Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130118212340/@comment-5624498-20130119192713

Thought it was a good episode. Some thoughts:


 * Looks like Jaime is going to get his mentor in the form of the Green Beetle. Also, given that Impulse said the history books in his time didn't account for Green Beetle, that would suggest the information he has would be incomplete. It appears to me that the real reason Jaime's Scarab got "on mode" was because the Reach originally killed Jaime and integrated the Scarab into another person's body. (With that said, I suspect not every element that would prevent an apocalypse in the future has taken place.)


 * I suspect what Psimon will end up doing is restoring enough of Kaldur's memory for him to remember he is Manta's son, but not necessarily discover he is a double agent. We still don't know how Psimon recovered from M'gann's brain blasting of him so long ago and we don't know if Psimon is strong enough to undo everything M'gann did to Kaldur. I suspect M'gann is the only individual who can truly restore all of Kaldur's memories, so Psimon might end up doing the equivalent of a "patch job."


 * Good to see more character development with Tim Drake and the ball rolling with Arsenal. And it was cool to see Jonathan Kent worked into the storyline and that he knows about Connor.


 * So Vandal Savage and Lex Luthor figure the best way to for the human race to evolve is through fruit drinks infused with alien know-how. Given that tactic and the reference to the abducted teens, it seems to me The Light wants to have its own super-powered beings to combat the Justice League and The Team.


 * Here is one question to ponder: Just how much is The Reach really sharing with The Light? That apocalyptic future certainly doesn't seem to be what Savage had in mind with his idea about how the human race should evolve.