Oliver asks Barry to do a DNA test on the boy (William) he believes is his son. So, as The Flash is running somewhere or other, he spots himself running alongside himself (stay with us, non-Flash watchers), so he immediately knows (because it happened once before in a previous episode) that a) he’s going to be time-travelling in the very near future (by running really fast – look, it’s probably better if you just don’t ask), and b) that something really bad is about to go down.Īnd that’s more or less what happens. However, what’s clever is the way the time travel element (we’ll get to that) impacts both the main plot and the soap opera subplot.
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With the set-up taken care of, Arrow is free to be pretty much all action, with a side-helping of soap opera for the stuff with Oliver’s son. That is some hardcore seed-planting, Arrow. Oh, and the cliff-hanger to the end of the Flash episode is Oliver spotting the 10-year-old son he never knew he had – who was last mentioned two years ago, in a flashback sequence back when Moira McQueen was still alive. Short version of the rest of the episode: Barry decides to bring Team Arrow in on protecting Kendra, so they all get together. In case you missed The Flash, Cisco’s sort-of girlfriend Kendra gets a visit from a winged man named Carter (aka Hawkman), who tells her that they are long-lost lovers from Ancient Egypt, who keep being reunited in new incarnations and that a mystical figure named Vandal Savage is trying to kill them, as he has done 206 times previously.
The first episode of this two-parter suffered a little in that it was mostly set-up for the main action here. As well as putting the last pieces in place for the upcoming spin-off show Legends of Tomorrow (this week’s Flash was entitled Legends of Today), this was a highly enjoyable crossover with a strong, stream-lined plot, plenty of action and some intriguing hints for what’s to come on the back half of this season. This week’s Arrow is the second part of the show’s annual crossover with The Flash, so woe betide you if you’re not currently watching both.
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