But they didn't tease that tension in the end. The timeline concerns should be primary, but the writers chose not to illuminate them and instead direct the focus on Barry solving an apocalypse, apparently already having the solution. It's not about tricks, but about the focus being on the important concepts. The…

But it's true for us. It's not just The Flash being in peril; we know that he will somehow succeed, making no one in peril. An invested cliffhanger would have teased changes to the timeline, not injected a doomsday event that necessarily has to be fixed for ANY future story to be told. To me, it cheapened the whole…