Podcast? Podcast.

[Snake of the South]

Hey there everyone. Season 2 of Korra has added some much needed backstory and world building to the series. So in honor of this season nearing it's finale, I'd be willing to put together and host a podcast to have some good ol' fashion Avatar discussion! The following possible topics are:

-Wan; Establishing the Culture and Traditions of the Avatar
-Is Bending truly just spiritbending instead of a genetic thing like we were lead to believe? Or, in light of recent developments in Korra, what exactly is spiritbending?
-Unalaq's motives and his apparent ability to steal/destroy souls; What is the importance of soul in the ATLAverse?
-Jinora shares some parallels with Aang and has a strange affinity for past Avatars. Interestingly enough, she has mostly traits that Korra herself is lacking in such as spirituality. Is it possible Aang's spirit reincarnated into two separate people?
-The Dragon of the West and that whole thing (though this could be folded into spiritbending discussion)

Those are the big ones I came up with. If you have questions or you're interested in participating, please reply in this thread with your available times that you could make it. I'm available pretty much every evening and weekends. I'm shooting for at least 3 people.

[Tiny]

I have a crazy schedule but I am generally free on Fridays and Saturdays.
I am absolutely not free Mondays until 7:15 pm, Tuesdays until 8:30 pm, Wednesdays until ????? late in the evening, Thursdays until 7:15 pm.


Mentioning yet again that I'm glad we're starting this up again but I sincerely believe that we should have a regular podcast.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

I would like to do it, also, but my schedule has become many times worse for it.

I leave for work at 2:40PM Pacific from Monday- Thursday. I have my family/DnD day on Friday starting 3PM Pacific
On Saturday and Sunday, I leave 9:10AM Pacific and get back around 6:30PM Pacific.

Tuesdays and Thursday mornings, I belong to Meg, and mostly the same with Saturday and Sunday evenings, but I could invite her to it at some point.

[Snake of the South]

Mentioning yet again that I'm glad we're starting this up again but I sincerely believe that we should have a regular podcast.

Regular podcast? Well I mean, that's what I was intending unless I'm missing something? I don't really intend for this to be a KPR if that's what you meant.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

I don't know if it needs to be regular, but I would like it to be regular enough for us to really catch up with the times.

We never even covered the end of season 1 fully, no less any of season 2. I guess the motivation is for right now, but I have lots of things I can rant and talk about, so I think we owe the rest of LOK some conversation time.

[Pleh]

I'd be up for it. It'd be my first time podcasting, so we use Skype, right?

My schedule is a little hard to predict, but very flexible generally speaking.

I dunno about Jinora stuff. I think it's pretty wonky to start giving Aang the credit for Jinora's spiritual affinity, especially when I wasn't getting any vibe like that from the show. Really, if you think about it, Jinora knows more than Aang did at her age (possibly more than he learned in his lifetime, considering that we know so very little about what he actually knew).

I wouldn't mind a talk on Bending being genetic vs spiritual or the effect Wan's story has on the whole mythology. Seems to be the stuff that we have the most material to work with ATM.

[Snake of the South]

Yep, we use Skype. My skype is snake_of_the_south

Admittedly, the Jinora one is a bit out there. I just find it odd none of that rubbed off on Tenzin and instead went to Jinora. But anyways, I think we could probably get the most out of those topics too. I know we touched on a little bit of the genetics of bending in a couple of past podcasts, but having one completely centered around it would be some pretty cool discussion. There's already some great thoughts out there in the thread about that topic. The Wan idea, I was thinking about how the traditions of being the "Avatar" got started. For the more recent Avatars, they have a whole training regime that has this ancient tradition about it while Wan simply learned from spirits and lionturtles. Honestly, I feel like we could get more content out of genetics and spiritbending.

As for podcasts about season one and season two, I don't see why we couldn't do some more down the road. But most of early season two is "plot plot shipping plot plot" and had barely anything that warranted deep discussion like these recent episodes have. I mean, Iroh fricking pulled a Goku and kept his body after he died last week!

It's looking like our best bet for when to do this is Saturday. What time would work best for you Count?

[Count of Monte Fisto]

Saturday, I work from 10-6 Pacific
I leave at like 9:10ish, and get back at like 6:30ish

To anyone in the east, that is almost 10PM. If that is too late, I completely understand, but what is when I would be available.

[Snake of the South]

That's a good time for me. Since it's going to be after the new episode(s) air, I think we should decide whether or not we bring points up from tomorrow's premiere. I'm inclined to say no because I know we all have differing schedules for watching the show now.

[Pleh]

Agreed. I can't promise to have seen the episode by Saturday (we often don't even have it on our site that soon).

[Tiny]

The episode AND the finale will be up tonight.

Finale part 1 and 2 will be posted online at nick.com at midnight

we need to be able to talk about the finale. otherwise, tbh, there's not much point.

[Snake of the South]

Whoa whoa whoa, I didn't realize we were this close to the end of the season! This gets a little conflicting because we all watch the show at different times. I myself usually watch the new episodes on nick.com the following Saturday after they premiere.

If we can all view the episode before Count gets home tomorrow night, then sure, I think having a finale podcast would be great for us and even AP itself. I don't want to pressure anyone though. I would love to have all of you guys in this podcast and if that means putting off the finale discussion for another few days, then so be it. I'm willing to do a finale podcast down the road if we don't end up talking about it tomorrow.

[Pleh]

Not much point? There's a TON of new material to talk about without talking about the finale. I see no particular need to focus on that one thing.

I can't guarantee to have seen it by then, so if that's a requirement, I may have to opt out.

[Tiny]

I'll let you guys know whether or not I'll be there for the podcast. I hope to be, but I won't know until pretty close to the time that Count'll be back


And yeah it was a spechul surprise from the LoK team at Nick. They did a reblog thing on tumblr.

[Pleh]

I'm go for launch whenever, captain.