From Zap2It, http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/the-legend-of-korra/EP01547041, we have the episode description for K107 The Aftermath

Korra begins to suspect that an ally is working for the Equalists.

Also we have confirmation of the top 100 list of Korra Nation points scorers from Phase 1

http://korra.socialtoaster.com/phase1.html

Notable members from this site include our Site Admin, Jordan who had the most points by a massive margin, Site moderator and podcast co host Callum is number 42 and myself, Morgan (Airspeed Prime) in 73.

They confirm that the winner of the SDCC trip will be announced soon and the prizes will be shipped out soon also.

Phase 2 started yesterday, so start earning points again as the top 5 people by June 30th will win a sketch by Joachim Dos Santos, exec producer for Korra and the top 50 by the same date will win a season pass on Itunes.

The Aftermath Description + New Korra Nation news was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

Avatar Online Podcast Episode 5 – May 12th 2012

Morgan (Airspeed Prime), Callum (Badgermole1) and Rich (O.G.Sokka) discuss the latest news, including the final locations on the Nick interactive site. Then cover the discussion topic “Unanswered Questions from ATLA” before answering some listener Questions.

00:00:00 – Opening
00:00:48 – Quick Update from Morgan recorded on May 15th about Episode 7
00:01:47 – Introduction
00:03:30 – News, including talk about Korra Nation, the Last Locations on Nick.com and more
00:44:27 – Intermission
00:46:40 – Discussion Topic on Unanswered Questions/Plotpoints and mysteries of Avatar The Last Airbender
01:44:37 – Listener Email from Glade Packer
01:50:30 – Listener Question from Worldstraveller
01:57:07 – Listener Question from Anonymous on Tumblr
02:02:25 – Outro
End

Download the MP3 here (Right Click -> Save As)

http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/podcast/ATLAOnlinePodcast5.mp3

Or just click once to listen.

Podcast RSS Feed – http://feeds.feedburner.com/avatarpodcast

Itunes – http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/avatar-last-airbender-podcast/id512736597
Just search “Avatar Online in podcasts” Please give us some positive feedback to help spread the show.

If you have any listener Questions or suggestions ask them here

http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/groups/avatar-online-podcast/forum/topic/listener-questions-and-suggestions/

Or the email address
avataronlinepodcast@gmail.com

Avatar Online Podcast Episode 5 was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

So a few things to cover in this news post.

We at last have confirmation that K107 Titled “The Aftermath” is going to Air this Saturday at the usual time 10am central/11am eastern/3PM Gmt

Here is our preview clip for this episode, from Korra Nation and the Nick site, here is I believe a region free version of the clip for all to see, thanks to Korralations on tumblr.

http://korralations.tumblr.com/post/23076142315/the-aftermath-episode-1×07-preview-clip-a-fallen

So Tahno is not only in 2 episodes, it makes me wonder if this will be his last appearance or if he will now become a recurring character.

Finally Bill Rinaldi on Tumblr confirmed that Episode 8 will not Air on May 26th, due to Memorial Day, which I assume means it is pushed to the week after June 2nd.

The Legend Of Korra Episode 7 Title, New clip + 1 week break in Airing was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

K106 And The Winner Is…

So we have reached the half way stage of Book 1 Air, mid way through season 1 of Korra. This episode was very much a mid season finale, bringing to a close the Pro Bending tournament story and Amon’s first major strike against the benders. A fantastic episode, that had some of the best action in the series so far, some extremely tense moments and probably best of all brilliant character development, especially for characters like Lin who we have not seen much of. So I guess I will cover this episode with the main topics of: The Pro Bending Finals, Amon’s Attack on the arena and Characterisation (Mainly Lin Bei Fong).

The first half of the episode is about the preparations for the finals, Amon’s threat and the final itself. I was happy to see the team back on friendly terms and working together well after the romantic tension from the last episode. They have all agreed to put that behind them for now and focus on the finals, but I was also glad to see that there were still some references made to the various relationships and who likes who. Just the little moment of Korra cringing when Asami blew Mako a kiss, just to show it is not completely out of mind, and then the two brothers near the end delighted to see Korra was safe, which is more to show the groups friendship as opposed to relationships. When the threat came in over the radio, I was surprised to see that Amon did not just surprise attack the arena, but instead he sees just how much influence he has already by asking they shut it down, a threat. I liked that they brought back the fact that Amon can just take over the radio when he wants and it was not just a one off thing, it showed us again that Korra is scared of Amon with the look on her face, but not as scared as in K104. It showed how big of a threat Amon is when we find out the council had agreed to shut down the arena, he already has huge influence and power, and it is not until Chief Lin Bei Fong arrives that there is a change of heart. I will discuss Lin and Tarrlok more later, but seeing him again manipulate the situation, agreeing, but using Lin as the “fall guy” if it backfires.

The Final itself was the best Pro Bending we have seen so far. From the pre match entertainment of Pabu doing a nice show for the ferrets to the Wolf Bats over the top costumed entrance with Fireworks, which really showed how experienced they are in terms of knowing how to excite the crowd before the match. Into the match itself, we see that the Wolf Bats are a powerful team, not insanely powerful as we had expected after the end of K105, but still good. I think the fact that they have to cheat so much against the Fire Ferrets reallys shows how much a a threat the Bats think the ferrets are and also shows us just how impressive a team our beloved Fire Ferrets are. The way the show has presented the audience with the rules of Pro Bending has been amazing in all episodes it has appeared in, it is not just some character randomly saying the rules, but rather they show something happening and it is referenced in commentary or by the competitors themselves what the rule is, in this case the Wolf Bat’s cheating tells us many of the fouls in Pro Bending: Hosing, Icing, Headshots with Fire, breaking up earth disks, bending disks outside of the zone you are in. Very cleverly done by the writers. Then just seeing that there is corruption in Pro Bending in that the refs have been payed off, which allows the bats to get away with cheating. The way the cheating got worse and more dangerous as the match went on and the ferrets became more a a threat was a nice touch, ending with the really dangerous move of crushing up earth into water and going for headshots, a possibly lethal move. My final thoughts on the final are that once again we see Korra’s progress at Pro Bending, how cleverly she beats Tahno in the tie breaker, her body language beforehand was very aggressive towards him and he was prepared for a counter attack, yet she knows this and does an aggressive opening attack followed quickly by an attack from a completely different direction, very intelligent from Korra. I also loved Bolin getting a hit by bouncing a disk off the ropes, more strategy in the matches is great to see.

We shockingly see the Fire Ferrets beaten in the last round, no stirring comeback as we may have expected, but with what happens next, the ferrets are glad they were not left on the arena. Amon’s plan is put into action many members of the crowd pull masks up over their faces and pull electric gauntlets out of their popcorn and bags etc. The police were sweeping for suspicious objects earlier on, but never suspected that many equalists would attend the match, Amon clearly is a great strategist and knows the way the police work. We see them quickly subdue Lin and Tenzin as well as most of the Metal Bender officers. This is when the music starts to build and things become very tense, Amon arrives in front of the Wolf Bats. He quickly defeats them and takes Tahno’s bending, this is a shocking moment because it seemed like in the last episode that Tahno was going to be a new main character and this build up really makes him being taken down and having his bending taken shocking, he is a character you don’t like because he cheats, but you never wanted this to happen to him, seeing the tough Tahno begging shows us all how much power Amon now has in the city. His speech further shows how great of a public speaker he is, he knows about them cheating and buying the refs and uses this to further vilify benders “You are here to cheer on cheats” in short. I loved the way he brought in that modern technology allows anyone to be on a level plane with benders, it also shows us how much influence Amon has in the city in that a company has to be making all this tech for him, is it Future Industries, is it Cabbage Corp, who knows ?

His whole plan is amazing, shows his power to a packed audience by taking the bending of the champion’s Captain, add to that how he managed to arrive secretly in the arena while there were so many metalbender police around. Then he give a speech and leaves as the arena blows up. The whole city knows his power now, he has taken down the benders beacon of hope, the arena and with little trouble.

The action packed final scenes of the episode are utterly stunning, the music, the Animation, the character moments and the choreography all working perfectly together. It was such a great set piece action scene with most of the action taking place in the air or on the roof of the arena, the added danger of falling from heights and the roof being made of just a thin sheet of glass added so much to the tension. Lin showed us all why she is the chief and that she is very much her mothers daughter, she was amazing with those metal cables showing us why the police force implemented them after she started the use of them. We see Korra has really improved in how she fights the equalists in that she takes on The Lieutenant and manages to get the better of him with some amazing moves. The highlight of this final scene is definitely the moment where Lin has a big choice to make: Go after Amon and possibly arrest him or leave Amon and save Korra who is falling after the glass roof breaks, she chooses Korra in a very emotional moment showing so much of her character in that she respects Korra now. The last line of the city being at war from Tenzin is a great way to both end the first half of this Book and also set up the next half.

Now on to character moments I wanted to talk about. Lin is the main one in that she really is fully introduced to us as a character here. There is so much more to her than being annoyed at Korra for wrecking some shops. She used to go out with Tenzin and has held a grudge for a long time  because of how Tenzin married Pema. The moment of her agreeing with Tenzin later to be nice for a change was a great sincere moment for her character showing she is not all tough. The seeing her start to get some respect for Korra during the final was nice in that after Tenzin points out that they are actually quite similar and would get along she does take this on board later. Her choosing to save Korra showed this and they are now allies, I look forward to their future interactions.

Tarrlok had some nice moments too, he is a master manipulator, agreeing with Lin and getting the decision overturned, but he won’t suffer for the failure it will all go on Lin. The little moments of Tenzin seeing how embarrassed he is about his past romances and just that he does actually like Pro Bending and is struggling not to just become a big fan were nice to see.

My final thoughts before I go on too long, brilliant episode to end the first half of the season while still leaving a lot of mystery as to what is going to happen next, Korra had another vision, they are becoming clearer as she has more. Most of all I wonder what Mako and Bolin will do now that their home (attic above Toza’s gym in the arena) is destroyed, will they go and live on Air Temple Island, will they join Korra in the fight against Amon. Is the Task force going to come back into things and even will Lin be removed as Chief after the failure.

I have no idea what is coming next

The Legend Of Korra Episode 6 – And The Winner Is … Review was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

We discuss “And The Winner Is…” in great detail

Morgan (Airspeed Prime) and Daniel (Atry ) are on this podcast.

Download the MP3 here (Right Click, Save as) –

http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/podcast/KorraRoundtableK106.mp3

Or just click once to listen.

Show is just under 110 Minutes

Podcast RSS Feed – http://feeds.feedburner.com/avatarpodcast

Itunes – http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/avatar-last-airbender-podcast/id512736597

Just search “Avatar Online” in podcasts

Send Us listener Questions to avataronlinepodcast@gmail.com

Korra Roundtable Podcast – K106 And The Winner Is… was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

As the title says K106 “And The Winner Is…” will air today on Nick. It will air at 10am Central/11am Eastern/3pm GMT

The Episode description for this episode reads

“Korra and the Fire Ferrets prepare for the pro-bending championship as a threat looms over the arena.”

And be sure to discuss the episode after it airs on our forum, here is the thread

http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/groups/avatar-the-legend-of-korra/forum/topic/k106-and-the-winner-is-official-spoiler-discussion-thread/

The Legend Of Korra Episode 6 “And The Winner Is…” To Air Today was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

The final location on the Nick.com Welcome To Republic City Interactive site has been unlocked, The Pro Bending Arena.

As usual I am here to point out the new info we get.

• Mako is 18
• Bolin is 16
• Because of growing up on the streets and Mako taking care of Bolin, he never had a proper childhood
• Bolin always feels Second best to Mako at everything
• 
  Shiro Shinobi, the pro bending commentator is 40 and used to be a reporter who covered the Triad’s crimes

List of the Pro Bending Teams in the finals

Definitely worth a look yourself, as you get to play a game of Pro Bending and experience the great Music.

Pro Bending Logo

Final Location unlocked on Nick.com was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

After the lack of a post episode 5 promo for Episode 6 we finally have a clip for K106 “And The Winner Is…”

It is on Korra Nation, http://korranation.tumblr.com/post/22737420499/when-amon-threatens-an-attack-on-the-final-match

It is USA only again so use the Tunnelbear program to view it outside of America.

The Legend Of Korra Episode 6 – And The Winner Is… Clip was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

K105 The Spirit Of Competition

Shipping + Pro Bending is this episode in a nutshell. In my Opinion that combination worked very well, in that the episode was not just shipping, the pro bending gave the episode some amazing action while also showing the effects the romantic interactions have on teamwork, the arena echoed the out of arena stuff.

Shipping is a big part of this episode and the Avatar fandom has a large history with shipping, the difference between Korra and ATLA is that we are actually presented with conflicts of interests between characters while in ATLA we were not and it was the fandom who made up the conflicts. The romantic moments in this episode add some amazing character development to many characters. Bolin, IMO was a real focus of this episode, with him being captured in K103 and only in a few scenes in K104, it was great to get more of his character who is already a fan favourite and definitely one of mine. The “date” scene with him and Korra was brilliant, we see just how much he really likes Korra, because he has really thought out the date with bringing her to get some Water Tribe food and even the mass amounts of compliments which made her accept. It really made me like the two as a couple as they were getting along so well, emphasised especially after Korra used Naga to scare Tahno, Bolin is just such a nice guy, so much so that  it makes to feel so sorry for him when he sees Mako and Korra kissing later. This brings up another great thing about this episode, it was full of emotion, but the tone never got to full on angst, which really helped the episode overall, they kept it light hearted while still a bit serious. The best example is Bolin bursting into tears and running off flailing his arms and even where he runs off to, he and Pabu drown their sorrows in food, it both added humour to the scene so it was not soul destroying to see Bolin like that while still making you feel so bad for a nice guy like Bolin.

We also saw the best bit of character development in the whole episode for me, which was just the little moment of during the tied round, Bolin stepping up infront of his big brother (and Team Captain) who has pretty much been in charge of him and taking command of the situation by making the decision as Mako was not playing well. In fact that whole match against the Boar-Q-Pines was amazing for Bolin, we got to see just how good of a pro bender he is.

I will move on to Korra now, we see in this episode that she really has no clue what to do when she likes someone, being contained in the Avatar facility for most of her life coming into play. She is so confused that she asks Ikki and Jinora for advice, which is a great scene in itself showing the characters of those two, Jinora reading about history and romantic sacrifice, Ikki more imagination fluffy rainbow romance, but the best scene here was Pema coming into this “Girl Talk”, I was excited when I saw her come over as we have only seen bits and pieces of her in the series so far. She gave us some backstory on her relationship with Tenzin, in that he was with another girl before her (Lin is the popular theory), the advice she gives resonates throughout the whole episode, “be honest with your feelings” in that pretty much all of the characters do open up with their feelings, despite the consequences.

Back to Korra, she does confront Mako and tells him how she feels, but is rejected and her inexperience comes in here where she really does not see at all that they were on a full on date, she thought it was just fun with a friend. Later when Mako admits he likes her but is confused, she does a 317 on it AKA “Kissing the confused person”, it was in character as she is a direct person, and we see Mako kisses back (Hope Makorra shippers !!!). But her real amazing moments in this episode were in the arena during and before the final round of the Semi Final, she is the only one who has not given up, she tries to bring the team together despite the romantic complications, her words fail, but her Actions in round 3 do show the team what is important at that time. She gets a hat-trick and wins them the semi, it was a great display of pro bending in that she completely set up the Buzzard Wasps, moving them all into position and then eliminating them in one attack (which may or may not have broken the 1 second attack duration rule), shows how much she is learning.

Mako is also very interesting in this episode, in that he does like both Asami and Korra, in the  ”Guy Talk” scene when Bolin asks him about Korra as a girlfriend, Mako is only thinking about himself, but when he realises Bolin means for himself then he switches to being a protective brother, in that he knows dating a team mate will only be bad. He lies about his feelings when Korra first confronts him and his face tells you he felt bad about it, then after the date we see he knows exactly what is going on he knows Bolin thought it was a date and that Korra just thought it was 2 friends having fun. The big scene for him and also Bolin was after they were eliminated in the final round, he has no anger at Bolin, he simply helps his injured brother out of the water and the two in a very male fashion make up in a few words “We’re Brothers” simple as that for the 2, showing how close they are.

I feel that this review is all over the place, mainly because it is less focused on plot and more one relationships, so sorry about that. The Pro Bending itself is much improved from K102, we see much more strategy and team work in the matches and we see more rules here with the Yellow Fan, Roughing and especially the Tie Breaker. That was amazing, it was great to see a close quarters fight and I loved the grappling, I hope we see more of these tie breakers.

An interesting reveal was that Korra is a healer, I enjoyed that it was in terms of the episode quite out of the blue, she did not immediately rush to heal him after the match and the way when he asked she was just like “Hey, I’m a healer” made for a nice moment in the episode and a nice reference to Katara. While not a surprise to see she can heal, it was a cool reveal.

I could talk about so many other points and I have probably missed some great points but there are two more things I want to talk about. First is Tahno, who while only in this episode for 2 scenes really made his presence felt. He just has a presence about him, he is not a villain, just a bit slimy and self obsessed. We have yet to see that much about him, but I like this introduction as the rival of the Fire Ferrets and he also seems to at least be attracted to Korra (but the shipping may just be rubbing off on me). The mystery at the end of the episode as to how they won the match so quickly while causing injured to their opponents will be fascinating to see next episode, just how good are the Wolf Bats ?

The other point is the scene where Mako goes to take Bolin home after he finds him a mess eating a lot of food. We get some brilliant voicing acting from P.J Byrne here, with great lines like “You’re a bad Idea”.

Overall an episode that I was a bit concerned about just because of how much Nick were promoting the shipping, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it.  The key reason is that the character interactions were very realistic, they did not force the episode to be super angsty and has some fun with the shipping while developing the characters. The Pro Bending continues to improve. I cannot wait to see how the tournament ends and as we suspect what Amon’s plan is.

The Legend Of Korra Episode 5 – The Spirit Of Competition Review was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender

We discuss “The Spirit Of Competition” in great detail

Morgan (Airspeed Prime), Callum (Badgermole1), Rich (O.G.Sokka) and new host Daniel (Atry ) are on this podcast.

Download the MP3 here (Right Click, Save as) –

http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/podcast/KorraRoundtableK105.mp3

Or just click once to listen.

Show is just under 70 Minutes

Podcast RSS Feed – http://feeds.feedburner.com/avatarpodcast

Itunes – http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/avatar-last-airbender-podcast/id512736597

Just search “Avatar Online” in podcasts

Send Us listener Questions to avataronlinepodcast@gmail.com

Korra Roundtable Podcast – K105 The Spirit Of Competition was written by Airspeed Prime of Avatar The Last Airbender a cool site that Avatar The Last Airbender - Avatar The Last Airbender