Nerdgasm

[yendi]

shadesong and I just watched this weekend's episode of Legion of Super-Heroes.

The sound you just heard from Watertown was the world's biggest nerdgasm.

Night Girl! Polar Boy! Infectious Lass! Tyr! The LSV (and like Marvel's recent moves with the Brotherhood, a smart choice to not use "villains" in the title). Invisible Kid! Colossal Boy! Porcupine Fucking Pete! Double Header! Ayla! Spider Girl! The beginning of the Triplicate Girl/Bouncing Boy romance! Guest voicework from Tara Strong and Khary Payton! Ongoing plotlines and continuity!

And Breath Boy.

And next week's episode is "The Substitutes!"

I am really happy with this series right now.

Comments

[badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear lord, please let that episode be sitting on my TiVo. I love me some Legion of Substitute Heroes. (I remember feeling so proud of Polar Boy when he finally made it to the big leagues — and then when he eventually got to be leader? Oh, man, good stuff.)

Y'know, sometimes I take my dorkiness for granted. Thanks for helping me remember just what a dork I really am.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Ayla? Where was Ayla? I didn't see her.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I hope Warner Bros isn't a total spazz about complete season dvds for this one. There is little chance of me being awake to catch the show and I don't have any kind of tivo device...

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

Taping...Why aren't I TAPING?!?!?!?!?!

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

you mean there was actually something on tv that i would watch... and i missed it?!

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Same here.

[yendi]

In the flashback -- we see Mekt shout for Garth and Ayla to move as he takes the brunt of the lightning beast's zap.

[yendi]

If you got this Saturday's show, you've got it.

And yeah, I had the same feeling of pride when Polar Boy hit it big.

[yendi]

They should -- they've been good about The Batman.

[yendi]

No one uses tape anymore. You should be DVRing.

[yendi]

The folks behind the show clearly love offering up in-jokes to the geeks.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, I watched that with [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], and he was geeking out in exactly the same way. I had to keep making him pause it and explain who they were and what they could do. And next week is the auditions!

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

heh. Not being a Legion fan at all, most of that went right over my head. You mean there's really a Breath Boy in the comics?

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Nah, him they made up. We were speculating that they didn't want to waste any of the good ones before next week's ep, when they do the league tryouts.

[yendi]

I am so psyched!

[tewok.livejournal.com]

Legion of Super-Heroes is a cartoon??? Who broadcasts this? With my luck, it'll be a cable-only channel, dagnabbit.