User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 206 "Bloodlines" discussion/@comment-174.228.134.151-20120603072051/@comment-432124-20120608012707

OK, Zergrinch. You want me to respond to a point-by-point rebuttal? Watch me do it now

1. Stop taking everything I say and twisting them into things that I didn't say. What I say is what I mean and you can't go any deeper than that. I never said that Greg had to conform to my every whim. I was basing my statement that the show was gonna end if they didn't change their methods of explaining the time skip on common sense and on the opinions of other fans that I've seen on the Internet. It was a theory and I admit that it could be wrong, but it was and still is a possibility. And just because everything is set in stone does not mean that I can't address my hopes, theories, and concerns. If you look around, you'll see that that's what everybody else is doing and if you think about it, that's exactly what these blogs and comment posts are for. We all have the right to express our opinions on this wiki and if you can't handle that, you might as well ask the administrators to shut these blogs down. As I've said a million times, trying to silence ranters is only going to encourage them to rant even more. You can agree with them or disagree with them if you like, but don't try to stop them from expressing what they feel. It's not gonna work.

2. I never wanted them to go over all of the 5 years that was skipped between the seasons. What I would have liked is for them to have gone over the next six months after the events of "Auld Acquaintance". It would have been plenty of time for the Team to meet at least most of the new teen heroes, for the heroes to experience the consequences of the Justice League's actions on Rimbor, for us to see the relationships to progress and for the characters to have the revelations about themselves that led them to where they are now. We may not have been able to get Tula and Marie's deaths or Psimon waking up from the coma in the hospital, but we would have at least gotten some of that drama that we missed in the time skip. And most importantly, we would have been able to see the main characters grow up a little more and take a few steps further into becoming the adults that we see now, which is exactly what this show is supposed to be about. And with a jump-back, some of these stories might not need to be explained because they might be changed with all the time travel and the interference from heroes from the future. Do not say that that is impossible because the writers just did that kind of story in "Bloodlines" and Peter David has said that it is possible. I know that this might get confusing, but the time skip has already made things confusing and a jump-back would not make much of a difference.

Now that I have defied your expectations and responded to your point-by-point rebuttal with a point-by-point rebuttal of my own, can we please call this discussion over? It's getting too lengthy and it's starting to get out of hand.