Republic City Dispatch

I wouldn’t say “Dumb” because there are certainly dumber theme songs out there. I mean, I love the show itself, but have you heard the theme song for Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes?

Ewww. 

The Legend of Korra opening isn’t as dynamic as the first time through, but it’s a 12 episode miniseries, so I’m cutting it some slack. Not to mention that for a show that has Earth, Fire, Air and Water cartoon effects…well, it could have been worse.

I’ve had this conversation with people who are really into to different TV before: “What makes a good theme?”

My theory? If you can be humming it and someone else you don’t know can recognize it and connect with you on the share expereince d of watching the show, it’s a worhty theme song.

By this criteria, there’s only one theme song that has gotten me into conversations recently:

Oh helllllloooo Pomplemousse!

You are correct, The Onion’s AV Club has some of the best and most consistent television criticism out there. I’ve been reading their recaps on most everything since about halfway through Lost.

I was Da7e for a hot 2 seconds on the AV Club/TV Club system, then I got the iPad app and the format of it was all weird, then I just went back to reading, silently, without commenting. Especially on Community comment threads which are insane.

Anyway! The Legend of Korra text reviews are HERE and are written by   Emily Guendelsberger

The Avatar: The Last Airbender re-watch and reviews are HERE and are written by Hayden Childs.

The A:TLA series of articles was great while it was coming out and I used a few of them as a way of getting people interested in the property after the movie: “Look! Real critics have real nice things to say!”

I’ve been reading Emily’s reviews in parallel with ours and where she says “X-Men” we say “Batman,” otherwise, we’re all four of us geniuses and you all are still schooling us in advanced Korra predictions!

AHHHH! Less than an hour! I’m psyched! 

Da-doi! I should have thought of that on day one!

Yes, Amanda is right, the best place to cross reference against anything A:TLA is http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki.

However: Wikis/Wikas sometimes take awhile before they have all the information on something new, like The Legend of Korra. There’s great content there about Korra now, and excellent fans update it quickly after each episode’s air, but since there hasn’t been a year or more of discussion about the show since the season has ended, all Korra facts are up for debate.

Friendly debate, of course! : )

-Da7e-

I’m secretly missing Azula already.

The Avatar Wika says that according to a Nick.com game that was running at the time A:TLA ended, Azula was admitted to that world’s equivalent of a mental hospital. 

But the last time we saw her she was freaking out, all chained up.

(not counting awesome Azula Vs. Mass Effect fan art)

And you can’t be as in to exploring the Tumblr Avatar fan community as I am without being staggered by the Azula Alphabet over at History Miss. I’m not even close to done reading it. It’s a fantastic blend of fan fic and A: TLA fandom. 

Anywho – I’d love to see Azula back and/or a character on the show take over Azula’s malice and megalomania. But I’m not sure I want her to be a descendant of Amon…or Mako. Those two characters seem to have Daddy issues like Bruce Wayne, and I can’t imagine you get Daddy issues if Azula is your mother. Azula would give them Mommy issues. 

I see it! From a design standpoint, this is super cool. Especially when mixed with the Mao and Noh visuals already present.

And good call on the eyes, no matter how much we want to see Koh, I’m starting to think we won’t (not in Book One, at least).

-Da7e-

Hmmmm. I have a feeling we will happen across this for tomorrow’s podcast. If the teaser at the end of last week’s episode was anything other than a dream sequence, Amon and Korra will be placed in direct opposition to each other.

And I keep assuming we’ll have to talk about The Avatar State sometime soon, but this past Monday, Matt Patches told me his current favorite pet theory and I told him it was crazy, that he was crazy, and that if he brings it up on the podcast tomorrow, you’ll all call him crazy.

So although I’m not answering your question specifically, I have used it as a way to tease tomorrow’s podcast, which will be up sometime after Korra airs on Nickelodeon at 11AM. : )

But, yeah, hurting Korra’s bending during The Avatar State could have horrible consequences knowing what we do about causing permanent damage to the Avatar. I’m sure that’s a threat and could possibly stop the creation of new Avatars? Maybe?

This discussion: to be continued.

-Da7e-

Hi Reddit! 

Welcome to the Republic City Dispatch blog, we see you and recognize the call. I hope y’all have been enjoying The Legend of Korra and our podcast.

-Da7e- 

Hey! I can answer one of your two questions definitively!

1. Episode 3 –  3.546 million viewers, 0.91 A18-49 (#1 on the network for the day)

2. I’m kind of new to this all too and we’re all new to Korra relatively, so I’m not sure I can link to nuggets beyond a Google search quuuuiiiitttee yet (I plan to). Now, I’ve just been navigating around by clicking the names of people who contact us, searching tags or habitually checking Korra Nation and Nick.com like a madman.

But I wanted to get you those numbers as soon as I found them, so I’m kind of copping out on that second question. Please don’t Tear Bend.

-Da7e-

No we are not. Episode 4 “A Voice In The Night” HAS NOT AIRED YET. 

11PM Saturday on Nickelodeon the 4th episode of The Legend of Korra airs for everyone and our podcast will be up as quickly after that as we can get it.

We’ve been waiting for Korra for years, we can all wait two more days. 

OR think about it THIS way: If it’s so hard to wait for the next new episode of Korra, yeah you can watch Episode 4 now, but that just means you have to wait 2 days longer for Episode 5, right?

Either way waiting makes us Tear Bend. : )

(talking about THIS POST)

Hmmmmm. Well that would be lovely if someone wants to set that up.

I feel like Patches, Devindra and I have our plates full trying to make the show and stay in touch with all of you. BUT:

If you are a proficient transcriber or are just as COOL TO FELLOW FANS as Abundance Of Vowels, e-mail me. 

When the next podcast posts, I’ll put everyone that volunteers into an e-mail chain.

This is perfect! I can be a rallying point!

-Da7e-

I agree!

I also think that if both Benders and Non-Benders turn from the Spirits, someone in the Spirit world might get restless enough to turn to an orphaned child full of rage.

Either way, Amon is the big bad and I think we’ll be dealing with the apparent lack of Spirits at some point in the series. Maybe Book One is dealing with Amon and once we know about him, we’ll have to wait for the next Book before we learn why Republic City is so spiritually lacking?

As for the gangs, I hope they’re muscling up for an all out war: Metalbenders against Triads against Chi-Blockers. Thing is, we still don’t know whose side Korra would be on in that case, and maybe the next few episodes are her struggling with that choice.

But, yeah, I have no idea, Korra could go full Batman on Saturday, I haven’t watched the leaks and have been staying off Tumblr. : )

-Da7e-

Indeed there is!

And as we gear up for this weekend’s episode without getting into spoilers, I think it’s safe for me to say that it looks like things are not going to turn out how we predicted. 

And that’s amazingly awesome from my fan perspective. : )

-Da7e-