I'm not, but from some of the other comments, I guess I should be!

Maybe the writers of the Barrytar storyline have watched Primer too many times. Or too few.

I mentioned last week that there would be a problem with Barry having future villains. (We get the climax through denoument of long-standing beefs between Barry and the Reverse Flash, Abra Kadabra, and Savitar before most of the rising action.) Unless they've got an amazing trick up their sleeves, this is now all the…

But what timeline does lonely Barry come from in the first place? As you note, until post-Flashpoint, Savitar existed, but in timelines where Iris lives, at least as of 2024. In Eobarde's timeline, Iris was the wife of Barry. If she lives a full life, or if she dies at the hands of another, what's Savitar's predicate…

In between blogging about the villains imprisoned in the pipeline.

Something something needs past self to make time remnant that will become Savitar before he can kill Iris even though there's no way this should work now that past self knows his identity?

Which explains why he threatened to kill Iris in Season 1 if Joe kept investigating Wells?

And people having been guessing "Future Barry" since Thawne-Wells, and people involved with the show have been over-hyping it even though it was people's #1 guess until the Ronnie bandwagon last week.

I think it's a mix between #1 and #3, and maybe the first part of #2 (don't think that Emo Barry was in on Barrytar yet), but I'd say that the biggest letdown with Barrytar is that they could have done a lot more interesting things with all the weird Alchemy/Philosopher's Stone stuff. With it just being Future Barry,…

I've said previously and I stick by it, that a 23-episode season could have worked fine if they merged Seasons 2 and 3 into one long arc about Barry learning the lesson of not messing with the past (Zoom) or the future (Savitar).

Not so much how, but, like, who is Julian to you that you got this guy all the way from the UK, if Barrytar's whole thing is about intimate knowledge of the team, and Julian's role is only in service to the post-Flashpoint Alchemy plot?

"Either that or Savitar is a direct creation of Flashpoint."

I guess the letdown for me is that I think that a lot of the Philosopher's Stone stuff could've been put to better use with a non-Barry Savitar.

So how does Julian fit into all this? So Barrytar has a vendetta against Team Flash, and knows all their secrets, how much they love each other, etc., because he lived it. But the scheme to bring back Flashpoint metas (including Kid Flash) was inspired by Flashpoint itself, and Julian is in Central City to act as…

Or were hoping so hard that they wouldn't be that predictable that they were throwing everything against the wall and seeing what stuck.

The problem is that they seem to have simultaneously set up that Savitar was a pre-Flashpoint villain (who was already stuck in the time force, and got the idea for using Wally to escape from Flashpoint, and only kills Iris post-Flashpoint), but by throwing in Emo Barry's "Savitar kills the time remnants - mostly"…

So I guess the question would be, what's the story with Savitar in the timeline where Barry doesn't kill Iris (at least not by the 2024 headline)? The killing Iris stuff is purely a function of Savitar getting the idea of using Wally to break free of the speed force post-Flashpoint.

At this point, who know's what's been misdirection set up by Barrytar and what's real. We'll have to wait and see.

Let's put it this way: I'm not upset that the Big Bad is (a) Future Barry, but I do think that it was overhyped (especially when people involved with the show started talking about the reveal and how it would be a more shocking twist than previous seasons) and not worth the setup (so far).

Part of the 'splaining will have to be when. Other than the bit about Savitar killing the time remnants "mostly," so far they've set up Savitar as pre-existing Flashpoint (which gave him the idea of making Wally a speedster in order to replace him in the Speed Force), so what was Savitar's deal in timelines where Iris…