User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-68.81.5.150-20120429034334/@comment-67.149.237.132-20120429044151

I read the episode as maybe even skipping over Jason Todd completely. Look, the line he said was "don't die". Yeah, that could be Jason, but what if Jason Todd never becomes Robin? Batgirl looks to be a walking Barbara (not confirmed yet, but still), so there's no reason to assume the lineage didn't just skip Jason and move to Tim.

Superman inspires Dick in the comics to be Nightwing. Whether that holds here or not isn't clear either.

I'm reading some spoilers about someone at some point on the original team turning; maybe there's an as yet unexplained mission where things go badly and that leads to some of the changes (like M'Gann and Conner not being together).