YJ Rant and Squee

[pandora_remix]

So, I've recently watched the new 'Young Justice' cartoon, the first two episodes. I loved the comics that they were named after (although not entirely based on), and I am now completely squee in love with this too. I was a little worried and dissapointed that they seemed to change some things, but then I watched it. And I'm in love

Comments

[in_excelsis_dea]

I agree with your points as you stated them. My problem with the show is that Young Justice is NOT a member of a young DC verse. Young Justice existed because Teen Titans became Titans and they needed another young superhero/side-kick group. Young Justice follows after Teen Titans. And since there is a Teen Titans cartoon, and we know that Dick becomes Nightwing in the future and we see all the original Titans...well, why not go from there? Or mention that Teen Titans exists, but don't really reference it. The comic books did fine with that, and the show set up the background for YJ well (introducing the cave, Red Tornado). A throw-away "Titans are dealing with this mass casualty" or heck, even without that, maybe someone commenting on how sidekicks are multiplying or whatever, would have worked fine to show that YJ is its own group, but based on a history of the Teen Titans.

Your points, as the show now stands, are valid and I agree. With Young Justice as the first kids group, Dick has to be Robin, Wally has to be KF, and

[pandora_remix]

Thank you for your thoughts! I can see that, as I love the comics too. But I think that they aren't really remaking the Teen Titans because the TT show was so vastly different in tone to both this and the original TT comic. And I do admit that Young Justice (the comic) has a lot of legacy characters that may be confusing to new audiences (Oh, this is Robin, but he's not the original Robin, and Impulse isn't Kid Flash, and Wondergirl etc. etc.) so while I'm sad, I can see why they went this route. Also, some characters got eaten up by copyright

[pandora_remix]

Haha, I actually just noticed that you had earlier posted about this (somehow I missed it until now). I hope it didn't seem like I was reacting to your post in particular! I was actually reacting to a bunch of things I'd seen that were being a lot more bashy. Sorry about that!

[in_excelsis_dea]

Heh, I didn't think that at all. *grins* Don't worry about it. I've actually been meaning to reply just keep on forgetting to.

[pandora_remix]

okay, good. Just making sure. :)