We get two more neat little winks at Marvel in this episode which features face-time for almost everyone. (Except, ironically, Orion.)
Two? I only remember one. Steel II going all Captain America with that shield. Been a few weeks since I saw this episode, though.
It was a nice episode.
Still, they could have explained why New Genisis didn’t get involved.
Because Lightwave didn’t return in time?
Epic, man.
I felt it was all a little rushed considering the great building Cadmus storyline of last season.
I also felt the Superman cutting lose bit was AWESOME… but then it was sort of dampened by Darkseid simply casting some magical pain thingy at Superman. So much for Superman cutting loose… oh well. At least Superman got to kick incredible amounts of Darkseid ass in the Superman series finale. I also felt that that non Kirby acolytes might have been a little confused by the ending: anti-life equation? Metron? Wha?
Far too rushed. They could have cut out one other episode this season (except the Legion one) and done this one episode as a two-parter (with the previous episode as a lead in). They needed more exposition on the deus ex machina anti-life equation. The finale was a bit cheesy. They could have ended with Superman calling Batman soft, or the just-kissed Flash.
I was hoping for a Captain Marvel cameo. Oh well…
Ice manifests her costume by pulling a Bobby Drake.
I loved that Lightray just gets mugged for his Mother Box. Too funny.
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Was that a Braniac-5 shout-out when Metron mentions that only a 12th-level intellect could hope to understand the Source? or is Metron supposed to be a 12th-level intellect, too?
I thought Tengu was referring to the image of Galactus embedded in the Source Wall.
Also, who was that guy who fought Washington, DC with Hawkgirl and the Atomic Skull? Was that Americommando? He was the only League member in the episode that I didn’t recognize.
“fought in Washington, DC”, I mean.
He took on all of Washinton D.C. alone…and WON!
I have no idea who it was.
Candid referred to him upthread as Steel II. Didn’t help me either.
I must say - Darkseid mobilizes quickly. I know the forces were already prepared and battling when he arrived, but still.
Okay, I get it now. When Candid said “Steel” I thought he was referring to “guy in armor with a big hammer” Steel, which got me confused. I wasn’t aware that there was another character named Steel from the “Justice League Detroit”.
I kept waiting for a “to be continued” to be flashed at the bottom of the screen. There really should have been one more episode. The Darkseid story line was rushed and then they filled time at teh end of the episode with that cheesy JLU role call thing.
It would have been nice if there were a reference to Captain Marvel with something along the lines “What do you know? Lex Luther was one of the good guys”.
Also, I guess I missed something at the end. Wasn’t Darkseids goal with the anti-life equation to end the universe and start it again? So why did Lex and DS just vanish?
I looked at the source wall for exactly that… I didn’t see anybody that I thought was any more Galactus-like than the usual Source Wall wallflowers.
That was Steel/Commander Steel*. I did not refer to him at all, upthread. (He was in Tengu’s comment that I quoted.)
12th level intellect usually equals Brainiac Five, but in this case, they were talking about Lex. Go fig.
*Hard to say which incarnation of Steel they’re going with. There was the one in the All-Star Squadron in WW2 - and his grandson who was in the Justice League Detroit. The costumes were incredibly similar. Not to be confused with John Henry Irons.
Ah well, close enough for government work. 
I’m pretty sure that was the grandson of the WWII Commander Steel (a.k.a. Steel I). That makes him Steel II. The big armored guy with the BFH (Big Hammer) is Steel III.
With the jumbled up timeline of the animated continuity, we have no way to guess between Steel I and Steel II. Not that there’s a lot of difference between the two.
The 12th level intellect thing might be a hint that Brainac and Luthor are still connected… though Luthor is arrogant enough about his own intelligence for it to just be his own bravado.
As I understand it, the anti-life equation isn’t what it sounds like. It doesn’t destroy universes. It doesn’t even make swirly stuff into which two major villians can disappear. What it does is make all wills bend to yours: complete dominating control over the life and death of other minds. Scott Free is the only one in the universe immune to it I think.
So yeah, extra confusion. I don’t think Darksied has ever mentioned the anti-life equation on the show before, let alone explained what it is in the DCAU. So we’re left trying to fit the various comic incarnations into it somehow.