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Anonymous writes...

This is a question about the writer's room and your relationship with the writers.

Do you and Brandon develop all of the premises for the episodes yourselves? What if a writer comes to you and says: "I have my own really cool idea for an episode. Can I pitch it to you?" or "I don't know if you guys are planning to bring back Wally or not, but, if you are, I have a really cool scene in mind for Wally's return."

Would this be inappropriate? Is he or she crossing some kind of line? Is he in danger of being fired? Is a writer's job strictly to develop the premises you give her? Or, is there some flexibility to parameters of his job description?

Greg responds...

For the last two seasons, Brandon and I skipped the premise stage entirely, and we broke every episode together on index cards, and I took those cards to outline. Then Brandon, myself and the freelance writers are handed a completed outline. (We have no staff writers on the show, and haven't after season one, for budgetary reasons.) So, no, a writer can't come in and say "I have my own really cool idea for an episode." Freelancers are not in danger of being fired; they simply don't have that opportunity on this series. It's too intricately plotted. They do come on at the outline stage, and we talk through everything and try to stay very open to their ideas for the episode they've been assigned and to the other episodes in the writers room that day. But the story is the story. If they decide to bring Wally back in an episode where we didn't previously plan to bring Wally back, it's simply not going to happen.

But no one ever suggests going that far off book, anyway. That's just not this gig, and that's made clear up front.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Marvelman writes...

Young Justice: Phantoms didn't seem prominent to me at Fandome. In fact, I haven't seen much marketing for the show. I get the impression that the show isn't that important for the folks at DC or HBO. Am I wrong? Am I jumping to conclusions?

Greg responds...

They'd say otherwise.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Kyr writes...

Hi Greg, loving Phantoms so far.

I was hoping you could provide a little elaboration for the warehouse fight scene from the tie-in comics issue 10: Hot Case.

At the end of the fight, Yarrow tries to shoot Robin but Superboy swoops in and takes the bullet himself.

1.) Is Superboy traveling faster than the bullet or did he jump before the bullet was fired and just got lucky?

Here's the scene https://imgur.com/a/UQ2wula

Greg responds...

I guess it's open to interpretation, but I'd say he leaped in AND was moving very fast.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Alan writes...

Hi Greg, huge fan of Young Justice and all your other projects.
You said that the Green Arrow DC showcase and Catwoman Hunted loosely exist in the young justice timeline, that versions of these events happened but maybe not exactly the same. What team years did these almost events happen in the YJ timeline?

Greg responds...

No spoilers. ESPECIALLY not for Catwoman: Hunted, which hasn't even come out yet.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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jade writes...

How did you come up with Aqualad´s new deisgn, it looks really cool and i hope we get to see him again in season 4 !

Greg responds...

I'm not sure which new design you're referring to. Do you mean his Aquaman design?

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Inertia writes...

1 When Bart is asked to join the outsiders he says Kid Flash is out, too, from back in Wally's day so he has no problems with being a public hero without a secret identity. Does this mean the World knows Wally West was Kid Flash and think Bart is the same as Wally. I just don't get that line it's from First Impressions.
2 When nightwing said "Still, everyone's here except the one guy I really need." was the one guy he was referring to Wally? Last time when I asked the question i forgot to mention that is from the series finale of season 3 when the team is assembled before black lightning is elected as leader. I asked this question again since I don't think the question was properly framed with the necessary information the first time, apologies for that.
Also thanks a lot keeping this relic from my childhood alive really appreciate it and have a great day.

Greg responds...

1. No. He's saying that Kid Flash was a known hero, as opposed to, say, Nightwing or Miss Martian. Many people incorrectly assume that Bart as Kid Flash is the same person as Wally was as Kid Flash. But neither of them have revealed their secret identities to the world. Though Bart isn't particularly careful about his.

2. No. He was talking about Black Lightning, who showed up a few seconds later. He needed Black Lightning, because he was about to recommend him to be the League's new chairperson.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Will writes...

1. Is Dreamer the New God a more powerful psychic that can get information that normal telepaths can't at least without harming them like she did in her first appearance?
2. What were the Light’s traditions that Ultra Humanite was referring too?
3. Why didn’t the Light dispose of Speedy when they were okay with it for the other sidekicks when they were captured in Cadmus?
4. What was the official reason/cover story that Lex Luthor had held Speedy captive for so long?
5. Could martians have children with humans or atlanteans or
even other aliens?

Greg responds...

1. "More powerful" than whom? I'm not too big on power comparisons. Her powers are different but overlap with other psychics we have in the series.

2. I think he states it fairly clearly in the episode.

3. They thought he might be useful, and by that time there was no fear that his existence would out their clone.

4. I don't understand this question. Cover story for whom?

5. It's a good question... that I'm not going to answer, as any answer could constitute a potential spoiler.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Liam writes...

What type of music does the main young justice team like? I’d specially like to know for Artemis, Miss Martian, and Aquaman (Artemis because she’s my favorite, but the other two because they’re from different cultures and I’m interested to know what they would think of human music and what kind they’d like)

Greg responds...

I'm going to leave that to your interpretation.

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Impetuous_77 writes...

1. How old is Saturn girl?
2. How old is Phantom Girl?

Greg responds...

Assuming they survive to the end of Team Year Ten, they will be...

1. 18

2. 15

Response recorded on November 08, 2021

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Verdragon writes...

Was the Doom Patrol Go sequence in "Nightmare Monkeys" a response to Teen Titans Go parodying Young Justice in their episode "Let's Get Serious"?

Greg responds...

In part.

Response recorded on November 05, 2021


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