When Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) travels in time, you know he\u2019s going to mess something up. That\u2019s just a fact. We\u2019ve seen it a few times now, he goes back, he doesn\u2019t save his mum, he goes back to the present, and (mostly) everything is hunky-dory. So when he went back at the end of Season Two and he actually did save her this time, shit went down.<\/p>\n
Enter Flashpoint. Fans of the comics will know what this means, but for fans of the TV show it means something else. Barry has messed with time, and now the world is different. He still lives with his parents, he doesn\u2019t know Iris (Candice Patton), Joe (Jesse L Martin) is an alcoholic, Cisco is rich<\/em>, Caitlin is a children\u2019s doctor and, oh yeah, Wally (Keiynan Lonsdale) is Kid Flash.<\/p>\n Watching the yellow blur saving the city is fresh, having not being given much of a chance to shine in the last season, it\u2019s brilliant to finally see Lonsdale get something to play with. His comic timing is perfect, and his interactions with Iris are some of the best character driven scenes we\u2019ve seen on the show.<\/p>\n Giving Barry a break is great, and actually, seeing Gustin act as Barry over The Flash is just as rewarding. In the Flashpoint universe Barry Allen is Barry Allen. He is still the fastest man alive, but he\u2019s no longer needed as a superhero. He fumbles, he stumbles over his words and he\u2019s cleared failed spectacularly to ask Iris out in the three months that have passed. To the point where his own mother is hinting at him to move the hell out and get a girlfriend.<\/p>\n For all its upsides, the episode does have a few flaws. For starters, why bother creating this brilliant new world if you\u2019re only going to use it for one episode? We wanted to see Ramon Industries taking on the bad guys! Why on Earth would you make the first bad guy on the season somebody who is another bloody speedster? Enough of the speedsters. We get it, Wally\u2019s fast, Barry\u2019s faster and this new person will want to take it from them. We\u2019re just guessing, but it\u2019s become the formula for Flash<\/em><\/strong> bad guys now and we\u2019re pretty tired of it. We\u2019re not saying we would rather see the return of King Shark, but for the love of Barry please be more original.<\/p>\n It will be interesting to see where the next episodes take us, with Barry already going back to his \u2018own\u2019 timeline, what has he messed up this time, and how long will it stick?<\/p>\n The Flash\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is currently airing on Tuesdays on Sky1.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does Flashpoint mean for the Berlanti-verse in Season 3 of The Flash?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":91871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[8,207],"tags":[1697],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/fla301a_0110b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}