If you love feel-good superhero shows, The Flash on the CW is a great one to watch. If you are new to the superhero world, or for whatever don’t know who The Flash is… he’s a 20-something that was one of many affected by a particle accelerator explosion. The explosion gave him metahuman powers to run faster that speed and sound.

The CW show depicts the adventures of The Flash and his friends as they battle other metahumans and usually wraps up nicely after an hour episode. Most episodes however while defeating a villain per episode have an over-arching storyline too.

This current season (3) we’re introduced to ‘Flashpoint’. Flashpoint is an altered timeline that our Flash, Barry Allen changed while running back in time trying to save his mother from dying. After living in that world, with both of his parents yet again, he began to lose his powers and forced to come back to current times…and lose his mother once again.

However, since Barry lived in that time with his mother for months, the future as we knew it changed forever. His best friend Cisco Ramon’s brother had passed away, his other friend Caitlin Snow now has Elsa-like powers and another who before the timeline shift had a baby girl- now was a baby boy.

It’s the little twists and turns like this that draw many similar connections to 2016. 2016 seemed to be the ultimate curveball for LITERALLY everyone. Which got me thinking.

Are we living in Flashpoint?!

Think about it. Last year, everything seemed so backward. Celebrities taking their last breath what seemed like every other day. War, protests, movie reboots for every movie, Pepsi Crystal, Surge, platform shoes, finding out pizza rat was a fraud, and let’s not forget Trump voted as POTUS. All of these combined to made 2016…weird, to say the least.

What if we are living in an alternate universe? What if Earth has some low-key Flash (my money is on Usain Bolt) that screwed up our line? What if that’s why we have the Mandala Effect? Berenstein vs. Berenstain Bears; Shazaam with Sinbad vs. Kazaam with Shaq.

Whether we’re living a different timeline or there was a glitch in the Matrix, 2016 really left people scratching their heads wondering ‘what’s next’. Let’s enter 2017 as survivors, stronger than we were last year and ready to take on whatever villain or metahuman this year throws at us.