The tech support "team" model makes some sense for Arrow, but copying that template for Flash/Supergirl hurts those shows IMO.

Well, I think that if they really want to move past writing themselves into corners with time travel, it's probably better that that they've exhausted Flashpoint and taught Barry his lesson.

Legends has been my favorite Arrowverse show this season (but I don't watch Arrow itself, though I hear it's turned around from Seasons 3-4). And though it's popular to hate it, I think that Gotham has improved (and if you take it for what it is, rather than being disappointed that it's not a live action Gotham…

Here's the thing: 2024 Barry seems to imply that the time remnants were created as part of the strategy to kill Iris. ("You will do everything that you can think of to save her. You're even gonna create time remnants of yourself, but he's gonna kill them all, mostly. And then on the night of May 23rd, Iris West will…

If they were consistent about it, it would be one thing. But sometimes it takes a while, sometimes it's instantaneous, and sometimes his memory acts as you suggest (the events in "I Know Who You Are" differ from the timeline where Barry doesn't go to 2024, yet Barrytar has already experienced all of it).

I never got the hate. And I resented that he got temporarily retconned from being a sort of Jobs to the scientists' Woz (he actually did give the team a few good ideas, trained Wally, etc.) to being "useless."

1. I've said it before and I'll say it again: time remnants as horcruxes/plot devices (instead of aberrations preserved from paradox by the Speed Force) have ruined time travel in the Arrowverse.

I think that importing the Team Arrow formula (which works for a tech-based powerless human being) to the Flash (Star Labs) and Supergirl (the DEO) has hurt these shows (though it's hurt the Flash a bit more). Especially with J'onn "out" and no longer faking that he's anti-alien Hank Henshaw (and therefore with no…

Given real-life events, that would be awkward.

They're both adopted, why not?

In "I Know Who You Are," Barrytar was all, "You must kill Tracy Brand." In this episode he was all, "Let them get the power source, what's a Speed Force trap to a god anyway?" Huh? As far as I can tell, if he had the Philosopher's Stone in his back pocket all along, the only reason to have Killer Frost go after Tracy…

Barry running at regular speed would probably be even less likely than regular Barry to stop Barrytar from stabbing Iris.

Maybe, but he reiterates in this episode (in the conversation with Killer Frost) that if Iris doesn't die he's never born, so I don't know. Maybe he was bluffing with Barry.

I'm guessing that it worked in 2020 or whenever because that was a timeline where the Barrytar remnant had already split off (i.e., he didn't have Barry's memories) and therefore couldn't anticipate the gun.

This is as good a place as any to plant this:

So then why does he still feel the need to kill Iris at all? It's also implied that he only feels the need to kill her to complete the causal loop (channeling Julian, he said something like, "I'm sorry you have to die, but it's either you or me").

What are Durlans' lifespans? A sufficiently old alien could still be eligible if a citizen of the US at the time of the Constitution's ratification.

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, ***or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution***, shall be eligible to the Office of President…"

Does it make me a bad person that the "Caitlin's powers make her evil" thing doesn't bother me? I just chalked it up to Flashpoint ruining everything (like Dante dying, Iris-Joe briefly not being on speaking terms, etc.) and moved on. They've had at least one meta (a man) whose powers also has a side effect that was a…

It's very interesting when this show tries to make sense out of it's rules (like, Barrytar not knowing about Tracy until Emo Barry tells younger Barry about her) and when it doesn't. (If Barrytar's motivations are entirely wrapped up in needing Iris to do for some kind of causal loop, how does that fit in with the…