Alive
Lex Luthor's obsession with reuniting with Brainiac reaches its high point. Tala uses magic to help Lex locate Brainiac, after his own efforts fail. Tala showed him scenes of Brainiac's planetoid blowing up (from Justice League: Twilight). Lex pushes the Legion of Doom to make modifications to their headquarters and then leads them to a far off solar system to find Brainiac.
There is some dissension in the ranks of the Legion of Doom. Tala is convinced that Lex has finally lost it and frees her former lover, Grodd, from the cage where Luthor was keeping him. Grodd leads a revolt against Luthor which ultimately fails and ends with Luthor forcing Grodd out of an airlock.
The remnants of the Legion of Doom locate the missing pieces of Brainiac and reassemble them only to discover that instead of Brainiac they have brought Darkseid back to life.
This is a very supervillain-centric episode of JLU. It is all supervillains until the very end when Luthor and the Legion of Doom return to Earth to tell Superman and the Justice League that they have a problem.
I should probably watch this episode again before watching the series finale. It has probably been more than a decade since I last saw this episode and I'm curious to see if there is anything that I missed this time around. One thing that remains unexplained in my mind is how the supervillains got back to Earth. I thought that Darksaid has destroyed or seriously damaged the Legion of Doom's HQ but maybe I'm just imagining that part.
On the whole a great first part of the series finale. It sets things up nicely for the next episode while at the same time having an arc of its own. The focus is mostly on Luthor, Tala, and Grodd. Most of the other villains hardly get any lines let alone character moments.
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