Premieres: Saturday, Feb. 16 at 10:00 a.m. ET/PT during DC Nation on Cartoon Network
The evil Aya Monitor invades the planet Zamaron, blaming the Star Sapphires for the pain she feels from her heartbreak. The unsuspecting Carol Ferris is summoned to represent Love in a battle against Hate’s champion, Atrocitus of the Red Lantern Corps.
Poor Aya - she is spiraling to darkness, bitterness and pain. So unlike the lovely beautiful AI having that innocent child-like quality about emotions. To see her descend to evil is so heart-rending that one does not know if being rejected was a walk in the park to being turned a villain. Will there ever be redemption for Aya? Having killed a few innocents already will she ever be the same? And even if she were to survive this and live, can she honestly live with herself and her conscience for what she has done? She keeps on and on about "destroying emotions" and yet she herself is acting on emotion - the emotion of pain, of anger, of being let-down and disappointed - these are all very raw and very real emotions. No one ever told her that to be broken-hearted gives her the opportunity to re-build herself, to change for the better, to believe that she is deserving of someone who really would love her for what she is. That takes time and maturity. In Aya's case, she is only but a year old - still learning, evolving, still very much a child who is forced to grow up too soon and too quickly. She has emotion - she still loves Razer - so evident in her hesitancy to even kill him let alone the entire planet of Zamaron. Sure, she talks of destroying everything in one fell swoop but in that she has written her own death sentence. The crew have no choice but to destroy her. That is her only demise. There is no way she can ever go back to how she used to be, and Razer would truly no longer love her for what she has done. It is a great pity that her character has been completely ruined when I came to adore this incredibly intelligent AI who risked her own existence to save her team-mates over and over again. To see her character reduced to being so bad is so very depressing. And to break up such a lovely couple - when everyone was vying for Aya and Razer to remain together - goes to show how much this series reflects real life. That no matter how much you love someone, there is no guarantee that they will stay with you forever. This series deserves an Emmy nomination!
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