User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 206 "Bloodlines" discussion/@comment-5114621-20120606025355/@comment-432124-20120606202000

Zodisgod - "there wont be a jump back, thats been discussed to the death on here many times as to why it wouldnt work."

Gee, Zod, do you really know this for sure? Do you really know for certain what's gonna happen later on this season? Are you Greg Weisman or Brandon Vietti or any of the writers/directors/producers? If the answer to any of these questions is "no", then do not say that there isn't gonna be a jump-back as if it's definite. Remember that Greg loves throwing surprises at us, so just because it's unlikely doesn't mean that it's impossible. And if he is as good a writer as people say he is, he would be able to make it work.

Besides, name one writer, in all of the 50-60 years that we've had television, who has spent the first season of a TV show establishing good characters and plotlines, left the character and plot development at a cliffhanger at the end of that first season, started the second season more than 1 year after the events of the first season finale and then just continued on with that future storyline without taking us back to the present soon after and setting up a plotline in that present. If you can't think of anybody, then consider that over all of that time, there have been hundreds of TV show writers, which gives the possibility that at least some of them considered doing all of this, but decided not to. There has to have been a reason why those writers never took this route and if Greg is as smart a writer as he is acclaimed to be, he would have thought about that reason. That's why there's a possibility, however slim, that there is gonna be a jump-back.