User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 207 "Depths" discussion/@comment-432124-20120609222118/@comment-432124-20120613164800

To Regulus, Superboy going bad may be unlikely, but it's still possible. Even though his morals have improved, there's still that Luthor side of him that the Light (and Darkseid if he's working with them) can take advantage of. As for the aging issue, the reason that he seemed to be over it while talking to Alanna was probably because at that time, he still had Superman taking care of him and comforting him. But now that Superman is gone and it looks like he's not coming back anytime soon, Superboy has lost that comfort and he's probably feeling worse right now. Also, as for him being more resentful about M'gann than depressed, resentment against his teammates is exactly what the bad guys need to sway him to their side. And I can imagine him being more resentful against the Team when he finds out that Nightwing, Aqualad, K.F., and Artemis have deceived him. In any case, all the Light would need is to find him lost and alone and then he would be ripe for the picking. And once they have him in their grasp, they would just need some psychic reprogramming to do the rest.

And as for the future remaining a dystopia at the end of the season, I wasn't thinking that at all. Just read my third comment in this discussion.