TV News: Young Justice
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Descriptions for episodes 24-26 of season 1 and episode 1 of season 2.
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Here's a trailer for season 2, Invasion.It may feature some spoilers, so you may want to watch it after the finale.
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Weisman also gave a recent production update.
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I think the way they use elements from the history of the DC universe but also blend in some continuity twists is excellent. Also, I think they have used some lesser known villains very well.
A really great show overall, I'm glad DC is making an effort to have superhero cartoons on Saturday mornings. I think one of the biggest influences on me be a lifelong comics geek was watching things like Challenge of the Superfriends on Saturday mornings in the early 80's.
Cartoon Network's May schedule was released and they will be airing at least 6 episodes from Invasion between now and the beginning of June.
Check out the descriptions.
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New voice actors for Invasion include Mae Whitman as Wonder Girl, Michael Trucco as Adam Strange and Tim Curry as G. Gordon Godfrey.
But when they created the DC Nation animation hour I started to watch it again and boy was I surprised at how much better it got. Now it has earned a place on my DVR and the animation style has grown on me.
Season Two started out strong and it was cool to see the new characters. I recognized almost all them and thought it was a great mix of heroes.
One question who is the guy that is on gamma squad with Robin and Blue Beetle?
I may have missed it, but who was the black man in plain clothes directing the mission? Mr. Terrific?
Love having Nightwing and Batgirl and dug their designs and how they interacted with each other. Happy to see Beast boy and WonderGirl too but not in love with BBs design.
Anyway, glad those who weren't taken with it at the start grew to enjoy it as it went on. I know some of the guys felt that way, but what about the listeners? Did the show interest you from the jump or did it take some time for you to get into it?
I would buy the DVDs when/if they come out.
Ive enjoyed the show from the start but its definately improved and grown on me even more the least several episodes.
He was briefly shown in Failsafe, but had no lines. He was in Secrets, which was the Halloween episode. He was dressed in Superboy's 90s costume and he called it "Superman done right". He was also in Misplaced, but had no lines.
I'm still catching up on the first.
If anyone was paying attention, we now have at least 22 Team members, as Blue Beetle's designation was B22. Season 1 had 9, Designation 1-9. The premiere introduced us to 8 new members, so we should meet 5 or more in the coming episodes.
The League also has 26 members. We are told Zatanna and Rocket are the newest members and their designations are 25 and 26. Season 1 had 21 members who took designations 1-21. We saw Black Lightning, who is probably 21, so that leaves 23 and 24.
I love that the Spectacular Spider-Man's in it, fighting the archers.
That episode also had a nod to Justice League Unlimited. Green Arrow and Red Arrow stop some robbers at the Save-Big grocery store and GA tells him he has been accepted into the League. During the first episode of JLU, Green Arrow stops a group of robbers at a Save-Big and afterwards he is invited to join the League by John Stewart.
We also get a Doctor Who reference. The Zeta-Beam portal Artemis uses at the start of the episode looks like the TARDIS.
That episode included a character introduction, as well. Not sure if you're familiar with Arrowette, but that girl whose father was saved by GA and Artemis was her, Cissie King-Jones. Her father was Bernell Jones.
What about episode 21, "Image"? Did you catch those actors' names in the opening credits of "Hello Megan". This is old school stuff, but they were actual actors from the DCU. Jonathan Lord and Sandra Stanyon portrayed Megan's parents. Lord was the main character in DC's 80s maxi-series, Silver Blade and Stanyon was his lover. Paul Sloane, who portrayed Megan's crush, was the second Two-Face of Earth-Two(I believe). Rita Farr, who portrayed Megan's best friend, is Elast-Girl of the Doom Patrol.
That last one is pretty interesting, because Rita adopted Beast Boy after his parents died in the comics, so it's an interesting connect that they made her and his mother childhood friends.
This show is awesome.
I love how the secrets came out. Not in a contrived way, but in an honest way. Something I did not see happening at all.
And the addition of Rocket is cool as well.
And that ending... I didn't see it coming.
Did you feel like that, at all?
More later.
I still feel a bit off-kilter with the big time-skip, but hey, my favorite anime of all time is Dragon Ball Z. they did time-skips all the time.
I really like this mix of characters, but I have a ton of questions that I hope are answered sometime over the course of the season.
Greg Weisman also promises another time jump if the series is picked up for season 3.
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Still, I'm not hating this season, and have yet to see anything past the first episode (time constraints), so it could be good.