User blog comment:Feeling-Chalant/Since the Mode isn't crashed..../@comment-108.93.221.119-20120823010831/@comment-432124-20120824040811

Actually, the ending of "Bloodlines" was all that we needed to see to make a proper assessment of what is to come. According to Peter David, "if you change [the timeline] at some point, the ripple effect causes everything from that point on to change in order to accommodate the revision." So when Impulse went back in time, everything in the future was immediately adapted to reflect whatever he did in the past. That includes, not only what Impulse did in "Bloodlines", but everything that he was going to do from then on. So if the mode hasn't been crashed, then that must mean that, somewhere along the path that Impulse is on now, things are gonna get out of his control and he's gonna fail in making much of a difference to the time-stream.