Quick JLU thoughts

Last night's episode, "Wake the Dead" (a title rich with multiple interpretations), was quite good and an improvement on the previous week's episode. I loved the Swamp Thing poster on the wall in the opening scene, and the Not-Hellboy statue we also saw there. I'm amused by the continuing use of the animated DC Universe's Non-Defenders team, with Amazo now apparently stepping in as a Silver Surfer type. The meat of the story, Grundy's return and Hawkgirl's ongoing issues with herself and her fellow heroes, was nicely done and at times honestly moving. It's a bit disturbing to learn that John Stewart is a serial co-worker dater, and part of me wishes we never learned how the League's vote on Hawkgirl shook out. My one real concern is that I hope we continue to see fallout from Hawkgirl's actions; redemption stories can be done well, (cf Angel and even Spike, in the final analysis) or hideously (cf the waste of screen time known as Andrew).

As for last week's episode, it's not that it was bad so much as unmemorable. The use of the Atom was fun, except for his SuperFriends-caliber exposition to no one and his dialogue was a little too Standard Warren Ellis Curmudgeon off-the-shelf. But it's always nice to see (or hear) John C. McGinley, and the design for the Atom oddly resembled him, to my tired grad student eyes, at least (She Who Must Be Obeyed agreed with me on this, and thought the manner in which Wonder Woman carried the Atom was gratuitous).