"Don't We Have An App That Does This Boring Stuff For Us?"

[redbrunja]

MY EMOTIONS. MY EMOTIONS.



Okay, to start with, we had Aya telling Razer that she likes him just the way that he is. I can't even.

And the "seduction" scene was both incredibly creepy and entertaining as fuck. Poor Aya was just so confused! She's experimenting with a new glaze! RAZER WAS LOOMING.

The season is going to end on an epic kiss between them, isn't it? Oh god, it has to, I desperately want to see another version of the whole leaning scene again, because we've seen how they interact with each other physically before:



And when Razer's himself, there is a fluidity to their hugs/embraces that was totally missing when possessed!Razer turned Aya's head from one side to the other (that she let him, how robotic that motion was, was one of the things that made that scene so fucking creepy.)

Also, this episode reminded me that I really like Hal - he's fun and flippent and I loved his conversation with Aya regarding hormones! He was about to give her the birds and bees talk! LOLZ.

Also, I'm quite intrigued at the idea of a new, "bad" Lantern. I'm liking where that might be going.

But the ending killed me! He was so concerned he'd done something to her! Because the person you care about most is who you're afraid you've going to hurt when you've been possessed! And she thinks that he doesn't like her! (Understandable. But Razer, get on fixing that!)



via allisnow: a great article on Aya and Razer.

(In other new, Young Justice continues to be a half an hour each week of all the secondary characters I never cared about in the first place.)

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I didn't think anything could give me more feels than last week, but this may have done it. Aya not wanting Razer to change. The way she catches herself ("I... all of us prefer you to remain unchanged." There was something just so HUMAN about that) and when she touches his hand and he pulls away and OH THE HEARTBREAK. And the last scene, where he's worried that he hurt her and she's not upset about how he acted when he was possessed because obviously that's not his fault but because of how he's been acting when he wasn't possessed because dammit that is his fault and he needs to get his shit together.

I have kind of a kink for possession stories and even though there was a lot here to cram into one episode, I thought they did it well. Sinestro isn't the out-and-out mustache-twirling bad guy he first seemed to be when he was possessed, but he's definitely an amoral creep, and I like the grayness of that.

As for THAT scene, people on tumblr (which seems to have a much larger Razer/Aya contingent than LJ) are already lecturing about how it was not meant to be 'shippy', that it was written to be creepy and was creepy and people should not be fangirling over it. (I saw the same type of lecturing after a particular Stargate: Atlantis episode.) And yes it was creepy and wrong and weird and from a shipping perspective it's still interesting to parse that scene which you can do without getting your rocks off about it.

[anat-astarte.livejournal.com]

Young Justice continues to be a half an hour each week of all the secondary characters I never cared about in the first place

This is mostly true, since is the parts of the ep I just saw that I liked best are where:
- Sportsmaster and Cheshire decide to take revenge independently of the Light's decision,
- Connor and Mr. Kent are interacting
- Savage and Black Manta are talking about the pain of parenthood, and Manta talks abot revenge against "that Martian witch"

Because anything, even little bits, of stuff related to Connor, M'Gann, Wally and Artemis are worth watching...

[phemyscira.livejournal.com]

(In other new, Young Justice continues to be a half an hour each week of all the secondary characters I never cared about in the first place.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is annoyed at this because it takes me half an hour to wait for an entire episode of YJ to load on livestream. I did not feel like that episode was worth the wait because although I love Blue Beetle, I MISS THE ORIGINAL CAST. I want to know what's going to happen to M'Gann and Conner and Kaldur and Artemis darn it and Zatanna barley gets any screen time anymore. And Impulse has practically replaced Wally and that sucks even though I like Impulse. ;-;

*cough*

I liked Sinestro as well! :) In the GLAS animated movie I didn't like the way he was handled. He was a bit 2-dimensional for me but I like the direction the show is going with his character.

And the "seduction" scene was both incredibly creepy and entertaining as fuck. Poor Aya was just so confused! She's experimenting with a new glaze! RAZER WAS LOOMING.

I know, right? I was sharing Aya's 'is he okay?' expression the entire time it was going on.

If they don't kiss or if Razer doesn't flirt with Aya again this season, I will DIE. Because I imagine that Razer's flirting would be 1) a lot less creepy than the alien assassin's attempt at seduction 2) hormone inducing even though he'd be acting like a dork the entire time.

[angel-2606.livejournal.com]

So even though this is definitely a Green Lantern post, you did make a small comment about YJ, so I'm commenting here.

I kinda want to hurt the writers because we didn't get a scene with M'Gann and Connor actually TALKING. talking about what she had done and how she feels terrible about it and her holding in the fact that she knows that Artemis is actually alive and that Kaldur isn't a traitor. Talking about the fact that abusing her powers is WHY Connor broke up with her in the first place, because they disagreed when it came to how she was using them to begin with, that he thought she should be far more careful with them and she thought he was being too overprotective.

*shakes head* I just.....gah. That moment would have been perfect. OH! And the only reason she wasn't talking to Lagoon Boy about it and couldn't? Because she CAN'T. Because she knows that he'll tell her it was okay, that it was an accident, that Kaldur somehow deserved what she did to him because he killed Artemis and/or because he's a traitor to their side.

Whereas Connor? Connor is going to be there for her to talk to, and he'll just sit and listen, but he won't tell her that what she did was okay, or right. He won't justify her actions, but he also won't brag about the fact that he was right either. And he'll take whatever she doles out because he knows that she needs it, that she needs to get it out. He's the only person that she CAN talk to and them not be judgmental, because he's already done it and split up with her because of it, because she refused to be more careful (that's what I got from it anyway).

I just need this scene in my life. Badly.