Mina posted on Jul. 12, 2017 at 12:46 PM
I love-love-love this episode. It's what makes Booster Gold such a fantastic character, who is so sorrowfully underutilized in today's comics. Even the Booster we know of today (or used to know of, since he's disappeared off the face of the New Rebirth 52 etc etc verse), has all these expectations heaped upon him by the writers or the audiences. Booster Gold shines when he is depicted as someone who acts as though he desires fame, but saves the world despite not receiving the praise he deserves. He is selfless wrapped up in the disguise of someone selfish. That kind of character begs for episodic treatment. He can tell a thousand different stories, in a thousand different time periods, and it will always start and end with people not knowing how important he really is. As we left Booster in the comics, when he was last seen, they had taken his importance too far. He's not a Time Lord. He isn't Doctor Who (or, 'The Doctor' for all you newWho fans). He's a normalish guy who saves the world because it needs to be saved.

Sorry for the rambling. I can be very passionate about Booster Gold all the time.

Brady Kj posted on Jul. 12, 2017 at 1:20 PM
That was the greatest episode in all of JLU.

Mina, I think you put it very well. And I agree that they took his importance too far by turning him into that Waverider thing, but in a way, they also didn't take his importance far enough, by keeping him absent. Also, while much of his selfishness is a disguise, he definitely has a genuine longing for recognition and that gives the character a lot of depth.