Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-1038387-20190118171753/@comment-37963992-20190118222756

The purpose of the time skip is to allow for a new status quo that's full of questions that audience has to ask. Like why is Robin Nightwing? Who are these new team members? Why did M'gann and Superboy break up? There were two new Robins since then? It's to keep the audience wondering and intrigued about what's going on. Sure, you could do that by covering those periods of time, but that's generic. The Young Justice team chose to take the unconventional, creative route. And the recent time skip was to catch up to the present day as much as they could that way they're able to tell stories that reflect the times we live in... like Superboy talking about why he watches Godfrey's show or meta-human trafficking being an analogue to sex trafficking in the real world, heck even Halo's story as a Quraci refugee.