Young Justice: Invasion #03 — Violations of the Geneva Conventions

May 12th, 2012

 

Well, space Geneva.

Korra will take a little bit. I’ve watched it and written things up, but caps got a little… how to say… corrupted. Apparently I need to clear out space on my laptop. 

Impressions:

Another episode showing that they’re really in love with the whole time skip thing and are trying fairly transparently to create interest by teasing all manner of things that happened off-screen. The gremlins are just horrible antagonists and despite Weissman et al trying to make this into some compelling plot, it really has nothing going for it. "Where are the gremlins?" "Found them. Let’s go curbstomp them." "Okay, finished." All three episodes now. At least the first one had Lobo and Blue Beetle being their… charming selves… shall we say. This time around, the ‘big’ event was that Blaqualad became Blaquamantis because his not-girlfriend died apparently. And unfortunately, that’s pretty much about it. Toss in another half-assed ‘fight’ against the gremlins and their CG tanks, more faffing about with *gasp* the 16 hours, which ended up being patently… well… stupid, and bleh. They got sent somewhere and… broke things. Really, Savage? This was your master plan? Don’t just frame them, create mind control devices to frame them on another planet so that in five years… what? They’ll go away for a short time?

At least there’s hope for next week with them seemingly going back to the previous formula and trotting out what appeared to be Doomsday, or whatever Cadmus knockoff it’ll invariably be. The entirety of the show’s damsel in distress squad (ie, the actual JL) fly off to space to go be in distress somewhere else and every gremlin on Earth has now been apparently nuked or mindraped by MM. You’d really think there’d have been consequences for walking into a room and reducing an alien prisoner to a slobbering wreck, but apparently Superboy’s the only person to even give her even a stern look. A triumph for justice everywhere.

And as always, Wondergirl remains just… just horrible.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • TOP2NE1 says:
    May 12, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    I still don’t understand the whole timeskip thing. It feels undeserved/unearned.

    • backspace says:
      May 12, 2012 at 10:46 pm

      You have to earn timeskips now?

      • TOP2NE1 says:
        May 13, 2012 at 12:14 am

        Why not?

        So far there really is *nothing* that required it be a five year skip (aside from Nightwing/Robin). They could have spent 3 or 4 episodes earning their way towards this point, (just inflate the roster in the season premiere, then introduce new characters slowly) and just picked it up say, six months later.

        Obviously they wanted all the episodes available to them to tell the story of the season, but… it just feels really cheap to keep getting “dramatic twists” or “big character moments” that are only so because they skipped them the first time.

        It’s flat out forced.

  • CucarachaEnojada says:
    May 13, 2012 at 7:46 am

    3 episodes,and just now someone ask to GL why he don´t know about the trivial matter of being a wanted criminal?

  • Tachi says:
    May 13, 2012 at 8:27 am

    I prefer avengers earth’s mightiest heroes to young justice. Just a more fun show overall, better balanced at making each episode compelling in its own right while maintaining ongoing story lines.

    Young justice seems to have this sort of grim obsession with continuity to the point that it eschews charm and strong character moments nearly completely in favor of the almighty season arc.