Trivia / Justice League S 2 E 1 And 2 Twilight

• The Other Darrin: Ron Perlman, René Auberjonois, and Corey Burton take over the roles of Orion, Desaad, and Steppenwolf from their STAS-era actors Steve Sandor, Robert Morse, and Sherman Howard
• Real Life Writes the Plot: Why it took until Season Two for Darkseid to appear on Justice League. According to Timm, he and company initially resisted the temptation to go right back into the Jack Kirby Fourth World mythos during Season One. While they do love it, Timm also understandably felt they needed to give it a break for a bit (both to establish Justice League on its own merits and because of how often they'd already gone back to the well during STAS). Once Season Two entered production, however, bringing back Darkseid was pretty much a given (and also right off the bat too, as a means to address the criticisms and backlash to Superman's Season One depiction).
• Role Reprise: Michael Ironside, Corey Burton, and Michael Dorn reprise their roles as Darkseid, Braniac, and Kalibak from S:TAS.
  • In addition, René Auberjonois taking over the role of Desaad also technically counts as a Role Reprise (as he'd previously voiced Desaad for The Challenge of the Super Friends back in the 1980s).
• Troubled Production: Bruce Timm's admitted he had significant creative differences with episode writer Rich Fogel's pitch during pre-production. Timm's problem wasn't using Darkseid or Brainiac — it was using both of them. As Timm argues, there ultimately aren't many villains in the DC pantheon that can easily take on the assembled power and might of the League by themselves. Darkseid and Brainiac are both among them and each could have sustained their own separate episodes. So Timm understandably felt using up two of their big guns in one go was a serious mistake (in addition to other structural issues Timm had with Fogel's narrative). While Fogel adjusted his pitch and it was ultimately approved, there were still creative clashes between them going into production and the final script draft. This culminated in a frustrated Timm finally pulling rank as Executive Producer and do his own pass on the teleplay to polish it up.
• What Could Have Been: According to the DVD Commentary, composer Kristopher Carter was originally going to score both Parts (much as he had with "Apokolips Now" and because the DCAU composers were assigned their own arcs/two-parters). However, Carter ended up having a scheduling conflict on Part Two and so co-composers Lolita Ritmanis and Michael McCuistion came in to assist.