The episodes page has been updated in a couple of ways, among other things, the main page now lists the correct original air dates for all season 3 episodes, is up to date through episode 315, and has images for all of the episodes that have aired so far in the US. Also, the bios and page for episode 302 has been updated, and character bios are up to date through that episode. The screencap links on the 301 and 302 pages have been updated, and caps for episode 303 have been added. The index page for all character bios has also been updated with the new entries in the database, and will continue to be updated until I’m completely up to date. On a totally random note, the FAQ page has also been updated.

On another slightly unrelated note, I have until Tuesday to submit a list to Dongbu Feng of the team members for Waterbender.com in the Inter-Fansite Olympics, and I’m still short a couple people. If you’re even considering showing up for just a few of the events, and joining in all the fun, e-mail me now, you’re running out of time. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered.

Finally, thank you to everyone who has voted for me on the Topsite, I’m now #5 on there, which gives me my own special little box on the list. Thanks very much, and keep voting!

Just a quick post to tell everyone that the episode 314 and 315 titles are….*drumroll*

“The Boiling Rock, Part 1″ and

“The Boiling Rock, Part 2″

Thanks to Dongbu Feng for the reveal

I’ve gotten a few e-mails from people saying that they want to be on the olympics team, but I need more. I also need to send in the list of everyone on the team by January 10^th. So, if you even thought that you might have been interested, please e-mail me at “webmaster@water-bender.com”. If you want details, check out the post below this, or this post on Dongbu Feng.

Also, in response to some disappointed e-mails, yes, I’m still maintaining the site, I just took a break. I’ll be going back to the regular updates you’ve come to expect within the next few days, so look forward to that.

Yay! Tonight in the Dongbu Feng chat, the Avatar Interfansite olympics was announced. If you weren’t there, sucks for you. Read the rest of the post for details.

Basically, a bunch of major Avatar websites are going to put together teams for a “friendly” interfansite competition. Each team will consist of 15 to 25 members. The sites participating so far are:

Distant Horizons, Airbender.Net, Dongbu Feng, Gyatso’s Temple, Flying Bison, Blue Spirit Gal, Kataang Forever, and myself.

Here’s a lowdown of the rules:

• Sites participating will need 15 members (with a max of 25) submitted to webmaster@avatarolympics.net by January 10th. We’re still accepting sites as well, and any site that can get the required number of competitors is eligible.
• The Olympics will take place from January 14th (opening ceremony) to February 15th (closing ceremony). Also, to be clear, this is NOT based on Avatar’s season 3 return, because there is not date yet, don’t mistake the 15th for the day that the show comes back (though that would be cool!)
• Fandom teams will be accepted for those who do not make the Fansite teams. Fandom and Fansite teams will compete in pretty much the same events, but their standings will be separate. Essentially the Fandom teams compete against other Fandom teams, and the Fansite teams compete against the other Fansite teams.
• People can only join one team. Also, they cannot be on a Fandom team and a Fansite team, only one.
• There will be many activities in which people can earn points for their team, including fanart, writing, video and scavenger hunts. Full details of the events will be available soon at the official site. There will be some live events, but those will be announced in advance and only a certain number of participants from each team will have to be there.

If you have any questions, contact Jake of Dongbu Feng.

If you want to be on the team for this website, just e-mail me

A while back I got screencap crazy and started taking DVD caps for every episode. That ran strong, and I did most of season 2, but then I stopped doing it. Oh wells. Anyways, the point is that I found a program that will take a DVD and convert every frame, or every 5 frames, or whatever, to a JPG file.
So, on the plus side, very soon I’m going to add DVD caps from EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. In addition to that, as soon as a new DVD comes out, I’ll be able to add caps from it within hours of when I get it. Woot!
The negative is that taking generic caps every second produces some duplicates, and some cool shots are missed (such as in action scenes). Still, better than no caps it all.

Edit: DVD Screencaps are now up for “The Awakening” here. View them, and tell me what you think of the quality, as well as the layout of the gallery Also, note the nicer URL

This isn’t really much of a post, but now that Day of Black Sun has aired, I’m curious as to what people think about the episode. I’d appreciate it if you could leave your thoughts/comments/reviews in the comments

However, this post isn’t entirely pointless, just mostly: Episode information is once again a priority, and I’m working on getting information on all the season 3 episodes so far up, along with bios and hopefully some audio soon. I’ve gotten a lot of emails in the past week about new audio tracks from season 3, and I’ll get those up as soon as they’re available

Also, another random note, after about 4 different attempts to move them, the speculation comments are back up, where they originally were all along - on the actual editorial pages. So enjoy, and post new comments I’ll have a new editorial out soon about what I think is going to happen over the course of the rest of Book 3. Wow….how long has it been since I wrote an editorial…? I’m almost nervous…

In a definitely unexpected change, Nick recently informed ASN that Book 3 is going to have 21 episodes, not 20 like seasons 1 and 2. This is because Day of Black Sun, although the length of two episodes, is one giant chapter 10.

In a confusing twist, though, although the episodes are separate (numbers 310 and 311 respectively), both are part of “Chapter 10″ in Book Three: Fire. Up until now, each chapter has been an episode, but with “Day of Black Sun” this is no longer the case.

Also revealed was that the Avatar season three (and show) finale will be comprised of episodes 318, 319, 320 and 321. No other information on episode titles or broadcast dates was available.

Again, credits to ASN for this news.

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.

Again DOTBS The Invasion did not air! Instead Nicktoons aired The Puppetmaster as it was (if you’re reading this on Wednesday) Halloween . I’m not going to keep guessing when it will air as I do not want and angry mob forming every time I get it wrong . Although, I am almost certain this time that part 1 is airing on Saturday and part 2 on Sunday. Happy Halloween!