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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1204169" data-attributes="member: 151">Did we ever establish that Doomsday wasn't intelligent?  I mean, he didn't exactly get a lot of clever writing to begin with.  He crashlands and starts hitting things and screaming.  At least the JLA portrayl gave him something, as small as it was.  And a large part of the whole scene was based on fan discussions of how 'if superman was willing to fight to the death, why didn't fight dirty?'  Mind you, that assumes that Doomsday wasn't just a big, fat liar...and we know that couldn't possibly be true. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   Bleh.  There are so many ways that a combined league could defeat him, it's not even funny.  If you want him as dumb as he was in the 'Death of Superman', then he's not going to be a very interesting villian...especially not for an hour.   Well, I sort of made the leap there that first he lobotomized them, then they did other things to fix them, no matter how drastic.  Joker had clearly been reprogrammed, not just lobotomized.  I also enjoyed the fact that the dummy was lobotomized, not the ventriloquist.   What, you find that such a big stretch?  They killed Vandal Savage (or did something worse) and then Bats locked himself in a cave for a couple of years with infinite resources, his tech and his notes.  The whole joke here is that the Justice Lords basically broke all of the rules...including, presumably stealing and using the bad guy's technology. This episode was full of references to fans of both the comics and the show.  Was I the only one who thought Wonder Woman's alternate costume looked like Wonder Girl's old outfit in the late 70s/early 80s, for example?  If you're looking for a loophole, you might ask how John Stewart was able to stay an active member of the GLC, given his behavior.  Of course, for all we know, they took care of them, too. Given that they only have a half-hour to establish a plot (even if they are two-part episodes), I think they do quite well with seven main characters, a set of supporting cast and a set of stories focused on action.  YMMV.</blockquote>

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