JL "Eclipsed" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Bird Boy]

Cartoon Network will air the all new Justice League two-part episode "Eclipsed" tonight at 10pm (ET). Check your local listings.

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Episode #41 & 42 - Eclipsed Part 1 & 2
Original Airdate - November 8th 2003

When peace-keeping soldiers in the Middle East unearth an ancient hidden temple, they unwittingly release a vengeful spirit that possesses one of them. This spirit’s only goal is the total destruction of mankind, and even the Justice League is powerless to resist it. And, Flash? A spokesman?

Comments?

 

[tphile]

Eclipsed has just eclipsed WarWorld as the worst Justice League episode.

 

[Jor-El]

This is a great show, but it's not always funny. When people come back from watching this going "OH MAN! I LAUGHED OUT LOUD DURING THAT ONE PART!" I almost always roll my eyes and think to myself, "That wasn't funny in the slightest bit."

That said, this episode had me laughing out loud during a lot of parts.

It was kind'a disjointed and bounced around too much, but I still have it 4.5 stars, if only for the Rogues' cameos and the Flash van.

 

[Mister Intensity]

I guess the regularly scheduled Justice League bashing will continue this week after last week's fanboy appreciation week.

Mister Intensity

 

[Bystander]

Well for someone who's never heard of Eclipso before this was a great episode but to fans of comics who have an understanding of Eclipso's history they may feel cheated. Here they completly changed Eclipso from what he was in the comics, this isn't simply redoing his origin, they made it nothing like the original version. originally he was the dark side of some doctor, later it was revealed he was some Dark God of vengeance, here he's just a bunch of snakes who's spirits were in a crystal. What does everyone else think?

 

[Anarky]

flawless

"Eclipsed" had it all: comedy, action, drama, suspense

clever how they worked in the Eclipso character and yet where able to get a good laugh out of it as well

and what grea timing to air this episode...on the night of the Lunar Eclipse

 

[The Detective]

Someone better be happy, Flash kinda vibrated and GL made a real live construct.

That said I thought it was pretty good though parts of it were a little jerky and things really bounced around. More later.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This was good. Finally an episode that showed a threat to the world as a real threat. The drama I loved.. suspensful till the end. Flash got good use of his powers this time.

Any one catch Conroy sounding voice on one of the soldiers? How about the agent's comment about the "big girl with the lasso"? Could there be an innuendo?

This ep had too much to remember....

 

[Eddie G.]

The last part of the episode was good, and just goes to show you that every JL episode doesn't need to be an hour. The first half of the episode was okay, kind of funny, the start off with Flash and the villans was okay. But all that stuff with the endorsments and the JL bashing in the end really had no point. And come on couldn't the dinner scene of been with street clothes, I mean really... Oh and did that studio audiance say damn straight? Wasn't sure if it was damn or darn.

Worst episode of the season, and arguably the series.

 

[BeastBoyWonder]

Interesting to note that the episode airs the same night as the lunar eclipse.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Interesting to note that the episode airs the same night as the lunar eclipse.

So there is a lunar ecplise tonight. When is it?

 

[BeastBoyWonder]

So there is a lunar ecplise tonight. When is it?

Sorry dude, at least over here (Ann Arbor, MI) it already happened. We were freezing our butts off waiting for it

 

[MJC]

It wasn't a bad episode. Every episode can't be an incredibly epic story. Plus, Flash got to do something cool at the end. I'll give it 3.5/5.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Sorry dude, at least over here (Ann Arbor, MI) it already happened. We were freezing our butts off waiting for it

Hmm im in NJ.. I wonder if it even hit here at all..

Gotta mention that I loved how they had Flash hurt and made it look real and kept the cut marks, a sign of good animation.

 

[Metallo]

RE: Eclipsed

Man maybe we should just call the last two epsiodes, "The Flash & Co." Once again glad to see that Flash and his powers are actually at the level they should be, without losing his comic edge.

Eclipso is kind of a random villain to use. And I kept expecting to see Darkseid rear his head given that Glorious Godfrey works for that joker.

3.5 stars - good episode

 

[SilverKnight]

I'm sorry, but that sucked. The best part was when the JL was possessed, and Flash had to actually think to stay alive. (Also, I did find the "Excuse me?" and "This bites!" lines rather amusing.) Other than that, though, I found this episode painfully stupid. And, this is coming from someone who's liked (or at least tolerated) all the prior Justice League episodes.

On another, rather ironic note, I watched the real eclipse a few hours ago. And I enjoyed that far more. Go figure.

 

[All-Star 1.5]

Good episode a solid 3 1/2 star efort it had some really great lines; nice plot, great animation and a good villian(s)

They were a few things I noticed in this episode. Like a refrence to the wormhole generator and the power generator thing that was used in a the Static Shock crossover. As well as the cops that were used in "TBATB" and refrence to the comic of the same name a well as a few Flash orinated comic villians and even an apperance by the person who got Baby Doll's show cancelled and I am almost certain that army dude in that costume looked ver familiar.


The episode itself was okay it was a good Flash spotlight with a healthy amount of humor and action. Though I felt that I have seen that single hero versus JL type of story before.

 

[Crimson]

A very uneven episode: the main story line involving "Eclipso" was good enough, but the sub-story involving Glorious Godfrey was God-awful. Random thoughts:

Interesting use of members of Flash's rogues gallery. Given that it was a commercial, obviously they were not the real villains. They were either actors portraying Flash's enemies, or fake villains created for the commercial. Given that they used lame characters, I would vote for the later. After all, using real criminals in an ad, or even actors portraying them, would be in very bad taste.

The possessed general doesn't know how to salute, but he knows how to use a computer? Uh, okay

Nice way to work in the traditional "Eclipso." "Put on a gaudy costume and threaten a lot of people." heh

Flash seems to be evolving into one of the main characters; not only is he saving the day more often, he seems to be developing a wider use of his powers. I know a lot of people will like this, but I don't. I think it was a good idea to limit the members range of powers in a team show; but J'onn, Flash and GL all continue to have their abilities evolve. Diana's lasso lacking the power of truth fell into this original narrowing of powers; unlike the others, I don't see this being rectified anytime soon, if at all.

WW to Flash: "Don't you ever shut up?" Amen

The comedy on this show, for the most part, is just awful. A few gags work, but very few and far between. They really need to just give up on this.

The Peter Lorre-ish voice of Mofear (?) seemed inappropriate and out of place.

The entire sub-plot revolving around Glorious Godfrey was dreadful. The "satire" on political demagogues was far too heavy-handed.

I'll need to view this episode again, but on first viewing this now is only slightly above "Hearts and Minds" as my least favorite episode of JL ever. S2 is shaping up to be very uneven. Some of the episodes are far better than anything produced during S1, some episodes are worse than anything from S1.

 

[Bubblegum Girl]

I've missed the first half from watching South Park, but Eclipsed is an okay episode. I really liked it when Flash saves the day. (But more snake men? I mean first He-Man has a problem with snake men and now the Justice League? Not to agure with but snake men make great villians but it loses it originality if many shows uses that type of villian)

 

[Weibart]

gotta mention this first off, shattering the evil crystal into shards was a great plot twist and took the story into a totally different direction than i was expecting, kudos to the crew. i was very impressed by that, a very clever turn instead of the league fighting a giant snake man or something. the ending was, well, an ending. it was a "take their word for it ending." hawkgirl gave a scientific theory on how a wormhole generator would solve the sun problem involving flash and green lantern, and it played out that way. not that i didn't like that, but there wasn't a lot of drama in the flash racing to stop the sun problem. i dunno, i understand why they chose to do that to the sun and how it would blot it out to the earth (eclipsed!), but it was a linear solution. appropriate problem to pose against the earth, but it just didn't play out well. it was solved just as hawgirl said. i didn't have any problems with the rest of the episode, i really enjoyed the talk show host and the opening and it was a solid episode. regardless, a fun ep.