Savitar spends the whole episode running away from a paradox, because he can't exist now that Iris survived, but that already was a paradox, so why wasn't he running from that?
They can't stop Savitar from killing Iris, because he keeps remembering what they did and countering it. Then at the moment of truth when they try one last thing, he just... doesn't remember this time. Because the time you thought your fiancee was dead but then she morphed into your friend guy and you learned she was still alive but also that your friend guy was dead, that'd never stand out in your memory at all!
"You know what would help this woman who is distraught over this guy she loved dying? Someone who looks exactly like the dead guy! That won't freak her out at all!"
"I've got this glass vial of the priceless cure for your horrible condition, and to give it to you, i'm just gonna casually throw it on the ground and hope it doesn't break"
"Since doing so would prove that I'm evil, I vow to never kill you! Oh yay, my girlfriend killed you. Way to go, honey!"
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Date: 2017-05-24 04:49 am (UTC)They can't stop Savitar from killing Iris, because he keeps remembering what they did and countering it. Then at the moment of truth when they try one last thing, he just... doesn't remember this time. Because the time you thought your fiancee was dead but then she morphed into your friend guy and you learned she was still alive but also that your friend guy was dead, that'd never stand out in your memory at all!
"You know what would help this woman who is distraught over this guy she loved dying? Someone who looks exactly like the dead guy! That won't freak her out at all!"
"I've got this glass vial of the priceless cure for your horrible condition, and to give it to you, i'm just gonna casually throw it on the ground and hope it doesn't break"
"Since doing so would prove that I'm evil, I vow to never kill you! Oh yay, my girlfriend killed you. Way to go, honey!"