User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-67.142.167.24-20120429074634

At first, I hated the time jump. It wouldn't be the first time that a show just had characters disappear, without any explanation. After reading about half of the seemly endless posts on this blog however, the supporters of the time jump have convinced me. Supposedly Weisman is a superb writer (apparently he wrote Gargoyles, which is one of my favorite cartoons of all time), then these season actually might be really, really good, given time and patience. The original thing that made me like the series was Aqualad, I felt almost betrayed when the premiere didn’t have him. I can see myself liking many of the new characters, but the shock of not having the old characters kept me from even paying attention to them. This is because while Batgirl and Wondergirl might have been really cool fighting Lobo, I was too busy wondering where the heck was the old team? But if I have to wait a few episodes to see those old characters, I will. The question then remains when Aqualad, Kidflash, and Artimis reappear, will they stick around, or be reduced to cameos and guest appearances like Red Arrow was?

On a side note: the single thing I liked completely about this episode was that Green Lantern John Stewart actually had lines.