Young Justice S3 Part 2: Kiss the Ring

Three minutes in to Season 3 Part 2 and I’m already loving this!

It was a pleasant surprise seeing Guy Gardener here, I love Guy or any Green Lantern for that matter. I had a good laugh from Guy reiterating “Don’t call us sidekicks!” to the Thangarian General, it was a great throw back to the original tagline for Young Justice when the series was first announced.

I really enjoyed the dynamics of the veteran YJ team’s pitch to the newcomers best seen when Conner mentions that facing danger isn’t a mandatory part of the job and they can follow Aqualad and Donna Troy’s example by fighting their battle inside the system.

I genuinely thought that the VR goggles were going to turn into the Anti Life blasting mind control helmets from Final Crisis. Oh well, it’ll be interesting to see where the series goes with Apokolips that’s for damn sure, its one of the reasons fans wanted it unconcealed in the first place!

I had another good laugh during Kaldur->Luthor->Godfrey pan away scene I thought that was a clever directing choice. I miss Tim Curry as the VA for Godfrey but it certainly looks like James Arnold Taylor is going his best impression of him as seen by his chat with Granny Goodness.

As much as I love the series, that vast number of DC characters on this show makes it difficult to give screen time to all the characters. Did you like all the character development that Conner and M’gann got in this one episode? Then there’s a whole crowd of people who were upset that Dick or Artemis didn’t get enough time and vice versa.

Any episode that has a part where Lex Luthor looks at the viewer asking “Who Watches the Watchmen” is a gem in my book. Its especially relevant today especially with the events of the enjoyable if heavily delayed Doomsday Clock comic series. Lex’s attitude in the latter part of his conversation with Godfrey was a great example of his manipulative behavior.

Going back to my earlier comment about too many characters, its fascinating to see Lena Luthor now apparently being introduced but remember we still have other characters and plot threads like Jason Todd, Black Lightning, Darkseid and even Damian Wayne still out there so the fear that this party is getting a little crowded is becoming increasing valid.

I loved seeing the tranquil threatening tone of Granny Goodness perfectly displayed here. Having her electrocute Big Barda for basically nothing, not for torture just for “discipline” was 1000% in character with the sadistic leader of the Female Furies.

Sadly, its also beginning to look like Terra isn’t a triple agent as hoped and really is a spy for Slade Wilson. Yes, it seems as though YJ really will go through with the Judas Contract story line after all…somehow in the middle of the thirty other plots going on.

The action didn’t kick up until the very end of the episode with a great if brief fight between the Female Furies vs Superman, Wonder Woman and Hawkwoman. I found the ending to be a little empty. Just seeing Beast Boy on his laptop looking concerned about the growing Granny threat didn’t exactly provide us with any new information, but in a world where cancelled TV shows come back from the dead I guess that’s a minor gripe.