Republic City Dispatch

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-

I think I have learned my lesson about shippers, shipping and this blog/podcast: we don’t really get it (yet).

And from what I’m seeing in the Korra fan circles this morning, it’s going to be tough because the whole thing is about to reach a fever pitch come this weekend.

Let’s just all be nice to each other, okay? You can pair off any two characters that you want, just don’t flood me with “WHY U HATEZ HOWLERS YOU SUXXX” e-mails and messages. That was scary.

-Da7e-

I think it’s pretty brilliant.

-Da7e-