User blog comment:Cari1994/Reasons for Possibility of Jump-back/@comment-5046454-20120504144722/@comment-4928331-20120505080234

What is there to read? You have obviously convinced yourself that this time skip is transitory, and that we will be hopping back to 2011 after the Invasion storyline. Plus, you seem to assume all fans have the same thought process as yourself. Are you certain you speaking for all fans?

But anyway, since you want to bring it up, then I will refute your points one by one.

''Point 1: You claim that Greg won't do anything he didn't do before. Since he never wrote a future story that didn't jump back afterwards, he'll never do it.''

''Point 3: You claim that just because Greg didn't do time-travel stories that change the past, doesn't mean he won't do them. Thus a skip back is possible.''

Your Point 3 demolishes your first point. You say that Greg doesn't do time-travel stories, but you conjecture maybe he will this time, and anyway it's not just Greg, but also Vietti and a lot of writers. So, either Point 1 is valid, or Point 3 is valid. Which is which?

Point 2: You claim that jumping from Auld Acquaintance to five years later leaves too many unexplored plot points.

What are the remaining plot threads from Season 1? Off hand I can think of the following major ones:

a. What did the Justice Lords do during the missing 16 hours?

b. What is the Light's Phase 2?

c. What happens to Red Arrow and Roy Harper?

d. Aqualad's bad DNA is still unexplored

e. What becomes of Spitfire, Supermartian, and Zabin?

The second episode will likely address A head on. It doesn't even have to be a flashback.

Phase 1 took three years. Who's to say Phase 2 didn't take five, and thus its implementation will be shown outright after the timeskip?

Points C and D will likely be explored in the succeeding episodes.

We already saw what became of SuperMartian in the first episode. We will likely see what became of Spitfire in the Flash-centric episode.

Thus I move that a five-year time skip does not, in fact, negate the plot threads left hanging at the end of Auld Acquaintance. Therefore it will make sense.

Point 4: You claim that just because trailers only show the future doesn't mean there isn't a skip back.

I contend that just because they only show the future doesn't mean there IS a skip back. In fact, I say it is more jarring for them to deal with a full-scale alien invasion in five episodes and then skip back, rather than do the whole shebang in ten.

''Point 5: You claim scattered flashbacks will ruin the show, and they won't do that. Therefore there is a skip back.''

I contend that you can answer many of the questions without a flashback. The first episode alone gives us a partial answer to the Justice Lords' activities during the missing 16 hours, as well as the outcome of the SuperMartian pairing. And yet, not a single flashback in sight.

If you distrust the creative team that much - the same creative team which gave you an involved season one story by the way - then I am not sure if that's the fan they want to have. Just saying.