Anonymous asked: What's your speculation on what the new specialized form of airbending will be? Also, what do you think will be out new villain?

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-

kovutaka asked: Also I wanted to add that in the episode "zuko alone" we see a knife that iroh gives to zuko, we later see him playing with the knife and azula mocks him by saying that he doesn't even use it well. That night; the night of ursa's disappearance, we see azula holding it in a very sneaky fashion before giving it to her brother. I think azula may know very well what happened to Ursa and may even be responsible. Another theory: the spirit world is all out of wack because there is nomore balance.

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-

Anonymous asked: do you think Korra will find out about Amon and Tarrlok's death?

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-

mythsnotuntrue asked: Saw that the DVD of the show got listed on Amazon. Would any of you guys know if a Blu-Ray is going to be produced? If not, that's a travesty and Nickelodeon should be aware of this.

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.

Some of you have alerted me, Da7e, that Republic City Dispatch is currently UNSEARCHABLE on iTunes. Even if I go to the direct store URL: 

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/republic-city-dispatch/id520158367 

I’m told it’s not available in the US Store. 

Not sure why, everything used on the podcast, audio wise, was given to us and used with permission. And it’s not like we’re even gone as the FEED through iTunes works just fine.

As I figure this out, here are the options for our iTunes users:

1) Aw, heck, just download Episdoes 1-16 HERE in a single 523 MB ZIP file. Then you have them all. 

2) You can still subscribe to the podcast using the new iTunes. Got to FILE>ADVANCED in the pull down menu and select SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST…

A window will open up with a place for you to put the Feed URL. 

Copy this and put it there: 

 http://readitordont.com/RCD/RCDFeed.xml

Like so:

And, BOOM, you will re-subscribe/update:

Until next time, dear listeners, I’ll be wrestling with iTunes.

im-a-tumor asked: Hi guys I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but i can't listen to your latest podcast, SoundCloud is telling me there's an error. Do you guys post these anywhere else?

Soundcloud seems to be working fine this morning.

If you’re using a subscription service like Stitcher, iTunes, Downcast, etc, our various RSS feeds are listed HERE. 

And if that still isn’t working, I’ll let you in on a little secret - Me (Da7e)? I’m really lazy with file names. So you can access the MP3 directly at:

http://readitordont.com/RCD/RCD16.mp3

However, as of episode 16, you’re the first one reporting an error. One of these methods should work.

Anonymous asked: Hey, what happened to making a podcast at least once a month? What's going on? We haven't heard anything new from you all.

Sorry! Sorry! We’re Sorry! :)

Did I mention how sorry we are?

Here’s what’s up: We’ve got jobs, a hurricane hit us, Devindra got engaged, Da7e’s about to switch jobs and there were some complications with some of our grander plans.

As far as we know, there isn’t official word on a major Korra release we have to talk about. The Season 1 DVD should be coming soon, I’d expect and episode from us on that.

Elsewise, it’s a period of downtime while we wait for new comics to start up and for some official news on Book 2 to come our way. We’re still investigating doing a re-watch of the original series. Our commentary track was an experiment to see if that workflow went well.

Point being - WE’RE SORRY! - We had big, big plans for doing a podcast once a month in the off season. BUT, we error’d on the side of waiting until we knew what we were going to talk about, roughly.

Anywho - The more Korra stuff that starts happening (that isn’t just people putting Korra on year-end lists), the closer we’ll be to new Dispatch Episodes.

Not to mention we’ll be back every week once Book 2 starts, we’re committing to that.

-Da7e-