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All that is in Episode 1 of the podcast.
This is the last anonymous question pertaining to our qualifications and pronunciations that I will post. There’s nothing more I feel I can say to communicate to everyone that we feel bad when we do it, but try to get the podcast out the same day as the episode airs. We really want to talk about the show and if one of us slips and says Ohng over Aang, it’s because we were all working film journalists during The Last Airbender, not that we don’t know who the character is or don’t care that there IS a proper way to pronounce it.
In an e-mail below, Zoey corrects our pronunciation in a very polite way that I respond to. (Never underestimate “hahaha!”)
No hard feelings Anonymous Dude! We’re just fans of the series that know a bit about podcasting and more than a bit about how visual storytelling works. We’re NOT haters. We’re still reading all of our correspondence!
Like these great e-mails!
The Legend of Korra (Colored) by ~mcpaustin90
Hey guys, I really enjoy listening to your podcasts! I think you butchered a name again because I’m pretty sure it’s Bei Fong is pronounced bay-fong. Haha. Anyways, there was some insight and inferences I read online about the whole Amon energy-bending and Korra not being THE Avatar situation. From what I read: the moment the Avatar dies, a new one is immediately born. So when Azula killed Aang, Amon was born. However since Katara resurrected him, Amon had lost his avatar powers. When Aang really died, Korra was born with the full fledged avatar abilities. I guess Amon kept some of his Avatar abilities. However, this insight is also confusing because the avatar cycle is supposed to end when the avatar is killed in the avatar state, which Aang did. I hope they explain this situation quickly; the series is already so enticing even though we only had 4 episodes! Can’t wait till next weeks podcast.
From: Zoey
by benderkorra
A couple of thoughts:
You keep saying “love triangle” but it seems to be a love “quadrangle” here, Bolin to Korra to Makko to Asami.
All of the characters are much more “gray” than the black and white of The Last Airbender, maybe reflecting the imperfections of the city
Following this, no one has to be inherently “good.” Makko and Bolin have done things with the Triple Threat Triad before.
Bolin seems to be inherently trying to do the right thing, but Makko has the personality to follow a suggestion of Asami even if it’s really bad.
Beifong’s character seems obvious to me; her mother had the same attitude toward the Avatar initially.
Given the flashback, it seems from the title that Avatar Korra will go into the Avatar state on the competition field next week, causing a panic, while she learns something from the past Avatar.
As for the Airbending block, Aang had the same trouble with Earthbending, and for several episodes couldn’t even try.
The Matrix-ish bullet-time type thing is a refreshing return to what was included in the first few episodes of the original series, seen then with both Aang and Zuko.
Final note of speculation: Tarloc and Amon are working together to gain control of the city, with Tarloc’s waterbenders reminiscent of the Dai Li from Ba Sing Se.
-McPizza
by geirahood
The really interesting thing I wanted to point out was Tenzin and his relationship with Aang. In the most recent episode when Tarloc refers to Aang, Tenzin replies back with "Do NOT bring Avatar Aang into this.“ Why didn’t he refer to him as "My father”? Has he referred to him as his father AT ALL since the series started? I know he called Katara “mom”, but it’s just ODD that he would refer to him as Avatar Aang, even during a counsel meeting, especially when another counselman had just referred to Aang as his father. Katara did point out that out of her children, Tenzin was always the most serious one and I’m starting to wonder if it’s because of his relationship with Aang. I think that maybe Aang wasn’t the fun loving, free spirit that we know of with Tenzin (but was with the other siblings) because Tenzin was going to be the Last Airbender after Aang died and Aang knew the he’d be responsible for training the next Avatar AND carrying the culture of the Airbender. Because of that Aang and Tenzin might have had a little bit of a strained relationship and that may have fed into why he was so willing to put off training Korra and why he’s so uptight with her (not only is he literally seeing the father that was so strict with him, but now he’s also shifting the burden of responsibility to Korra the way it was shifted on him). If so, this will make for some very interesting character interaction when his siblings show up and as Korra advances… all of that resentment has to come out at some point
-Johannes B
