I like watching Korra as soon as possible, so I always suffer through the commercials. Some commercials are certainly better than others, though.

It certainly is. There's definitely stuff there I'd like to see, but I can't ever see myself going.

I'm not really sure what I would go see either.

I have some new stuff to share.

Book 2 will premiere on Friday, September 13th at 7:00pm EDT. This was given along with a trailer on Yahoo! TV.

There's an animated web series about Bolin and Mako on Nick.com. It focuses on them when they were younger and living in the streets. I couldn't watch it when I tried because the video refused to buffer, but here's the link.

Well, the hour-long premiere of Book 2 was last night. I was very impressed. I was happy to find that the pacing issue of Book 1 (especially Book 1's premiere) seemed to have been fixed in the transition. I greatly enjoyed the episodes. What did you guys think?

And, as a topic of discussion, do you guys think Unalaq is a bad guy? Or does he have good intentions but is going about it the wrong way?

Yeah, that was funny. Also, "You amuse me. I shall make you mine."

I feel like it's a good idea to bring the South back to its spiritual roots (I mean, not having evil spirits attack is a good thing), but I definitely think Unalaq is going about it the wrong way from what we've seen so far.

Another thing that's been bothering me - and maybe it would be clearer if I watched it again - but why did opening the spirit portal help restore balance? I know it does, but I don't recall them saying how.

I did watch it again, and I still didn't get an explanation for it. I guess it's just something we'll have to accept.

Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed that Unalaq just turned out to be a straight-up villain, basically. I was okay with the concept of him rigging the trial, but getting Tonraq banished too? Really?

And, additionally, it looks like the airdate may be changing? As of this post, this page shows new episodes airing in the middle of the week and on Nicktoons instead of Nick. Which s'ucks because I don't get Nicktoons with my current TV subscription. Hopefully it's just a scheduling error, but I suppose we'll find out next week.

It did turn out to be a scheduling error. Although Korra has been moved to 8:30 Friday nights instead of 7:00. Although, they're airing Beginnings, Parts 1 and 2 together in an 8:00-9:00 block on the 18th, which will be cool.

It's not really that I was surprised, per se... It's more that I'm kind of disappointed that they just made Unalaq into a straight-up villain, rather than keeping it "morally gray," so to speak.

Yeah, Eska's reaction was pretty funny in Civil Wars, Part 2. Although it felt a little tired in Peacekeepers.

Here's a screen of that picture. If for some reason it won't hotlink directly to the screenshot, it's on this page.

So Peacekeepers was an okay episode overall. I don't really know what it was about it, but I didn't enjoy it as much as Civil Wars, Part 2. One thing that bugged me though is that Desna and Eska were supposed to keep Korra alive, but they didn't even try to help her against that spirit.

Anyway, here's the description for the next epsiode, The Sting:

When Triad activity threatens to put Future Industries out of business, Mako performs an investigation and uncovers a conspiracy.

I wonder why Korra isn't mentioned...? Of course, Tenzin hasn't been mentioned in some of the descriptions either, and he's been in them, so it may not mean anything.

I did enjoy Beginnings overall. I have some issues with it (like the fact that it kind of retconned a bunch of the mythos from AtLA) but they were very solid.

And there's a nice connection to an earlier episode: http://piandao.org/screenshots/spirits/ ... 2-2080.jpg

Anyway, here's the description for the next episode:

Korra seeks Tenzin's help to enter the spirit world for the first time.

Which sounds like a good episode. I've been waiting for Tenzin to move out of the B-plot.

Unfortunately, it airs the on the first of November, so we have a one week hiatus to wait through.

Nope, it's not too long and it'll be over tonight!

Coming in to post the description for the episode following tonight's, called "A New Spiritual Age":

Korra enters the spirit world and struggles with the Avatar's relationship with the spirits.