Republic City Dispatch

Matt and I asked The Track Team if there was going to be any lyrical songs in The Legend of Korra and they said “no,” but had not finished the first season yet. Suffice to say, officially, there’s no plan.

BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT! Seriously, “Leaves From The Vine” is beautiful in it’s own right and “Secret Tunnel” is the bomb, but any song about your girlfriend turning into the moon – I mean, come on, it’d be great.

In case you missed it, here is Patches and I talking to The Track Team about their Korra work. 

I really hope to touch base with them again after the season has aired to talk this, if there will be an official soundtrack and general awesomeness. We’ll see.

-Da7e-

We talk about this a bit in Episode 3 of the podcast. But – there’s something fishy about her. If she was supposed to be only a romantic character, she would have had more to do this episode.

Don’t trust rich girls who are supposed to be expert drivers but crash into you “on accident” on a Moped then are talking about how “safe” they feel with you three days later. 

That’s just good life advice.

If Assami isn’t bad, I owe you a bowl of Narook’s Seaweed Noodles. 

-Da7e-

Ahh! No comment! I fear for my life if I take a shipping stance!

But I will say this – I wish my romances started this way:

That’s talkin’ ‘but real love, Pabu.

OOOH! I like “AVATAR!”

We talked about this a bit in Episode 1 of the podcast.

I like the idea that it’s “Soul” or “Spirit,” but something that’s bigger than the four elements. The progression seems to be going in that direction.

Then again, it could be “Chi” or “Life” or something even HUGER!

Gah! Too early to get excited, but – yeah – good thoughts! I doubt we’ll get a second book of “Water” I think Korra Book 2 has to be something new.

-Da7e-

We don’t really ship. But, that particular combo has some basis for maybe showing up. What with those flashback/forwards.

Hmmm. Trying to link to -everdeen is http://catbender.in/?

I’m super sensitive to sourcing fan art, and try to re-blog/add to keep the Tumblr chain going. That being said, I can’t drive myself crazy tracking down where each GIF originated and I found -everdeen’s on a post that did not mention where it was from.

I totally accept watermarks on your GIFs, though, and if you feel like whatever you are contributing to the fandom is proprietary, please take it upon yourself to source yourself. 

-Da7e-

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-