User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 206 "Bloodlines" discussion/@comment-5114621-20120606025355/@comment-432124-20120606214417

I don't remember Greg ever specifically saying that there will be a jump forward. He said that there would be a time skip, but a skip can be in any direction and it doesn't have to go forward.

As for your analogy of TV show writers going the route that I described to astronauts going into space, that is not the same thing. The reason why no one thought of going into space before the 1960s is because we didn't always have the technology or the opportunities for it. But ever since the first TV show aired, writers have had the opportunities to take their stories into whatever direction they wanted. There has always been the opportunity to go the route that I described, but for some reason, over the past 60 or so years of television programming, writers have decided to avoid it.