Whoa.
Spoilers The Flash - Season 5
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Whoa.
I'm still confused as to which part of Eobard's personal timeline this particular series of events takes place at..... we've now seen him die twice, and have seen weird snippets of his life and personal timeline thread. Honestly, the dude should be ancient by now after living in the past through Barry's growing up.... and obviously, he can change faces at will (originally, I thought it was a fringe style one-time-only kill-you-take-your-place kind of thing.) I've never done a Flash or LoT rewatch, so that is part of my confusion, I'm sure..... does anyone have a chronological order of the events we've seen Eobard participate in? And we have still never seen how he meets Barry or how their beef forms.... are we still just assuming some version of the comic history happened in the show?
We don't know if speedsters age at the same rate as normal humans. They have extraordinary healing abilities. That could translate into a very, very long-lived life (if not near immortality).
Plus, Thawne has the benefits of future medical technology. All future humans may have been genetically modified to live a much longer lifespan.
The wisest of policies with time travel stories.It's all a bit timey wimey, so I figure it's best not to try and overthink it...
I saw a documentary, where where the ecosystem was dependent on all future people kicking the bucket at 30.
It would make more sense for speedsters, living at an accelerated pace, to age more rapidly, though we don't usually see it portrayed that way.
I could see it working in either direction (a shortened life-span or a longer lifespan).
There's also the rather mystical connection to "The Speed Force" to consider.
That concern was raised on 1990 series. In the Pilot Barry hopes Dr Tina McGee can cure him. Only once his brother is murdered does he start to embrace his powers. Tina warns him of the potential side effects and I believe premature aging is one of those. In a later episode “Twin Streaks” Tina warms Barry that he is taking on way too many responsibilities as the Flash and could burn himself out. Towards the end of the episode his clone Pollux literally disintegrates in Barry’s arms due to over excursion. Which finally illustrates Tina concerns to him.
I'm not sure if Iris would raise her daughter to alter the time-line just to save Barry. She wasn't very keen on the entire idea of getting Barry out of the Speedforce prison either. She seems more carefull than Barry. Then again, who knows how she changes in the future.
Personally, I think it's Sherloque Wells who helped her with figuring out when and where she needed to be.
Early dislike for this episode: Nora should be about as impressed with smart phones as a person her age today would be with a "brick" cell phone from the '80s, or an '80s vintage personal computer. Guess that wouldn't please the sponsors, tho....
So -- turns out both Oliver and Barry have gay (or bi) kids.
I like it that they're giving us more of Ralph as Elongated Man and more of Ralph being a detective. He made some good deductions here.
Meta tech -- whoa. I did not see that twist coming. It explains both Spencer (sadly bereft of a villain name due to Cisco's absence) and Cicada. It might explain the mystery of where Block got her powers, although Cicada certainly thought she was a metahuman.
Ooh, Nora's fight with the folks at the end -- painful.
I don't recall Nora saying anything about being impressed by the phone, just by Spencer's "news" app.
I like it that they're giving us more of Ralph as Elongated Man and more of Ralph being a detective. He made some good deductions here.
Meta tech -- whoa. I did not see that twist coming. It explains both Spencer (sadly bereft of a villain name due to Cisco's absence) and Cicada. It might explain the mystery of where Block got her powers, although Cicada certainly thought she was a metahuman.
Ooh, Nora's fight with the folks at the end -- painful.
I don't recall Nora saying anything about being impressed by the phone, just by Spencer's "news" app.
^ But she falls right in with using one like it's as natural to her as it is to someone her age today. She should be complaining about primitive it is and/or have little idea how to use it. They wasted a good opportunity to take the stuffing out of our modern obsession with tech that too shall pass someday.
Why? Why would that be remotely interesting or relevant to the story? They said she got the phone 2 days before, IIRC, so she probably got that stuff out of the way before the episode started. We didn't need to see it, because there were more relevant things to focus on.
Besides, not every technology becomes obsolete over time. Some things become standard and stay that way. If you went back in time to a few years before you were born, you'd be able to drive a car or use a typewriter keyboard. Some details might be unfamiliar or frustratingly limited, but the basic operation of the mechanism has been standard for a long time, so you'd still know how to use the earlier version.
But how many iPhone users today would know how to input code on an early-'80s PC?
She shouldn't be saying she found a great new app like any current young person. She should be saying, "Apps? You're still using apps?"
But nope, gotta sell those phones, so of course we mustn't entertain the notion that they'd be the least bit outdated 30 years from now. People laugh at you nowadays for having a flip phone, and those are much more recent tech than smart phones would be to Nora.
She shouldn't be saying she found a great new app like any current young person. She should be saying, "Apps? You're still using apps?"
But nope, gotta sell those phones, so of course we mustn't entertain the notion that they'd be the least bit outdated 30 years from now. People laugh at you nowadays for having a flip phone, and those are much more recent tech than smart phones would be to Nora.
