Late, but, thanks for the review!
I do like the Halo vs Victor fight scene - it's Violet's first solo fight, and she ends up doing pretty well! She's still clearly a rookie, but she's gotten a better sense of her abilities and is doing better at keeping a clear head (though she still has room to grow.)
I do wonder if Dick's, ah, living up to his name, is going to come up again in s4. Like I said before I do actually like seeing this more flawed version; I think he actually is a pretty interesting illustration of how the spy kids mindset can be harmful as much as it's helpful. But there's no denying that in the moment it really doesn't help de-escalate anything. My suspicion is that, going forward, the Markovia plot will mostly involve Halo and Terra (and potentially Superboy as Brion's de facto mentor), and that Nightwing and the rest of the batkids will be concerned with the Red Hooded ninja plot, but it could be interesting to see Dick regretting how he handled things here, or trying to do better with other new heroes in similar situations. That's getting pretty far out into the weeds, though.
Also, wow that was a lot of age related questions. A lot of these characters are a lot younger than I figured - there's something very sad in the Markov parents being killed by someone barely older than their sons (who might've been controlled himself - I've been assuming DeLamb was banking on being the hero who killed the assassin, and it would be very typical for him to have used a chip to guarantee it happened that way.) Or how Mist was being puppetted by those Branchwater nanobots when she ought to have been a freshman in high school. And, of course, poor Anna.
And of course, seconding (thirding?) Being glad to see the queue under 200, especially as we get closer to October and FanDome. I really can't wait to see whatever trailers or posters are in store - of course I'm not expecting to be able to tell much of the plot from them, but even just fuel for speculation will be fun.
Karrin Blue
posted @ Sun, Aug 8, 2021 9:25:04 pm EDT from 68.9.91.142