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Well THAT was an interesting twist. Never would have guessed that it was actually Ted Kord's uncle that wanted to rule the world.
Next: Chemo gives Batman an infectious disease, so it's up to Atom to shrink Aquaman and him down in to Bat's body and save him. I didn't see anything to represent a teaser... Mabey Chemo is the teaser.
That was a shortened version of the TV ad for next week's. The longer ad showed Batman and feuding Plastic Man and Elongated Man against Baby Face.
No he would be the F sharp bell (A blind Green Lantern.)
One last comment: Ted Kord isn't really dead. He is frozen in ice in the arctic, and in 60 years he will be rediscovered, thawed out, and will lead a team of government-sponsored superheros against an alien invasion. Don't believe me? Compare his 'death' to the opening scene in "Ultimate Avengers." You'll see that I'm right.
Ted Kord was killed off a few years ago in the actual comics, in the awful "Infinite Crisis" storyline in a crap-tacular manner. While I half-wonder if Ted being dead in this animated series was mandated by DC (to keep the emphasis only on the newest Beetle/match the then-current status of their comics), his death in this episode was quite tastefully done and heroic.
.However, the show isn't using the new Aquaman, maybe it's because his series was canceled a lot quicker than the other two. Wonder if they have any plans for Firestorm.
I'm wondering that too. Almost all of the Post-Infinite Crisis new heroes and books have failed and been canceled, that includes Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle and Ryan Choi/The Atom, both who are being featured on the show. Feels a little late if their books are gone.
However, the show isn't using the new Aquaman, maybe it's because his series was canceled a lot quicker than the other two. Wonder if they have any plans for Firestorm.
Viewed this one on tape earlier tonight.... but anyway, this was an enjoyable episode. ALmost thought like they'd made Ted to be something he wasn't in the comics... nice plot twist.
Old-comic-trivia time:
- The original Blue Beetle dates back to the early superhero comics. The Ted Kord Beetle was created in the mid-60s and was published by Charlton Comics (along with other heroes), a comic company that went defunct in the early 80s and whose heroes were bought by DC---who introduced Ted to the DCU in "Crisis on Infinite Earths" (as residing on teh introduced-in-the-story "Earth-4"). Post-Crisis, Ted Kord made his most well-known-to-modern-fans appearances in the late 80s "Justice League" stories as a partner-in-wacky-hijinks with fellow JL-er Booster Gold.
Ted Kord was killed off a few years ago in the actual comics, in the awful "Infinite Crisis" storyline in a crap-tacular manner. While I half-wonder if Ted being dead in this animated series was mandated by DC (to keep the emphasis only on the newest Beetle/match the then-current status of their comics), his death in this episode was quite tastefully done and heroic.
See here for more about the various Beetles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle
- The origin story Jaime described to his skeptical friend was the origin of the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. Yeah, wasn't too keen on making it sound like that wasn't his origin in the cartoon either (assuming Hal even exists).
- Doctor Polaris is an old Silver Age Green Lantern (and later JLA) foe, who was created in 1962 (a year before the more famed comic-book magnetism-master, Magneto). Polaris was a corrupted scientist who possessed various magnetism abilities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Polaris)
Next week:
Looks like a "Fantastic Voyage" parody, involving Aquaman and the (presumably new) Atom, along with the Brain (of the Doom Patrol fame, not Pinky's cohort ). Plus (from the preview) looks like more Aquaman water-shields and water-balls; don't miss it!
-B.