User blog comment:Shadow001/Failsafe/@comment-47881-20111105181809/@comment-3465526-20111106232821

Okay, Rass -- I think you make some very good points -- I've been allowing my annoyance at the overall frame of the episode to blind me to its virtues. Yeah there was a lot of solid character and relationship development that wasn't squashed by the cop-out. Although your own point illustrates the episode's fundamental weakness:

"What we don't know is why on earth that the other heroes, Red Arrow, Zatanna and Rocket, who we saw suiting up, weren't called by the Team to help out, or why they didn't call them to help, after they saw that four of them were still alive."

The only reasonable answer to your question is because whatever was shaping this exercise (J'onn's brain? M'gann's brain? Some kind of computer simulation feeding storylines???) didn't think the other heroes would do that -- since THEY DIDN'T REALLY EXIST!

Even your discussion of the episode gets hooked by the irrationality of the episode premise.