Triple Post Sunday: JLU 'Far From Home' Sucks
I can hear the screams from JLU fans from here. But I have to tell you all, as a JLU fan, I heard the screams coming from my own mouth the night before when watching 'Far From Home'.
The Premise: The Legion of Superheroes have been attacked by the Fatal Five. Only Bouncing Boy and Brainiac 5 are left. They recruit Supergirl, Green Arrow, and Green Lantern from the past to help them. But history records this to be Supergirl's last battle.
Problems: Time. Seriously, out of everything that killed this episode, time was the biggest factor. Within five minutes of meeting eachother, Brainiac 5 and Supergirl were making eyes and flirting with eachother. Extremely unbelievable. The whole episode is basically there for fans of LOSH to go "OOH! Its Ultra Boy!" or "Cool! It's Cosmic Kid!" while looking in the background of the one final fight scene between Supergirl and the entire LOSH being mindcontrolled. Moreover, this episode's main feature is to write Supergirl out of the series quickly after just as quickly changing her into her current comic incarnation's costume.
Other problems include Supergirl the Tech Whiz(WTF?) talking science with Brainiac 5. This aspect of her character was invented just for this episode(in previous appearances, Supergirl never showed much of an affinity or love for technology, either way).
As the whole universe Bruce Timm created is coming to a final close, I can't help but think that perhaps a shark was already jumped.
EDIT: Addendum.
Paul Dini, writer of 'Far From Home', has posted on his blog regarding the episode. In his post, he notes, and agrees, that time restraints killed the episode, but noted that it was still a fun adventure. It takes a lot of guts as a professional writer to admit an episode/comic/whathaveyou was flawed, so no dissing Paul Dini, folks. The man is a class act.
The Premise: The Legion of Superheroes have been attacked by the Fatal Five. Only Bouncing Boy and Brainiac 5 are left. They recruit Supergirl, Green Arrow, and Green Lantern from the past to help them. But history records this to be Supergirl's last battle.
Problems: Time. Seriously, out of everything that killed this episode, time was the biggest factor. Within five minutes of meeting eachother, Brainiac 5 and Supergirl were making eyes and flirting with eachother. Extremely unbelievable. The whole episode is basically there for fans of LOSH to go "OOH! Its Ultra Boy!" or "Cool! It's Cosmic Kid!" while looking in the background of the one final fight scene between Supergirl and the entire LOSH being mindcontrolled. Moreover, this episode's main feature is to write Supergirl out of the series quickly after just as quickly changing her into her current comic incarnation's costume.
Other problems include Supergirl the Tech Whiz(WTF?) talking science with Brainiac 5. This aspect of her character was invented just for this episode(in previous appearances, Supergirl never showed much of an affinity or love for technology, either way).
As the whole universe Bruce Timm created is coming to a final close, I can't help but think that perhaps a shark was already jumped.
EDIT: Addendum.
Paul Dini, writer of 'Far From Home', has posted on his blog regarding the episode. In his post, he notes, and agrees, that time restraints killed the episode, but noted that it was still a fun adventure. It takes a lot of guts as a professional writer to admit an episode/comic/whathaveyou was flawed, so no dissing Paul Dini, folks. The man is a class act.
posted by ComicToonsThatSuck at 1:14 PM
6 Comments:
Problem 1: I could list about 20 girls that I met and then five minutes later fell madly in love with. It's been known to happen. Not entirely realistic, but neither are flying, super-strong aliens that can perfectly disguise themselves with a pair of glasses.
Problem 2: Supergirl comes from a world where they've had things like pocket dimensions, direct-thought interface systems and world-controlling ubercomputers for god-knows how long. She wouldn't have had an affinity for earth tech any more than a normal human would for a stone wheel.
You can live in a world of supertechnology without knowing how something works.
Like how many people know how microwaves and non-dairy creamers work?
For the record non dairy cream is corn sryup. Don't ask how I know, I just do.
And a microwave bounces microwave radiation back and forth multiple times inside a faraday cage to acellerate the water molecules trapped inside food, thus heating it.
And no, I did not look that up.
Leave it to you to to ruin a perfectly good "Pinky and the Brain" reference.;
That was in no way 'perfectly good.'
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