No, it's Barry. Eobard says he found out the flash's name in his timeline and it was "Barry Allen".

That's a vital factor though. Sure, it's tired, but if he just hated Oliver it prompts questions of why, and of that was just the case, why would he plot such an intricate plan to ruin Oliver and the people he cares about? It's precisely because of Shado that their whole feud is personal (hence why he kills Moira and…

No. Since the timeline in which Nora didn't die has a Flash, presumably even some time in the future a particle accelerator was created and still succeeded in creating Flash-Barry. This is confirmed By Eobard Thawne telling the real S1 Wells (before killing him) that he needs to speed up the process of creation of the…

I'm going to have to disagree with you on Fringe, I thought it was an odd move but it was adequately handled, because I still felt like the characters I was watching were fundamentally the same Olivia and Peter and Walter, and many of the changes made made sense and impacted the characters in understandable,…

I felt Ray was somewhat bogged down by Kendra (sighs, those Hawks…) but I enjoyed his interactions with other characters. And you're right, Martin was always a real hoot!

I think qualitatively Jessica Jones stands a head above most other superhero shows this year, and it had a much deeper, much more compelling message than any of them. The problem for me was that in execution it got very dreary and dark and depressing so that was a bit of a problem. I also find myself able to point out…

I thought Snart and Sara were very compellingly shaded and I never thought they would manage to make MICK compelling, but well they did. That was what stood out for me. I agree everything else was fairly bland tho

If you're a ward fan you'll likely have nothing but criticisms for AOS. Other than that I think it was a lot more even than s1/2. My ranking is similar to yours, except I'll swap flash and Supergirl and replace DD with Jones (since I haven't watched DD). Angsty Barry (particularly during the Patty mess) was really…

Didn't arrow and flash do some adjusting to their stories to make space for LoT setup though? They may not have a choice. And I think people have mentioned that Supergirl is going to be brought into Arrowverse so if that's the case even if the main storyline doesn't change it WILL still affect things on Supergirl at…

Ikr, I assumed Nora's death was a fixed point in time because it's a moment in which the timeline was rewritten I.e when Nora was killed it obliterated the old timeline so they simply can't just undo it since there would be no more "original timeline" to return to, ergo, paradox. But if timelines can be rewritten and…

Why, though? Or were you being sarcastic.

Ooh, shots fired.

This makes zero sense. If time works this way, it suggests that once a timeline is altered, it's rewritten over (like a tape?) and the old timeline and its remnants cease to exist. If that's the case, then the MOMENT Eobard killed Nora as we were shown last season he should have immediately obliterated the timeline he…

Did they specifically state that? I know Rip's family's death and Barry's mum's death are considered "fixed points in time" that can't be changed (which is vastly different from them being "destined" to die) but is the same ever said about Laurel's death?

Rip does state at one point that time tries to make things happen in their natural order, so course correction would be made difficult; I imagine an instant so specific as Laurel being stabbed and dying (versus Savage's rise which supposedly took place over a long period of time) would be much more difficult to…

At the request of his son's mother. I think that's a fairly important distinction. I know most of the viewers probably consider Samantha an irrelevant character (god knows I do) but if Oliver had gone back on his word to Samantha then he would be an absolute fucking douche, especially since he's the one who got her…

I'm not saying it's her fault, this is why I had that phrase in quotation marks; I actually think she had no choice. But it's undeniable that she redirected the missile and nuked that town, and given Arrow's weird hard-on for self-loathing and guilt it's more than likely she will feel like it's her fault (unless Arrow…

Actually, she didn't really compartmentalize that well when it came to William. She didn't feature that much during the action bit in the middle of the episode, but the writers made sure to have her bitterness shine through in her comments towards Oliver when he's first telling the team about William. She also…

I actually think this is the one situation where she's allowed/justified in being a "weepy emotional bitch", in your words. I mean, she nuked a town and she quite literally had no choice. I think that ranks several thousand rungs higher than "my crush married an assassiny assassin" or "My fiance has a kid whose mum…

Welp so he'll be dead by mid-season s5 is what you're saying?