Young Justice-Tonight!

[shivkala]

The problem with time jumps is that they so rarely pay-off, at least in my opinion. Either we get things like DC's "One Year Later," which presented some change in the status quo (though things like Aquaman being dead and replaced eventually reset themselves). The problem came when they decided to reveal some of what happened in the missing year for the characters not highlighted in 52, which lead to some hasty plot points shoehorned into World War III or problems like when, exactly, Jim Gordon became the Commissioner again. In the case of the former, apparently a good majority of the changes we saw in OYL happened during World War III, which took place only a few weeks before they point in which we saw the characters in OYL initially.

The other problem is, as Praetor_Shinzon said, a reset. While I hope not, I fully expect something to be revealed or happen that the characters realize must be fixed, leading them to send someone "Days of Future Past" style to the past to fix before it happens, leaving all of what we saw previously wiped out, and the status quo set back to the end of the 1st season.

 

[Psylent1]

Here's a Teen Titan roll call list of every Titan including;
Bumblebee
Mal Duncan (Herald)
Lagoon Boy
Wonder Girl
Beast Boy
Blue Beetle

http://www.titanstower.com/source/whoswho/00rollcall.html

When the Justice League arrived at the end, who was that next to Green Arrow and Plastic Man?

Was that Black Lightning or Static?

 

[Saga]

Was that Black Lightning or Static?

pretty sure it was Black Lightning.

 

[sojourner]

I appreciate using the same voice for Nightwing as a show of continuity, but it sounds like he didn't go through puberty.

Jesse McCartney, who plays Dick, is 25 years old. So there's no reason Dick couldn't have that voice at 18. If anything, the 13-year-old Dick of season 1 had the voice of someone who'd already gone through puberty. Otherwise he would've had to be voiced by a woman or an actual child.

I'm not doubting that the voice actor is over puberty. Only that Dick sounds prepubescent as Nightwing. It doesn't fit the character at that age.

 

[Christopher]

No, he doesn't sound prepubescent, he sounds like an adult tenor. His voice has the lower fundamental pitch of a male whose voice has changed, not the androgynous quality of a prepubescent voice. That's why I said a prepubescent character would have to be played by a woman or an actual child.

I think that TV so often casts twentysomething actors as high-schoolers that a lot of us lose track of what adolescents actually look and sound like.

 

[JD]

Damn, I really hope they get this up on CN's website by tomorrow morning. I'm curious what exactly happened with this time jump, and to see the new team.

 

[sojourner]

No, he doesn't sound prepubescent

He does to me. Your opinion may differ.

 

[TemporalFlux]

It's pretty funny that they've patterned Godfrey's show after Glenn Beck's old Fox News show. It has a similar logo design; similar color scheme and set layout; and Godfrey standing as he tries to make a heartfelt plea to America. Will future episodes feature Godfrey using a black board to connect more dots in the great JLA conspiracy?

All in all, I enjoyed it. I feel a bit sad that the show I knew in season one is gone; but it's still a good show. And I fully expect to learn that Wally is now the Flash with Barry being dead.

 

[Silvercrest]

What are you talking about? They would never kill off Barry! What's next, turn Hal evil?

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Lobo was lackluster...I guess Brad Garrett's version left more of an impression on me than I thought. Though, I was unfamiliar with the character before Superman TAS.

I'm not familiar with the Superman version but I agree with you nonetheless. He seemed to be "serioused" up a bit to fit with Young Justice's idea of what adults are like.

The Young Justice version of Lobo was more in line with the way his character was originally when he first appeared in The Omega Men series. He was a much more serious character then.


The time jump was pretty jarring and now it seems like a completely different show. I'm not sure I like the new direction. I just don't see the need for it.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

I was hoping the season 2 opener would lead to someone having to jump back 5 years to prevent that future from occurring.

Why? What was so bad about that new time period that play God with the lives of possible billions through time travel reset buttons is needed.

I'm wondering if Weisman got tired of having his intricately plotted story arcs cancelled in the middle (Gargoyles, The Spectacular Spider-Man) and decided to jump straight to the climax this time.

Assuming the time jump wasn't planned in from the beginning of course. I mean the only things they could do with the plot from where the season finale left things was Red Arrow looking for non clone Roy, and building the team up as phase 2 of the Light's plan seems to be the alien invasions.

 

[Christopher]

Why? What was so bad about that new time period that play God with the lives of possible billions through time travel reset buttons is needed.

Agreed. We viewers are uneasy with it because it's not the characters and situation we're used to, but that doesn't mean the characters themselves are living in a dystopian horror. On the contrary, they seem to be thriving (at least the characters we've seen), despite Godfrey's efforts to stir up anti-alien paranoia.

 

[sojourner]

I was hoping the season 2 opener would lead to someone having to jump back 5 years to prevent that future from occurring.

Why? What was so bad about that new time period that play God with the lives of possible billions through time travel reset buttons is needed.

We don't know yet?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Desperate House Wives and One Tree Hill both did a 5 year leap forward and didn't consider using time travel to... Actually desperate housewives has a "victory lap' season left, so I wouldn't put it past them, becuase if felicity can become a show about Time travel, anything can.

I mean, did you suspect that that was where they were going when they started Lost?

DESMOND!

I have been trying to figure out who the Limey was on Scandal for the last month without using IMDB.

 

[Christopher]

Why? What was so bad about that new time period that play God with the lives of possible billions through time travel reset buttons is needed.

We don't know yet?

Or maybe there's nothing to know. You can't assume there actually is going to be a "time travel to fix things" plot just because you'd like there to be. Sometimes a time jump is just a time jump. Lots of shows and comics have done time jumps that weren't part of any time travel plot but were just a way to introduce change. The Legion of Super Heroes comic once did a "Five Years Later" jump a lot like this, and the animated Legion series jumped forward two years between its first and second seasons. Battlestar Galactica did a time skip of over a year at the end of season 2, and Alias did a 2-year time skip at the end of its season 2.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Lagoonboy and Miss Martain are hooking up.

You can't tell me that this is a good timeline.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Lobo was lackluster...I guess Brad Garrett's version left more of an impression on me than I thought. Though, I was unfamiliar with the character before Superman TAS.

I'm not familiar with the Superman version but I agree with you nonetheless. He seemed to be "serioused" up a bit to fit with Young Justice's idea of what adults are like.

The Young Justice version of Lobo was more in line with the way his character was originally when he first appeared in The Omega Men series. He was a much more serious character then.

Ah, I mostly know Lobo from his own title.

 

[SG-17]

The Lobo that I remember.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I'm not sure how I feel about the time jump either. If I was a 10 year old, I think I would be going... um, where are the characters that I know. Or maybe they roll better with the changes.

I guess I hope there's a good narrative reason--I don't think they are setting up a time travel story--but we'll discover the alien invasion required this much time or something. Because it was jarring to be thrust so in media res with this new world and some of the characters I've invested in no longer front and center...

It's good, it's just... a surprising tactic.

 

[Saga]

Lagoonboy and Miss Martain are hooking up.

You can't tell me that this is a good timeline.