@FadeToBlackBolt said:
@Queen's Halo said:
@TimeLordScience said:
@Queen's Halo said:
@TimeLordScience said:
@Queen's Halo said:
Hopefully everyone dies and from everyone's minds the memories of this series are erased so people would stop talking about it like it was actually good.
lol are you high?
No. Just saying the truth. There are so many things wrong with this show - it was a mistake it was even made.
The vox populi would disagree.
The majority opinion is not the right opinion in this case. This series fails when at it's core the premise makes little to no sense - what you have is a group of seasoned protectors letting their sidekicks who have barely passed the superhero equivalent of potty training deal with dangerous villains. Since when are superheroes in support of child endangerment? Never, that's when aka this series makes no sense. Yeah, the character designs and development are above average, it's still saying that moldy bread is OK to eat if the cheese is good.
It's actually worse than that, the premise is that the children are to be used as Black Ops. They have Superboy, an antisocial weapon of mass destruction that even Superman doesn't trust (regardless of how the character grows, I'm talking about the premise) on a team where the most experienced member is a twelve year old with a fetish for linguistics. So the Justice League organise this group led by Captain Left My Personality in Atlantis in order to combat the threats that they don't want the world to know about.
Umm... What?
They're not comfortable with letting the world know that Bealyia is funding and protecting terrorists, but it's fine to send a group of untrained, disorganised, hormonal superhumans into the area for recon? Did anyone actually proof-read this nonsense?
This however, could be fine, if it wasn't for the fact the show was so desperate for gravitas that it infuses itself with enough secret history and cabal conspiracies to give Jonathan Hickman an erection that it completely ignored the central idea behind the show; TEENAGED HEROES. You know, those fun loving characters that the average comic reader can relate to?
The problem with "Young Justice" is that, rather than Teen Titans which had fun with the idea of a group of superhero youngsters and playfully indulged in the absurdity of the idea, YJ desires a kind of dark, moral and character complexity to rival Batman: the Animated Series. And since the YJ team are a Black Ops group that deal with real, violent threats and the show is basically absent of any kind of fun, we're left with but one feeling, these kids are child soldiers. So the average watcher is meant to relate to who, a child soldier? Unless Cartoon Network broadcasts to the Sudan, bit of a swing and a miss there with the idea of teen heroes.
The Justice League have organised a group of expendable youths to die in order to combat a seemingly omniscient force that is concentrating on teenagers rather than the League. The whole show is just ridiculous. And where it could have been fun, it instead wanted to appeal solely to the "I'm so cool, I watch shows with dark plots" crowd that the series lost any charm it may have once had.
1) This might sound cynical, but it's better that Kaldur, Dick, and Wally were organized into a team instead of being left alone. This way their mentors could still give them guidance. Superboy needed guidance and socialization. The Team allowed to use his powers in a safe environment and work with others. Nothing teaches you how to work with others like war.
Batman organized the Team for intelligence work, not plain combat. Things happened differently, but that's life.
Knowing Bialya harbors terrorists isn't the same as being able to convince the world to act. Heads of state are accused of wrongdoing all the time. Plenty of anti-American rhetoric comes from Saudi Arabia, but the country has a good relationship with the U.S.
2) Knowing Earth-16's history isn't crucial to getting the show. But to each his own, I guess.
3) "Young Justice" dealt in relatable issues. Kids could relate to feeling neglected or working up the courage to ask someone out. Whether you thought the show was fun, again, is up to you. I personally enjoyed watching the Team work out their problems in Season One and the various jokes seeded in the series.
4) This last point isn't fair. The Team's fight against the Light was an unintended consequence. If the Team hadn't been on to the Light, the Justice League would still be under control. As for the Light, spying on the League through an unpowered sidekick is reasonable.
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