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- I'm not sure I could bring myself to be menaced by a
man in lime-green tights
- It would have been much funnier if that had been an
automatic door
- GL's grown a goatee!
- They can beam people up now? Someone's been busy...
- Where did the theme tune go! They changed the theme tune! They can't do that, I'm
never going to find it as a ring tone now.
- I wonder if they had to get someone in to cater this
meeting?
- It really ruins an inspiring speech when you have to
end your sentence with "whatever"
- Although, some of the powers are far cooler
than others. If you had a choice between being able to turn yourself into a
giant green dragon, or being able to shoot arrows, which would you choose?
- It's very sweet of Superman to specify that he means
both literal and figurative fires
- The little guy's found himself a wonderful vantage
point. I bet he can see right down Wonder Woman's cleavage from there
- J'onn sensibly arranges things so he never has to do
anything dangerous.
- I'm absolutely certain Batman won't be told where to
go. Batman's just going to play along while doing
whatever the hell he wants
- I want to see Bruce as a cowboy!
- Oh, that was a pity laugh if ever I've heard one
- If there's just been a giant nuclear event, I can't
imagine there would be much crowd left to control
- I'm going to end up disliking Supergirl very
quickly. I can tell.
- Zatanna! I'm not going to recognise anyone else in
this entire show, but I *love* Zatanna
- They really upgraded the Watchtower! I love
that they've brought in some support staff.
- Green Arrow went to college?
- GL secretly likes being called Sir, you can tell.
- I always though GL would prefer if it the JL all
said 'Rodger' and 'Over and out'
- Oh dear, J'onn's been reading an A-Level Government
text book.
- They just took the one Geiger counter then?
- The world doesn't have enough yawning black
chasms. Especially not ones with notably rickety
plank bridges over them
- Cool! Giant Radioactive Monster!
- I think he could probably have tracked that without
the Geiger counter
- I'm surprised the Giant Radioactive Monster can be
bothered to go after the tiny green man.
- Animated water buffalo! How often do you see that? I like the way these natives are supposed to
be Chinese, but they've disguised their facial features and accents so as not
to be stereotypical. I wrote almost exactly the
same thing, except I put Korean instead of Chinese
- They're very well trained water buffalo. They walked
over that bridge without panicking, or stampeding, or needing to wear a halter
of any kind...
- Do you think GL could have put his powers to better
use that simply creating a bridge and making those people run? Perhaps he
could have moved them out of the monster's path?
- If your one skill is shooting arrows, you
ought to have better aim.
- He lost his little green hat!
- It's nice that they've paid some attention to basic
reactor physics, but half a carbon rod isn't going to be that much use
- He's all flat!
- I want a flying chair *so* badly...
- The Watchtower has showers!
Does Bruce spend a lot of his free time lurking outside the Watchtower
showers?
- The Watchtower has mixed-sex locker rooms?
- The angle of that fire-cast shadow is all wrong
- The Annihilator is good name. It gets straight to
the point.
- Ares is incredibly effeminate for a god of war.
- Do they change the title sequence every week? That's
quite cool
- Ah, we have generic eastern European villains this
week. Wow. That's one of the most generic European accents
I've ever heard
- He just ran a zebra crossing! That's a far worse
crime than mere robbery
- Poor Wonder Woman. "But it's my day off!"
- Well, it was worth a try.
- Oooh, how eighties of them. Well, they look so much more threatening now...
- Okay, that's another set of superheroes of which
I've never heard.
- "If people can't control their own country, they
don't deserve to have one." That's a wonderful approach to international
diplomacy. It's exactly the same reason I was never allowed a pony as a child
- I'm fairly certain that cartoons should lay off
the political discourse.
- If the other side had a robot, I'd give in just
because they were so much cooler.
- That's always what happens in those
situations, it just takes a couple of years and few thousand dead civilians.
- Ares is impressively frustrated with the stupid
people..."To annihilate them."
- That's armour?
- You mean a weakness apart from the fact that it only
protects her nipples?
- How is The Annihilator fighting when
there's no one to give it instruction?
- Well that was a spectacularly stupid thing
to do.
- What are Hawk and Dove's superpowers?
- Well, fire then!
- Is this Gotham? Bruce is going to be really pissed
if it is
- That was a bizarrely animated robot
- It's a bit mean to keep sending Jonathan up a ladder
to re-plaster at his age
- I think I would rather have seen the brain-washed
Superman story this week
- Everyone's trash? How does he find the time?
- Her memories didn't, he did
- Shouldn't Supergirl be affected by the giant
kryptonite-tipped lance?
- I think I'd find surgery with a giant lance quite
invasive too
- The Question is rather cool. He's a lot like Bruce,
only slightly more unbalanced
- If he wasn't expecting Supergirl, why does he have
kryptonite bullets?
- I feel there's a whole lot of back-story here that I
can't be bothered to get interested in
- I'm not sure there's much point in locking any door
that you can smash open with a pot plant
- "Even I don't know that..." I think that's the kind
of information I'd demand to know
- Is that shadowy figure meant to be Lex?
- "They want a super-human alien on their side..."
That seems like quite a sensible precaution to me
- Hasn't she given that boy a good slap yet?
- Mordred has a very good point. There are only so
many times you can try to take over the world before you give up and go home
for a cup of tea
- See, those kind of statements just come back to
haunt you.
- I don't think Mordred is fully appreciating the shininess
- When I was a kid, only seeing people my own age was
my idea of hell.
- Setting three different homeworks in one night seems
a little harsh
- But there's no one to work the candy floss
machine anymore.
- That wasn't Superman's best come-back
- Electricity is such a cool weapon.
- Flash! Flash got a mention! Bats is going to be terribly jealous when he finds out
he's been hanging round with GL. Flash kinda rubs off on you.
*maturely refuses to make comment about rubbing off on
Flash*
- "This is the bad place." I love Cobra losing it
- "We're probably just in another dimension" GL is so
comforting.
- I'm not sure I would immediately notice the lack of
children
- She was still bathing him at his age?
- 'Funseyland' is a terrible name for an amusement park
- Mordred has an impressive flair for the
dramatic.
- It's quite a threatening kingdom
- Aw! That's just the cutest thing. Little!Batman! He has little ears and a little scary
cape!
- Wonder Woman's been dying to smack Superman round
the back of the head for quite some time now
- Poor little!Batman, "It's not a race!"
- I was about to say I wish Flash were here, but he'd
be exactly the same as the adult version.
- Baby Batman is exactly the same!
- Look at little!Batman go!
- Batman hanging and having to be rescued by
Wonder Woman is incredibly funny.
- You know the tough guy joke is going to continue
once they're back to normal.
- I love the way he storms off in his little cape.
"Let go. I'm fine."
- Baby Etrigan! Baby!Etrigan! I feel there's going to be a lot of
these comments this week. But baby!Etrigan is so cute!
- GL made a creche! With a little mobile! *Attempts to
exercise some control over her exclamation marks*
- Well, of course it's a job for Superman, sensible
delegating from Batman there. I have no real comment
to make about that, but it's a spectacularly funny line
- Wonder Woman is *so* the kind of person who would
tell. Wonder Woman would so tell.
- Poor Bruce is as confused as to his sexuality even
as a kid.
- GL's been exercising far more control when using
that ring that we could ever have thought. He must want to run over bad guys with giant mowers all the time
- I love that they call each other by their first
names.
- I'd want to go with Bruce too
- Clark just doesn't have a clue does he...
- Batman is still the one with the strategy. I
do love the way little!Bruce is exactly the same as
big!Bruce. Just little.
- Bruce is reassuringly comfortable hanging upside
down. Batman is perfectly comfortable hanging
upside down.
- That's twice Bruce has called Mordred "Precious"
- That's an incredibly camp voice and
body.
- You've got to credit Etrigan for trying.
- "What would they want with the Rosetta Stone..." And
what is it doing in Gotham?
- Batman's got all the patience in the world.
- He's planned that brooding time. It's very important
- Diana really just wants to dress up in pretty things
and have a boyfriend, doesn't she?
- Of course Batman would have rules for dating. I
really want to see the episode in which he develops rule one. "Four. Clark gets really pissy if I start dating
other girls..."
- Of course he has...
- Even his enemies appreciate the pointy ears.
- "He's *not* my boyfriend..."
- It's Zatanna!
- That's exactly the kind of assistant Zatanna would
hire. You know, I can't help but think of Bruce in
that assistant's outfit
- Wonder Pig!
- Okay, Wonder Woman is going to be really pissed.
- Look at Batman tickling the pig! That's a man who
has had extensive husbandry training. Bruce is remarkably good with the pig. He's
obviously been honing his animal-care skills on Flash's little goat
- A life of being scratched behind the ears by Bruce
can't be all that bad
- He's putting a lead on Wonder Woman? Is
that wise?
- I *really* love Zatanna. "Up here"
- I love that Batman has to describe what
a pig looks like.
- This circle isn't as small as it could be
- They had flyers made!
- A pig farm... In Gotham. What are the odds?
- Bruce has some awesome contacts
- Medusa is impressively bitter
- Of course Batman keeps loose change in the
utility belt.
- I thought he could talk to animals?
- Oh... I had sausages for lunch today, and now I feel bad
- Bruce carries animal tranquilisers? *Puts animal
tranquilisers on the 'contents of the utility belt' list*
- What's the betting Flash offers Wonder Woman a bacon sandwich when she gets back to the watchtower?
- His dignity?
- Wow, Bats is a pretty good singer. Singing!Batman! And he's *good*!
- *Tries to think of things Batman couldn't do if he
put his mind to it*
- I wouldn't be surprised if she's having CDs
burned as we speak.
- There's no reason why you can't save the universe
and have personal time.
- You have to watch J'onn landing on rewind. It's
funny beyond all reason
- "Somewhat astonishing" isn't the most accurate
description of velocity. Or speed
- The Green Lanterns seem to be well schooled in
saying things that are going to come back and bite them in the ass later.
- It's Lex's shape-shifting robot sex-toy!
- GL is very stoic for a guy whose planet just
disappeared.
- Flash! I feel the need
to mention him whenever he's on screen because we don't get to see him
anymore.
- I'd come back for Lex
- It's not a very helpful medical device then is
it?
- He's still got a few vendettas, but they're ones
that can be sorted out by sabotaging Bruce's muesli and feeding Flash sugar when people are trying to sleep, rather than
blowing up the planet
- Lex is very particular about which members of the
Justice League he is friends with.
- Supergirl shouldn't be around Lex. It's wrong
- The idea of Lex hiding out in a barber's shop has
made my day. "Nobody would think to looking for you here..."
- Lex has nose hairs?
- "Why do we even have that lever?"
- Lex has an underground lair!
- Lex is impressively unruffled for someone who's just
been sledding in a giant egg
- Poor Atom. What's worse is he knows
it's true.
- Superman has a spangly new spacesuit.
- I'm quite impressed
- Well, I’d return for Lex too.
- Look at defensive!Superman, "He's my boyfriend and
you can't have him!"
- Taking advantage is Lex's modus operandi.
- People should have passionate arguments about
circuit breakers more often
- Bravery often is
- J'onnSee, that's what happens when you're in charge.
- I wonder if they had to bring MR in specially just
to go 'uhahh!', or if they just clipped it from another show?
- He looks good with the silver finish, so much less
tacky than gold
- Kilowogg! Didn't Kilowogg die last year?
- "Half a planet is better than..." Really, it's not.
And Kyle has a shockingly poor grasp of planetary physics if he thinks it is.
- Lex's lovers always feel that way.
- I think being Lex is rather an end in itself
- "Why do you go on?" Wealth, power, Clark
Kent naked in a bath tub.
- Lex Luthor, motivational speaker.
- So Lex basically defused Amazo by telling him to bugger off and stop
asking inane questions. That's a wonderfully Lex-like way of saving the day
- He was doing so well up to the pitying part...
- Maybe Amazo just wants a nice shiny
cape.
- Say please
- Dr. Fate's purpose is to manage a youth hostel for
confused robots? It's certainly a unique purpose.
- Hawkgirl! Hawkgirl!
- I'm glad they're admitting no one knows who these
new characters are.
- More superheroes should have their own introductory
film. I want to see Batman's
- Booster Gold has at least grasped the marketing part
of being a superhero.
- Booster needs to go out and get enemies of his
very own.
- Somewhere in the Watchtower there is a chart
recording the relative fame of each of the members. When no one else is around
Batman sneaks in and puts his name above Superman's.
- J'onn gets paid? He gests *taxed*?
- Unexpected bondage!Superman!
- Maybe if he didn’t keep doing the fire
department's job for them, they'd be better at it.
- It's an incredibly talent to be able to stare at
someone and completely ignore them at the same time
- I love that Booster has employed his
own minion.
- Batman practises those looks in the mirror
for hours to make them that effective.
- I'm not sure why you'd need *one*
- He should at least have been given a fluorescent
jacket
- How devastating must it be to have the same
superpower as someone else.
- Stretchy Guy is incredibly
bitter.
- "Maybe they needed a vase..." Okay, I'm warming to
the yellow robot
- The traffic lights were a touch of genius
- Clark has an ear?
- Oooh! The three of them are stuck
together. That's got to be incredibly
uncomfortable, not least because Clark's noticeably taller
- Ants! That was an incredibly funny joke.
- He's not even green!
- Poor Booster. "My costume would be green!"
- You have to admire someone who remembers to flee
*with* an A-Z
- Booster is the type of person who has a list of
favourite damsels. He's spent time working on it
- I can't help feeling Booster and
Flash would get on well.
- Well covered! He even remembered to sign out
- Shouldn't gravitic anomalies be fairly
observable already?
- See, that's what would happen to
me.
- That car clearly wasn't flying. That was the problem
- "Of archaeology..."
- Poor Booster, Even his sidekick doesn't really
respect him.
- Batman would have figured it out, Superman would
just be looking impressive and hitting things
- ...and then two come along at once
- Don't worry, everyone would just think Green Lantern did
it
- We should get to hear the phrase "Dr. Brown is
nearing critical mass" more often.
- No Not Skeet! I liked
Skeet!
- Are we sure Tracy and Daniel
aren't an item?
- I truly hope no one tries to explain the physics of
what just happened
- Kissing girls is for straight superheroes.
- Did Batman take time out of defeating the
supervillain just to make sure everyone was still doing their assigned jobs?
- We should get to hear Bats' "little
chat" I expect all members of the Justice League have had one at some time or
other.
- Wasn't she unconscious for the 'damsel' line?
- Tracy bravely avoids asking the squeaky wheel
question.
- I'm always slightly disappointed by these 'what
happens away from the main event' stories. If you're going to show the small
adventures that go on behind the scenes then they should be small adventures,
not big ones that people don't notice. It's cheating
- It didn't occur to them to run a basic geological survey
either?
- There's something incredibly funny about the idea of
Superman being "spry"
- One of those is male?
- Being snarky to Batman is very brave.
- Is tornado-boy meant to be British in some way? I'm
concerned by his use of the word "chum"
- Look at Bruce smirking his way through the speech
- It comes to something when Superman calls
you corny. And when Superman thinks you're corny, you know
you're in trouble
- "True heroism..." He directed that entire speech at
her breasts
- I can relate to Batman perfectly well
- I like the idea of superheroing as a capitalist
venture.
- Is Superman feeling particularly pre-menstrual this
week?
- Who is the extra chair for? Does Flash have to
make everyone coffee before he can sit at the table?
- How does the JL afford to do all this?
- "Especially Longshadow..." That was a wonderfully
telling silence. No one's going to tell Diana she only wants him to join
because she thinks he's hot
- Ahh, capitalism... "I guess I just started wanting
stuff."
- Bizarro has his own song! Okay, so it's actually
Mighty Mouse's song, but it's a nice idea
- That's it Diana, you take time to stoke that
overly-muscular shoulder
- "Lucky" your parents were willing to experiment on
you?
- He has an Ultiman ring tone!
- The wax joke wasn't at all funny
- There's something very sweet about a superhero with
a ten o' clock curfew
- Oh! You could use that to turn over
the TV!
- If I was the twin who had to turn into a water-based
product, I'd be extremely jealous of the one who could turn into animals.
- I love the idea that there are loose cannons in the
JL.
- Then you could get Aquaman to talk to him!
- I bet that guy was secretly reading porn. It's the
only possibly reason for concentrating on your work computer that intensely
- They actually thought about fighting
Aquaman with water? Is there a point to attacking Aquaman with water?
Did she miss the fact he's *Aqua*man
- Was the Tyrannosaurus naturally aquatic?
- Oh, just knock him unconscious and get it over with
- "Longshadow's with us... because maybe that way Diana will
stop flirting with me all the time..."
- Rich boy?
- Bits of the new Watchtower revolve! That's
incredibly exciting
- Gecko fat? From actual geckos? How much fat
can you get from a lizard?
- There were rules about drawing occult
symbols on the floor of my Halls of Residence.
Our halls were surprisingly relaxed about it. Technically it was a Spanish
duelling circle and not a symbol of the occult, but the porters just looked at
it and decided not to ask questions.
- That was a disturbingly personal confession. "I
stopped wearing underpants." Not wearing underwear is not going to stop him
getting beaten up.
- Aquaman isn't a trained psychotherapist,
is he?
- I don't think we should have to suffer GL trying to
be casual. It's frightening.
- GL is worryingly interested in that red underwear
- "Aren't all zombies dead..." I don't have an answer
to that one either
- It's hard to humour Superman, he never gets
the jokes.
- Is it actually possible to win a chess game in eight
moves?
- It's nice to hear someone use the word "evidenced"
in normal conversation
- Shayira getting her mace back is the happiest
moment this season.
- There was just one child in that entire apartment
block?
- I know the giant squid is trying to be helpful, but
I think it's missing out on some of the more fundamental properties of the
suspension bridge
- Shayira was trying so hard to think of
anything else to say to break the ice.
- Superman has whiskers!
- Can you throw a wave of guns?
- Amazo is far too smug for his own good
- Vixen's not terribly bright, is she? They've tried
the old fashioned way already, and frankly it sucked.
- GL thought Hawkgirl would hand over her mace?
- No! That's twice now that Hawkgirl and Grundy
have nearly made me cry
- "Do you think this has made up for your complicity
in the Thanagarian consipracy?" That's *such* a wonderfully tasteless question
- "I recused myself because... I'm a moral coward and
didn't have the balls to make a decision"?
- So the tie would have been between Flash/Batman and
J'onn/Wonder Woman? I'm inclined to think Bruce would have voted for her to
stay simply because he wouldn't trust her anywhere else
- That's not messy at all. It's very orderly
and tidy.
- The Magna Carta had drafts? I guess someone needed
to proof-read it
- Physics professors are always nuts.
- Surely if you had a time machine you'd have left her
a long time ago?
- I like Enid. "Like your spine?"
- I get the feeling Joe Warner's been mentioned once
or twice before
- I can't help feeling that's exactly what she wanted.
- The Watchtower has a canteen!
There's something wonderfully unromantic about that
- GL is so easily confused by metaphors.
- It must be so easy to animated Bruce's reaction
shots. They just use the same cell every single time
- It must be very disconcerting when Bats tries to
discuss your sex life.
- Bruce drinks milk!
- "She's a remarkable woman, she's a valued friend... and
Clark doesn't like it when I date other girls."
- How did he get into the Watchtower in *any* time
period?
- Well, that's just dangerous and
irresponsible.
- So it's a time-and-distance travelling machine?
That's far more useful.
- I'd be as concerned about the where.
- I'm pretty sure Diana doesn't carry loose change
- "It's either an amazing forgery or less than a month
old." But surely, if they were in the present and it still looked less then a
month old, then it'd be a really, really *bad* forgery
- Cowboy!Bruce is just superb.
"Let's ride!" Wow...
- The animators have no idea how to draw horses
- If you're gonna cheat, cheat high
- How is having the gun-barrels on little arms any
more deadly?
- In a real bar people would have been hitting on
Diana by now
- I do love GL making ghost noises. I bet
there was an argument beforehand about who had to make them.
- It's good Bruce is paying attention.
- GL knows Bruce's name, doesn't he?
- Do Tobias' men make a habit of lurking in the desert
to mug time travellers? I can't deny it's s strategy that's paid off, but it
seems far-sighted to have implemented it in the first place
- Okay, not enough attention, obviously.
- Bruce dramatically revealing his utility belt is
gloriously funny
- I'm just so in love with this episode... You just
don't hear dialogue like "There's an abundance of bad men what need settin'
straight" often enough
- That's a plan Bruce can work
with.
- I do love the JL theme tune played on lutes.
They made a Morricone-esque verson of the theme tune for
their cowboy episode... That may well be the coolest thing I have ever, ever
heard.
- He gave his sentry robots hats!
- Bruce can do a lot of things, but confidently
fight a velociraptor is not one of them.
- Bruce is having so much fun!
Bruce was born to be in charge of a posse
- I'm not sure I'd leave those kind of decisions to a
piece of jewellery
- Pointy Batman! It's Pointy Batman! *Dances happy
pointy Batman dance*
- I'm sorry I haven't said anything, I just got
carried away by the excitement of it all.
- Terry's so much more sensible than the rest of this
bunch. Get out of there!
- I like it when Batman gets commanding.
- There's something odd and wrong about Terry carrying
Batman like that. I'm sure it's going to give Bruce issues
- Am I supposed to know who the dreadlocked man is?
It's Static, from Static Shock. I think.
- Batman is so much more worried about the demise of
the Batcave than any of the Justice League.
- Three Bruces! Well, two Bruces and a Batman.
Three... I've been waiting for this for a year and I
still have no words to describe the joy I'm feeling in the presence of three
Batmans
- Bruce is secretly very smug about being the only one
to survive.
- Poor Terry. He's gonna be in so much trouble
- He's a giant hawk and his name begins with
hawk, does GL really need to ask who his mother is?
- GL's wonderfully freaked out by the possibility of
Shayera laying
- I don't get to be vexed often enough
- When I'm the ultimate ruler of the world I'm going
to line my hench-people up and make them recite stuff in concert
- "I only know because I am the undisputed master of space
and time" is a phrase everyone should get to say at least once in their life.
- There are too many good lines in this episode.
"You've been a very bad clown" is definitely near the top of the list
- Although "Actually, time is the non-spatial
continuum in which events occur linearly, in the direction of increased
entropy. But the clowns seem to relate better to the money thing." is
indisputably at the top
- The thing?
- I love the way the two Bruces gang up on
Terry.
- I think Bruce can probably find his way around
pretty damn quick
- At least MR got do some voicing for this season,
even if it wasn't Flash. They can hire MR to play
a Scarecrow, but they can't write a storyline for Flash?
- And he looks pretty smart
- Batman was so hoping he'd say that.
- Dangling people from buildings never gets old
- Old Bruce is just so cool. And scary. But mostly
cool
- He made him confess to wetting the bed! Poor
Scarecrow
- I bet Bats is quite surprised he's
the good cop too. You can tell he's not quite
sure how to play the good cop
- Jordan's dealing with this remarkably well
- Ewww! Animated drool!
- Terry!
- "I just wanted you to assert yourself, not destroy
the universe!" I have no comment for that, but it needed quoting
- The beginning of time is a giant hand?
- That's not a legend, it's a saying
- What on earth is Diana eating?
- And people say Bruce doesn't have a sense of
humour...
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