New TEEN TITANS and JUSTICE LEAGUE (w/ Spoilers)

[jarlaxlecq]

Uh, Zap Brannigan is the VELOUR Fog.

D'oh

 

[argo]

Woohoo! I love Coombs (Combs, however you spell it). I thought it was him. Loved the character, although I felt weird about not knowing anything about his powers. So, no face, he can sorta disguise himself, he makes smoke show up sometimes, and other than that...? I was really not sure what he was or did. Doesn't mean I didn't like him, though.

My wife laughed out loud when he dropped the pins.

AFAIK The Question has no powers, the no-face deal is a mask. He is just a "normal" dude with some cheap smoke bombs and the will to do absouetly anything to uncover the truth (truth for truth's sake). Kinda like Batman with out the kung-fu and bank account, or Mulder without the Scully and closet full of pron.

And the "break-in" scene was totally an homage to Rosarch. I just about hit the floor when he did that.

I also noticed the poster in his room, same design as Mulder's classic wall-art but it says "I know" instead. I love it when a show's creators slip in little touches like that, it shows they care. So far this season of JLU has been two hits followed by three misses, this eipsode evens the score IMHO.

And not forgeting the TT I have to say that the Red X ep is quite possibly the best... TT... ever! Or maybe I just like Robin too much? Either way they sure packed a lot of action and a lot of character development into one 1/2 hour. Good stuff.

 

[Nightfall]

While everyone is talking about JLU, Teen Titans has been above average all season. With Starfire's sister returning this week it can only get better.

No doubt about that. TT has improved greatly since it's first season. I can't wait to see season 4.

Argo,

Your comment about Red X is dead on. By far one of the best eps I've seen from TT. Especially in terms of fight scenes AND some amazing internal dialogue.

Dunno about rating JLU but so far it's been a steller season 3 for Teen Titans.

(And are you 100% sure Blackfire returns? I'm not doubting you and I do remember Dini saying they'd bring her back...but I wasn't sure it was this ep.)

 

[Nightfall]

Two things I must say about the JLU ep:

Booster Gold WAS golden. Just like I remember him from the comics

NEVER, EVER, EVER use a portable Black hole as a power source. It will ALWAYS come back to bite you in the flanks.

Didn't see much of Modru but man he was kicking ass and taking names up until the end...

(Okay three things!)

 

[jasamcarl]

I was kindof turned off by the first episode of JLU. It seemed as if it was attempting to replace the sharply drawn, if not particularly deep, original characters with a conveyer belt of cameo appearances and a cheap, childish "when we work together" theme. Basically, I thought it was being dumbed down just a bit too much, with the concilation prize for DC comic nurds being on the 'in references'. And given that i'm not really a dc guy (read marvel when i was into comics), i didn't think there was anything there for me.

But having actually tuned back in for the last two episodes, I've kindof changed my mind. They seem to be going with a 'character of the week' thing, sharply focusing on one personality in each episode. I kindof like that simply because of the diversity it offers and the ability it gives the show to show off a lot of oldschool comic/cartoon creativity. I mean, both Booster Gold and the Question were just funny. A pleasent surprise given that I had never heard of them.

 

[Nightfall]

Jas...how can you NOT know Booster Gold?! While admittedly I'm only a passing DC fan boy (I'm still a huge Marvel overall) and I've only had a few issues of various DC "name" comics, even I got into Booster with just a few issues!

I mean do you not read comics at all?!

Anyway that said, watched TT. Must say the twist in the middle (Black Fire taking over Tameran just to get back as Star by having her marry that ooze demon! (He was too an ooze demon!! ) was a little over the top. But the fight scene AND the rest of the ep was good. Not quite the level Red X was, but hey it wasn't THAT big a downer for me. But I had to say the best line of this ep was by Raven "Oh yeah he's cute" or something like that. I died.

So next weekend's eps:

Amazo returns! Let's see how a dozen or so do against a possibly improved Amazo. Me if they had trouble with Mordru, I don't see how the hell they can save Lex from Amazo. But eh, we'll see.

Cyborg goes nuts thanks to BB's little "I wanna see what this button does!" escapage(sp). Gee remind me NOT to let BB near any of my electrical equipment.

 

[Fast Learner]

Jas...how can you NOT know Booster Gold?! While admittedly I'm only a passing DC fan boy (I'm still a huge Marvel overall) and I've only had a few issues of various DC "name" comics, even I got into Booster with just a few issues!

I've read thousands of comics. Maybe tens of thousands. Never heard of Booster Gold until this ep. Looked him up on the net afterwards, and am not disappointed that I'd not heard of him. Got plenty of him in this ep.

 

[Nightfall]

*sighs* You people have no taste...

 

[fba827]

Correct me if I'm wrong.. but was the voice of Booster Gold's little robot friend the same guy that is Fry on Futurama (Billy West I think is his name).

I checked IMDB but it doesn't list that role (that I saw).

Not that it matters.. I just am fanscinated whenever I see voice actors in other roles.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I've read thousands of comics. Maybe tens of thousands. Never heard of Booster Gold until this ep. Looked him up on the net afterwards, and am not disappointed that I'd not heard of him. Got plenty of him in this ep.

You're tellin' me you haven't read Giffen/DeMatteis's Justice League?!?

And you call yourself a comic fan.

That's like if you haven't read Claremont's X-Men. Just, y'know, better.