Spoilers for Young Justice Season 4 Episode 5 Tale of Two Sisters
first off that montage of Artemis: AAAHHHH! She’s now a professor who teaches students at a college!! I’m so happy for her. Then I think she has a boyfriend maybe. Don’t know how I completely feel about that since I believe Wally isn’t dead (I’m in denial I know). Like I’m perfectly ok with her being with someone else. It’s just that if they bring Wally back, it’s going to be heavy angst.
Secondly,more importaintly, the fact that they went to her house and told her in person and that she knew before they said anything that someone died makes my heart hurt. Add that in with the montage of the reverse of what we just saw, Season 4 is really trying to get the ice around my heart to melt. It’s really trying. I swear.
I can’t believe that Will still has the family photo of him and Jade and Lian. I love that photo.
I also loved the group photo from what I can assume is season 1 or at least 2.
Ok so this will get out of order in the ways I want to talk about it just a heads up (The mole, the backstory flashbacks, and then Jade)
Ok so I think we can trust Casandra Savage because she did tell the truth about her sister Olympia dying in front of her by their dad. We know that that is true. And she did seem to try to reassure herself that she was old and it was a mercy. Although that could be what they want us to think. I don’t know for sure.
I feel like we might be able to trust Onyx. I’m not really completely sure about this. Because I do believe Terra that she isn’t blood thirst enough to be an assassin, but like that doesn’t really matter. They could just be blackmailing her to do it and she doesn’t necessarily have to kill them to betray them. I’m not 100% certain, but I do feel we might get a ought Terra scenario from her or even Cassandra Savage.
I love that bit with Stephanie. Absolutely love it. I love Stephanie.
But back to the mole thing. As much as I want to believe them, I have to believe Cassandra Cain. Cassandra Cain is rarely if ever wrong about someone because she can read body language fluently. There’s no reason not to trust her.
I wonder if we might be able to see a little “redemption” (in this scenario I don’t think she has anything to be redeemed) for Terra because of this. Maybe she’ll relate to her.
Ok so the flashbacks! We get to see how Sportsmaster actually trained his daughters. Why did he make them make wear masks? But then again that’s such an abusive parent thing. Also, the way he treated Jade when she called him out on it to protect Artemis. Absolute Trash Dad.
We get to see the ending to the part of the flashback we already saw and the og flashback also being remastered. The ending to that is horrifying because we know what happens after. But since we know what happens after, it’s kinda shows how much Artemis’s life has changed. We saw in the beginning of the episode of her life being happy. It’s really impactful to me at least.
I hate the fact that Jade left but I understand why she did it. I love that they showed her on a train protecting herself discreetly, showing she’s tough. But since she was tough, she has trouble accepting a happy life like Artemis has.
Ok I’m getting way too deep here.
But it goes along to with the next section I want to talk about
Ok first why does Paula have the ability to contact Jade and then blames her for never being there when she would come home for them. First thing she does is ask what’s wrong with Lian. While I do think her mom is right in the fact that she had everything, but who knows maybe she had to continue her work you don’t know. I’m also kinda want to think that that was why she wanted to die by Sensei was so she didn’t want to face her family.
Also Sensei is the one that helped with finding Roy
So if Jade is in debt, what could they have her do? Why do they want her to want to live? She’s not going to be sent on a suicide mission then, but what do they want to do with her? I wonder if this means that at the end of this arc she goes to work for the Al Ghuls or goes back home to her family. I would love for her to go back to her family even though I think it’s unlikely for her to be able to go back to her family.
Also back to the Al Ghuls. What are they doing? You expect me to believe that they’re just chilling on that island and are doing nothing because Ra’s sees the world in grays now. Like no? That wouldn’t stop him from doing his shadow things. “Once a shadow always a shadow” It only means that he changed the way he’s going to do them. You cannot tell me he’s not planing something. He finally has a “worthy” heir. He’s going to go back to the light or steal back the Shadows. There’s no way that he’s just going to sit on the sidelines like?
By the way I love how Talia walks in with her two sons. She’s also carrying Damian. Also it is confirmed that it is Damian (Wayne). He looks so cute!! I’m so happy! Love the fact that Jade the one who gave up her daughter to live a more happy/safe life than her tells Talia a woman who grew up about the same way as her that her son is going to need therapy and Talia is like no he’s not going to need therapy because he has me. I’m just like Dude he’s always need therapy that’s like his whole thing he can’t function he has like one brain cell when it comes to feelings I don’t I can’t get this out of my mind. I get Jade’s point I do, but like it’s not going to be that much better like comparing Jade giving Lian to Will to Talia giving Damian to Bruce. While it would be better, in canon it’s not Bruce that helps Damian be a hero as much as the main stream people want you to believe. It is Dick, Dick needs to get Damian and Jason who might possibly have is memories back like I don’t think that’ll exactly be his arc but maybe something similar. I can only hope.
Also while Talia is irresponsible with raising her son in an environment like hers, she does seem to genuinely care for him. I wonder if Jade might learn from Talia or vise versa because I really hope they’re not going for the Grant Morison run’s Talia.
I wrote so much this week I’m so sorry I don’t know what got into me…
