Just a reminder for casual fans, those without Tivo, those who haven’t downloaded the episode already, etc.
Cartoon Network starts showing new episodes of Justice League Unlimited this Saturday, the 11th, at 10:30 pm. Flash and Substance is the title of this episode. No repeat showings listed.
Thank you! I would have missed it, but for this post!
Indeed. Damn Cartoon Network scheduling and promo geniuses. I would have missed the second half of FullMetal Alchemist if not for the Television Without Pity boards.
I just realized that I used post #2814 on this thread. Appropriate.
Hmm, now I’m wondering about the Canadian premiere. I assume YTV will carry it, but I can’t find a reference.
They showed I Am Legion last Wednesday.
Too bad this might be the last seasons for both Teen Titans and JLU. DC wants to concentrate on their newer cartoons. 
Givin’ this a little bump, just in case anyone missed it.
Can’t wait…
Lots of new eps (US showings) coming (from Epguides.com):
2/11 - Flash and Substance
2/18 - Dead Reckoning
2/25 - Patriot Act
3/04 - The Great Brain Robbery
3/11 - Grudge Match
3/18 - Far From Home
3/25 - Ancient History
4/01 - Alive
4/08 - Destroyer
bump
That was fun! 
Lots of Flash jokes and interaction with the stoic Batman. I loved the drawer full of rings.
Who was helmet-boy? And what are his powers? Super strength and some flying gadget seem to be it. He was pretty much useless.
Too bad this is going to be the final season. It’s a good show, certainly a lot better than that The Batman show that’s keeping all of the Batman villians from appearing.
On Monday, Toonami is broadcasting the series finale: “Destroyer.” It ought to be good given the setup to it. Hopefully a new and even better DCU show comes along. I don’t know if that’s possible though, since this series (and the earlier ones of the same style) pretty much defined the characters for people like me who never had the comics.
Orion. I want to say he has some connection to the Apokolips/New Gods crew, but I’m not all that up on that area of the DCU.
Loved Linda throwing herself at a non-receptive Wally. In the comics they are married. Was Wally’s boss supposed to have been Barry Allen? He looked really familiar, but I couldn’t place him.
Anyone else catch the Kid Flash statue in the background at one point?
That’s Orion, the Dog of War, one of the New Gods and son of Darkseid.
Yeah, he’s just strong and durable, but he’s just below Superman in terms of power.
His harnbess can fly and project the Astro-Force, for blasts of incredible power and can enhance his own native strength.
Orion’s a great character, but really difficult to write alongside conventional superheroes. He’s more of an epic space opera type. I thought he worked well here, as the guy who just doesn’t get a pure, somewhat goofy, hero like Flash.
Orion is the birth son of Darkseid, raised by Highfather Izaya of New Genesis. The box on his left shoulder is his Mother Box, which, like all Mother Boxes, is an insanely powerful computer, and opens Boom Tubes. Unlike other Mother Boxes, however, Orion’s also serves to keep his Apokoliptian rage in check.
Izaya’s birth son, Scott Free was given over to Granny Goodness by Drakseid to break. She never succeeded, and he eventually escaped, bringing Barda - originally one of the Female Furies (or intended to be…not clear on that part) with him. Barda and Scott are now married, and Scott is Mr Miracle, who we saw last season.
(Scott and Orion were exchanged as part of a peace treaty between Apokolips and New Genesis.)
Good stuff.
I definitely think the blond guy with the tight bizz cut was an homage to Barry Allen.
Cool seeing Mark Hamill back as the Trickster (didn’t he play him in live action on the TV Series?)
He did indeed, and David Cassidy played Mirror Master – but I don’t think he provided the voice last night.
I liked how Flash’s Rogues were portrayed as “working stiffs” compared to world-beating conqueror-types like Luthor, Darkseid, Grodd, and Brainiac. I always enjoyed that about them, and I’ve always had a soft spot for Captain Cold, who had the potential to be a pretty decent man if he hadn’t been screwed up by such a crummy childhood.
I just recently bought and read Crisis on Infinite Earths and came to love Blue Beetle. I only wish Blue Beetle was on JLU. I read on wikipedia that the reason there has been a lack of Blue Beetle is because of some radio show rights. The show rights expire this year…which of course is too little too late it seems.
I almost forgot. This show, which I watch with my three year old almost caused a series faux pax yesterday at the comic shop.
I don’t buy comics any more, but as my wife was next door at the eye glass store, I took our son into the shop to see the superheroes.
We picked out a few JLU and TT comics and then looked at the toys.
We saw a DC Direct Hal Jordan figure, and noticing that this Green Lantern was not a black man with a shaved head, he proclaimed, “That’s not the REAL Green Lantern.”
I went into a defensive crouch, because I was worried I was gonna have to whup some fanboy butt.
Them’s fightin’ words in some circles.
Heh, I was the first contributor to the Wikipedia article on Blue Beetle, since I’m also a huge fan of the character. (See my website, http://www.geocities.com/bigbadvoodoolou/bluebeetle.html , which will hopefully also give you some reading recommendations.) I am amused and surprised to see how others have embellished upon what I originally wrote.
The licensing rights to Beetle and the other Charlton characters are fascinating to me, especially because nobody has given any straight answers. I’ve communicated one-on-one with Dwayne McDuffie over this, as well as executives in charge of the JLU action figure line at Mattel as to why they can’t make Question or Captain Atom toys or merchandise, and why Beetle wasn’t even allowed to be used in the show. Take it from me, McDuffie and Bruce Timm would have LOVED to include him, had they been granted the rights. The Mattel guys would have loved to produce Beetle in three dimensions as well, but it was not to be.
Since I’m also interested in copyright and trademark law, I would be fascinated to see the original Blue Beetle media rights contract dating back to the 1939 radio show, but I’ve never found it, and anyone who knows the specifics ain’t talking. So nobody knows the whole story, but that’s just the most logical explanation circulating.
At least the mysterious contract also kept Blue Beetle out of the reportedly-atrocious made-for-TV live action Justice League pilot, which featured an out-of-shape David Ogden Stiers as Martian Manhunter, along with Green Lantern Guy Gardner, Flash, the Atom, Fire, and Ice.