While I personally prefer the character-heavy setup of “Crisis” as Barry and Iris in particular deal with Barry’s looming demise, it has meant that I really don’t care too much about Ramsey Rosso as Bloodwork, and he was teased by new showrunner Eric Wallace as “the most terrifying foe that Team Flash has ever faced.”
But setting up “Crisis” hasn’t felt like a subplot in the first three episodes of Season 6 so far.
Ever since The Monitor told Barry that he’s going to have to die in the Crisis (which Oliver presumably won’t be happy to hear about), that has loomed over everything.