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Young Justice – Reviews – Season One – Happy Harbor

GUIDES – EPISODE REVIEWS – “WELCOME TO HAPPY HARBOR”
Welcome to Happy Harbor
Original Airdate – January 21st, 2011
After Speedy declines to join the new team, Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash fear Young Justice is just a big joke…while new member Miss Martian fears there’s no room for her to be part of it. So when the four heroes and Superboy come up against Mister Twister, it looks like all their fears have just been realized…

Written by Kevin Hopps
Directed by Jay Oliva
Review by GregX
Media by Warner Bros. Animation

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Review:
It’s times like this I am grateful to J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 for conditioning me to be patient with new TV shows. Like the early episodes of Babylon 5, while this episode was quite enjoyable, it didn’t suck me in and hook me. There just seemed to be a disconnect for me and what was happening on screen.Mr. Twister didn’t excite me as an antagonist. His design was great, and the effects of his powers were great, but there was just something there that didn’t grab me the way, let’s say Electro did in the first non-pilot episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man. But, maybe it’s because I’ve never been a DC reader, and I never heard of Mr. Twister before this episode aired.

The character interaction was perfectly enjoyable, though. Kid Flash has great chemistry with just about everybody, and his line about finding himself hot had be rolling. Superboy continues to be a fascinating character, especially in his search for identity and purpose.

But, the meat here is the newest team member, Miss Martian. At first glance, she appears to be an unfortunate hold out to the early Silver Age of comics where most of the female characters were just girlfriends and damsels in distress, such as Marvel Girl and Invisible Girl back when Stan Lee was writing the books. But, by the end of the episode, she takes charge and proves that she is quite formidable and deserves to stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone else on this team. I had a feeling her whole “baking cookies” moment was designed to get us to underestimate her.

And her gambit where she posed as Red Tornado was brilliant. I’ll admit, I was fooled.

Not bad. I liked it. I liked the pilot much better, but I appreciate a slow build… especially when I know the payoff is going to be excellent. And trust me, comparing this to Babylon 5 is about as high a compliment as I can give.

Looking forward to next week’s. I’ll definitely keep watching.

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