I don't see how they could put a couple of kids into a dangerous Superhuman prison. That's just irresponsible.
I could actually buy everything up until that episode in regards to them being the League's blackops team. Batman trained Robin, so I can believe he has enough confidence in him to be a part of that team, and Bruce is probably pretty confident that his fellow heroes have trained their respective sidekicks well enough too (whether any of the kids other than Robin and Aqualad put that training to proper use is another question, but whatever, I'll run with it).
They do establish that the JLA is fighting the large scale world shattering threats in the background while the kids
theoretically just handle the small stuff with minimal danger. The scripts constantly go out of their way to have Batman or whoever say "This is just a recon mission. Scout out the situation and report back," or whatever. And for plot convenience, they always need more information before they can report back, so they have to investigate further, or they're roped into the action before they can call in the League. Sure, it's contrived and formulaic storytelling, but I can roll with it as a concept. No biggie.
There's a lot that I'm willing to let slide, and ideally I wouldn't have to, but I
want to enjoy the show.
And then they were sent undercover into a prison.
Why put Superboy and Miss Martian on that mission? Why them specifically? It's not even that they couldn't do the job, but the fact that there are other, more experienced heroes who could've done it better. Where are the League's shapeshifters and illusionists who'd be more suited to this mission? Why the urgency to send in the kids? And why are child criminals being sent to a major supervillain prison in the first place?
And WTF was Riddler doing there instead of Arkham?! The man has no powers and is about as criminally insane as you can get, short of being the Joker.
Man, that episode was really just pushing my buttons with my already strained relationship with the show. Why aren't I watching
Gargoyles or
The Spectacular Spider-Man instead?
