User blog comment:Tupka217/Creative Comment - Greg and Brandon talk Zatanna, Rocket and Beast Boy/@comment-99.55.67.73-20120813042012

I feel like although they did rush the last bit of Season 1, what with Rocket's character development and that whole arch with Aqualad, and the very beginning of Season 2, in introducing the beginning characters, I'm inclined to let those two things go in the light of two major issues: time restrictions and pacing. Cartoon Network isn't exactly friendly to YJ sorts of shows, so the writers did have to condense it down quite a bit to fit in those twenty-something episodes. Also, for newcomers, it's a bit hard to watch backstory, backstory, backstory when they want action, action, action. The people who want the backstory are usually the fans who would watch the story either way and probably already know the backstory, so it was a smart decision. Not perfect, but smart.

Besides, the style of the show kind of allows for not knowing a whole bunch of the backstory. They provide it as its necessary and as its interesting to the newbies, while still throwing the old people for a loop every once in a while.