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Young Justice – Reviews – Season Four – Teg Ydaer!

GUIDES – EPISODE REVIEWS – “TEG YDAER!”

Teg Ydaer!
Original Airdate – December 16, 2021
Thirteen and her friends face their greatest challenge yet.

Written by Nida Chowdhry
Directed by Vinton Heuck
Review by Yojimbo
Media by Warner Bros. Animation
Please note our regular reviewer, “GregX,” is currently on sabbatical.

Media

Review:

Basically, the crux of this episode is what happens when you don’t take the advice of the people closest to you. Marduk, who dies a meaningless death. Beast Boy, who ignores his friends. Dr. Fate, Klarion and Teekl get banished/killed off and the heroes are stuck with an even more dangerous and powerful enemy. None of them listened.

In providing both context to and expanding on Vandal’s flashback in last season’s “Evolution,” we see how one simple act of ignoring the logical advice of your son has crazy ramifications. Vandal, going by Marduk, ignores Nabu’s protest over Klarion’s offer of help. As a result, the Light engages in a tough battle against Starro and Nabu’s life is lost. If Marduk heeded Nabu’s words, imagine what would happened. The Light would have had no Starro to utilize against the Justice League during season one’s events and heck, Dr. Fate may never have come to be. Echoing last week’s “Esir Nomed!”, Vandal once again loses a relative because of his own hubris.

And this continues with Beast Boy. Rather than see what’s become of him, Garth gets angry when teammates Wonder Girl, Stargirl, and El Dorado try to give him a “nudge” to wake up, literally and figuratively. However, that falls on deaf ears and Beast Boy storms off. And finally, the “A” word rears its ugly head in Beast Boy’s last scene of the episode. A shot of many bottles and pills on his night stand implies we’re heading into the “drug addiction” phase of his depression.

Addiction of another sort also comes to a head during Mary Bromfield’s test. We learn what she was alluding to in the first episode of the arc when Mary mentioned she had to stop being a hero. She started to stay in the form of Sergeant Marvel and not changing back into Mary, addicted to the power of Shazam. Luckily, she heeded the advice of Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman and quit the hero life cold turkey. Guess that rules out seeing her transform in the coming conflict.

She isn’t the only member of Zatanna’s team struggling. Thirteen suffers from imposter syndrome, but is starting to overcome her demons at the end of her test. Khalid here literally and figuratively drowns in doubt over his parents’ concern he isn’t being responsible about living the life they worked so hard to provide him. But here he clearly forges his own identity, one as both a doctor and a sorcerer who relies on his science, faith, and mysticism.

We learn a lot more about Fate in this episode, too. Turns out he also had the same plan as Zatanna’s initial one, of letting the two Lords of Chaos fight each other then swoop in and wipe out the winner. And even more ironic, Nabu ignores Zatanna’s pleas for help much like his father ignored his pleas in Babylon. On the mental plane, Zatara clues Nabu in that no man or agent of Order is an island unto himself. Nabu relies on others, namely the host’s strength like Zatara, who finds his through his religious faith, and whether he knew it or not, that was the reason Dr. Fate was a member of the Justice Society of America in the World War II era and why he let Zatara push him to join the Justice League in present day.

However, just as Nabu starts to see the light of reason, he’s interrupted by perhaps one of the more brutal deaths of this series. Not to mention the implication that the Tower of Fate itself could be in real trouble with Child and Flaw at its doorstep no longer concerned with Klarion and Teekl.

On one hand, it is very easy to critique this episode as the typical middle of the arc padding that does very little to advance the main plot but on the other hand “Teg Ydaer!” provides much needed insight and context into the individual character arcs and back story of Thirteen, Khalid, and Mary since we are not privy to a conventional origin story for each of them. This episode is packed with info, all of it crucial even if it doesn’t seem like it at the moment.

They had to kill the cat. Definitely one of the more brutal on-screen deaths. And the tear. Gah. Well, I guess Vandal will have like Wotan take Klarion’s place in the Light.

And lastly, that school bus! So are they victim to someone’s magic spell gone wrong and doomed to an endless cycle of teleporting to random places?

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