Another digital tie-in. However, after The Chloe Chronicles and The Vengeance Chronicles, they changed from live-action to animation. Which was a good choice. Both Chronicle series were largely restricted to existing sets and mostly just had people talking. Justice & Doom followed up on the appearance of Green Arrow's team, after they've set out to bring down remaining 33,1 facilities and having a run-in with another Ares prototype (plus appearances by Martian Manhunter (in Martian form) and flashbacks to past centuries, which would've required period costumes). It wouldn't have worked in live-action.
What works is the team's continued mission. What doesn't work is their attempt to tie things back to the legend of Naman. A matter latter largely debunct by the episode "Kandor", while this portrays the legend as being real. Ezra Small shows up in the Kawatche caves and get accurate predictions of the future. A matter never explained. It also features the return of Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, in a brief flashback. This I would've liked to have seen fleshed out. She sees something in a crystal. Was the crystal some sort of Kryptonian tech, that granted her what she thought were "magical powers" (because she's from the 16th century). The origin of her powers (along with their usage of Kryptonian symbols and her being vulnerable to the stones of power) is something I would've liked to have seen cleared up.
What works is the team's continued mission. What doesn't work is their attempt to tie things back to the legend of Naman. A matter latter largely debunct by the episode "Kandor", while this portrays the legend as being real. Ezra Small shows up in the Kawatche caves and get accurate predictions of the future. A matter never explained. It also features the return of Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, in a brief flashback. This I would've liked to have seen fleshed out. She sees something in a crystal. Was the crystal some sort of Kryptonian tech, that granted her what she thought were "magical powers" (because she's from the 16th century). The origin of her powers (along with their usage of Kryptonian symbols and her being vulnerable to the stones of power) is something I would've liked to have seen cleared up.
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