User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 203 "Alienated" discussion/@comment-1185312-20120512203836

A few more comments before I leave to study:

I love Black manta's design. It is so clean-cut and professional. Aqualad enters his room and the guy is eating a fancy dinner in a fancy way. Cleans his mouth in a fancy way and leaves in a fancy way. I totally did not expect that from the aggressive man we all saw in Downtime.

Megan still says "Hello, Megan". I thought she stopped saying that after the timeskip. Not because she grew up, but because she did not want to remind Garth of his mother, which would have explained the reason she changed her hairstyle.

Aqualad blamed Superboy and Nightwing for Tula's death. It is interesting that he does this. Does this mean he handed down the leadership role to Dick at some point, and his first day of being the leader resulted in Tula's death? Did Ocean-master kill Tula, the girl Aqualad was enamored with? At that point, did he find out that Ocean-Master was Aquaman's brother, a person he trusted? And then found out about Black Manta?

So, to recap, Robin and co. caused his obsession to die, A person he trusted may have been the one who killed her. And Aquaman was not forthright with Aqualad by not telling him of his relations, which meant Aquaman was pitting him against his father all this time.

There we go; that's my theory.