Young Justice: Season 1, Vol. 3

*****A (slightly) BETTER RELEASE IS SCHEDULED***** As another reviewer has posted, do not buy this unless you absolutely feel you have to. Even if you don't mind these boneless releases there is a Volume 1-3 bundle being released that will only cost 3 dollars more ($14.99) than this volume does alone ($11.99). So while I still wish a proper release was coming at least they have bundled the boneless releases for a better price, its already listed on amazonYoung Justice: Season 1 Volumes 1-3.

This show only gets better as the first season progresses so much layering, so much character development and so much well done action. That said, these releases are still fairly pointless, they could release a Season 1: Part 1 blu by now with special features and then release the second half later with more but instead we just get the episodes and nothing more when mots of us can tivo them.

I understand the marketing aspect and trying to rake in as much cash as they can, though I may not agree with it, but WB is just terrible at these volume releases. If they do want to continue these releases, as I've said before and will continue to say, they could really learn a lesson from Nickelodeon. The Last Airbender series is a key example, they broke those seasons up and released them with only 4 (and later 5 episodes per disc), but at least they included some basic extras. Those basic extras, 4-5 minute behind the scenes interviews and such, became much more in depth as the show gained popularity, including complete animatics, full episode commentaries, etc. Then in an effort to force fans to double dip later they would package all those releases together, extras included, and add even more new features (on one occassion four all new commentaries on the finale) while charging a much more reasonable price.

WB, with many of its animted series, seems to think this market is purely for children and just tosses out standard definition episodes as if they still cannot be attained any other way. This isn't the nineties or even the early 2000's, there is no justifiable reason to purchase episodes alone in low quality. With todays digital age these episodes can be bought digitally in better definition or even found online for free in the same quality they broadcast.

Come on WB get your act together and put in at least a minimal amount of effort. Add some clips of Weisman talking about the show, throw on a rough animatic, even a featurette talking about the creation or the materials the show is based on. This is a great show but these releases are insulting, I can only hope we get a proper release when the season finishes but even then I fear WB may shove out the episodes without any extras and may not even put them in high definition. What happened to the days of releases like Batman: TAS or Justice League? Let's have a welcome return to releases like that or better yet releases like The Last Airbender Complete Collections.

For those who haven't seen the show, it is AMAZING! The action is excellently choreographed and maintains a reality that surpasses most current blockbusters, and I'm not just hyping it, the fights are unique and have a weight and reality to them while feeling fresh and like we haven't seen them done this way before. The character's are each well defined and unique and the character development is well balanced, giving us a bit of new insight each episode as well as having some building love interests just to keep things fun. The stories are drawn right from the comics but are given a dimension of reality that finds them feeling adult. The animation is top notch and overall this show breathes new life into the DC Universe, which has been feeling a bit stale for most since Justice League Unlimited ended.

Give this show a try but don't bother with these idiotic DVD's, maybe if no one buys them they will finally change their methods.

This is truly an excellent show. The creative content is unfortunately not the big story here, as it should be. Rather the big story has become the uproar over Warner Home Video's unscrupulous blood-sucking method of releasing Season One.

Economics teaches that "dollar voting" is an analogy used to show how consumer purchases can affect which products will be produced, how they are produced (OR PACKAGED) and if they are continued to be supplied to the market.

If you purchase the item, every dollar you spent is a vote of approval, whereas if you pass-up on the purchase, or deliberately boycott it, this is considered a negative vote. The products with the most "dollar votes" generate the greatest profit and will continue to be produced.

This is an excellent show and I do not appreciate our consumer interest and enthusiasm being exploited. It is unforgivable to break this excellent shows first season into three separate volumes with an unreasonable (total) price of $35-45.

Then when sufficient time has gone by and it is now time to pursue the remaining $$$'s of those consumers that showed agonizing restraint, or came to this product late, we are then offered a complete season one for the more market friendly price of $17.99.

I am totally sick of this marketing trend in today's society.

I love this show. It is clever and very adult - a great addition to the DC family.

BUT! I am NOT going to pay $34 total for all three sets just to have Season One!!!!!

Seriously people?? Hold out and wait for better packaging and don't buy into this extortion.

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