Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130303202540/@comment-34954086-20130304201154

Mihai 1803 wrote: 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. Maybe the League and the Team was interested why there was a symbol of the scarab in the Bialyan temple, so dr Fate started to translate the hyerogliphs and the League found out about the ancient ritual and the potential threat of the scarab. That doesn't mean that the translation was finished before Impulse arrived from the future...maybe the translation of the gliphs became a priority of Fate after the confession of Blue in "Cornered"

I figure they only began translation when Cornered happened...

Scarabs are pretty common symbolism in the middle east afterall, so there's not a great reason to be shocked by it. I'd say when everything started turning up the Beetle they began to look into it.

I saw the markings in Beneath, I was surprised that they didn't bring it up till now actually. Suppose it was cause they were going for the big shock reveal.