User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 125 "Usual Suspects" discussion/@comment-5019916-20120414202553

Really great episode, hit the ground running and never let up. Honestly felt a bit out of breath at the climax. I'm very happy the "secrets" have finally all been put out on the table and we can move on. However, I do have one gripe with this, namely the sense that we "came in at the middle." The Episode opens with Roy now on the Justice League roster after only being on the YJ team for two episodes. Why have him join in the first place if his induction was going to happen so soon, at least in our timeframe? (I understand the show can jump a several days to a month or more ahead) It just felt like his presence on the YJ team was a bit superfluous; even his "hunt" for the mole fizzled out rather quickly in "Performance" compared to his vehemence about Artemis possibly being the mole in "Insecurity."

My other point of contention was Rocket. We've seen her only as a background character in the main series, but my guess is that, in the companion comic, she was introduced more fully and then added to the team. Hence we're faced with something I feared from the start of Young Justice when I learned there would be a companion comic that tied in directly with events in the main series, namely that, for those without access to the comic (where I live Comic Stores are pretty much extict and the Book Store nearby doesn't carry them, also I don't have the means to order the digital version) as such, when new characters are introduced or sub-plots fleshed out I miss out, couple this with those same elements suddenly appearing to have been resolved in the show? It's rather jarring and leave one with the sense that they've "missed something."

While I loved "Usual Suspects" and the introduction of the Starro protocol, the entire time I felt like I'd caught a movie in the middle with Rocket just *being* there with a sense she'd known the team for some time and Artemis and Cheshire's "bonding." While I understand that others won't feel the same, and that even Greg himself enjoys writing the comic, I can't help but hope the YJ comic is discontinued and focus put solely on the show for the benefit of those who can't follow the aforementioned publication, or that they shift to stand alone stories that don't introduce/resolve elements seen in the show. Unlikely, I know. Still, as I've said, Season One is coming to a close spectaculary.