User blog comment:TheOceanspray99/Slow down there YJ, you're gonna trip and fall./@comment-24.10.14.168-20120515023100/@comment-4803933-20120516032812

Anon, that's what makes the five year time jump believable and realistic: the aliens needed time to prepare. But that doesn't explain the plothole we were faced with in "Happy New Year" - that no one from the League, even those with the capability, ever contemplated that they might have been sent into space. For example, Batman is the World's Greatest Detective. Even if he didn't deduce what they had done (which he couldn't have, without substantial evidence), he would have considered each and every possibility, and he would've been obsessing over it, since it affected him as well.

See, this is why I've started referring to that as a plothole: a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes againt the flow of logic established by the plot or constitutes a blatant omission of relevant information regarding the plot, such as illogical or impossible events, unlikely behavior or actions of characters, events happening for no apparent reason, or statements/events that contradict earlier events in the story.

So, yeah, the League is filled with some very smart people, and not one of them thought that being sent off world was a possibility, even in the slightest??? Sorry, not buying it.