User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-5019916-20120428193327

Right, despite the fact that I'm sure this has been posted ealier in the comments I'll say it again; for those Nerd Raging about the jump, come on? Do you really think this is the new direction for the show, period? That we're going to go from the walloping events of Season 1's finale to, well, this slightly topsy turvy jump forward?

Greg loves pulling surprises, but he's not a crap writer, and leaving so much open ended to jump five years ahead, leaving tons of things unresolved, just to get to the Invasion plot is bad writing; this isn't BioWare and Mass Effect 3. My guess is this "glimpse" into the future (which is all it is) plays a role in figuring out how the Invasion got started, perhaps even establishing what happened in the lost 16 hours.

However, once that's been gotten to we'll jump back five years to the previous, and main, timeline. There's no way, with everything that's going on with character development, new cast, *and* the Invasion that this is how they would jump into it. It would just feel like a really clogged Second Season with little room for story growth. Just too many balls in the air.

Why would Greg make it more complicated for both himself, Vietti, the rest of the creative team, *and* the fans just to pull a Shyamalan "twist!" and make the audience play catch up (bad enough there are tie in comics) Give it an episode or two and we'll be back to where we started off from. Worst case scenario, a shit ton of Flashbacks to fill in the blanks.

Still, I don't think so. I mean, they pulled this "time jump" trope on "Lost" and look at how well *that* turned out. I have too much faith in Greg to believe this is the show's new permanant setting.