Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130110100903/@comment-1895174-20130113083811

This episode was just alright. Although essentially a throw-away moment, the best part of the episode was when Virgil said "static shocks". Otherwise, I feel Despero was wasted in this episode. Despero is usually depicted as a vicious tyrant, able to enslave an entire planet with his third eye, and still being able to fight the Justice League to a standstill. The one here was just a bounty hunter/collector/etc. Maybe another appearance from Lobo might have worked better. Also, Keith David not reprising his role as Despero from the DCAU feels like a missed opportunity, considering he's (arguably) the most notable exclusion from Greg Weisman's typical stable of voice actors.

Also because Keith David's voice is, as far as I'm concerned, the perfect voice.

That being said, it was a nice surprise that Mal became Guardian. I was expecting he'd become Vox or Herald (his most notable identities from the comics), or perhaps the show's version of Cyborg or Mr. Teriffic. Weisman played around with certain characters' origins and identities in a similar fashion for Spectacular Spider-Man (having one of the Enforcers become Shocker, for example), so it was a reasonable expectation.