No, seriously, about the funding comment I made:

I have the art book for the first series and in it there are SO many stories where they talk about how close they were to being shut down.  It really wasn’t until the final season that they weren’t in SO much danger of Nickelodeon cancelling the series.

The halfway markers for each season (episodes like The Blue Spirit) were the last-ditch episodes they had to produce to keep the series afloat.  They pumped a HUGE chunk of their allotted budget into those eps because they were the last ones in the contract— and by doing so, they hoped that the demand for the series to continue would be so great that they wouldn’t be cancelled.  Also, if they WERE cancelled, they wanted their last episode to be badass.

Think about what would have happened if the series had ended prematurely?

And now the company KNOWS that they can produce a great series that will pull a lot of viewers and that has a VERY flexible demographic, so they can give them more money to do what they need to make the show as quality as they want.

I’m just so happy for them.  ; m ;

Waiting for Korra is like Christmas Eve.

Except it’s not coming out tomorrow.