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1. BCDX97 says:

   October 18, 2011 at 12:48 am

   I think this book has gotten better with the new writing team from the show. I really like these family friendly DC titles.

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2. RedBaron504 says:

   October 19, 2011 at 7:11 pm

   “Hello Megan!”: Or How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love a Cathphrase

   *Warning! This has almost nothing to do with the comic book Young Justice*

   When I first heard about the Young Justice animated series I was excited. I warmed up to the previous Teen Titans animated series after it seemed to get a little more serious and I got to know the characters better. I hoped that Young Justice would continue in that vain. I guess valuable lessons are soon forgotten an Warner Bros. Animation because the first 8 episodes of Young Justice were total crap. Mostly for the same reasons that the first season on Teen Titans was mostly crap. It was silly and the characters were vapid and one dimensional. Granted, I’m a grown man and these cartoons are written for someone around 8 years old, but even a child can recognize when they are being talked down to and that is exactly what the show was doing. I hope the public outrage was why they put the show on an extended hiatus and revamped it. I had a lot of complaints about the first block of episodes but my chief complaint was Miss Martians “catchphrase.” It was symbolic of everything wrong with the show. It was annoying, overused, and not particularly clever. It got to the point that I made a drinking game out of it. Everytime Miss Martian said, “Hello Megan!” I would take a shot , bash my head against the wall, and cry as if all hope was lost. During one episode she used it so much that I was drunk before the first act break and had a mild concussion before the second.

   It wasn’t all bad….. That episode with Doctor Fate was cool….. and I like Aqua Lad….. ummmm….. and they had a whole opening sequence in Spanish, I liked that too. (Can’t go all negative guys.)

   Needless to say, I was looking forward to a new and improved version of the show. I was not disappointed, the tone was more serious and the action was much more dynamic. That first new episode focused on Red Arrow who is not an offical member of the team. It worked better on all fronts. Although, if someone could explain to me why we have two archers on this show I would be greatly appreciative. Who the hell is this Artimis? Is she the amazing Amazon who I love? No. She’s nothing more then the brash cold girl who is supposed to compliment the sweet lovestruck girl….. blech. A suitable substitute would be the very popular and ever interesting Ravager. Or maybe just about anyone else.

   Anyway, back to me hating that stupid catchphrase. I thought for sure that the producers would realize no one liked it and it would be promptly removed from any new episode. WRONG! It was still there. And I would laugh about it and try to put it out of my mind, Then something strange happened. It was gone. For two whole episodes I didn’t hear that horrible catchphrase. My drinking game was ruined and I no longer had to buy head bandages in bulk. It made me sad and I realized that the catchphrase was just the most obvious and easy to point to problem with the show. Once many of those problems were fixed in the new episodes I started to miss, “Hello Megan!” I might live to regret thinking this, but a little “Hello Megan” wouldnt be so bad if it was infrequent and made sense within the story. Case in point, this latest episode of Young Justice. They take on a team of super villians blah blah blah. In a totally appropriate way she used her catchphrase and I loved it! Its like that really annoying pop song that you tell everyone you hate and then one day you find yourself singing it in the car. So, thank you Young Justice. You taught me how to stop hating and learn how to love a catchphrase.

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   • BCDX97 says:

     October 22, 2011 at 12:49 am

     But it’s Winnie Cooper! How can you hate on that?