Watch the flash season 3 episode 16
I admit, I'm a bit loathe to judge it one way or another. In other words, I have a feeling I'll soon be mourning at Arrow's grave.Īs far as The Flash goes, this was a decent season premiere.
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But without a Flashpoint to set things right with Arrow, a show that's seriously lost its way through a gradual series of huge storytelling mistakes (Olicity killing Black Canary etc.) it makes me think that the showrunners are simply buckling down to give us more of the same. The pessimistic side of me says this is a deeply cynical move on the CW's part to ensure that nothing changes in Arrow's timeline. I'm pretty sure both these things can be true. It allows for more nuanced and subtle storytelling, and a better challenge for Barry that doesn't just feel like Earth 3, or require completely reworking the fiction of the show. The optimistic side of me says this is good. It's not Flashpoint at all, but it's still a world with some butterfly effect consequences. It's an alternative timeline where smaller, but still important, details have been changed. The timeline is back to a very close version of what it once was, but it's by no means the same world Barry left. Wally, confused, reminds Barry that Joe and Iris aren't on speaking terms. Everything seems to be fine and good, back to its old state of affairs, but when Barry asks where Iris is, Joe gets offended and storms out.
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Time travel requires some healthy suspension of disbelief in the best of cases.īarry returns to the same night he left-a night of victory and romance. I would argue here that since Reverse Flash went back in time to carry out this assassination, it's actually still not the "right" timeline, but once we get too deep into the weeds of time travel, we'll simply get lost. Reverse Flash and Flash have a heart to heart.