it's the age-old question can you have too much of a good thing and I'm
beginning to think that when it comes to the DC Universe streaming service the
answer might be yes and if I think it's too much DC then wow it must be way too
much DC because I love DC as much and I think probably more than the next person
because after titans spent most of its first season and I want to be clear I
enjoy Titans for what you know now that I don't have its complaints about it as
you saw in my season 1 review but for the most part I had a good time with
Titans and you know I gave it the benefit of the doubt and some leeway
because you know this is a new streaming service with new original content right
but after Titans spent most of that first season introducing character after
character with Dick Grayson as the linchpin it's a real sense of deja vu
heck just plain unsatisfying let's I don't know if I can continue to be so
kind here to have them doing the exact same thing all over again with Young
Justice Outsiders or perhaps more accurately Young Justice encyclopedia
because that's exactly are the first three episodes of this new season play
out you get to see a lot of characters in the locations but it's more of a
drive by than a deep dive I like not even sitting down and reading their
encyclopedia like flipping through it I want to buy an encyclopedia let me sit
down and read it I used to own a DK DC encyclopedia they're a great way to get
into comics if you're some people are like oh this is a side tangent but a lot
of times you guys ask me I want to get into comics how can I catch up to the
story go buy a DK encyclopedia but that's that's something else that's how
this is supposed to be it's also odd like in addition to that it's odd that a
lot of old favorites from the first two seasons of the show
have been stripped of their personalities Artemis has lost her bite
although she's still an excellent fighter we'll get into that a little bit
later although don't worry this is a non-spoiler review a Superboy is totally
well adjusted who asked for that and well McGann
the show oh don't get too excited she could because she seems and sometimes
looks like a totally different character hello why would you do that to a
fan-favorite character if you weren't going to make it at least a storyline I
mean it just kind of it just kind of sits there for the first three episodes
and you're like I don't really care about what else you're talking about
what the hell happened to Magan it's really it's really frustrating
I mean she's sidelined who doesn't ask McGeehan to go on a mission and I mean
within the show and then also if you're writing the show who doesn't put Magan
on that team I mean I'm sure they're gonna explore it later on in the season
because you have to go get I don't want to give it away but I would have liked
it's it's of my primary interest now to me the most interesting things about the
first three episodes of this new season are the politics of the Justice League
particularly how Batman comes into play I have always been and always will be a
huge Batman fan the guys just not only like so cool but I feel like we're in
step I get Batman Batman does the things that I feel I would do and I'm totally
down with what he does in the first episode of this new season but then they
kind of drop it and I'm like what all right
I'm sure again I'm gonna keep watching even though I didn't love the first
three episodes of the season because they do plant the seeds for things that
I think I would be much more interested in watching I also like the logistics of
a superhero mission like how do you pack the gear how do you get the gear to the
secret place you need it to be how do you put on the gear I mean that's might
seem like my new shirt to you but it's the kind of stuff I really enjoy I was
like oh those cases are cool I love it I'd love a whole show about who packs
the gear and what that suitcase looks like I thought it was a lot of fun but
that's all side stuff because the focus of the first three episodes episodes
which make up one kind of complete story or at least like the first arc of the
show they focus on the metahuman trafficking storyline resurfaced from
before but here the stakes are raised and that the kids are being treated as
weapons that can be sold to the highest bidder so it's like arms dealing illegal
arms dealing but with people and I kind of liked that I thought that was cool
I like it was like it's like real-world thing but heightened and made more
comic-book II so I like it 1 world in the Fanta I'm one foot in the fantastic
one foot in reality I like that stuff too but also then of course there's the
drama of what's going on in markovia with the royal family I did not like
this at all largely because it was immediately
apparent to me every single mystery that we were supposed to uncover like not
even just like the most obvious thing again I don't want to give it away
because the guy says there's a non-spoiler review but if you've read
even a few comics or watched even a few movies or seen a few TV shows you'll
know everything's plain as day it's almost like this is like a mystery like
a children's reader mystery like for someone who's discovering this kind of
stuff for the first time but for those of anyone who's paying to watch the DC
Universe streaming service which ain't cheap is very well-versed in this kind
of storytelling so yeah not much of a mystery here and it was a little
frustrating and boring to have to wait for the Young Justice members to catch
up especially since some of them were supposed to be pretty darn good
detectives now speaking of the bat family another thing that I did like
about the first three episodes was the cyber flirtation between Nightwing and
Barbara Gordon who's now Oracle flirtation and someone's head that no
one else knows is going on even though they're standing right next to Nightwing
that reminded me of the psychic affair between Scott Summers and Emma Frost and
the x-men comics which was legendary and very sexy so even though this is kind of
ripping that off a little bit I don't care cuz I like it so much and again
let's talk about Artemis who I really really enjoyed in that fight scene that
takes place in a graveyard that's all I'm gonna tell you but she's not only a
great fighter who can change tactic and tactics and weapons on a dime but the
fight choreography here is very well thought out then again some bad stuff so
as you can see I have very mixed feelings about this like it's like I
want to love it but you're making it really hard so let's see here besides
the obvious mystery in markovia the animation and I'm curious if you guys
agree about this the animation seems a bit cheaper than before like even like
the lip-sync doesn't seem to work between the animation and the voice-over
work and that would you would think that would be
like animation 101 like you couldn't not have that match up but it just I don't
know it just seemed off to me it seemed cheaper and then also the dead girl
character that you'll you'll see in markovia when the team discovers her
well she has some of the worst voiceover acting I've ever seen
or I guess heard it was really bad I mean that characters obviously
something's gonna happen with it but it better because she's like the
worst thing on the show then in an effort to world build there are cutaways
two popular DC characters doing things outside of the main storyline and fan
favorites too but it just ends up being distracting
and takes up valuable time which by the way was a big problem with Titans the
season 1 speaking of Titans young justice outsiders is also more violent
than before but so far hasn't it hasn't improved the story I'm not like oh yeah
I'm just like again and the time he took to like show like we're so tough I think
you may have gotten a better story to be honest with you finally one little thing
that I did like is at the end of each episode so far they have like this like
I'll just call it a peaceful end credits and I like that Greg Weisman company are
trying to think outside the box now that they have I'm assuming more creative
freedom on DC Universe because you know they're they're operating in house but
I'm starting to suspect after having watched these three episodes that the
creative freedom is more of a distraction than a benefit so that's my
review of the first three episodes of Young Justice Outsiders I will
definitely keep watching I'm very curious to hear your thoughts down below
and of course as always you can check out some more episodes right now