Greg Weisman Teases Hope for Young Justice Season 3

[CyberCubed]

I'm excited over the new season. Its hard to believe it happened.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Let's hope this time Weisman doesn't end Season 3 on a cliffhanger, in case this is just a one season renewal. Or we'll be in the same situation in a year from now.

Well you're going to be disappointed, asswipe. Weisman always ends his seasons with unresolved threads.

[CyberCubed]

That's not a good thing.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Sometimes it's done gracefully (as in SSM) and sometimes less so (YJ). I appreciate the ending of SSM, not that of YJ.

[CyberCubed]

Exactly my point. He's liable to end Season 3 on another cliffhanger in hopes he gets a Season 4 or beyond. And if that happens, the same cycle of fandom disappointment will happen again if the show doesn't continue.

Realistically speaking, how long is this renewal for? I assume at least 20 episodes, hopefully not just 13 episodes.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

He doesn't do it "in the hopes" of getting another season. The life and death of a TV show does not hinge on whether some network executive wants to see what happens next. Your logic is so awful. He does it because he feels that real stories don't have clean-cut endings. Real life certainly doesn't.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

He doesn't do it "in the hopes" of getting another season. The life and death of a TV show does not hinge on whether some network executive wants to see what happens next. Your logic is so awful. He does it because he feels that real stories don't have clean-cut endings. Real life certainly doesn't.

Most shows do try to wrap up their loose plot threads when they know they're ending, or are unsure if they're getting another season. The writers themselves suffer most of all, because their plans might never happen so they want to "get it done" rather than live in regret.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Some info about season 3 and beyond that Weisman has revealed over the years (adapted from the more interesting bullets of this list):

Spoiler:

• The final boss from that awful YJ video game will have some sort of presence

• There will be another time skip

• Cissie Jones/Arrowette may return

• Stephanie Brown may return

• Troia will be introduced

• Kirby's New Gods and Fourth World creations will factor in heavily

• Starfire may be introduced

• We may be visiting Mars

[CyberCubed]

Hm, I would imagine most of it would be about Darkseid.

I just hope its not a rehash of every other Darkseid invades Earth story that's been done to death in the last 50+ years of DC history.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

I'm most interested to see what G. Gordon Godfrey was doing on Apokolips!

[Cure]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

Some info about season 3 and beyond that Weisman has revealed over the years (adapted from the more interesting bullets of this list):

Spoiler:

• The final boss from that awful YJ video game will have some sort of presence

• There will be another time skip

• Cissie Jones/Arrowette may return

• Stephanie Brown may return

• Troia will be introduced

• Kirby's New Gods and Fourth World creations will factor in heavily

• Starfire may be introduced

• We may be visiting Mars

Hmm, doesn't sound great to me. What made season 2 worse (for me) were all the characters and junk. It wasn't as focused.

[DestronMirage22]

Wow.... I never thought I'd see the day. But it's coming and I'm happy!

[Xiewin]

[drgon78]

Wow, miracles do happen.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by Cure

Hmm, doesn't sound great to me. What made season 2 worse (for me) were all the characters and junk. It wasn't as focused.

Part of that was because they had a constricted episode count to work with (20 as opposed to the usual 26). I actually preferred the second season for its more focused story.

[CyberCubed]

The episode count wasn't the problem, its that they introduced too many new characters in addition to keeping all the old ones around.

Wonder Girl literally had no purpose. She never got a spotlight episode and we didn't learn anything about her. You could say the same for Batgirl and Tim Drake too if they weren't established Batman characters everyone knows about from other shows.

Lagoon Boy only existed for shipping drama, and then you had all those other characters like Bumblebee, her boyfriend, then Static Shock his racially diverse superfriends, and so forth.

Old characters like Kid Flash got a reduced role in Season 2, Zatanna barely appeared, etc. for this reason.

[Cure]

IIII dunno. I respect your interpretation but it felt all over the place to me.

[sdp]

Wow, I've never been happier about being wrong in fact in my posts here where I mentioned it was highly unlikely I always said I'd love to be proven wrong. When Teen Titans was revived years later it was in a different style so it kind of made sense and that show was far more popular. To see a serialized show like this revived only a few years later it's just awesome, never saw it coming I mean how many "revive" show petitions have we had since the internet arose?

As far as S3 I'm sure many of the original plans will be different, it'll only keep the main ideas. I doubt for example the video game no one played will have any role anymore. We also need to wait and see what we get, as far as we know it could be a one off DTV or something like that and even if it's a season it might only be 10 episodes or so but we'll see. It's still a year away most likely.

What am I hoping for?
Time skip because I loved seeing the DC Universe grow between seasons, that's something we never see.
More characters. Again while many heroes didn't get a huge spotlight I just love seeing awesome heroes get their one appearance in a show.

[CyberCubed]

To be honest I can't think of many shows revived after cancellation. Futurama, I guess now Samurai Jack, and this, are the few.

The Bruce Timm DCAU has stayed dead since 2006, an entire decade ago. Given how popular that was I'm surprised we never did get a follow up.

[DestronMirage22]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The episode count wasn't the problem, its that they introduced too many new characters in addition to keeping all the old ones around.

Wonder Girl literally had no purpose. She never got a spotlight episode and we didn't learn anything about her. You could say the same for Batgirl and Tim Drake too if they weren't established Batman characters everyone knows about from other shows.

Lagoon Boy only existed for shipping drama, and then you had all those other characters like Bumblebee, her boyfriend, then Static Shock his racially diverse superfriends, and so forth.

Old characters like Kid Flash got a reduced role in Season 2, Zatanna barely appeared, etc. for this reason.

I completely agree with all of this. During my first watch of YJ, all these new characters all of a sudden appearing in season 2, with "established" backstories, coupled with elements of the story haveing happened without witnessesing them made for a pretty confusing start to the season for me. Add the fact that most of my favorite characters in the show got kinda shafted, and changed around with, almost to the point of being separate characters than the ones I'd grown to like. Nevertheless it got better over the course of its run. The season wide story was an interesting thing to watch play out, and some of the new characters we interesting. Nevertheless, season 1 was better, and I hope season 3 is like it.