Though I appreciated that Felicity actively decided not to do the "don't say anything so it can be revealed at the worst possible moment for team cohesion".

While I wish Gustin only the best career success, I don't want the DC movie universe getting any of its residue on the Berlanti shows. And I really want them to get comfortable with the idea that doing independent, unrelated versions of the characters won't confuse viewers (so we don't get things like the Suicide…

I could get behind a League-style team with Mon-El in his classic costume as their heavy hitter. (Unless there's any chance of a Legion of Super-Heroes, in which case he has to be a member of that.)

I'm pretty sure we're a ways from the movie side allowing them to use the name "Justice League", but there have been workarounds for that before. (Super-Buddies, anyone?)

There is something very Silver Age about the way being trapped by a newly encountered and unique metahuman in an impossible way that the best minds available to them have failed to penetrate doesn't provoke the slightest worry in Iris (or Barry) that he won't be able to get out.

Apparently the role of the phone in this episode was directly inspired by Mallory Ortberg's "What if phones but too much?" http://junkee.com/mallory-o…

Fair enough.

Um, I hate to tell you…

That last was one of the things that made me think Kelly had actually experienced the 80s at the appropriate age, which gives a rough sense of the timeframe of the story.

Wyatt was trained as a commando or whatever. He was not trained for the time travel stuff.

"The monster at the end of this book, I am!"

Sort of like "Orphan Black": "Oh, Cosima's not in this episode? I guess her actress probably had another commit— no, wait…"

Though if they go to that well too much, it starts to get cheap: "this is the best of all possible worlds, altering even the worst atrocities can only make them worse" is at least a strain on suspension of disbelief.

Look, that's just like being an archaeologist and falling prey to an ancient mummy curse: standard hazard of the job.

Yeah- I've really wanted to warm to Wally, but I just don't care about this version thus far. (Who shares nothing much with either his comics counterpart or the DCAU version.)

Someone whose house you move into at eleven (especially with a preexisting crush) isn't particularly likely to become a sister, psychologically, any more than kids at boarding school become de facto siblings. People generally have to grow up together from a younger age for that to be likely.

I'm hoping that Flashpoint is used to change him from a gritty Arrow villain to something more appropriate to the Flash's Rogues Gallery.

Come on, who doesn't have a birth family in the 30th century? Or a brother who worked for the Manhunters?

Actually he's speaking Interlac, which by a sheer coincidence…

Socrates in "Phaedrus" recounts a complaint from earlier days that writing would "create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. … [It] is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give…