Tonight we have "Independence Day", the one hour film that will kick off the Young Justice animated series on Cartoon Network. The series itself begins in early 2011.
Want to know more about Young Justice? We've got some info. Can't wait until 7pm? The first six minutes are below.
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why they have to do dick and wally istead of tim and bart
The DVR is set for this and Firebreather!
I’ve got it set to record. I’m looking forward to watching this.
AQUAMAN!
SNART!
Glad I happened to be flipping channels. Didn’t think this was on till 8.
@redhood22: Because even though it’s called YOUNG JUSTICE it’s a variation on the formation on the Teen Titans and Dick and Wally were original members.
Speedy needs to chillax.
Are Aquaman’s toes exposed Wily Kit and Wily Kat style?
Best exchange so far.
"Speedy is Green Arrow’s sidekick."
"That makes no sense."
Love that line.
This. Is. Awesome.
so far so good. liked that superboy was on sublevel 52.
Yeah, what Paul said.
Awwwwwwwwkward!
LOVED IT
Sigh.. couldn’t find this. Don’t think it’s airing in Canada yet… 🙁
Enjoyed it a lot. I guess Artemis joins next episode? I wonder what they are going to do with Speedy…
@Flounder Heroin
I really had a lot of fun watching this. Great animation, real clean style. Superboy is quickly becoming my new favorite DC character between Jeff Lemire’s new series and this tv show. Can’t wait for the first episode in January!
I forgot this was coming on today and just stort of stumbled upon it, and loved it. Only complaint I had was the same I have for alot of animation, people with super-speed seems remarkably slow, but that’s just a nitpick to an otherwise amazing opening. It’s a shame there aren’t new episodes until January.
Any word on if or when this will re-air, I missed the episode. I was in the middle of watching some movies and forgot this was playing! 🙁
good stuff. Love that they’re using Miss. Martian.
Can’t wait till we get to the cat beatings and heroin part!
Really really good show
I watched Young Justice Lastnight, and I d like to say the altough the art was outstanding the show does lack in substance. The Show starts out like in the preview clips with all the young heroes getting ready to be inducted into the Justice league, atleast that s what they think is happen, upon arriving at the Hall of Justice which looks pretty cool The Younings find out that they are not being treated as equals or even parteners from the senior memebers of the league. This causes Speedy to throw a fit and storm out of the Hall swearing that the young heroes deserve to be treated in this manner if they were not willing to stand up for themselves , he also Quits as Green Arrows Partner. Speedy also lets the audience know that the Hall is just a front for the tourist and that the real headquarters is in WATCHTOWER, an orbital bases. The league receives an emergency alert requiring all memebers assistance, holding off their investigation of Cadamus. The Kids are ordered to Stay put , but these kids are not exactly put off by these words of warning and take it upon them selves to solve this case before the league can , in order to prove themselves. Robin the Boy Wonder and master hacker(its apparent that they are combining Dick Grayson and Tim Drakes characters in making this Robin.
Ok so before I go on Id Like to Point out that so far none of the Kids have been formally introduced, but from what i can tell is this ….. Robin: Dick Grayson; Speedy: Roy Harper(also the only one called by name during the episode) Kid Flash : Wally West ; Aqua Lad: unknown : Superboy: currently un named , but pretty sure they are going to go with Conner and then finally Miss Martian.
Ok so back to the story After Robin hacks the JL s computer they find out the location of the Cadmus location so they can investigate the strange fire that has broken out.. Upon arriving on the scene our trio manage to rescue some scientist from the fire then enter the building to investigate. while looking around Aqualad sees someone in the elevator but the door closes. lad lets the other two know and they discover that the elevator leads to a underground base. After discovering that Cadmus has been creating an army of genetic creature. We are also intoduced to Gaurdian (head of Security for Cadmus)whom appears to be telepaticlly controlled By Dr Desmond (which is a major fault with the show IMO) Ok also to point out they do not tell you who the Doctor is either at this point in the episode , i personally thought he was Dr Donovan the orignal creator of the DNA aliens. We also discover the Shadow cabinet that is behind Cadmus, now we cant see who any of the people are but we are given a pretty clear idea whom one of the people are and that is DR Light . So our Young Heroes travel further in to complex and run into a lab that is housing a cloned copy of Superman. Superboy as he is quickly titled is still being controlled but telepathic means attacks our young heroes and makes quick work of them. Captured By cadmaus the heroes are about to be used and then disposed of when a unknown voice awakens Superboy and tells him to help the young heroes and then to get out , we also learn during the heroes escape that the voice has been trying to help superboy from the start. The Voice we find out comes from Dubbilex whom had set the fire and lured the heroes to help free Superboy from cadmus’ controll.
As our heroes are almost home free, DR Demond , as he is called takes a serum to turn himself into BlockBuster a mutated Meta, that tries to stop all the heroes from escaping. The Heroes pull them selves together and take down Blockbuster as a team when the JL arrive on the scene. The League which is a regular who s who of the Justice league are all shown, Batman begins to scold the kids for diobeying orders , when the kids stand up and tell them they are sticking together weather they like it or not , they they had been trained by them to be heroes and thats what they where going to do. Superboy and Supes have a little talk and Superman is noticiblly uncomfortable with his clone and tells the clone they will figure it out. They flash away to an Island where the Jl decides to set up the young heroes in the JLs original Base of justice Island
The Young heros are then told that they would be used as a covert team for the JL and that Red Tornado would be their Supervisor, Black Canary their Trainer, and Batman their misson planner.
OK, so i really wanted this show to be good and was intially geared up by the previews and art direction, how ever this show falls very short in many ways, First we have changes in the line up and characters which is fine, I actually like the new Aqualad most out all the characters, but some of the charatcers are just not good representation of their comic version. Robin who is always portrayed as the leader and most confident , seems to play the second banna , now it does appear at times that they are trying to make Robin to be like Batman, a loner. Kid Flash is handled like a shadow of his original character, in fact it seems at times that some of KF(as Robin refers to him) lines went to Robin. Like I said above im pretty sure this is the Wally West version of KF, but he does nt come across as Wally but a shadow of the character. Aqualad is handled the best IMO , but this is mainly due to him being a completely new character created for the show. I also felt that Superboy was handled well , the swings in his anger was great and it did remind me of some of the earlier issues of the comic when Conner is struggling with who he is, should be intresting to see if they tie him to LL. That being said the show takes a whole lot of liberty with Dc cannon, now I read that this isnt our DCU , but that of earth 616 , but afterspending the last month watching the Avengers: EMH, I think DC went the wrong way. Im grading the show a C+ for a few reasons one , if you are changing cannon but not letting the audienceknow , then you have to explain who people are, one of the things that makes Avengers good is that the audience can recognize the heroes and villians. Young Justice falls short on this pretty badly, through much of the episode. the story pacing was good but kinda broke down at parts, it seemed that they had alot to say but just failed on the delivery. I hope this show continues to grow and learn, I would have given the show higher marks if they did nt completely go off track with the characters , Brave and the Bold , brings new characters in all the time and does nt have to go in great detail about because the keep the main feel of the character the same, and even when they are showing different characters from different eras they are still identifible, the audience is treated with intelligence, this is where Young Justice fails, they handle the show like a trick question.
@LocoLobo – You underestimate peoples’ ability to roll with the punches. No one cares if this is regular DCU or not. Very few kids watching this actually care which Robin or which Kid Flash this is. They didn’t go off track with the characters because there is no track. It’s the pilot. This is not a strict adaptation of the Young Justice comics. Which is neither a good thing or a bad thing. It’s just what it is. Don’t bring baggage to it.
DC animation isn’t made for ‘kids’
Looks good so far.
WWSD?
That was fun. I hope they’re able to maintain that quality level.
To further what Paul said, this is a whole new continuity, Earth 16. It takes the cue that Superman has been around for 10 years and Batman for a little less than that and would make sense if dick had only been around for a few years.
@ericmci – Not strictly kids, but primarily for kids, yes. The studio wants to sell toys. This is a means towards that end. The producers and writers have that consideration, but also make sure that it’s entertaining to adult fans as well.
Better than the Avengers
Alright , so if I ignore the lack of continuity of character, and Ignore the lame and poorly written dialog , yeah the show is good , it really does have excellent artwork, though the action pacing is still not up to par with any of the current action cartoons on tv. Dc has been the kings of animation for a long time with great shows and impeccable dialog and scripting. This was a very forced and not well paced show and was not the best way to start off a series. I currently own all of the DC animated shows and Movie, most of which i think are great. This just doesnt live up to the shows and movies Dc has put out in the past 10 years. Sorry it doesnt. The most important thing is, are the stories going to live up to the characters and this doesnt. I have everyhope that this show does improve , I like the characters and am a big fan of the Titans and i really dont care if the mashed up so fo the stuff, but i hope they limit the amount of major differences. Blockbuster was a lowlevel street thug who had his ass handed to him on a regualr basis by Robin and also Impulse, But hed had nothing to do with cadmus. I Did like them having Dubbilex and Gaurdian in the episode though great touch.
@LocoLobo – We watched two different hours of television.
Why is it… that whenever ANY robin has on the red suit in ANY show… their hair looks constantly wet? It is beyond irritating.
I liked the episode, but what was up with the weird character designs and animation for the adult heroes. Especially Aquaman. It looked like a rush job to me.
Still awaiting the full series. when does it start?
January I think.
I didn’t find the character designs of the adults weird at all.
I liked it. I never go into an adaptation wanting OR expecting it to adhere to it’s comic book roots. I just expect it to adhere to good story telling principles. Good characters. Check. Pacing. Check. Story. Check. Animation. Check. My kiddo who loved, and I mean LOVED the precious Teen Titan cartoon, liked this too. She’s looking forward to the series.
Now my question is : what is the deal with the new Aqualad?! Can someone give me a brief bio on the dood? What’s his powers?
He seems to have similar powers to Mera, he can control and manipulate water. (That’s what the new Aqualad seems to do in the comics too)
Where the electricity thing come in?
That was poor syntax. Ugh forgive me.
I’m pretending it relates to electric eels.
Okay, other than the minor annoyance of it not being Tim and Bart (which is just me being a total fanboy) I enjoyed this. Wonder if theyre going to be bring Cassie into this.
@Paul : I like that! I’ll do that too.
I promised my kiddo Wondergirl ( I thought I had seen her in an advertisement ) so I hope they deliver her.
sorry but I think LocoLobo’s criticism is quite valid. I know people really want to like it but it was average at best. I would give it another chance and the animation was good, butt he story and dialog doesn’t hold a candle to other DC animation projects.
This was tons of fun. One thing I especially liked was the Martian Manhunter design. I think the more alien he looks the more powerful the juxtaposition is when he acts more humanely than everyone else.
I also think that American syndicated animation has taken a huge leap forward with this show. If you took a typical JLU episode and compared it to any prime-time Japanese cartoon, cay Cowboy Bebop or some Gundam show for e.g. airing at the same time it was no comparison in terms of detail and dynamic storytelling IMO. But I think this show has really evened the gap.
Could you imagine a show like this airing next to Naruto or Bleach in Japan? Craziness
Also: the Superman/Superboy relationship looks really really interesting. How the hell is Clark going to deal with the fact that this pseudo-son has just shown up on his doorstep fully mature and able to destroy a whole city if he’s so inclined.
Theres some rich interesting stuff in here.
I was actually impressed. This pilot was very very good. Looking forward to January for sure!
I thought they did a really good job of establishing all the characters so far. Each has a niche and fills a certain void in a team dynamic. The FlashBoy running joke was pretty good also. Robin is obviously a composite Dick/Tim hybrid, but since 99% of the earth would say Dick Grayson if you asked who Robin was they obviously went with that.
I liked Aquaman, they took a cue from Batman: The Brave and The Bold.
I left comics for about 5 years and recently came back. The sooner you can let go of all the continuity stuff and just enjoy what you are holding in your hands or watching the better. It will just distress you out.
THis was really Really Really GOOD.
Loved this. So much fun. Can’t wait until it starts next year.
This was fantastic! Everything I wanted was there; steller animation, fun characters and a simmering, sinisted plot. January can’t come soon enough!
wait, if kid flash was supposed to be wally, then was flash supposed to be barry?
I loved it. Thought the voices were a little off but they got better as it went (Speedy sounded a lot older than the other sidekicks). The Robin & Kid Flash identities do bother me since Superboy is in the show, but I’m just gonna pretend it is Tim and Bart under those masks anyway instead of Dick and Wally. Also, Aqualad is awesome.
Is it weird that I think the little genomes are cute?
After all the holiday stuff I finally got a chance to watch this.
And HO-LEE CRAP THIS WAS FANTASTIC!
Some thoughts:
Well, Roy Harper is a petulant little bastard, isn’t he?
I liked the symmetry of having both the Hall of Justice and Project Cadmus having front buildings that hid the real thing.
I love that Robin is always laughing. Very in character for young Dick Grayson.
I’m hoping that having Zatara on the Justice League means we’re going to get a teenage Zatanna possibly on Young Justice or at least hanging around.
Doesn’t matter which continuity it is… it’s ALWAYS Cadmus, it seems.
I really like that Aqualad has visible gills. But his backpack design reminds me too much of Blue Beetle.
The banter-y relationshp between Dick and Wally is strong.
Not being a huge fan of Superboy I did like the “he could be an unstable and dangerous super weapon” angle. That’s an interesting take on him — I hope it’s continued.
The entire — gigantic! — Justice League showing up at the end was pretty awesome. And so was Superman not knowing how to deal with Superboy.
Batman ALWAYS needs a covert team!
The Light is… intriguing…
GREAT stuff! I can’t wait for the series to start in January!
@captamerica101 Yep. That was Barry.
The Light, Jeez I hope this Dr light is alot more like the Identity Crisis verison.
So I finally got to watch this, and i need to watch it again! It was great, i loved it.
a few things that I loved: first and formost, Aquaman and Aqualad. there designs were great, and they had aqualad awesome even though he wasn’t near water. @Paul, Aquaman’s boots were definently Wiley kit and Kat style. I am sure the pack he had on his back helped with that. I can see Roy becoming a villian, someone who is a bit older than young justice with some more training and a a huge chip onhis shoulder. the action was also great, and i really dug Superboy’s white costume. It would have been neat if they had of stuck with that but changed the colour a bit on it, but his t-shirt will work for now.
Does anyone know if and when this feature will air again? I completely forgot to record this…
@Legend I just checked the channel guide and it doesn’t show up in the next five days.
Wow damn good definitely going on my dvr list, good characters can’t wait too see who the kill in this seris, I remember an interview from sdcc and the developers said that the group would change and that somebody would die. Wow like i said great stuff, between this and the new avenger show i am excited for next year. Why old why couldn’t the teen titans have been like this show, i would have watched religiously.
I just got around to watching this, and WOW. Even though I’m still mad at them for making Robin Dick and not Tim, I forgive them due to the sheer awesomeness of the show.
SPOILER ALERT
To those wondering about Speedy’s future, in one of the promotional clips on YouTube they show concept art for Red Arrow, so there you go.