I think HR might have been down with being bought flowers by a mad temporal anomaly. He's only human.

You're contradicting yourself there. Fantasy narratives have to abide by an internal narrative logic to function, or the whole thing falls apart. This episode, more than most others in this lazy, poorly written and executed season, falls apart.

Posing as a person to fool the naked eye is completely different to being physically manhandled by a kidnapper who knows the person you're impersonating intimately. The logic is f**king spaghetti by this point.

They could really do with clearing that up. They began by playing it as a dissociative identity, but that doesn't work if the alternate personality can remember being friends with the original personality's team mates and has the residue of feelings for them.
So when Cisco tried teasing out the old Caitlyn by recalling…

Not just any life, either: her fiancé. I mean, an evil version from the future, but still. When she wakes up in the middle of the night after PTSD nightmares, she should be picturing herself shooting the love of her life…

When Barry 'died' in the comics, Wally replaced him as The Flash for a good twenty years of stories. I for one could do with a change of protagonist… for me, Barry Allen's idiocy and selfishness is inextricably linked to so much bad voodoo in this show and in Arrow (yes, I'm still quietly appalled at the whole…

So, hang on… they've tried changing the future. They've tried messing with Barry's brain. But the real secret to saving Iris and foiling Savitar was… to replace Iris with a ringer that Savitar could murder instead? Wouldn't this be an actual plan they would come up with themselves - "hey, let's replace Iris at the…

The Undertaker isn't from Death Valley. And Kane was born in Spain. In the rain. On a plain.

Manhasset, Nassau County, Long Island NY. His dad played hockey there - they only moved to Winnipeg when he retired from the game.

It's a classic Jinderella story, man.

How could you tell if he wasn't?

He's far more talented than he's been allowed to express, in the ring or on the mic. His backstage segments - as Johnny Curtis, as Fandango and with Breeze right now - have been highlights of whatever show he's been on for years. Legit underrated.

Vince has form doing this kind of thing with his family: his uncle is Gama Singh, who worked Middle Eastern tours for the WWF in the eighties to take advantage of the overseas audience there.
And it doesn't matter where he's from in real life, does it? Roddy Piper wasn't Scottish, Chris Jericho was born in New York,…

No, like I said. You're confusing shit you don't like with shit that doesn't make sense. Theoretically, bringing Evil Laurel in puts the dramatic cat amongst the pigeons: if another show has introduced that character, why on earth wouldn't you take advantage of that? Similarly, Malcolm had greater agency in season one…

I have a Cody Rhodes t-shirt designed by Lord Mesa. The dude is amazing.

Agreed, and don't even get me started, or I'll freak the EFF out again about the casual manner in which Barry Allen wiped a 2 year old girl from existence and everyone kinda-sorta-made a horrified face and then forgot about it. Talk about bloody plot points.

Barry would just go back in time and accidentally uninvent arrows, leading to the season finale being a show inexplicably called 'Catapult'.

Notice there was only one moment from season three and one from season four, because even a horrendous psychotropic torture drug can't find a reason for the rest of those flashbacks.

"Behold! My estranged wife, my mom's bangpiece and my ex-best friend/worst enemy! Bet you didn't predict THAT, Adrian Chase, if that even is your real name, which it totally isn't!"

Give Barry Allen the job of making Team Arrow tea, he'll come back with a handful of coffees and some magic beans, go back in time to get the order right, and end up erasing tea itself from existence and having Hitler win WWII.
Then he'll mope around for a bit because people are being mean to him, and go back to…