There has been much buzz among the Avatar community these last couple days as to when Avatar will resume new episodes.  "Lake Laogai," as you probably already know, was pre-empted last Friday in favor of an Avatar "catch-up" marathon.  "Lake Laogai" is the next episode to air, as it is 217.  "The Earth King" is 218.  Right now Nick.com is slightly confused, as it seems communication in that company between the show programmers and the site programmers is not very good.  At this time you really shouldn't believe anything Nick.com puts up on their schedule unless it has "Lake Laogai" airing before "The Earth King" and it's on a Friday night.

In Dongbu Feng news, characters from the previous few episodes will gradually be added in and pages for other characters updated.  Keep checking back for that.  The VA Index will be up-to-date this week as well.  This week will be a major one for updates so watch out!  Here's a preview of our soon-to-be-added Destinations section:

Living in the Avatar world you are given a wide spectrum of places to visit, people to see, animals to ride.  This new section, titled the Destinations section, will be your all-in-one planning guide for any vacations you want to take into the Avatar world - if you could, that is!  Sure, the characters and creatures have become common knowledge among Avatar fans, but sometimes the places or "destinations" get overlooked.  Here each region will be represented with an array of photographs taken by those who have been there, as well as accounts of their experiences.  Critics rave "DF only gets better!".

Yes, we are bringing fandom to a new level with this new section.  Major changes await here at Dongbu Feng.  We hope you'll all join us for the ride!

Well on this Thursday we have some good news, and some bad news.  I'll tell you the bad news first, obivously.  The bad news, anyway, is that there will not be a new episode of Avatar this Friday.  This is heartbreaking news, as we were all looking forward to "Lake Laogai" airing tomorrow night at 8 pm.  Instead, Nick will be airing a two-hour "catch-up" block from 8-10 ET tomorrow night, replaying the previous four episodes (The Drill, City of Walls and Secrets, The Tales of Ba Sing Se and Appa's Lost Days).  That is sort of good news, I suppose, at least if you've missed any of the past 4 episodes.  Now there still will be a chat, in fact you can stay for the entire two hours and chat about all the episodes.  Which parts did you like?  Which parts could have been better, etc.?

Now, on to the real good news.  We have our first fan-submitted column finally posted!  Pirahnapete has submitted an interesting article on Ty Lokka, and why that is a more plausible ship during season 3 than Sukka (aka George).  Find the article here and please rate it with your honest opinion.  So far this is the only submission we have, so please, Avatar fans, here is your chance to get your voice heard!  Please submit articles and participation in this exciting opportunity!  Make sure to include how you want to be credited for your work as well.

We haven't done this officially for a while now, at least not since the site has been up on this domain.  This Friday DF will be holding a chat for Avatar fans during their respective time zone's airing of the new episode "Lake Laogai."  Don't miss the sure-to-be-interesting reunion of Aang and the gang and Jet.

Arrive whenever you'd like on the evening of the new episode, preferably about a half-hour ahead of time.  You can talk in real-time not over message boards about the episode as it unfolds.  This week's is sure to be a thriller, so make sure to at least tune in.  And if you can join us in the chat, even more better!  If you haven't registered an account on our chat script yet, do so here.  Talk to you all later!

We are going to begin to accept fan-submitted articles focusing on Avatar!  If you have a seemingly insane theory no one else thinks is true, this is the time and place to prove you don't deserve that uncomfortable sleevless white jacket your therapist gave you!  It could be as crazy as "Aang and Katara will fall in love" (where would get that crazy idea from?) to "Zuko will join Aang and help him defeat the Fire Lord".  Whatever you think you can now put into words and have it published for others to read!

You might be saying, "That's a lot of work, and that'll take forever!".  All you have to be able to do is tell what your theory is, and why you think that.  It can be as little as 100 words, or as many as 1,000, but we'd say the shorter the better, probably.

Another question you might be thinking about, "Does it have to be a theory?  Can't I just write about something on the show?".  Well, the answer there is YES!  You can write ANYTHING related to Avatar.  It doesn't have to be a theory.  If you want to comment on an episode and why you liked it or why you disliked it/could have been better, you can do that.  It's entirely up to you.

There will be a space for users to rate the article, and the authors with the highest-rated articles at the end of each month will receive a nice prize (to be determined by the staff) as well as your own PERSONAL space to write in the future (you can pick the title of the column and each time you submit a new article it will be featured on that page).

This is not a place for fanfiction.  That belongs in the Fan Creations section of our forum.  All stories should be submitted to the following email address with a proper title, as well as your name you wish to be credited as and if you'd like us to link out to your site/email: .

Unfortunately, I do have some news which may want to make you all fall over.  What is it, you say?  Well, I've been told I can't say much, but here's the skinny: The break between Seasons 2 and 3 will likely be longer this time than the break between one and two.  This isn't really official, but look for season 2 to end up in late November/early December, but season 3 likely won't begin airing until significantly longer than March of next year.  I thought I'd get this out in the open now so we're not disappointed down the road by waiting for the show to premiere when it's long away.  We'll classify this as "production delays."

One week following the giant debut of "Avatar: Secret of the Fire Nation," which nabbed 4.1 million viewers, the newest episode, "City of Walls and Secrets" scored 3.2 million.  The drop is nothing to be concerned of, considering how hyped up SotFN was, it was bound to score higher than any other episode.  This makes this the most-watched episode of Avatar (excluding SotFN) since the season premiere, which grabbed 3.7 million viewers on March 17th.  This news comes via USA Today.  Although no specific time is given, the number of viewers implies it was for the latest new episode, although that could be wrong.

In other ratings news, Media Life Magazine reports all three Avatar airings last week (9/18 - 9/24) scored in the top 25 of all cable.  Here is the link for that.  Just scroll down until you find "Top 25 Ad-supported Cable TV Programs".

As far as the site goes, updates will trickel in, so make sure to keep coming back for those.  Much will be done on Saturday, including Characters up thru 215.  This goes without saying, but be sure to tune in tomorrow for "Tales of Ba Sing Se" at 8 pm EDT/PDT.  Ratings info, if available, will be posted next week.  Have a good night and a great weekend!