Young Justice: Satisfaction
Review
DC Nation is once again
gracing us with its glorious presence, returning Young Justice to the
little screen. The eight episode has hit, and its aptly called
“satisfaction”, as it really does hit all the right notes. So,
without further delay, let's go straight in to the episode!
Overall, the episode
brought us what we wanted the most out of the second season. From the
first line of dialog spoken, we get a steady stream of character
development tossed our way. Focussing mostly on the original Roy
Harper, we also get some insight to Oliver Queen, Connor, Jaime and
Megan.
Besides this, we
obviously get a good action scene to feed our hunger for teenagers
beating the everlasting love out of stuff. With the subject of the
scene in mind, I have to say that they really had to go inventive to
be able to make it seem inventive.
In the end, the episode
did deliver on all fronts. It was quite satisfying, and it sets
everything for the episodes that lie ahead.
Now for some more
spoilerfic details.
Let's start this segment
off with the minor parts of the story. Jaime, Connor and Megan all
had a minute or so of screentime that pushed these characters forward
quite a bit.
Jaime expresses himself
as being the one hero that doesn't have a mentor to look up to. Even
Bart Allen suddenly has three Flashes to look after him when he
arrived. But for Jaime, his only real mentor died. Ted Kord died a
heroes death, and now people even think that Jaime is just Ted Kord
in a brand new suit. It really pushes home that Jaime feels singled
out and alone.
Connor had his birthday,
getting congratulations from only one person. Wendy. Probably not the
Wendy that is going to get horribly eaten by a wonder dog. Anyways,
it really shows that he too feels more than alone than ever, but that
he has someone new in his life that could fill that void. A very nice
story element, that opens up the ball game for a whole lot of new
plays. Like the not aging bit, which Wendy even noticed.
Megan still has feelings
for Connor. Perhaps just as a friend, but they are still there, as
she feels guilty for not throwing a party for Connor as she did each
year. It's simply, yet sweet. And we also see the girls of the team
go on a bachelorette party that really has the best scene in the
entire episode. The one with the moron on the rooftop. Loved it.
But really, the meat of
the episode lies with Team Arrow. The real Roy is in a hospital bed,
told everything about what has happened in the meantime. Most
importantly, he was told about what happened to him. What follows are
scenes that very well written, and show development in ways that you
can expect from quality material such as this.
Especially how they
manage to quickly add in development for Olly, and how he feels about
himself. I sense alcoholism brewing. But, the thing that was in my
mind as Clone Roy and Olly were in the chapel was “Roy's gone.
Roy's gone. Roy's gone.” they go back. Oh hey, Roy's gone.
What follows is Roy
getting even with the man that did everything to him, resulting in
the fall of Speedy and the rise of Arsenal. Done right.
END SPOILERS
Like I said, this is by
far the best episode that this season has to offer. It doesn't only
develop the characters, but it sets up for future episodes as we see
a whole lot more plotthreads get started.
I give it a 9/10
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