User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-182.177.244.37-20120502182828/@comment-432124-20120502201643

How do you know that they've committed to going forward five years? They haven't released any comments about how this season is going to work. As for it being pointless to establish new characters in the future and make us care for them, you could say the same thing about what they did with Season 1. Plus it wouldn't be so pointless if they did a dual plot line between 2011 and 2016. The flashbacks are not gonna work because in order to get every thing resolved, they would have to do at least three flashbacks an episode and that would take a lot away from the main action. It's not possible.