Young Justice: Invasion #01 — Keezy Femmes

April 28th, 2012

 

That sounds dirtier than I bet it is.

Impressions:

And for the second half of our little Western experiment in blogging, in case you missed the first season of YJ: DC’s Horny Highschool Years, it apparently doesn’t matter because we’re timeskipping ahead 5 years to an almost completely different cast. Dick, Megan, and Superboy are the only holdovers still on the team (although Zatanna and Rocket are around). Megan’s hair wasn’t lucky enough to make the cut. Tim’s the new Robin (because nobody ever cares about Jason), and there’s a veritible clusterbintz of other new characters with only the briefest introductions to… mostly done through Lagoon Boy’s fish puns and Blue Beetle’s alternating Mexican and crazy talking to his suit. No, Jaime, you so crazy, ese. Speaking of ese, Interlac also sounds like Space Mexican. I was a little disappointed that Lobo didn’t have more of a role. Or actually go up against anybody who he could play well off of. You are lame, Wonder Girl.

So, yeah, it was, if anything, a bit overwhelming. Too fast is always better than too slow though. The start was solid at least and while the ending fight against the swarm was very underwhelming, Jaime did a good job of carrying it by being amusing. Lagoon did a good job of an endless stream of remarkably horrific fish puns. The middle did get a little awkward and boring, both the not-Glenn Beck (voiced by Tim Curry no less) going right into Strange’s flashback infodump. The show doesn’t usually abuse stills that badly. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were setting themselves up for a backwards trip in time and/or using an episode or two to set up an extended flashback arc. Last season/episode did end with Cadmus doing their Xanatos Gambit schtick of "Our plans to lose worked perfectly" for the goddamned 18th time and poor Speedy was sans one arm in a jar. Those seem like things a little too important to just gloss over in a timeskip. Also Megan snogging Lagoon now after bludgeoning us with her and Superboy for an entire year. I guess the interracial stuff was too controversial and they had to go green on green. And now I’ve weirded myself out… and didn’t even have to talk about Dick to do it.

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7 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • AfroSquirrel says:
    April 28, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Holy timeskip, Batman!

  • Arabesque says:
    April 29, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    I’m not sure if this was the best episode of the show, or the worst.

    On one hand, I had grown to like the thing they had with the first series, how each team member had grown to be more competent with time and eventually becoming actual Heroes. On the other hand, the school stuff and angst was starting to wear a bit thin by the end, and by a bit I mean a lot.

    That said, skipping 5 years is … drastic, to say the least. Having the show go through so much radical development of screen, removing the majority of the cast they we grew attached to and having some of the relationships be turned upside down is just …

    Covering anything else other than YJ and Korra? Ultimate Spiderman, Avengers, Thundercats?

    please don’t say anything about Ponies …

    • jingoi says:
      April 29, 2012 at 7:29 pm

      I agree with most of you said. I do like Lagoon Boy so far. Better be a good reason why MissM is with him now.
      Wonder Girl annoys me, more Batgirl. Wish they got Jaime’s VA from BATB.
      Lets take an axe to that USM idea.

  • The Phantom says:
    April 30, 2012 at 4:03 am

    The visuals look pretty good, but I despise superhero shows, and so I will never watch this.

  • CucarachaEnojada says:
    April 30, 2012 at 6:51 am

    Just for your information,”mexican” is not a language.The last time I check,here,below the Texas “wall of Berlin”,mostly known as SouthAmerica,is what called “Español”.

    Also,do not confuse it with the thing that those airheads in the end of the Hulk movie of Ang Lee speak.That is Portuguese.We laughed so hard here,trying to understand why is so difficult to find real Latinos in Hollywood who speak Spanish well.

    In fact,in the S1 of YJ,the chapter where Bane show up,I’m sure Danny Trejo have a WTF face when He says his horribles lines of dialogue.But I blame Google traductor for that,not him.

    !Because Machete RUUUUUUULES¡

    and kill

    and kill again.

    • ThatGuy says:
      May 4, 2012 at 7:49 pm

      Actually, Mexican can be considered its own language at this point. It is not on a national standpoint, but it’s similar to how American-English is different from “regular” English (or British-English).

      So saying someone speaks “Mexican” or “American” can be acceptable while only being somewhat incorrect.

      Also, he might have been been stating Blue Beetle speaks Mexican simply to draw attention to the fact that saying random Spanish words in a sentence is a very common way for characters to appear Mexican in the film industry.