Young Justice: Invasion - Salvage

Young Justice: Invasion

Salvage review

  Kicking it a nickel seems to be the general consensus for my TV series this week. Korra, for example, had some major story development at hand. Whilst this week's Young Justice, proved to be a prime example of character development. Also, spoiler alert.

  The episode is split in to two parts. One part revolves around Superboy following a papertrail he managed to pick up on. Taking Blue Beetle with him, Superboy tracks down two villains that assemble the husks of Ghosts of League's past in order to do evil. What else. 

  The other part of the episode revolves around a group of heroes, going to Oliver Queen, who has managed to track down Roy Harper. They try to convince Roy that his life is worth living for, and that he is more than just a clone. 

  The Superpart is standard fair, with only a few interesting elements to be found. For one, Blue Beetle finally confesses what's up with him talking to himself. Learning the history of this Blue Beetle proves to be rather interesting, since there seems to be a little twist here to the story. Plus, we also learn more about Jaime himself, and what his believes are. An excellent piece of character development.

  Another interesting element we find in the masterminds behind his operation. There's the guy in charge, who remains in the shadows the whole time. And talks like he's wearing a mask and doing an impersonation of  Christian Bale's Batman. Soooo, we basically got nothing on him. However, his partner is Sportsmaster, who has also made a return.

  Then there's Roy Harper. His story element really shines a light on what he is thinking and has been going through. The man really hit rock bottom, and is in desperate need of something to pull him out of it. 

  We also learn how the others feel about him, which is handled surprisingly good. Since the team only ever knew about this Roy Harper, they consider him to be the real deal. And their real friend. I'm glad to see that the writers didn't take the route of easy drama, and had them try to just get Roy out of his funk just so they don't have to take him down. That they otherwise didn't want anything to do with him anymore. You know, easy drama. 

  Anyways, there's a few more surprises hidden away in this episode. Story elements that really pushed some character's stories to their end. For one, this episode marks the return of both Wally West as Artemis. Problem, though. Wally retired. And is now going to college, alongside Artemis. Both of them quit the hero scene, but are still happy together. Incredibly good move. But, I don't think this is juuuuust quite over. There's wiggle room here for what happened after that scene. 

  Yeah, so, Roy ditched the group and went back home. Still in a funk, he was confronted by Cheshire. Who is his wife. And who has his child. I can't wait to see the little thing grow on us only to die a horribly and painfully unnecessary death for cheap shock value.

  WHOO, what an episode. Animation and soundwise, it's all standard fair. This episode really focused on the characters this time around. And it delivered on that front in spades. Because of that, It's definitely one of the gamechanging episodes of this season, and is looking to be one of my favorites.