Talking Tropes Podcast

Making your way in the avatar world today takes everything you got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. It's time to stop the plot and take a shot. It's filler time baby. Also, everyone's favorite boomer aunt, Lin Beifong gets a terrible backstory. Let's do it.

B2 E15 Tales of Ba Sing Se

B2 E16 Appa’s Lost Days

B3 E5: The Metal Clan

B3 E6: Old Wounds

Our She-Ra hot takes are scalding! We've got thoughts about all your faves: Scorpia, Double Trouble, Catra- wait a minute are we Team HordeTM now? You'll have to listen to find out! What are your thoughts? Tweet them to us @TalkingTropes on Twitter, we'd love to chat!

Spoilers for all She-Ra seasons 1-4.

Thanks to our editor Logan, who you can find around the interwebz @LoganMcHollow!

Ba Sing Se? More like NAH Sing Se. We find our heroes in both series in the Impenetrable City! Mr. Avatar, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!!

ATLA Book 2 Ep 12: The Serpent’s Pass

ATLA Book 2 Ep 13: The Drill

ATLA Book 2 Ep 14: City of Walls and Secrets

Korra Book 3 Ep 3: The Earth Queen

Korra Book 3 Ep 4: In Harm’s Way

Hauntober? Hallowscream? Spooktacular? When did All Hallow's Eve become so...gibberish? And more importantly, how has this affected television programming and advertising? Is Halloween the most commercial holiday? Also, what's your costume supposed to be? All these questions and more will be answered...or will they?

Thanks to Logan for editing this one! Spoilers for various Halloween specials and movies. HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Look out! It's Korra book 3 and is Korra actually good now? But uh-oh, there might be some problematic titles referencing "Birth of a Nation" and comparing attacking spirit vines to racial integration? Oops. Meanwhile, we have a spectacular two-parter in Avatar with The Library and The Desert. Will we ever see Appa again?1?!?! Obviously yes, but you'll have to keep listening to find out what we think.

ATLA B2 E10 "The Library"

ATLA B2 E11 "The Desert"

Korra B3 E1 "A Breath of Fresh Air"

Korra B3 E2 “Rebirth of a nation”

Snopes gave this podcast 3 Pinocchios because of all the PUPPET TALK! We just finished Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix and there's some disagreement. Does this prequel capture the "ESSENCE" of the original? Obviously, spoilers abound.

Tweet at us @talkingtropes to let us know what you think of puppets and Jim Henson movies.

Thanks to Logan for editing this one!

Korra gets BEEEEEEG. It's the SEASON FINALE of Korra and we have a big Kaiju fight...but why? Meanwhile Toph gets mad screentime and Zuko yells at a cloud.

ATLA B2E8 The Chase

ATLA B2E9 Bitter Work

Korra B2E13 Darkness Falls

Korra B2E14 Light in the Dark

It's her special day, and her rage can topple buildings. We're looking at the problematic trope of the mythic "Bridezilla," betrothed women who supernaturally destroy through their avarice for fancy dresses and ice sculptures. Can our plucky grooms survive?

Tweet at us @talkingtropes to let us know your thoughts.

Spoilers for:

27 Dresses

Bride Wars

Very Bad Things

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Boy Meets World

Gilmore Girls

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Scrubs

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

30 Rock

Community

Bridezillas (Reality Show)

Say Yes to the Dress

Diva Brides

Outside Readings:

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=bBv5NmSHjYUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA11&dq=bridezilla+capitalism&ots=OkXdw4Ixut&sig=4cU_hqP4ycPxbOl--WwcEImGcS4#v=onepage&q=bridezilla%20capitalism&f=false

Domesticating Matrimonial Monstrosity: Bridezillas and Narratives of Feminine Containment

Alyssa Ann Samek

White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture

Chrys Ingraham

https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2009-0-12568-2&isbn=9781135928575&format=googlePreviewPdf

https://books.google.com/books/about/Skin_Shows.html?id=q10CzrWdwfEC

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

Front Cover by Judith Halberstam

Thanks to our editor, Logan for this one, fam.

Aang finds his earthbending teacher, Toph in a WWE Smackdown. Zuko re-enacts classic western "Shane," and Bumi re-enacts modern classic "Rambo: Last Blood." A good time is had by all, but with the Korra finale fast approaching, could this season actually get WORSE?

Spoilers for:

Avatar Book 2 Episode 6: The Blind Bandit

Avatar Book 2 Episode 7: Zuko Alone

Korra Book 2 Episode 11: Night of a Thousand Stars

Korra Book 2 Episode 12: Harmonic Convergence

Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, aaaaaaaaaaaaand SADNESS! Let's watch some Steven Universe action, some of the boppinest jams, and questionable moral lessons in Steven Universe: The Movie!

Tweet at us @talkingtropes if you had any thoughts on this episode. Let us know if you want to see more minis!