User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 207 "Depths" discussion/@comment-3003805-20120612194633/@comment-432124-20120613044500

I hate to disagree with you, Lorisa, but I don't think that that's how time travel works on this show. According to Peter David, "there’s one timeline and only one, and if you change it at some point, the ripple effect causes everything from that point on to change in order to accommodate the revision." This means that from the moment that Bart showed up in 2016, everything should have changed to accomodate the revisions that he made and was going to make. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure that Neutron would have had to wait a few hours for the changes that did come, but instead it was shown that they came as soon as Bart disappeared.

Besides, Lorisa, if you're waiting for a jump-back like I am, the Team changing the future slowly like in your explanation would "crash the mode" while they're still in the Season 2 timeline, and therefore there would be no need for someone to go back to the season 1 timeline to fix things. I think it would be more logical if things go so out of control that whatever Bart does isn't able to change much of the future (hence, what we saw at the end of "Bloodlines"), so that another time-traveling hero would have to come back to tell him that he didn't go far back enough and to take him back to the Season 1 timeline in order to change things from there.