Polite Dissent

This week’s Justice League Unlimited episode, the Gail Simone penned “Double Date”, was a fun half-hour featuring returning favorites Green Arrow, Black Canary and Question plus new favorite the Huntress.

The first scene where two mob enforcers are discussing the proper way to cook scones let’s the viewer know that Simone’s trademark humor would be in this episode, and there were several laugh out loud moments (plus a great deal of action) throughout the show.

The Huntress is after Mandragora, the mobster who killed her parents. Mandragora, however, in is federal custody (King Faraday’s, to be precise) because he claims he’s turning State’s evidence. In addition to the federal agents, Black Canary and Green Arrow are also assigned to guard him. Meanwhile, the Huntress cons the Question into helping her find Mandragora so she can kill him. Arrow and Canary intercept the Huntress and Question and stop them from killing Mandragora. During the battle, he manages to escape from custody and both sets of heroes track him down, and both manage to find him at the same time. I can’t say more without spoiling the ending.

Amy “Fred” Acker provided the voice for the Huntress, making this episode an all Joss Whedon episode for the female voice actors (Morena “Inara” Baccarin provides the voice of the Black Canary).

I didn’t get a chance to say anything about last week’s episode, the Hawkgirl-Wonder Woman buddy flick “The Balance.” It was an enjoyable half-hour, but it’s clear Faust isn’t much of a tactical thinker when he sends his second worst enemy to the place where his worst enemy is chained up, apparently never considering the fact that his enemies will join forces and he’ll be facing his two worst most powerful enemies together. No great loss to villainy there.