Well, I’ve made a bunch of updates regarding book 3. The character bios aren’t done yet, but they’re getting there (huge thanks to Jeremy for dishing out around 10 bios in a single day). “The Awakening” is completely done, bios and all. “The Headband” now has its own page, but the bios for it aren’t completely done (I’m mising “Combustion Man”). Also, the episodes page itself has been updated with a cool new layout for season 3 episodes, and you can now click on the pictures for each nation to be brought to that nation’s season’s page. (eg, click on the water picture and you go to a page just for the season 1 episodes).

Also, random notes, there’s a new poll, I remembered that I have an updates bar on the right to update, and the air dates and times for the next 4 episodes or so have been added to the right navigation.

Enjoy
Edit: It took all of 2 minutes for this post to be up before I got 2 e-mails telling me that the “Original Air Date” thing for all of my season 3 episodes is wrong. I know that, I’m just too lazy to fix it at the moment, I’ll do that tomorrow. Thanks for pointing it out though

Some of you may remember that I started doing a full-scale character bios section back sometime in June. I estimated they’d be done by July…..righty….

Well, although it wasn’t done in the most efficient manner, it still got done. For the most part. The character bios section now has entries for every single character in Avatar….up through the end of season 2. I’ve made a list of all the new Season 3 characters, and am working on their bios now. Hopefully those will be up by the weekend at the latest, but no promises.

Also, right now, the characters page is just an A through Z list of all the characters. The staff is working on organizing it better, so look out for that too.

I’ve been talking for a while with the webmasters over at Animation Insider about affiliating with them, and combining my forum with theirs. I’m happy to say that we’ve finally finished, and the new avatar forum is located here. In it you’ll find avatar “Talkbacks” (in the episode discussion subforum), where each episode can be discussed individually, along with a whole lot more threads about the show in general. There’s a whole lot more active members over there than WT Forums ever had, so I hope everyone will sign up and enjoy discussing Avatar with the people over at AI.

The speculation comments on WT Forums are floating in their own dimensional abyss right now until I figure out what to do with them. If you have any questions about this move, leave them in the comments

And while I’m posting about new partnerships, everyone give a welcome to Jeremy, Matthew, and Bree, who have agreed to help me run Waterbender. Matthew has made a few news posts already, and Jeremy and Bree have been helping me write new character bios. The about us page will be updated with them asap

You can now add a countdown to the next episode of Avatar on your Google homepage by clicking on this link. Woot! I don’t know how or if it will update when each new episode airs.

There is also just a plain countdown file here if you’re interested.

Or, if you’re really weird (like me ), there is a book 3 countUP available here, keeping track of how much time has passed since Book 3 premiered.

Just a few random things I wanted to put on the main page-
First, I can confirm that the feedback is now definitely working, having received several emails in the past few days, and replying to them as well.

Second, the Avatar DVD to iPod guide has been working fine for a couple people who have emailed me, so that works too.

Third, congratulations to Jeremy for beating the Pong game in the Waterbender Arcade (you can see the full size picture of the final score that he took with his phone by clicking on the thumbnail). For those of you who’ve been coming to this website for a while, you might remember this news post, where I dared anyone to beat the Pong game, thinking that it was impossible. So congrads again, and maybe I’ll think of a prize or something.

Fourth, character bios are just about done, I have a few characters from season 3 to add, and the Y’s and Z’s from the entire show, but those will be up once I finish cleaning my computer of spyware (not fun).

Finally, the episodes page is now complete through Book 1, and has nifty drop down menus to help you navigate through all episodes. It should be updated through all known Season 3 titles, if it doesn’t appear updated to you, refresh your page. Individual pages for each episode in seasons 2 and 3, in addition to special episodes, are under construction.

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