What Went Wrong with Young Justice Outsiders? - Part 1 

After the end of season 1 the entire philosophy of this show seemed to become "why SHOW character development when we can just say it happened off screen?"

The problem started with the second season. TOO MANY CHARACTERS. They should have taken a leaf out of Teen Titan's book: Focus on the core cast of characters, and let side characters be side characters. They are trying to make a show about the whole of the DC universe. They can't do that. The old DCAU didn't do that. They had a show about Batman, a show about Superman, and a show about the whole team, which tackled big ideas. But they did it piecemeal.

I just wonder what this season's deal is with gruesomely killing Halo in every other episode.

Outsiders to me is just too unfocused. Who is seriously the main character here? The og team? Outsiders? The new team? It kind of makes the season as complicated as the story makes it.

It doesn’t have the same vibe as the first two seasons like the cast of the past 2 seasons are sidelined for these new characters which was kinda annoying cuase the cast was already big

Young justice season 1 will never be topped and it’s so sad.

The whole _Doom Patrol_ dream sequence was a big reference to _Teen Titans Go,_ even having the same voice cast as the show

the first and second half of this season felt completely separate shows

In an interview, the creators said they intended for the show to have a rotation of casts almost every season and to continue with the time jumps. The problem with this model is that when we get attached to characters from previous seasons, we'd be disappointed that we didn't get to see more of them or at least get a solid conclusion to their major arcs.

Totally agree. Justice League Unlimited handled the prospect of a massive cast unbelievably well, by taking 1 or 2 core members and then having them team up with newer members and writing a majority of their episodes as standalone to feature different characters, but the leaving the uniting feature their character growth & development, and not rely on some mega massive arching plot to be the driving force of the story every single episode. The biggest issue with the show is the whole "tell don't show" aspect it's been going for. I hate the time jumps for basically skipping massive changes to the roster and the characters as we know it and they barely acknowledge them. This is especially bad when a lot of the time skips basically follow the comics and the show is telling you "tough luck go read the books kid if you wanna know what happens." on top of trying to shoehorn in every comic book idea possible at the same time. - Aquagirls death. - A Death in the family and then trying to give us a hint of Jason Todd with the league of shadows after resurrection despite us never knowing him in the show - Johnathan and Damien being born at the same time. - The Killing Joke happening. - Doom Patrol Like how tf is Tean Batman already on to Nightwing, Red Robin, Spoiler, Orphan, Thirteen, Troia Arrowette, and Batwoman at the same time without any sort of explanation or depth into the characters that came to be....they're just there toot tickle the fancies of the comic reader yet even comic readers are confused as to why they are there with no explanation. And while we are here, let's be honest with the character designs. They have gotten way worse and uninspired. Season 1, the original 5 looked dope and it was a breath of fresh air and everyone looked and felt unique. But now by season, 3 everyone looks like the animated version of the first x-men movie...just bland generic hi-tech and new age "leather" mission suits. There's no personality to half the designs especially in the base layer of the line-art. That was already an issue in season 1 as everyone outside of the main 5 looked soooooooooo uninspired, (Wonder Woman, Superman, Joker, etc....) Also one of my biggest issues is that Halo is there for basically a signal for the creators of the show to be "OH WOWEE LOOK AT US WE'RE TOTALLY A MUCH MORE ADULT SHOW."

Honestly, the season needed Static Shock. They need a cool, fun, relatable character similar to young Grayson that the audience can relate to to play off all the stiff, serious "just getting used to things here" characters. In season 1, you had kid flash and Robin, seasoned, light hearted and fun, serious Kaldur, angry and unsocialized Connor, new and foreign Miss Martian, and complex but still kind of light hearted Artemis. Now, it's serious Cyborg, serious Beast Boy, angry and foreign Brionne, sad and foreign Halo, confused and unsocialized Forager, and a bunch of sad, abandoned children. It's like Zach Snyder's Young Justice. Everything is sad and serious

Young justice seems to be suffering from the need to be “mature” Young justice was best when it was a simple show about kids leaving the shadows of their mentors. When they tried to add more complex story arcs, everything got messy.

It feels like the show really needs some spin offs. It's like they're cramming 3 shows worth of plots and characters into one show.

Still really like the show, but you are 100% right about their problem with focusing on characters and it’s definitely the show biggest problem. They are clearly talented at making characters, plot, and the world just not focusing

All I really remember from watching week to week was just constantly thinking "ok that's neat, but can I get a payoff yet"

They need spinoffs pronto, they can't handle the whole DC universe inside a show about a single team.

The 2nd and 3rd seasons all felt like there was an entire season that was skipped in between with the big time jumps. It's kinda like if we see Spider-mans origin, then the next movie is a couple years later and we're just told that he met, then dated Gwen Stacy _and_ she died. We're basically just told about some interesting stories that could have been seen, but instead we just her about them. I personally wish we could have seen - The development of the new Young Justice Team - Conners and M'ganns breakup - Robin becoming Nightwing - (Maybe) A development of Kaldurs sexuality - Kaldur becoming Aquaman - Zatana struggling with the loss of her father more, as well as Zataras perspective while inside the helmet - etc

Hell, bigger budget is right. Despite Season 2’s problems, it at LEAST looked good and still had that toy deal money. The loss of the toy deal really seemed to degrade the visual aspects of the show. Not just lesser impressive animation and choreography, but even the art style has changed to be more like the DC Animated Movie Universe, which has its own problems. It’s a shame because the art style for YJ was a big part of what made me excited for it

Season 2 had a small issue that was ramped up to 11 in season 3: mainly streching ourselves thin by exploring the universe, introducing as many characters as possible and contiuning to develop our existing characters. While its wasn't as big an issue in season 2, in season 3, the new characters that we focus on aren't as interesting as the originals. A lot of interesting possibilities are lost, unexplored, not explored enough or happen off screen and everyone is speechifying. Almost Every line, especially in the latter half of the season, especially from Beast boy feels unnatural and exposition. I really don't care about whether or not the outsiders are trending. I don't care about Lightnings morale outrage. I don't care about markovia or Halo's search for an identity or the will they won't they of will and Artemis. Show me what is happening with Team anti-light, the actual emotional fallout of it. Don't tell me tim and cassie have problems, show me. In a show called young justice,. I expect to see the team developed.

YJ as a show was character-driven in the first season then in seasons 2 and 3 was more plot-driven. It basically when from a comic book solo story to a comic book team up story. In team books you don't learn everything about every character, that's what solos are for. YJ S2 and 3 feel like that.

The season just felt like it had too much going on at once. Too many characters, Too many plot lines and not enough screen time for that many of them. Its almost like the creators thought the show would get cancelled again so they tried to shove everything in this season to please everyone at least once. "Didn't like these characters? Well look we added 30 of them. One of them is bound to be your favorite". They should've cut down on a lot of the Plots that went nowhere or didn't lead to much (Project Rutabaga for example), Focus on the OG YJ team and Outsiders mainly, Cut Black Lightning and give his spot to Static Shock.

The more I think of it, the more fitting I find it that this season parodies Teen Titans go in an episode: Consider TTG made fun of YJ for being overly serious, now it's TTG's turn. And using the Doom patrol no less, and considering its subject matter here, it fits.

The problem is: we dont care about these new characters, i didn't want to know about goeforce or tara markov, I wanted to see the original team, the JL, tge light and darkseid, and these time jumps make no sense, now we have a 25 years old superboy and aqualad

i just wish that every black person wasn't played by the same actor.

In my opinion, the worst thing (or at least the least good thing) about Young Justice is the time jumps.

I thought i was the only one who got problems with this new season 👀 Nice video btw ! 0/

For me, the biggest problem is that they dedicated much of the show's focus on characters that had zero or little interest for the viewers. Foreger had a lot of screen time, appeared in many episodes, etc....and nothing was done. Hes just there and has no depth, almost zero backstory, and zero serious developments. Take him away and you almost lose nothing to the season. Even worse, the same applies to Cyborg. We're supposed to care about Voilet....for some reason....but shes a bland and a plot device character that got far more screen time than she deserved or was even needed. Beastboy.....even as a beastboy fan....I found him unlikeable by the end of the show. There was a lot of potential for him....but ultimately they tried making him something completely contrary to who he is. They tried to make him a mix between impulse and nightwing....and it was like watching someone trying to force a cube in a circular hole. Im all for new takes on the characters. I thought they did it well with Brion and Terra. Beastboy? Its just cringy. I could go on and on about other characters(not all were bad)....but to change it up..... The power scaling was always a little wonky in this series but never as much as in this season. Lobo doesnt hold back....he simply doesnt care in a fight. Yet there are multiple NORMAL humans taking hits from him like its no big deal. The story suffered greatly in the sense thst by halfway through the season....it felt empty. There was no feeling of impending dread of the final fight or situation. Most episodes felt like they didnt even need to be made. I agree the plot of the series tried to do too many things and its failed the same that the new Young Justice comic is a failure. Its always adding new things, but never adding depth.

*Way to too much. “We’re really hip. Look. We’re trending on social media.” Super cringey. Also they killed Halo too many times. It sorta looses its affect and gets like Kenny from South Park after the first 2 or 3.*

I think part of the problem Outsiders had was trying to tell a big, overarching story, as well as focusing on the smaller, individual characters. The main characters from season 1 had less screen time in season 2, and they had even less screen time in season 3. That's not to say they weren't there, but many fans, myself included, are invested in the original team. We weren't given as much of what we wanted. I think all the characters, old and new, could have been used to a greater capacity, but the price would be the overarching story. I just can't see DC greenlighting anything that doesn't make their heroes look "cool" or "epic". Then again, I heard superhero comics described like geek soap operas, so I'm not sure I should be expecting anything too great from DC, regardless of how much I wish otherwise.

Halo got on my nerves and beast boys social media activism was cringeworthy.

I finish the entire season in 2 weeks and I genuinely don't remember like 50% of it, but it could just be me

This season felt... dissapointing

The motto of Young Justice should be *MO CHARACTERS, MO PROBLEMS.*

They didn’t really bring back Wally. They brought back his voice actor for the Wally dream sequences and to voice a new character. It’s just not the same. 😕

My issues with this season: 1) The animation was a huge downgrade from previous seasons. WB animation seems to do the same thing with DCAMU movies as well. 2) Not just the original cast of characters, but the characters that were introduced in the second season of the show didn't get their share of character development they deserved (Batgirl/Oracle, Robin III, Wonder Girl, Bumblebee, etc.). They didn't get it in S2 because of the show being too plot-driven and less character-driven. I was hoping that we'll at least get to know them better this season but that didn't happen. 3) That brings me to my third point. We are being asked to care about these new and kind of obscure characters we never heard about before, while already introduced and more prominent characters people knew from the comics (who never really got much time to shine or never got animated before) barely get any screen-time or dialogue. At least I'm happy about Beast Boy. 4) The time skips. A lot of valuable character defining and character building elements are flushed down the toilet. S2 had this problem too and it carried over to the third season. In S2 we never got to see Jason as Robin and he's already revealed to be dead. We never actually see how this affected the rest of the team and what their memories and relationships with Jason were. In S3, not only did we not get Red Hood, we just get a hint about where he is.Wally left the team in S2 and we don't know what led to him or Artemis doing it. We don't know what happened in between S2 and S3 with regards to Arsenal. So he's not as hot headed as before? What kind of development took place before he reached that stage? And Barbara. What even happened to her b/w S2 and 3? Did she get paralysed because of the Joker or something else? How was she and the team affected by that? We didn't even get to know her as Batgirl properly or even her relationshipwith the rest of the team. Where she stood as a team member. We are just stated some things about this stuff and never got to see them ourselves. 5) Which brings me to my fifth point. Too many characters, too little time to flesh them out and we are never shown how the team played off of each other when they are not on mission. How their relationships with each other are, their team dynamics and all. S1 really fleshed the team members' characters and how they came together as a team and how they overcame the obstacles in the path of being an effective team. In S2 and 3, all of this stuff gets lost in the muddle of time skips and the story being way too plot focused with liitle time for characters to grow and team dynamics to develop. We don't know the backstories (the show's version) of many of these characters either.

Man you are so right, the problem: TOO Many characters! I kinda preferred they would give more focus on the previous members of The Team, since they didn't get more screentime and some development previous season, such as Wonder Girl and Robin (The Third) since I am bit more interested and invested in those characters. This lack of focus makes me worried for their possibly next season of Young Justice if the writers can't fix these mistakes.

I stopped watching the season half way through because I lost interest, I just couldn’t care. It didn’t help that they split up the season into two halves and released them separately.

Young Justice is becoming a story about this specific world/universe, not just the characters. its gone from micro to macro. its not inherently bad, but for people looking for deep characterization, they'll be dissapointed. i personally like plot focused stories as well

Black Lighting was one of the few highlights of S3. He was the only character who acted like a real hero and his anger after discovering he was manipulated by his friends was justified. However, you are correct about the lack of focus in the season. The creators were too ambitious and the show is suffering because of it. It is a Shame YJ has become so boring and unfocused. S1 was great because it kept the focus on the core team and the plot. The creators need to learn from their mistakes from S2 and S3.

The best thing about this season was (spoiler below): We finally got a Judas Contract adaptation where Terra lives, and also one where she maintains likability throughout the whole thing. I haven't seen how the original Teen Titans handled it, but I know Terra there did some flip-flopping and then swerved _hard_ into villainy before her heroic sacrifice, and she wasn't in many episodes that didn't focus on her. Here, Terra feels really believable, as does her arc, and the first time I watched Nevermore the entire confrontation with DeLamb in Markovburg felt like defusing a bomb, which, in a way, it was.

More personally, they utterly wasted characters like Cassandra Cain.

"Too much focus on the plot and not enough focus on the characters" Couldn't have said it better myself. This perfectly sums up how I felt about Young Justice Outsiders on the whole. It wasn't a bad season, but it was definitely rushed through when it didn't need to be. The writers shouldn't have made themselves worry about so many arcs going on at once and instead should've honed in on each and every theme, allowed them to grow and breathe, and give them time to develop.

This show has too many characters and it gets on my nerves. I don't necessarily think it should focus on the original cast but it needs to focus on someone. I thought the third season was going to focus on the characters introduced in season two but NOPE. They just plugged them in when they needed them and never gave any of them development.

At this point, Young Justice just makes me miss Teen Titans.

The issues I have with Season 3 were more technical in nature, specifically just how it feels like a downgrade from the first two Seasons. The animation has taken a noticeable hit and is outright bad in some cases. Compared to the much more fluid and energetic animation in the previous Seasons, it really stands out. Likewise, the reduced character count feels less like a creative decision and more like a limitation as a result of the smaller voice actor pool. I gather they did have a smaller budget than the earlier Seasons, so I would assume that is the reason.

I really dislike the timeskips. I mean, it's really hard to get invested in these characters if you only get to come back to them every 3-5 years.

Let's be real with ourselves, the timeskips killed this show.

justice league unlimited handled having a big ass roster perfectly. the show still centered around the og 6, and while they did introduce a shit ton of new characters, they only focused on a few (green arrow, question, super girl, black canary, huntress, captian atom, vixen) while the others would get a moment to shine here n there (atom, steel, vigilante) but it always came back to the original 6

Conisdering they're bringing in the Legion of Superheroes for Season 4, the problem this show has of having too many characters is probably going to get a million times worse. Like, jesus, Greg....cool down with the time skips and character debuts for the love of god like 90% of your fan base is begging you at this point.

The only real problem is too many characters and not enough screentime. Justice League Unlimited handled that by having the core cast interact with the side characters in episodes that were centered on telling us who they are and their story, their relevance, and that's where it ended. Young Justice is actually having the same problem as Glee did in it's 4th season- trying to be everywhere at once. Not willing to let go of the old characters while wanting you to care about the new characters, causing there to be way too many storylines and not enough time for viewers to get invested or keep up. They can either make longer episodes or reduce the core cast and problem solved. Degrassi is a show that handled this really well by transitioning main characters to background and then off screen in the year after they graduated, and grandfathering in the next generation by having them move from background to supporting to main characters. When it comes to long running shows like this you have to choose- is the show about the main characters or is it about the place (the school, the club, the team etc)? By not choosing it gets messy. Messy, like how the final episode of the season should've been the close of the anti life plot, but then we still had to close out Artemis' storyline and the Markoffs, the later getting the final episode and making us question what the focus of the season actually was. Otherwise the season itself had a lot going for it- It just needed to be tamed, refined, focused. I hope the coming season gives us that.

My big problem? The outsiders just weren’t interesting. The three characters they focused on the most (Halo, Geoforce, and Forager) were not really good characters. I didn’t find them fun at all to watch and most of the time they just annoyed me.

Young Justice is really the story of a tragedy - truly the greatest start to an animated Superhero show post DCAU. I'm glad that a Season 3 (and 4) even happened after it was really looking like the plug had been pulled at 2 but Outsiders really does feel like an entirely different show to me on all levels. I can even appreciate the new "mature" vibe it's trying so hard to achieve but that disconnect from where it all began in Season 1 is so great, I almost wish it had an entirely different name.

When they added a bunch of new characters in season two they still kept most of the OG team involved but in season 3 they barely even involved the team from season 2.

My main problem of s3 was unlike season two I couldn't stand the new characters introduced, they were either very boring or just unlikeable, and sense they were such a big part of the season it made it very hard to watch.

they shouldn't have did a 5 years time skip for season 2

Things I hate the most in this season: - They made the JL members weak and a joke, either got beaten or mind controlled. Seriously WW and Superman couldn’t breathe in space smh - Tara and Brion accents annoyed me to death. - Time jump. Please just stop with the time jump. We are missing important character growth in those missing years. - Politics. Politics are good when handled well like in JLU. But here are just dumb and boring. - Have I mentioned how annoying those accents are...

I like the show but my issue was and still is the repeated time skips and new characters coming in each season. I think they should have done another season of the original team with some more development. We did get some but I feel like some characters got less development than others

i loved this season, and I get what you’re saying about a lot of plot lines, but personally I found all of them really interesting, and how they all culminated in the second half of the season. and I felt the characters’ journeys and struggles were really strong and interesting, but idk that’s just me

This season was so forgettable I forgot that I even finished it

As soon as they mentioned an episode that felt really well put together I knew it was a the Savage one. This show needs more episodes like that. Episodes that can just focus on their single thing.

Im glad you're back to doing this series, I love your content and you prove it IS possible to come from just 100 hundred subscribers and a few tens of views to a thousands with having an interesting personality and content.

This is the quintessential epitome of how i feel about YJ3. there was far to much going on. The fine chiseled team of season 1 had clear stories and introducing character you lose the stories of the original characters.

Great analysis. I always wondered in relation to the outsiders bit, why did they make Beast Boy the leader and founder? He has no real connection to the meta-humans. He himself is not a natural meta he got his powers from Martian blood and some monkey god nonsense. He’s not even an outsider thematically. He’s always had a loving family and support system even the ones he lost and on top of that he’s a beloved hero and TV` star in this universe he’s the opposite of an outsider. Wouldn’t it be better it was Brion founded that group? He was cast out of his family and country. His shortsightedness and inexperience causes him to be distant from other heroes. He’s also a natural meta and the meta human trafficking deeply affected his life, from the killing of his parents, his sister’s kidnapping, uncles a meta, and he almost got trafficked himself. As he learns more about his powers and becomes more accepted, it would make sense for him to start his own team as something for metas to look up to and show growth in his development.

Honestly, everything that you said about it not being developed enough really explained just why I didn't like it and more importantly, didn't have any connection to a lot of the characters. I also didn't like it because at times it was just pure cringe. Really cheesy and awkward (like some of the characters were so awkward that it didn't feel natural and had the humor that was made for a five year old to laugh at). This might seem a bit harsh but I hated Forager so much for this reason that I was happy when I thought he had died. I really liked Artemis though, and the og characters. That episode about Artemis and Wally was one that I really liked because we got to see some of the old og characters and closure for Wally. I may or may not have watched the whole season just because I knew that we got closure for Wally eventually. So out of ten I give them these: Season 1: 10/10 Season 2: 8.5/10 Season 3: 4.5/10 Season 4: i'm scared

I didn't even care about the characters they focused on. They kept pushing halo, the prince, bug and the other unremarkable characters. They even sidelined the characters I was interested in like Tim, Cass/Orphan, and Spoiler

I feel like the teen drama was focused more on than the actual conflict of the show

yjo was so bad, the first half released in winter was alright, but the summer portion was just horrible

I don't know what happened but I honestly dropped this Outsider because it focused too much on new characters nobody really cared about and seemed to force unnecessary things. I also didn't like how they pretty much used the Halo as a tool to show brutal violence just because she can't die. This show honestly could've been good but the writers were focused too much on romance and new characters rather than more more recognizable characters and the story.

Honestly they should've brought back Kid Flash

I was a huge fan of Young Justice season one and two, but found season three The Outsiders to be lacking. Not enough of the characters I like and too much of the new ones.

Season one had strong character writing, and developed them to be complex and nuanced. The mistake going forward was to have all these time skips and focus on new characters with less consistency in its writing.

Having a beastboy without a raven is kind of criminal also. I mean there was an episode titled nevermore ffs.

The problem with Young Justice is that it has to many heroes for its own good. And where’s Tim Drake, why give him episodes in season 2 if his not even gonna do anything in season 3.

I just think the main thing is YJ season 2 and 3 are much more anthologies. The first half of season 3 has a core cast, but generally you're jumping into one off plots with beginning, middle and endings. These are not continuous through lines. This is not an anime which has a core focus. There's an episode about Victor, there's an episode about Kaldur, and there are recurring elements to the story (like Apokalips) but that's more or less just a backdrop to These are thematic and plot-driven stories, not character-driven ones. This is not Nightwing's story. Nightwing's story plays a role in what's happening, but more than anything there is no singular, individual focus of the storytelling. And that's not how this show is handled. It's about the story. I don't think anything felt rushed or underdeveloped or like I needed more. I don't know if I felt empathy for the cast at all because there are just so many characters, but it was *meticulously* plotted, and certainly had a focus.

Very nice analysis bro. Well spoken and the visuals go well with it. Looking forward to next season

I remember this channel only at like 1k subs, now you almost have 100k keep up the good work.

With season 4 having just started it seems like we are just forgetting about brion being controlled when he killed the villain cause so far everyone just keeps acting like he did it on his own and idk maybe they will continue the storyline but doesn’t seem like it as of yet in fact seems like they’ve gone to great measure to make brion look genuinely bad and evil when again people seem to be forgetting he was being controlled when he killed his uncle Edit: a thought occurs I think the light is using brion to create a meta human army that’s why they controlled him to do a coup and why he is pushing so hard for meta human sanctuary because if they go to Markovia because if they become legal citizens they can’t join the military or be FORCED to join the military meaning meta human army giving the light their own country with a near unstoppable army of metas

Is it just me or does anyone else kinda roll their eyes at the meta human thing since it’s very blatant what it’s supposed to parallel in the comic world which is strange since in comics a meta isn’t really like the same as a mutant in that basically anyone can become a meta and I think even Superman is considered one. It’s just a classification of a person with powers and at least in some other stuff it’s only distinction is them not being magical powers Also they did my man Shade dirty again and I hope when Stargirl season 2 comes out that he will finally be recognized as the badass gentleman anti-hero he is

I was waiting for this.

This season was a complete disappointment. So much wasted potential, there was definitely tons of stuff I liked, but overall it was a huge dip in quality compared to the first two seasons.

If I was writing a season like it’s the LAST season, you bet your ass I’d be throwing ALL the ideas at the wall too to see if one sticks. Especially if I had these ideas for 10 years brewing in my head like YJ did. Not making excuses here for the writing, just finding a reason

I read about how this season isn't about the characters we followed from the start of the show it turned me off.

Thank god I'm not the only one. The abundance of new characters through S2&3 was in No Way "Whelming". And the thing that pissed me off the most throughout the entire show was the fact that EVERY time they defeat a supervillain, they just run off and leave them to recover, recuperate and rejoin with their supervillain gang to try again another day... Like, Dafuk!! And WHY won't Someone just bloody kill Lex Luthor?! I get tired of him being known as a villain but ends up as a king or president, or security of state etc. Last but not least, Superboy should be called Whipping boy cos he doesn't do anything.

I have always said that plot should exist to challenge, develop and explore your characters. If you aren't empathising with the people then you might as well be reading a textbook. Fiction should hit you emotionally, and a cool world/concept won't do that for 200+ pages/60+ minutes. I LOVED the first season and I have a gentler fondness for the second, but the third was DNF for me because I could just not connect with anyone.

I’m not a big DC guy (more into Marvel stuff) so I’ll be honest that Whole Doom Patrol sequence went straight over my head, I had zero idea how any of those people were related to Beast Boy, the most I got out of it was that one of the ladies was like a mentor even to this day I’m real confused

The first season was amazing but it was slowly down hill from there

"What went wrong?" Me, an intellectual: Probably Brion's rushed character arc. The sheep: BRING WALLY BACK

I feel like because season one didn't have that many characters like in the later seasons they're able to showcase all the characters almost perfectly and give them great character development whereas in the later seasons fans couldn't really connect with newer characters because they don't have enough screen time and have almost zero backstory

Who the hell decided Doom Patrol Go was a good idea. The people that liked TTGo would probably not be watching Young Justice Outsiders, and the people that like and wanted more Young Justice probably hated Go.

I was lost since episode 1. Forgot I was watching Young Justice.

great video I can't wait to hear your thoughts on part 2

I was pumped for static being on the show, but he barely did anything and was underused throughout the entire season.

outsiders legit set the expectations in my head that "if something interesting is happening, the b plot will suddenly kick in" after watching the entire season

That "Doom Patrol Go" sequence was still pretty genius. Although it is weird to see the TTG style not Flash-animated.

Problem number one If you don't live in the US or Canada there is no (legal) way to watch the show

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Tooo many characters in this season, the original team is sidelined for the most part

Ugh, Young Justice had so much promise... then Blue Bettle happened. I gave Outsiders a chance but it was a totally different show

I want to know who wrote Halo character, her response to racism was “that’s not me anymore” and what the point of her wearing a headdress if she wears a skin tight suit

Yeah, I’d say “focus” is a problem for every season of this show. No character storyline gets enough space, and the ones that got screen time in season 1 weren’t things that could be resolved perfectly, like M’Gann and Artemis’s growth to hate themselves less or Conner starting to overcome her anger. These are things that will continue be things these characters work on, possibly for the rest of their lives. I actually liked season 3 better than the previous ones though, because the plot’s subject matter was much more interesting for me.