Justice League Unlimited "Kid Stuff" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Bird Boy]

Going out of order for a few episodes, "Unlimited" gets reduced by a few decades...

Episode #5 - Kid Stuff
Original Airdate - August 14th, 2004

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are transformed into eight-year-olds in a desperate attempt to save the world from the magic of Mordred.

Comments?

Note: William C. Maune and some Toonami MODs will be moderating this talkback tonight as well. I'll be out of town, as well as Jim Harvey, so if you see their presence more than usual in the talkbacks tonight, thats why.

[matta2fatta]

it was cute

[screw on head]

Talkback's here everybody, have at it! Usually I come upon at least 2 pages of replies...

It was a fun episode. Henroy Gilroy wrote a nice fun story here. Lil' Etrigan was a nice surprise, and immediately made me think of Baby Hellboy on first glance... Gilroy didn't write that did he...? I thought the bg for the other dimension was weird. It was a change of pace, but it sorta looked too 'brushy stroke-y' for my taste. I liked that John was wearing Guy Gardner(?)'s mask, and he made plenty of constructs, especially the robosuit. Dr. Movie did a great job on the animation, I'm just not too crazy about their style, which is unique unto all the other studios. They didn't mask it as well as their animation for Initiation did.

I loved that Etrigan was in WW's arms at the end, nice bit there. And Batman's 8yr. old line was very nice. I'll be taping over this ep though .

[creeper]

Anyone other than me find batman's last line chilling? The episode was great. I loved all batman's quotes. Baby Etrigan was interesting.

More later

[Batman's Biggest Fan]

Batman's last line was great. Otherwise it was more a comedic episode for once. I liked GL's line to Superman about Batman and Wonder Woman

"For someone with 50 visions you are SO blind"

(And what was with Diana's reaction to Batman's line about not being a kid since he was 8 years old.)

[Knight]

I thought this was a fun episode.

Surprise villains with The KGbeast and Blockbuster. Nice to see Etrigan too.


It was interesting how GL has more of a imagination as a kid than as grown up and I loved that he had on the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern mask from his original comics costume.


All in all lots of funny stuff esspecially with the interaction between the "bossy" Diana,Supes, Bats and GL as kids.

[Jor-El]

Talk about useless episodes. The only fun part was that John's pair of glasses was actually Kyle Rayner's first mask. A nice nod to the comics.

Otherwise, this was ridiculous. Two stars at most.

The only reason I was sold on this series was the promise of seeing new characters. And tonight we saw Morgan Le Fay and Mordred — what is the obsession with these characters? Why not use actual League villains? And we didn't even see anyone from the expanded League. We just got the same four core characters we've been stuck with for three weeks running. Mix it up a little.

So far, the only good episode (of the three that have aired) has been an adaptation of a comic. Will JLU ever air a good original episode?

[Chad Bonin]

Note: William C. Maune and some Toonami MODs will be moderating this talkback tonight as well. I'll be out of town, as well as Jim Harvey, so if you see their presence more than usual in the talkbacks tonight, thats why.

I'm assuming that means "William C. Maune, Duke, and K5".

Good fun episode. I liked Wonder Woman's personality better as a kid in this episode than as an adult in any other.

[PaQ]

It took a few minutes to get used to their character designs as kids.. And since GL needed glasses since he needed it as a kid.. Wouldn't that mean Supes wouldn't have his powers.. since they developed as he got older?

[wrenchien]

seeing the jl become kids.. was pretty cool. and i guess being 800 years old would be a bummer...

still, it was nice to see this episode as opposed to seeing one with like 50 kids at one time. and what batman said at the end.. all too true on him, considering the family tragedy he was through.

i wonder if their being kids got the best of them, these jl'ers.

[GohanWinner]

Ah, this episode was....funny.

"Your girflriend sure is bossy!" So funny... and I was thinking the same thing. Diana must've been one bratty/spoiled child.

Along with their apperance, the League's mentality must have been changed to that of kids. Why exactly this is, while they had all their memories, I dunno. But it was funny. Diana's picking who to team up with was fairly amusing.

And Baby Etrigan was priceless.

Some people didn't like it... *shrugs* It was funny.

And the theme is growing on me. Oh god help me. =(

[bereang]

Easily the worst episode EVER of Justice League! Yuck! I guess they were trying to appeal to Teen Titan fans, because they surely weren't trying to impress JL/JLU fans!

Bereang

[JLU Dude]

It was a fun little romp. Kinda neat seeing John use Kyle's old mask from the comics and to see Blockbuster & KGBeast, as well as to see Cheetah & Copperhead again. LOL at the idea of baby Eritgan and his "Mommy" comment near the end of the ep. Kinda weird to see Supes, Bats, WW, and John has kids. 4 1/2 out of 5.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

wow now that was an episode that should be banned

last week Teen Titans ripped off FLCL and this week Justice League Limited ripped off Teen Titans

if I had known they were going to show two TT episodes in a row I wouldn't have watched either

[Vin]

I loved this episode. I mean, I felt it was just a fun episode. It wasn't dramatic like the first two episodes, but that's quite all right. It's nice to have some comedy episodes after a while.

A very cute, funny episode. One that kids, I know, most have especially enjoyed.

[Pyro]

It was strange... but cute.
All of them were funny as kids. I loved GL's newfound creativity. WW reminded me a little of Lucy from Peanuts. I thought little Batman looked similar to a picture I drew months ago.

[bereang]

wow now that was an episode that should be banned

last week Teen Titans ripped off FLCL and this week Justice League Limited ripped off Teen Titans

if I had known they were going to show two TT episodes in a row I wouldn't have watched either

Exactly! Well said.

I gave this a *, only because of the interaction between Bruce and Diana. Other than that, it was pathetic.

Bereang

[Borg4of3]

Was that Blockbuster? I'll have to have another looksee. I was guessing Amygdala. Either way, great to see another funky batch of villains, even if in cameo.

Great episode, and a clear sign that the old school super-fast pacing is back! It was cute and funny and perfectly endearing. I'm gonna enjoy watching this one a few times over. Etrigan was a very welcome surprise, and the child-themed League was precious. I didn't know Morgan Le Faye would return, and since I was hoping for it since Knight of Shadows, she and Mordred didn't disappoint. And her line about bathing and caring for him for millenia? Awesome. Everything was awesome. I'm shooting up another 5 stars for this one, as generous as it sounds for a comedy ep.

[Avilos]

I was laughing out loud the whole episode! Obviously this is not something they should do every week but it was fun. But that is the great potential of this format to have variety. Between last week and this week one extreme to the another. GL wearing Kyle Rayner mask, that fact that as a kid his imagination went wild with the ring. I found it interesting that the credits listed the children parts as "Kid Superman" for example. Maybe there is some truth to not being able to use Superboy, but really though that was Superboy whatever they called him.

[Karkull]

You'll either love it or hate it...I suspect that this is going to be one of those episodes that will either get five stars or one. I, for one, loved it.

I'll put up a detailed review later, but for now, here's a few things I dug:

1) Cameos by Cheetah, Copperhead, Blockbuster, and KGBeast. Also, it looks like Copperhead is Catholic.

2) John Stewart wearing Kyle Rayner's old mask.

3) Li'l Etrigan.

4) The League acting like kids -- John Stewart's sheer joy using the ring, Wonder Girl's crush on Batman, etc.