![]() Superboy arrives in Santa Prisca to see Luthor assembled with Sportsmaster, Queen Bee, Bane and Blockbuster, and Superboy calls out Luthor and others of his ilk as being the ones behind the Injustice League. The conversation takes place as Luthor summons Superboy with the frequency that he can only hear, which, understandably, raises more suspicions. The Team once more gets torn by accusations of a possible traitor, with possible bits of evidence pointing to the fact that Cheshire was tipped off about their arrival, as well as the whole 'Superboy has powers he should not have' thing going on. and the strange biotechnology/nanotechnology combination that is created from Starro chunks. even if Artemis gets tricked into letting Cheshire go free.īatman's pissed-off anger at the Team for going on an independent mission without contacting the League turns into genuine praise for the good work they did, capturing three of the villains, routing the large group of Apokoliptan-weapon-wielding enemies and indirectly confirming their suspicions about Hugo Strange's involvement with the villains. The fight is pretty awesome, with lots of cool scenes like Zatanna unleashing a snowstorm, Artemis and Cheshire's one-on-one, Superboy's patch-fueled rampage that takes out Mammoth (and also, using powers that should be unavailable to him), and a bit of general badassery as the Team shows that they do work well as a small fighting team, routing the villains. Riddler, Shimmer, Mammoth and those Intergang goons with Apokoliptan weapons. ![]() The Team, intent on taking Cheshire down themselves, gets ambushed by a group of old enemies. ![]() Oh, and while I didn't mention it that much last episode, the Team also found out that the Light (or at least a group that consists of Klarion and Brain) is responsible for all the recent string of villainy. I did like the Team not being jealous of Red Arrow's speedy induction into the League (pun fully intended), although honestly it does kind of set a bit of a bad precedent considering that I don't honestly see why Red Arrow is ready to enter the League before, say, Aqualad or Robin.Īfter that bit of publicity, it's back to business as usual, as the Team continues to pursue Cheshire and the chunk of Starro (god, call it Starro already) from two episodes ago. Icon's role throughout this episode seems to be asking questions so Robin can recap the relevant chunks of the season, which isn't very flattering. It's a bit odd to have a new player in the team so soon, especially when Zatanna and Red Arrow didn't quite have as many scenes and episodes as they probably should, and Icon doesn't actually do that much throughout these final two episodes of season one beyond hang around the team as an extra fighter. And Captain Marvel gets to keep his spot on the team! Oh, and Rocket's sidekick, Icon, ends up being inducted into the Team. ![]() So the episode starts off relatively cool, with the result of the League's new members - which now includes Red Arrow, who apparently only needed to hang around the Team for two weeks - be inducted into the Justice League. I feel that there were moments that the Light's multi-layered plan felt insanely complex for complex's sake (whatever the Riddler's supposed to do that justifies the prison breakout beyond stealing the piece of Starro through what it itself is a far-too-complex plan?) but I'm willing to suspend a little disbelief if it does give us an entertaining story. So finally we go into the final two episodes of Young Justice's first season, where the season stands or falls depending on how invested you are in the whole mole subplot, and whether you believe that the Light's insanely convoluted and multi-layered plan is a poor storytelling device or a satisfactory one that allowed episodic plots while still building up into something larger.
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