r/FlashTV

So he can't go back in time to prevent his mom's death. Ripple effects, cataclysmic destruction of the multiverse, blablabla, fine. I get it.

But why can't he go back in time, record evidence that his father is innocent, and return to the present to, well, present the new evidence to clear his dad of all the charges?

A seriously low effort sunday.

would be cool to see the original timeline, i mean everything in the show happens because of things in the future or the past being changed.

imagine the original timeline, barry doesn’t get his speed until 2020, wally’s not there, we see the invention of savitar, the real wells, barry goes missing in 2024 (or whatever the original date would have been) we see the actual invention of the reverse flash, barry having a kid without it time traveling ofc, barry with both parents, barry not growing up with joe, no cisco, no kaitlyn, the only thing that’d stay the same would be the other earths because the timeline isn’t effected there, and lastly the arrow would already be dead or atleast way past his start

it’s weird to think about but other than the same names literally nothing and no characters throughout the show would be the same. thawne is the spawn point of the show, which would make it super interesting to see the timeline where thawne doesn’t even exist until decades upon decades in the future

In season two he says he drinks coffee to keep his energy up but like alcohol won’t it just metabolize fast asf. I haven’t seen anyone bring this up

I feel like there was a still a lot that could’ve been done with the show if a Season 10 was added, especially with the original director/producer (Eric Wallace did this show dirty). Possibilities for Season 10 would’ve been the Speed Force being a villain, Anti-Monitor, etc. But, my favorite Season 10 plot would’ve been Thawne as the main villain, and digging deep into Thawne’s past (Barry saving his crowd, OG Timeline, Original Flash, Gideon Creation, Don and Dawn, etc.) and finding out more about Thawne, and fully erasing him from the current timeline (as Thawne is from the original timeline), forever, and ending it with Barry giving up his powers, sending his lightning to the sky, which does a full 360 moment, as his lightning gets thrown to the launch of the particle accelerator, and the lightning chooses Barry again, causing a whole full circle moment.

I dropped The Flash right after Season 6 when they announced Hartley Sawyer was fired and Ralph Dibny was leaving the show. Ralph was honestly one of my favorite parts of the later seasons and when they put him in that ridiculous helmet/suit in the Season 7 premiere just to write him off, it felt like the final straw.

I’ve been thinking about picking it back up, but I’ve heard mixed things. Does the show get any better in Seasons 7, 8, or 9, or does the quality keep dipping? Are there any storylines or character arcs left that make it worth watching until the series finale?

If this has some sort of meaning then I sadly don’t know it because so far in my life nobody has yet to announce to me that they’re expecting

Keep in mind, I said S1-S3, the Iris starting from S4 to the end was absolutely terrible. But S1-S3 Iris and Barry had some serious chemistry, and the only other person I can see who could’ve possibly contended with that would’ve been Caitlin. I feel like Patty was GREAT, but they rushed the timeline with her and Barry, and just the fact of him not keeping her around, it wasn’t it. Linda and Barry were more of a relationship for benefits, other then the spicy pepper scene, never really seen anything between them. Felicity and Barry was also good, but that would’ve never happened, even though their chemistry was also great, the fact that they both had their eyes on someone else at the moment, and the distance, would’ve never worked.

A common criticism for season 3 is that Flashpoint was too underwhelming, especially compared to comics or animated series. And it’s fair if you don’t like it, but I can’t say it was necessarily bad considering what they had to work with.

I mean the CW already has a limited amount of DC IPs. So they can’t do anything like the animated series with flashpoint where they explored Batman in Flashpoint, as well as every superhero suffering from the butterfly effect. Anything even REMOTELY similar would need to rely on other TV shows (Flashpoint versions of Arrow etc). But considering Arrow was still airing at the time of season 3, there’s gonna be obvious scheduling conflicts between the Arrow actors and Flash. And that’s one thing, but Flashpoint also needs the consequences to be relayed throughout the series, and so even if the scheduling headache is sorted out, from there season 3 will either be entirely Flarrow (which isn’t fair to anyone cause the Arrow already has a show and the Flash should be focused on) or making Flashpoint largely filler, which would also suck cause that means less time on the actual story and it will likely end up underdeveloped (as we see in later seasons).

So with the limited resources we could only explore the alternative lives of side characters, which we did. And although alternative Batmen, Arrrows, Legends, etc can stretch multiple episodes for an interesting story. I really don’t think the same can be said about less known hero’s like Vibe. So if they did make Flashpoint multiple episodes it also would have just overstayed its welcome.

So if they couldn’t do anything interesting with Flashpoint itself the next best thing is to make the consequences of Flashpoint the main focus of season 3, which I think they did really well. With alchemy and Savitar and etc.

Again I think it’s fair to like other iterations of Flashpoint better but I also don’t necessarily think saying this Flashpoint was “poorly handled” is really accurate either

i hadn’t even thought about this my first time watching the show but cisco, kaitlyn, and the rest of the people that worked with barry have all been able to comfortably live. barry and iris being able to live a little flashy with that type of apartment on a csi payroll.

so they must be getting paid, also not just regular taxes for regular payroll but he has to pay for a stadium like lab that is expensive for multi billion dollar agency’s (like the chiefs) to pay for. also considering (as someone from missouri myself) we get double taxed and business taxed like a mother fucker. then all the equipment, remolding in later seasons.

it’s not specifically said, but to pay for that building for that long, have that many people on payroll for that long, open the flash museum, the medical equipment and groundbreaking work with technology it would have costed barry millions dollars. possibly (more likely) hundreds of millions of dollars.

my guess would be when Harrison wells died it wasn’t shown in the show but he left his entire net worth to barry.

so barry could very well (especially right after receiving the money) been close if not past a billionaire. who just lived very VERY modestly

So if you rewatch the whole night that barry’s mom died, in the end Barry and Eobard talk about how flash LET Eobard kill his mom because its a fixed point in time so they cant change it

So when you watch S1 his plan to go back is to send Barry back in time so that he could save his mom, therefore Thawne wouldn’t be stuck in the past, BUT considering that Thawne knows that he HAS to kill Nora Allen then why would he bother?

Not only that but before the end of S1 he has seen not only 1 but 2 versions of future Barry that both seem older and faster than the one he is training and the older Barry even tells him that he doesn’t go back in time

Did I miss something in his plan? He seems so calculated up until you realise that no?