Wells comes from a timeline where there is no Captain Cold.
The Flash - Season 1
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Nobody's suggesting he's actually H.G. Wells -- just that he picked an alias inspired by Wells's name, as one might expect a time traveler to do (if he were prone to being obvious).
Pretty cool new promo. Complete with (spoiler alert) our first look at him running on water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprfBbahH8A&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprfBbahH8A&feature=youtu.be
Both of them being from the future is way too complicated.
Missed that--I thought people were suggesting he was Wells. But my point remains valid--the whole idea of him being a time traveler himself may just be a red herring.
Crisis on Multiple Earths which is this guys wheel house, does have something to do with multiple Earths.
But even if was from Earth 2, or another Earth that had fallen to he Antimonitor, I'd still expect some element of time travel rather than that this Earth spins on it's axis a fraction of second slower than his Earth so that it seems ten years in the past when it's really not.
But even if was from Earth 2, or another Earth that had fallen to he Antimonitor, I'd still expect some element of time travel rather than that this Earth spins on it's axis a fraction of second slower than his Earth so that it seems ten years in the past when it's really not.
But, he knew that the night of the reactor exploding was when Barry got his powers, and in fact, had already planted a camera.
He has at least more knowledge than a newspaper. I don't think it's a red herring. He's from the future. Whether or not he's a good guy from the future, that remains to be seen.
Wells may have just visited the future Flash museum and found a way to use the cosmic treadmill to return to our time. This would give him all the knowledge he needed but blurred by time. For instance he would know about Captain Cold but not when and where he got the cold gun as that tidbit was lost to history.
Since the show has shown us the treadmill at Star Labs several times I would imagine Barry is just going to hit the right speed at some point and just vanish from our time for an episode.
Since the show has shown us the treadmill at Star Labs several times I would imagine Barry is just going to hit the right speed at some point and just vanish from our time for an episode.
Did anybody else think Felicity fit in better with this group than on Arrow?
That's why Team Arrow needs her more. She's the one who keeps them from falling into an endless spiral of brooding and angst and humorlessness.
She can be like Oscar Goldman and work on both shows. As Oracle.
Now that I think of it, they're still being all coy about teasing out Barry's nickname...so when the guy in yellow shows up, they'll probably call him something like "Doctor Whoosh, the Opposite Streak".
They can't call him the Reverse Flash until someone calls (Other than Wells in private.) Barry the Flash.
Unless Eddy identifies himself as the reverse Flash and Barry facepalms: "Oh? You're the reverse me, so I'm... The Flash?"
Unless Eddy identifies himself as the reverse Flash and Barry facepalms: "Oh? You're the reverse me, so I'm... The Flash?"
"The reverse of me...? So, I'm Cold?"
I had the same thought. The timeline doesn't really make a lot of sense there.
Not really. The producers and writers are constantly putting in little Easter Eggs that only the hardcore fans would pick up on. So they are obviously like to put stuff in there for the hardcore fans, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they put something like Thawne's name in there and then didn't do what people expected. They already kind of did that when they introduced Tommy Merlyn before they introduced his father, who was the actual comic book villain Merlyn.
Somebody up thread said that maybe Eddie is an ancestor of whoever Wells really is. I could definitely see them doing something like that.
Or just being really technical. Notice they are saying "Wells" is a new character, they could easily get around that by saying that the fake Wells identity was new, while his real identity is a comic book character.
I had the same thought. Maybe he was so mad at Cisco because in his future never had a Captain Cold, so now things are playing out differently and he'll have harder time protecting Barry.
I really enjoyed this one.
Seeing Felicity hanging out with the S.T.A.R. Labs gang, and doing for Barry what she does for Oliver was a lot of fun.
Really liked the introduction of Snart as Captain Cold, he was a really fun villain. I look forward to his return.
I definitely agree with the people who liked the robbery and train rescue scenes, those were both great action scenes and a nice use of Barry's powers.
Unless Wells was double Bluffing Sisko and it was Wells who is selling Star labs tech to the underworld?
It is his goal to invent more super humans, or in his case an approximation of super humans.
The collider was fine, advanced tech is a good next step, but he's going to have to keep manifesting new origins, because after a year almost he is really not getting the results he wanted form he collider.
The freaks are staying in the woodwork.
I wonder if Wells is going to be behind Ray Palmer's origin?
Oh, Brandon was in The Exes walking around shirtless last night.
It is his goal to invent more super humans, or in his case an approximation of super humans.
The collider was fine, advanced tech is a good next step, but he's going to have to keep manifesting new origins, because after a year almost he is really not getting the results he wanted form he collider.
The freaks are staying in the woodwork.
I wonder if Wells is going to be behind Ray Palmer's origin?
Oh, Brandon was in The Exes walking around shirtless last night.
