We’re looking at Young Justice Outsiders one last time for the final run of episodes. As I write this the newest season, co-titled Phantoms hasn’t come out yet but it due to soon. [Time of posting the first half of the season has come out, and has its pros and cons]
Hope you enjoyed the last 3 episodes with the Outsiders, they do not have another mission until episode 24, in the meantime, we need to catch up with everyone else as we dive into episodes 20-22 of Outsiders.
OK, let’s get back into Young Justice Outsiders and, in the 6th of 8 reviews for the season, finally get to the debut of the titular Outsiders.
OK, we’re back with the second half of Young Justice Outsiders and I decided to bite the bullet and buy the episodes individually, after a I got a voucher for some money off them. Part 2 was released a bit differently to part 1, episodes 13-15 were released in one block, episodes 16-23 were released weekly and episodes 24-26 were released as another block. I’m guessing it was trying to keep interest in DC Universe, and it kinda worked. Let’s see what the writers have for us this time
We’re back for another look at YJ outsiders, how will the first half of the season be capped? Let’s take a look.
We’re back with another run of Young Justice, more episodes done from memory, with a little help from the wiki summaries so again things may be out of order or condensed. Sorry, I only have so much time for these.
We’re back for another run of Young Justice and it’s happened again, I did the reviews then lost them, this time thanks to word glitching. I decided to have a go at doing these from memory and whilst the actual plot points are definitely from the episode, they may be a little out of order or condensed.
So, Young Justice Outsiders
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to talk about this
show, the last time being way back in 2016, when I did an editorial one what I
wanted to see from this show… and I’ll say I got 1/5.
My thoughts have shifted a little on Young Justice. It did
an exemplary job in season one balancing the overarching storyline with its
cast of main characters. By majorly expanding the team in season 2, it also
really torpedoed the balance in favour of plot as opposed to character
development, making certain characters feel like pieces on a chessboard.
Outsiders, as I’ll explain, suffers from a similar problem, but I’ll get to
that later.
What’s interesting is that fan demand and the launch of a DC
streaming service lead to the announcement of YJ Outsiders in 2016, the show
would ultimately be released in 2019, which is quite extensive gap, DC
announced the show’s renewal literally days after the creators found out.
So minor changes before we get into it, James Arnold Taylor has taken over from Tim Curry as G Gordon Godfrey, who has also permanently taken over the role as the Flash from George Eads after voicing him in the season 2 finale. Could be a cost saving measure, voice actors are portraying multiple characters across the board this season, and there are other budget-saving measures as we’ll get into.
According to a source I can’t seem to find now, Logan Grove was likely off in the military at the time of Outsiders’ production, so Beast Boy has been recast with Greg Cipes reprising his role from Teen Titans (and TTG). And for what it’s worth he does a decent job.
I’ll be covering the first 13 episodes of the series now, with the hopes of doing the other half in the later half of the year. Part of the problem is that there’s no series purchase option on Amazon for the second half, if I wanted to buy the second half at present, I’d have to buy every episode individually and at £2.49 an episode (I live in the UK so HBOMax isn’t an option), I am not doing that.
