I guess being on the Team does a bit of damage to your public rep .Opener. The mention of a third mission in Chicago made me immediately think, "Gee, if there were a comic series, we'd be reading about it." Again, it's fascinating that Courtney reports Wonder Girl and Static as two brand new heroes.
I feel like they're setting something up with Cassie and Virgil with how much they get paired up together. Every reference to Cassie and Tim has been to talk about how it's on the rocks.
I think the mentor is definitely going to be a surprise/shady character. They're just slowly rolling out what Jace's endgame is with her revealing her less then shady actions to seem more legitimate...But of course, the "WAH?" moment with Violet learning she's dying and has months to live. And a tidbit that Jace sought out her mentor to help save her life. What are the odds this mentor is now a supervillain but Jace doesn't know it? Ah yes, true Young Justice fashion. Keep it a secret. Not like it's going to blow up in your face, Violet. It totally will. Secrets and lies. sigh.
You do kind of get the sense how tough the League has it now that one of the only members they have available that's qualified to take down a certain threat has to hide themselves to even deal with it. And they argued against her even going to begin with .As stoked I was that Zatanna got to shine and prove how she's one of the top heroes of the series, I was equally befuddled they kept Joan Garrick's funeral off camera and threw out another piecemeal that Dr. Fate appears to be MIA. I like how Zatanna finally showed that a Leaguer can go over the UN and do some good, use a glamour spell to cloak themself. And it totally felt like a choice of the Anti-Light to pass the mission off to the Outsiders. Aquaman's excuse seemed kinda flimsy about it being too public for the Team then Kaldur and M'Gann basically manipulates Zatanna into heading to Santiago to back up the Outsiders.
I was also kind of surprised Joan Garrick's funeral was completely off-screen. They don't even mention her name, but she's the only one I could see it being about that would involve Bart and would have Jaime come with him.
Although that does kind of get into one of my pet peeves where they have characters around and doing stuff but they get no voiceover or lines whatsoever. Like Wonder Girl was silent for all of one muted line that was probably not Mae Whitman and Bart comes back from this funeral and gets no lines but a hug at the end. Just kind of throws me off, even if I know it's because they can't get every voice actor in for a few lines, and this show stretches it's cast as is.
What is Fate doing? Isn't, like, 50% of his job keeping Klarion in check as a Lord of Order ?
That's got to be the most creepy and insidious thing I've seen Klarion do all series, and that's saying something. And as far as we know the Light totally condoned this .Project Rutabaga. It's kinda oddball they open on banter between Klarion and Teekl then show the project is a horrifying expansion on illegal meta trafficking methods. Use chaos magic to traumatize a teen into manifesting powers, bind their soul with a brand (totally thought of LeFay's one from TNBA), then shove them into a gestalt monster form with other teens in constant pain.
I kind of missed Klarion and Teekl's banter though. That poor cat has it rough...
She seems to be Dolphin but Hispanic like Lorena Marquez. I thought it was Lorena before she got the white hair, gills, and being mute and obviously Beast Boy transformed into a dolphin to help her cemented who she actually was .That teen girl totally has to be Lorena Marquez/Aquagirl II. Ramon Bracuda was a random choice and reworking from a Gotham crimelord into a Cuban colonel, lol.
Maybe they mixed the two together. I remember in the comics Dolphin ended up marrying Garth, and Lorena was assocated with Kaldur's comic incarnation during Brightest Day, so it'll be interesting to see where they go with it.
Also, did anyone else notice Gar tapping her butt with his dolphin head to get her into the Bioship ?
Whether it was believable or not I thought it was nice to Zatanna get one over on Klarion and use Fate to her advantage given her complicated history with Nabu. And it was also kind of satisfying to see Klarion scared for once, again, whether it was believable or not .The Outsiders taking on Klarion sounds ludicrous on paper but it just goes to show how much Beast Boy has grown and learned. He goes straight for Teekl and uses his powers efficiently to lure then knock out Teekl, weakening Klarion's hold on the mortal plane. Then the weird word play of Klarion continues. Constipated instead of contained. Then it gets worse and Wonder Girl is merged into the monster. But Zatanna rectifies it lickety split. That was an awesome reveal that she could summon the ankh. And also clever of her to stop Klarion by taking him to the Tower of Fate. Nice touch with Inza's portrait having a quick shot.
Things sure escalated with Halo .Then Violet deals with the news by drinking, shooting, and making out with Harper Row then getting arrested by another DC name character, Bethany Lee who was an ex-wife of Snapper Carr in the comics. It's a nice touch that Megan chooses to try and talk to Violet where she could simply read her mind, shows how far she's come.
It's kind of ironic that Halo dying became kind of a joke but is now a plot point that reviving herself as much as she has has basically started the clock to her real death. Ouch .
I guess she was in a funk over realizing she might die in a few weeks, so she went all "devil-may-care" "live life to the fullest" things, even if means giving in to excess and committing several crimes (underage drinking and shooting a gun without a permit for one). Harpers a bad influence, but Violet went along with it .
As for the kissing...well, I guess they acknowledged Harper's bisexual like in the comics, although I wonder if her boyfriend is just a beard or if she just feels like she can kiss whoever she wants. I also wonder if it's anyone from the comics (knowing this show, it probably is).
But I mean, Violet's free to kiss who she wants but that's really leaving Brion in the cold, especially with how dedicated he is to her. I honestly could see him taking it harder the idea she cheated on him then the whole "the person who's body your inhabiting kinda helped kill my parents," but you never know .
They acknowledge Harper's father is kind of a deadbeat and criminal, like in the comics, so I guess that just leaves her brother left to be acknowledged.
I wonder if that former marriage is still a thing...she did ask to see how Snapper is doing.
Maybe Tigress can tell that Terra is more skilled then she lets on. She teased as much, but it could just be that she's going off what she said she saw of Terra in the arena and not trained by the League of Assasins. But she probably knows about it by virtue of Dick probably having told her where Batman Inc. got their information on Terra from.And just when --- nerp, another sub-plot. And Terra talks! It's definitely interesting. I wonder, has Tigress figured out Terra is a mole and has been trying to rehab her on the sly this whole time or she still clueless like everyone else? Or for that matter, is Terra going to betray the Team or not? Makes sense Tigress would point out the parallel with Sportsmaster.
Eduardo looked kinda jealous when he saw Bart and Virgil getting close. Kind of makes me wonder if that led to him wanting to go back to be a hero to be closer to Bart. The also panned to Windfall during that scene, so, uh...love rectangle ?Guess probably-Lorena is heading to Atlantis. Woot, and the Outsiders are getting El Dorado on the team! That's definitely a decent gesture to inspire the teens with. Even a bigger surprise Courtney declared them a global sensation bigger than the Justice League.
That look on Kaldur's face was hilarious .
I think that might be my favorite credits gag .And super funny end credits. Still stuck in there. lmao.
It does seem like they might be getting too big for their britches.Gotta say though, things are going great and smoothly for the Outsiders. Is the hammer going to drop on them sooner than later?
I don't know if it's going to be the Granny Goodness funding that does them in, Jace, or how they operate.
They only narrowly managed to avoid getting arrested in their first outing and they seem to be continuing to run afoul of government or local law enforcement when they go into other countries. That gives them way more freedom then the League obviously has, and the power of publicity the Team doesn't get, but it doesn't give them the kind of legal protection that can protect them from ending up behind bars.
I'm not sure I see them repeating the Outsiders getting arrested again, but it does make you wonder whether the show intends to address how far a public vigilante team can get on their own (even with some influence from the Justice League).
I don't think she's boy or girl crazy, but as a bi girl she feels free to kiss both boys and girls if she feels like it (it probably didn't help that she was drunk).There was only one problem with this episode, how they represented Harper Row as a bisexual; namely that she seems like a stereotype of a bi/pansexual person, especially with this particular line when she kissed Halo.
Halo: “I have a boy friend...
Harper: So do I!“
In case if you don’t know what the issue is, it’s that she’s basically a bisexual who is sex-crazed for both boys and girls. Diversity is one thing, but representation is another, and there are other ways to represent bisexual or pansexual people other than them just being both boy & girl crazy at once.
Are we talking about Harper or Violet? Because at least with Violet I can see the complaints about the hijab because it comes off culturally insensitive for her to wear something culturally significant to Muslim women and then act like she's not Muslim at all .Perhaps it was a mistake in terms of representation to introduce a dysfunctional character from a broken home first rather than normal well-adjusted (though I'm sure others argue one or more already have) one. I'm sure if a normal well, adjusted character appeared first, critics would be claiming pandering instead. There'd always be a criticism either way, imo.
A minor point, yes, but they were both drunk at the time. It could have just been impulsive on her part, both actually, imo. I'm not entirely sold on whether she's really bisexual or not just because of what we've seen in a few minutes in 2 appearances on the show or just because her comic counterpart is.
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