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When Young Justice first aired on Cartoon Network, back before the channel was taken over by someone who only wants to air wacky hi-jink shows that only last around 10 minutes an episode, I very much enjoyed it. It had action, great characters, character development…it was a good show for teens, although clearly not for younger audiences who would either be bored or a bit freaked out. I however am not a younger audience, despite the fact that I occasionally watch preschool shows, so I got into it.

When season two, subtitled Invasion, was also good. While I was disappointed in the ten year time skip it was still an intriguing show that continued the theme of “the team” handling dark plots and conspiracies, only now they had new younger members and still good character development and plot advancement. I enjoyed it and was as disappointed as everyone else that there was no season 3.

Recently they finally released a season three…but it was on their DC Universe streaming site. Not having any money I couldn’t subscribe to it and so I didn’t really think about it much. However, as reported earlier this week, DC Universe is offering the first episode of their original series free for a limited time to help promote the service. This includes the darker and more violent take on the Titans, the slap in the face of the Doom Patrol–I’m sorry, have you seen the latest trailer? I’m not very familiar with the team but are fans bothered by watching Niles making pig noises at one of his heroes who suffers from multiple personality disorder? Is that comedy now? Well, the only DC Original I was interested in was the new season of Young Justice, subtitled Outsiders. I can safely say that everything fans loved about the first two seasons seems to be right there.

So why didn’t I enjoy it?

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