Unreal. Seriously and ridiculously unreal.

We are all to familiar with how much these networks love their crossovers. They take two or more worlds and just merge them. Sometimes it makes sense, sometime it doesn’t. in the case of the Arrow/Supergirl/Legends of Tomorrow/The Flash crossover, it was the latter. At every point of the episode, I kept on asking myself why I was watching the show. It was one of the most ridiculous episodes I have seen – and I have seen two seasons of The Flash

For all these superheroes to come together, there has to be a really serious threat; they wont exactly come together for a superhero catch-up party – as fun as that sounds. What is the most unreal threat your mind can come up with? If you guessed aliens, you are right. Lanky, weird looking aliens that move like zombies from World War Z. These aliens (called Dominators) are not on Earth to have tea parties but to bring humans to their knees – so says Laila. After briefing Team Flash, she tells Barry to sit tight because he can't fight the aliens alone. And that’s the queue we’ve been waiting for. Barry decides that he needs more hands for this and goes across the country - and earths to find other superheroes.

While the invaders drama is going on, Wally is looking to be in good shape and is ready to wear his own big boy suit but big sister Iris is not ready for him to run around the world doing good deeds. So she asks Caitlyn and Cisco to stall Wally until she’s ready – which is probably never. Cisco is reluctant but later agrees saying its just “another lie between friends”. A reminder that Cisco is still angry with Barry for creating a timeline where his brother is dead. He shows his disapproval in the most childish ways – like inferring he’s not friends with Barry when the latter introduces him to Kara as a “friend” and nominating Oliver for Team Captain when all the supes arrive saying “I trust him”. His side jab goes sideways when the person he nominated nominates the person he didn’t want to nominate.


The slightly humorous part of this episode was when Heat Wave refused to address Supergirl by her real or superhero name. When Supergirl asks what he will call out when he needs help, he says “Skirt” because her other names are "stupid". (Hours later however, he’s yelling for Supergirl to save them). The supes prepare for their fight with the Dominators by training with Supergirl who is kicking their individual hides.

Things get a little tense when Professor Stein and Jax call Barry (and Oliver – on Barry’s insistence) aside and plays a mysterious message. The message is from Future Barry – 40 years from present time. On the recording, Future Barry confesses to Flashpoint and warns that no one should trust Present Barry. All that we learn from this supposedly game-changing recording is Barry is still as whiny as ever in the future and 40 years from now, he still regrets Flashpoint. Firestorm thinks the team deserve to know about Flashpoint but Oliver says it’s a bad idea considering they’re about to go into a big fight. They make a collective decision to wait till after the fight to tell them.

But this group of geniuses and superheroes leave the super-secret message lying around and guess who finds it? Cisco. And he goes mouthing off straight to the group. Barry tells them all about Flashpoint and the little changes like Dig had a daughter. Sara is upset that Barry did something so selfish because she too would like to have Laurel back, Dig is upset that Barry wiped  a daughter from existence. When they get a call about the President's abduction by the Dominators, they decide that they don’t trust Barry enough to fight with him. Oliver says he wont go if Barry doesn’t and the team is also fine with that. When Barry goes sulking, he finds one more little change in Flashpoint – the future article about The Flash’s disappearance is no longer written by Iris West-Allen but some unknown journalist.

Professor Stein also makes a Flashpoint discovery when he has splitting headaches (which Victor Garber portrays as dramatic jerks and gasps) and visits his home only to find that he has a daughter. One who misses him no less.

Team Supes get to where the aliens are and rather than have a fight like they expected, they all get brain controlled. Barry and Oliver have to fight against their team and the odds are not good. Oliver and Sara's fight scene was pretty great and lasted for a whooping 30 seconds. Wally rushes from STAR Labs to help out but he ends up getting knocked out by Supergirl. Barry saves the day by going on a chase with Supergirl and getting her angry enough to destroy the controlling device.  Predictably, they all end up forgiving Barry just before a spaceship takes everyone but The Flash.


When Wally gains consciousness at STAR Labs, his family is mad at him for trying to use his superpowers to do good. H.R - whose idea to open STAR Labs to the public got rejected by the team – finally agrees to train Wally without the knowledge of the rest.

Question


Everyone in Flashpoint remembers nothing but Flashpoint so how come Professor Stein does not remember having a daughter? If the answer to this was given on Legends of Tomorrow, I definitely missed it.