User blog comment:WoTee129/Invasion Theories and Predictions/@comment-432124-20120525043918/@comment-4803246-20120527030344

Rule #1 for making predictions: Never get discouraged. It is far more likely than not that you will never actually be right. Adjust and reevaluate, then make new theories.

All that's happened here is that my theories have evolved. Yes, it seems much more unlikely that there will be a dual plot-line in Invasion, but I still haven't completely ruled out the possibility, and I still firmly believe that season three will jump back to 2011. Greg Weisman has now specifically said that there will be a time jump between season two and three, though he declined to say to when, and I can only see this as meaning that this time jump will be back to 2011. If this show jumps any farther into the future, then the original cast of characters will be too old to continue to be the main characters, and unless Weisman and Vietti are going to rotate the roster every few seasons, this must mean that it will be a time jump back. A rotating roster could be interesting, but I very much hope that is not Weisman and Vietti's plan, because I like the season one characters.

As for the continually diminishing possibility of a dual plot-line in Invasion, it is not gone yet. I can vividly imagine having, at the end of the mid-season finale, a cutscene where a shadowy figure or unknown character runs into a room with eight or so other shadowy figures, who all are revealed to be the young Team back in 2011. And from there, there will be a 2011 plot line that continues all the way up to the season finale, in which the 2011 and 2016 plot lines merge, or the 2016 plot line is negated. Also consider that originally, Invasion was a ten episode miniseries with no promise of more episodes or seasons, so back then it would have made sense to have ten episodes of purely a 2016 plot line. But once another ten episodes were ordered, then it would have made sense for those new ten episodes to start to move back towards an emphasis on 2011, in preparation for continuing only the 2011 plot line in season three.