:11:22And after that point
01:11:24there really was nothing to do with her.
01:11:26Like, I'm actually surprised
01:11:28at how much
01:11:30of a
01:11:32non-entity
01:11:34Asami actually is.
01:11:42Unlock done.
01:11:44That's that done.
01:11:50Excellent character in season one,
01:11:52backslides horribly in season two. Becomes more
01:11:54impulsive, more childish, more dismissive of everyone
01:11:56around her, and snaps at her boyfriend over nothing.
01:11:58And this is because it's setting her up to take a fall
01:12:00for trusting Unlock in the second act reveal
01:12:02that, after the second act reveal, that he's actually
01:12:04a bending Satanist. Before this point,
01:12:06before this point, ironic
01:12:08point, like, before this point
01:12:10Korra is spending
01:12:12most of the season
01:12:14battling against
01:12:16people who just
01:12:18won't let her
01:12:20actually be the avatar
01:12:22and her uncle
01:12:26ends up being one of the few people
01:12:28who
01:12:30respects her
01:12:32as the avatar.
01:12:40Korra actually starts coming
01:12:42into her own
01:12:44because of this
01:12:46and is even able
01:12:48to
01:12:50de-escalate
01:12:52the war
01:12:54between the North and the South
01:12:56multiple times
01:12:58multiple times
01:13:00multiple times
01:13:02multiple times
01:13:04multiple times
01:13:06multiple times
01:13:08multiple times
01:13:10times. But all this gets
01:13:12all this gets thrown away, this gets thrown
01:13:14away
01:13:18when it's revealed Unlock
01:13:20when it's revealed
01:13:22she had just
01:13:24played completely into
01:13:26into Unlock's
01:13:28hands
01:13:30hands. So Korra actually
01:13:32Korra actually being the
01:13:34avatar and being good at it
01:13:36good at it is immediately
01:13:38recontextualized into her being a rube
01:13:46into her being a
01:13:48rube
01:13:56and retroactively
01:13:58justifying the behavior of everyone
01:14:00of everyone who was
01:14:02smothering her
01:14:04talking and talking over her
01:14:06it's like weirdly fucking misogynistic
01:14:34and she gets
01:14:36re-contextualized
01:14:38and she gets
01:14:40re-contextualized
01:14:42into her being a rube and retroactively
01:14:44into her being a rube and retroactively
01:14:46the behavior of everyone who was smothering her
01:14:48and talking over her
01:14:50push back
01:14:52push back
01:14:54against the stifling
01:14:56against the stifling
01:14:58against the
01:15:00men around her
01:15:02men around her, men around her, and is immediately made the fool for doing so.
01:15:10Doing so.
01:15:11God, this is frustrating. God, this is fucking frustrating.
01:15:14Like, can we stop, like, can we stop babying this woman?
01:15:44Babying this woman.
01:15:47Woman, like, Korra wants to be the avatar, wants to be the avatar. Let her be the avatar.
01:15:54Let her be the avatar. Get this fucking ball,
01:15:56get these fucking balls and chains off her fucking ankles.
01:16:08Let her be the avatar.
01:16:09Korra is constantly being sidelined in her own fucking story.
01:16:16In her own story. In her own story.
01:16:19Hell, it's like...
01:16:22Hell, you know how when Aang is fighting Ozai and he gets knocked...
01:16:31Warfed, and he gets warfed at one point, one point, only to, uh...
01:16:43Into the avatar state, and then it's just, and then it's game over, and then it's game over,
01:16:48victory Aang.
01:16:49Aang, well, that, well, Korra, it's like...
01:16:53Multiple times, times in, in fight scenes in, in season two, two.
01:16:59Korra will go into the avatar state, avatar state, avatar state, make some declaration...
01:17:10Of victory.
01:17:11The music hits that crescendo, hits that crescent, crescendo,
01:17:15crescendo, and she gets warped immediately.
01:17:17She gets warped almost immediately.
01:17:22Immediately.
01:17:23And this repeats multiple fucking times, and this repeats multiple times.
01:17:28Multiple times before the plot, before the plot says,
01:17:31plot says, okay, time to, okay, time for the main character to win now.
01:17:40So Korra will pull off, so Korra will pull off something,
01:17:44pull off something visually spectacular, spectacular.
01:17:47Get fucking, get pounded into mulch, mulch, and do it, mulch, do it again, do it again,
01:17:56do it again, get, get mulched again, get mulched again, and then the third time's a fucking charm.
01:18:03Third time, and then the third time's a charm.
01:18:05Like, this feels like, like, putting aside the fact that it's not fun,
01:18:09just watching that happen multiple times as you realize,
01:18:12as you realize, oh shit, we wrote 10 episodes of story, but it's 14 episodes.
01:18:18Actually, hang on, one second, let me check here.
01:18:27Shows, Legend of Korra, so let's see, book one, 12 episodes,
01:18:36book three, 13 episodes, book four, come on, 13 episodes, and book two is 14.
01:18:56The third time's a charm, like, how many times is Korra gonna go into the avatar state plus one?
01:19:04Like, third time's a charm, hell, she still gets mur, hell,
01:19:09she pulls off one of the most, pulls uh, pulls off the most impressive feat imaginable,
01:19:15imaginable, imaginable, by basically fighting, imaginable, by fighting Unalaq,
01:19:20by fighting Unalaq with her own spirit without the avatar spirit.
01:19:26Spirit, and she still gets murked, murked, and has to fuck, and has to be saved by Jinora.
01:19:33Saved by Jinora, just to do, just to do the exact same thing,
01:19:39same thing she just failed to do, to do, only succeed this time.
01:19:46Succeed this time, this is the fucking action scene equivalent of stalling.
01:19:57I'm gonna be saved by Jinora just to do the exact same thing she just failed to do,
01:20:08to do, only succeed this time, this time. See, the problem is, the problem is that,
01:20:12is, the problem is that the visual and audio cues, and audio cues basically scream,
01:20:19scream, shit's about to get real, to get real, and then it just, real, and in this,
01:20:24and in this fight against, against Unalaq in particular, in particular, they just do it
01:20:31seven times, they just do it multiple times, they just do it multiple times.
01:20:54Hack writers think tension and difficulty in combat works, talk big game, get clapped,
01:21:03run face into wall, boss just falls over. This is like a boss fight where you knock
01:21:07down its health bar, and then it's like, it just heals back to full for its secret second phase.
01:21:24One, one, one.
01:21:38One, one.
01:22:00You can almost hear a record scratch every time, scratch every time, you know,
01:22:05every time Cora pulls out, pulls out the, oh shit, pulls out the, oh shit, I mean business,
01:22:14I mean, oh shit, I mean business power, and then fucking, and then gets crunched.
01:22:26Let's, I just realized that you two, uh, can only, uh, only see Neva.
01:22:35I mean, I've been following along.
01:22:39Far from a problem, Neva looks lovely.
01:22:47Let's see, uh,
01:23:05here we go.
01:23:18Come on, come over here.
01:23:29Played a role in how Cora was brutalized, colorism and misogyny.
01:23:35Let's get to this point.
01:23:51It's like, so why is Cora treated this way?
01:23:53Why is Cora like weird?
01:23:55Why is Cora, despite wanting to be the avatar and putting her all into it,
01:23:59weirdly incapable of doing so, uh, colorism and misogyny.
01:24:02Anyway, next question.
01:24:03It's colorism and misogyny.
01:24:04Anyway, moving on to the villains.
01:24:11Cora's Inuit, uh, coded with the freight.
01:24:13Would the term misogynoir be appropriate here, or is that just for black women?
01:24:19Let me check.
01:24:24It's specific to black women.
01:24:26Okay, just checking.
01:24:32It was a fair question.
01:24:34So,
01:25:04so,
01:25:32there we go.
01:25:34So,
01:26:05so,
01:26:10you cannot win.
01:26:34So,
01:27:04so,
01:27:25hmm, I've seen some, uh, I've seen, uh, some black women use it for non-black women of color
01:27:33who are dark-skinned, but that's more, uh, case by case.
01:27:35Yeah, I'll just err on the safe side and not.
01:28:02So,
01:28:32so,
01:28:49no, and then just gets crunched like
01:28:55montage.
01:28:56Bryke, stop playing just the tip with the audience.
01:29:05With the audience, I get you have 14 episodes.
01:29:07You have 14 episodes, and basically you have 14 episodes and not enough story for it.
01:29:13So, you have to pad the fight scenes, pad the fight scenes, fight scenes,
01:29:17but it was your idea, but you were the one who, you were the one who,
01:29:21one who chose to go, go with energy, bend with, uh, with the energy bending,
01:29:27energy bending Satan kite.
01:29:31But it was your, you're the one who chose to go with the energy bending Satan kite.
01:29:36Pending, oh, hang on.
01:29:37Energy bend monomyth with the monomyth energy bending Satan kite.
01:29:41So, like, okay, so maybe stop making problems.
01:29:46Stop making shitty rules for yourself.
01:29:48Stop making problems for yourself.
01:29:52So,
01:29:57and ultimately at the end of season two, at the end of season two,
01:30:00season two core concludes, concludes, you know, maybe, maybe I should leave the portals open.
01:30:07Portals open, open, and we should, and we should live with live in harmony with the spirits,
01:30:13spirits.
01:30:15So, what was all this for?
01:30:17So, what was the point of all this?
01:30:21All of this?
01:30:22If you were just going to
01:30:31fight, fight scenes, but this whole operation was your idea.
01:30:36So, what was the point of all this?
01:30:38If you were just going to get, just going to, if you were just going to like
01:30:41stick to the best, stick to the villain's original plan in the first place.
01:30:51This entire operation was your idea.
01:31:05Oh, man, I love that clip.
01:31:07This is always the problem with villains who have a,
01:31:10with villains who are characterized as having a point.
01:31:12People say, oh, the best villains are the ones who kind of have a point.
01:31:15If you have a point, you ain't a villain, honey.
01:31:22Uh, where did I, where did I actually put that?
01:31:37Season two, season two's biggest, most critical flaw,
01:31:41critical flaw is one most, is one most people,
01:31:47people would, would utterly refuse to recognize.
01:31:52Recognize that it needed, that it feel, that it feels like it needs,
01:31:57it needs to have a villain to have a villain.
01:32:01This story could have based it.
01:32:03This story could have based, this story could have been done,
01:32:05could have been done without one.
01:32:16This story could have been done without one where,
01:32:19where things are, are just complicated and messy, messy.
01:32:24And basic, and both, and both chieftain, chieftain brothers are basic,
01:32:28and both chieftain brothers are animosity and stubbornness,
01:32:34stubbornness escalate, escalate matters, matters.
01:32:40But because, but because, but because, but because the,
01:32:44but because the prevailing attitude at, attitude at the time,
01:32:49at the time were that villains were, villains were utterly, utterly crucial to every story,
01:32:55to every story that ever exists, ever.
01:33:00And are the real, and are the real protagonists, protagonists,
01:33:06it ulta, it shot itself in the foot, it shot itself in the foot.
01:33:10Linked crucial to every story that ever exists and are the real protagonists,
01:33:13it shot itself in the foot.
01:33:39Even today, even today media discourse is utterly fixated, utterly fixated on villains,
01:33:51on villains, villains to the extent, to the,
01:33:58to the detriment of everything else, else.
01:34:02Look, villains are great when they fit, when they fit.
01:34:07Villains are great when they fit, but if a story would be better served,
01:34:11would be better served without one, without a villain.
01:34:15But if a story would be better served without a villain, without a villain,
01:34:19then forcing one in, one in, out of, out of a sense of, out of a sense of.
01:34:27Out of a sense of obligation, obligation is only going to,
01:34:32is only going to make the story worse,
01:34:33make the story worse case in point Cora case in point the legend of Cora Cora
01:34:44there is not a sick there is not a single season in this show show where
01:34:50the fact that they that they need a villain at with a fact that they feel
01:34:57obligated obligated to have a villain doesn't ruin the story in some way in
01:35:05some way and we're gonna get right into that and there we go
01:35:12oh god remember when okay so I'm gonna take about a 10-minute break so I'll be
01:35:37back I'll be back when the next ad break is over okay
01:36:07you just let the blood from her faces she said I'll be back when you least
01:36:19expect it
01:36:22I was coming with
01:36:37there is a hill at the bottom of the valley where all the poor souls go when
01:37:02they die and if you listen real close you can hear like a ghost saying you're
01:37:08never gonna make it out alive there is a town at the bottom of that hill they
01:37:17got a secret that they keep like say they've got a black magic creature we do
01:37:23teacher you'll be heading up that hill to the grave and it is well with my soul
01:37:31you lock your pockets full of money that you steal from the poor and on your way
01:37:36down the hill you'd hear me ring that bell I paid the devil twice as much to
01:37:41keep your soul
01:37:44there was a drifter passing through that little valley see she had promised she
01:37:53was coming back to town they didn't know it by her face or by the gun around her
01:37:59waist but she'd come back to burn this town to the ground first there was fire
01:38:06then there was smoke and then that preacher man was hanging by a rope and
01:38:12and then they off up to their knees and beg that drifter beg to please as she
01:38:17raised her fist before she spoke I am the righteous hand of God and I am the
01:38:24devil that you forgot and I told you one day you will see that I'll be back I'll
01:38:30guarantee and that hell's coming, hell's coming, hell, hell's coming with me
01:38:42and it is well with my soul you lock your pockets full of money that you steal from the poor and on your way down the hill you'd hear me ring that bell and I said
01:39:09Hell's coming, hell's coming with me