The Flash Season 5: 5 Ups & 1 Downs From 'Memorabilia'

1. The Timeline IS Malleable

All season, we have been wondering how Nora's arrival in the present hasn't had a more adverse effect on the timeline. After all, she travelled to the past possessing knowledge on the future and even interacted with her own parents - all of which should have dramatically altered the future. Yet somehow, the timeline remained intact.

Things would then become even more intriguing when Sherloque found her journal and studied her speed-language, managing to decode a single line: The Timeline Is Malleable. Well, that theory was put to the test this week.

'Memorabilia' saw Iris halt her hopes of starting up her own newspaper when she heard that The Central City Citizen was the only possible name for it. As this was the same title of the newspaper she would go on to write that infamous 2024 article in, she was terrified of setting that future in motion and thought that changing the title may change the future. However, as she would soon learn, things had an unusual way of working themselves out.

When she decided to stick with the newspaper's title, Nora brought up the future article and they all watched as the original year of establishment changed from 2021 to 2019. Just like that, things had changed, proving that the timeline is malleable, after all.

This confirms that Nora's reasons for working with the Reverse-Flash are pure, as she is well-aware of the fact that she's making minor changes to the timeline without damaging it and, thanks to his knowledge, she could end up influencing a very different future that might just save Barry from the impending Crisis.

Now, for the negative...