CW: The Flash

[Ragged Robin]

uhhh so apparently The Flash is a selfish prick? Risking the entire world to say goodbye to his mom... this is not even a personal decision like they make it out to be, if he changes the timeline then everyone's lives also change, they have as much of a right to this decision than he does because it directly affects them. And then on top of that he doesn't even change the past so when it comes down to it, all that really happened is that he created a black hole and destroyed part of the city. Wow. Thanks, Barry.

I loved the nod to the original Flash helmet that Wells recognized. Also notice how Eddie's body goes into the wormhole (thus his body is preserved somewhere, probably resulting in the possibility of Wells coming back in the future).

The illogical way they treat time travel here was pretty annoying. If Eddie kills himself, that only makes it so that version of the timeline doesn't have a Reverse Flash, it wouldn't disintegrate Wells AND if they were going to go that route, then him disintegrating/never existing means that the entire timeline changes and everything he's ever influenced changes because he never existed in the first place. It's because of these gaping logic holes that we don't really know what to make out of Future-Flash waving him off--did he wave him off because he had already experienced this and was waved off in that position or did he magically knew that everything would be ok and he would still be The Flash even if his mom dies even though that didn't happen in Wells's timeline..

Overall a pretty soppy and annoying season finale. Hopefully they'll let loose a bit like Arrow did after its first season.

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by Ragged Robin

uhhh so apparently The Flash is a selfish prick? Risking the entire world to say goodbye to his mom... this is not even a personal decision like they make it out to be, if he changes the timeline then everyone's lives also change, they have as much of a right to this decision than he does because it directly affects them. And then on top of that he doesn't even change the past so when it comes down to it, all that really happened is that he created a black hole and destroyed part of the city. Wow. Thanks, Barry.

I loved the nod to the original Flash helmet that Wells recognized. Also notice how Eddie's body goes into the wormhole (thus his body is preserved somewhere, probably resulting in the possibility of Wells coming back in the future).

The illogical way they treat time travel here was pretty annoying. If Eddie kills himself, that only makes it so that version of the timeline doesn't have a Reverse Flash, it wouldn't disintegrate Wells AND if they were going to go that route, then him disintegrating/never existing means that the entire timeline changes and everything he's ever influenced changes because he never existed in the first place. It's because of these gaping logic holes that we don't really know what to make out of Future-Flash waving him off--did he wave him off because he had already experienced this and was waved off in that position or did he magically knew that everything would be ok and he would still be The Flash even if his mom dies even though that didn't happen in Wells's timeline..

Overall a pretty soppy and annoying season finale. Hopefully they'll let loose a bit like Arrow did after its first season.

This is kinda what I was getting at. Barry went back in time and risked everyone for no reason. Eddie killed himself for no reason. And if Eddie is dead, Eobard never exists, so he shouldn't have been able to kill Barry's mom in the first place, or create the particle accelerator accident that caused the Flash to be the Flash.

And let's not overlook the fact that Barry had to get to somewhere in the neighborhood of Mach 2 to travel in time. I guess Fighter jet pilots should be concerned.

I have enjoyed the show, and will continue to do so, but enough with the ****ing time travel bullshit.