User blog:Oknight/Rewatching Downtime with Evil Kaldur

As I've said elsewhere, my theory is that Kaldur is a "The Light" clone who was substituted for the real Kaldur during Infiltrator. In the pilot the Light was going to clone the captured sidekicks, copy their memories, and replace them. I postulate that the cloning samples were not completely destroyed and that G-gnome who was in the Cave in YJ Issues #1 and #2 was a possible way that they got access to Kaldur's memories telepathically. I also postulate that clone-Kaldur is something like immune telepathically or a telepath himself and possibly a much more able sorcerer than original Kaldur. So he was not taken out telepathically in Bereft, he was faking, he did not put on the Fate Helmet (which is why he could take it off), that was faked. And he was not drawn in to M'gann's simulation (might have caused M'gann's simulation to go bad-- was it actually M'gann who is the most powerful telepath????) with the others which is which is why he sacrificed himself.

I re-watched Downtime. Boy, if you assume Kaldur is in the service of the Light, that is a VERY different episode. The whole thing with Tula becomes an extended version of "I must step down as leader... Okay, I guess I can't." -- notice how "out of left field" that "I've decided to stay in Atlantis with you is. Tula is certainly surprised and I would imagine so -- he had made his decision when he became Aqualad, why the change?