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It was a cool episode. I liked the updated versions of the Super-Friends. And the Hall of Justice was a nice touch
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Anyone see last night's new episode with the replicating aliens?
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my new favorite catch phrase from JLU is:"I'm going to need both hands now Professor." Ray Palmer has truly been where no man has gone before!!!!! and if i'm not mistaken with the likes of: the Shining Knight the Crimson Avenger the Vigilante Green Arrow the Star Spangle Kid & Sand in the JLU roster you've got most of the Seven Soldiers of Victory all that's missing is Sandman. i think?
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I gotta agree... It's good to be Ray Palmer. That ranks right up there with some of the all-time great comic book related moments. Like when Big Barda in the JLA comic put on an evening gown and the gown actually turned out to be Plastic Man. Classic.
As for the rest of the episode... it seems like the animators tried to fit too much into too little time. This could have easily been a three parter.
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Just watched "Dark Heart" (Warren Ellis ep) and "Wake the Dead"
Dark Heart:
Ow. That was bad. Very bad.
Ellis had no sense of Wonder Woman at all here. I winced at "Strength in numbers'n'all that."
And they send Atom in to... try and smash up the heart, fail, and burst it's blood vessels. After talking about "reprogramming," and how, if that didn't work they couldn't leave a bit of it alive. And Superman couldn't have heat visioned those "blood vessels" when he took a look earlier because? Even leaving aside the fact that this is a team with Dr Fate and Green Lantern on it. And what the hell is "communicating on the atomic scale" when it's at home anyway? The writer's penchant for meaningless technobabble is showing.
Despite the name, no "heart" to this episode at all. Only the powers differenentiated the characters in any way.
Painful. D-
"Wake the Dead":
Better. I haven't seen the ep where Grundy died, which may have hurt it a bit, but I caught the gist. And it's nice to see Hawkgirl back - and nicer still to see that they didn't just rewind her back to Miss Smash'em'up. It picks up well from her attitude at the end of Starcrossed. The only think I'd pick up here is that, maybe, they oververbalised her problems a bit.
On the nominal "A" plot, though, not as strong. Having Hawkgirl's mace (which she didn't actually have at the end of SC - indeed, she didn't even take one with her when she left the Thanagarian ship) be the only thing that could hurt Grundy of a team that included Dr Fate, Superman and the All Powerful Android was a bit contrived. Nice moment though when she refused to let John do it for her - was leaving it unseen whether she did it a deliberate attempt to leave it vague (my initial reaction) or just them not wanting to show her smashing Grundy's head in with a heavy and spiky object (my later, cynical reaction)?
The A-plot here isn't that much stronger than DH, but the character work redeems it where DH had none worthy of the name. Even besides Hawkgirl, the little things like Vixen's cockiness and John's wide-eyed moment on seeing Shayera again.
Plus Grundy beats the crap out of Superman. What's not to love about that? [I wouldn't have pegged Supes as voting "no" though. The way he behaved in SC, even Bats seemed more likely. He must have chickened out when they actually came to a show of hands]
Generally good, with some glitches. B+
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