# Justice Leage 3/04 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120 "2006-03-05T07:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/1 "2006-03-05T07:53:53Z")
Pretty funny episode! My two favorite lines: Possessed Flash: _looks in mirror_ "Well, at least I can finally see who the Flash really is. _takes mask off_ “I have no idea who this man is” :smack: and finally, Goon: “Hey, you didn’t wash your hands after going to the bathroom!” Possessed Lex Luthor: “Hey, I’m a bad guy, I don’t need to.” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/2 "2006-03-05T08:44:08Z")
Geez, if you’re gonna hold up the lines as genius you could at least quote them kinda close… Interesting ep in that it supports the notion that Flash, if he wanted to be, could be the most dangerous man alive. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/3 "2006-03-05T12:21:31Z")
I wish they’d show reruns, at another timeslot. \ ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/4 "2006-03-05T13:40:56Z")
“Am you Bizarro’s mommy?” Like how they explained why Flash doesn’t phase through things. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/5 "2006-03-05T13:55:06Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Interesting ep in that it supports the notion that Flash, if he wanted to be, could be the most dangerous man alive. [/QUOTE] That was my favorite part. It’s a huge step up from the old Justice League episode where he had trouble catching up with a truck. Flash is one of the most powerful characters they have. “This is NOT restful.” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/6 "2006-03-05T16:18:00Z")
Michael Rosenbaum (who does Flash’s voice and just happens to play Lex Luthor on Smallville) and Clancy Brown (who does Luthor’s voice) had a LOT of fun with this episode. I laughed several times, which is more than I can say for many supposedly “funny” cartoons. Juliet Landau also had her most lines to date in an episode, vamping it up as Tala. I love how it was strongly implied that Flash, in Luthor’s body, performed oral sex on Tala, something they made it seem like Lex would never “lower himself” to do. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/7 "2006-03-05T16:40:52Z")
[QUOTE=Wolfian] Like how they explained why Flash doesn’t phase through things. [/QUOTE] How did they explain it? (I only caught the end of the episode.) ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/8 "2006-03-05T17:08:08Z")
[QUOTE=tim314] How did they explain it? (I only caught the end of the episode.) [/QUOTE] When he phases through things they tend to explode. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/9 "2006-03-05T17:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=Xan] When he phases through things they tend to explode. [/QUOTE] Ah, OK. That _used_ to be true in the comics, but not anymore. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/10 "2006-03-05T17:13:12Z")
So how ethical is it for Flash to use Luthor’s body to foll around with Tala? I realize Luthor and Tala have a prior relationship, and she came on to him, but if your mind is in someone’s body, do you just get a free pass to do whatever? I guess the good news is that she wasn’t upset when she found out, and wished Flash could stick around. Me, I’d kill the guy. Because I’m eeeevil. The space station gets wrecked pretty frequently. Does Bruce Wayne have to foot the bill for that every time? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/11 "2006-03-05T17:44:19Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] So how ethical is it for Flash to use Luthor’s body to foll around with Tala? I realize Luthor and Tala have a prior relationship, and she came on to him, but if your mind is in someone’s body, do you just get a free pass to do whatever? I guess the good news is that she wasn’t upset when she found out, and wished Flash could stick around. Me, I’d kill the guy. Because I’m eeeevil. [/QUOTE] It’s not ethical (there was a Buffy episode where Faith, inhabiting Buffy’s body, engaged in some marathon sex with Riley), but Tala wouldn’t have minded too much – her previous boyfriend was a gorilla who bragged about “bending her to his will.” ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/12 "2006-03-05T18:02:03Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] It’s not ethical (there was a Buffy episode where Faith, inhabiting Buffy’s body, engaged in some marathon sex with Riley), but Tala wouldn’t have minded too much – her previous boyfriend was a gorilla who bragged about “bending her to his will.” [/QUOTE] Not to mention Flash didn’t want to risk gettin found out by the rest of the Legion. He was in a body without any superpowers (he didn’t know Luthor made it so he could override the every Legion member’s powers) Sure Luthor didn’t seem all that into Tala but Flash couldn’t have known that. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/13 "2006-03-05T20:22:28Z")
Took em long enough to figure out that turning off the artificial gravity was the ticket. :dubious: BTW–my viewing is spotty. How about a link to an online Bio of Tala? ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/14 "2006-03-05T22:34:47Z")
Is this the last season of JL? ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/15 "2006-03-05T22:42:26Z")
Bio for Tala is here, but WARNING!!! the bottom of the page spoils the ending of this season of JL! Don’t click if you don’t want to be spoiled (luckily, I’ve already seen the season from the overseas, but I’m warning ya: don’t spoil yourself with this link) > **[List of DC Comics characters: T](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tala_%28comics%29)** > > Tala is a demonic sorcerer who first appeared as an adversary of the Phantom Stranger. Tala first appeared in Phantom Stranger (vol. 2) #4, and was created by Neal Adams and Robert Kanigher. Tala, the Queen of Evil, is an evil mystical entity and the mistress of the Dark Circle. Her agenda often consists of tricking mortals into doing evil deeds, or unleashing the apocalypse onto the modern world. She frequently confronts the Phantom Stranger, usually along with Doctor Thirteen, by using her pow... > [@](#): > > First appearing in The Phantom Stranger v.2 #4, distinguished by its utilization of the series for actual supernatural phenomena and not debunking mysticism like its first incarnation, Tala is known as the archnemesis of the Stranger. She is a demoness and a mistress of Hell, and her motives reflect such origins, as she is known for either trying to doom mortals’ souls to ruin or aiming to unleash apocalyptic evils upon the world. She has claimed to find the Stranger attractive and is thus interested in him, but the comics have never followed through on these hints, nor are these claims known to be true. As the article says, her JLAS appearances are very toned down in both power and evil from the comics. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/16 "2006-03-05T22:52:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] BTW–my viewing is spotty. How about a link to an online Bio of Tala? [/QUOTE] there’s one on [this page](http://polisci.uchicago.edu/~jtlevy/friends.html), about three-quarters of the way down. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/17 "2006-03-05T22:52:54Z")
Instant classic. Nice to see Reddy get some significant voice time. “Your patient just anesthetized himself.” _snrk_ ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/18 "2006-03-05T23:00:15Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] Is this the last season of JL? [/QUOTE] Yes. To me, Flash was implying that he wasn’t going to touch Talia with Luthors dick. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/19 "2006-03-06T00:18:50Z")
[QUOTE=adam yax] Yes. To me, Flash was implying that he wasn’t going to touch Talia with Luthors dick. [/QUOTE] I get the feeling that Tala much preferred Luthor when the Flash was “in charge”. And was rather disappointed when Lexy came back. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120/20 "2006-03-06T02:32:52Z")
As fun as this episode was, the best part was the coming attractions:The Fatal Five. Supergirl & The Legion of Superheroes (which seems to be mirroring upcoming comics)I can’t wait! I’m in rabid fanboy heaven. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-leage-3-04/347120.md?page=2)