Why reinvent the wheel?
Word's been going around that the formation of DC Entertainment is finally starting to actually do something for the superhero company, with the "nearly confirmed" announcement of a Young Justice cartoon.
The design's not bad, I'm cool with that.
...But also in the rumors? Calling the show "Young Justice League", and all but confirmed is an Aqualad character who's filling out the token role.
Is there any real reason why people can't leave well enough alone? This need to reinvent the wheel is getting silly.
Young Justice is a fairly simple concept. Three guys fight a villain together and decide they should hang out more often. Not long into this, some girls come in so we have a small team that's half girls and half boys. The characters are fairly recognizable: Robin, the Boy Wonder. Superboy, the super-powered teen clone of Superman, hero of Hawaii. Impulse, the super-speed teen hero of Manchester, Alabama with A.D.D. Wonder Girl, a shy girl who uses superheroing to break out of her shell. Arrowette, the master archer who's pushed into superheroing by her mother. And Secret, who's...okay, she's a secret.
But the whole thing is real simple. You can throw this on television without any alterations.
...So why are you making alterations?? A black Aqualad? You can't develop a pigment like that underwater! I'm fine with black characters in different forms of media. Its great when they're HEROES and not stereotypes, but this is tokenism and its no better.
Gah. I want to love this. As a child, I read five comic books and they turned me into a true fanboy: Morrison's JLA, Busiek's Avengers, Ron Marz's Green Lantern, Kurt Busiek's Iron Man, and Peter David's Young Justice.
There's an idea. Doesn't matter what characters you get--if you hire PAD to write a quarter of the season every year its on (3-4 eps of 13), I'll watch. As the architect of the entire concept of the team, I'd feel like the series was in good hands.
*sighs* Whatever. SDCC is where the announcement's supposed to come from. That's five months off, so we'll be positive and see what happens, huh?
Oh. There's also a rumor about a CGI Green Lantern Corps. Just figured I'd throw it out there in case people were out of the loop.
The design's not bad, I'm cool with that.
...But also in the rumors? Calling the show "Young Justice League", and all but confirmed is an Aqualad character who's filling out the token role.
Is there any real reason why people can't leave well enough alone? This need to reinvent the wheel is getting silly.
Young Justice is a fairly simple concept. Three guys fight a villain together and decide they should hang out more often. Not long into this, some girls come in so we have a small team that's half girls and half boys. The characters are fairly recognizable: Robin, the Boy Wonder. Superboy, the super-powered teen clone of Superman, hero of Hawaii. Impulse, the super-speed teen hero of Manchester, Alabama with A.D.D. Wonder Girl, a shy girl who uses superheroing to break out of her shell. Arrowette, the master archer who's pushed into superheroing by her mother. And Secret, who's...okay, she's a secret.
But the whole thing is real simple. You can throw this on television without any alterations.
...So why are you making alterations?? A black Aqualad? You can't develop a pigment like that underwater! I'm fine with black characters in different forms of media. Its great when they're HEROES and not stereotypes, but this is tokenism and its no better.
Gah. I want to love this. As a child, I read five comic books and they turned me into a true fanboy: Morrison's JLA, Busiek's Avengers, Ron Marz's Green Lantern, Kurt Busiek's Iron Man, and Peter David's Young Justice.
There's an idea. Doesn't matter what characters you get--if you hire PAD to write a quarter of the season every year its on (3-4 eps of 13), I'll watch. As the architect of the entire concept of the team, I'd feel like the series was in good hands.
*sighs* Whatever. SDCC is where the announcement's supposed to come from. That's five months off, so we'll be positive and see what happens, huh?
Oh. There's also a rumor about a CGI Green Lantern Corps. Just figured I'd throw it out there in case people were out of the loop.
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