Kaldur and Wynnde aren't gay. The kiss was actually just underwater CPR since Kaldur hadn't been underwater in a while and had forgotten how to breathe. They said nohomo offscreen immediately after. And you'd hold hands with your homie too if there were sharks just casually hanging around outside.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2022-07-23T20:14:31Z
[7.1/10] Another one that’s perfectly fine, but makes me feel like Young Justice is doing seventeen things at once rather than focusing on a handful of really good stories.
My favorite part of this one is the story with Bumblebee and Mal, which is a marked turn since I was pretty exhausted by their storyline in season 2. But it’s the only one that involves a real arc here. When they start, Mal suggests using Karen’s genetic engineering skills to give their baby a boost. Karen’s resistant, until her child is born with a hole in her heart. It’s exciting to watch Karen use her superpowers to shrink down and save her baby. But I also appreciate how she’s changed by the terror of her child being in danger, and uses her know-how and abilities to genetically enhance her daughter. It’s not necessarily a choice I agree with it, but I understand the reason for her change of heart (no pun intended), which makes it the best writing in this episode.
The run-in with Granny Goodness isn’t as compelling, because it’s just a bunch of stuff. Dick and Jefferson scope out her place and get captured. Aquaman and Wyynde go after them. Granny’s torturing the first duo (which is presented in a pretty harrowing fashion) until they get saved by the second. There’s another skirmish with mind control and threats of “discipline.” But it’s all pretty standard stuff that feels more poised to deliver information than advance story.
It teaches us that Gretchen has mind control abilities. It teaches us that there’s a little Apokaliptan robot called overlord who helps her do her bidding. And it teaches us (or at least hints) in the post-credit scene that Violet might be the key to the Anti-Life equation. This is all well and good, but the story isn’t really interesting enough to justify this as anything other than an exorcise in elaborate exposition delivery.
The other bits at the margins didn’t do much for me either. I get that the show is trying to be modern, but I don’t need to hear a single additional conversation about how things are playing on social media. The show seems to have rushed through Violet and Brion’s break-up and reconciliation, and I wish it had more oxygen. Victor coming into his powers is a fait accompli, but not badly done, especially when it’s revealed that he can create boom tubes. And the reveal that Dr. Jace’s mentor is the Ultra-Humanite is cool.
Overall, aside from the Bumblebee story, this is another episode where i appreciated some of the elements, but got tired off too much of the plot machinery being wheeled around so quickly and obviously.