Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, thanks everyone that submitted questions for this week’s
Arrow Flash Q&A.
Some of you have started to ask more specific questions about the mid season crossover episodes
and The CW has released a lot of information so I’ll start off with that stuff.
Those episodes will air December 2nd and part 2 the next day on the 3rd.
So I might do something special when we get closer to that.
Question time, careful for spoilers from Arrow and the Flash this week if you’re not caught
up.
Question 1 - Trek Video asks, Do you think Harrison Wells is someone from the comics,
is there someone he’s trying to stop?
And do you think he’ll get a scene with Oliver where he says something about his future?
Yes, I definitely think Harrison Wells is someone from the comics.
I think Andrew Kreisberg, Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti and all the other people writing
on the show made the smart move of doing the comic book Rebirth story while changing some
of the details enough to maintain some mystery.
Regardless of who Harrison Wells actually is, I think he’s a time traveler and chose
Harrison Wells as an homage to HG Wells as in the classic Time Machine book.
So it’s a comic book character using a fake name.
Here’s the people I think he could be from most likely to least likely.
And remember, he killed Simon Stagg in cold blood, he has ice running through his veins.
So he is not a good character.
So rule any superheroes out.
Starting with Eobard Thawne Professor Zoom, then Impulse, Abra Kadabra and Then a version
of the Rival, the original Reverse Flash.
Your second question: Who or what is Harrison Wells trying to Stop
I could make an hour long video talking about how time loops and the multiverse could explain
why Harrison Wells is acting the way he is.
But short version.
The paper with the Crisis at the end of episode 1 is very important.
It says the Barry Allen Flash disappears.
I think the Reverse Flash, I’ll address him in a sec, I think he went back in time
to erase Barry Allen’s future and was successful.
The timeline we’re seeing unfold on the show is Harrison Wells going back in time
to make sure Barry Allen does not disappear.
So Harrison Wells is guiding Barry Allen so that he’ll be able to defeat The Reverse
Flash.
The Big Question is Why, if Harrison Wells is evil enough to unleash Gorilla Grodd.
Why is Barry Allen someone he wants to protect?
I think what’s going on is Harrison Wells is Eobard Thawne, Idolizes the Flash of the
past, gains the powers of the Flash but then does something bad that leads to the creation
of the Hunter Zolomon Zoom and Zoom is the one messing with the timeline.
So Harrison Wells still wants to cause trouble in the future, but he’s trying to prevent
Hunter Zolomon from erasing both Barry Allen and himself from the timeline.
If Barry Allen never became the Flash, Harrison Wells would never become Professor Zoom in
the future.
Sorry if that sounds confusing, you have two Reverse Flashes, one of them is messing with
the timeline in a bad way.
The other Reverse Flash is trying to prevent that.
That’s a mixture of my theories with the other best sounding theories I’ve seen.
Episode 9 is called The Man in the Yellow Suit.
That’s the first time Barry Allen will learn about the Reverse Flash.
Here’s what I think is going on, I’ll put this spoiler tag up even though this is
just a theory.
I think that they’re giving Harrison Wells Professor Zoom’s storyline and they’re
giving Eddie Thawne Hunter Zolomon’s storyline.
They’re just mixing up the names to throw people off.
As for the Harrison Wells Oliver moment, yes I definitely think it will happen.
When they do the first part of the Crossover episode all of Team Arrow will go to Central
City and Star Labs.
It will be like an Arrow Cave Star Labs crossover moment too.
So yes, keep your eyes peeled for Harrison Wells dropping a Justice League easter egg.
Question 2 - Vince asks, who do you think made Roy’s Suit?
Diggle sewing machine maybe?
That’s funny, I think that he contracted a private company to make it to his specifications.
I don’t think anyone on team arrow physically made it.
I think Felicity probably helped design it a little but mostly it was Oliver behind the
design.
Remember during season 1 when Oliver is trying to get info on Merlyn’s Dark Archer arrows
and Felicity tells him they’re custom made by this really obscure private company.
It means that he along with Oliver probably both order their stuff custom.
In Batman Begins Christian Bale had that scene where he and Alfred talked about ordering
his Batman face mask and the Bat Shaped throwing stars.
Just one of the benefits of being a rich super hero or supervillain.
You can pay people to make the crazy things you dream up in your head.
Ray Palmer, Brandon Routh’s Character is one of the few exceptions in that he has a
ton of money, but he also has the technical expertise to make his own tech suit costume.
No word on which episode that will debut but it’s sounding like it will be the second
half of the season if they just started talking about the Black Canary costume.
Question 3 - Mahleks asks, do you think Cupid Freed or Killed the guy at the end?
I think Cupid Killed him, in the comics she emulates Oliver by trying to solve crimes.
The twist is that she kills all the criminals.
That’s why she appeared at all the crime scenes in this episode.
She’s following Oliver around or going to places she knows he’ll show up.
Question 4 - Sam asks, what do you think the big reveal will be in Episode 9?
Just to clarify episode 8 is the crossover episode Brave and the Bold, episode 9 is the
mid-season finale.
It’s called The Climb and Alex Kingston is guest starring again as Laurel’s mom.
In terms of big WTF reveals what I’m hoping for is Ra’s Al Ghul in Starling, a tease
of the Atom and Black Canary Costumes, China White Katana follow up and a full explanation
of who killed sara.
Not necessarily why, just the who part.
That’s a lot of stuff but those are all the biggest reveals I can think of right now.
Think back to the final scene from season 2 episode 9, we got the reveal of Slade being
the big bad in present day and the birth of The Flash.
So I think we’ll see the birth of a new superhero.
Either the Atom or Black Canary, maybe both.
And a big villain reveal.
We already know it’s Ra’s Al Ghul, so he’ll probably do something crazy.
And long long shot, Sara’s Killer.
I don’t think this is very likely but what if Oliver was the one who killed her and he
was being controlled by someone else without knowing it.
The unreliability of memory was a big theme in this week’s episode, so Oliver could
have had his mind messed with by one of the villains.
That would probably be the biggest WTF reveal.
Question 5 - Anshik asks, do you think we’ll see the Lazarus Pit?
Based on the way the producers have talked about superpowers and crazy abilities I don’t
think they’ll do that on Arrow.
If they wanted to explain the Lazarus Pit they’d do it on The Flash.
For instance, Ray Palmer The Atom.
They said there aren’t any plans to make him shrink down on Arrow.
They said if they end up doing that, they’d shrink him down on The Flash.
Just because of the nature of each show.
Flash = Superpowers, Arrow = Crime Drama.
So all the really crazy stuff will happen on The Flash.
They haven’t said they’re never going to do Lazarus Pit, but I don’t expect it
to happen this season.
And if they did bring anyone back, I think it would be Tommy.
But I don’t think they did that either.
Question 6 - Mitzuio asks, if the Flash is supposed to deal with Time Travel, do you
think we’ll ever see a crossover with future versions of Team Arrow or Justice League characters?
This season I think they’ll keep time travel really simple and not throw in too many extra
characters.
I think we’ll see easter eggs for Justice League stuff though.
Like Harrison Well’s newspaper and verbal references.
But I’m not expecting to see and Old version of Oliver or Superman or anything like that.
Question 7 - J Mo asks, do you think we’ll see Talia Al Ghul?
It’s possible but DC and Warner Brothers have this weird thing where certain characters
are off limits for the tv shows.
Like Batman and Superman.
Talia also appears in a lot of the animated movies.
So I don’t think we’ll see her this season.
The same thing happened with Brandon Routh’s character.
Originally they’d planned for him to be the Ted Kord Blue Beetle but Warner Brothers
said they had “other plans” for that character.
So they changed it and made Brandon Routh Ray Palmer instead.
Thanks so much everyone for submitting questions, I think that covers most of the important
stuff.
Here’s some more details on the Crossover Episodes.
Captain Boomerang will be the reason Team Arrow goes to Central City and vice versa.
And the reason the first episode is called Flash versus Arrow is because of a meta human
messing with Barry Allen’s mind.
It’s supposed to be Rainbow Raider or Chroma, how ever you want to think of him.
Like I said, I’ll try to do some extra special stuff when that all goes down so be sure to
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Next week Cupid versus Arrow, so click here to catch up on this week’s episode and click
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Thanks for watching, boxing glove arrow to the face, boom.