Young Justice: Invasion - episode fifteen recap and review
Spoilers
War
I liked this episode, for a number of reasons. I liked that it seemed to highlight Mal and Karen as the main characters, and were able to end the tension that had been building between them for the past dozen episodes or so. I liked that Wonder Girl, Dr Fate, Robin and Batgirl got something to do, and how the Reach actually faced some significant losses in this episode. Mongul was fun as well. And it was also nice to see what the Justice League had been getting up to lately.
I also particularly liked how, for once, the Reach were facing a threat that they might not have been able to overcome, and invoking an emotion from them outside of just arrogant smugness. The fact that the episode didn't end with the Reach seemingly taking full credit for the defeat of Mongul (though there's still time in the next episode) was good, though I'm kind of puzzled as to what the Light's game was regarding pointing Mongul in the direction of Earth.
I mean, it can't have been a ploy with the Reach to have them defeat him to gain more crediblity with the population of Earth (defending them from another invading alien), as the entire plot hinged on the Justice League being able to defeat him solo and STILL resulted in the Reach loosing a lot of equipment and manpower in the process. Are they building a back-up plan due to their possible concerns regarding the Reach potentially screwing them over? Or are they just trying to weaken the Reach so they can take some kind of preemptive action against them?
Helping an alien race to enslave and nearly wipe out humanity doesn't seem to fit with the social Darwinist logic behind Vandal's thinking in season one is all I'm saying. So maybe they think the Reach have outlive their usefulness and are trying to dispose of them slowly or something? Hm.
Oh yeah, not sure what I think about the almost immediate payoff to the "Jaime's under mindcontrol!" storyline. On the one hand, subtle winks and nods could rapidly get annoying, though on the other there may also have been some wasted potential in triggering his "attack team mates" phase so soon. And, as I said in the review itself, I thought the fact that WW's gravity having an effect on Earth's tidal system was a nice touch, as most planet-sized space stations seem to ignore just ignore it.
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War
I liked this episode, for a number of reasons. I liked that it seemed to highlight Mal and Karen as the main characters, and were able to end the tension that had been building between them for the past dozen episodes or so. I liked that Wonder Girl, Dr Fate, Robin and Batgirl got something to do, and how the Reach actually faced some significant losses in this episode. Mongul was fun as well. And it was also nice to see what the Justice League had been getting up to lately.
I also particularly liked how, for once, the Reach were facing a threat that they might not have been able to overcome, and invoking an emotion from them outside of just arrogant smugness. The fact that the episode didn't end with the Reach seemingly taking full credit for the defeat of Mongul (though there's still time in the next episode) was good, though I'm kind of puzzled as to what the Light's game was regarding pointing Mongul in the direction of Earth.
I mean, it can't have been a ploy with the Reach to have them defeat him to gain more crediblity with the population of Earth (defending them from another invading alien), as the entire plot hinged on the Justice League being able to defeat him solo and STILL resulted in the Reach loosing a lot of equipment and manpower in the process. Are they building a back-up plan due to their possible concerns regarding the Reach potentially screwing them over? Or are they just trying to weaken the Reach so they can take some kind of preemptive action against them?
Helping an alien race to enslave and nearly wipe out humanity doesn't seem to fit with the social Darwinist logic behind Vandal's thinking in season one is all I'm saying. So maybe they think the Reach have outlive their usefulness and are trying to dispose of them slowly or something? Hm.
Oh yeah, not sure what I think about the almost immediate payoff to the "Jaime's under mindcontrol!" storyline. On the one hand, subtle winks and nods could rapidly get annoying, though on the other there may also have been some wasted potential in triggering his "attack team mates" phase so soon. And, as I said in the review itself, I thought the fact that WW's gravity having an effect on Earth's tidal system was a nice touch, as most planet-sized space stations seem to ignore just ignore it.
http://espanolbot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/young-justice-invasion-episode-14-recap.html