Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-3974095-20170209201908/@comment-5188724-20180725214439

Ratrangerm wrote: 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.​ I fully agree about the need for more character-driven episodes. Season Two did well by having the main cast face serious consequences, but otherwise plowed through the conspiracy plot and left the freshmen characters behind (someone please give Wondergirl an arc!). Since Season Three continues off f the metagene trafficking plot from the previous season, I imagine it will probably follow the large overarching plot structure of Season Two rather than the character driven/villian of the day structure of Season One.

Your point about the extra 8-minutes runtime does give me some hope! Though, when Greg and Brandon speak about the larger freedom in writing I hope they don't just mean "edgy". They attracted a large older audience by focusing on the problems of teenagers and I hope they don't lose that.