Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130223164815/@comment-25866432-20130225213214

64.179.181.224 wrote:

I have a theory on why Dick changed so much over the five year time skip, though... I'm starting to wonder if that actually is Dick Grayson. The Light cloned Roy Harper (twice, I might add). Why shouldn't they be able to do the same with Nightwing? Most of his decisions have been seriously detrimental to the team and the Justice League, and overall his actions are, at best, questionable, and at the very worst they feel almost like sabotage. Case in point: he puts two members of the team in mortal danger (and ultimately for no real purpose, since neither Kaldur nor Artemis had the opportunity to tell him about the Reach -- which seemed to be their chief purpose in being undercover in the first place), and then, to top it off, he doesn't tell the one person on the team who has no compunctions against misusing her powers. Pardon the pun, but I'd say that's a real dick move. You can't tell me that NO ONE ELSE noticed what Miss Martian was doing. She fried a Krolotean's brain right in front of Batman and Martian Manhunter! If she did that in front of them, why should we just assume that she hasn't done similar things in front of other members of the team? Superboy, at least, knew. And Nightwing actually did know about what happened to Kaldur even before Superboy pointed it out to him in "The Fix". Anyone else remember Gar saying to Nightwing, "[Miss Martian] totally nailed Aqualad! You should have seen it -- well, actually, it didn't look like much. But I'm sure it was very cool inside their heads!"

Wow. How dense can the leader of a team be to have not fully grasped that statement?... Unless of course if he wanted Kaldur out of the picture -- or was programmed by Cadmus to do what he did. Either way, it feels eerily like sabotage. If so, I actually have to give him props, 'cause it was well done. Otherwise, he's just an incompetent fool -- one who apparently should have his hearing checked. Umm, Nightwing changed because he was 13 last season (still a kid), now he's 19, an adult. Attitudes change. And Roy was cloned because he was captured, Nightwing wasn't. It's the real Nightwing. And Kaldur's mission told them the location of the Reach ship (allowing them to rescue the team members), alerted them to the bomb on Malina Island (if he weren't there, they'd all have been blown up). Nightwing clearly wasn't that focused on what Gar (a kind of annoying little kid) had said. He was trying to avoid getting hit by all the lasers from the reach ship. And Nightwing was always supposed to lead, Kaldur was just a stand in for until he was ready (remember season 1?). For some reason, you want to believe that this is all sabotage, but the chances of that are about nil. We'd have heard a reference to an agent inside the team, or SOMETHING. We knew that there was a mole last season, but there's been nothing even pointing to that. Sorry.