Republic City Dispatch

Presented without comment, because it sounds awesome.

Chime in the in the comments if ye want to discuss. I haven’t seen any Haibane Renmei, so I’m going to stay out of it until I have some time to check it out.

-Da7e-

Thank you, everyone!

*water tribe*

via p33p

-Da7e-

Well, we had Emily from the AV Club replace me for the “And The Winner Is…" episode. 

It’s not like we have a He-Man Women-Haters club, and I think we did pretty good as three dudes both talking about and recognizing our limitations in the shippy "The Spirit of Competition”

Whatever humor we’re using does not come from our genitals, so I don’t know how to help you in that regard.

I think adding in a woman every once in awhile is good for us, but I know for a fact all three of us are very cognizant that we are guys and the male gaze, while inescapable for us, is constantly in effect.

Here’s Korra as a man from cabout :

-Da7e-

YEAH PATCHES! : )

I almost corrected him ON the podcast, but why deprive you all of nitpicking? 

That makes two boys, two girls, one boy animal and one girl animal.

TEAM KORRA!

-Da7e-

korra krew! by *chiou

I think we’ve been in the past for a good three books, and between The Promise comics and what I increasingly think will be an episode almost entirely of flashbacks somewhere in this season of Korra. 

But I don’t think this series will go “full Digimon.” One of the best things about how Korra has evolved thus far is it’s greatly based on the rules established in A:TLA. It’s a natural extension of the world, and even if Big Daddy looking mechs are a little jarring, I don’t think they’re more of a stretch than something like The Drill from 70 years before. 

I trust the world-building, and if A:TLA was ancient and this is industrialized, I’d love to see what “Modern” is in this world. But maybe there’s no place for The Avatar in modernity. 

-Da7e-

Hey, Scott!

No problem, buddy. You also kicked off someone suggesting we take donations…which… we now have to think about.

And also someone suggested I just re-write the CSS from scratch…yeah, that’s not gonna happen. : )

I will do my best to make this site the most usable it can be through the run of Book One: Air. There will be an off season before the next run of Korra episodes (hopefully not a lengthy one), but if I get time to make different posts go up with the symbols of different nations (Flame icon for video!), it would probably NOT be while the show is running.

I hear you Scott (YAY COLORADO), and I hear those of you who are web-inclined enough to know just how much work I am or am not avoiding.

Also – although we’re not CURRENTLY accepting donations, I would gladly accept a custom-designed website. Or, you know, pictures of the three of us as a pro-bending team…or someone can ship me…hopefully with a girl character, but I’m easy. : )

That was all light joking. 

(by scarletsapphires)

BUT – HERE IS YOUR COMMENTS ASSIGNMENT!

Link me to your favorite Avatar site (not Nick.com related and NOT the Avatar Wika). I was going to make a post of good ones, but keep getting distracted by things like: “Take those frames off your site!”

: )

-Da7e-

Hello!

You might have noticed the site has mostly been about how the CSS has been working for the past two days.

And it pains me, because I heart and miss all you of “The Fandom” whenever I have to go do other things (like a new 16 & Pregnant this Tuesday at 10PM on MTV).

HOWEVER – this has been very deliberate. 

THERE WILL BE A REPUBLIC CITY DISPATCH THIS WEEK.

We have been saving up your e-mails, sorting through all 250 unaddressed Tumblr asks and combing through the comments to pick out what issues/theories keep coming up. 

Also, we’ll do a quick review of what we’ve talked about this season and address some things we’ve left hanging.

Right now, all I can promise you is that we’ll loop back around to the question of Asami’s character development and I doubt we’ll be able to talk about the future without debating when/how/if we’ll get to see The Avatar State.

Other than that, we’re just calling it a “BONUS EPISODE.”

Fret not! This doesn’t mean a guest or guests aren’t coming in the future, it just means that we opened ourselves up to a lot of feedback and now we’re going to address that feedback.

And isn’t “The Promise Part 2” out?

That’s a real question. Do I need to stop by the comic book store tonight?

Keep it coming, folks, we’re watching!

-Da7e-

http://mellolover.deviantart.com/

Whew.

Ok.

I have no way of telling if you, Scott, are the same person who has previously mentioned not liking the frames.

Here’s the deal: Tumblr themes that you can customize easily cost money, we don’t have money to spend, so everyone that says “I liked the old theme because it was like the show’s design sort of” or “I don’t like this new theme because it has nothing to do with the show:” Yeah, it’d be cool if this was a custom Tumblr site.

That would be cool and most cool things cost money, as is the way of the world.

That being said, I’m a pretty talented fella in the understanding CSS department, and I’m going to spend a bit trying to fix this frame issue. 

I’d love to be able to address everyone’s design quibbles, but unless someone wants to give me $100 to buy a Tumblr theme and mod it myself, I’m ONLY gunning for features we can use to talk to each other.

Sorry about this longer, not-Korra post, but we’re prepping this week’s episode, so my apparent absence is actually a slow formation of format.

Alliteration!

-Da7e-

Of Korra?

Right now, that doesn’t exist. New episode titles are released the week before usually. We update out Episode page accordingly.

-Da7e-

We’re pretty sure there’s no new Kthis weeks week, but stop by here and iTunes because there WILL be a new, BONUS, Republic City Dispatch where we’ll hopefully know more.

-Da7e-

He is PABUTAR the First Fire Ferret Avatar!!

I’d watch that show in a second.

-Da7e-

If you’re asking Da7e (me): All I could think about was that last scene where Mako’s all: “We can stay on Air Temple Island, right?” and Korra’s like: “Of course, Asami too” and I’m like: “Wow, this evil plan is really working out for Asami.”

: )

-Da7e-

(Avatar State Korra by devfrost2000)

I was re-watching some A:TLA this week and was surprised how focused Aang is on learning how to be a better Avatar overall. Korra has had much more important things to worry about, arguably, but outside of the doors in Episode 2, we haven’t seen anyone really take time out of the plot to harp on Korra for training.

If this series is aware that M.Night Ruin-a-lan made the Avatar State more about glowing and less about the fear absolute power instills in those who witness it, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re saving the Avatar State reveal until much later in the season.

But, yes, it’s starting to get to the point where you think SOMEONE would mention it to her. Like: “Wow, you seem to have lost to Equalists about 3 times now, maybe you need more training. What about The Avatar State? Didn’t Avatar Aang save the Water Tribe by becoming a Godzilla-sized fish monster? You know what could beat Amon? A Giant sized fish monster.”

-Da7e-

Sweet!

I dig his/her style. 

Thank you for pointing us all in the direction: http://toerning.deviantart.com/

Hey Hey!

Thank you, international fans, a lot of you sent me e-mails telling me that pronunciation is the least of your worries. I’m glad that Korra is getting out world wide in a way that people can connect to the podcasts. It’s a great feeling on Sunday when we put it into the world and watch as thousands of people stream it off the Soundcloud in the first 5 hours.

ANYWAY!

The Transcription Benders are busy-busy-busy. I haven’t been updating with a new post every time they finish a transcription, but I HAVE been updating our EPISODES PAGE with PDF versions of the episode transcripts.

Right now, Team Transcription is taking on 3 episodes simultaniously – the first hybrid episode that covers 2 Korras, plus “And The Winner Is…” and “The Aftermath.”

These episodes are not only super-interesting, but they happened to fall in that very special time in an American student’s life: End of Spring Term.

So, yeah, we haven’t seen a bunch of Aly on the Team Transcription e-mail threads, but we did get and update: “For the last couple weeks I was super busy with school (which seems to have payed off; 3.66 semester GPA, 3.633 overall), this week it’s work (hosting a conference, 13-hour days almost all week). ”

YAY ALY!

But I can’t express how awesome Team Transcription has been to us and to each other. They’re still out there, transcribing all my “ums” and “I means.”

RATINGS wise, that post is in the Queue and will go up today around 1PM EST. 

You, sir, used those parentheses impressively.

Also: CUTE!