Thread:Tupka217/@comment-5188108-20120612223742

Hi, You undid my edit of Failsafe asking for a source (I'm not sure if this should really be here or on the Failsafe talk page).

http://youngjustice.wikia.com/index.php?title=Failsafe&action=historysubmit&diff=116769&oldid=116757

The first part is based on Artemis' dialogue. After the foam arrow hits she says "And ETs are sealed inside", which I think clearly demonstrates her intent to keep the aliens in rather than obscure their view.

The second part is observation of the explosion itself. The explosion consumes the mothership, at one point the column of smoke and fire is narrower than the base of the ship, so if the ship was there it would be visible. And how would the fire and smoke get out if the hull remained intact. There is no indication of the ship taking off, which we should be able to clearly see if that happened. Then a little a later a shadow draws over the martians and a mothership comes down in front of where the explostion was (there was no shadow earlier to indicate it taking off). The new mothership bears no hint of damage. Thus, a second mothership landing seems a far more simple explanation than the original mothership surviving the explosion unscathed, taking off completely unnoticed and then coming back down slightly in front of where it was in the first place. (It's also my observation of similar "can't win" scenarios in other shows that it is almost invaribaly achieved by endless waves of enemies rather than an enemy which is individually unbeatable. It's makes for better storytelling, though that isn't evident here since the scenario ends after the first failure.)

I felt both points were fairly obvious from freshly watching the episode and didn't think it was worth putting on the talk page first - I'm very new at this, should I be more mindful of this in future?

(And I'm sure this is waay longer than I intended or it needed to be...) 