{"id":17181,"date":"2015-11-18T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=17181"},"modified":"2015-11-19T13:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:29:37","slug":"justice-league-unlimited-the-complete-series-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/justice-league-unlimited-the-complete-series-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice League Unlimited: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The original \u201cJustice League\u201d series ended with the original five superheroes battling the Thanagarian Hawk warriors, who decided to conquer Earth. After barely surviving the war, the Justice League begins building an army. They\u2019re an army of superheroes and avengers from Earth that they now have housed in their expanded watchtower. \u201cJustice League Unlimited\u201d is the direct sequel to Bruce Timm\u2019s wonderful \u201cJustice League.\u201d After Cartoon Network cancelled the series, it was mercifully revived shortly with a wider array of characters. This time around the Justice League have become somewhat sentient, now with the original five forming a council, and recruiting some of the best superheroes on Earth.<\/p>\n

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Acting as an avatar for the audience, we meet masked vigilante Green Arrow who is warped in to the Watchtower for recruiting. He has no powers, and doesn\u2019t deem himself worthy of being on a team with super powered aliens and supermen, but what\u2019s bothering him more is the League\u2019s ability to teleport him without his permission. So begins the virtual overarching storyline for the entire series, in where the League suddenly meets an enemy that deem them much too powerful for their own good. Green Arrow poses as the conscience of the group for a majority of the series, second guessing the watchtower, the powers of the council and how they tend to overstep their bounds quite often. True, they tell everyone they\u2019re just doing what they can to protect Earth, but Green Arrow is terrified they\u2019ll eventually become Big Brother.<\/p>\n

The arc is set in to play after an attack by all consuming nanobots which force the watchtower to trigger a laser from their weaponry to defeat the threat. This disturbs the US government, prompting them to enact their own plan to take down the League a notch. Much of the menace and adult storylines are still in play with the second leg of Bruce Timm\u2019s iteration of the Justice League. While there are many heroes introduced from second tiers like Supergirl and Black Canary right down to third tier heroes like Captain Atom and Wildcat, the series focuses on some very entertaining stand alone episodes that also spotlight characters way overdue for fan love. We get to meet Booster Gold, Hawk and Dove, Captain Atom, Speedy, and dynamic vigilantes like The Question, and Huntress.<\/p>\n

While half of the series provide stand alones, they are still extremely worth watching. Some of the best episodes include Shazam making an appearance and finding himself torn between his childhood hero Superman and his duty to Earth when Superman suspects Lex Luthor of foul play. There\u2019s also the episode involving an illegal fighting circuit involving female heroes that is much more sinister than meets the eye. The animation never suffers and neither does the narrative, as Timm resolves a lot of storylines from past series\u2019 like \u201cBatman Beyond\u201d while entrenching audiences in the very suspenseful arc involving the Government and their Top Secret plans for the group involving the Cadmus Project. You\u2019d assume with a large list of new characters taking up the screen the show would fail, but the show ends up being as great as ever. It\u2019s arguably better than the first series, even.<\/p>\n

The Blu-Ray features audio commentary for the episodes \u201cThis Little Piggy,\u201d and \u201cThe Return.\u201d \u201cAnd Justice for All\u201d is a segment featuring the creative crew for the series explaining how they revamped the concept and reworked the plot for the series. \u201cCadmus Exposed\u201d discusses the enemy for the series, and how they approached them creatively. Finally \u201cJustice League Chronicles\u201d explores various favorite moments from the final episodes of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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