Harrison Wells solution for *everything* is build another particle accelerator.

"I built another particle accelerator and that one fell into the swamp. So I built another particle accelerator and that one, stayed up!!!! At least for a couple days before it blew up. But by god, it stayed up."

Does that timeline even exist?

*Shakes Berlanti 8-Ball*

At least we don't have Barry charging up/evolving to his next form over the course of five episodes….yet.

What's inconsistent there is okay, Barry doesn't remember because he time traveled, fine but there was a Barry in the timeline interacting with these people, you know existing. What happened to that Barry? Would time travelling Barry subsume that Barry's memories? Or is there another Barry that was simply erased?

Episode 2 Barry: "I'll never go back in time and try to change things *ever* again."

To be fair, her advice to him was just "fix it" no specifics, no wisdom. So you know Barry "I'm The Worst" Allen is just going to worst it up.

Barry: "I'm glad nothing changed with you Felicity and I can unburden my soul on all this flashpoint stuff to you…..whaaaaat's that on your finger?"

"Alrighty, I've hit Flash with my blue light whatever power and now Rival is going to finish the job. No reason to stick around and make sure he actually succeeds, not like the Flash has some friend who's apparently a short distance away and is going to vibe over here and stop Rival, especially since "vibe over" isn't…

So Barry created a new timeline and that caused him to have headaches/seizures/whatever with the new reality erasing his memory.

"Dawson's Creek cameo"

Caitlyn: "Something's wrong, Barry's comms are down!"

So you're saying the police in Central City are gambling on these metahumans fights? I like that angle.

The day when Central City was destroyed was the day the answering machine message Iris and Caitlyn had setup for Barry got taped over.

And he hasn't learned from his previous experience. Didn't see a toilet in that cell.

For someone who works for the police, Barry is pretty fluid with the law.

I'm glad the writer's kept the "What things are different here?!?!?" Barry from the Earth-2 storyline.

"You're going to beg me to kill your mother!" - Reverse Flash

Keeping another speedster as a prisoner for ever and ever seems like a small price to pay for Barry "I just want to be happy, zero fucks" Allen.