Yes. It did have to be made.
HAD to be made.
Isn’t that strange that we haven’t any trailer about the 6th episode in legend of korra?
(via nickelodeon-shows-videos)
Not particularly. Footage from this episode is out there as part of the season-long tease and “And The Winner Is…” is almost a part two of “The Spirit of Competition” or it is potentially.
Also, it’s Tuesday, I imagine we’ll get clips Thursday.
-Da7e-
I couldn’t find a link to the original artist, but Here is the original post! fully anthropomorphized Pabu and Naga are pretty sweet.
flamablebread: LoK: Minimalist Posters.
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I was thinking of this while I was driving to work. At some point in the original A:TLA series Toph says she learned earthbending from the badgermoles and that other benders learned their bending from the original source. Does the series ever explain how it became genetic? Or were probably already born with an inclination towards bending?
adventuresofatwentysomething
DA7E SAYS: I have no idea how it became genetic, but it appears to have some sort of genetic trait. We haven’t seen a bending art be born to a family that has never had that bending art in it’s past before.
The avatar wiki states that “Airbenders continually sought for spiritual enlightenment, and, as a result, all children born into the Air Nomads were benders.” This makes me think it’s possible for the Air Acolytes to eventually give birth to air benders. But can an isolated group of non benders from different nations learn bending over generations? Is bending a specific gene that applies to specific continents?
dizzykins
DA7E SAYS: Mentioned above, bending was initially taught to humans (Water uses Moon, Air uses Bison, Fire dragons, Earth moles) and at some point became at least partially genetic. I think in the Mako/Bolin case, we’re looking at a family that was one of the original Earth Kingdom/Fire Kingdom mixed famalies from the post-Aang era.
do you think Amon could be Bolin and Mako’s brother? he stated his father was killed by a fire bender, and the brothers’ parents were killed by a firebender, what do you think?
Anonymous
DA7E SAYS: I dont think Mako and Bolin grew up on a farm and the boy’s parents were attacked and killed by a Firebender while it sounds like Amon’s story (if it’s true) had some sort of social/classist thing going on. I think it’s unlikely, but we haven’t seen a single thing in the series that could prove you wrong.
So looking at the Avatar Wiki for Chakras (google!) It seems the “each episode is a way to get through a chakra” is becoming more of a likely theory. The Earth chakra is first, and deals with survival but is blocked by fear. Korra had to overcome her fear in the fourth episode. The Water chakra is next, and deals with pleasure but is blocked by guilt.
Korra wanted to be with the person she liked, but she never wanted to hurt anyone – by the end of the episode she had overcome her guilt by realizing emotions take a while to sort out. The next chakra is the Fire chakra, which deals with willpower and is blocked by shame. What could Korra be facing that has to do with Willpower and Shame?
thebadmamajama
DA7E SAYS: I’m not sure about willpower, but if I’ve learned anything from Batman, you can’t let the Joker run around Gotham City while you’e out gallivanting with Selina Kyle. In other words – Korra just took about a week off from Tarrlock’s Task Force. Not that the Task Force is super-great for Korra personally, but she’s been letting the Equalists re-gain their footing and now they’re going to come back with a vengeance. Willpower wise – maybe Korra is going to need to let someone’s bending get sacrificed to protect a greater number of people? That’s just me guessing.
UM. Hey artistically-driven fans – I’d love a better picture of this.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice: when Asami bring Pabu in to congratulate the Ferrets after their first match, HE’S WEARING A UNIFORM. That means….either Asami or Bolin MADE IT FOR HIM.
SO CUTE.
Tons of people submitted this. Most people are now wondering if this is somehow related to what we’ve learned about Tenzin and Pema’s past.
We’re certainly thinking about it.
-Da7e-
The entire design of Asami screams: “This girl is bad” to me. Fandom and shippers do what they do, but there are too many plot hints embedded in the show that suggest there are ulterior motives radiating off the Sato family.
“So you’re dirt poor” is not something a well-spoken, well-dressed, well-educated father of industry says, it’s something you say to debase a person and prime them to do what you want.
The Sato family has Mako and the Fire Ferrets by the balls and not because Mako or Bolin are epsecially important, but because The Avatar is on The Fire Ferrets.
There’s a tragic way this all could end with Bolin’s death (like Devindra has been predicting for weeks) at the hands of the Satos, then Korra is forever scarred knowing her immaturity alone caused…
You know what, I’m taking this too far.
I’ll step back: I really, really, really think Asami will turn out to be bad. If we were really dealing with a love quadrangle, Asami would have gotten her own storyline in last week’s love-heavy episode. She didn’t, because she doesn’t really like Mako (or does, but it’s irrelvant).
Oof. I feel like I might make someone angry with this one.
Oh well. BE THE LEAF!
-Da7e-
(art by daughterofthestars)
Hey Anonymous!
We plan to!
Though I, personally, am pretty good at using profanity. : ).
The Republic City Dispatch sees no need to get rid of our “Clean” tag on iTunes and elsewhere.
If you expand your listening experience to include Devindra on the /Filmcast and myself and Patches on OpKino, those shows earn their “Explict” tags, just FYI. Sometimes I need to curse to describe how awesome The Hulk is. : )
Thank you for listening! We’ll keep it on the up-and-up over here.
-Da7e-
I hear you Libertarian Voter, however, I’m going to have to politely disagree with where you draw the “spoiler” line for discussion of The Legend Of Korra.
Really, only because of things like The Promise comic and the Welcome To Republic City interactive game on Nick.com exist that we’ve had to widen what we talk about to include official promotional material. In some cases, that’s really helped us out with things like Aang’s other son Bumi or the fact that Zuko is still alive.
So Amon attacking the Pro-Bending Finals? Probably going to happen, just from the few flashes we get on Nick’s officially released season-long teaser. Do I know it’s going to happen? No, but I’m pretty sure, because I’ve seen those brief clips. There is something in that teaser that actually spoils more for next week’s episode, I think, but we managed to not come right out and say it.
Point being, I think we’re out of the spoil-able territory anyway (as I mention on this week’s podcast, it seems promotional material has been held back beyond Chapter 6), but if it’s officially released by Nickelodeon, we’ll mention/link it here and it will be part of the discussion. This includes clips released by Korra Nation (or like last week, TV Guide).
I will apologize for throwing a plot point from Dark Knight Rises into the podcast with absolutely no warning. Yeah, a bit of it is in the trailer, but you guys deserve better than that. I’ll do better.
Otherwise, though, if it’s officially released, it’s on the table.
ALSO: I feel like I should mention that Matt, Devindra and I have been pretty wrong about a bunch of stuff too. : )
-Da7e-
I’ve started tweeting out corrections from our Twitter account.
It might be a bad idea, but I hate to think that you all think that we’re somehow okay with being wrong. We’re not.
ANYWHO – if you’re asking me, Da7e, I think that we’ll see Korra in the Avatar state in one or both of the last two episodes of the season. Before that would be premature, in my opinion.
If you’re asking the fandom in general, they’d like to see it happen during Amon’s attack on the pro-bending arena and they’d like to see Mako calm her down much like the Katara/Aang relationship.
I just don’t think any of that is going to happen.
-Da7e-
The WolfBats ARE Vicious! And Tahno appears a bit evilish…
…wait a minute…
Legend of Zelda cross!
by jakface
Thanks!
I think we’re going to give it a try again this weekend, even though I will not be joining Matt and Devindra.
TearBend, not, my friends, I will be replaced by someone just as qualified and probably a woman, which could potentially make her more qualified.
And I want to take this moment to post this A:TLA/Star Wars fan art that is old, but I still enjoy it and really should have posted it on International Star Wars Day (May 4th).
Better late than never!
Yes.
There are large plans. Large-large-probably-in-book-2-large-large plans.
I trust in Bryke to surprise me, which is why I feel so comfortable getting really outlandish with theories. They’re good storytellers and show-runners which means they’ll only show us what’s narratively important and will skip over what isn’t.
It’s great to have that level of trust in a Nickelodeon show. If Spongebob defies physics, no one cares because he’s silly. If something unexpected happens in Korra, the entire nature of the story changes.
That’s just amazing.
-Da7e-
And cherishubii asks: “What do schools look like in Republic City?" :
A quick concept sketch before I go to bed-
A thought occured to me today- what would the schools be like in republic city? Obviously it’d be a pretty big public school because of the size of the city. I know there would be a lot of schools but I decided to do a sketch design of what I think the uniforms would look like for the most populous one. I tried to keep it with mutual colours and not with the four nation colours for different students as that could cause discrimination and separation in ways, so despite being from different nations all children’s uniforms look the same. Unless they went to special bending academies or something. Both boys and girls have the same style of pants/ leg-wear and arm-wear just the tops are different. I tried to keep an even mix of old style western and eastern uniforms.
I might do some full art tomorrow of this.
There can be variations with the uniform such as longer/shorter sleeves for the different seasons and blazers. Hats and other accessories such as scarves and gloves are permitted as long as they are not in the classroom.
My mom just came in my room and yelled “WAKE UP KORRA!! MAKO IS WAITING FOR YOU!”
Okay! 😀
Michael DiMartino, In His Own Words
This is good enough to re-blog just to make sure you’ve checked it out
Mike wrote a nice piece about his journey from being a little kid drawing G.I. Joe to co-creating and writing on his own series in the paper from his hometown, the Burlington Free Press. Check out the two-page article through the link above.
5/2/2012
Oh boy. Are we ready to talk about Love Potion #8?
Here’s the deal: it’s a book for children that was released while Team Avatar was wandering the Fire Nation in Book 3. It’s not written well (but if pretty well illustrated) and introduces a…
You know what, an anonymous commenter on the Avatar Wiki has this covered:
So the gang is walking, and they meet the nomads. Now, instead of five, they grew in size, so now there’s like, what, fifteen hippies. The hippies are having a Love Feast, and offer everyone a love potion called Love Potion #8, because the first seven “didn’t turn out to well.” So, they all drink the potion, and go all crazy with love and whatnot. Katara and Aang slip away somewhere, and Toph meets this nomad boy Ohev, and Sokka is just by himself, thinking about Suki and Yue. Toph and Ohev talk, and it is discovered that Ohev was a servant to the Bei Fong family before he ran away. They fall in love, Katara and Aang fall in love, and Sokka is Sokka. Soon they have to leave, and Ohev kisses Toph on the cheek. Right before they leave on Appa, the nomads reveal Love Potion #8 wasn’t a potion, but just “water, berries, and sugar,” so all the potion stuff was just mumbo-jumbo, but the love was real. So the gang flies away, and Ohev is never seen again throughout the Avatar world, at least for now.
I’m not sure that this is cannonical.
I’m going to guess “no” because it seems like a huge tribe of Earth Nomads wandering around the Fire Nation around the time period of Book Three seems imporbable in that greater universe.
That and nothing that originates in Love Potion #8 ever shows up in the series (Ohev – Herbrew for “love” – never is mentioned).
Until someone mentions Ohev (or that this event actually happened), I’m inclined to think that this isn’t going to be brought up.
But that’s just my critical opinion, I wouldn’t be pissed. Not nearly as I was spending money on Love Potion #8
I’m bringing this all up because IT’S NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK! I’m thinking I need some new books. I want a new copy of The Invention Of Hugo Cabret and I’m ALWAYS on the lookout for Classic Goosebumps books. I like to get them signed by actors that were in the TV versions.
-Da7e-
Yes, I believe that’s what I think.
And also a few of you, it appears.
Here’s another Anonymous:
There’s been discussion that Aang may have killed Yakone in the past. I think many found this interesting because he was so against it in the original series. I contend, however, that Aang has actually been a killer since Book 2, specifically in the episode “Avatar Day.” He airbends a man over a cliff, the same cliff Shin the Conqueror fell off of to his death
And fantasticdinos says:
I know on last week’s podcast you all described the flash back to adult Aang, Sokka and Toph and some “regretful eyes”, right? This may just be a coincidence of the characters being drawn in the same style, but if you check out Tahno’s eyes when Korra gets up in his face in ep. 5 his eyes look very similar to this mystery man’s in the flash back. What do you all think? is Tahno’s Great-Grandaddy the supreme court judge? Maybe that’s why Tahno acts like a complete ass.
And another Anonymous that referenced the flashback scene (our answer is “hair, we think?”):
This is totally irrelevant and not a big question, but I’m still wondering: In the flashback, is Toph wearing an army beret like the guy next to her, or is that just her hair? I know it’s not really that important, but it does say something about her status. If that’s a hat, she’s probably just a regular soldier/police officer person. If it’s her hair… she’s probably a ranking officer. Just puttin’ that out there. Peace out.
-Da7e-
via sarahveee
I mean, “when fans fight, nobody wins” IS the motto, but in this case, I think the key would be to find things you can both enjoy together.
Like this maybe?
(I hope I didn’t, like, ruin a bet with my non-answer, but Bolin is not mine to give!)
-Da7e-
ADDITION!
rainingsugar says: “my bf is like a real life replica of Bolin. personality wise and physically <3”
BOLIN LIVES! (but is dating rainingsugar)
Ok. Yes. I should have said “cel style” animation, which still isolates the character from it’s background rather than allowing both to exist in a digital world together. It’s still called “cel style” animation.
I tend to enjoy actually owning old cels. My favorite is a close up shot I have of Scrooge McDuck from the first season of Ducktails. It’s amazing how thick layers of paint can be for something like close-ups, but another cel – like my Real Ghostbusters cel of Winston, Egon, Ray and Slimer running through the streets – has only 3 or 4 colors and isn’t quite as thick.
Cels are super cheap on eBay if you’re in to owning little pieces of animation, by the way. Not everything is available all the time (for instance, as I’m writing this, someone is dumping a bunch of old Rugrats cels, when usually it’s something more obscure like Lonestar).
-Da7e-
Checking to make sure the new episode was on iTunes (it is!) I got around to reading the new reviews.
I have no words, only great feels.
Thanks guys and gals, benders and non-benders, fans and haters – great stuff.
-Da7e-
Win!
Thank you!
Pardon the aside, but the fan reaction has been great and has only grown week to week. We got some 50+ Tumblr messages in the past few hours and I swear I’m getting to them, we’d just like to keep the podcast on the main page going into the work week.
Oh, and I deleted the anonymous “why can’t you just pronounce it right?” comments. I don’t know why we can’t, and I’m very sorry it is bugging you more than butterfly kisses.
While I’m capping off the Sunday, makenzie-rush asks:
Soooo any guess as to when the new podcast will be out? It felt weird yesterday to see the new episode and not listen to a new podcast afterward.
Good news! It is up now on Soundcloud, here on RepublicCityDispatch.com, on the Korra Nation Tumblr and is LIVE on iTunes (links to all this at the very top of the blog).
Sunday worked really well for us because it allowed us to interact with you all a bit more, gave me some time to double check my names (I – no joke – said “Pema” some 30 times before recording because I kept wanting to say it “Peeee-ma” instead of “Peh-ma”) and finally read Emily’s AV Club re-cap seconds before starting so I knew what was and what wasn’t already being covered. Hopefully that came off in the wide spectrum of topics covered this week.
-Da7e-
Word, we posted that after we heard about it existing around the first podcast.
But, yes, you are correct. HOWEVER – most shows that use traditional cel animation these days are animated overseas. I don’t think it’s the pro-bending alone, but the entire show that’s done with Korean Animators (so is other stuff everyone thinks of as traditionally American, like Venture Bros or The Simpsons).
Either way, that video is awesome, even if it doesn’t mention some of the other rules that we saw on display (Yellow Fan! Tie-Breaker!)
-Da7e-
BE FOREWARNED – Discussion includes Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Promise (Part One), Nick.com’s “Welcome To Republic City” and Chapters 1-5 of The Legend of Korra.
Good Morning Benders and Non-Benders alike and welcome back to the Republic City Dispatch, a radio programme covering Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra series. This week, we’ll be covering Chapter 5 of Book One: Air “The Spirit of Competition.” The Fire Ferrets get romantically entangled during their first three pro-bending tournament matches.
You know what we’re talkin’ about Pabu. We’re talkin’ bout real love…
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Aw man, this episode was awesome for all the little Pro-Bending goodies. Yellow Fan, Tie-breaker, VOMITING! : )
I think the spirit of the “liquid state” rule is what’s important.
This one time in high school I got kicked off the Larcrosse team because I shot the goalie with a BB Gun. “What?” I asked, “Technically there’s nothing in the rules PROHIBITING BB Guns!”
Ok, that’s not true, but that’s the spirit of what I’m saying.
Although I think you pointed out an interesting technicality: couldn’t the waterbender throw a water stream into a poweful firebender blast to CREATE steam? Or is that still technically against the rules?
Oh man, I love pro-bending.
Thanks for geeking out over the rules, Lord knows I am.
-Da7e-
Thanks everyone!
We’re rendering out this week’s podcast in which I suggest we table Bloodbending until the series actually mentions it. I can’t help but feel like we’re going in a direction that might just lead to tons of unanswered questions.
-Da7e-
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