Jake here, and I just had to make that the title. :)

Well, 312 has aired in the US, and following it was an amazingly bada--- commercial that every Avatar fan must see at least 150,000 times this week.  It is THAT amazing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sR8wRgQsHHc

Thanks to mike951 from ASN for uploadinga pretty good quality of the commercial!  The animation does look stunning, and two of my favorite lines (both voice acting wise and bada---ness wise), probably of the whole series, are back-to-back:

Aang: ENOUGH!

Ozai: Prepare to DDIIIIIIEEEEE!

If Zach Eisen and Mark Hammil aren't nominated for some award after this finale, then I'm going to be p-ssed because Ozai's line especially (and I take it for the entire finale) is so amazingly delivered it isn't even funny.

I have so many chills running down my spine right now I don't want to think about anything else.  Why must Nick us like this and make us wait 5 more days?!  Oh, the inhumanity!

EDIT: Jeff (Serpent_Guard) has posted the commercial in two different downloadable formats, for your dissecting pleasure!

MP4: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DB4BAON3
AVI: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=34E0H1MQ

EDIT #2: In the spirit of waiting Josh (i_anything_the_wicked) has recorded a nice little song to the beat of Uncle Iroh's "Long Long Way To Ba Sing Se" song.  It is titled "It's a Long Long Way To The Finale".  It's only 2 verses but its really good - http://dongbufeng.net/audio/Finale2.mp3.

Dylan here with a post before we get into the hecticness of this week. We have episodes most of us have seen Monday-Wednesday. I ask all of you for the good of the show to please rewatch 312-315 as they air on Nick at 8 PM. The ratings needs us. Then of course watch Thursday and Friday for 316 and 317, and the series finale on Saturday. Nick has done their part in advertising for the finale. While it may be in the Summer, this thing still has a chance to explode in ratings. Do your part and get everyone you can this week to watch Saturday night. One last thing I ask of you guys; Enjoy the finale. It may not come out how all of us want, not just talking about shipping here (for more on that see the post below this one), but it will be amazing. It's the last time we'll see new episodes from this original, magical crew. Enjoy it. Have a great week guys, this is going to be special.

Note: I am bringing this back to the forefront so you all remember this over the next week. Because unlike the presidential election (for those in the US), it does not matter one bit at all who Katara or Toph or Azula end up with and won't affect our lives one bit moving forward.

This is Jake, and I think it's time or an “opinion” article on shipping. I think we need a balanced debate on shipping, as the fandom has been going wild over the last week, since the season “finale” trailer was shown at New York Comic Con last Saturday. Now you may not agree with everything I have to say, but please just read.

(Click the "Read more..." link for the rest) 

Dylan here with the UK "Into the Inferno" box arts for Wii and DS. The Wii one can be found here. The DS one is here.

Dylan here reporting that in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Kate Ward reviewed "Sozin's Comet" giving it the grade of a B with a generally positive review. A criticism she gives is that the plot isn't heavy enough for 2 hours, but she praises the animation. Click here to see the review. Scan by me.

Jake here, and I wanted to make this point again - the finale was written for 90 minutes, not 2 hours.  The creators did decide to make the animation double for episode 320, giving us 321.  So that could go to explain the critic's point of the plot not being "heavy enough" for 2 hours.  This could have been a Nick decision or a decision by the creators, we just don't know, but the good thing is the animation will be amazing.

From the edit of this post, we have 6 days, 7 hours and 55 minutes until the finale airs on the East Coast!