Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-44904262-20200121144107

I have been an avid watcher of The Flash since the start of the first season in 2014 and I have never missed an episode of it yet. I don't usually post about it, but I think there was a big missed opportunity during Crisis On Infinite Earths Part 3 and Part 4 which could have been handled better. Ever since the start of the show the newspaper article with the Flash vanishing in crisis has always been foreshadowed as the end goal of it. Even now has always engaged me to keep watching the show to see what happens. Season 6 has been mostly built around this with most of the episodes building or eluding to crisis and they have done a good job for the most part and I enjoyed it. That being said I think certain things could have been done better during Crisis as the build for it was pretty much how it should have been.

We are given a glimpse of how our Barry Allen dies during an episode of season 6 and I for one especially loved it because that's the way he should have gone. Although during crisis, this isn't the case in part 3 as there is a blatant bait and switch to the 90's Flash being the one that disappears in crisis. This is fine on its own but lacks the emotional punch that it would have if our version of Barry Allen did vanish on that treadmill. I for one think that they should have gone all the way and had our Barry Allen be the one vanish in crisis during part 3. It would have had the emotional punch and served as one of the cliffhangers along with the multiverse still getting destroyed. As with the episode that we lose a hero in, Oliver would return at the end as the Spectre to instill some hope for our heroes and the paragons would still be sent to the vanishing point, except for Barry Allen. I say this with good reason as people would have tune in a month later wondering how they resolve this situation and it would build more intrigue for part 4 of the crossover instead just killing off the 90's flash who we as an audience are less connected to then our current version of Barry Allen.

To resolve the issue, we could have had Oliver (Spectre) bring Barry Allen back from the speedforce in part 4 of the crossover during the start of the episode as we have already seen him being able to talk to Barry Allen in the speedforce that episode. Which would have been a far better way to deal with the Flash vanishing in crisis situation, then how they did it. And everything else could have been done the way they did in the show. I may be wrong on how people think of my opinion here, but I still think it would have been better to not waste this storyline just for it to be a bait and switch. I still hope they do the Flash vanishing in crisis fighting the reverse flash as the end to this series and turning into the lightning that hits him during season 1. What do you guys think about this? I would like to know. Thank you. 