User blog comment:WoTee129/Invasion Theories and Predictions/@comment-432124-20120501011053/@comment-4803246-20120501205354

Yes, I can understand how my last three theories could be more controversial or upsetting. The only one I'm really sure of is Aqualad's fall from grace. His appearance in Black Manta gear all but makes it a certainty.

If I'm right, then Weisman and Vietti didn't lie. They just told a very tricky half-truth. No, the 2016 plot line does not at all follow off the heels of season one, but the 2011 plot does. We will know whether or not I'm right next Saturday because if I am, then at some point in the episode, preferably the beginning, we will see the next step of the 2011 plot line, and that will follow right off the heels of season one. The 2011 plot line starts on January 1, 2011, and then goes from there, so it is what picks up right after season one.

Greg Weisman is very tricky and very subtle. He actually told us in Happy New Year! that there will be a 2011 plot line, or at least flashbacks to 2011, when he gave us those ten seconds of recap from the end of season one. When Batman said, "What did we do?" in Auld Aquaintance the camera panned out to a shot of the Watchtower while he said it. In Happy New Year!, we actually saw his face while he said it. It's very subtle, but unmistakable. That last second of 2011 in Happy New Year! was a moment not seen in Auld Aquaintances or any other episode of season one; it was only seen in Happy New Year!. It means that season two already has one moment of 2011 that is all its own, and foreshadows more flashbacks to 2011 in the future, or an entire plot line based in 2011. And no, I am not overanalyzing this. This is a legitimate example of foreshadow purposely put in place by Weisman and Vietti to let us know of this possibility.