So when Jay was creating a vortex, and Joe was flipping four different switches (which they were worried he wouldn't be able to manage in time), and Caitlin was running a control board, Iris was… looking on in fear and admiration? Couldn't she have been helping her dad?
- Of course, her plan to deal with the threat to…

I thought this was a great episode, especially in the way that the case of the week was tied into the Black Claw's rising "cultural" influence among the wesen. And the ritual felt almost authentic, possibly because it echoes images familiar in real-life human religion. (One would expect overlap between wesen and human…

Oh, there I agree with you completely. (Just about everything happening on The Flash is Barry's fault at this point.) I'm just talking about how time travel works in this setting. But that's silly - the answer is "whatever way the plot needs it to, this time."

Zoom's got Jesse on the other side of the breaches. Shutting them down doesn't do anything to protect her from him - and if he finds out, he'll torture her to punish Harry.

Because he saved Star City by changing history that he had originally been involved in? And time didn't collapse in on itself? But as others have pointed out, the time-travel rules in this story/universe are "whatever we need right now to make the plot work."

Barry thought he and Wells closing the breach(es) would "save Wells' daughter!" How would that work, exactly?

And male. (Not That There's Anything Wrong With That.)

Blue Kryptonite! Yay!
- I was a little sorry that Kara, JUST LIKE BARRY ALLEN, seems to have decided that it's too dangerous for her to be in a romance with someone.
- Kara talking goofily about her upcoming date with Adam in front of Winn seemed a little cruel. It's early days yet. Maybe just put the phone away with…

Stanford. And I wasn't exactly rooting for Lara, or taking pleasure in her victory. June may not be the "perfect victim" - but so what? We can still feel some sympathy at Lara using her power to humiliate her and prevent her from telling the truth.

See, that's the thing. I didn't see the dog poop scene as putting assholes in their place. It starts like that, but then turns into a demonstration that Chuck is the bigger asshole. His being right, or righteous, isn't enough.

The Wesen Council has the Worst. Security. EVER.
- I liked this episode, although I'm still on the fence with Adelind/Nick. The police officer losing his wits when the prisoner woged was well done. And I thought Nick's reaction to Juliette/Eve was handled very well - horror, anger, confusion, and no relief at all.
- I…

Rip: "We can't undo an event we were involved in (Aldous's death), the entire timeline would fold in on itself." Of course, we've already seen Flash go into the past and undo Vandal Savage's city-destroying explosion, which Barry was right there for in the original, so I guess time-travel works differently in the two…

I never saw the Felicity-flashback episode, and so when hallucination-Felicity showed up there was a brief moment when I thought, wow, that's Death of the Endless - and this show has taken a seriously weird turn! Not sure if I'm disappointed or relived. (OK: disappointed.)

Part the 3: Well, they've finally "explained" the whole Patty bit. It's not that she would be in danger if she knew Barry was the Flash (which never made sense, and by the end she did anyway). It's that she would be in danger if anybody could tell she was important to him. So he pushes her away. This, of course (along…

Part the 2: "Barry, don't tell him anything about yourself or who you are, it could mess up the timeline." So then Cisco goes and tells him everything about Cisco - which could equally mess up the timeline? Cisco normally isn't an idiot even when he's angry and ironic. Anyway, I don't get this whole "Flash, I was…

Part the 1: So what is Eobard's life story now? He clearly exists, up until the moment in time when Eddie Thawne kills himself. But that change in history (and it was a change in Eobard's history - Eddie was his ancestor, now isn't) didn't seem to affect… his history. Who is his great-grandfather now? Somebody else?…

"As it turns out it was my very actions that set Reverse-Zoom on the course to kill my mother, as I am an integral part of His Origin" is called "closure"? I thought we had closure when Eddie killed himself to eliminate R-F from the timeline.

It's certainly as much a word as "cucky." And fortunately no one has to listen to you about what to put in a review.

In our Openly Gay, Sexually Explicit world, do you really think we're going to get a villain named "the Top"? :-)

Really? Barry risks the safety of his friends, his city, and his world to go back and save his mom - it's that important to him - and seeing some guy in a costume like his (who could be "future him," could be him from an alternate timeline with a whole different set of backstory and motivation, could be practically…