Barry
Barry, Barry
it’s really you
surprise!
Happy Birthday Oliver would have wanted you to have this.
It's hard to believe it's been three years everybody stopped drinking.
Iris The last time I encountered
Team Flash, I learned what was coming.
A crisis to end the multiverse.
I guess it didn't take.
Barry Barry Barry
What have you done this time?
It's really you.
Okay, let's go.
Barry, let go.
It's not just your world. That’s in danger.
There's a new multiverse to replace the one that had fallen
No one has to watch their loved ones die.
Everyone has darkness inside them.
You be a guiding light.
A hero
Are you ready to keep running?
Welcome back everyone
it's Charlie This is be my new flash trailer.
Green Arrow Oliver Queen is back.
There's a whole bunch of Easter eggs and references
to their previous crossovers, so we'll break it all down.
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We'll get more flash movie trailers really soon.
I know everybody is hoping to see Grant Gustin cameo in the Flash movie,
Just Paying Off the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover
with Ezra miller's movie Flash.
In fact,
during the trailer, they reference Crisis on Infinite Earths several times.
Of course, they open the trailer with flash hugging Oliver Queen and him
joking about what he's done.
Now it's a callback to their previous crossovers
when he said the same thing a couple of different times.
What have you
done this time?
Oh, very.
What have you done this time?
That's meant to be a callback to one of the original flash memes,
which in previous crossovers, they had been making fun of that time too,
I believe.
Originally it was meant to be a joke about Flashpoint like Sure is a nice timeline.
Be ashamed of someone, mess it up every time everyone thinks of flash memes
now they just think about the Oliver Queen grave meme with him pointing at it.
But one of the other jokes of the episode is that the title is It's My Party
All Die If I Want To.
So this is Joke about the Flash dying in order to go see Oliver Queen
because he's literally in purgatory right now on Leandra in all these scenes
when they're meeting each other again for the first time.
If you don't remember the Leon you island name directly translates to purgatory.
So originally on the Arrow series, when Oliver Queen
got stuck on the island in the pilot, he got stuck on purgatory
like he died metaphorically, and it was reborn as the Green Arrow.
But now it's more of a literal thing because in Crisis on Infinite Earths,
he actually died in travel
to the cosmic version of purgatory in the Arrowverse multiverse.
And it's represented by Keanu.
So this isn't the actual Leon you that
he's like he actually had to die in order to talk to Oliver Queen.
Stephen Amell has also joked about this a lot in real life too.
Like Oliver Queen died. He's finally having some peace.
He's finally enjoying himself.
And now Flash has come along to bother him and he's kind of joking like Barry,
Barry, Barry, what have you done this time?
The other joke here too,
is when Barry hugs him for too long and it starts to get kind of awkward,
he's like, Stop Hugging Me is also a callback to previous crossovers.
What? He said the same thing as well. Hey, let's go.
Very let go.
I am fast enough to just hug you without you knowing, so you might as well
let me
try hug it out.
No, no.
And I really mean this time. Twice.
He's made me hug, you know?
All right. Hey, I mean it.
This is what the empty drinks of the bar also represent.
There are
a bunch of different types of moments referencing their previous crossovers.
Now, the way they cut the trailer, they jump around
in the timeline of the episode quite a bit.
Like you see Kid Flash, Wally West come back and you see the blood work
feeling come back.
So it sounds like what's happening in the episode in the regular world,
like before he goes to see Oliver Queen before he dies and goes to see Oliver
Queen, the Sendhil Ramamurthy blood work character returns and takes over.
Pretty much everybody.
And then he goes to Oliver Queen for help after he seemingly dies, quote
unquote, like, Oh crap, I'm dead.
Wait a minute. Oliver Queen is dead.
I can go get his help because he's still the specter and has all those powers.
I wasn't expecting Wally West to come back for this episode,
but we knew he was coming back this season at some point.
Been a hot minute since he's been on the show.
They begin the episode sort of setting up the whole concept of the title.
It's my Party, I'll Die if I want to when they throw a party for The Flash.
Wally West is there, Diggle is there in Diggle brings him Oliver
Queen's Bow because Oliver wanted him to have it later.
When Oliver Queen comes
back to the world of the living, you see him grab his bow again.
This is meant to be his original bow from the pilot.
He had a bunch of different ones that he used throughout the series,
but they want there to be a lot of references
to all of their major crossovers, like Crisis on Infinite Earths.
The other previous crossovers between Aaron Flash
and to their original crossover in the Flash pilot like the big pep talk
that he gives to Barry, like the pep talk he gave him in the pilot episode.
If you don't remember,
the Flash character debuted on Arrow in a two part crossover.
That's why the Arrowverse is called the Arrowverse,
because it all started with the Arrow Show.
Note that Diggle also changed the timeline.
It's been three years since Crisis on Infinite Earths.
When Oliver died, it seems like whatever blood work is doing when he comes back,
he poisons Team Flash and that's how he takes over most of their bodies.
He starts talking to Flash about how he predicted crisis on infinite Earths.
When he jokes about it not sticking.
That's just another joke about Oliver Queen creating a new multiverse
like rebirthing.
The multiverse, which Oliver Queen talks to Barry about,
kind of explaining what actually did happen during Crisis on Infinite Earths.
So it sounds like the Flash didn't totally understand what happened
after everybody came back in the last part of crisis on Infinite Earths.
If you remember, one of the biggest changes
that they made in that final episode was that in the new version of the multiverse,
they changed the earth and everyone was on so that most of the characters,
not everybody,
but most of the characters were always supposed to have been on Earth Prime
But mostly what wound up happening, like in practice,
because they changed some things even later on,
is that in the new timeline, Supergirl had been on the same Arrowverse
Earth this whole time.
But for instance, the Titans, the Green Lantern characters
from the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern movie in the Tyler
Hoechlin Superman were all on different Earths now, as in the new timeline.
So originally Tyler Hoechlin Superman had been in the arrowverse,
but in the new Superman Lois Show, when they set that up
at the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths, they put him on a different earth.
That's how they wound up changing things, that he wound up having two sons
instead of the one son.
How they wound up aging them up so fast, like they just had Diggle on Superman
Lois last season.
But because it's meant to take place on a different Earth,
it was a completely
different version of Diggle, not the one who briefly had the Green Lantern ring.
So even though they want a crisis to put everybody
on the same earth in practice, it ended up being way more messy after the fact.
You may have seen the Twitter threads that a lot of the producers of the Arrowverse
were posting recently about how James Gunn is rebooting everything,
and most of them were not invited to help plan the new DC Universe.
They were kind of salty about that.
And it seems like
what happens during the episode is that the Flash is able to yank
Oliver Queen back to the world of the living,
or he uses his specter powers to do that briefly.
They team up against bloodwork like you see Diggle here with them,
so either he doesn't get affected or they wind up fixing him.
First.
They team up against blood work and defeat him.
And at the end of the episode he gives Barry
another pep talk to the classic Oliver Queen pep talk
and goes back to being dead, paying off the title of the episode again.
It's my party. I'll die if I want to.
Like it's also Oliver Queen's Party and he wants some peace,
so like he doesn't want to stick around.
Another quick reminder, this is going to be episode nine
and there are only 13 episodes in the final season.
So like they are entering the final arc of episodes they haven't confirmed.
Grant Gustin will crossover in the Flash movie.
I think they're holding that pretty close to the vest.
I'm hoping that he has a small cameo,
don't really care what he does as long as it's a very brief cameo scene.
Also hoping for a John Wesley Shipp cameo scene to the way
Grant Gustin talked about it in a recent interview.
Though when The Flash in Season nine, like when they have their series finale,
that will be the official end of the arrowverse
And he said that he kind of enjoyed that idea
that it's ending within the Arrowverse is ending with them,
but they did change their plans for the original ultimate ending for the show.
Originally, Grant Gustin actually supported my theory,
like early on in like the first season of The Flash.
My theory was
they should end the show with him dying and becoming the bolt of lightning
that originally gave him powers.
It's a twist from the classic comics.
But here's the thing, Grant Gustin said for a long time,
that's the ending that he wanted
for the character. They wanted to kill them off
like they killed Oliver Queen off at the end of Arrow.
But when the new showrunner took over, when they were planning this final season,
they decided they wanted to keep Grant Gaston's character alive.
So The Flash will not die
or he's not supposed to die at the end of this series finale.
Not sure how I feel about that now.
We'll see after the final episode.
I'll probably do like another episode after the finale.
But the other big reminders that James Gunn is basically rebooting everything.
For the most part, some characters will continue,
but it's meant to
be a completely new timeline in his DCU, as they're calling it now.
Like it's rebooting from the DCU into the DCU.
Everything will be connected going forward.
Like all the big TV shows, the HBO shows that they're doing now,
kind of like the Disney Plus Marvel shows or connected to the MCU.
There are a few exceptions, like the Robert Pattinson
version of the Batman, the Joaquin Phenix Joker and other one offs.
Those will be called Elseworlds.
Like they'll be officially canonized as Elseworlds.
But for the most part, all the new shows, including the animated shows
and some of the video game stuff, some of the video game stuff
will all be connected to all the new movies.
A really good example is the Blue Beetle character.
Originally that was supposed
to be completely different from James Gunn's name,
but the way they designed the movie didn't break the timeline.
Like even though they mentioned Batman and some of the other Justice
League characters,
because it doesn't break
the brand new timeline, it's easier for them to include that in the new DCU,
even though technically the first official planned movie
as part of the DCU is the Superman Legacy movie.
We don't have any announcements about that,
about casting yet, about this new version of Superman.
When we do, of course, I'll do more videos about it,
but post all of your reactions to Oliver Queen coming back.
I know everybody's wondering now,
are there going to be any Arrowverse cameos in the New DCU?
That would be crazy if some of these characters do
cameo in some multiverse kind of way in the future.
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