"Justice League Season 1" Shorter Than You'd Think


    When it comes to animated content, I have heard nothing but praises heaped onto DC comics for their movies and TV shows, and as lackluster as their live action content might be, for the most part, they have pummeled Marvel when it comes to the quality, and quantity at which it exists. Even still, it is a kids show, so when I put on Justice League Season 1 to watch while I cook and eat, I was a bit skeptical if the content would have been able to keep me entertained, but I was gladly surprised. With oddly more depth than I thought it would, I found myself chewing through the two-episode arcs like butter, always wanting to press new-episode whenever "to be continued..." flashed onto my screen in black and white.

    Let's stay on that topic actually, because despite being 24 episodes long, this show feels much shorter than that, and part of the reason is how it's structured. Other than the finale which is a whole three episodes, the structure of Justice League Season 1 is fairly simple, each arc spans two episodes, and usually showcases only a couple members of the league at a time, in order to allow their differing personalities to really shine. For the most part, this works, and as someone who finds it difficult to justify long-runtimes, I felt like I watched Justice League more than I would have normally if it wasn't split up into two parts. Though, part of it is because frankly, the show isn't too difficult to follow.

    Though to that end I'd argue, do you really want it to be hard to follow? I mean you're here for the characters, and for the action, after all it is a superhero tv show first and foremost, so I wouldn't expect the deepest plots. Nor would I expect any sort of philosophical or moral queries on what it means to be a superhero, or any potential implications about that. Even still, if you're a fan of comic books, there are plenty of iconic arcs to be found if you're willing. From this season, I distinctly remember The Enemy Below, where Aquaman cuts off his own hand, or Paradise Lost, where Felix Faust makes his debut, or Warworld, where fans are introduced to the infamous Mogul. All this to say that, in spite of the pretty shallow plots, they are still a blast to watch unfold.

    Though, that cannot be said for all of them, and I will be spending this paragraph just asking why did they make that last episode? I mean first of all it didn't even include one of the most popular characters, batman, and second of all, it was just generally bizarre. Why did they go into the past? They really wanted to say Nazi and Hitler, but they weren't allowed to, so they kept on saying "my fuhrer", the axis, and using the schutzstaffel instead of the swastika. Don't even get me started on the end, where history is fixed because the Nazi's decide to unfreeze Hitler, who was replaced with Vandal Savage. You have to see the ending it's so ridiculous how they pan to Hitler like he's some cameo it's so ridiculously funny. Don't even get me started on how Vandal Savage somehow wins WW2 all by himself by sending a laptop into the past of all things. It was a mess, but otherwise the season was clean.

Final Score: 70/100

    A lot of me watching this show was based on just me being a big DC comics fan, and that it was pretty light so I could put it on while I did other things. While it does fulfill that purpose, it also does mean that I have to recognize that a lot of my enjoyment was because I just wanted to see the capes in action. Like otherwise I felt like it was pretty run of the mill for superhero content, though maybe part of that was that I remembered many of the arcs from this season from when I was a kid, so it wasn't as shocking as it was supposed to be. Who knows, either way I'll still be watching season 2.

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