Why You're Wrong About Young Justice: Outsiders

The third season of DC's animated jewel Young Justice is often held to be an example of a revival done wrong - a show which returned to the air a shadow of its former self. I don't think this is accurate or fair - so in this video I attempt to offer a balanced, but ultimately positive critique of Outsiders. I also attempt to debunk a number of common criticisms, and discuss the ways that certain narratives within fan discourse becomes normalised.

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Cited Polygon review: https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/28/208...

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:06 What it Gets Right
5:22 Pacing Issues?
7:24 The Thing About The Character Balance
9:02 My Perspective
10:27 How Fan Discourse is Shaped
12:37 Wally, or the New vs. Longtime Viewer Experience
14:55 WOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKEWOKE
19:37 Valid Halo Critiques
20:53 Politics or Maturity?
21:33 Summing Up

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Young Justice: Outsiders is the third season of the American animated superhero series Young Justice, developed by Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman. The series follows the lives of teenage superheroes and sidekicks who are members of a covert operation group, referred to simply as "The Team", that acts as a young counterpart to the famous adult team, the Justice League. In the second season, Invasion, the Reach revealed the existence of the meta-gene. Following on from these events, the third season focuses on the Team battling metahuman trafficking as various nations and organizations have started participating in such activities. It also features the superhero team Outsiders. The series follows the lives of teenage superheroes and sidekicks, namely Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, Red Arrow, Miss Martian, and Artemis, who are members of a fictional covert operation group. Within the show, "the Team" is a group of young heroes attached to the famous adult team, the Justice League, but operating outside of the bureaucracy that constrains the more established superhero team. The main setting is a fictional universe apart from the previous DCAU and other continuities, designated at one point as Earth-16, during a time period in which superheroes are a relatively recent phenomenon, and supervillains have all began working in tandem in a grand conspiracy on behalf of a cabal of key villains known as the Light.