I am pretty certain that the timing for the ep is before 3.21 of Arrow. That would be the last that Ray would be willing to help Oliver in my mind. And by episode layout we know that Arrow is one full episode ahead of Flash.
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Oliver hopping across hemispheres to help out isn't really a concern with Barry providing transportation, is it? I mean, if there were any 10 minutes where he wasn't onscreen in an Arrow episode, Barry could have run him over and back during that.
CBS is putting Supergirl on opposite Gotham.
From another forum:
Don't hire someone who starred in Prison Break to assist you in transporting prisoners.
Hah!
AWESOME.
I really do get why the show has to have Dumb!Barry (1. Hey, he's still new at the whole superheroing thing, and 2. If he were as smart as he should be, he would be undefeatable, and that's not interesting in a superhero), but he has done some SERIOUSLY stupid shit in the last several episodes.
Though he's far from alone in that (Joe, I am looking at you, and you should know better).
I thought Barry's comment about Wells being a thousand steps ahead of him was especially ironic. Of course he is. Barry... buddy... saying that Wells is a lot smarter than you ain't necessarily all that much of a compliment.
Re: tonight's Arrow finale -- I admit that the thing I'm probably looking forward to the most (I'm not spoiled, so this is just an assumption) is finding out how flashback!Ollie gets to Russia. He's (or he was) a dang Bratva captain, and that doesn't just happen overnight, so I assume S4's flashbacks will be Russia, or wherever he was that led to the Bratva dealie. And that had BETTER involve a lot of Anatoly.
For some reason I thought that was an honorary title from when he saved the Russians on the ship.
A lot of the tumblr fanfic fandom of Arrow is right there with you Steph. People are obsessed with Bratva Oliver.