Young Justice: Outsiders - Ep 7-9 RECAP (VIDEO SCRIPT)

Evolution

• So I know that it starts off like one, but listen to me; this is NOT a beach episode
• In actuality, Forager, Halo and Bion are running training exercises with Connor, Dick and Artemis so they can be more efficient as a team
• /The two metas get new costumes, Brion adapts the codename GeoForce, Halo reveals she can make holograms of herself by turning green, and they’ve proven to work pretty well together, real talk./
• I give it like, two episodes before Brion loses it with his impatience and hot-headedness.
• What are you talking about? I didn’t watch in advance; shut up!
• Meanwhile, we get some backstory regarding Vandall Savage and learn a few things about him
• Or if you’re like me, and already know everything from comics and the JL cartoon, see his backstory for the 1500th time (no shade, I assure you)
• The thing about this though is that it’s being done while he’s fending off a third party alien army from earth in a weapon called the Warworld
• I say third party, because it’s being controlled by that Starmie fucker from that Batman Beyond 2-parter that made me dis-trust starfish for a good 5 years of my life
• /But it’s through this portion of the episode that we learn Savage’s relationship with Darkseid isn’t brand new; they’ve been fuckin’ since that motherfucker was Ghengis Khan. Also Apokolips’s militia is super powerful, yet he’s still using kidnapped metahumans?/
• Like, that’s the one thing I haven’t been able to understand about this arc since the first episode; why does Darkseid need metahumans?
• I mean, I guess they’re useful depending on the abilities they generate, but this episode CLEARLY shows us the POWER of the DARKSEID
• You don’t need nukes when you yourself ARE THE NUKE
• I’m sorry, Readers, I’m just...I’m just REALLY looking forward to the payoff with this portion of the arc because I can’t even with this shit
• Other than that, it was a good episode with a nice balance of exposition and hero comradery. And more importantly, linear storytelling
• Why did I have the need to mention that you may ask? Let’s talk about the next episode

Triptych

• Warning: This episode of Young Justice Outsiders contains Quentin Tarantino time jumps like a MOTHERFUCKER. Viewer discretion is advised, bitch
• Nevertheless, albeit from different sources, we get a lot of information in this episode in regards to what happened with Batman and co in episode 1
• /That info being that Batman and the others that left the League did so in order to utilize the same divide and conquer strategy that the Light have been using from jump street in order to crack down on the metahuman trafficking, and that a good amount of heroes still in the league are in cahoots with this plan, though some still question his methods. OH! Also Tim Drake can speak in this episode, so that’s a plus!/
• Now we find this out through a significant amount of events, such as Sportsmaster breaking Shade out of prison, Mad Hatter injecting Shade along with Mist and Livewire with new non card-themed mind control nanotech so they can steal what I assume is a containment unit from Destiny’s Prison of Elders
• /Dick and his team of Outsiders stopping the majority of them from escaping with said unit, Halo finding out that turning blue shines a light that distributes blue flames, and from Tigress confronting her sister Cheshire, finding out that the new location of the League of Shadows - and possibly Brion’s sister - is in Santa Prisca/
• And given the Reservoir Dogs-ass time jumps, despite the ending wrapping everything in a neat little bow, you can get pretty lost in what happens at what time throughout the episode if you’re not careful
• That’s not necessarily a critique per se, since I’m one of those people used to that form of storytelling
• And it’s done in a way where they can understand it well enough if this IS someone’s first exposure to said form of storytelling
• Plus, it’s a good episode. So how I acted at the beginning of this segment was more of a warning than a critique
• If this is your first exposure to this type of storytelling and you want to properly understand it, then pay attention to it from beginning to end.

You’ll enjoy yourself a lot better if you don’t complain about things not making any sense up until the reveal of the actual sequence of events, and you’ll get a better idea on how to handle these narratives in the future.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Home Fires

• So the episode opens up with Lobo in the bitch, and I immediately hate it.
• Okay, that’s a bit harsh. I don’t hate the episode, I just hate Lobo’s bitch-ass
• The reason why he’s on earth THIS time is because there’s a bounty on Forager’s head and attacks the Outsiders while they’re on an impromptu training session
• And despite Lobo shaving time off of of my lifespan by putting himself in front of my eyes in this episode, I found this fight between him and the group very enjoyable despite its predictability.
• What do I mean predictability?
• /I’m talking about Brion’s anger and impatience getting the best of him once they have the knowledge of the League of Shadow’s location, Halo dying...again, and my sweet bug boy shedding his exoskeleton and using it as a decoy to make Lobo think that he killed him so he can GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS SEASON, YOU DUMB-ASS OUTDATED PIECE OF FUCK/
• Now this isn’t me shitting on the actual diversion, nor is it me saying that the predictability of the fight is bad
• Anybody who knows me knows that me being able to predict how things go is actually an enjoyable and entertaining process for me, and I’m just as entertained when I find out that I was wrong.
• Especially when the fight was actually a red hairing for Vandall Savage and the rest of the Light to confirm that it WAS Dick and his team at Markovia and that Connor is still associated with them
• And that goes DOUBLE for the second event in this episode, with that being the majority of the superheroes with kids and the partners of superheroes with kids all arriving at Barry and Iris’s house for a playdate
• /Including Lois, who confirms that she and Clark had Johnathan in this universe, and I’m now officially psyched for a Super Sons spinoff now that he and Damian are a thing here!/
• Also we get confirmation that the VR headsets that we’ve seen since episode 4 are in fact going to be a plot point later on, and that a “reformed” Granny Goodness is not only running the company making them
• /But is also working for the Light, no doubt as Darkseid’s representative, which, lets just face it, EVERYBODY AND THEY MOMMA ‘N THEM KNEW WAS GOING TO FUCKING HAPPEN/
• Like, the moment you had Granny Goodness on Fox News acting like a normal human being, nobody REALLY thought she wasn’t evil anymore.
• I’m absolutely certain that when she revealed to be a member of the Light at the end of the episode, NOBODY took that shit as an actual reveal.
• They were probably like, “yeah. Of course she’s there. Because she’s GRANNY FUCKING GOODNESS
• It’s like seeing the shilouettes of the Disney villains when you leave Traverse Town for the first time in Kingdom Hearts; like OF COURSE those fucks are gonna be involved. Who ELSE would it be? And original villain
• (Image of Xehanort’s heartless pops up). ...Listen. Shut Up