The only thing that comes to me directly is “High Ho, Silver, Away!” from the Lone Ranger. Animation wise, “Up Up and Away” was used by both Mighty Mouse and before that Superman in the 1940 Fleischer shorts.
Anyone else think they have an answer? Comment us up!
But just adding “away!” is something we all can do, right?
Away!
I imagine Tarrlock has lots of Equalist stuff. If he’s not in league with the Equalists, then he’s at least seized enough tech to have these things on hand. If he IS in league with the Equalists, then he just needs to ask, right?
You ok Bolin? by *Keiichu
I apologize for myself, listeners.
Here we are in a week where Korra is BACK, Bending rules have CHANGED and ratings sadly DROPPED. The fandom needs to charge forth as we approach the Solstice-slash-Finale week! (Monkey feathers!)
Anywho, as some of you may or may not know, I’m over at MTV on the 16 & Pregnant, Teen Mom, Teen Mom 2 teams (though I do not represent them in the media in any way), and as some of you may or may not care to know, this season of 16 & Pregnant is over and the new, final season of Teen Mom will start up next week.
I’m going through a work transition that – for a few days – takes up more of my time than it usually does.
So – I see your e-mails! I see new Transcription Benders! I see great theories about the series (You folks are really KILLING it in the comments sections!).
I will not abandon you.
And, you know what? I haven’t abandoned you, I just haven’t been writing back as much because there’s been other TV to make.
This will also be the last time I address this part of my life in a Korra forum. So making the best out of that, I think I should mention that this year’s 16&P final episode was one of the crazier ones we’ve done. If you want you can check it out here.
Ok, back to the world of Korra!
Via andrewlupi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_r2QJBtzoU
Appa, Clip Clip!
This Saturday we get “Out Of The Past” complete with lying Tarrlock.
This makes me think of Mad Men.
“How did they get all the animals?”
“Teddy Roosevelt shot them.”
EDIT: Hiroshi Sato’s character design was definitely very deliberately inspired by and modeled after Theodore Roosevelt, but also this guy, Goto Keita, a Japanese industrialist who seemed to have the same stylist as Teddy.
2ND EDIT: Oh yeah! And this guy’s stache.
REPUBLIC CITY DISPATCH #8: “When Extremes Meet”
BE FOREWARNED – Discussion includes Avatar: The Last Airbender, Chapters 1-8 of The Legend of Korra and could expand to include The Promise (Part One), Nick.com’s “Welcome To Republic City” at any time.
Good Morning Benders and Non-Benders alike and Welcome to The Republic City Dispatch, a radio programme covering Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra series. This week: Book One, Air, continues with Chapter 8, When Extremes Meet. Tarrlock’s task force is back in play, the New Team Avatar makes it’s public debut and the bending rules have changed! We will meet again, beautiful woman! Here’s Matt, Dave and Devindra!
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Hmmm. I think we’ve said our piece on the podcast, but for more discussion, let’s turn to Slate.com’s piece on Alan Sepinwall model (LINK):
Sepinwall-style criticism has obvious strengths. Week-to-week coverage reflects how people actually watch their favorite shows—we rehash the best lines, parse the meaning of weighty moments, and anticipate plot twists. At its best, new-school TV writing is brainy and inquisitive, thoughtful commentary borne out of a fanatical attention to detail. But hypervigilant criticism, written by obsessive fans for obsessive fans, isn’t necessarily an unmitigated force for good. Is it possible that today’s TV writers are sitting too close to the screen?
I have since downloaded the Dark Horse app. None of the Avatar content is on it.
Oh well, hard copies it is.
That being said, I dropped tons of $$$ last week on Comixology to catch up with The Unwritten, so – heads up, publishers! – if you want my money in large chunks, gimmie digital.
Thanks!
I am sad we’ll wrap up Book One this month, but happy for Comic Con in July. Mixed bag as always. : )
We know bending originates from the Spirit World and nature. So dragons teach people fire-bending through a dance and Sky Bison somehow taught Acolytes how to Air bend way back when.
Then there are things like The Lion Turtle, which is an older, spiritual animal that can pass on energy bending.
That being said, there might be a mischievous spirit changing the rules of bending overall so a non-bender like Amon can take away bending and Tarrlock can blood bend without a full moon.
I dunno. We should ask during a solstice.
OH YEAH – THE BOOK ONE FINALE AIRS 3 DAYS AFTER THE REAL SUMMER SOLSTICE GUYS. : )
I bet it’ll be Spirit World time.
Hey, let’s cut the flashbacks together! : )
All Korra flashbacks edited together in the (seemingly) correct order!
- Toph speaks to Aang about dealing with Yakone
- They are all sitting in court
- Yakone Bloodbends the entire room in broad daylight
- Later Aang attacks Yakone and defeats him using the Avatar State
Interesting.
Though there are so many awesome theories out there, I really think we’ll have to wait for (possibly the next) another episode to really clarify it all.
There are going to be some happy people with correct head canons, though, that’s my guess 😀
It looks like the eyes we’ve been assuming were Yakone get a little blood-bent in this week’s flashbacks.
Visually, the similarity for me was between Tarrlock and the person Aang is reaching out towards in the new flashback.
I don’t know who is related to who, but now I think that this flashback event is directly related to bloodbending (obviously) and what happened to The Avatar State (in theory).
Great!
(but we don’t think Tarrlock and Amon are the same person. Well, Patches did, then Devindra and I talk him out of it)
Good Morning Benders and Non-Benders alike and Welcome to The Republic City Dispatch, a radio programme covering Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra series. This week: Book One, Air, continues with Chapter 8, When Extremes Meet. Tarrlock’s task force is back in play, the New Team Avatar makes it’s public debut and the bending rules have changed! We will meet again, beautiful woman! Here’s Matt, Dave and Devindra!
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1000x YES! Excellent process, great shading.
A quick animation of my latest Korra doodle!
Oh man. Someone needs to do a whole spinoff fan series using this method. Right? RIGHT? Ripping Arrested Development is good and all, but it looks so pretty.
With the addition of the new avatar mobile, I see this happening.
Mulan’s “Make a Man Out Of You” parody for Legend of Korra.
Man, I am loving these song parodies. Mulan was missing the word “douché” in it’s lyrics.
Thought I would share this with the fandom. I think you guys would really like this. So just watch it and don’t question it.
I could be wrong but I think Bill will like it too, thus the tag.
This is the best way this question has been phrased, and it poses some interesting questions itself. I seem to remember the order from Nick on A:TLA was a bigger, Lord of the Rings style epic with an anime style. It seemed like a chance Nickelodeon took, since nothing else they’ve deemed a success has been remotely like Avatar.
I’d guess it was a way to compete with other channels like Cartoon Network that was porting over Anime in programming blocks.
Then, Avatar got big and budgets increased to the point where the Sozin’s Comet conclusion is, in essence, a film and was aired as such.
A few years later, Korra is announced as a mini-series, then later gets extended into Book Two.
I’d guess that Nickelodeon got a few episodes of Korra back (maybe up to The Spirit of Competition? But that’s a total shot-in-the-dark guess. At least the first two since Nick had those ready-to-release as soon as Korra got a certain number of social networking likes) and realized the quality could be extended.
And to a certain extent, this has paid off. Korra has been beating Primetime shows in it’s target demographic and I’m pretty sure that makes it the best thing Nick has going. Nickelodeon is under tons of pressure this year for not pulling it’s weight in the Viacom family.
I don’t mean to call Emily out or anything, but Korra can totally kill a character. You can’t blow someone’s brains out the back of their head, but of course kids can deal with death, as a matter of fact, some of the most memorable family entertainment of all time has been about death, namely Disney entertainment. Bambi? The Lion King? The natural inclination to kill the bad guy at the end of the movie? They stab Ursula in the stomach with a wooden shiv in the end of The Little Mermaid!
The argument that a character might die is based more in the kind of story Matt, Devindra and I think that we’re seeing. It would have to be a really sloppily handled death for Nickelodeon to pull it for censorship reasons.
And I think the show is written well enough that someone could die. Aang never had killing in him, but Aang was younger than Korra when we were spending time with him.
I dunno – taking people’s bending away is a death equivalent for sure and they’re making that look super-frightening in the series thus far.
I keep thinking back to Leaves From The Vine. That song is about reacting to death, it’s about loss, it’s from the first series.
And it’s beautiful, regardless of how old some marketing executive thinks the target audience is.
This would be a good point to re-iterate that, yes, I do work for Viacom, but all this information came from public sources and I do not speak for Viacom or any of it’s subsidiaries when I’m talkin’ ‘bout Korra. : )
Episode 8 Clip!
Looks legit, but I can’t find the Nick source. Split into two parts, unfortunately.
HERE’s the official clip on Nick.com, still unable to embed.
Well, I guess we know who is on Team Avatar now, huh? : )
I’m not in the habit of calling people out, but these are links to one person’s Korra Nation fan point system thingy. Whomever this user is is trying to game you for points so they can get Korra prizes.
I’m sure it’s valid by the rules, but I’ve seen the reaction of people who feel this is spammy and I thought I’d let you know what the deal was.
Of Korra? No.
But Nick.com has this awesome playlist of the 7 episodes thus far. I totally watched all that.
Oh man. This is crazy interesting.
1 down, 3 to go.
Well, at least, I don’t think it’s just one weapon drawn in different perspectives. I’m not an artist so I’m not sure. But if there are four types of those machines, that would be one crazy war.
For all your official needs (and confirmation we have a new episode on Saturday!)
Yeah, I know. This photo is stupid. Ironic B-boy posturing is rarely amusing to me, but I came back from color correction to find the studio empty, closed early for Memorial Day weekend. I put this hat on Kevin Coppa’s puppet, and one thing led to another…
RANDOM END-OF-THE-WEEK MUSINGS
–Sorry, it is true that there is no new episode airing this weekend. But a new Korra will be on next Saturday, June 2nd. And it’s a doozy. A REAL DOOZY. In the meantime, Nick.com wanted me to let you all know they made a playlist where you can watch the first seven episodes online, in case you need to catch up, or convert friends, family, babysitters, family pets, etc. Here’s the link: http://at.nick.com/Lv4P9O
–As some of you may know, Korra has been the number one show with teen audiences in the U.S. for some of these first seven episodes. As previously mentioned, I don’t put too much stock in ratings, but this is mind-blowing to me. How is a Saturday morning “cartoon” beating out prime time network shows like American Idol, Glee, The Voice, and Family Guy with teen audiences? We’re all surprised, honored, and baffled. My guess is that the 12-year-olds who were growing up on Avatar are now 16-year-olds, and Korra has sort of aged up right along with them. Whatever the reason, thanks!
–Mike and I love you guys, but we don’t take requests. We make the best show we can, telling the stories we want to tell, and then we put it out there in the world. By the time you guys see it and have “all the feels” and/or get all mad at stuff, we are working on something far, far ahead of that. It may not always go the way you want it to, but at least it is honest art, straight from our hearts. And a lot of these reactions may turn out to be knee-jerk ones in the long run, once you see where the stories and characters go. I’d rather do that than make some watered down “design by committee” thing that attempted to please everyone. If it were up to the majority of the audience, we’d probably have a show where Tahno and the Cabbage Merchant play beach games on Ember Island for 500 episodes… In short, as you guys say, I REGRET NOTHING.
–This is funny, but it never happened. I’m vegan.
–And lastly, my favorite quote from Mike this week, commenting on a cool, momentous shot from the Book 1 finale, addressing the whole fandom: “GIF that and put it on yer Tumblr.” HA!
Have a great, long weekend!
Love,
Far-from-perfect-Bryan
EDIT: The Avatar finale aired in 2008, and Korra premiered in 2012. 4 years. 12 + 4 = 16. That’s what I meant. Christie, my assistant designer, was 18 when the finale aired. And now she is 22, and she works on Korra. And she is an awesome artist. Man, that makes me (and many others on the crew) feel old!
I haven’t done this before and don’t want to make a habit out of it, BUT – on the other weekly podcast Matt Patches and I do, we discussed the upcoming Kevin Smith Hulu show “Spoilers” which claims to NOT be criticism but instead 50 everyday people fan-boying out over flicks.
It’s 47 minutes into THIS EPISODE and touches a bit on what you’re saying here.
We also review Moonrise Kingdom, talk about Community, Twitter, The Master and Patches goes all soft for Anime Blu Rays like he did on RCD.
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