Why were the aliens pissed at Barry?
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slycomputerguy-65739 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 12:05 PM)
Ok, I suppose they were looking for some excuse to invade Earth(like aliens need one) but that's what the writers chose to use. If they had some ulterior motive it was not made clear on the show. I'm going with what given as the reason.
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goosh69 — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 12:50 PM)
The 1951 Dominator made their motivations SUPER clear - the Justice Society, not Barry, raised their ire. They had seen metas cause trouble on "countless" worlds.
They came to Earth BEFORE Cisco and the Legends travelled back in time and were already suspicious.
THEN both the Society encounter with him AND Barry's time shenanigans made them go through all the trouble of creating a bomb designed to kill ALL metahumans on Earth.
We literally heard the various heroes discussing how the aliens might NOT be telling the truth. The writers LITERALLY had the characters say out loud that turning over Barry might not be enough.
For all we know, they wanted Barry so that like the comic book Dominators, they could enslave him or replicate his powers - they may have wanted time travel for themselves.
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cjmarbutt — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 07:36 AM)
Yeah, they were lying. At one point they said that they were afraid of meta abilities falling into the wrong hands, IE someone who was as powerful as Barry but who lacked his scruples in using those abilities. They had a big meta bomb. I am pretty sure getting Barry to hand himself over was just a diversion to buy themselves enough time to deploy it.
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danielmagger — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 09:37 PM)
THE JLA might have attracted the aliens but Barry's action put us back on their radar. Barry going back a creating flashpoint messed with time on massive butterflyeffect kind of way, so what could a baby's sex change and sudden powers, could be a massive change in function advanced alien technology. Physics is so delicate and complex a subject that some scientists think space will tare or the small thing will( higgs) will shift and space will burn.
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Educator07 — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 04:01 PM)
No, I'm simply not a bad writing apologist. If they are simply going to kill the metas why bother with the Barry nonsense. The writers wanted to give Barry a redemption arc, but it was unearned and silly.
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Educator07 — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 06:11 PM)
Maybe? I expect the writers to tell a logical, complete story. I am not satisfied by viewers explaining "maybe" this is the reason why. Human and Dominator physiology is nothing alike.
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goosh69 — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 10:57 AM)
Wait, so Sopranos, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Breaking Bad ALWAYS filled in ALL the blanks for you? No. Hell, not even All in the Family or MASH or Maude. Not even the classic sit-coms! We never DID find out what Elaine wanted to tell Jerry on that almost-plane-crash.
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shubhtandon7 — 9 years ago(December 05, 2016 11:20 AM)
The thing is, Barry is the only time travelling meta they knew of originally. Hence, if the meta bomb had a successful detonation and Barry managed to run away fast enough from the blast radius, he could have gone back in time and come up with a better way to stop the meta bomb, like have Supergirl take the meta bomb and throw it into outer space or better yet the Dominators' spaceship.
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BoundByHonor — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 12:16 PM)
I never really thought the Dominators cared about humans or what happened to Earth - kind of like a human caring as much as what happens inside of an ant colony.
I interpreted it as the aliens saw Barry - someone with the ability to alter the timeline and change the course of events - as a threat. If Barry could do damage on Earth with Flashpoint then what if he traveled to another Earth and went back in time changing history there?
I felt that the Dominators were threatened by what Barry, or someone like him with similar abilities, could do in damage on other worlds maybe even on their own world. -
Educator07 — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 11:18 AM)
How would a planet with no ability to travel throughout the galaxy pose a threat to whatever planet the Dominators were from. It's apparent Barry's mechinations only effect Earth 1. He could actually send 2016 Earth to the ice age and it would have zero effect on any place other than Earth.
Berlanti writers have alway been sloppy. Why would we expect a three part story not to reflect that?
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