Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-82.71.28.217-20120813150821

I almost find it a shame how Hama was a villain. Her escape story - however warped - was so unsettling and empowering at the same time that I feel more could have been done with it. Bloodbending should always be a sick and questionable method of bending, but it would have been really intriguing had Bryke made her less of an outright menace. That's why it was so intense when Katara willingly used it on the man she thought killed her mother - it came down not to maddened sadism, but to the deepest kind of rage imaginable. Katara's use of it highlighted the temptation of the technique - the need for absolute power and destruction - and made it painfully human.