alright brehs...
so I have a theory on why it seems that Arrow is taking Batman storylines
this came to me last night, and I was
at what this might mean
So in the Flash storyline, Eobard Thawne went back in time to kill Barry, and killed his mom.... then he bodysnatched the real Dr. Wells
he sped up the process of Barry becoming the Flash... even though it was gonna happen regardless, he wanted it to happen sooner... so he created the Flash, was it 7 or 8 yrs earlier than it was supposed to happen?
so everything changed
Flash isn't going through the normal process of learning his powers over time and gradually becoming faster
Dr. Wells/Thawne has pushed him to train super hard, to do in a year what it took him 5 years to do in the original timeline
so basically, the timeline is all messed up from what Wells/Thawne did
Have we ever considered the effect this had on Oliver Queen? the timeline mess-up probably affected him as well... especially since the real Dr. Wells was living in Starling City before Thawne murked him
It's the butterfly effect, brehs
who knows? maybe the real Dr. Wells knew somebody who knew somebody who knew Ollie and without the real Wells alive now, things changed drastically for Oliver Queen too
and guess who else the timeline shift may have affected?
BRUCE WAYNE the gawd
maybe Bruce is dead in this timeline? That would be a huge way for the writers to satisfy Batman fans that recognize that all they're doing is using Batman stories for Arrow
they could hint at it.... cause this is entirely plausible
maybe the reason Ra's is looking at Oliver to be his heir is because Batman doesn't exist in this timeline
there's so much the writers can do now that time travel/alternate reality thing has been introduced
that could be their way of separating the shows from the movies
the movies could be the regular timeline... and the shows could be the alternate timeline that was created when Thawne went back in time
brehs, the possibilities here are blowing my mind