Overanalyzing Avatar: The Ember Island Players (Link in description if player isn't working)
Added 2022-01-11 20:28:25 +0000 UTChttps://vimeo.com/664578939/e544c5c63e
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This is the second mention of streams that I've seen. Does that mean this "premiere" feature of YouTube or have I been missing something all this time?
Fabian Röling
2022-02-06 05:12:37 +0000 UTCYeah, some sayings are really messed up… https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stick_a_needle_in_my_eye
Fabian Röling
2022-02-06 05:10:51 +0000 UTCbit of a stretch but maybe the whole yue moon thing and the consistent full moon is some type of thing on yue is watching over them and their journey? and when its not full she isn't, and somehow only we can see it as the audience on some spirit world type something? idk man, wait, there was bad moon continuity before she became the moon too wasn't there, shit. nevermind man
Heath Colon
2022-01-27 02:48:34 +0000 UTCCan I just say that when he said about people saying it was a waste of time, I had just come out of netflix and it was doing a cycle of shows and whatnot and the live action movie came up XD
Sourprize
2022-01-25 04:44:11 +0000 UTCThe play in this is almost scene for scene the live-action movie
GooseTaCacho
2022-01-24 23:05:18 +0000 UTCokay so I think the drill being boring is a wordplay joke, as in the drill is literally "boring" a hole in the walls of Ba Sing Se
Hank Olstead
2022-01-21 05:26:41 +0000 UTCassault lmao
Woboggun
2022-01-21 02:16:32 +0000 UTCTo me this episode is basically just pure filler and cringe with an added Aang assaults Katara moment sprinkled on top, i legit had a tough time watching it for the first time and never watched it since then.
Cyniex
2022-01-20 12:14:22 +0000 UTCAlso azula didn’t hit Iroh in the play bc propaganda
Colin Balzer
2022-01-20 07:41:48 +0000 UTCSo, watching this after reading The Search made me realize something else... Zuko's mother took him to "Love Amongst the Dragons" because that was her show. That was the show where the royal family came and took her away before she could perform with her lover. Holy shit.
Keegan Scott
2022-01-20 03:31:33 +0000 UTCEvery stream he makes people keep asking for Korra, every time he sees it, he responds "every time you ask it gets less likely" or something like that, stop asking if you want it.
Cyniex
2022-01-18 19:32:14 +0000 UTCDear god I forgot how much I enjoy these. Hopefully you'll consider doing Korra after you've done the finale.
Nikolai Nyborg
2022-01-18 17:00:18 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite episodes of the series. It's a super fun and unique way to do a recap while also poking some fun at yourself along the way. Especially since the next episodes are extremely high stakes finale episodes. The only parts I don't love are Sokka and Suki going backstage and having the Sokka actor just decide to adlib a few random jokes. And the yawning scene from the audience they just never really fit for me on the feel of what an actual play would be like. Love the content!
Brett Anderson
2022-01-18 07:38:15 +0000 UTChey, awesome video as always! for the record my discord is croakenby#7805 - i was told to comment on the latest video here!
Griffin
2022-01-17 20:42:19 +0000 UTCI was raised with "more than one way to skin a rabbit."
Charles Barnett
2022-01-16 03:16:30 +0000 UTCNew Patreon here. Great points in the comment section such as Aang mentioning his chakra block to remind viewers before the final and people yawning cuz it's BORE-ring. Are these videos final edit or do you sometimes add such great observations to the youtube vid, when mentioned in the Patreon comments?
Sigurd Lund Boytang
2022-01-16 01:58:32 +0000 UTCI think it comes from the expression "there's more than one way to skin a cat", meaning there's different ways to accomplish the same goal
Hunter Spears
2022-01-15 23:22:57 +0000 UTCSo I dont wanna be that guy but maybe saying one of your patrons knows every way to skin a cat is maybe not the best? lol
Tyler0988
2022-01-15 15:52:29 +0000 UTCAs far as recap episodes go, I think this one was really well done. Not my favorite but it’s still good.
Josie Tiffany
2022-01-14 09:48:00 +0000 UTCThanks! It definitely took me a couple of watches before that clicked for me haha. Love the series man, can’t wait to see what you come up with next!
ZoSo127
2022-01-14 03:07:14 +0000 UTCOmg I was not prepared for the running staff joke, that really got me
Fierce
2022-01-13 22:47:18 +0000 UTCThat's actually a really good point and I never took that line that way for some reason. But now that you say that, that's probably exactly what they meant with it.
complete cannon
2022-01-13 20:09:18 +0000 UTCOh dammmmn really? It’s weird bc there’s a group who did like parody of Atla that was like “Book 1, then 2 and then 3” in a nutshell and they echoed the idea that the drill episode was dull - which kind of irked me tbh bc that episode is excellent imo.
Fingael Karn
2022-01-13 13:35:00 +0000 UTCHello, Thomas here
Thomas Dell
2022-01-13 08:43:41 +0000 UTCGood point as far as the practical “use” for that line goes. As far as the line itself, I’ve always taken that as Aang saying he’s so upset over the play’s depiction of his and Katara’s relationship that if he could still go into the Avatar state, it would have been triggered. Sort of his way of hinting towards how much weight it carries for him. “You think I’m overreacting now? I’d have lost control like I did when I found out about Gyatso if I could.” Maybe not the writers’ intention, but it’s the only way I’ve been able to contextualize the line so it’s not just totally out of the blue.
ZoSo127
2022-01-13 07:22:33 +0000 UTCNoooo.. you skipped me in the credit compliments.. :(
daniel ward
2022-01-13 03:38:22 +0000 UTC“And there goes the staff”. IT’S BEEN SO LONG!
Christian Spatz
2022-01-13 02:55:51 +0000 UTCi just have to say i look forward to your videos every week :)
matthew james Stromberg
2022-01-13 00:13:36 +0000 UTCI was figured that aang mentions his chakra in that scene to remind people for the finale
Piemaster74
2022-01-12 20:43:40 +0000 UTCRIP Lizards
Nikita Georgiev
2022-01-12 20:12:40 +0000 UTCRecap episodes have always bothered me in shows like these, even if they are meant to be fun and never to be taken to seriously, I just don't like them because they always feel kind of shoehorned in last minute most of the time. I have always liked how Toph and Zuko get a moment this episode though
Wolffe
2022-01-12 11:28:12 +0000 UTCThere is a theory that the playwright of "The Boy in the Iceberg" is actually an avatar sympathizer. The whole play is set up to make the fire nation and Ozai look like the antagonist, but still needed to be a propaganda film, and that's why it ends the way it does. I think Pu-On Tim is even from the earth kingdom.
mwarrior777
2022-01-12 04:29:44 +0000 UTCThats great love this
Ryan Shaw
2022-01-12 01:52:29 +0000 UTCI'm amazed I got this joke and you didn't, but they showed people yawning during the drill was because it was Bore - ing. Not just boring, it was a huge BORE! Ha, Soka humor at its finest.
Shawn McAteer
2022-01-12 01:19:46 +0000 UTCFunny thing, the "hair too long" joke is actually kinda what happened. I believe Nickelodeon told Avatar writers and producers that Zuko's hair was "getting out of hand" in "The Beach". That was in fact as long as Zuko's hair would get, after that they made it shorter and it never grew past that.
NE R
2022-01-11 22:00:49 +0000 UTCAfter watching this, I just realized the little Aang that talks to Zuko is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen
Rolling Thundercat
2022-01-11 21:53:43 +0000 UTCI usually skip this episode. But it’s worth watching ya know?
Skylar Lee Mills
2022-01-11 21:41:55 +0000 UTCThis episode has always bothered me. The play has too much detail. How would anyone know how Aang came out of the ice? How about their conversations in the air?
the8thgear
2022-01-11 21:41:09 +0000 UTCThis is honestly one of my favorite episodes in the whole show. I hope the Netflix live action takes the Fandom advice and used the "movie that we don't speak of" actors and have them play the ember island players
Adrianna
2022-01-11 21:01:57 +0000 UTCThe "he's right!" bits get me every single time.
Snarfield
2022-01-11 20:52:09 +0000 UTCYue really do be on that monthly cycle tho
Dr. Diabeto
2022-01-11 20:47:24 +0000 UTCaaaaahhh here we goooo, analysis of avatars own overanalyzing episode
Berkay Öztürk
2022-01-11 20:30:33 +0000 UTCOh man ive been looking forward to this one
Marcus Davis
2022-01-11 20:29:17 +0000 UTC
