For those of you who don't know me, I am a huge nerd and I have whats been called as an unhealthy habit of over analyzing the crap out of story lines, especially on TV shows which usually is more about continuity than actual storyline. So I just watched all the season finales for the CW shows listed in the title and right after I watched LoT, I had a huge mind fuck moment...
This is your one and only warning, serious spoiler alerts for those who haven't watched them yet and if you like me, you still might want to stop here before I ruin whatever mental image you might have of me LOL
Still here? Ok Let's do this!
So (and yes I say "so" a lot, its my version of the valley girl "Like", Sorry not sorry) we end Legends of Tomorrow with the team killing Savage, not once but 3 times, Fuck yeah!, then they get to finally go home except its no longer feels like home yadda yadda surprise fore shadow for next season... the ending rocked in my opinion but really has no bearing on this blog, so moving onto Arrow (and yes I realize I am talking about them in the reverse of their air dates, I'm building suspense to my point, I hope)...
Arrow, Ollie and company of course finally save the world and FINALLY kill fuckin Darhk or whatever savvy way they spell it and there's a slightly teary yet happy ending as everyone decides to take a break to go find themselves. Except, of course, for our fearless leader who becomes Mayor and Felicity who stands by her man (remarried next season? I hope so), anywho, as awesome as the ending was, no foreshadow to next season. Now Flash...
Yes, now Flash, this is where shit gets real and why I firmly believe they should have aired this last, but let's not get ahead. Brief description... Yes the good guys win, Zoom is destroyed, like literally, Time Wraiths come take him and fuck him up, did you see his face? Pause that scene but be warned, it can't be unseen, but it doesn't end there! Heartwarming after battle scene at home with the whole gang, everyone's happy and laughing, except Barry who is all distraught still and goes on the porch, followed by Iris who professes her undying love and loyalty to him and knows he needs to basically recharge and is willing to wait for him, his happy ending is damn near guaranteed! He kisses her goodbye and takes off and goes back in time and beats the crap out of Eobard Thawne before he can kill Barrys mom! THEN we see old Barry, the one hiding in the closet from where he went back in time before in order to stop the murder, vanish! Not in a time breach but straight up no longer exists!
*breathes* Now I know you are all wondering, if you're not starting to get it already, wtf is this dude going on about!? Well I'll tell you and explain why... ready? I'll wait... Ok.. In ONE episode, one moment, Barry completely destroyed the other 2 shows completely, as in that one act means the other two shows, along with Flash, NEVER HAPPENED, not even close... Ok so MAYBE Arrow would still be but with a much different direction than they are in now. Without Flash, there is no Cisco and Snow helping Felicity with stuff or making gadgets for the crew, hell there is no Star Labs particle accelerator explosion creating Meta's for them to fight! There is no Training Day when Ollie trains Barry on his powers and getting some of his old humanity back by Barrys youthful reminder, go back and watch it, you'll see. Ollie would still be battling everyone pretty much on his own with Diggle and MAYBE Roy and Sarah(at least until she goes all Back to the Future, maybe, I'll get to that). Not to mention half the bad guys are gone, Thankfully Slade and Darhk used dark arts and stuff from the island, so there is still that storyline.
However, I firmly believe Legends of Tomorrow would have never happened because without Flash there would be no Firestorm, no Snart & Mick (Ok well they would exist but never would have agreed to go along with Rip without all the good deeds they did for Flash and Arrow), hell Cisco helped unite Kendra and Carter so who knows how that would have gone without their intervention. That's about half the cast, now crossover and without the particle accelerator explosion creating the Metas, Ray would have no need to press forward so hard with the Atom suit, giving him a little more time to focus on his love for Felicity and possibly screwing up the future wedding and her need to stand by self destructive Ollie. That leaves us with Sarah, shes the only one I can't foresee anything in her timeline changing as a result of the massive paradox, except for with her being a lone fighter (or possibly fighting alongside Arrow), she could still be an asset to Rip but without everyone else, he has no real reason to recruit her.
And of course, there's never a Flash, with him stopping (I presume killing him then and there) Thawne from ever killing his mother, Thawne never takes Harrisons form and creates Star Labs and the subsequent particle accelerator explosion, which, as we all know, is how Flash came to be. So he erased himself from existence, all because his dad died and he couldn't handle Earth 3 Flash being his dads doppelganger. So.... WTF? Something seriously major MUST happen on the first episode of next seasons Flash or I am screaming total BS on the other 2 shows and may even go all super nerd and write the CW a very stern email LOL
There is also some minor stuff effected on Supergirl as well but no where near as significant as the other shows.
Feel free to discuss, I'd love everyone else's thoughts, I only hope I didn't scare everyone away :P