Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130207175154/@comment-1635895-20130210012507

Wowee, that was BRILLIANT! Recently I've been swaying a bit on Young Justice. I still enjoy it, but I just no longer have that excitement and anticipation before a new episode airs, mainly because I feel like the story arc is a bit clunky, truncated, and just isn't running smoothly, which I put fault to not just the show's unfortunate airing schedule, but also to the writers. Nonetheless, it has been picking up in the last few weeks, though there are definitely still some issues.

What I liked about this episode was the scale of it, and it really reminded me of "Failsafe", but it was better. I really felt like when Cassie, Conner and Arsenal were fighting Mongul their hits were landing. There was a brutality to their fights, especially when Mongul "pulled a bane" and slammed Conner down on his knee. That pulled a little "aw" from me.

I didn't like the Guardian and Bumblebee little subplot, it felt forced and contrived, and really didn't have a place in the episode. I wish that had been pulled and replaced with some clips of people panicking on Earth.

I liked the Reach scenes, though to be honest, I'm really confused about what actually is going on. It seems like the Reach want to harvest humans and give them superpowers, but I don't think we know the reason why. Vandal wants all the aliens on Earth having a good ol' battle to the death, but we don't know why. And then there's the League and the Team just responding to threats, really making no coherent plans or strategies.

There were also a few forced pieces of dialogue in the episode, such as Karen explaining to Mal why they can't just blow up the place, as well as Superman explaining the Savage Story to the Rimborians.

Although I'm a fan of the time skip, I feel like it wasn't executed effectively, and as a result Weisman and Vietti introduced too many characters too quickly, without really giving them a back story, motivation, or really giving them more than four corners. When this season finishes, I will do a review of it in its entirety, and I'll elaborate on this point, but I feel like Blue Beetle has been dominating the show where he really didn't need to dominate as much as he has.

Anyway, I liked the episode, the cliffhanger was great, and I can't wait for "Complications". Rass out.