Liveblogging the new Young Justice episode.
Spoilers below!
First off, the chibi Teen Titans short was hilarious. Beast Boy having stage fright and Robin being all awkward. Starfire cursing in Tamaranian. Cyborg trying to crack jokes. And of course Raven snarking at the PSA script and wondering why on earth she was even there.
Too funny.
We open in Star City, at a hospital. Oh good! We're checking in with armless Real!Roy finally.
LOL Ollie. "You don't like the goatee?" And can I just squee and flail for Clone!Roy's awkward downcast rubbing the back of his head? ROY MY BABY LET ME LOVE YOU. BOTH OF YOU. YOU ARE MY WOOBIES.
Real!Roy is understandably very upset that he's been out of it for eight years and yells at Ollie. My heart hurts. Real!Roy please do not turn into an angry revenge-filled ragemonster.
Ollie went across the hall to the chapel and he's angsting about how having him as a mentor is completely a curse. First mention of Artemis. FEELS EXPOSION. AND NOW CLONE!ROY IS ENCOURAGING OLLIE AND I CAN'T OPERATE THROUGH MY TEARS. The two return to the hospital room and of course Real!Roy has already flown the coop.
We cut to Mount Justice. Mal's voice is incredibly attractive. Please tell me that's Kevin Michael Richardson voicing him. I love that man's voice. I could listen to him all day. Mal tells Nightwing and Superboy that Aquaman's working hard trying to find Lagoon Boy.
Oh. Joy. Mal ALSO wants a piece of Aqualad. So that brings the tally of People Who Want Kaldur Dead to three. (M'gann, Cheshire, and now Mal.) Awkward aside glance from Nightwing. Dude. I think you may need to tell some people about your plan. I can only see things coming back to bite you in the rear at this point.
And now we're in the grotto, which is the memorial shrine for dead members I guess. There's holograms of Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle before Jaime. Tula. Jason. (JAAAAAASSOOOOOOON! *weeps*) And now Artemis. DAMMIT YOU GUYS STOP. TOO MANY FEELS.
Jaime and Bart have a nice conversation about why the shine is there in the privacy of the grotto instead of the Hall of Justice. Jaime angsts about not having a mentor or friends. Jaime baby let me hug you. Oh gosh, I LOVE BART AND JAIME'S FRIENDSHIP LIKE BURNING.
And now cut to Gotham Cemetery for the promo scene. I once again mentally chastise Wally and the others for keeping Artemis's not-death a secret and Cheshire for spending any close proximity to her father. NO JADE. BAD GIRL. YOU HAVE LIAN TO THINK ABOUT. GET FAR, FAR AWAY FROM YOUR EVIL DADDY AND MOVE IN WITH ROY OR SOMETHING.
Artemis's middle name is Lian. Jade named Lian after her sister. LET ME DROWN IN MY TEARS.
Oh. Sportsmaster is taking Artemis's death as a professional insult. Yeah. Way to let us know how much you don't care about your daughter's life you jerk. I don't care about your stupid reputation. I am, however, very pleased that you're going to take your frustrations out on Black Manta, instead of adding your name to list of people who want to kill Aqualad.
Real!Roy goes to one of his pads, to reload and suit up I expect. Clone!Roy and Ollie are on his trail soon but Roy makes the mistake of doing the iris scan. The computer gets confused, since Roy is already inside. Lol. Real!Roy blows up the zeta tubes after himself, after jetting off to Metropolis to-what else?-take his revenge on Lex Luthor.
Speaking of, he's up next. And he's bemoaning the paperwork involved in enabling an alien invasion. LOL. I got no sympathy for you dude. Real!Roy aims a missile launcher at the window.
We cut to Superboy's school. And some... who the heck is that? Some girl is wishing him happy birthday. Um... who are you? Oh it's WENDY. Wow, Wendy. Didn't recognize you with that hair. Wendy gushes about the surprise parties M'gann threw Conner and he says, "I hated those parties." She's skeptical. I'll bet she's still shipping Supermartian.
I was right. And Superboy tells Wendy she's the only one who remembered and cut to M'gann remembering that it's Conner's birthday and-
*weeps*
CONNER AND M'GAAAAAAAAN! I NEED THEM BACK TOGETHER. IT HURTS. IT HURTS SO, SO MUCH! BAAAAAAAABIIIIIIIIIEEESS!
*ahem!* Sorry.
OH LOOK IT'S A LADY BASH. WONDER GIRL! ROCKET! ZATANNA! MY DARLINGS I LOVE YOOOOOOOU!
Raquel's getting married? RAQUEL'S GETTING MARRIED?! OH MY GOSH WAY TO GO RAQUEL! GET IT GURL. Not even sad that this sinks my Aqualad/Rocket ship. And they look towards the chair where Artemis should be and STOP IT SHOW I'M ALREADY CRYING. THEY TOAST TO "ABSENT FRIENDS" AND THERE GOT THE WATERWORKS. ARTEMIIIIIIIIIS! DICK YOU ASSHOLE YOU NEED TO TELL THEM. THIS IS HURTING THEM ALL TOO MUCH. THEY WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU.
Pan up to Captain Cold, contemplating robbing a bank. HA HA HA this is going to end so badly for him. Miss Martian, Bumblebee, Wonder Girl, Black Canary, Zatanna, Batgirl, and Rocket vs. him? He's toast man.
Lex has survived the missile blast and RoboMercy tugs at him to get him to go, but he opens up a secret panel and grabs YET ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS BRIEFCASE. Roy blows up his car too when he tries to exit. Lex seems surprisingly calm about all of this.
Pause for the cute Super Best Friends Forever short. These are so cute. AWW AND THEY HAVE A RAVEN AND A STARFIRE COSPLAYERS SAYING THE "We'll be right back!" CUUUUUUUTE!
Back with the show, we have Captain Cold making his move. And the Zatanna makes hers. Cue awesome entrance by our lady heroes. He. Is. Toast. LOL and he knows it. "I'm completely doomed, aren't I?" YES YOU ARE.
Back with Roy's fight with Mercy. Roy's really spry and jumpy for being on ice for eight years.
...Lex, are you seriously trying to pull a We Can Rule Together on Roy? You know, the Roy you kidnapped and hacked the arm off of and cloned and replaced and left frozen for eight years and pretty much ruined the life of? Really? This had better be a distraction for Mercy because WOOOOW YOU ARE A MORON.
Roy does pretty well in this fight. Pulls some great tricks. And now he's got Lex in a trap, dead to rights. Lex continues to be snarky and awesome. And reveals what's in the case. But not to us. Darn.
Fortunately Other Roy and Ollie come in and Real Roy reveals its another arm weapon like Mercy has. And thus, Arsenal is born.
...I... I think I'm worried about Arsenal. He's got a creepy evil smirk, and the tone of his voice... gah.
And episode end. Wow.
First off, the chibi Teen Titans short was hilarious. Beast Boy having stage fright and Robin being all awkward. Starfire cursing in Tamaranian. Cyborg trying to crack jokes. And of course Raven snarking at the PSA script and wondering why on earth she was even there.
Too funny.
We open in Star City, at a hospital. Oh good! We're checking in with armless Real!Roy finally.
LOL Ollie. "You don't like the goatee?" And can I just squee and flail for Clone!Roy's awkward downcast rubbing the back of his head? ROY MY BABY LET ME LOVE YOU. BOTH OF YOU. YOU ARE MY WOOBIES.
Real!Roy is understandably very upset that he's been out of it for eight years and yells at Ollie. My heart hurts. Real!Roy please do not turn into an angry revenge-filled ragemonster.
Ollie went across the hall to the chapel and he's angsting about how having him as a mentor is completely a curse. First mention of Artemis. FEELS EXPOSION. AND NOW CLONE!ROY IS ENCOURAGING OLLIE AND I CAN'T OPERATE THROUGH MY TEARS. The two return to the hospital room and of course Real!Roy has already flown the coop.
We cut to Mount Justice. Mal's voice is incredibly attractive. Please tell me that's Kevin Michael Richardson voicing him. I love that man's voice. I could listen to him all day. Mal tells Nightwing and Superboy that Aquaman's working hard trying to find Lagoon Boy.
Oh. Joy. Mal ALSO wants a piece of Aqualad. So that brings the tally of People Who Want Kaldur Dead to three. (M'gann, Cheshire, and now Mal.) Awkward aside glance from Nightwing. Dude. I think you may need to tell some people about your plan. I can only see things coming back to bite you in the rear at this point.
And now we're in the grotto, which is the memorial shrine for dead members I guess. There's holograms of Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle before Jaime. Tula. Jason. (JAAAAAASSOOOOOOON! *weeps*) And now Artemis. DAMMIT YOU GUYS STOP. TOO MANY FEELS.
Jaime and Bart have a nice conversation about why the shine is there in the privacy of the grotto instead of the Hall of Justice. Jaime angsts about not having a mentor or friends. Jaime baby let me hug you. Oh gosh, I LOVE BART AND JAIME'S FRIENDSHIP LIKE BURNING.
And now cut to Gotham Cemetery for the promo scene. I once again mentally chastise Wally and the others for keeping Artemis's not-death a secret and Cheshire for spending any close proximity to her father. NO JADE. BAD GIRL. YOU HAVE LIAN TO THINK ABOUT. GET FAR, FAR AWAY FROM YOUR EVIL DADDY AND MOVE IN WITH ROY OR SOMETHING.
Artemis's middle name is Lian. Jade named Lian after her sister. LET ME DROWN IN MY TEARS.
Oh. Sportsmaster is taking Artemis's death as a professional insult. Yeah. Way to let us know how much you don't care about your daughter's life you jerk. I don't care about your stupid reputation. I am, however, very pleased that you're going to take your frustrations out on Black Manta, instead of adding your name to list of people who want to kill Aqualad.
Real!Roy goes to one of his pads, to reload and suit up I expect. Clone!Roy and Ollie are on his trail soon but Roy makes the mistake of doing the iris scan. The computer gets confused, since Roy is already inside. Lol. Real!Roy blows up the zeta tubes after himself, after jetting off to Metropolis to-what else?-take his revenge on Lex Luthor.
Speaking of, he's up next. And he's bemoaning the paperwork involved in enabling an alien invasion. LOL. I got no sympathy for you dude. Real!Roy aims a missile launcher at the window.
We cut to Superboy's school. And some... who the heck is that? Some girl is wishing him happy birthday. Um... who are you? Oh it's WENDY. Wow, Wendy. Didn't recognize you with that hair. Wendy gushes about the surprise parties M'gann threw Conner and he says, "I hated those parties." She's skeptical. I'll bet she's still shipping Supermartian.
I was right. And Superboy tells Wendy she's the only one who remembered and cut to M'gann remembering that it's Conner's birthday and-
*weeps*
CONNER AND M'GAAAAAAAAN! I NEED THEM BACK TOGETHER. IT HURTS. IT HURTS SO, SO MUCH! BAAAAAAAABIIIIIIIIIEEESS!
*ahem!* Sorry.
OH LOOK IT'S A LADY BASH. WONDER GIRL! ROCKET! ZATANNA! MY DARLINGS I LOVE YOOOOOOOU!
Raquel's getting married? RAQUEL'S GETTING MARRIED?! OH MY GOSH WAY TO GO RAQUEL! GET IT GURL. Not even sad that this sinks my Aqualad/Rocket ship. And they look towards the chair where Artemis should be and STOP IT SHOW I'M ALREADY CRYING. THEY TOAST TO "ABSENT FRIENDS" AND THERE GOT THE WATERWORKS. ARTEMIIIIIIIIIS! DICK YOU ASSHOLE YOU NEED TO TELL THEM. THIS IS HURTING THEM ALL TOO MUCH. THEY WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU.
Pan up to Captain Cold, contemplating robbing a bank. HA HA HA this is going to end so badly for him. Miss Martian, Bumblebee, Wonder Girl, Black Canary, Zatanna, Batgirl, and Rocket vs. him? He's toast man.
Lex has survived the missile blast and RoboMercy tugs at him to get him to go, but he opens up a secret panel and grabs YET ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS BRIEFCASE. Roy blows up his car too when he tries to exit. Lex seems surprisingly calm about all of this.
Pause for the cute Super Best Friends Forever short. These are so cute. AWW AND THEY HAVE A RAVEN AND A STARFIRE COSPLAYERS SAYING THE "We'll be right back!" CUUUUUUUTE!
Back with the show, we have Captain Cold making his move. And the Zatanna makes hers. Cue awesome entrance by our lady heroes. He. Is. Toast. LOL and he knows it. "I'm completely doomed, aren't I?" YES YOU ARE.
Back with Roy's fight with Mercy. Roy's really spry and jumpy for being on ice for eight years.
...Lex, are you seriously trying to pull a We Can Rule Together on Roy? You know, the Roy you kidnapped and hacked the arm off of and cloned and replaced and left frozen for eight years and pretty much ruined the life of? Really? This had better be a distraction for Mercy because WOOOOW YOU ARE A MORON.
Roy does pretty well in this fight. Pulls some great tricks. And now he's got Lex in a trap, dead to rights. Lex continues to be snarky and awesome. And reveals what's in the case. But not to us. Darn.
Fortunately Other Roy and Ollie come in and Real Roy reveals its another arm weapon like Mercy has. And thus, Arsenal is born.
...I... I think I'm worried about Arsenal. He's got a creepy evil smirk, and the tone of his voice... gah.
And episode end. Wow.