User blog comment:Mage cat/Timeskip Rants/@comment-432124-20120501014709

No, we can't guess what happened in the meantime because they never even gave us a hint. Five years is a very long time and by then, the Light has most likely already been defeated and disbanded. Plus, a lot of us would have liked to have seen those characters step up and take their heroic mantles among a lot of other things that happened in 2011. We have just had the first season finale and it has left us with a lot of loose plot threads and we've been dying to see what happens next. But now a lot of those plot threads have most likely been resolved by 2016 and there's no way that we're gonna have enough flashbacks or exposition lines to cover all that. Not to mention all the character development that's been thrown out the window. And the fact that Greg Weisman didn't tell us beforehand that we were gonna have a time skip.

In short, I can't say that I didn't like the episode in and of itself, but it would have been better if it came as a spin-off premiere. It came on us way too fast and we'd had barely had enough time to enjoy Season 1, to see the original cast grow up, and to see all those plot threads resolved. I hope that this time skip isn't permanent and that they give us a jump-back to the original timeline, 'cause this show is so going down the drain.

So I hate to say it, Mage Cat, but you are in a very small minority here and I hope you enjoy this season as you see it now, because if there's any justice in this entire universe, you're gonna have very little time with it