User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-3465526-20120430030227

Among the things that didn't work for me in this episode -- I'd like to shout out the "uh-oh - here's Superman and the rest of the Justice League" scene that was deliberately reminiscent of the end of "Fireworks" -- it REALLY didn't work.

At the end of Fireworks, the sidekicks had disobeyed orders and destroyed a major building in the middle of Washington D.C. -- the arrival of the Justice League in a big, dramatic, scowling body made perfect sense and was properly dramatic.

At the end of this episode, the same arrival mostly makes the League look like a bunch of jerks. Guys, while you are floating in the air all dramatically, there are a bunch of civilians and possibly injured superheroes flopping around in the water -- a Green Lantern net or an arm-grab by Superman (or Plastic Man for cryin' out loud) might be just a tiny bit more useful than you guys posing there!