Young Justice
Jun. 15th, 2014 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkThe first time I heard of Young Justice was when they cancelled it. (WTF did they do that for >.<) I also heard it was good, but it wasn't until recently that I became more interested after someone I followed on Tumblr for Young Avengers content kept talking about how good it is. (or was.) They were right.
I just finished it, after watching 13 episodes today, so my head's still full. I want to go look for fic/art/discussion/anything immediately, but then I'll never remember to write about it, so. Otoh maybe then it'd be more ordered? Anyway.
I enjoyed the first season a lot. The way they set up the team made sense: supervised, in training, used for presumed-to-be-less-dangerous-missions. Of course it didn't always work out that way, but the idea behind it was solid. For much of it I actually liked only about half the characters (Kaldur and Megan, mostly), but nobody was annoying enough to turn me off. (A bit annoying that everyone was paired off in the end.) I liked the plot progression & character development, and I especially enjoyed ep25 where instead of Conner's, Megan's, and Artemis' secrets leading them to betraying the team they come clean with their teammates and use it to lead an attack. Yes! The Light always seemed to be three steps ahead of them, so it was great when the team finally managed to thwart one of their plans in the end. (Poor Roy.)
Favorite supporting characters: Billy Batson, Sphere, and Rocket. (I looked up Billy Batson on Wikipedia and was reminded of how cruel the DC reboot must have been for fans. Ouch. More maybe later.)
I'm disappointed the Genomorphs never showed up again. Now what, they're back to working for Cadmus? Boo.
Season 2: Surprise five year time skip! At first I didn't like it, but I changed my mind relatively quickly. So many cool new characters! Figuring out what exactly happened during those five years was interesting too.
I was pissed when I thought they'd made Aqualad a traitor because he'd never, turns out they knew that too :) Their decision, especially Nightwing's, not to tell the rest of the team seemed very weird until I remembered about Roy. The whole double agent plotline was very well done, with Artemis' "death", Wally and Dick doubting if Kaldur actually turned, M'gann attacking and almost killing him, etc. etc. and then the great culmination in ep19 Summit. (If I understood correctly Kaldur meant to reveal himself even if Artemis hadn't been discovered, but wow was I tense while watching.) Of course Kaldur can't be happy about defeating his father that he'd developed a relationship with while undercover, Black Manta really cared a lot about him. And I get why Dick says he needs a break, but leaving Kaldur with the burden of leadership after he just came home from a months long deep cover assignment with his own dad? Harsh. (Fandom give me all the Dick&Kaldur friendship fics please!)
M'gann's and Conner's reason for breaking up made sense and was an interesting development. M'gann's development was nice. Poor L'gann, but I really liked it when M'gann told him that her breaking up with him was not about Conner, not even really about him, but about her.
Roy and Cheshire getting together - actually did not see that coming! Nice, though. I'm not the biggest fan of Arsenal.
Bart from the future was a surprise. More speedsters! Shame about Wally, but I refuse to believe he's dead. It was a weird energy spike, anything could have happened.
I liked Jaime, I wish we'd seen him with Tye again after he was freed from Reach influence. I liked the Runaways in general. And M'gann's little brother Beast Boy, and Bumblebee and Guardian. I wish there'd been more development for Barbara, Cassie, and Tim, though what was there was nice.
It was also cool that they had to do most of their work without the "big ones" from the League. They did quite well, I'd say :) Of course the Light turned on the Reach, I'm not sure why I was surprised, but it was still nice to see. Now the Light has the Warworld, uh-oh... But Lex Luthor as Secretary General of the United Nations makes NO sense at all - he's a businessman, ffs! For some reason I found that more difficult to swallow than many other instances of comic logic. Admittedly Luthor is a pretty cool villain.
Damn it, I'm supposed to write a Young Avengers fic, I don't need another team of young superheroes in my head *g* I hope I can do both.
I just finished it, after watching 13 episodes today, so my head's still full. I want to go look for fic/art/discussion/anything immediately, but then I'll never remember to write about it, so. Otoh maybe then it'd be more ordered? Anyway.
I enjoyed the first season a lot. The way they set up the team made sense: supervised, in training, used for presumed-to-be-less-dangerous-missions. Of course it didn't always work out that way, but the idea behind it was solid. For much of it I actually liked only about half the characters (Kaldur and Megan, mostly), but nobody was annoying enough to turn me off. (A bit annoying that everyone was paired off in the end.) I liked the plot progression & character development, and I especially enjoyed ep25 where instead of Conner's, Megan's, and Artemis' secrets leading them to betraying the team they come clean with their teammates and use it to lead an attack. Yes! The Light always seemed to be three steps ahead of them, so it was great when the team finally managed to thwart one of their plans in the end. (Poor Roy.)
Favorite supporting characters: Billy Batson, Sphere, and Rocket. (I looked up Billy Batson on Wikipedia and was reminded of how cruel the DC reboot must have been for fans. Ouch. More maybe later.)
I'm disappointed the Genomorphs never showed up again. Now what, they're back to working for Cadmus? Boo.
Season 2: Surprise five year time skip! At first I didn't like it, but I changed my mind relatively quickly. So many cool new characters! Figuring out what exactly happened during those five years was interesting too.
I was pissed when I thought they'd made Aqualad a traitor because he'd never, turns out they knew that too :) Their decision, especially Nightwing's, not to tell the rest of the team seemed very weird until I remembered about Roy. The whole double agent plotline was very well done, with Artemis' "death", Wally and Dick doubting if Kaldur actually turned, M'gann attacking and almost killing him, etc. etc. and then the great culmination in ep19 Summit. (If I understood correctly Kaldur meant to reveal himself even if Artemis hadn't been discovered, but wow was I tense while watching.) Of course Kaldur can't be happy about defeating his father that he'd developed a relationship with while undercover, Black Manta really cared a lot about him. And I get why Dick says he needs a break, but leaving Kaldur with the burden of leadership after he just came home from a months long deep cover assignment with his own dad? Harsh. (Fandom give me all the Dick&Kaldur friendship fics please!)
M'gann's and Conner's reason for breaking up made sense and was an interesting development. M'gann's development was nice. Poor L'gann, but I really liked it when M'gann told him that her breaking up with him was not about Conner, not even really about him, but about her.
Roy and Cheshire getting together - actually did not see that coming! Nice, though. I'm not the biggest fan of Arsenal.
Bart from the future was a surprise. More speedsters! Shame about Wally, but I refuse to believe he's dead. It was a weird energy spike, anything could have happened.
I liked Jaime, I wish we'd seen him with Tye again after he was freed from Reach influence. I liked the Runaways in general. And M'gann's little brother Beast Boy, and Bumblebee and Guardian. I wish there'd been more development for Barbara, Cassie, and Tim, though what was there was nice.
It was also cool that they had to do most of their work without the "big ones" from the League. They did quite well, I'd say :) Of course the Light turned on the Reach, I'm not sure why I was surprised, but it was still nice to see. Now the Light has the Warworld, uh-oh... But Lex Luthor as Secretary General of the United Nations makes NO sense at all - he's a businessman, ffs! For some reason I found that more difficult to swallow than many other instances of comic logic. Admittedly Luthor is a pretty cool villain.
Damn it, I'm supposed to write a Young Avengers fic, I don't need another team of young superheroes in my head *g* I hope I can do both.
