ATLA release news: Thanks, Nickelodeon, for fucking us over again.

[timepiececlock]

::stares::

http://www.amazon.com/Book-Fire-Full-Dol-Sen/dp/B0017VG67C?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1208730960&sr=1-1


Holy shit. The fourth and I believe final Avatar DVD is on Amazon with a release date of July 29th. The new episodes (3x12 onward) are scheduled to air on July 14th, based on the ATLA panel at Comic Con NY in April.

There's very little arithmetic necessary realize the big WTF of those dates. Unless they plan to air 8 episodes over, let me see, FIFTEEN DAYS.

I mean, seriously, how many times is this network going to screw over its most popular and criticically acclaimed cartoon? We've all bitterly adjusted to the fact that a book with the final events was released early (many went into hiding, like myself) and to the fact that there's now episodes available on DVD that won't air until July, but I honestly thought they'd keep it in their pants with the finale DVD, at least. At least! Quelle nightmare.

The last time I saw a show get jerked around as much as ATLA has was Firfely, but that was only half a season. Avatar fans have suffered through this bullshit scheduling for three seasons.

Comments

[rasielle.livejournal.com]

The spoiler influx after enough people buy the last DVD but before the finale itself is aired... oh my god...

Question: as a mod of an Avatar-related community, do you always get bombarded with spoilers first before enough threats against spoilers are posted/people exhibit enough self-control? Always? I know that you mods take the hits for us, but are there ever occasions when you can warn the community against spoilers before anyone has the chance to violate the rule?

*salutes* Just some belated thanks for being the comm's spoiler sentinel, even if it means you glimpse the spoilers first.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I tend to find out later or at the same time as anyone else, because I don't hunt out spoilers. And it's rare for a member to try to post un-cut spoilers to the comm these days; probably only 1/12 posters tries it, and usually I think it's just because they're not paying attention rahter than malicious intent.

We get more issues with spoiler icons, honestly, than spoiler posts.

On premier weekends we would always mod the entries and THAT's when people had the least control, and I typically posted a "spoiler rules reminder". I'm always the one who does that; I got annoyed and started telling people to respect the community rules so now I'm basically The Mod Who Scolds by default. I don't like posting about it constantly because it always comes off negative.

Trolls are a rare exception; the one in April that hit all the comms was the first serious spoiler-bomb that I could remember since becoming a mod, although I was absent for a lot of 2007.

I have had to skew my eyes away from a few spoiler entries since we started modding all the posts in the last month, but it hasn't been too bad. Most of the people have dumped their spoiler talk on capstara, which has caused THEM no end of headache as well, since that's not what capslock_katara was meant to be.

manonlechat is fully spoiled as is little_fool, and in the future I expect they'll do most of the moderated post-approving, if spoilers become a bigger issue. We're still talking amongst ourselves about whether we want to change teh spoiler policy or not. If we do, I'll probably not peruse the moderation queue at all, and just leave it to manon and little_fool to judge whether a post correctly hides its spoilers or not. Jade isn't spoiled either, at the moment, so I don't know what she plans to do as we get closer to the new episodes.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Jade isn't spoiled either, at the moment, so I don't know what she plans to do as we get closer to the new episodes.

Lock myself in a padded room and rock back and forth, keening softly, I expect. Actually that was more my reaction to this DVD news, but I might as well keep a good thing going, right? >.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Are you serious?

I have no faith left in either Nickelodeon or the show's producers, at this point. They really screwed this one up.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Not to exaggerate, but on a reduced scale it's fair to say Nick did to my faith in networks what George Bush did to my faith in the office of the presidency.

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Okay, what in God's name did Mike and Bryan do to offend Nick? I'm actually concerned that Nick hates this show so much, because although when I spoke to the network people at Comic Con, and they told us how much they loved the show, I'm really starting to doubt it.

And the evidence is right there. At NYCC, the Avatar panel room was filled to the gills, with no standing room. The minute it was over and the panel for Barnyard came out, you could drive a tractor through the room.

What more info need they?

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

The only reason this is good news for me, is that I don't have cable, so I'll be able to rent the DVD off Netflix a lot sooner than I thought.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The silver lining? This will make it really easy for me to buy Book III, volume 4, so I won't randomly have Book II volume 3, which I paid more for shipping to get in next day than I did the actual DVD, because amazon didn't put episode listings on their website, and I moronically thought that 'unaired' meant 'you haven't seen this.'

But seriously, Nick, WTF? I mean, W.T.F.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've been mulling over my budget and whether I want to buy the last two volumes online or use one of my many Borders discounts.

I'd probably have bought B3, vol. 3 already if I could muster up the will to drive down to Borders. But I'm kind of putting it off. I've never bought ATLA dvds before, but I know that the last two of book 3 would be the ones worth buying... I just am feeling fiercely frugal lately. And I want to see them on tv, dammit.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

And I want to see them on tv, dammit.

That I can't understand. Who wants commericals? And Nick is being so annoying that it's hard to want to give them money, even though I do want to support M&B.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

For one, I don't like watching them on my computer if I can avoid it, and I don't want to fork over money for DVDs just yet.

Two, there's the collective activity thrill I get from watching someone premier on tv and then talking about it to others. And, really, I just prefer consistency and order. I watched most of ATLA on television, and I'd like to continue watching it that way. That's the medium it was designed for.

I know these reasons don't matter to a lot of people, but we all like to things a certain way.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

*nodsnodsnodsnods* That collective thrill is probably why I'm so deeply involved the fandom these days. Avatar was my first fandom to get involved in, and then realizing that everything was watching them and we could all talk about them together.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I know I've always watched Avatar on my computer, and I'm sure I'd have the exact same reaction if I was being asked to watch in on tv at a certain set time. *has gotten so spoiled by the interwebs*

[fani.livejournal.com]

Well, um, you do have to pop the DVD in to see on TV no?Plus, no commercials.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

DVR system, so I never get commercials anyway.