Republic City Dispatch

Not, like, a date, but promotional materials for Nickelodeon suggests that Korra Book 2 will be air during Fall 2013. Everything we’ve heard has supported that theory, but nothing has hard confirmed it that we know of.

-Da7e-

Depends. Could there be? Yes, there could be. Though I’m not sure when it makes the most narrative sense to bring that up. Do you investigate it immediately as a way for Korra to enter the Spirit World? That’s what it seems like from the footage we’ve seen of Book 2 so far. Since all bending originates from the Spirit World, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re dealing with this pretty early on in the season (especially since it now sounds like well get more Lin backstory, so she may not be as absent from Book 2 as we feared).

The other option would be to let Korra and everyone else feel like a BAMF for a little while, then yank her bending out from under her again in a future book. 

I’ll trust Bryan and Mike here.

-Da7e-

PS – Like Adventure Time or just have Netflix Instant? It’s PODCAST TIME. 

PPS – We’re investigating the possibility of breaking out RCDispatch crossover hour with the SlashFilmAid Podcastathon into the RCDispatch feed. We got to talk to Jeremy Zuckerman of the Track Team again and he let us know what the Spirit World will sound like and how far through Book 2’s score he is. 

Certainly possible, of course. Judging from The Promise, though, I think we have a lot more to investigate in this plot than what we know now. But we did get an Appa Fight, which made Issue 1 infinitely awesome. 

-Da7e-

I guess the counter argument from me would be: Does it seem like Azula is sane enough to master-mind this craziness? She seems pretty far gone hallucinating her mother. So if we think we’re being jerked around, we’re being jerked around by the character…which I’m fine with. 

Like the best lies, this one looks like a truth.

-Da7e-

At some point last season when we were speculating on specialized forms of bending, someone brought up how Airbenders really don’t suck or knock the air out of people. AND there’s air in everything. Like in your blood – which is why entering the vacuum of space is so bad for you (over 18? Watch Event Horizon!). Sound would be cool, but there’s lots of combat-ready air possibilities from my seat.

-Da7e-

I think it makes sense in terms of what we know about the Zuko/Ozai relationship in A:TLA. It also makes sense considering we knew Ozai was kind of crazy, but not Agni-Kai on his first born son kind of crazy. Now we know where THAT crazy came from. This oblique enough?

-Da7e-

All I remember thinking is that Ozai’s hatred of Zuko in A:TLA suddenly make a TON more sense. 

-Da7e-

Good question! That is the current discussion amongst the three hosts. We have a few ideas about what the rest of the “off-season” podcast episodes are going to be and right now we’re debating on splitting The Search up. 

Personally, I’d rather do it all as a bundle, but if we start to get the idea that The Search isn’t going to wrap up by the time Book 2 starts (or if ideas in The Search inform Book 2), we’ll make sure everyone is working from the same source material as we move forward.

But – IT’S A HARD CHOICE! Like I said, the last page of The Search is a doozy, plot-wise, for the entire series up to this point.

-Da7e-

Every time I think of sound as a weapon, I think of the Hulk Thunder Clap from The Incredible Hulk. But that’s why I have Korra, right? To show me how I’m missing the awesomeness of the core concept? : )

-Da7e-

Grey DeLisle (the voice of Azula in A:TLA) has said she’s coming back to voice a Spirt character. We also get to see a frightening Spirit Wolf in The Search: Part One (and he’s on the cover of Part Two, so his existing is not a spoiler). I think it’s fairly safe to say that we’re looking a slightly more super-natural villain than we go in “Air." 

As for specialized Airbending Technique, I’m not sure. We know the Air Monks were super peaceful and respectful of all life, so I dont think it’s going to be as violent as Bloodbending. Until Korra learned to Spirit-Bend at the end of Book One, I would have thought that was the Airbender technique. 

There are so many places that you can manipulate air, maybe this specialized technique is something discovered by Korra, since the Airbenders have been wiped out during most of both series’ runs.

Any guesses out there?

-Da7e-

I wanted to publish this because you wrote it to us before THE SEARCH Part One, which makes you super smart for noticing and guessing that Azula and Ursa have a more complicated relationship than we were lead to believe.

-Da7e-

I’d be sad if Amon and Tarrlok aren’t mentioned again amongst our heroes, and the series overall seems to have a long memory. Especially considering we super-fans are supposed to be holding Zuko’s Mom’s past in our head at the same time as Korra enters the Spirit World. This mythology is only getting bigger, so I’d imagine at some point someone is going to wonder if Amon and Tarrlock got away.

-Da7e-

We’re all constantly re-loading THIS AMAZON PAGE:

http://amzn.to/11R6dBP

…that lists the Legend Of Korra, Book One: AIR Blu-Ray. It used to have a pre-order option, but it got downgraded to a sign up alert.

BUT – it hasn’t been pulled down, so we’re holding out hope. If it’s hitting around lat May like we hear the DVD is, expect this page to transform into a pre-order page soon. I’m not sure why they’d withhold the Blu-Ray, but at least Amazon has the HD episodes available on Amazon Instant.