Republic City Dispatch

All I remember thinking is that Ozai’s hatred of Zuko in A:TLA suddenly make a TON more sense. 

-Da7e-

Good question! That is the current discussion amongst the three hosts. We have a few ideas about what the rest of the “off-season” podcast episodes are going to be and right now we’re debating on splitting The Search up. 

Personally, I’d rather do it all as a bundle, but if we start to get the idea that The Search isn’t going to wrap up by the time Book 2 starts (or if ideas in The Search inform Book 2), we’ll make sure everyone is working from the same source material as we move forward.

But – IT’S A HARD CHOICE! Like I said, the last page of The Search is a doozy, plot-wise, for the entire series up to this point.

-Da7e-

Every time I think of sound as a weapon, I think of the Hulk Thunder Clap from The Incredible Hulk. But that’s why I have Korra, right? To show me how I’m missing the awesomeness of the core concept? : )

-Da7e-

Grey DeLisle (the voice of Azula in A:TLA) has said she’s coming back to voice a Spirt character. We also get to see a frightening Spirit Wolf in The Search: Part One (and he’s on the cover of Part Two, so his existing is not a spoiler). I think it’s fairly safe to say that we’re looking a slightly more super-natural villain than we go in “Air." 

As for specialized Airbending Technique, I’m not sure. We know the Air Monks were super peaceful and respectful of all life, so I dont think it’s going to be as violent as Bloodbending. Until Korra learned to Spirit-Bend at the end of Book One, I would have thought that was the Airbender technique. 

There are so many places that you can manipulate air, maybe this specialized technique is something discovered by Korra, since the Airbenders have been wiped out during most of both series’ runs.

Any guesses out there?

-Da7e-

I wanted to publish this because you wrote it to us before THE SEARCH Part One, which makes you super smart for noticing and guessing that Azula and Ursa have a more complicated relationship than we were lead to believe.

-Da7e-

I’d be sad if Amon and Tarrlok aren’t mentioned again amongst our heroes, and the series overall seems to have a long memory. Especially considering we super-fans are supposed to be holding Zuko’s Mom’s past in our head at the same time as Korra enters the Spirit World. This mythology is only getting bigger, so I’d imagine at some point someone is going to wonder if Amon and Tarrlock got away.

-Da7e-

We’re all constantly re-loading THIS AMAZON PAGE:

http://amzn.to/11R6dBP

…that lists the Legend Of Korra, Book One: AIR Blu-Ray. It used to have a pre-order option, but it got downgraded to a sign up alert.

BUT – it hasn’t been pulled down, so we’re holding out hope. If it’s hitting around lat May like we hear the DVD is, expect this page to transform into a pre-order page soon. I’m not sure why they’d withhold the Blu-Ray, but at least Amazon has the HD episodes available on Amazon Instant.

Soundcloud seems to be working fine this morning.

If you’re using a subscription service like Stitcher, iTunes, Downcast, etc, our various RSS feeds are listed HERE. 

And if that still isn’t working, I’ll let you in on a little secret – Me (Da7e)? I’m really lazy with file names. So you can access the MP3 directly at:

http://readitordont.com/RCD/RCD16.mp3

However, as of episode 16, you’re the first one reporting an error. One of these methods should work.

Sorry! Sorry! We’re Sorry! 🙂

Did I mention how sorry we are?

Here’s what’s up: We’ve got jobs, a hurricane hit us, Devindra got engaged, Da7e’s about to switch jobs and there were some complications with some of our grander plans.

As far as we know, there isn’t official word on a major Korra release we have to talk about. The Season 1 DVD should be coming soon, I’d expect and episode from us on that.

Elsewise, it’s a period of downtime while we wait for new comics to start up and for some official news on Book 2 to come our way. We’re still investigating doing a re-watch of the original series. Our commentary track was an experiment to see if that workflow went well.

Point being – WE’RE SORRY! – We had big, big plans for doing a podcast once a month in the off season. BUT, we error’d on the side of waiting until we knew what we were going to talk about, roughly.

Anywho – The more Korra stuff that starts happening (that isn’t just people putting Korra on year-end lists), the closer we’ll be to new Dispatch Episodes.

Not to mention we’ll be back every week once Book 2 starts, we’re committing to that.

-Da7e-