So, I'm about half-way through Young Justice season 2, and I noticed something... · 6:28pm Jan 30th, 2016
...this show is falling apart.
I mean, look, my general feelings towards the first season of Young Justice was that, while it had some major flaws such as the JLA being generally rather stand-offish, Superman feeling oddly cold towards Superboy, Batman being 100000% perfect at everything, and an over-reliance on teen!drama, I still felt it had some decent ideas, and managed to tell it's first season story rather well, albeit with an ill advised cliff hanger, and the whole idiotic "The Light" thing, being an obvious example of the Chris Carter Effect.
And then Season 2 happened, and it doubled down on all these flaws. First off, the characters from the first season haven't progressed that much, and still are locked in an endless circle jerk of teen!drama and wangst, the JLA are shown as, at best, a non-entity who do nothing but hover around, striking a pose, and the new characters added aren't given any room to properly develop or breathe as characters, with the exception of obvious Creator Pets Impulse and Blue Beetle, who's little robot friend is quite annoying and a total asshole, with absolutely no redeeming elements. Impulse is a bit better, but is still too gimmicky, and his future slang is getting old, no doubt because he only uses the same two future phrases, even though they sound idiotic. The rest of the cast is just treated as window dressing, and the main plot is a horrible case of Idiot Plot, as every single character is crushed by a gigantic idiot ball and then dragged along with it, all for a grand conspiracy that makes no real sense, and is so transparent in it's obviousness and evilness that it completely fails to pass as a convincingly hidden agenda. The Reach, aka the villains of the season except not because they work with The Light, are so transparently evil that I can't buy anybody falling under their sway without copious amounts of mind control.
Also, the whole "Heroes are mistrusted by the broader populace" is an already old idea, and has been done a lot better in the X-Men franchise, which at least embraced the sheer soap opera madness that came inherent with it's plotlines.
So yeah, Young Justice is a show with great potential, that completely squandered and ruined that potential due to it's own lack of focus, and undercooked-yet-overcooked writing. It's a mess, and right now I'm just watching it to kinda just soldier through the second half of season 2, so that way I can properly critique it and not sound like an idiot.
all too true.