JLU end.....again.
So I saw the last ep and I was....disappointed. I'm not saying it wasn't a great show, but it wasn't exactly the send off I expected. Then again with most Dini series, their series finales were never really the send offs/series finales that fit the typical bill, RE: Superman and Batman Beyond. In fact if anything I guess JLU was just a big SERIES FINALE for the Diniverse period.
I'm not complaining too much, but when I saw this season, it seems like it was just coasting off a good thing. Season 4 was pretty epic considering that it had a constant ongoing storyline with nigh everything connected. And the end, well you couldn't have beaten the ending. But to tell the truth, season 5 seemed a bit tacked on; had Season 4 been for the loyal viewers and comic fans everywhere, season 5 is most likely the fanservice/extra DVD features.
I mean it was great to see Luthor become a deranged little psychopath who'd inspired the killing of half of the Secret Society courtesy of Killer Frost, but it seemed a bit too easy for Luthor to prove himself time and time again with a push of his STAPLES EASY BUTTON on his belt. What else I found very troubling is that the continuity wasn't as tight as before, at least in the sense of revisting certain aspects no matter how small. Sure we got an entire ep of GL/Hawkgirl but nothing was finalized in the end. They way they left it off, it seemed like GL was saying Look here...I'm going to fuck you sooner or later, I just don't know when. Until then, hang tight. Batman and Wonder Woman didn't get finalized. Flash was seen to have almost 3 love interests through season 5 but they didn't expand on that. Most of all, Martian Manhunter who apparently gotten a bit less monotone in his voice, but you don't really know why, or how or if this actually makes him a better or worst character and don't even show him help fight in the Darkseid last battle. In which I expected something to happen because he's the JLUer who-left-on-a-spiritual-journey and "learned some trick to defeat Darkseid"
It all seemed kinda easy to say:
Ok who haven't we've brought back for the JLU to beat up?
You mean which villain haven't we gotten from Superman's series?
Darksied, yeah.....he's been gone a while.
Yeah let's bring him back to kick some fucking ass.
What about the rest of the season?
Just toss some random shit in there.
I appreciate the extra stuff, but frankly had JLU got cut off at Season 4, I would have felt a more sense of completion, of everything coming full circle. Overshooting the mark is just as bad as not making it.
I'm not complaining too much, but when I saw this season, it seems like it was just coasting off a good thing. Season 4 was pretty epic considering that it had a constant ongoing storyline with nigh everything connected. And the end, well you couldn't have beaten the ending. But to tell the truth, season 5 seemed a bit tacked on; had Season 4 been for the loyal viewers and comic fans everywhere, season 5 is most likely the fanservice/extra DVD features.
I mean it was great to see Luthor become a deranged little psychopath who'd inspired the killing of half of the Secret Society courtesy of Killer Frost, but it seemed a bit too easy for Luthor to prove himself time and time again with a push of his STAPLES EASY BUTTON on his belt. What else I found very troubling is that the continuity wasn't as tight as before, at least in the sense of revisting certain aspects no matter how small. Sure we got an entire ep of GL/Hawkgirl but nothing was finalized in the end. They way they left it off, it seemed like GL was saying Look here...I'm going to fuck you sooner or later, I just don't know when. Until then, hang tight. Batman and Wonder Woman didn't get finalized. Flash was seen to have almost 3 love interests through season 5 but they didn't expand on that. Most of all, Martian Manhunter who apparently gotten a bit less monotone in his voice, but you don't really know why, or how or if this actually makes him a better or worst character and don't even show him help fight in the Darkseid last battle. In which I expected something to happen because he's the JLUer who-left-on-a-spiritual-journey and "learned some trick to defeat Darkseid"
It all seemed kinda easy to say:
Ok who haven't we've brought back for the JLU to beat up?
You mean which villain haven't we gotten from Superman's series?
Darksied, yeah.....he's been gone a while.
Yeah let's bring him back to kick some fucking ass.
What about the rest of the season?
Just toss some random shit in there.
I appreciate the extra stuff, but frankly had JLU got cut off at Season 4, I would have felt a more sense of completion, of everything coming full circle. Overshooting the mark is just as bad as not making it.
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