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Here is the first Poster I drew for the Young Justice Campaign "keepyjalive".

Looks like a certain speedster is hyped up for tomorrow.

Just like Wally said, tomorrow, November 26th at 6:30 PM Pacific, the journey begins.

On the anniversary of Young Justice, we kick off Project Stream: a united, weekly rewatch of the entire series, starting with Episode 1: Independence Day and Episode 2: Fireworks.

A celebration of the show. A celebration of the fandom. And a push to keep the story alive.

Online discussion opens at 6:30 PM Pacific on r/YoungJustice as we all hit Play together.

But you do not need to follow this exact timing so feel free to join the rewatch and discussion whenever works for you. Everyone’s welcome, no matter your schedule.

We simply ask that you review the community expectations and format so we can keep the conversation fun, positive, and respectful for all in the subreddit.

We hope you’ll join us on this journey as we celebrate the show, the community, and everything that makes Young Justice special.

If you’re in, see you dudes online at 6:30 PM Pacific.

Let's Stream the Show Together

Let's stay whelmed and feeling aster

Let's #KeepYJAlive!

The show's future is unfortunately in danger. Young Justice has not been picked up for season five yet (despite being top of the trending section in Brazil and within the top three in the US)

While there’s M’gann and Zatanna who show a certain lack of objectivity, Kaldur is arguably too objective for his own good. He’s made a habit of often making/agreeing to decisions based on logic and ultimately disregarding the emotional impact said decisions have on others and himself. Especially himself.

Kaldur has been involved in two major secret operations which manipulated his fellow heroes and friends into situations designed to hurt the Light. Great for The Mission. Not so great for the friends hurt in the process. He’s very much a product of Batman’s guidance - putting all personal desires aside to ensure full focus is where it needs to be - to ensure maximum success. Even if it means playing by the other side's rule book.

Kaldur is a soldier and his duty is to protect those in need - even if that means sacrificing part of himself to ensure others don’t have to suffer the burden themselves. After the traumatic experience that was Failsafe, Kaldur’s first instinct when talking with Canary was to step down from his role as leader - all because he let himself get ‘killed’ saving the life of another and ultimately abandoning his team. The only reason he revokes his resignation is to protect 13yo Robin from having to carry the “burden” of leader whilst being still so young — despite Kaldur himself only being 16/17yo at the time. Logically Kaldur is the best leader - but given the fact he describes the role as a “burden” illustrates pretty clearly his emotional opinion of the role.

Kaldur’s choice to prioritise logic over emotion can be just as harmful as the reverse — especially when it’s his own emotions he’s disregarding. After Tula died and he discovered Black Manta was his father, Kaldur never grieved or took a timeout to come to terms with these major life changes, instead he saw a logical opportunity to further their mission by going undercover to tear the Light down from within. A plan which would also isolate him from those he cares about - at a time he should really have support around him - and paint him as a dirty traitor to all who knows him. That is not a good way to process your grief - in fact, he essentially commodifies it - making it into a believable reason why he’d switch sides instead of an emotion that comes after suffering a loss. Then there’s what happens after Wally's death… Kaldur loses one of his closest friends and what does he decide to do? He carries on leading. After everything he’d been through undercover, the experiences he had to face, the deception he had to embody, and it all ended with the death of someone else he cared about. He cannot go through all that and just be ok - all things have a breaking point whether you want to believe it or not.

S3 may have shown some of those cracks starting to reveal themselves when Kaldur struggles to accept the praises of his king and mentor regarding the Outsiders mission the Anti-Light manipulated. The logic of lying for the sake of the mission finally shows its weight as it tugs on his conscience and causes his emotions to slip into view. This is the first instance of his losing a bit of composure - the emotional side he’s been neglecting for 3 seasons is finally catching up to him and is ready to tip the scales. As I said in my Random thoughts post, all things have a breaking point and I strongly feel like Kaldur’s is coming very soon. In what we’ve seen of him in 4a, he couldn’t even speak when Artemis asked what had happened and he’s been spending time at Conner and Wally’s memorials - those emotions are getting stronger. Something major has got to happen in Kaldur’s arc that causes that change in design seen in the trailer, and whatever it is I think that will be the thing that finally breaks him… (sorry but he is overdue some form of emotional breakdown after all the stuff he’s been through)

Anyway, I don’t know how his actually reads. I just wanted to get the basic thoughts down before I see what actually happens in 4b. I love Kaldur and I’m so excited to see what the show brings us with his arc and the rest of the show… Guess I’ll find out tomorrow!

Happy YJ watching everybody!