Justice League"Secret Origins" (3-part episode)
Back in the 1960s, I loved regular comics...but getting a new issue of Justice League of America was like finding the Holy Grail to me...it was unbelievably exciting whenever I got hold of one of those. So a Justice League TV series was great. Of course, everything today is a reboot and this isn't quite the original JLA. True, we do have Superman, Batman, J'onn J'onzz and Wonder Woman here...but we don't have the original Flash (instead we get his successor, the Wally West Flash) and instead of Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, we get the black one, John somebody (sorry, I forget his last name at this moment). And Aquaman is nowhere to be seen...maybe they were afraid they wouldn't have enough for him to do if they couldn't get every menace near the ocean? So instead we have Hawkgirl...why not Hawkman? Maybe they also wanted to have two women there and not have Wonder Woman as the only feminine member of the group? Well, if you count someone who can level a tank without breathing hard feminine...!
Interestingly enough, in the two season sets of the original Justice League (before they added more heroes and made it Justice League Unlimited), practically every Justice League adventure was continued...they're all 2 or 3 part stories. The only episode that was told in one episode was a Christmas story. They kicked the series off with this 3-part story which had not only an exciting alien invasion but also the obligatory origin story as well. Snapper Carr is in this storyline, by the way...he plays a TV reporter...us old-timers who read the JLA stories from the 60s remember him as the goofy sidekick to the league. He got his nickname of Snapper because he was always snapping his fingers.
Some unbelievably powerful aliens have invaded Metropolis and the rest of the world and, one by one, various super-heroes are drawn into the fray. In this version, J'Onn J'Onzz (who I always like referring to as the Martian Manhunter) and Wonder Woman are making their first appearances in the world with this adventure. There's a few oddities here (like non-super characters carrying the broken off wing of Batman's plane like it weighs nothing) but overall I liked how the storyline went. All the heroes got their chance to shine and GL's skepticism that a "mere rookie" like Wonder Woman could contribute are soon laid to rest. Interestingly, WW refers to herself in this adventure as Princess Diana...I don't remember anyone actually referring to her as Wonder Woman in this adventure...but I might have just missed it. If you like the Batman and Superman animated series from the 90s and early 2000s and want more (and if, like me, you're crazy about super-hero teams), you can't do better than the Justice League. They don't call them the world's greatest heroes for nothing.
Oh yes, I really love the opening credit sequence...I like the appearance of each character and I love the theme music. As far as the animation goes, it is on par with the previous DC animated series. The heroes have impossibly lengthy jaws, of course, and everyone looks like they're on steroids...well, luckily, not the girls.