I watched the premier movie yesterday, and thought it was awesome. It is a new superhero series on Cartoon Network, starring Robin, Aqua Lad, Kid Flash, and Ms. Martian.

I will now take my best shot at summarizing it.

It starts off with Bat-Man and Robin, Flash and Kid Flash, Aqua Man and Aqua Lad, and the Green Arrow and Speedy all taking down their local freeze villains. After words, the hero's and their sidekicks all go to the Hall of Justice, where the kids are told they are being put on the first step to joining the Justice League. But when they find out they are only allowed into the library and such things made as tourist attractions, Speedy gets frustrated and points out even if they where allowed into the deeper part of the hall, the real HQ is the Watch Tower up in space. He gets mad and storms off. Super Man then calls the league members who are present (Bat-Man, Green Arrow, Martian Man Hunter, Aqua Man, the Flash, and Red Tornado) to alert them of a fire at project Cadmus. Bat-Man says something about him suspecting something would go wrong there, when some other league member who's name I do not know, (he had a top hat and monical, any idea who he is?), contacted the league telling them that the freeze villains are trying to block out the sun. Super Man tell them it's a small fire the local authorities can handle. The hero's go off to save the earth while the side kick are left behind being told to stay put. They of course, don't. Robin hacks the leagues computer to find out what Cadmus in and is only able to find it's a genetic research lab. They go to investigate. Robin hacks stuff. And ta-dah, we are 52 levels below ground. The Guardian is the security guard in this facility, and is being mind controlled  by a little creature known as a genome gnome (or dwarf, I can't remember). He is chasing the sidekicks while they try to find a top secret experiment called project Kr. They break in to the experiment room, after being chased by genome trolls and some other genome creature along with The Guardian. They lock the doors and turn on the lights. They see a teen boy locked in a pod with 3 genome gnomes attached to it. Robin hacks the computer and finds out it's a clone of Super Man. They know he didn't consent to this, so they try to call the League. No signal. They decide to free the boy, who then proceeds to kick their asses and hand them over to security. They are locked in pods to be cloned then killed, when Aqua Lad uses mind talk to convince Super Boy (the kid they freed) to fight against the Light (the group running Cadmus) and save them. It's revealed he doesn't have laser vision of flight, and they try to break out. They get stopped some way up by a mad scientist taking some drug to give him super strength and turn him into a monster, and they get to the top floor and  have the building collapse on him. The league arrives and they tell their story, and Super Man is awkward with his young clone. They kids say they are not coming back to sit around and not help the league. The league agrees that they did good, and let's them set up their team in the original league base with Red Tornado as their guide, Cardinal doing training, and Bat-Man assigning missions. Martian Man Hunters niece Miss. Martian joins the team, and Robin and Kid Flash try to hit on her, though it looks like he has a crush on Super Boy. The end.

It also looks like a teen Artemis might join the team.

I've never really been into superhero cartoons and comics, and I'm still not, so I haven't been hotly anticipating this show's debut or something. I just happened to catch the premiere when it was on. Honestly, I had more fun making fun of it than getting into it. For instance, as soon as Kid Flash, Robin, and Aqualad free Superboy from the pod, like half of Ponytail Dude's lines are some variation of "THE WEAPON GOES BACK IN THE POD." (Trivia: He may be talking about Superboy.) But I also felt like they put some serious energy into trying to badassify some traditionally lame heroes. Aquaman gets a beard, and Superboy becomes an Emotionally Troubled Teen whose DNA dad treats him like he was never supposed to be born (because he wasn't.) Finally, before I even saw the card they used at the ends of commercial breaks, I just knew the team wasn't complete... naturally, it was missing at least one Token Girl Character. And by the end of this premiere movie thing, there's already some silly teenage romantic tension going on.

QuoteEmotionally Troubled Teen

There always has to be one of these in every Cartoon Network show now.

Quote from: VCRClock;1793774I've never really been into superhero cartoons and comics, and I'm still not, so I haven't been hotly anticipating this show's debut or something. I just happened to catch the premiere when it was on. Honestly, I had more fun making fun of it than getting into it. For instance, as soon as Kid Flash, Robin, and Aqualad free Superboy from the pod, like half of Ponytail Dude's lines are some variation of "THE WEAPON GOES BACK IN THE POD." (Trivia: He may be talking about Superboy.) But I also felt like they put some serious energy into trying to badassify some traditionally lame heroes. Aquaman gets a beard, and Superboy becomes an Emotionally Troubled Teen whose DNA dad treats him like he was never supposed to be born (because he wasn't.) Finally, before I even saw the card they used at the ends of commercial breaks, I just knew the team wasn't complete... naturally, it was missing at least one Token Girl Character. And by the end of this premiere movie thing, there's already some silly teenage romantic tension going on.

Not mention Artemis. She looks the best. She's not in yet, but she's in some of the cards and pics.

all the things I actually want to talk about aren't really worth sharing because afaik nobody else here grew up with the comics so yeah


it seems like pretty standard post-dcau dc cartoon fare. the first episode establishes the premise, vague arc villains, dynamics between the instantly familiar characters, the extent of everyone's capabilities, and some forced running gags.
it's the same kind of by-the-numbers action show for kids formula that produced everything from the terrible legion of superheroes, to teen titans' downright watchable fifth season.

within that mould it's not the worst thing that's ever happened. they've completely mishandled superman, but I guess that's not ridiculously important as long as they don't fuck up kon too much. kon seems closer to geoff johns' frequently irritating interpretation in teen titans v3 than the 90's yj/solo series that people actually liked (and I'm not just talking about the costume) but hopefully they don't dwell on the emo thing too much. and hopefully the hints that he doesn't have the full kryptonian power set is an indication that they're sticking with tactile telekinesis, which is way more interesting. fuck I'm talking about the comics hahahahaha

I like that they made robin into kind of a zealous, nerdy guy. it makes so much sense I'm actually kind of blown away, because I don't think anybody's done it before. not sure about wally or aqualad. they did a pretty clever job adapting their fighting styles to something that works well in the format, but outside of their designated roles they don't seem to have anything going on.

greg weisman's producing. hopefully once the series gets its legs under it the creative team will have room to breathe and the show will improve, because gargoyles still holds up pretty well, and that was weisman's baby.




cartoons.

I liked the part where the building fell.