User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-432124-20120502211212

To all of you apologists who are wondering why so many people are complaining about the time jump, you guys obviously didn't watch or didn't like the first season very much. It gave us a buttload of fantastic character development, storytelling, and plot threads and unless they do a jump back to 2011, all of that is gonna go down the drain. Many of us were waiting to see many of those plot threads be resolved and the characters grow up some more before they jumped forward in time. But now flashbacks are not gonna help because then half the season would have to be full of flashbacks and that would take away too much from the invasion plot line and the development of the new characters. And not only that, they would have to be scattered throughout the season and nonconsecutive and we would have to take them from each episode and trying to put them together like a puzzle. Many of us don't have the time for that and we would rather see these missing events one after another as the story progresses. As for revelations through dialogue, we don't have to hear "This many years ago, this happened and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah" every fifteen minutes, 'cause that would be how many exposition lines we would need for all of our questions to answered. Unless they jump back to the real beginning and take us from there while doing a dual story line with 2016, this whole season will have turned into sloppy storytelling and this show is gonna lose a lot of fans and a 3rd season will not be even conceivable.