Republic City Dispatch

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!

First – thank you for not being bothered. I apologize for my 2 hours of freak out. That is over now, and I used that time to wade through the fandom and respond to people’s comments.

ADDITIONALLY – That’s Matt Patches’ theory and he’s sort of walking it back. BUT –

If I had to guess, I still think that when Amon knocks Korra out in A Voice In The Night, he hits her in the same forehead chi spot that he takes people’s bending away with. I’m suggesting that Amon is actually triggering Korra’s flashbacks.

That doesn’t mean she is or is not the Avatar, I just think Amon was, like: “If this girl doesn’t learn air, it’s kind of pointless to make an example of her,” so he gave her a little push and now he’s just waiting.

Like Bane, sort of, if we want to think in Batman terms. Sort of like Bane: set up your adversary over a prolonged period of time so when you face them, you are more prepared than they are.

(I’m not saying Amon is going to break Korra’s back, though, that’s too dark)

-Da7e-

By V-eih

Hey. That was me.

That was me, Da7e.

I’m aware I did it, I can hear it when I listen to the podcast, but I’m not, like, going to re-edit the sound file or anything.

I know how to pronounce things, I’m watching the same show everyone else is, but somewhere between watching Korra and making the podcast, I try to use my brain-power to think of things like Tahno’s liquid eye-liner jokes instead of “is there a hard A sound in Japanese spellings?”

IMHO, I’m not disrespecting the show or creators or anything, I’m not doing it on purpose and by the time I’m flooded with two dozen e-mails/tumblrs/comments yelling at me, the show has already been issued to a few thousand people.

Sooooo – oops, but I’m not sitting here in my own little world and thinking everything is fine.

This was the nicest person who attempted to correct me. Everything else got deleted.

I’l try again next week.

-Da7e-

Yes, FatK55, I am with you.

I think the longer we find villains that aren’t Amon, the more likely that Amon ends up being not as villainous as we think. 

I’m starting to think that Yakone is our rouge firebender who has been killing everyone’s parents (seriously, what’s with fire benders killing parents?) and Aang had to put him down. In that sense, Korra and Amon could end up being on the same side of the issue after Korra remembers whatever she’s supposed to from those flashback glimpses.

Either way, yes, up until last week I would have told you that I was 70% sure that Amon would be sympathetic by the end of his arc. Then he blew up the pro-bending arena and I was like: “Ugh, well, that’s kind of drak, but maybe there’s something more here…”

…

…

…and I’m waiting for Amon to show up again.

Thanks for the theory! I like it!

-Da7e-

Oh, I don’t know about that. I still think we haven’t seen the last of Asami’s struggles with being good.

And “like Toph” now means “at some point grew a 6th finger:”

Yeah, that’s been freaking me out since last week.

-Da7e-

It is the credits music from The Legend of Korra by The Track Team. I don’t think it’s called anything besides “Credits” right now, or that’s how we have it listed, and that’s how it was given to us.

-Da7e-

I like “Spirit” and that does seem to be where we are thematically going. I could also see “Metal,” even though that would be less thematically relevant, it would seem.

The arguement for “Metal” would be that metal-bending would sub in for “Technology” since you can’t really name a book “Technology,” I don’t think.

Let’s just call it “LeeLoo.” That’s obviously the fifth element.

-Da7e-

MULTIPASS!

This is the free Tumblr “Esquire” theme. I believe the other one was called “Penguin” or something like that.

Either way, we chose this new theme purely based on the features it has. The colors are a bit wonky and this design doesn’t necessarily compliment the style of the show, BUT – now everyone isn’t stuck waiting for a new Q&A post to talk about new theories and people don’t have to use the “ASK” link to correct me/cite a source/talk about stuff.

If form ends up being more important than function, we can always go back, but people seem to be using the comments. : )

-Da7e-

via csuppressed

Thank you!

This layout is an attempt to allow everyone to talk amongst themselves in the comments section, maybe post some bigger images and keep the menu on a sidebar so you can always jump to episodes.

We’re about 24 hours into it and mostly it’s given people more plentiful ways to try and correct our pronunciation of names. The majority of you are being nice about it, but I’m not psyched about getting yelled at every morning when I stop by to answer some questions.

Que Sera Sera, folks. It’s not like “SAY-to” could be another character, you know? We’ll get better.

Until then, Squirtle Fire Ferrets!

-Da7e-