Republic City Dispatch

Yup!

I my mind, Patches’ “not the Avatar” theory is less likely than my general feeling that whatever Aang did to Yakone (is that how we’re spelling it?) directly parallels with whatever Korra has to do with Amon.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it has to do with when the Avatar kills or if the Avatar can kill.

-Da7e-

This one for Patches:

I think all three of us have differing opinions as to when and if this Avatar State connection is going to happen. But, until then, I can keep looking at this fan art by EmpressFunk and waiting patiently. 

Chibi Avatar!

Yeah, I’d love to see some Chibi Korra too.

-Da7e-

Hmmmm.

Well, you’re talking about episode in Season 3 called The Southern Raiders which does take place during a Full Moon, hence Katara’s ability to cause that huge storm. 

As for if it’s day or night, that would seem irrelevant since “the full moon” is a time period, not necessarily a visual. There can be full moons in the daylight, we just can’t always see them because not enough light is reflecting off the lunar surface. There are even places on Earth that don’t get full moons every month.

And – not to get super picky – but we don’t even know if this world is even close to Earth, so really all these “moon rules” are probably screwy.

-Da7e-

1) We talked a bit about Blood Bending but not in association to the Red Monsoon. That certainly seems interesting, but I thought Blood Bending could only happen during the full moon?

2) There’s nothing to disprove this theory, that’s for sure. Chi-Blocking exists, but it’s not tied to Ty Lee like Metalbending is tied to Toph, so there’s the possibility that Amon had his own Chi-Blocking journey to go on before he could lead all of them. The only thing that has me hesitating that the Equalists are direct-descendants of the Kyoshi Warriors is that the identity of Kyoshi Island is so tied to Avatar Kyoshi both historically for separating the island and culturally through their female warrior tradition.

It would personally make me sad to see the Kyoshi warriors perverted to be Equalists, but we haven’t seen any evidence that this is NOT true. : )

-Da7e-

Don’t apologize, but do LINK ME! : )

-Da7e-

First off – Give it up for Team Transcription everyone!

I’m going to seed in a few new volunteers for this week, but they’re really, aw…aww….awwwwwwesome. They’re everything that’s good about fandom. 

Anywho – to the question.

I can only speak for myself, because we’re not in the same room hardly ever and coordinate over Google Docs.

The doc itself that we use during our Skype session is made by me taking notes during the broadcast, which I watch with the subtitles on so I can get things right the first time (I do not have DVR, so it really is one time only).

As soon a the episode is over, I jump in the Doc and write an almost scene-by-scene breakdown of the episode for the summary, then update all the technical stuff like the title of the next episode and the date we’re recording.

Matt, Devindra and I call each other on Skype about 15-20 minutes after the episode ends and we pre-chat for 5 minutes and – NO JOKE – occasionally debate about how to pronounce things, since we’ll be amongst the first to do so and we don’t have the best track record of representing y’all.

We select and e-mail to read (if there’s one that’s going to lead into the greater episode discussion) and then we start recording the podcast. : )

After that, there’s very little pre-planning. Both on the /Filmcast and OpKino, we all have found a rhythm for these sorts of things and the episode gets out fastest when we don’t have to edit at all. 

Basically, the whole process is done between 11AM and 12:30PM on Saturdays and the rest is rendering and uploading the file to all the different services. : )

That might change the slightest bit as we progress through the season, but we’ll try to keep recording on Saturdays and as close to air as possible.

Then, for me, each weekday is about engaging with the community in the mornings before I go to my day job.

If it was any show besides Korra, I’d imagine I’d be tired of all this by now, but I’m loving it, even weird stuff like gender switching:

Thanks Team!

-Da7e-

We could replace our Old-Timey announcer with this guy just going: WAAHAH! WAHAHAHOUOUHHOUU! WHAAAGGGNNNGNG!

-Da7e-

Greg! 

That is a big question you are asking, and I have only vague theories as to your question’s true answer. Most importantly, I feel I should say that I don’t know how Nickelodeon distributes it’s international broadcast.

However, I would assume that things like dubbing don’t contribute as much as when the series is sold and to whom. As with most delays (or like the music for A:TLA which wasn’t officially released), it has more to do with a business decision than any sort of malicious one. And Korra is currently being produced and aired in it’s country of origin, so delays to international broadcast are just expected sometimes.

Instant viewing, the posting of the episode online, iTunes and the varied methods of non-cable are actually the way international fans get to see it first, both because it’s made accessible earlier to them (you) than any broadcast and because it’s these methods that pirates can easily copy.

I don’t support pirating content from The Legend of Korra because I think they’re doing a pretty good job of getting it out there (Amazon, Greg, is great, I have an iTunes Season Pass for my re-watch that I gladly payed, what, $30 for?) 

HOWEVER – Nickelodeon still hasn’t released the third season of The Adventures of Pete and Pete on DVD because there wasn’t enough business incentive to get it done. So I’m not saying I’m above pirating Nick content, I’m saying that Korra probably ends up online somewhere you can watch it if you speak English.

If not, you’re at the whims of the business, which isn’t the best place to be, but there’s little we can do about it.

-Da7e-

Although this is a sarcastic Sokka clap, I am using it non-sarcastically. I cannot argue with your reasoning!

-Da7e-

Thanks for writing in!

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