Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130223164815/@comment-4962084-20130224032154

Arsenal getting kicked of the team, my thoughts:

Nightwing's still playing the blame game. He was will to accept that both he and Miss M screwed up, but he's not willing to accept the same thing about arsenal. He needs to get over himself and start thinking objectively.

Now, don't give me that talk about how arsenal "pointlessly endangered the team" "could of gotten them killed" and "made blue's defeat of them so much easier" because I am not buying that. First off, if we went through the entire series thinking about every time one of the team (old and new) did something that could have resulted in someone's death then each team member and about a hundred civilians would be dead ten times over. Second of all, blue would have defeated them all anyway, something superboy knew, because he was the one who helped arsenal to escape. All arsenal opening the airlock did was give the reach and blue time to cover up their actions, and they didn't even do that well anyway.

Yes the kid panicked. That happens when you are kidnapped, wake up 8 years later, find out a clone has been living your life, and you HAVE NO ARM. Anyone would have panicked in that situation. Give him a break, because once he got over that panicking, he managed to avoid capture, keep black beetle off-balanced, and free the team. In the end, no one got hurt.

Despite all that, I wouldn't change one thing. It was Arsenal getting kicked of the team that allowed the runaways to learn about luthor and get away from him, and now arsenal knows that the Light is attempting to double cross the Reach. As for his "allowing the team to get captured," that got Nightwing to admit that he screwed up. It got Dick to realize that he was taking too many risks.

So no. I do not disagree with any of arsenal's actions. I wouldn't change one thing about how he acted. It may have seemed stupid at the time, but in the end everything worked out just fine