Jake here, and now at the DF Blogs is a new discussion of the finale trailer, including the one that began airing on Monday night, as well as the character commercials, and more.

Josh, Jeff and Alisa, all from the podcast, got together Tuesday night to record this discussion.  This is in no way an actual podcast, it's just the three of them discussing the trailers and such heading into the finale.  But it is really good - so I encourage you to listen in and give Jeff a comment on the blogs on the above link.  Let us know what you think!

Dylan here. Just a couple of things I have to say before we head into the new episode stretch starting tomorrow night. First, I want to emphasize again to enjoy the episodes, guys. Forget fandom bickaries, forget your theories that aren't gong to happen, just watch and enjoy. Tomorrow night is "The Southern Raiders" at 8:00 PM on Nick. This is the last Eden of Avatar. The only episode that has not yet been spoiled. I have no clue what is going to happen. On top of that it's going to be an amazing episode. Enjoy it. The podcast for discussion on "The Southern Raiders" will be up here before 8 AM EDT on Friday morning. Make sure to check it out.

1) Skype is a free online chat client.  You can chat in multiple formats, including text chat and voice chat.  Our chat will obviously be a text chat, and that's all that will be required of anyone.

2) Go to http://skype.com if you do not have Skype!  Download it and create a new account, and when you click the link I will post, it will launch Skype automatically and take you to the room.

3) Spoilers from the book are prohibited until they are actually seen.  Also, there is a slight chance the finale may pop up on the internet before Saturday night (DVD Pacific notified me today they have shipped the Book 3, Volume 4 DVD, so people may have it by Friday or Saturday.) and those spoilers will be prohibited as well.  There will be a discussion going on all day long and it will be heavily moderated.  No spoilers from the book will be allowed in the pre-finale chat either.  You can discuss events as they happen live with the East Coast airing.

4) Add me (Skype name "pooldude256") as a friend and as a back-up I will link to the chat on my Skype.  I'm not sure exactly what the link does, or if it will work for everyone.  Also I'm not sure how many people a Skype chat can hold, hehe.  I won't actually be there to watch it live, but there will be many people there I am sure.

Now a question - should there be a separate chat for the West Coast airing, so those on the West can enjoy it with the comfort of other fans discussing it live as well?  I'd need more moderators for a separate chat (I still need moderators for the regular chat - so !).

Not that this really needs to be said, but make sure you tune in for the finale, regardless if it pops up online before or not.  It's the last collection of original Avatar episodes and it's going to rock, it's the moment we've all been waiting for.  Get a seat in front of the biggest TV in your house and enjoy.

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.