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.

[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.

[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.