But, seriously, especially Arrow takes place in the same universe which means, if The Flash’s main timeline has changed, then so, too, should Arrow’s. OK, I know Barry’s changing of the timeline probably won’t affect Arrow or Legends of Tomorrow (especially given that the latter changes the timeline as frequently as the rest of us eat lunch), but it would be pretty cool, right? Is it incendiary for me to say that I wouldn’t mind if Arrow got reset back to Season 2? Because I wouldn’t.
#Flash season 3 series
Tom Cavanagh better be a series regular in Season 3.ĭoes the timeline affect any other CW shows? Does that mean we won’t be visiting Earth-2 or the people we know there as much in Season 3? It seems easy for Cisco to pop back and forth and, with Zoom gone, the dangers of keeping breaches don’t seem nearly as high. With the Season 2 finale’s time travel-centric ending, it seems like the show might be moving in a different direction. Zoom, Harry, and Jesse were all major characters in this season - as were the various metahumans who popped over to say hello or, you know, to try to kill Barry via Zoom’s orders. Season 2 very much belonged to the people of Earth-2. Will Earth-2 continue to play a major role in Season 3? With Barry potentially gone, will Wally step up, speedster style, to protect the people of Central City?
Though it’s unclear whether or not Jesse will be back from Earth-2, we know Wally will be around and The Flash was teasing his potential speedster abilities hard in the last few eps of the season. Though this question wasn’t addressed in the Season 2 finale, it seems like a relevant one moving into Season 3 - especially in Wally’s case. Only question is: when can we expect him back?ĭo Wally and Jesse have speedster abilities? When last we saw him, he was jetting off back to home on Earth-3, but it’s doubtful that The Flash will keep him away forever. He also happens to be Henry Allen’s doppelganger.
He is none other than Jay Garrick, the real Jay Garrick. One of the big reveals of the finale came in the identity of The Man in the Iron Mask. And Barry’s new timeline, in which everyone he knows and loved has been altered by his decision to save his mom (also known, perhaps, as the Flashpoint Paradox?) One possible solution: give us both timelines. Audiences are most likely going to get tired of an alternate timeline sooner rather than later, but it seems like a cop out for The Flash not to follow the consequences of Barry’s decision through. It’s harder to pull off - after all, by one explanation, because Barry changed the timeline, the original timeline doesn’t exist - but it would make for more interesting viewing, in my opinion. Sometimes, when shows go the alternate timeline path, they’re kind enough to keep us grounded with a dual narrative that also shows us what’s going on in our timeline. Will we get to see both versions of the timelines: the unchanged and the changed? What are the repercussions for such moves - and will Barry be able to outrun them? Not to selfishly risk the lives of everyone and everything that ever existed within the Multiverse, then to go back and save his mom. When they gave Barry his speed back, they trusted that he would use it to continue to do good and save people. On a scale of one to Azkaban, what are we talking? Because you know the Speed Force and their police squad of dementors are going to be pretty pissed about this one. How angry are the time wraiths going to be? Especially if Season 1 finale Barry ceases to exist. he’s been killing of previous versions of himself all season - but I’m still not clear on the mechanics of it. We have seen Zoom survive this sort of thing - e.g. But, if that is the case, then why didn’t the Season 2 finale version of Barry cease to exist? He, too, was shaped by the presumably now defunct timeline. When Barry saved his mom, the circa Season 1 finale version of himself disappeared before his very eyes, presumably because, if Nora was saved, then that version of Barry ceased to exist. The bigger question then becomes: if Barry does have the power to change things back, how long into Season 3 will it take for him to do it? Are we talking the end of Episode 1 or are we talking the end of the midseason finale? The answer to that question will shape how Season 3 plays out at the most fundamental narrative levels. Otherwise, The Flash would be committed to exploring this whole new fictional world and, as ambitious as this show can be at times, I don’t see it going there. Whatever the changes Barry’s move made, it’s hard to imagine there isn’t a way to reverse them.