Episode 1.01: Man of Tomorrow

Update Monday 9/25:
Even more feedback and reviews. Among Legion fans, the praise is running probably 90% positive. Among fans of the old "Timm-verse" DC animated universe, it's closer to 50/50 - they won't be pleased unless Bruce Timm is on it, and the reaction is more like "well it didn't suck as much as I thought it would".

So, more reviews:

• Greg "Elmo" Morrow at Howling Curmudgeons, Ray "!!" Tomczak at The Word From on High, Matthew at the Legion Abstract, StrangeRhythms's LJ, Samurai Frog at the Electronic Cerebrectomy (right before the Reba picture), SadSadMonkey's LJ, Querldox's LJ, Lizard_SF's Bowling with Sisyphus, a review on EN World's forum, and Wayne Garmil's post on the original LSH message board, Usenet's rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh.
  

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If you haven't already read yesterday's post on the premiere, check it out first. Lots more reviews, commentary, and other stuff here, in no particular order...

• More reviews: Brandiweed at Scans Daily, Jason at loonyblog, Bill at the Trusty Plinko Stick, Jeffrey Bridges at Supermanhomepage.com, various people at the Legionnaires LiveJournal community, Tony Isabella, Kevin Gould (a long-time Interlacker), the Comic Geek Speak forum, and Sci Fi Film Fodder (which points back here to my original post)
  
  
• Some screen caps (with some off-color commentary) at Scans Daily, and grabs from the opening credits at RottenDevil's WindowsLive spot
  
  
• Video clips at LegionWorld for the commercials and opening credits, and from Episode 1.
  
  
• Episode guides at Supermanhomepage, and TV Rage
  
  
• Torrents for the full screen version (175 MB) and the widescreen version (215 MB)
  
  
• Finally, Brainiac 5 himself chimes in, but isn't very happy about his portrayal.
  

Lots of people have commented about all the Legionnaires whose Mission Monitor Board symbols we see in the opening credits. With the aid of my trusty TiVo (my TiVomnicom?), here's whose symbols are shown:

• Chameleon Boy, Chemical King, Ultra Boy, Shadow Lass, Lightning Lad, Timber Wolf, Karate Kid, Matter-Eater Lad, Dawnstar/Star Boy, Polar Boy, Element Lad, Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Blok, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet, Superman, Brainiac 5, Dream Girl, Bouncing Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Ferro Lad, Quislet.
  

Then, in the flying sequence near the end of the opening credits, we see these guys:

• group 1 - Lightning Lad, Bouncing Boy, Phantom Girl, Brainiac 5, Timber Wolf, Saturn Girl
  
• group 2 - Superman, Star Boy (in his current Kitson costume, as a black man), Element Lad (pink and black, with long blond hair), Matter-Eater Lad (yellow and green, reboot costume), Shrinking Violet (pink and black reboot costume, looks like an anime character with big eyes), Cosmic Boy (purple and black reboot costume). Then the point-of-view rotates and we see Colossal Boy (blue and red pre-Crisis costume), Triplicate Girl (split into 3), then they fly off into the Legion symbol.
  

Now, given all that, episode director Ben Jones said (in a comment in my previous post) that

Not every character whose logo appeared in the main titles will appear in the show (first season, anyways)... [and] there are some characters appearing whose logos are not in the main titles. That's all I can say!

So let's see, who does that leave... Andromeda, Gates, Gear, either Invisible Kid, either Kid Quantum, Kinetix, Lightning Lass, Mon-el, Monstress, Princess Projectra, Shikari, Sun Boy, Tellus, Thunder, Tyroc, Wildfire, and XS.