User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-184.60.221.229-20120429071102/@comment-68.41.152.133-20120429204353

No offense, but your opinion as a filmmaker doesn't really come off as a "filmmmaker" at all. Nothing you say is really a "filmmaker" critique, but rather a criticism of where they are taking the show. That's fine, but don't act like these criticisms are based in anything more than your own feelings.

Your first paragraph just doesn't make sense. You were talking about episodes having a beginning, middle, and end... and this episode had that. It began with the revelation of what happened in those 16 hours, the League/Team reacting, and the major Krolotean base on Earth being destroyed. Conflict begins, things develop, conflict ends. On its own, the episode holds up well on this. They introduced a lot of characters, but that doesn't negate the fact that the episode has a beginning, middle, end, and actual conflict resolution.

You mention how "subplots should be resolved", but YJ had many ongoing subplots which weren't resolved until much later on: Artemis' parentage, Miss Martian's true form, the various love plots, various plots by the Light... they all went multiple episodes without definitive conclusions. The main conflict was the Light, and these were all little things which ran alongside it. The plot here had a small conclusion (the destruction of the base) with the promise of more things to come on Rann. How is that any different from what happened previously?

The reality of the situation is that people want a slow progression of many seasons where we see these kids grow. Fair enough, but that's just not feasible when it comes to creating a show; the idea behind it is a perfect situation, not a realistic one. Weisman and Vietti decided that they want to tell the story of these kids 5 years later, when they've had a bunch of things happen to them already. Some of that stuff is important... but a lot of it probably isn't. Instead of forcing them to show you everything in-between, why not let them tell the story they want and fill in the blanks as things go by? It's not like they are completely unaware of the plotlines they left hanging: they write the show, after all.

Figuring out what happened to the missing Leaguers, considering they were never given the context as to what the Light's true plan was, why would they search space? Why even consider it? Earth itself is a huge place; it's not like they couldn't have done something secretly underground or in some remote location. Considering all the villains involved are generally Earth-based, why would anyone consider looking towards the sky, let alone beyond their solar system? It's a huge jump, one they won't make because since they aren't privvy to the information we have.

And kids aren't morons. It's not like they didn't mention there was a timeskip (Unlike Batman: The New Adventures).