Republic City Dispatch

Hahahahaha! That might be me! It’s been a series of nice Sundays, so I’ve been leaving my window open and Brooklyn has some vocal bird life.

I can hear them right now.

Also, I saw a cardinal the other day. A CARDINAL. All red and … reminded me of Pabu.

-Da7e-

(I don’t know where the shirt came from, but that’s keepmusing wearing it)

You are very welcome!

We, of course, come from the wide world of movie and pop culture podcasting. (And I currently am addicted to Nerdist Writer’s Panel, Pop Culture Happy Hour, WTF w/Marc Maron, SuperEgo, Stuff You Should Know, Radiolab, 99% Invisible and show-specific fan casts for various TV shows that I bring up occasionally – CAST OF KINGS, I MISS YOU!).

I drift in and out of the Smodcast and Earworlf podcast networks. It’s hard for me to commit week-to-week on those, but I will backtrack and do large chunks of catching up at once.

This week, non-Korra, in our host’s podcasting lives:

Devindra and the /Filmcast just reviewed Wes Anderson’s MOONRISE KINGDOM on their latest episode.

Patches and I talked about Rock of Ages and White Male Critics Not Getting “It” on Operation Kino (this Friday we review Pixar’s BRAVE and – warning – I think it’s really bad, so if you want to hear people yell at me, tune in then).

Aaaaand, Falling Skies, the family/alien-invasion sci-fi show on TNT had it’s two-hour premiere last night, so I jumped over to the Fat Guys Podcast Network to discuss the second season as a fan of the first (flaws and all) at The Idiot Boxers. 

You think with all this podcasting we do, we’d be able to get iTunes to work consistently. For our episodes, but…well, iTunes makes fools of us all.

If you decide to jump into your own podcast – here – you can thank me later.

-Da7e (the one that’s just a head)-

I think it was both at Comic Con last year and somewhere in the Welcome to Republic City game at Nick.com (superfans, feel free to correct me about the Aang family tree origins).

Luckily it’s out there, so googling “Aang Family Tree” returns it mostly without fan-spoilers (like the bottom second from the right picture which shows Bumi as Amon which we’re pretty sure is fake).

Enjoy.

-Da7e-
 

Really? Awwwwww.

But. But. Ok. It’s okay, usually I snarkily ask for a link, then pretend I didn’t get information I didn’t like, but – while I’ll still ask for a link – I think I’ll be okay with this.

I’m not super happy we didn’t get tons of episodes about The Spirit World, but I’ve been so pleasently surprised by what this series has been   even when all the press and interviews and blogs I’d read before the show gave me a different, lesser idea of what Korra could be.

Korra’s playing at a high level of television (unquestionably the best thing on Nick right now) so the closer we’ve gotten to the end of this book, the more I’ve trusted where it’s going, even when it’s not where I expect it to be.

-Da7e-

Yes.

We learn from the Lion Turtle that spirits energy bending humans or “teaching” them bending skills is actually how bending came to be. (Sozin’s Comet Part 2).

Energy bending pre-dates all bending AND the Avatar, so yes, it’s intended primary function is to give people bending, we’ve always just seen it use to take people’s bending away.

-Da7e-

Yeah, why were we in Iraq again?

: )

I’m not sure “nothing has really changed” as much as the history of this world, like our world, occasionally repeats itself.

-Da7e-

You, sir, feel very similar to me. And I express it…on this week’s podcast.

-Da7e-

DO NOT FEAR, PABU LIVES!

(keep your head down, buddy!)

see: He’s with Bolin right before they flee the island. 

Rohan is a sanskrit name for “ascension/healing.” It’s more a sign that things are getting better, or the hope that they will.

Or dude could be a airbender horse lord.

OR A TIMEBENDER (yes, we talk about that comment in this week’s podcast).

-Da7e- 

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Possibly. 

And we see in the teaser that Korra ends up with Amon’s thumb on her forehead. 

On this week’s episode, we have some thoughts about what we feel we need to see in the Finale and I suggest we might see some sort of restoration.

Just because it seems like they’ve been going out of their way to talk about how “permanent” Amon’s little trick is. That’s a modern perspective.

It was the spirits who taught people bending. Taught. Just sayin’.

-Da7e-

And here’s Naga’s b*tch slap of the lieutenant which made me super happy.

I haven’t heard that exact quote. Link me, better fans?

But it’s Fartbending right? : )

-Da7e-

Rendering now!

-Da7e-

Awesomeness by kaitoruism

I JUST got it. Like, today. Not for lack of trying, but it seems like everyone wanted it and it wasn’t on the Dark Horse digital app.

Full discussion of The Promise is one of the things we’re debating about bringing y’all during the off season.

Of course, a lot of that depends on how long the off-season is.

Until then, I’ll certainly be bringing it up if it’s relevant (Part II confirms that Aang’s air scooter was his invention that counted toward his tattoos and goes into the connection of metal bending to emotions), but I’m not sure if there will be anything Promise-centric in discussion of the last 3 episodes.

-Da7e-

Possibly. I don’t know what we’d gain from that reveal. They were in the same room fighting each other, you think they’d recognize one another at some point.

So we’re all just assuming Amon’s fire bender story is false now?

-Da7e-

Thanks for the support!

The closer we get to the end of the season, the less likely a character death looks. But – dang! – so many people are getting their bending taken away. At some point while discussing this earlier I had mentioned that the removal of bending is being treated like death in this series.

That being said, I wonder if Mako/Bolin getting stripped is powerful enough or if they’re willing to go for the gut-punch and take away Korra’s bending.

If the Avatar can’t bend, they’re still technically The Avatar, right? Since it all has to do with re-incaration?

-Da7e-