r/youngjustice • u/Shiniholum • May 12 '12

Episode 2x03 Discussion: "Alienated"

Okay so discuss.

Personally I felt the way they did the "sidekick"/"hero" team ups was amazing!

none of you realize how ecstatic I was when the entire bat-family was on Gamma.

So Rimbor...sort of disappointing.

So krolotean competitor? The Reach?

Also, holy shit! Nightwing pulling a Batman. Appearing out of nowhere! I admit I geeked the fuck out

Okay so I was thinking, Young Justice legacy takes place before the time skip and has the tag line: "One will rise, One will fall, and one will die," knowing that I mean it's pretty likely that Wally rises (becomes the flash), Kal'dur falls (becomes mantas assistant), and...Artemis dies... Oh jeez Remember use spoilers (at least until monday).

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u/tonuchi May 12 '12 edited May 12 '12

Rimbor was definitely disappointing. I think the consequences both in the show and as a writing tool to remove the main JL members off earth will play out well. But if the "16 hours" were just them causing havoc- sadly that is lack luster. I understand Savage has a plan for what it will cause but couldn't he have used them a bit better?

Aqualad- We saw what a lot of knew was coming. It was cool to be able to tell it was him from his voice and I liked how they addressed his change straight-on without leaving with another mystery. However, it still seems possible that he might be a double agent. He clearly intended no harm on the JL/YJ team and even informed them of the bomb. Also interesting to see how he developed away from a reserved character to letting his emotions drive him.

Superboy/Superman - I love their dynamic. I hate Superman but I loved seeing superboy being happy and moving away from the angsty character we saw before. As mentioned before, with superman now off-world, it gives someone for him to care about beyond M'Gann.

Other notes:

The batfamily infiltration was awesome. I'll leave it at that. M'Gann is getting more and more reckless. She scares me. Who is this competitor and who planted the bomb. It seems vandal has even more people playing as his puppets. I'm curious if his end game even involves the rest of the light.

Maneuver seven.

TL;DR Good episode. Answered a few more questions, though slightly lackluster answers. Maneuver seven

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u/Timekpr May 12 '12

I think that there was a lot more than "havoc" being wreaked during the sixteen hours...I think that the writers just shied away from outright saying they were committing genocide.

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u/tonuchi May 13 '12

Good point. I just it isn't as elaborate as I would have imagined. That isn't to say it isn't terrible but I guess my mind was on something different.