Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20170517002342/@comment-13895380-20170517135030

This episode was amazing! It was one of the most emotional and overall, one of the best episodes of the Flash ever.

HR is really Iris for several reasons:

- they introduced the face-swapping technology for a reason, and purposely made Barry use it to remind the viewers that it exists

- HR felt like shit for giving away Iris's location and he wants to make up for it, to finally be "useful"

- HR looked at Savitar' blade in his last scene, signifying that he's going to use it to track where Savitar and Iris is

- HR's relationship with Tracey was REALLY rushed, signifying that he doesn't have much time on the show left

- Joe was pointing the gun at Savitar instead of HR. Iris said "Barry! Barry!" instead of "Barry! I love you!" because it was probably HR.

Theory on Iris living and HR dying:

When Savitar took Iris, they had a conversation and Iris touched Savitar's face, bringing back all the memories they had together. This causes Savitar to distance himself from her momentarily because of the shame and guilt he feels for having to kill her. In this moment, HR and Joe find her, Joe takes her away and HR stays behind, swapping himself as Iris. This is why Joe doesn't shoot Savitar -- he knows it is really HR who is sacrificing himself to let Iris live. However, Barry and most likely the rest of the team doesn't know about this switch and thus Savitar doesn't either, so it mostly plays out the same way it did previously, asides for the absence of HR (replaced by Joe) and Iris not saying "I love you!" to Barry one last time, because it is HR disguised as her.

Theory on Savitar losing:

After everything Barry has gone through this season, I think Barry knows not to push any of his friends and family away, through him seeing the future of team Flash in 2024. He also knows that no matter what, he cannot change who he is, signified by Iris's final wishes of him and the significance of even Snart (a legend who died a hero) telling him that's how he can beat Savitar, by staying a hero. Thus, Savitar, defeated by love, may eventually, simply parrish. However, that seems too easy.

Now that Barry has learned his lesson, I believe that the speed force will actually grant him the speed necessary to beat Savitar. I REALLY hope he doesn't do a hard-reset of post-Flashpoint timeline, because we had a whole season to get used to it. Please don't do that.

On another note (plotholes still not resolved): 

But are they ever going to address that time remnant Savitar shouldn't be the one trapped in the speed force? It was the original Savitar that kicked his ass that was trapped in the speed force. Are they also ever going to address that time remnant Savitar acted like Savitar and his loop started because of Flashpoint, when Savitar was alive and trapped in the speed force pre-Flashpoint?