Season one of The Flash was amazing and although season two has its qualities (mainly E2 Harry Wells and Cisco) it isn't in the same league. This season the writers showed us that they don't have a story they are following, they are just making it up as they went along. Season two brought us a dull villain who had no reasoning for being other than conquering Universes, which we didn't see a motivation for other than him being a psycho who had the mannerisms of a regular man. The series also tossed around with the mythos it had established early on in the series and bought in time remnants and time wraiths which don't make any sense to me. Killing your time remnant should kill you in the present and the time wraiths should make Legends of Tomorrow obsolete. The biggest error in season was the last few moments of the finale, the events that should have widespread repercussions.
The last few episodes have been hell for Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), he lost the only parent he had left after getting him back and was yearning for revenge against his murderer, Zoom/Hunter Zolomon (Teddy Sears), and was willing to do whatever it took to take him down. After many close encounters Barry finally defeats his rival but that still wasn't enough, he wanted at least one of his parents. Everyone and their mothers at this point know that Barry's mother Nora Allen (Michelle Harrison) was killed by Eobard Thawne when Barry was a child with his father Henry (John Wesley Shipp) being wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Barry has the ability to time travel and he'd attempted to save his mother before but he stopped himself because of the impact his actions would have. Exploring the story line itself is an intriguing idea and the 'what if' episodes will likely be enjoyable enough but this is probably the worst thing to happen on the show for one reason only, Arrowverse.
The Flash is only one part of the comic book universe that The CW has carved out for itself, the universe also includes Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow and now Supergirl. The events unfolding in each series are now on a grander scale than earlier on, thus becoming less believable over time because every episode I find myself asking "why don't they just call so and so to come over and help out for an episode or two". I've tried ignoring why Barry didn't just help out with Damien Darhk (Neal McDonagh) but I can't really ignore this, Barry's changed the entire universe as we know it so we have to see the ripple effects in the other shows because they are interconnected. They share a universe so we should by all rights see how Arrowverse has changed because of Barry's decision, then again the shows have their own niches and are still separate entities from one another. This is confusing.
What if an Arrow viewer doesn't keep up with The Flash and when they tune in this Autumn the show has completely changed? The same with Legends and possibly with Supergirl (I haven't watched the show so I don't know how connected it is with Arrowverse), it would confuse people and they'd likely abandon it rather that catch up on two seasons of The Flash so they can understand the events occurring in the show that they actually watch. The CW would hemorrhage the more passive viewers and that could have a disastrous effect on the network and the shows. The shows are part of the DC TV universe so for the sake of continuity the effects on one show should have consequences in another, but then that's just a wholly bad idea. I wouldn't know how the handle this situation, they've really written themselves into a corner.
In short, they've stuffed themselves.
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