Young Justice Seasons 1 And 2 Review

DC and animation fans i've watched a lot of superhero shows some animated and some live action but one show I havn't watched is the very show that alot of people love well now that all changes because here is my review of Young Justice seasons 1 and 2.

The plot for this show was different for both seasons but the set up was largely the same a group of young heroes team up to take down bad guys which is a decent set up and it helps that the plot for both seasons were really good as well the plot for season 1 was the team have to find out who this group called The Light is and what there plan is whereas the plot for season 2 is the now expanded team have to stop an alien invasion. 

Both plots are pretty interesting but if push came to shove i'd have to say that the plot to season 1 was better because we got to see the team grow and learn to get along with each other and the season 2 plot just felt generic and offered nothing new in terms of story.

Starring as the main team we have Jesse McCartney as Dick Grayson , Cyborg as Aqualad / Black Lightning , Jason Spisak as Wally West , Nolan North as Superboy and Superman , Bruce Greenwood as Batman , Vanessa Marshall as Black Canary , Danica McKellar as M'gann M'orzz and Stephanie Lemelin as Artemis. I know I said that I was just listing the main team but I couldn't be bothered splitting it up into two so you instead you got a mixture of both but what doesn't change is my thoughts on the actors. 

The actors do a fairly solid job playing there characters I was truly shocked by how good Jesse McCartney was as Dick Grayson and I felt that he really was having a great time playing this character and having Nolan North play both Superman and Superboy was pure genius if you ask me since it adds to the fact that Superboy really is a clone the only actor i'm not to sure about is Bruce Greenwood as Batman he's not a bad choice but I couldn't help but feel that Kevin Conroy would have a been a better choice for this show.

The animation for the show was mostly split between MOI Animation and Lotto Animation I have no idea what other shows Lotto have worked on but MOI did the animation for Avatar: The Last Airbender so you know that the animation is going to be top notch and low and behold the animation in this show is really freaking good I really can't decide which show had the better animation this or Mystery Incorporated. 

All is not that good on the animation front tho as I did notice some cheats and by that I mean characters limbs suddenly get longer during fight scenes for me tho the worse case of that is in the season 1 finale where Aqualads arm grows a few more inch in the fight with the Justice League and I was like guys did you really have to do that you could have had him take a step closer to the button he was trying to press but nope he just gets a longer arm.

Honestly one of the most interesting things for me was the fact that between seasons 1 and 2 there was a five year leap it was interesting because I havn't seen shows take that much of a leap forward the biggest leap shows will make between seasons is six months but tho this one has a huge leap in time and I think that was done so they could more action figures made but it did also serve a story purpose as well.

We have to talk about the elephant in the room and that's the reason that this show got cancelled for you see the show's funding came from Mattel a toy company they financed the show so that toys would be made and thus they could sell the toys to make a profit that didn't work and thus due to low toy sales they ended the show so that they wouldn't loose money and that to me is understandable since they are a business and thus need to make money in order to survive my issue is why didn't they just produce a third season with a smaller budget that way the show could carry on and they wouldn't loose any money.

Incase there are people out there who want to watch the show but don't know how many episodes it has in total there are forty six episodes with twenty six going for the first season and a shorter twenty going to season 2 I do believe that season 3 will have twenty six episodes but weather or not the story will justify that many episodes remains to be seen.

If your like me and your a fan of the dc animated films or even if your an Avatar or Voltron fan then you'll be intrigued by this series because it has episodes directed by Jay Oliva who's made many animated films for DC as well as story boarded BVS , Man Of Steel , Ant-Man and Deadpool , Sam Liu who's made a freaking lot of animated films for DC as well as two for Marvel and Lauren Montgomery who directed the first adaptation of The Death Of Superman Superman: Doomsday as well as the 2009 Wonder Woman animated feature but is more known for working on both Avatar and it's sequel The Legend Of Korra and for being a producer on Netflix's Voltron series.

Now since this is a superhero show I have to talk about the action scenes in the show and to me they were the best freaking parts of the whole show since that was when the animation was at it's best plus we get to see the heroes use whatever powers they have so they are a treat for the eyes and they get better when they also help advance the storyline.

Overall YT is a good show but it's show that does have it's fair share of problems it is as good as people say it is but at the same time I don't think it's as good as it could have been and i'm hoping that the upcoming third season is the show at it's best and yes I do plan of reviewing the third season when it comes out next year but for these first two seasons i'll give them a combined score of 7.5 out of 10.