"Young Justice" News & Discussion Thread, Part 27 (Spoilers)

[Yojimbo]

As in, animation takes 9-10 months from start to finish (story plotting before the scripting stage, to the eventual finished product), or 9-10 months beginning with a particular stage like the voice recording session? I imagine it's the former but I just want to be sure.

I'm sure he's answered that on Ask Greg but most recently on Twitter I saw him confirm 9-12 to make one episode of YJ. And I'm sure we must have sussed it out on one of these threads back in the day through his production rambles. If 9-12 is in total as you ask, I'll have to get back to you on that but sounds highly likely.

EDIT: In this tweet 11/17, Weisman said 10-12 months for a single episode after saying the process is "Script, voice, design & direction, animation, post-production."

 

[Marvelman02]

I don't think it's the right time for Tim to be Red Robin. He got very little development time and if they plan on making him Red Robin I think season 4 is the right time. Especially if a Jason Red Hood storyline is incoming.

As for Donna, we know she exists as Troia and is alive. In the original YJ comics Diana questioned Cassie about not wearing Donna's outfit (I believe Donna was dead at the time) and Cassie felt that she couldn't compare. That would be interesting ground to cover.

For Cissie, we saw her as a child and if the time skip isn't too big she should be a teenager by now. She had a great storyline in the original YJ comics and I'd love to see her with her mother.

Stephanie would be great to introduce as Spoiler. Her relationship with Tim could be interesting.

If it is on Netflix and they use Mia, I wonder if they'll go over her being HIV+.

I hope they only bring in characters as they are relevant to the story. One of the big problems with Invasion was that there were too many characters and too few episodes! Having said that, it would be good to see Steph as Spoiler or Batgirl. If you recall, originally, Steph was the one Bat who couldn't hack it as a hero. She lacked athletic skill despite all of her good intentions. We have never had a main character like that on the show. Also, Stephanie developed a rather poignant friendship with Damian. So, yes, I vote for Steph!

 

[Barbossa]

Damian in Season 3 may feel very forced. I hope WB don't force Greg to include him. WB/DC wants Damian to be the next big thing so bad lol

 

[RoyalRubble]

I was thinking along the same lines about Damian (hence why I suggested the possibility of him appearing next season earlier in this thread). After seeing him added to the 3rd Batman Unlimited movie I guess it remains to be seen how much creative freedom Weisman and Vietti will have. Of course it's also possible they had plans for him and wanted to include him on the show, without any executive meddling necessary.

 

[Frontier]

I think, depending on how long the timeskip is, we'll either still see Tim as Robin or see a new generation of the Team with Damians as the new Robin and explore that dynamic. It would be very interest to see how his personality would come across on this show vs. the comics and animated movies...

I don't see DC mandating Weisman and Co. include or don't include anyone since that didn't seem to be much of an issue in seasons 1 and 2, especially with the good working relationship Weisman seems to have with DC .

 

[RoyalRubble]

If there really are plans for a new Robin, I think Damian has the best chances of being it. Though it would be interesting if they went with a female Robin (Stephanie Brown, not Carrie Kelly )

But we'll see. We don't know how big of a time-skip it will be, just that there will be one. For all we know it might be only a week after the events of Season 2.

 

[Frontier]

It would be kinda awesome if this season we could possibly see all the main Robins (Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian) in one series together, ala that episode with all the Flashes together in season 2 .

 

[-batmat-]

No Damian, please!!

 

[Triant]

I'm not big on Damian, either. Anything I've seen him in, he's been really obnoxious.

Also, maybe some characters that aren't Bat-family?

 

[Skelly]

Weisman has shared some details on where the funding is coming from for this new season:

Money to produce the first two seasons of YJ came from Mattel and Cartoon Network. (Mostly from Mattel.) When Mattel pulled out, the money from CN wasn't enough to produce the series. Period. For season three, Warner Bros itself is paying for it, for now. They have confidence, I guess, that wherever it winds up and whatever merchandise they may or may not eventually release or license, they'll still make a profit. That's based on what the fans proved over the last few years.

http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=21608

If I understand that right, CN currently has no stake in this, nor do the toy companies. I imagine that has a huge effect on the platform this airs on.

 

[Harlequinn]

That doesn't give me much confidence in an episode count above 10

On the subject of Damian, WB/DC may actually not want him included to differentiate between YJ and the new Titans film line

 

[ShadowStar]

I'm sure he's answered that on Ask Greg but most recently on Twitter I saw him confirm 9-12 to make one episode of YJ. And I'm sure we must have sussed it out on one of these threads back in the day through his production rambles. If 9-12 is in total as you ask, I'll have to get back to you on that but sounds highly likely.

EDIT: In this tweet 11/17, Weisman said 10-12 months for a single episode after saying the process is "Script, voice, design & direction, animation, post-production."

Thanks! So the first episode could be done in August, for example, if it is scripted this month. I guess we'll see...

As for the episode count, I hope they reveal what it is soon. 10 or 13 episodes would be sad given the scale and potential of this show. Even 20 would be a bit of a cheat. Hoping for 26, even if an order of 26 episodes means that there will be no further seasons (but I'll be very disappointed if Troia and Sergeant Marvel do not appear in season 3 in that case - oh, who am I kidding, I'll be disappointed if they don't appear in season 3 anyway).

 

[TheLemsterPju]

I'm expecting a 10 year time-skip next season. I would imagine mostly to add further weight to how much of an ongoing and important threat The Light is.

It reminds me of Thailog still being a threat in 2009 of the Gargoyles timeline, 14 years after his creation. Greg loves to keep his villains active, possibly "undefeated" in a sense, for years, if not decades.

 

[Lonewolf36]

Would love to see this Greg Weisman created group from JLA Showcase 80-Page Giant #1 (2000) make an appearance though Disney would probably object.

 

[Harlequinn]

I'm expecting only a 1-2 year time skip only because so many of the younger heroes are 13/14. This would let them time skip just put them at an older teenage age. Cissie and Steph also fall into this range.

Edit: Confirmation season 3 will not be on CN
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisJonesArt/status/795773644005904385

 

[Lee H]

So, this is very old news, but I was frustrated to see that on the Season One blu-ray "Drop Zone" has the incorrect timestamps from the initial airing.

How did this even happen? The DVD and subsequent re-airings all had corrected timestamps. Can anyone confirm which version is on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes etc?

 

[Skelly]

Edit: Confirmation season 3 will not be on CN
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisJonesArt/status/795773644005904385

Why would Chris Jones know this? As far as I know he didn't have anything to do with the core show; just the comic series.
I guess he's talked to people in the know.

 

[Frontier]

Why would Chris Jones know this? As far as I know he didn't have anything to do with the core show; just the comic series.
I guess he's talked to people in the know.

Well, he did have a close working relationship with the people on the show, since Weisman worked on the comic. He was even allowed to do the design for Talia and a few other characters who weren't on the show...

 

[Yojimbo]

Well, he did have a close working relationship with the people on the show, since Weisman worked on the comic. He was even allowed to do the design for Talia and a few other characters who weren't on the show...

So far as we know, he's not working on the comic so it's only "worked" past tense unless Weisman told him something. In the past, during season 1-2, Jones has said things on his Twitter that were misconstrued or later incorrect when it came to the show. We won't be learning about where Season 3 will air on Twitter. There will be a press release when Warner is ready to say. Then we'll all retweet it.

 

[Harlequinn]

Regardless, it's safe to say it won't air on CN considering Greg's post about the funding coming solely from WB/DC