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Young Justice suffered premature cancellation only to be saved years later, but creator Greg Weisman insists it will never have a perfect ending.
When Young Justice saw cancellation previously after only two seasons, the support between fans and creators unified to bring the series back even after years without a word of it. Two seasons was simply not enough for the story, set in a constantly growing world with ever more characters rife for exploration and with untold potential yet to be seen. Now well into Season 4, fans continue to rally to keep the series going, and if creator Greg Weisman gets the final say, it will keep on going indefinitely.
There is no end in sight for Weisman, who says he has no finale planned for where the series will end up. Paralleling his outlook on the show to its outlook on life, Weisman offers a wise perspective that could come as great news to Young Justice fans who never want the series to end.
Though Weisman spoke on the matter before, recently on Twitter, he gave particular focus to the subject of a Young Justice finale that simply does not exist:
I keep saying over and over, IT NEVER ENDS. There will never be a “proper ending” to #YoungJustice. Ever. So we’ll either get more or we won’t. Meanwhile, we have a gameplan for at least 3 more seasons figured out, and by the time we finished those, we’d probably have 3 more. https://t.co/pdQ2Y6oclc
— Greg Weisman (@Greg_Weisman) November 11, 2021
Responding to a tweet asking him about how long the show would last, Weisman replied, “I keep saying over and over, IT NEVER ENDS. There will never be a “proper ending” to #YoungJustice. Ever. So we’ll either get more or we won’t.” He goes on to say that he has three seasons planned out and expects to plan out even more by the time those are up.
In later tweets on the same night, Weisman clarified that there are pieces to the overall story which have endings. Episodes and seasons, for instance, are written with endings in mind, but the series itself is always left open-ended. Weisman’s intention in doing this is that life itself so rarely has definitive endpoints. Graduations, big moves and even death always create opportunities where the story continues thereafter, and in looking over Young Justice, it’s easy to see how the ambitious show could keep surviving for years and years without ever really needing to end.
In its way, Young Justice is about legacy and that is not something that ever really ends. Each season introduces new characters and builds up new generations of heroes to take up the responsibilities of those before them. Even the original team are no longer teenagers, settling into lives as adults and mentors that provide guidance much in the same way their own heroes did when they first began. Various characters have died, never to return, but there are far more new characters who stepped in to take their place. Were the show to continue indefinitely, it could very much keep its heart even as the focus shifted entirely away from its original cast.
There are no other superhero shows that manage to convey such a broad cast of characters stretched across so many years who develop emotionally and psychologically as much as the Young Justice cast. Even the DC Animated Universe, the ambitious multi-show project which previously linked shows like Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited across over a decade of real-world production, created a world more akin to the comics where everything that’s connected stands in isolation and the characters do not undergo drastic changes over time. Young Justice is different, and Weisman’s driving force helps inspire that.
The world of Young Justice really does feel organic and like it’s constantly growing. Since the beginning, it has been meticulous in keeping the audience informed on its timeline, and even without spinoff projects or related shows, it manages to juggle so many different stories that its world feels massive and ripe for further exploration. And yet, Weisman’s approach to unending worldbuilding does come with a cost. At the end of the day, Young Justice is a story, and as lifelike as stories try to be, they do inevitably have endings.
Some of the greatest TV finales in history are remarkable for their ability to leave the viewer satisfied and wanting more while still providing a sense of closure and finality they could never have otherwise. Although it would be amazing to have infinite seasons of Young Justice, that’s simply not realistic to expect. If the show is to continue indefinitely for the foreseeable future, fans may do best to prepare themselves to never get a final punctuation to the series that will leave them satisfied. This just isn’t the type of show to give them that.
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