Just a little reminder, JLA is on tonight at 7:00 EST,CartoonNetwork.
I expect all you comic geeks to be on shortly thereafter.
AAK! I had forgotten! Thanks, SpaceGhost!
Fenris
No problem, now I feel as if my life’s work is done. 
I may have to miss it. When is the rebroadcast scheduled?
I was a bit underhwelmed.
I didn’t like the slight alterations on Batman and Superman’s design. The other heroes (especially Hawkgirl, who is she different from Wonder Woman?) need a lot of backstory.
They’ve also encountered one of the hardest problems in comics, that of making Batman, an eerily competent and undeniably cool , but human, character operate on the same God-like level of heroism as Superman and GL (Stewart also needs an intro). They should have ripped Morrison’s solution line for line:
Alien 1: Batman is still loose!
Alien 2: How can that be possible, he’s only one man!
Superman: The most dangerous man alive.
The villians were cool and the show has promise. It’s on right after Samurai Jack so I’ll keep watching it.
It comes on again Sunday at 8:30/P
After that it becomes a half hour show at 9:30/P Mondays.
And who’s the new voice for Superman? He sounds different from the “Adventures of Superman” Superman. (I didn’t catch the whole thing, yet. I need to check it out Sunday).
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So…when is the adult swim on? I can’t find it in the tv guide. Sorry for the hijack, but I bet people in this thread know the information I seek.
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I was on teevee?
Um, OK…
Adult Swim airs from 10/P to 1/A ET&PT Sunday and Thursday Nights. It’s not listed in the teevee guide because it’s a block of programming and not an actual individual show. It includes “Home Movies,” “Space Ghost C2C”, “Cowboy Bebop” (an import from Japan), “Sealab 2021”, and occassionally “The Brak Show” and “Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law”.
Anyplace else?
It’s just some guy (don’t recall the name), not Tim “Wings” Daly. I never appreciated Daly’s cold-fish readings, but this new guy is even worse. That is, he’s more lively than Daly, but the voice simply does not sound like it’s coming from a man with 4-foot wide shoulders.
Wonder Woman had too much “Hera give me strength!” and Flash is just a jerk. BTW, since when can WW fly? And how long has Martian Manhunter had density-changing powers? Did they confuse him with the Avengers’ Vision?
It seems they’ve solved the Batman inequality by making him an adjunct member of the team – I don’t expect he’ll be in every episode. That way, they won’t have to rescue him or carry him all the time.
The team is basically 4 extraterrestrials and one Amazon; only Batman & Flash are the hometown boys. Sure, Green Lantern only works in space, and Superman is probably registered to vote in Metropolis. But it would be nice if Earth’s mightiest heroes were, you know, more Earthbound.
Wonder Woman has been able to fly for years. I forget which artifact does that for her. Martian Manhunter has likewise had density control since forever.
I thought Flash was amusing…
I did notice that the team is very heavy on flying. Flash and Batman are the only members who can’t, and they solve that with gadgets and “walking on water and up buildings is pretty much just as effective”.
I thought it was pretty good. I also didn’t like the changes to Superman – those shoulders transform him from avatar to caricature. (And also make his head look tiny.) Whereas the increased detail in his face makes him look more obviously a drawing. (When his face was less detailed and more abstract it was easier for the viewer to project whatever facial features he thought appropriate.)
As for the rest of the group, I’m largely happy. The animated John Stewart (who’s not much like the “real” John Stewart, but that’s OK) works better than Kyle Rayner would have in this group, since the animated Flash is the class clown. I also like that this Wonder Woman is shown right at the beginning of her trip to Man’s World; this hearkens back to the Golden Age beginnings of the character. We’ll need to know more about Hawkgirl, but I’m glad she’s Thanganarian. As for John, any TV show that features the Martian Manhunter in a starring role goes straight to the top of my list.
All in all a good debut with a lot of promise. I do hope that the already-established heroes in this Universe (Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, GL Kyle Rayner, and the Legion) aren’t completely ignored, but it’s the League’s show and I’m happy if the spotlight stays firmly on them.
–Cliffy
I watched it last night and loved it! I have never (or rarely) read the comic books these characters are based on. Most of my knowledge of the characters comes from the various cartoons and TV shows. That being said, please enlighten me on some points.
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I too didn’t know that Wonder Woman could fly. Why did she need the invisible jet before if she could fly?
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Did anybody else notice that Superman didn’t seem very bright? He seemed to forget his powers at inopportune times. For example, he seemed to “forget” he had laser eye capability until after Batman came back onto the scene. It seems like that might have come in useful a little earlier on.
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Does anyone have a brief summary of who Hawkgirl is?
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I couldn’t understand the name of Wonder Woman’s home. It sounded an awful lot like Femascara (Fem Mascara). Surely that can’t be right.
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It seems to me like Batman and Green Lantern are the ones with real brain power. I think that this is how they will become valuable. Well, Martian Manhunter seems like a smarty too. But the rest of them seem to have more brawn than brain. That’s definitly ok. It gets boring if everyone is perfectly smart, strong, etc.
She used to merely glide. Later, they expanded this to flight.
This is not new. Brawn over brain is common in comics. Possibly, his heat vision was inhibited by the aliens tech, although I agree this could have been made more clear.
Alien law enforcement, as I recall.
Themiscira–the Island of the Amazons. Blessed by the gods of ancient Greece. Only partly of this world, partly of the world of Myth.
Yes, Batman is the World’s Greatest Detective. GL is sharp. And the Martian Manhunter is very sharp, indeed.
I see this as an excellent series. I look forward to the future episodes. 
The post-Crisis WW can fly because Hermes gave her the gift of flight at birth along with the more traditional gifts of beauty, strength etc from the Greek Goddesses. She doesn’t rely on any artefact to fly, it is a natural power.
Post-C WW didn’t have an invisible plane for a long time, but recently she did get one but it is an alien artefact which can morph into anything.
Evidently animated WW is based on the post-C model.
When she first appeared in the '40s she was the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess (Hawkman’s the reincarnation of an Egyptian prince). The wings were from some magic metal they rediscovered.
When comics underwent a revamp in the '60s, she became an alien policewoman who (with her policeman hubby, Hawkman) came to earth from Thanagar (orbits Polaris) to study our law-enforcement tecniques. All police on Thanagar have hawkwings.
Currently, Hawkman’s been killed by continuity (his origin was revised, re-revised, re-re-revised, un-revised, re-unrevised, and now NOone understands what the heck his origin/background are, although a good attempt at unsnarling his history is being done in JSA, and Hawkgirl (Hawkwoman actually) is back the reincarnation thing.
I’m guessing that the animiated Hawkgirl/woman is version #2: Alien policewoman.
Fenris
Hawkgirl from the show mentioned that she is from Thanganar.
–Cliffy
TheeGrumpy:
Well, the Amazons are residents of Earth, and if Green Lantern is Kyle Radner he probably doesn’t work in space. Halkgirl is an odd choice, but I guess they needed another woman.
Missed the first half-hour (friends insisted on watching “Malcom in the Middle”). I thought it was pretty weak overall. The alien punks didn’t seem so tough; Superman alone should have been able to mop them up. Did anyone else figure out instantly that direct sunlight was going to be the key to victory as soon as the one alien punk sidestepped the beam in Egypt? And speaking of that, “being from space, they have no defense against ultra-violet radiation”? WTF? Now, I’m not an astronomer, but wouldn’t there actually be more UV in space, since “space” generally doesn’t have, oh, an OZONE LAYER to filter it out? They could have cut out 30 minutes of the show and not really lost anything.
The female friend I watched with wants to be Hawkgirl. Fly around and smack things with an electric mace? Sweeeet!
And the team stands at three ETs (Superman, Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl) and three humans (WW, Flash and GL) with one human alternate (Batman).
Why oh why must they put the show on opposite “Angel”?
This was some fine Wisconsin dairy product, if you know what I mean. I was sold on the series the minute I heard the line, “Over 500 of your Earth years…” I hope John uses the phrase “your Earth <noun>” in every episode.
Batman has so much money, he can build himself a private space station. And he has enough money left over that a little creative bookkeeping can disguise the expenditure.
Batman meets alien prisoner, and is suspicious. “Perhaps this will help,” says the prisoner, and shapeshifts from pointy alien to Martian Manhunter. Because nothing inspires trust more than shapeshifting aliens.
This show is so bad I’m going to have to watch every episode. Regular viewing, however, will have to wait until Angel goes into reruns.
Some one said something about the animated John Stewart. John Stewart was in the show? Who was he? (I missed the first fifteen minutes, if he was in the first fifteen minutes. Was he in the first fifteen minutes?)