Uhhh assorted thoughts about 'The Puppetmaster' because the Black Sun posts are gonna take a backseat while I deal with Real Life Things:
So. Hama did have a hobby, right? Otherwise why would she have those puppets in her closet? Unless she was somehow soaking them in water and using them to practice bloodbending??
My god. What a hard-hitting portrayal of the atrocities of the FN. The prison. The abduction, the destruction of your home and the dehumanisation and the way the number of waterbenders fighting alongside Hama kept dwindling and dwindling and dwindling...
Subtle contrast with NWT because we see women actively taking part in combat and defense!
Hama teaching Katara (and Katara later implementing) the method of wringing water from plants and the air itself was cool af
I. I don't know how to feel about Hama being marched away with the threat of being locked up forever again. That can't be how her story ends, right? I have a feeling she's gonna return in some way. There's a ton to explore and she would be an interesting eventual-addition to the team, especially with regard to Katara.
How did Hama even find that underground prison??
I don't know just... how to explain it. but this episode just really affected me in a different way. Something about the feeling of irretrievably losing connection to pieces of your culture due to a systematic erasure of it, not knowing if you'll ever find a way to learn. and then you get that chance from an elder (possibly your last chance) and you empathise with them, but you know they've been through unimaginable horrors and are forever changed and their lessons warped and broken because of it. and there's so much grief there, and so much anger and bitterness and tar trickling through the generations because of what was done, the whole snarl of muddled emotions sitting in your gut as you try to stave off the lesson but can't help but perform anyway... idk man. i just. *sigh*
gosh hama the character that you are
