New Justice League Unlimited episodes bring lots of ME alum voices.
Cartoon Network will start airing new episodes in the US in February 11th, 2006.
[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2006-02-20 02:19 ]
Some of these new episodes has already been aired in the UK.
This is the rundown of the guests that was featured or will be featured in Justice League Unlimited and their roles (Updated with Daniel Dae Kim's sorta huge role):
Gina Torres as Vixen
Amy Acker as Huntress
Morena Baccarin as Black Canary
Nathan Fillion as Vigilante
Adam Baldwin as Bonk / Jonah Hex / Hal Jordan (uncred.)
Armin Shimerman as Dr. Milo
Juliet Landau as Tala / Plastique
Giselle Loren as Stargirl
Daniel Dae Kim as Metron
Alexis Denisof as Mirror Master
New Episodes are as follow:
Episode #31 - Flash and Substance
Original Airdate - February 11th, 2006
Batman and Orion see a different side of the Flash when a rogues’ gallery of villains attacks the museum that is opening in his honor. Already aired in the UK.
Features Alexis Denisof as Mirror Master.
Episode #32 - Dead Reckoning
Original Airdate - February 18th, 2006
The ghost of a circus performer convinces Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to help him retrieve the stolen souls of a mystic order of Monks. Already aired in the UK.
Features Juliet Landau as Tala.
Episode #33 - Patriot Act
Original Airdate - February 25th, 2006
When an out of control super soldier threatens Metropolis, Green Arrow leads seven non-powered Justice Leaguers, including Crimson Avenger and Shining Knight, in a battle they can’t hope to win. Already aired in the UK.
Features Nathan Fillion as Vigilante and Gisele Loren as Stargirl.
Episode #34 - The Great Brain Robbery
Original Airdate - March 4th, 2006
A mystical accident leads to Lex Luthor and the Flash’s minds being swapped into each other’s bodies. Already aired in the UK.
Features Juliet Landau as Tala.
Episode #35 - Grudge Match
Original Airdate - March 11th, 2006
Roulette starts Metabrawl (“Cat and Canary”) again, this time with an all-female fight card made up of Justice Leaguers. Already aired in the UK.
Features Juliet Landau as Tala, Morena Baccarin as Black Canary, Amy Acker as Huntress and Gina Torres as Vixen.
Episode #36 - Far From Home
Original Airdate - March 18th, 2006
Supergirl, Green Lantern and Green Arrow travel into the future where they meet the Legion of Super Heroes and their enemies The Fatal Five. Already aired in the UK.
Episode #37 - Ancient History
Original Airdate - March 25th, 2006
The Shadow Thief returns and so does Hawkman as more mysteries from “Shadow of the Hawk” are explored. Already aired in the UK.
Features Gina Torres as Vixen.
Episode #38 - Alive (Part 1)
Original Airdate - April 1st, 2006
In a knock-down drag out battle on Earth and in space, the power moving behind the scenes of the villains is revealed leading to the most unexpected team-up in Justice League history. Already aired in the UK.
Features Juliet Landau as Tala and Daniel Dae Kim as Metron.
Episode #39 - Destroyer (Part 2)
Original Airdate - April 8th, 2006 - Series Finale
In a knock-down drag out battle on Earth and in space, the power moving behind the scenes of the villains is revealed leading to the most unexpected team-up in Justice League history.
Features Daniel Dae Kim as Metron.
February 05 2006
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Madhatter | February 05, 08:20 CET
billz | February 05, 12:10 CET
It's a damn shame this is the last season - there's really nothing like this on TV. It's as well written and acted as the best liveaction shows, and I'm going to miss it as much as I miss Angel.
cowmuf | February 05, 13:42 CET
But last season's Double Date with Morena and Amy was wonderful, as was the one where Nathan's Vigilante was driving a spaceship with Gina's Vixen riding shotgun. It's little things like that make inner fangirls squee. :)
megaloo | February 05, 15:00 CET
Dead Reckoning wasn't bad. The best bit was Supermans posession.
Superman: "The thickshakes are so thick that I NEED YOUR HELP."
Diana: "That's pretty thick."
...
Superman: "That you'll need to eat them with a spoon WHY AM I IN AFRICA."
Patriot Act, though, was great. A real showcase for the non-powred JLA members. I loved Speedy and Ollie's banter.
Green Arrow: "Alright buddy you wanted the rest of the Justice League you got em. You've got... [deflated] The Crimson Avenger and my ex-sidekick."
Speedy: "Ex-Partner."
Green Arrow: "Speedy, we gotta do this now?"
I knew it was Fillion straight away.
Shame the shows been axed.
Gouki | February 05, 16:09 CET
When it comes to comics i will always be a Marvel fan but as far as transfering their heroes to the small screen i think DC come out on top.
Well, except for X-Men: Evolution! ;)
WhedonTrivia | February 05, 16:22 CET
The Grudge Match episode besides being Whedon-verse actress heavy, also features somewhat a certain character that Joss is working right now.
What made me laugh a bit in this episode (okay, this might be spoilery, so lets put some invisio text in it), is that they got Black Canary, voiced by the very Brazilian Morena Baccarin, fighting Beatriz Costa aka Fire, a somewhat lesser known DC Comics Brazilian Heroine.
Numfar PTB | February 05, 16:31 CET
Seeing the episode makes me wonder tho', why oh why are they making Aquaman into a live action series when the Flash is just sitting there begging for one ?
I really liked the Batman show as well (haven't seen the Superman one) but I think in some ways his character is even better served in JLU (probably because they can afford to make him even more terse and stern since the other characters balance it out). Last season's 'Epilogue' may have been the best Batman cartoon i've seen. BTW, anyone who likes the JLU/Batman cartoons should check out the feature length animated movies especially 'Mask of the Phantasm'. Until 'Batman Begins' it was, IMO, the best Batman film by a long chalk.
Saje | February 05, 16:36 CET
Wow.
Anyway, they tried to a Flash TV series. I never saw it (too young), but by all accounts it was pretty tacky. Hamill played the Trickster in the live action series as well.
And surely you all know that he's the Joker on all Timm cartoons?
Gouki | February 05, 17:14 CET
I do remember the Flash TV show and, ironically, I may have been too old for it ;). Not too good from what I recall. The suit was a very over done muscle suit and the effects were what you'd expect from 1990/1. Done today tho', possibly in the Smallville mode but with less a Dawson's Creek (six degrees time, it was Dawson's dad that played the Flash) and more a JLU type of feel, it could be pretty good (I think the super-speed effects in Smallville are probably the only thing I couldn't criticise in the show, even tho' I keep watching just to see the flapping cape in the final episode if for no other reason, birth of a legend and all that ;).
Yep, Hamill is fantastic as the Joker tho' the real plaudits have to go to Kevin Conroy's Batman for consistent brilliance over all the Timm incarnations of the character.
Saje | February 05, 17:57 CET
The Aquaman series is going to be a spinoff from Smallville, if i understand correctly, using the version of that character they introduced in season five. They introduced a version of the Flash in the previous season, although they used many elements of the junior "Flash" character, Impulse. Maybe too many from the little i saw of the episode. Wonder how long before we see somebody turning up in Smallville with a green ring on his finger? Or better yet a young rich businessman from Gotham City. I'd definately take the time to watch an episode introducing Batman to the Smallville mythology.
WhedonTrivia | February 05, 18:09 CET
The Smallville Flash episode was a bit average. Nice to see Flash zip away into another gear at the end (after all he is 'the fastest man alive' ;) and the fanboy nod to the JLA was cool. Apart from that and the effects, meh.
Apparently, pre 'Batman Begins' they wanted to bring a young Bruce in as a guest player (maybe Clark could've met up with him on a trip to Metropolis) tho' they have a no costumes policy on Smallville so I think Batman (as opposed to Bruce Wayne) could only have appeared obliquely. Now the consensus seems to be it would be playing with the continuity too much and may muddy Nolan et al's waters. Pity, it could've been good (tho' part of me is relieved that my favourite comics character won't be subjected to the unpredictably dodgy standard of quality that Smallville has made its own).
Saje | February 05, 19:36 CET
cowmuf | February 05, 20:17 CET
I do know that they decided to recast the main role but i figured that the basic spinoff premise remained the same. I guess i could be wrong though. I don't follow the goings on of DC in the same way i do Marvel's properties and it wouldn't be the first time that the concept of a show changed from the original proposal.
Need i mention Mutant X? ;)
WhedonTrivia | February 05, 20:52 CET
Awww, I have very fond memories of the Flash. I remember that being a "water cooler" show at the time, with a few of my co-workers being just as into it as I was. I even had a Flash shirt!
Mal'sGal | February 05, 21:25 CET
VWag, Please don't ;). When I first saw it I actually thought Mutant X was a parody. It's like someone set out to make a bad TV show (and, in fairness, succeeded admirably ;).
ETA: Mal's Gal, Well, I enjoyed 'The A Team', 'Knightrider' and even (heaven help me) 'Streethawk' but good shows ? Not so much ;). Think 'The Flash' just pressed too many buttons on my hoke-ometer. But to paraphrase 'Let he who hasn't sat through a season of Manimal cast the first stone'. I'm stepping away from the stones now ;).
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Saje | February 05, 21:26 CET
As for Mutant X, the less said the better, lol! How they started with the concept of an X-Man (Havok) being cast from his own reality into a weird mirror universe type version of what he knew and ended up with the mess we saw the show become i will NEVER understand! :D
WhedonTrivia | February 05, 22:21 CET
"On what will separate this Aquaman from the version of the character we saw on Smallville: "I think the character in that episode was a little further along in his development than we want to do on the series," Gough told CFQ."
TVGuide.com: Does Alan Ritchson feel gypped? Was there any unsaid agreement that, having guest-starred as Smallville's A.C., he'd get dibs on the series?
Gough: No, there wasn't, because at the time we did the episode, we had no plans for doing a series. We think Alan did a great job in that episode, but when you see the series, it's a different version of the character than what you saw on Smallville.
K-SITE: Will the Aquaman series take place in the Smallville universe? Is there any chance of a crossover?
GOUGH: Will we crossover? My guess is down the road, perhaps there will be some crossover. I don't think in the first season, but don't hold me to that, that could all change. I think you have to establish a show on its own terms before you could start to do that kind of stuff. It's not like a Buffy/Angel thing where you're spinning a character that you've lived with in one show into another show, so it feels obvious that you cross people over.
So its a spin off but yet..not a spin off.
eddy | February 06, 04:25 CET
I'd definately classify this as a spinoff in the sense of it being set in the same reality as Smallville (that is the only possible way that a crossover could happen afetr all) but not so much in the sense that Aquaman's story began in that show.
WhedonTrivia | February 06, 04:47 CET
vampire dan | February 06, 05:13 CET
The way i see it they will have to either go one way or the other. They can't establish the Aquaman in the new series as a totally different version of the character and then go ahead and crossover with Smallville anyway. It just wouldn't work. It would be like the Kristy Swanson version of Buffy making a guest appearance on Angel! ;)
WhedonTrivia | February 06, 05:51 CET
I think it depends what you call a spin-off. Is it even possible to spin-off a pre-existing character ? Probably not, unless it's radically different to previous versions. On the other hand, the show would not be getting made at all if it wasn't for the Smallville episode so in that sense 'Aquaman' is at least an off-shoot of Smallville but apparently not a spin-off. And definitely not a spin-shoot. That'd just be silly.
ETA: Managed to repeat quite a lot of what Vampire With a Gun says. I'm starting to think they'll just go down the totally separate route and that the producer probably knew this even when interviewed but just didn't veto a cross-over to keep his options open and maybe partly as a sop to the fans. As VWag says I just don't see how else they can do it (Earth 1.5 ? ;).
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Saje | February 06, 06:03 CET
WhedonTrivia | February 06, 16:01 CET
Personally, I hope they do cross-over Clark to Aquaman but he's subtly different which would allow them to spin-off 'Smallville Plus GT' from Aquaman. The Clark in SP:GT would have long hair and a day job playing in a Black Sabbath tribute band. Krypto would be back and do guest spots as a hip-hop DJ at weekends and eventually they'd produce a comic based on the series. In ten years they'd have to merge the continuties from the various comics which they'd do with a special 2000 page one shot (with 19 alternative covers) where the creators inform us that Black Sabbath never existed and that all dogs can talk anyway so they really don't understand what the fuss was about.
Just one fan's humble hope.
Saje | February 06, 16:49 CET
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war_machine | February 06, 16:53 CET
And a world without Sabbath? You really are trying to freak me out now, my friend! Next you will be trying to tell me that there is a world without shrimp! ;)
WhedonTrivia | February 06, 17:42 CET
Amazon link for those interested here.
[ edited by megaloo on 2006-02-06 15:45 ]
megaloo | February 06, 17:44 CET
war_machine | February 06, 18:08 CET
Logically, you would be right, except that the Smallville writers don't really care about keeping continuity. I once read an interview saying that the producers were abandoning the plotline of Level 33.1 (which was introduced in an episode last season), thus confirming that the producers don't care about finishing what they've already started on the show.
vampire dan | February 07, 01:14 CET
Mind you, i'd say that there was a fair difference between the writers chosing to abandon a given plotline and intentionally writing an episode that absolutely contradicts the events seen before. I think even the Charmed writers would have issues with doing that, and that is saying something! ;)
WhedonTrivia | February 07, 04:40 CET