User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 206 "Bloodlines" discussion/@comment-174.228.134.151-20120603072051/@comment-174.229.5.114-20120605150957

@Cari: No, I don't think I can name an example of that. I admit that the show probably should have had a hiatus between the Season One finale and the Season Two priemere, but as it turned out, there was no gap. It might have prevented the sheer confusion that resulted in "Happy New Year." To be honest, I wasn't ready for the changes when they first happened, but as it turned out, I'm falling in love with even more DC characters due to Team membership, and this whole time skip may have been lazy, but it certainly upped the quality in the long run. Short run, things are still a little messy, I'll admit.

That being said, the alien invasion could have been shown with the original Team, but sweeping the board and changing the Team around was basically exactly what this show was supposed to be: a broad expansion of the DC universe with a focus on young heroes. Not a focus on Robtanna, Spitfire, Supermartian, and whatever the heck AqualadxRocket are. I think that they have succeeded in showing off the DC characters by adding to the Team, showing varying levels of detail, and of course, showing off SO MANY villains that everyone thought were lame: Sportsmaster, Cheshire, Black Spider, etc.

Weisman has crafted a masterpiece of interwoven plots, a stunning continuity, and, without a shadow of a doubt, good characterizations and interaction. He may be able to pull off the time travel plot to the past, present, and future; it wouldn't be too different from time travel. But, I don't think we should get our hopes up only to have them crushed.

I noticed something though, and this may or may not be true, so it's really just a guess/hypothesis. I think there's a reason why, in some shows that include time travel, the time-traveller from the future comes back to the present. Meaning that they join the other characters that the readers/observers/fans know in the present. Future Trunks from DBZ, Chris Halliwell from Charmed, Bart from Young Justice, Xavier from Wolverine and the X-Men (sort of), etc. Each character comes back from the future to the present. For example, in the episode, "Bloodlines," Bart could have gone back to December 31, 2010, which would mean that there was a jump back in continuity from the episode "Beneath." But he didn't: he joined the episode in February 2016, which is the present at that time. Why? Because it's simpler than showing someone shooting back to the past, shooting into older episodes/comics/etc. Especially since Bart immediately became stuck there. If Bart jumped back to 2010, and then the next episode showed 2016, EVERYTHING would be different, because Bart was there and shouldn't be. Bart could have influenced Aqualad to not go nuts and evil and/or saved Tula. Bart could have found Speedy faster. Bart's very presence could have changed events indefinitely, which would have changed so MANY things and caused even more confusion than the time skip.

In other words, by showing Bart coming back to the present, it prevents their older, already set in stone events, from being changed. Maybe Weisman could pull something like this off, but it's obvious that not many popular writers and authors have done it when they have characters from the future.


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