The Legends of Tomorrow do their best to keep the timeline intact. Barry Allen on the other hand has a way of changing things without wanting and usually the results are not for the better. Warning, spoilers ahead…
The winter finale of The Flash, “The Present”, opens with Barry asking Jay Garrick (John Wesley Shipp) for help in defeating Savitar back on Earth-1. Jay agrees and the two return to Barry’s earth to defeat Alchemy who turns out to be none other than Julian (Tom Felton). In order to get additional information, Barry risk revealing his own identity to Julian to gain his trust. Julian informs Barry that he has been experiencing blackouts since in located the Philosopher’s Stone (nice Harry Potter reference) after seeing visions of his dead sister.
Meanwhile, Savitar uses Cisco with visions of his dead brother Dante to almost manifest his return. Thankfully Caitlin manages to convince Cisco that the images of Dante are just that. Team Flash was able however to communicate with Savitar through Julian. Savitar claims that Barry will imprison him in the future. That’s motive enough to want to defeat Flash but it’s his claim that one of them will betray the team, someone will fall and another will suffer a fate worse than death that was the most concerning. Personally, Savitar as a voice was far more menacing than any shape he took.
Barry and Jay work to end Savitar’s threat by tossing the box into the Speed Force. In doing so, Barry is also thrown into it and winds up five months into the future where he witnesses Savitar killing Iris. Is what Barry had seen, the real future? Or as Jay tells him, the future is not fixed and what he shown is only one of many possibilities. The two speedsters then bid farewell. Later, the West’s are having their annual family Christmas party where H.R., Barry and Joe present Wally with his own Kid Flash uniform. Also, Julian accepts the teams’ invite and shows up and tells Barry that he got him his job back at the police department. Heeding Jay’s advice, the episode closes with Barry showing Iris the apartment he got for the two of them to live in.
Overall the first half of season three closed in a very compelling way. It gave us a wonderful Barry Allen/Jay Garrick team-up that fans had longed for as well as giving us a villain who’s story is yet to be completed especially with the vision Barry experienced and the warnings Savitar shared. I know I’m looking forward to seeing what happens when The Flash returns in January 2017.
May the Dork be with you,
JPB
The Dork Knight
