You’re referring to an Avatar: The Last Airbender Book One episode. (WIKI!)

She also said Aang wouldn’t find great love, and that ended up being her false prediction. Which at least suggests her foretelling of Katara’s death could be wrong.

But, more importantly, I don’t hold any continuity from the first Avatar Book against Korra. It just seems like a tall order for me to assume something that aired in 2005 (and could have been written a few years earlier) can have that much narrative sway over our 2013 Korra.

But: Point taken. Katara could just be a character that shows up once every book to make us all smile. It just seems like something’s up with Aang’s bloodline.

-Da7e-

Let the corrections BEGIN! : )

Thanks, EHalcyon for the reminder. We’re also going to be working on our pronunciations again, it seems:

@Da7e 5 minutes into @RCDispatch’s new podcast and all I can say is…Tonraq: TAWN-rock lol still luv ya tho

— Jasmine (@Jazmyne92) September 14, 2013

@misterpatches You’re channeling @Da7e. It’s Ooh-na-lock not You-na-lock lol.

— Jasmine (@Jazmyne92) September 14, 2013

Welcome back, Dakota Is So Random. 

That’s a good place to possibly end Korra Book Four. Or at some point between here and there discussing the idea of the Avatar. Either time in this world keeps moving beyond the Industrial Revolution and gets to the Computer Age with bending in tact or everything gets upended.

At this point, it would make sense if Book Four took it on, because the I can’t imagine that story being told without some serious discussion about how the world’s non-benders are extremely disadvantaged. Or – maybe – the Avatar line will end because Korra sends something out of balance…

You know what? Typing that, I’m going to go with that crazy theory: The Avatar line won’t end, but Korra has gone about getting there wrong. I don’t think we’ve seen a Dark Avatar yet in Korra, but would I accept the existence of a Dark Avatar? Absolutely.

-Da7e-

Strangely, this also comes up in this week’s podcast about the Korra Book Two premiere double-header.

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He might be a religious zealot, or he might be a puppet of a bigger bad who gave him the means to banish his brother. Now that puppet master could be expanding. OR he’s just, like, really into Spirits.

We’ll be addressing this in the new podcast from a few angles.

-Da7e-

We were mistaken about the re-run. I was basing the 8:30PM Saturday re-broadcast on a previously announced schedule since Nick only puts out it’s broadcast schedule a few days in advance. So – OOPS – no 8:30.

However, the episode is up at the iTunes Store as of this morning (Saturday). Nick.com should make the episodes available to stream HERE (also where you’ll find the Book 2 game “Dark Into Light”).

I also found this video about how to get Nick.com to work internationally, though I haven’t tried it and cannot vouch for it working:

Good luck, Broadcast-Bender.

-Da7e-

Not just “They.” It’s MATT PATCHES! 

That’s right – Republic City Dispatch is everywhere. : )

-Da7e-

Check the Recap at VULTURE.

c-10:

This is amazing.

If this were a live action network show, you would be right: Friday is where series are sent to die. There are exceptions, notably The X-Files on Fox – which is where everyone got the idea a Friday night show could do well – but mostly Friday is a dumping ground.

With Nickelodeon, it’s harder to tell, because since the days of SNICK, they are playing in a different field. So Korra airs at 7PM on Firdays plus a re-airing on Saturdays at 8:30PM. That seems like a bad spot, but on Nickelodeon, it’s just the spot to lure both kids and adults to the network. 

There will be Books 3 & 4 – those are happening – but this Book, Nickelodeon has decided to see if people will come to the channel for Korra, instead of putting Korra somewhere where people could happen upon it. 

It’s a weird decision and one that will only continue if it works, but the plus side is adults who watch TV not-in-the-morning can easily find it and people who are already fans will find it wherever.

Short answer: Yes, it seems a bit weird, but not weird enough to worry about.

-Da7e-

I’m not as concerned about Asami as I was concerned about – say – Kelly MacDonald’s absence from the new season of Boardwalk Empire’s trailer. Because Kelly’s character was in a compromising position at the end of the last season and her absence doesn’t bode well for the character. 

Asami may be absent, but we did get a few clips of her in Book 2 way back at Comic Con 2012 and we know she’s taking over her father’s business, but needs to head down to the Southern Water Tribe, which is where Korra, Bolin and Mako have been spotted in other promotional material. 

There’s a lack of Asami at the expense of a lot more Jinora, which just makes me think that well be spending a lot of this season in meditation before we find our gateway into the Spirit World. We don’t have much evidence yet as to who can pass between worlds, for all we know it’s just the Avatar. And as a non-bender, Asami might have a totally different set of goals (like the Atheist in a movie about religion).

Two things to think about that make me not worried about Asami:

1) Seychelle Gabriel, who plays Asami, was the person who gave the quote that she was having trouble remembering Book 2 because she was already deep into recording Book 3. This implies Asami makes it through Book 2 and is in Book 3. 

2) We know the other theme of Book 2 is “Family,” which is why we’re seeing the Korra Clan in more detail. I can’t imagine Bolin, Mako and Asami not providing the counter-point to our family-oriented Avatar and Airbenders, which means at least a few check-in moments with Team Avatar Generation 2 as a group. In my mind at least.

What I’m really hoping for with Asami is that a greater number of episodes allows for more nuance in whatever her journey is. Re-listening to Book One’s podcasts, the Asami story is all over the place. Sometimes we neglected to interpret it correctly, other times there wasn’t enough on screen for a correct interpretation and Asami’s motives became assumed as the climax approached.

Then the whole Mako thing happened and…I’m sure we’ll be getting a bit more tension there as we also haven’t seen a ton of Policeman Mako in the trailers either. 

Or maybe we have and I’m not paying close enough attention. It’s hard to pay attention when all you’re thinking is: THIS FRIDAY!

-Da7e-

imnotobsessed-justimpolite:

LMFAO.

Happy #SeptBender!

And thanks for pointing that out! ehalcyon and an anonymous tumblr user also caught my blunder:

I am pretty sure that the airbender in the library is Jinora. They have the same hair. The hair is hard to see because it’s black on black, but you can see it clearly over Wan Shi Tong’s face as he lands.

And re-listening to the podcast, I think this scene played into Patches’ reading on Jinora’s elevated role all along.

I screwed up already! Let’s pretend this was a test to see who was back with us so early into the new run, maybe?

-Da7e-

Interesting. 

People being down on the Book 2 preview is something I haven’t personally run across. I think it’s bold and beautiful and amazing. It doesn’t look like anything else on TV right now, especially with the multiple styles in background painting (Current, Spirit World, Flashback).

That said – what you’re saying about the first series is valid. These episodes take so long to animate and mix that the Korra team is probably in the middle of or finishing up the writing on Book Four as we speak, meaning Book Three’s voice-acting sessions are probably winding down. 

What I’m implying is that we still don’t really know how self contained each Korra book will be. TLA was a single quest over three books, and Korra hasn’t revealed how much the four books we’re going to get are going to be connected. 

All this to say that different isn’t worse, especially when we haven’t seen the season.

I can, however, see how someone who was into the steam-punk/dixieland more-realistic Republic City stories would balk at a trailer that has multiple giant spirit creatures in it. However, I don’t see how that initial concern would be negative, as some of my favorite parts of the TLA were the traveling/world-building episodes. 

I, personally, have extreme trust in the Avatar/Korra team at this point. The only way they frustrate me is by not giving it all to me RIGHT NOW. : )

-Da7e-

Yes!

And there’s an airbender there!

And that airbender is bald and doesn’t have tattoos, so maybe this is Milo? 

And there are roots in the library, so it’s not buried in sand anymore?

Do you think this has anything to do with Matt’s theory that the Airbender Kids are going to help Korra connect to the Spirit world? There is that shot in the trailer of a meditating Jinora as the background transitions to Spirt-ness.

Wan Shi Tong, the library, the first Avatar! SO MUCH LOVELY HISTORY!

-Da7e-