Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-3974095-20190108201155/@comment-3974095-20190108213703

'''Episode 1. Inside the Writer's Room''' Few things I caught:


 * New concept art of Plasmus/Plasma, Sensei, Zatanna, Cyborg (JL: War design, but who knows), Dick in tank top and sweats, Dick as Nightwing, Arsenal, Superboy, Tigress, Miss Martian, Aquaman, Blue Beetle, Katana;
 * Lacey Chabert is back this season;
 * Brief glimpses at pages of the script for "Princes All";
 * First draft of "Princes All" was completed on February 07, 2017. Final draft on February 21, 2017;
 * Story wall for "Royal We" is readable;
 * Although they already had plans for season 3, Greg felt that they had to "resell the show" and re-introduce the characters this season while connecting to elements from the first two seasons;
 * The writer's room put every Young Justice character on the story wall and had to figure out what each of them had been up to since the end of last season;
 * Two new writers: Mae Cat and Francisco Paredes;
 * Greg says that one of the goals this season is the return to the spy motif (of season 1). A new focus on horror this season, too. ("Putting the Boogeyman back in the shadows", as Paredes describes it);
 * The writer's room discuss how they keep the show grounded. For this season, they choose the unsubtle metaphor of meta-human trafficking for human trafficking going on today, but putting a "sci-fi spin on it". The two-year time jump also allowed them to explore the character's relationships at that point in their lives;
 * Glimpse at the animatics for Artemis's graveyard showdown in "Royal We";
 * Glimpse of a script page for an episode featuring Dick, Roy Harper, and Jim Harper. Dick coming to them for help after the botched Markovia op;
 * Episode 11 is titled "ANOTHER FREAK" (fake out title) and is written by Mae Cat (new writer) and directed by Mel Zwyer. Forager is in this episode. Per the script, that'll be a part of the fourth mini-arc this season;
 * Episode 10 is titled "EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN BEINGS" (another) written by Paredes and directed by Christopher Berkeley. Batman and the Outsiders in this episode;
 * Nicole Dubuc talks about the atmosphere in the writer's room. Describes it as very collaborative. She will also return as Iris West-Allen in episode 11.
 * Brief storyboard of episode 11 (here titled "HOME FIRES") featuring Bart babysitting his cousins;
 * Brandon discusses worldbuilding in the series through the press, for example GBS. Greg and Brandon do a brief recap of the opening of "Eminent Threat". Interestingly, Greg says that Cat Grant is interviewing Beast Boy, instead of Courtney Whitmore as we see in the final episode;
 * Brandon describes the "punch line" to sell the plot of this season, and how scary it is, is how the population views the abducted metas as monsters and fears what they can do. The heroes will have to fight to change the skewed public perception of metas and the Light's victims.

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