Justice League Unlimited: Season Two (DC Comics Classic Collection)
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Actor: George Newbern, Kevin Conroy, Michael Rosenbaum, Phil LaMarr, Susan EisenbergBrand: JUSTICE LEAGUE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 286 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 72356
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Characters from the original series of Justice League Unlimited are joined by a number of new superheroes making this final seasons showdown between Justice League Unlimited vs Legion of Doom the most suspenseful yet. After years of foiled plots and repeated beatings, the galaxy's worse villains finally have a plan: strength in numbers! Led by Lex Luthor, the Legion of Doom prepares to dominate th
DVD Reviews of Justice League Unlimited: Season Two (DC Comics Classic Collection)
DVD Review: What does it mean? What does it mean?
Summary: 2 Stars
In the now-legendary movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas," these lines are spoken by its main character, who seeks to understand a world he can barely touch, yet wants all for himself. They also pertain heavily to the last season of JLU, and to all fiction in general, really.
After all, fiction is... what? Just a bunch of phony people spewing canned lines at each other and trading attacks once in a while on a stage made of deserts, plains, cities and even whole planets, or is it more than that? Is fiction a hundred worlds within one? A world inside each heart, and a billion hearts in every fiction. The workings of the human heart are so complex that we could never fully understand it, but fiction never stands out firmer in our minds than when we try.
For this reason, "What does it mean?" is the question I ask myself whenever I experience any type of fiction. What makes the characters behave the way they do, and what impact does it have on the grander scheme of things? What clues can I gain as to the contents of their hearts? How can I continue to grow in understanding of them? In short, how can I draw myself even further into their world?
These questions are intelligent, valid ones that make perfect sense with any fiction, and it's because of these questions that modern television is such a wasteland. Characters are hardly ever complex or engaging, and they drop no clues that their minds contain anything other than the programming of their writer. Sadly, this is also true with the last season of Justice League, and the main reason it fails to satisfy.
Previous seasons of the Dini/Timm animated Universe (even so far back as the first season of Batman; the Animated series all the way through the fabulous JLU season 2; 1 on the DVD release,) rewarded viewers for asking these very questions. In fact, for a long time, they were all the television I watched. The fact that many characters (such as, for instance, Luthor) were altered very rapidly to fit into a desired plot even as far back as the first season of JL was, in my mind, frustrating, but virtually unavoidable. Still, they gave Luthor reasons for doing what he did. Flimsy reasons perhaps, but they made sense in context.
What doesn't make sense is the very idea of Luthor obsessing over Brainiac's remains, trying to ressurect him as if it's the only thing he's ever wanted. Brainiac is just a computer program. He's not omnipotent, and the only reason he represents power to Luthor was because he managed to assimilate the Dark Heart near the end of JLU season 2, which is now destroyed. If Luthor ever merged with Brainiac again, without the Dark Heart's power, he'd be fodder for Superman's fist.
A more logical course, for Luthor, would have been to try reassembling the body of Amazo (who I'll rant about more in a moment,) since Brainiac's consciousness clearly still resides in Luthor's mind. This would give both of them what they really want.
Unfortunately, the Luthor of this season is seen as being selectively more and less intelligent than he actually is. Luthor, for instance, is a scientist, but by no means is he able to design a machine that can travel faster than light, as he does by the end of this season, and if he really WERE that intelligent, why didn't he make the leap of logic that I just made?
Getting off Luthor for a moment, let's move, grudgingly, to Darkseid. I say grudgingly because, frankly, Darkseid's been done. That doesn't mean they couldn't have used him as this series' "end boss," just that he'd (A) have to be way more powerful than before, and (B) that power source has to be defined, as it was with Dragon Ball Z's Frieza (who was still small change afterwards in his respective series.)
Unfortunately, the big problem with Darkseid isn't the fact that it makes no sense that he's as big a threat as he is, it's that his attitude seems to have changed. Although he professes to want nothing less than Superman's death above all else, and to generally want to make people suffer, he willingly violates his New Genesis treaty and yet seems to have a sense of humor as well, which none of his previous incarnations indicated. In other words, he's become both more, and less aggressive, which makes no sense.
Now, moving on to Amazo, as I promised to do, let me stick my tongue firmly in the direction of the Warner Brother's marketing department. Pictures of Amazo and Solomon Grundy are all over this DVD set. In previous seasons, these two characters were among my favorites because, in order to use them, the writers had to do some work thinking of realistic motives and methods for them to use. Grundy never really did anything without a reason that made sense to him, and was far more complex than was at first thought, and I don't think there IS a character as physically or mentally complex as Amazo in any universe. As I said, both are plastered in pictures all over this DVD set (between two to four of Grundy, depending how you count, and a clean four of Amazo,) yet neither of these characters actually appears in the season contained in the packaging. Thbbbbbbbbph...!
What does it mean? I asked myself this question after watching each episode of this set, and after every single one, the answer was "it means nothing at all." No. I lied. Not every single one. There is one episode in this entire season that seems to have some meaning behind it, and that's "Ancient History," but one out of thirteen isn't so great.
The action sequences of this season were okay, but action without meaning is just a nerve-deadening factor like the rest of television. Even the best of the bunch (such as Superman's last battle with Darkseid) was anticlimactic and short, and no better, at its best than what one might get on, again, Dragon Ball Z.
Prior to this season, the Modus Operandi of the DC animated universe was to take classic DC characters and bring the most out in them. Not so with this collection. Sorry, but I really can't picture myself wanting to watch any of these episodes again. From now on, the series ended with "Epilogue."
Description of Justice League Unlimited: Season Two (DC Comics Classic Collection)
Many superheros unite to fight for justice.Genre: Children's Video
Rating: NR
Release Date: 20-MAR-2007
Media Type: DVD
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