I'm not excited about this season of Young Justice, but maybe that's because some of my favorite cosplayers are soured on it, and their opinions tend to rub off on me. So far Invasion has been a mixed bag, and I feel like they've tried to hard to set up mystery in the 5 year gap to sell the upcoming video game
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I did like Blue Beetle, up until this episode, because he's started to feel very one-note. There was more depth shown in the character just chasing the fake Bibbo than in the entirety of his adventure with Superboy recently.
What I like:
-Garth/Beast Boy and the brother-sister relationship he's got going with M'gann.
-Wonder Girl fangirling over Wonder Woman.
-The way the Bat-Family fights together (the action sequences continue to be very good).
-Bibbo cameo.
- Druggie Roy, "I need to find speed... y" I'm looking forward to see how his being a father Lian plays out.
- Adam Strange, so much awesome there.
What I don't like:
-Angelfish. Nothing against Lagann, but I really don't like that the Superboy/Miss Martian breakup happened off-screen. I do like that there's some definite depth behind the reason for the breakup, but I don't think the 5 year gap is good storytelling in that regards. It really compounds the problems that the end of last season had with the magic hook-up of all teen characters paired off and happy. It's a matter of show, don't tell. We're told that all these characters are in relationships, but only get shown real interaction for some of them. SuperMartian was shown a fair bit, but it's gone and we've mostly been just told why. What's been shown of Angelfish doesn't have any depth to it, it's about as deep as Aqualad and Rocket was (which is to say: not at all).
- Too many characters introduced too quickly. When Justice League went Unlimited, they had the core 7 still around, and they helped define the newcomers by their relationships to them. That's not the case with YJ going Invasion. We don't know the old team anymore, and most of them are gone as well. With as much change as Kaldor, Wally, Artemis, Connor and Dick have gone through, they're not the same characters anymore. There hasn't been a lot of character development.
- Too much time spent talking about what's happened. It's a very talky show that resorts to "As you know..." way too often.
- Poor balance between flashbacks and current plots. So much happened in five years, and it's not coming out very smoothly.
Overall I'm going to keep watching, because it's still some amazing action, but this is not anywhere near as good as Justice League Unlimited or Teen Titans were.
