Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130303202540/@comment-3094698-20130304202241

161.24.19.112 wrote: What bothers me the most is that the events in "Beneath" took place about 5 months before "Intervention" on the show's timeline. Assuming Dr. Fate was able to translate the message in the cave shortly after Zatanna and Batgirl found the cave temple, I would conclude that the Team and the Justice League knew about the potential threat posed by the Scarab long before Impulse told them about Blue's future or the Reach revealed themselves to the world. That seems to be at odds with the events in between "Beneath" and "Intervention" when the League and the Team appeared to be caught completely off-guard. they did say it took a while for fate to translate it and even longer for zatanna to figure out how it would work with her magic so im not surprised it took so long.

they knew the scarab was of alien origin before the reach appeared right? im not surprised they were weary of it and were interested in something that could turn out to be a failsafe if things go bad with it. not to mention they had to keep up the deception of being caught off guard or else the reach wouldnt have put blue or green in the situation where the scarab could be taken off mode.