Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5188108-20130331210748

As many of you will know, Greg hosted an informal AskGreg Live at Wondercon in Anaheim on Friday. He discusses it here. As he mentioned, some new info was given out, and I've tried to dig some of it up. My tumblr experience being near nil, the only solid resource I've found is this twitter. Though the user admits the information they present is second hand, it seems most plausible.

I've assembled the tweets here, slightly reorganised and with a couple of minor corrections, but haven't made any substantial changes:


 * Greg says Donna and Mary didn't appear on the show because there was no time to develop the designs. The bridal shower, required 4 designs (D&M in cost. and not) The designers were already stretched thin. If the designers could have done it, Donna and Mary would have been in the crowd scene of ep 20.
 * To clarify on the post about Donna earlier, Greg and Brandon's plan from day 1 was to use Donna in S1 and Cassie in S2. Both were on the "can't use" list from DC then. Once Geoff Johns became the creative director, he made both characters available. At that point, tho, it was too late to add Donna in S1. So Greg hoped to have her cameo in S2, but again, not enough hours 4 design.
 * Greg also said that he chose to kill Wally instead of Barry because it was war and the death needed to "really hurt."
 * Greg did answer a question about raising Lian. Greg hmmmed a bit and then said: "Okay, I'll tell you." Roy is a full-time dad, he and Cheshire are "trying to make it work." Artemis helps out and Paula is trying to be a better grandmother than she was a mother.
 * The YJ videogame will "help explain" why Roy and Cheshire get married.
 * Greg was asked by his boss if he should cut the last scene from ep20 since season 3 wasn't locked. Greg said "no" because the villains aren't going the suddenly stop being bad. He wanted to show it was "business as usual" for the villains as well as the team.
 * Greg was asked what happened at Belle Reve after "Auld Aquaintance," since the JL knew about Hugo's connection to the Light. Greg said the Light called Hugo and said "the jig is up." And Hugo "opened all of the doors" before he left. Of course Belle Reve is "full again" after the five year gap, but not necessarily the same prisoners as before. He wouldn't say what happened to Hugo, just that if he was in Belle Reve, he wouldn't be the warden.
 * Jason Spisak personally thanked Greg for giving Wally "a proper sendoff" on the show.
 * There was a Red Tornado storyline planned for season 2, which had to be pulled out because there was no room.
 * There was a storyline for Captain Marvel, Sergeant Marvel (Mary), and Lieutenant Marvel (I presume Freddy/Dudley) planned for S2 as well. Since there was no room to do that in S2, this storyline now takes place during the 5-yr gap.
 * There's a YJ videogame and music soundtrack coming out... so more merch 2 buy & show demand.
 * Greg mentioned that the crew had bad luck regarding the availability of the voice actors on YJ. For ex. they had to recast Flash and Deathstroke in the later S2 eps because the original actors were busy. One VA that was unavailable but "irreplaceable" was Tim Curry... who was busy during the recording of the mid S2 episodes. So Greg voiced Godfrey's lines for the animators and Tim ADRed his voice later (which they usually do NOT do). Greg said as he was recording Godfrey, the director told him to do it slower. So he would r-r-r-e-a-d-d the lin-n-n-es like th-i-i-i-i-s-s-s, and the director said, "Slower, dude."

Can anyone confirm? Anyone have anything else to add?

I'm glad there's a soundtrack coming. I assume its from the same people that released the GLTAS one. I thought the Belle Reve info was interesting. I suspect the first few months of 2011 were... busy for the League and the Team. Also, everyone seemed to assume Lieutenant Marvel was Mary. I wonder if Greg clarified that, or if this was just the tweeter's (or the tweeter's friend's) assumption. 