Esquire Theme by Matthew Buchanan
Social icons by Tim van Damme
10
Jul
Dave & I (Patches) will be at San Diego Comic-Con starting Wednesday. And the plan is to definitely attend The Legend of Korra panel (obviously). If you see us, say hello!
And in case you wanted to ship identify the two of us, here’s a pic of us hugging. Send Devindra some love as he’ll be stuck at home practicing his metalbending.
30
Jun
New Episode Tomorrow!
26
Jun
Finally decided to get some broad stroke thoughts down on Book 1: Air over at my homebase of Hollywood.com! I’m not joking with that headline and I’m guessing you might feel the same.
- Patches
24
Jun
REPUBLIC CITY DISPATCH #11: BOOK ONE FINALE! “SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET/ENDGAME”
BE FOREWARNED - Discussion includes Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra Book One and could expand to include The Promise (Part One and Two), Nick.com’s “Welcome To Republic City” at any time.
Good Morning Benders and Non-Benders alike and Welcome to The Republic City Dispatch, a radio programme covering Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra series. This week: Book One, Air, concludes with Skeletons in the Closet and End Game. Pearl Harbor echoes into Republic City, Amon seizes control, Generals Iroh and Bumi are on the attack and someone forgot to break up with Asami, all that and more with Matt, Dave and Devindra!
This episode focuses on the two broadcast episodes of Korra and we’ll be having a fandom reaction/theory/madness episode next week! Use the links below!
Hosted by Devindra Hardawar of the /Filmcast and Da7e and Matt Patches of Operation Kino.
Send us questions and comments through: Tumblr, E-mail, and Twitter.
We have opened up the COMMENTS on all posts on RepublicCityDispatch.com for your cross-dialogue needs!
Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes (and kick us a review if you like what you hear!)
You can also subscribe through Soundcloud and our RSS there.
Are you part of TEAM TRANSCRIPTION? Would you like to be an Transcription Bender for our international listeners? E-mail us here.
22
Jun
Our buddies over at VYou got the hook up. Mike & Bryan are answering fan submitted questions leading up to the finale. All you have to do is submit them and you can see the guys answering in video form! As many Pabu questions as possible, please.
- Patches
21
Jun
Got my second poster from Korranation today. Feelin’ fab! :3
18
Jun
This week’s references to The Dark Knight Rises have listeners riffing non-stop! After the awesome “Amon cracking Korra” image, dinoccom created this Amon montage set to the haunting TDKR Bane score ”Deshi Basara” and listener dylgio unleashed his long-gestating mash-up of Korra and the TDKR trailer (see above). So cool.
- Patches
It’s a korranation Q&A! :
Hey, Korra Nation! This coming Friday, co-creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will be answering questions from Korra fans!
Leave your questions below or tag your post with #AskBryke and your question could be answered.
Here’s ours: Which TV and film villains have you drawn inspiration from for Amon’s character?
6/27/2012
Republic city dispatch made a general request during transmission.
Amon breaking Lin’s back, like Bane and Batman…
I couldn’t resist.
Im sorry
Wow! A discussion on the similarities between this week’s “Turning the Tides” and The Dark Knight Rises lead to a silly suggestion for a sketch of Amon as Bane breaking Korra’s back (a la Batman’s Knightfall), but Republic City Dispatch commenter silvermoonphantom made it happen. And impressively so. Amazing!
Here’s the original pic for reference:
- Patches
14
May
borlob asked: How do you all feel about Mako's character development? I really hope they go into more back story on him. Right now it just feels like he just spouts these lines which don't really fit his character, that just need to be said I guess. Bolin is already so lovable, I just want more reason to like Mako (I did love his mocking of Tahno in episode).
One of my favorite aspects of Korra is the carefully peppered in character moments. In only six episodes, we’ve learned a ton about each member of the show’s large ensemble, while avoiding endless stretches of backstory exposition. I like it that way — for example, I know just enough about both Mako and Bolin to understand what they think about the world and how they make decisions. I doubt I’ll ever shut up about that perfectly executed moment where we see Mako lightning bending at his power plant day job.
There’s a bit we don’t know yet — how did these two end up where they are today? Why is Mako all brooding like? — but I’m hoping we don’t learn too much more. I like that Korra lives mostly in the now (other than the teases to Tenzin’s past and the reoccurring flashback to a pivotal moment in Aang’s Avatar career), so unless the death of Mako and Bolin’s parents is tied directly to Amon, the central conflict or Korra’s own story, I’d say we don’t need too much of pre-Korra Mako. I agree that I want a moment in the series that helps me love Mako the same way we love goofy ol’ Bolin, but I’m hoping that moment is one of present day heroism.
- Patches
(art via Yori-Narpati)
via mattpatches
via pugletto
via korranation
via silvermoonphantom