All posts by SeanWheeler
I know it's fiction.
Anyway, back on topic: Since Eobard listed Ralph Dibny, Al Rothstein and Ronnie Raymond, do you think Bea da Costa could appear as Fire? If Flashpoint made Ralph survive, maybe Crisis could also retcon the others such as Fire?
True, but at least it makes more sense than stuff disappearing and people remembering things differently. And also note that with Novikov in effect that while people in the past can't die unless they already died that way, time travelers from the future are not as safe as their past selves. And if you go to any major historical period like World War II, there can be tension and drama even if you can't change the outcome of the war because your hero could be in danger of getting captured by the Nazis. Or your hero could go back furthur to the age of piracy and swordfight against pirates. Or he can end up in prehistoric times running from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the hero's involvement in the past could be foreshadowed in a museum with the hero's name on the list of Holocaust survivors, a pirate exhibit with a painting of a pirate who looks suspiciously similar to the hero, and tracks of modern shoe footprints inside a fossilized dino footprint from when the T-Rex chased the hero through a mud puddle. And all of that could be shown before the hero finds the time machine and travels through time. Or the hero could go back a few hours earlier and not knowing how time travel works could worry about what happens when his past self sees him. And while he's fumbling around trying to hide, when his past self hears him, he reacts the same way as the first scene this moment took place, and all the noises and the stuff moving around in the earlier scene would be revealed to be the future hero's doing.
That's the problem with speedsters with time powers always forgetting what they can do so that the writers can have drama. With Barry's powerset, nothing should be able to stop him and he could stop all the crimes in the city at once. Especially with Flashtime allowing him to move people at his speed while time is frozen. But anyway, I think Nora should have chosen to be saved by the Negative Speed Force. Even if it would corrupt her, she could resist the corruption and still fight for Team Flash while being a little insane.
If someone had to watch if he died and pulled the trigger on cue, his plans would be foiled if that person grew a conscience and disobeyed his orders. He's more of a smart guy than a trusting type. And he can't promise or threaten the bomber anything after he dies. So he must have had a transmitter linked to his vitals.
True, there's no real version of time travel. And considering how there's never been any reports of time travelers, there never will be. But if you put a type of magic or sci-fi concept and create story rules around it, stick to the rules. Look at how J.K. Rowling does her magic in Harry Potter. Wingardium Leviosa lifts stuff up, Accio pulls stuff toward the wizard, and Avada Kadavra kills people. She had even used the best kind of time travel in Prisoner of Azkaban with the Novikov principle. But then she decided on Back to the Future rules with "unbirths" on Pottermore and the Cursed Child play altering events of Goblet of Fire. And even Prisoner of Azkaban implied wizards could change time in dialogue while Harry already saw himself cast the Patronus. Oh well, if I'm going to make time travel happen in my novels, I would use the Novikov rule all the way. Sure, it could limit the stakes like watching a prequel and there is the bootstrap paradox, but at least it won't retcon anything.
He could have lied about Ralph too. And the other names like Bea da Costa. He even ended the list with Ronnie Raymond who Team Flash knew was alive. Why couldn't they have just left it at Thawne just making a list of random names and Barry completely ignored Ralph's name? The episode Paradox was supposed to explain everything that Flashpoint changed. If there are more Flashpoint changes than what Paradox established, that would just make things more confusing. But time travel in the Arrowverse was always confusing anyway. Savitar has even noted how the more you use it the less the rules applied. And he should talk considering how he was a time remnant from the future who needed to kill Iris to keep a loop going leading to his creation, but ended up getting shot by the woman he was destined to kill. Consistent time travel rules would make it impossible for Savitar to exist. The time loop comes from the Novikov self-consistency principle which says you were already in the past and can't change anything, yet the Arrowverse keeps using Back to the Future logic, even on Savitar when they wiped Barry's memories. And Savitar did not exist until Flashpoint so apparently the timeline just dropped this guy into existence out of nowhere? Savitar's a bigger paradox than Thawne.
Does anyone need to be told their race? No, because it shouldn't matter and they should have already known from their families.
What would have changed in the Invasion crossover other than Supergirl being much closer that Barry could just run to National City without Cisco opening any breaches?
Confirmed by one episode and then never brought up again.
The writers forgot who Thawne listed in Blackout. He also said "Al Rothstein" who was not only killed by his Earth-2 doppelganger in the Season 2 premiere, they made a point about him being nowhere near Central City the night of the Particle Accelerator explosion. And while Ralph's retcon can be excused by Flashpoint, Flashpoint didn't happen yet for Rothstein. Barry had only time-travelled twice at that point, once to repeat a day from Out of Time, and in Fast Enough when he first revisted the night his mother died but chose not to interfere. And that was the episode where Eddie shot himself to make Thawne disappear from existence, only that ended up just banishing Thawne from the present while leaving all evidence of what he did intact. Maybe you can say the moment where Barry came to that night and his future self stopped to gesture him not to interfere caused a butterfly effect that led to Rothstein's survival?
I love Stargirl more than any of them, but I can't vote for her because she's as Arrowverse as the DCEU. So I voted for Flash, which is my favorite that was on Earth-1 and Earth-Prime.
With Crisis, every TV show and movie is in the multiverse. Earth-Prime is the Arrowverse. Besides, Stargirl Wiki is not merging no matter how many crossovers with the new Earth-2 would happen.