#yj s4

[omilkandhoneyteao]

The way this senior citizen vs teenager beef so intense it transcended universes 😌

[teratocore]

I think it’s a common misconception when people call Homelander an evil Superman. He’s not. He’s an evil Superboy. (Or by my estimation, a far closer analog to Conner than Clark.) He was made in a lab by a corporation with the genes of an iconic more powerful hero in their world in order to take up that hero’s role when that hero is neutralized by that corporation or it’s CEO, is often insecure about that fact, and had no real childhood as a result of outside forces seeking to control him. He’s like a seriously fucked up Kon-El.

[king-nyx]

I think in S5 of Young Justice (I'm delusional, I know) they can make a really cool parallel between Jason Todd and Kara Zor-El.

They both lost their home, they both lost their loved ones and they're both trying to navigate life once again. Their stories are so similar that it'd be really cool to see parallels between them and explore who they could've been vs how they are now and who they'll become. You can still have Jason's vendetta against Batman for abandoning him and have Kara's disappointment in Clark for not being who she expects him to be.

In this essay, I'll-

[nightwingandhissquad]

young justice (up to s3) is finally on uk/international netflix they’ve finally remembered us and given international fans a way to legit watch it and give it views it only took them 5 years

[jonathanbyersphd]

ANYWAYS, I could make such a devastating Wally & Artemis edit to How Did It End? But the fandom is like mostly dead

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Honestly really curious if Young Justice giving Hal Jordan grey streaks was a sign of eventual parallax possession and if so, how the fuck they intended to handle it. Like, would it have been off-screen like a-lot of events in the show's universe? Or would have they introduced a lantern hero onto the team and gone into the Parallax!Hal story story via that lantern character? It just feels odd to put the grey streaks and even weird lines on his face down to age because a, he is not that old lmao and b, in the comics those were a sign of Parallax possessing him and all the shit he goes through in that story, so...

[coffeebooh]

« i’m not the watchtower superhero type »

that’s what he said

[gyroshrike]

Me, going into GLtAS having watched all of Young Justice already: Oh... Razer fans must have experiencing Feelings during That Episode :)

[siover]

given i'm on succession hiatus for the next month i should probably change my url but i'm unreasonably emotionally attached 2 this one

[divinetenebris]

Did the world actually come to an end? Or was it isolated to just this area? Dark eyes scanned unfamiliar skies with a tense curiosity. The sounds of the woods felt drawn in, like it too was holding its breath for the conclusion to be reached. Calloused hands intertwined in front of Charlie, arms wrapped around his knees while they were pulled up to his chest. The hoodie he adorned, covered in patches, hung off his shoulders and exposed them to strange skies.

The sound of another would normally draw his attention to them. But they could understand why he didn't turn. Instead he just spoke up, "What do you think? The end of the world as we know it? Or just the beginning of it?" The third question was phrased as more of a joke, but even then he couldn't quite find the right tamer to make it sound believable.

open. character: charlie, original character.

[supraxstcllas]

// s4 is done. I got my rewrites and i love that Icicle Jr caught the bouquet at the wedding. he was so cute, i love him.

[omilkandhoneyteao]

YALL I MANAGED TO SNEAK IN TO ONE OF THE LIGHTS MEETINGS AND LOOK-

So Demure 😍😍😍

[atla-yun]

❤️malaya❤️

(bg is from LoK s4, archer ref is from YJ s1)

so i finished reckoning of roku today.. new fav character alert! this book crushed me AGAIN lmao i thought we left behind the pain when they announced yee wasn’t writing this book </3

but anyway here’s a malaya! ik this is literally so crispy & pixelated i’m SORRY i tried to export it nicely but it’s 2am and i’m tired

[puppetwoman17]

Me: Wow, I love Cap/Billy in the YJ show so much! The character is a great balance between the childish whimsy and the all-knowing demigod. I do wish they used him more, but hey, I’ll take and enjoy what I get—

ALSO Me: “okay but I feel like Cap could really be utilized here,” I said, for the twentieth time.

ALSO Me: why does everyone treat my baby like crap? I like that him and Barry seem to have a good relationship in s4, but what about when he was in his probation period? How did people treat him? Did he have to be monitored? WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!

ALSO Me: if Fate and Zatanna were able to sense Child(a Lord of Chaos) then why couldn’t Billy???

ALSO Me: for the love. Of. God. STOP IT with the Black Mary BULLSHIT——

[missglaskin]

What kind of fandoms are you thinking of expanding to?

HXH (Like the amount of potential platonic yandere, even made an outline for the zoldyck family and the phantom troupe is enough convincing for me)

DC/Marvel (I'm more into the comics version or certain shows like YJ/Justice league unlimited) However I definitely want to also write for Spiderverse

The Hunger Games (Coriolanus has taken over my life)

The Boys (I have written a piece for Homelander but with s4 I hope to write more)

Resident Evil (The yandere potential in so many chs like Chris & Albert)

One Piece/OPLA

Invincible

Greek Mythology (I used to write for them, I luckily have some of my hcs for my previous blog)

These are the ones that come to mind, but there others I am thinking of but I want to dip my toes in these first and see how it goes

[ashleyfromdiscord]

Once you realize that they’ve been reusing the same plot points since S1, the show kinda feels redundant. The only thing they’ve managed to do SINCE season 1 was introduce more characters (who are never talked about or important after their intro season!) and shove Beast boy down your throat(He’s been in every season, if they can move on from other characters then why not him?)

Feeling very violent rn so here's a very controversial opinion:

Everything after season one of Young Justice sucked.

Look, I know I'm obsessed with the show but that doesn't mean it's good, it means that I'm too deep into it at this point to get out. There are good moments within the other seasons but in general? They were not good.

I'm sorry. I understand that they wanted to be creative and have a neat narrative and deep lore and all that. And they do! The narrative and lore is extremely deep.

But the plot? The characters??

Season one was an actual functional show that balanced character development, plot and dialogue with world building, lore and messaging.

The other seasons do not do that.

Season two bounced back and forth between like 16 characters. We got some development for some characters but even that was minimal compared to the character development in S1. And this isn't me complaining that the og group wasn't in S2 enough. That's not my issue. I would've loved to focus on a new group and I think that Jaime, Bart, Ed and Gar would've been super cool to focus on. I loved what character development they did have and I craved more.

But the problem? The problem is when you have 16 fucking characters that you are trying to develop and shove into a coherent plot and have actual meaningful scenes. There just wasn't enough focus on S2. Imo, S2 was meh because the characters got left by the wayside. The plot, dialogue, world building, lore and messaging was fine, there just seemed to be a lack of heart/warmth in the show because of the characters. It's hard to get invested.

Then holy shit. S3 introduced more characters. And the plot got more contrived and 'big picture' to the point that it started to abstract. It felt like nothing mattered. There were no stakes, you were just watching things happen. There was 50 fucking things happening an episode and 80% of it was lore/world building. It felt like I was studying for a fictional history exam.

I'm pretty sure the main character in S3 was earth 16. Just the entire universe. Because goddamn. We checked in on almost every living being and EVERYTHING was a plot point. Most of it wasn't even relevant to anything happening in the season. Man it was.... it was bad.

And at that point it just wasn't enjoyable at all to watch. I probably should've stopped watching but at that point the sunk cost fallacy had already kicked in. I knew it could be good. Maybe it could be good again. And people were constantly praising it as cinematic genius so I was like 'okay well maybe I'm missing the point? Maybe you aren't supposed to enjoy shows? Maybe this is fine?'

But season four broke me.

The creators heard that people were frustrated by the lack of character focus and the episodes following 72 characters and the episodes switching between 50 different subplots every episode and their solution? Their solution was to take allllllll the different unconnected plots and, instead of evenly spreading them throughout the season, jam them all into 'arcs'. So you had a bunch of mini seasons consisting of 3-5 episodes dedicated to a cast of ~5-8 characters (some of them new). And each of these episodes had unconnected a plots, b plots and c plots.

THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION

Holy shit that is not a solution.

Not to mention the overarching plot of the season, in which we had no fucking clue what was happening until the final episodes where everything became a speedrun to wrap everything up. We literally had no idea what the main plot was until it was ending.

Good god it was bad. It's bad writing!

I know people liked it and good for them. You should like what you like and you don't have to justify it. But for me it was insanity. I'm sorry I actually don't want a season long subplot where Beast Boy is depressed and sleeps all day. I would be cool with it if it had anything to do with the larger story but, surprisingly, spending five minutes watching Beast Boy sleep every episode didn't make for compelling storytelling.

I'm still not over how we didn't even know who the main villain was until the end of the season. And then all of a sudden he does a villain monologue to tell everyone his evil plan and his motives. Super cool actually. I love it when I have no idea what the stakes are for the majority of a show. It's incredibly good storytelling when you leave the audience in the dark about a major player in the plot for all of the plot. And then doing an info dump evil monologue in the final episodes to rush through the explanation??? Fucking fantastic and not a sign of terrible pacing at all.

I'm just so frustrated. The show isn't about being a show anymore. The show is an entire cinematic universe shoved into 20 something episodes. It's desperate to tell every single story at once, audience, pacing and good writing be damned.

I'm so tired of the constant praising of Greg. His whole 'i don't write endings because life doesn't have endings' and 'i don't write cliffhangers, I just leave things open ended' thing is pretentious bullshit. I'm tired of pretending it's not. A good story has an ending. Stories are not life! Some of the best shows I've ever watched had planned endings. And oh my god. The cliffhanger thing... that's just semantics my guy. Greg you write cliffhangers. You can insist they aren't but I'm going to call a spade a spade.

It's also.... I'm fine with explaining things, in fact I love it because it's an excuse to talk about the stuff I love, and I have a fairly decent knowledge of comic book lore. So, I could not only understand what was happening in the show but I was also super enthusiastic about explaining it to people. But hey Greg? Hey buddy? If 90% of your audience doesn't know what the fuck is going on and needs to be familiar with super specific obscure comic characters from the 70's then you might have a problem.

I think I realized halfway through s4 that the most enjoyment I got from an episode was when an obscure comic character would cameo in it. But then I realized that a) they generally weren't explained at all and b) 50% of the time they weren't just hanging out in the background and they were vital to the plot. So to understand who the fuck they were and what the fuck was happening you had to be familiar with... well all of DC comics actually.

Anyway this rant is getting long and unhinged and I don't think there's a point so I'm going to cut myself off even though I have so much more to say on the topic. I think my general point is just that I didn't enjoy watching the later seasons and it's chill if you did and we should all respect each other's opinions ✌️