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SUNDOWN PART 2
PLOT:
With the Sun Eater on a direct course for Earth's sun, the Legion has no choice but to ask bitter enemies for help to stop it. Superman meanwhile has his toughest battle yet when he discovers the stealthy alien controlling the sinister machine. In the end, the Legion triumphs... but at a terrible cost.
REVIEW:
When the show started, alot of people stated that it was going to be Superman guest starring the Legion of Superheroes, because of it being a tie-in to the 2006 Superman Returns. However, as the show progressed, while still being a Superman show, it has become more of what it's title is: a Legion of Superheroes show. Sure Superman was in it, as a main character and got focused alot, but it was Lightning Lad, Timber Wolf, Phantom Girl, and Brainiac 5 whom were focused too. And in turn, showed how good the Legion of Superheroes team is. As the season finale came near and near, many wondered how the first season would end. Many had their ideas, even me. Let's see.
The episode opens with the Legion wondering what to do to stop the Sun Eater. Bouncing Boy has a suggestion, which leads to a prison planet where Superman, Phantom Girl and Saturn Girl break in. Shrinking Violet (making her first appearance) helps them disable the security system, and they run but Superman stops and sees Alexis, and then continues fourth. They have come to meet The Fatal Five, who they need to help them save Earth. They are free on a truce. On the ship, tensions between the teams run high, until Bouncing Boy & Brainiac 5 come in and explain the plan and keep them in check. They need to make a solar transducer which will make the Sun Eater eat itself if they can feed it into the core. The Fatal Five states that making one will take months, but Brainiac 5 says it won't if they work together. Both teams separate and go all to different places in the galaxy with tasks. Bouncing Boy tells the last task to Superman: he needs to find and stop the Controller behind the Sun Eater. Superman takes off, taking things with him including the time portal so he can go home if the Legion fail (which he doesn't need, he says). He finds the ship of the Controller and goes in. The solar transfuser is completed and the teams gather together in attack formation...
I was expecting the unholy team up between the Legion and the Fatal Five to be in the first part, but having that in the second part was better. In a way, the first part sets up how helpless the Legion are with part 2 showing how desperate they are when they need their enemies to help them. I called this an unholy team up for very good reasons. We've seen this before, like X2: X-Men United, where the good guys and bad guys team up and either they are able to work together and save the day in the end, or the bad guys double cross the good guys and still able to win the day. Same thing here. The Five double cross, and Empress had a good plan for them which was to have the Sun Eater destroy the universe and the Legion in it, and move away from it. Hey, once a villain sees an opening, he or she will take it. We know that for we have read and seen it numerous times. So he team here was
So we finally meet the Controller and his motives. First off, he is an alien. No mistake. Pink skin, skinny. But he wears a giant robot-looking suit of armor to fight Superman. His motives are very simple: he doesn't like the United Planets, and hates the peace but loves chaos. So with that ion mind, the Controller is nothing more than a "I want to destroy the universe" villain. I gotta admit, once he said that, I felt "oh boy, its one of those guys". At least with his huge armor, he does beat the crap out of Superman.
This episode also goes full circle back to "Man of Tomorrow" for Superman. In this episode, Ferro Lad dies (that’s where this being a spoiler filled episode review comes in) and Superman gives a speech about heroes and Ferro Lad. Once done, he activates the same time bubble he went to from that first episode and goes home back to Smallville. The point of all this: Superman has experienced alot of things with the Legion that he was suppose to do as he matured himself. Once a Legionaire happens to die, it finally comes back to Superman that he is still a young guy and he is not ready for all this yet. Plus, I for one expected this to be the ending. And I feel alot of people knew too. I mean, what if this was the only season for the series? Superman would still be with the Legion and we wouldn't know what happened that got him back home. Thats why I like this way, and from news of season 2, like it even more. I like that it went full circle back to the first episode and that he remembers that he is still young and went through action, adventure, betrayal, and death quite early than when he was suppose to. So, again, I liked this ending.
Overall, this second part of the two parter was. I also want to point out, in case I forget, that more Legionaires appeared. Such as Blok, Shrinking Violet, Dream Girl, and Ultra Boy (last seen as a participant in the Intergalactic Games in "Champions" and others that I don't even know their names except for long time fans. So Legion fans will rejoice over that. This show has done a great job as both a Superman show and a Legion of Superheroes show, and it did it well balancing the iconic superhero with the team. The fact that it got a second season proves this, and I can't wait to see it. It also makes me wonder how Superman, or SuperMEN, will appear in season 2.
RATING: 8/10
You don't get it, boy... this isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table.
(crack!)
And I'm the surgeon.
- Batman - The Dark Knight Returns
RE: Legion of Super-Heroes - 113 - Sundown Part 2 -
Posted on 05-05-2007 11:15
It was alright.. I just have never been able to really get into this show.
But, we know that Supes will be back, and Ferro Lad isn't dead. They showed him briefly on a broken peice of metor, he was laying there. He'll be back.
RE: Legion of Super-Heroes - 113 - Sundown Part 2 -
Posted on 05-05-2007 14:48
Posts: 2061 Location: Gotham City Joined: 30.07.05
so i guess he just goes to the future when he's bored? lol. i wouldnt mind having a cartoon version of Smallville, lol. cuz thats what it sorta looks like from the end of the episode.
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and others that I don't even know their names except for long time fans. So Legion fans will rejoice over that. This show has done a great job as both a Superman show and a Legion of Superheroes show, and it did it well balancing the iconic superhero with the team. The fact that it got a second season proves this, and I can't wait to see it. It also makes me wonder how Superman, or SuperMEN, will appear in season 2.
- Suneater finale was ok. Supes went home?
