Reception
The show has been well received by fans and critics, many comparing it to Batman: The Animated Series because of its darker tones, complex writing and storyboarding, and in-depth characterization. The show holds an 8.6/10 on the Internet Movie Database the second best DCAU ranking second only to Batman: The Animated Series.
There was some initial controversy over the inclusion of John Stewart as Green Lantern instead of Kyle Rayner, who had previously been established as Earth's lantern in Superman: The Animated Series. It was felt that this substitution, which was later explained as Kyle being sent to OA for training (despite the rule at the time having been established as one lantern from each sector), was done to have John serve as the League's Green Lantern.
In January 2009, IGN named Justice League Unlimited as the 20th best animated television series of all time second only to Batman: The Animated Series which was placed at #2 once again as the best ranking of the DCAU series.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)