Young Justice

I think someone checked that scene frame-by-frame, and there's technically no kiss, but the way Bart's face gets very close to Ed's cheek (with his eyes closed) makes me think it's intended to be viewed as such. I hope season 4 clarifies things, at least.

Also, I didn't consider the show setting up Ed and Wendy because I just saw it as him doing his job as a counselor to help her.

Is Tye Longshadow's power Fighting Spirit, Battle Aura or some combination of both?

I'm leaning more towards Fighting Spirit. It's basically like a Humongous Mecha made of his own spirit. Whoever edited his Young Justice wiki entry called it Astral Projection though.

It's an interesting take on his original Super Friends' inspiration Apache Chief who had the power to become a giant.

Edited by M84 on May 18th 2021 at 5:23:36 PM

An energy projection that Tye uses but isn't completely immune to damage.

They could have just given him the same Sizeshifter powers, but they got creative and gave him a power-set that effectively still turns him into a giant, but is visually more impressive.

So I want to bring something up. It was recently announced that Phil Bourassa, the main character designer for the series, is the character designer for the Critical Role cartoon being made for Amazon. I then looked at the resume of Dou Hong, and it says that she's the main character designer for season 4. It makes me wonder if the show will look significantly different in some way.

This wouldn't be the only time he was replaced for something. For the New 52 movies, Steven Choi did the character designs for Wonder Woman: Bloodlines when he was busy with Young Justice.

https://dou-hong.format.com/resume

https://www.animationmagazine.net/streaming/i-love-drawing-this-stuff-phil-bourassa-critical-role-bring-the-legend-of-vox-machina-to-life/

https://mobile.twitter.com/JTuckerAnimator/status/1152794308749201413

Dou Houg is a fantastic and flexible character designer, and her resume shows that she's already worked under Bourassa's art direction for Outsiders. I don't think it'll be too drastic of a change.

By the way, she appeared as a part of the "Women of Young Justice" Livestream quiz event las year:

I saw her designs for a Blue beetle animated show a while back, it's awesome to see her on YJ.

Here's a production update for season 4. We have 13 episodes completed, 7 in post-production, and 6 being animated overseas by Studio Mir.

https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=23485

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to s4 or not.

I am. I enjoyed Season 3.

According by some of Greg's answers, this season might focus a lot on magic and humans' ability to use it.

I just want to know how much of a time skip and change in (relevant) team members we’re looking at. If it’s big on either front I don’t think I can stick with the series anymore; starting season 2 nearly made me drop this like a hot potato and I was only able to force myself to binge through it until Jaime became a character I cared about because I was watching on a friend’s recommendation, and started the show only last year. If I were watching as it came out, I would’ve walked away and never looked back

Also, I’m just not a comic book person; never have been and never will be. So I kinda really fucking hate that this show thinks it’s competent storytelling to bring up a seemingly kinda really important thing like, I don’t know, Superboy Prime, and then act like it never happened because some comic dealt with it, or have a one off sentence that magically retcons Guardian or whoever from being Roy’s uncle into being another bloody clone, and then once again quietly do nothing with that ever. Kingdom Hearts at least has the decency to keep everything within one medium.

Sorry, rant over. I really enjoyed season 3 aside from anytime Beast Boy speaks, Terra being an afterthought, and Prince Douche throwing away all character development right at the end in order to be a fascist and give the season a sad ending instead what you to then was a well earned happy end.

Edited by TheAirman on Jul 2nd 2021 at 9:13:30 AM

So is S4 gonna be the last one, or do they do one more?

We've had Vandal Savage's motivations revealed, and Darkseid now seems like he's gonna be the main Big Bad this time instead of Granny.

From what I remember, Greg and Brandon mentioned that they had solid plans for at least five seasons total.

Season 4 episode 14 is finished. Officially, over half the season has completed episodes.

https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=23998

Also, Studio Mir is handling the animation for the entirety of the season, not just the last six episodes.

The time skip seems like it's going to be 2 years, Weisman mentioned in a recent ask that they're moving the pandemic back a year because by the time it happened it was too late to incorporate into the story.

Stuff like Violet's constant gorings, weird handling of queer stuff, plus the pacing and focus issues are what get me.

Here's some information about season 4 from Greg Weisman.

We have 16 complete episodes, 6 in post production, and 4 that are still being animated.

https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=24913

https://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=24886

Edited by jessicadicicco610 on Aug 12th 2021 at 5:11:45 AM

He's been posting A LOT of information on Ask Greg lately. What I found most interesting is the confirmation that Eduardo is gay and seeing someone. He's also hinting in an answer there is ONE character The Powers That Be (likely DC and WB) did not let the show portray as LGBTQ for season 3, and that might likely be Bart.

Yeah. They didn't beat us over the head with it, but it was pretty clear Ed had feelings for Bart. You could catch it with every interaction.

We have 17 episodes completed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Greg_Weisman/status/1431676648038879235

Are updates like these really necessary to post each time?

I don't really see the problem when there are gaps in time between them. There hasn't been any other news on the latest season, so knowing how far along the production is from Weisman is topical on its own.

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Aug 28th 2021 at 9:21:10 AM

The only more interesting stuff is from Ask Greg, and I'm sure I already posted the highlights. Doesn't help that HBO Max doesn't promote their shows until a month before they air.