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Shifter and Downpour were the Wonder Twin analogues

Is Batman doing what I think he's doing?

He's just jealous 'cause Robin's hanging out with Wonder Woman.

Frank Cho rules.

I saw The Atom get the ride of a lifetime...

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?

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.

He's recruiting for 'sidekicks'

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+

Dude isn't waking the dead next weeks(ie.this saturday's)upcoming episode?

Is it? I'm not American, and I just dled the ep. Obviously it's been shown somewhere.

For a minute there, I thought that I had missed an episode..

Hmmmm,..... that would explain it. (lucky dawg) : :i'm really looking forward to that episode on saturday.

Dark Heart -
Best line was when Batman ejected from the Batplane

"This is Batman. I can't fly. I need some air support. Now."
(Or something like that.)

Runner up -
Atom, after defeating the nannite or whatever that thing was at the beginning of the episode.

"I'm old. I'm tired. I'm just going to rest now."

Actually, I thought that was nearly as bad as the Wonder Woman "strength in numbers" line. It's not a bad line, but it's not a Batman line.

WtD been shown yet?

yup, aired here in the states last saturday, not bad. it was nice seeing vixen in action, but i'm still left wondering if Grundy killed that kid or not?

I gotta say that I was pretty jealous of the Atom too. After that he really ought to appear on Letterman to talk about the experience and fulfill fanboy fantasies that cross generations.
I'll bet that qualifies as the "warm fuzzy" of a lifetime.

I've been pretty busty this week, is there a new one scheduled for this Saturday?

O_o
Freudian slip

New Episode tonight!! Woo!!
The add shows Billy Batson, this ought to be super cool!

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No Billy ! C_R_U_D!!

Any Suicide Squad fans out there? If so you'll be thrilled when this one reruns...maybe later tonight, I'm not absolutely sure though.
Colonel Flagg, Captain Boomerang, Plastique, Deadshot and Tempus Fugit (the little guy from the time travel episode last season) pull a raid on the JLA Sattelite. We get to see The Vigilante, Atom Smasher and The Shining Knight in some close up action as well as the Manhunter and Captain Atom doing the heavy work. Green Lantern gets the scene with the only *chuckle* in this one. Also we see Amanda Waller again with Morgana (I think it was her but I don't believe we got the lady's name so I'm not sure).

Apparently, the new "season" is starting, because we're supposed to have a whole batch of new episodes.

Did you catch it yet Beagz? I think CN reruns it again later tonight if you missed it. They did it that way last season but I haven't checked yet.

The time travel episode was Chronos wasn't it? This was Clock King last seen (I believe) in "Batman:TAS".

Any way, it was a cool episode. "Task Force X" stayed out of costume the whole time, which was a shame, but it made sense for the story. And one of them doesn't make it out!

"The Package" that the team is sent to retrieve is a reference to a past episode, though I didn't remember it at the time. I was hoping the new season started off with "Double Date" - I wanna see The Question!

And yeah, the GL/Deadshot scene was wickedly funny.

D'oh!
Ok, you're right. I got the two characters confused. I knew what the Package was as soon as they mentioned the villian who created it. I thought John Jones (never can get that Martian spelling right) did some cool stuff in this one.(I know I made "spoiler space" but I'm still trying not to give too much away)
It would've been great to see them in costume though. I wish the Star Spangled Kid had had a bit more than just a cameo too. Did you catch anybody else in the background?

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the episodes they're using for clips for the ads. There's some cool stuff coming up this season.

can't wait to see the future episodes!! Huntress, Green Arrow, Question, the Demon, CAPTAIN MARVEL!!!, etc etc.

YEAH!!!!!
Here I was hoping CM was gonna show up in this episode (because of the clips used ... like they did with the prior run).

*sigh*
But it's okay.
I'm patient.
Sort of.


I still think that J'onn shoulda been able to have stopped everything with a mental "push."

Also, I'm guessing this was the government's retaliation for the "secret weapon" displayed in "Dark Heart"?