You make good points. I suspect the problem is simply that the plot is butting heads with reality, and the team/the League have to short-sighted and sit on the results so that the plot can proceed toward the superhero showdown (or Ultimate Reveal) against the Reach. That's not really a satisfactory answer, granted.
Regarding whether or not what they discovered was a decoy, my initial thoughts are this (and I have to rewatch this episode and the last one to see if a second viewing changes those thoughts): the multi-generation additive that's supposed to make humans more docile is the decoy. It's slow-acting enough that the JLA, upon discovering it, don't necessarily feel compelled to immediately report it and instead choose to investigate it further before reporting it (because the Justice League has a bad reputation, or whatever contrivance the plot demands).
My question is whether the meta-gene marker is what the Reach is REALLY angling for, or if this is another mislead.
I also wonder if Godfrey's about-face with regard to the Reach is supposed to be for comedic effect, or to show that Godfrey's a hypocrite, or to indicate that Godfrey's really in league with the Reach/the Light. Because regardless of how "open" the Reach have been, I just don't buy that a xenophobe like Godfrey, who sells himself as a hyper-skeptic, would all of a sudden be shilling Soulstorm Brew for no apparent reason.
And finally: who would actually drink this stuff? I don't care what kind of snazzy jingle you try to sell it with, and I don't care how friendly the aliens seem, I am not going to drink something that's being advertised as "ALIEN JUICE!" I'm just not.
Plot holes happen. And sometimes stupid things are necessary to make superhero stories work. But sometimes it still bugs me. There has to have been a better way to do this.
The metagene thing is certainly high on their list of priorities. But we already knew that. It's what they've always been after. So... I don't know. There could be something else. Lex did specifically say that, while the team got the additive, there was something more they never even saw. There could well be yet another angle here.
Godfrey doesn't seem a fleshed out enough character to have that kind of agenda. I think he's just a loudmouthed idiot with a TV show who will say whatever is convenient to get ratings. No shortage of those in the real world. I do wonder how big an audience he has, and whether there are other pundits taking the opposite side.
He hates the League. He's willing to grab onto the Reach as a convenient counter-example, and he doesn't care about having to dig any deeper than that.
But yeah, no idea who in the real world would drink this stuff. Only thing is that the people of this world are much more used to aliens and oddities than we are. If they can accept Superman and Green Lantern with little or no question (and if they've long since absorbed the idea from those examples that benevolent aliens are awesome) then maybe an alien-enhanced sports drink isn't so hard to swallow.
Well, if Godfrey is anything like his comic's counterpart, there's a reason for him backing the Reach. But yeah, I don't get how he can endorse them and hate Martians so much. Aren't the people of Earth and the people of M'Arzz on friendly terms?
I'd totally drink alien juice, just to say I've tried it. It'd be out of this world!
Regarding whether or not what they discovered was a decoy, my initial thoughts are this (and I have to rewatch this episode and the last one to see if a second viewing changes those thoughts): the multi-generation additive that's supposed to make humans more docile is the decoy. It's slow-acting enough that the JLA, upon discovering it, don't necessarily feel compelled to immediately report it and instead choose to investigate it further before reporting it (because the Justice League has a bad reputation, or whatever contrivance the plot demands).
My question is whether the meta-gene marker is what the Reach is REALLY angling for, or if this is another mislead.
I also wonder if Godfrey's about-face with regard to the Reach is supposed to be for comedic effect, or to show that Godfrey's a hypocrite, or to indicate that Godfrey's really in league with the Reach/the Light. Because regardless of how "open" the Reach have been, I just don't buy that a xenophobe like Godfrey, who sells himself as a hyper-skeptic, would all of a sudden be shilling Soulstorm Brew for no apparent reason.
And finally: who would actually drink this stuff? I don't care what kind of snazzy jingle you try to sell it with, and I don't care how friendly the aliens seem, I am not going to drink something that's being advertised as "ALIEN JUICE!" I'm just not.
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The metagene thing is certainly high on their list of priorities. But we already knew that. It's what they've always been after. So... I don't know. There could be something else. Lex did specifically say that, while the team got the additive, there was something more they never even saw. There could well be yet another angle here.
Godfrey doesn't seem a fleshed out enough character to have that kind of agenda. I think he's just a loudmouthed idiot with a TV show who will say whatever is convenient to get ratings. No shortage of those in the real world. I do wonder how big an audience he has, and whether there are other pundits taking the opposite side.
He hates the League. He's willing to grab onto the Reach as a convenient counter-example, and he doesn't care about having to dig any deeper than that.
But yeah, no idea who in the real world would drink this stuff. Only thing is that the people of this world are much more used to aliens and oddities than we are. If they can accept Superman and Green Lantern with little or no question (and if they've long since absorbed the idea from those examples that benevolent aliens are awesome) then maybe an alien-enhanced sports drink isn't so hard to swallow.
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I'd totally drink alien juice, just to say I've tried it. It'd be out of this world!
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