Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-3974095-20170209201908/@comment-5624498-20180724202127

Regular Guy wrote: So many characters are what's making me nervous. Season 2, while good overall, didn't do justice (no pun) to the newer casts, and to some extent, the older ones. The shortened episode order didn't help, either. Fixing the pacing and more character-driven episodes like in season 1 are what I'd like to see more of. That is something I noticed when I watched Season 2 again. I'm cautiously optimistic they'll get more opportunities to develop characters, not only with the 26-episode arc, but without the need to account for commerical breaks.

Jamie Thomason, in this interview, mentioned that the series creators have more flexibility in terms of what they can explore, not just from a content perspective, but from a time perspective. When you have a half-hour time slot with ad breaks, that's actually less time for the episode itself. I never timed an episode, but if you figure eight minutes for ads, that 22 actual minutes for the episode.

Those extra eight minutes per episode can be a big difference in terms of the amount of character and plot development you're allowed to explore.​