The Real Flash
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May 30th, 2015

The Real Flash

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  1. John says:

    You can't fool Dr. Noodle.

    (Also, I'm of the opinion that the time-travel is going to reset a lot of memories, but maybe this isn't the place to start a Flash discussion forum.)

    • Darrin Bell says:

      Anyplace is the place to start a Flash discussion forum. I think there's something to your theory. Thawn killing himself and preventing Eobard Thawn from ever being born has got to have repercussions. It would mean Thawn was never around to kill Barry's mom, so he wouldn't have been raised by the cop alongside Iris. It would also mean that the REAL Dr. Wells would have caused the disaster years later, so none of what we saw in season 1 would've occurred. But we know that can't happen, because Doctor Cold is a regular cast member in Legends of Tomorrow, next Fall's Flash/Arrow spinoff show. So they have a lot of explaining to do in season two.

      • John says:

        I think there's going to be a lot of back-and-forth causality going on (the Thawn family tree being one example), ending with a situation that's finally stable time-travel-wise. A stable situation, for example, might be that Eobard never makes the trip back because Eddie killing himself knocks the whole thing into instability again.

        I can do the whole "and this is how fractals work" thing, but the question is just how easily can this be translated into an hour of television. And whether the show runners want to.

        • Darrin Bell says:

          Or they can sidestep the whole matter by having Sisco quote The Doctor: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly… timey-wimey… stuff."

          …Or better yet (only from a Doctor Who fan's perspective, probably) have The Doctor show up and say that himself.

          • John says:

            Well, I just tried to cheat a little and checked IMDB, but it looks like the show is being cagy and listing only the characters we already know will be back.

            My best guess? Barry has to go through a little of what Eobard did, maybe by contacting a Cisco Ramon who can still remember alternate realities.

            I'm just wondering if Barry will meet anyone else at the unstable black hole.