To say that The Flash Season 7 Episode 2 was an emotional rollercoaster filled with twists, humor, and emotion can be an understatement.
The episode began robust with a heartfelt scene to recollect all of the Wells. It solely received extra fascinating as Barry and the remainder of Staff Flash dealt together with his new energy of velocity pondering.
The whole lot about “The Pace of Thought” was traditional The Flash, courting again to the glories of The Flash Season 1. If this can be a image of how the remainder of The Flash Season 7 will play out, we’re in for a deal with.
Barry’s coronary heart has at all times been on the very core of the present. Barry Allen was not the Paragon of Love on the Disaster of Infinite Earths for nothing.
However with the demise of Wells, Barry puzzled whether or not or not his coronary heart was a vulnerability that Staff Flash’s enemies used to their benefit.
When he acquired his new energy, Barry was capable of repair his drawback. However, as all of us realized, being impassive is even worse than being too emotional.
Joe: Naked, I do know what you are doing. Do not. Do not blame your self.
Barry: However what you simply stated. Ramsey infecting me. Eva utilizing a duplicate of Iris to control my feelings. Recently, it looks like my coronary heart is my enemies’ biggest weapon.
Joe: Have religion, son. We’ll get Iris again. I really feel that in my coronary heart.
The present and the workforce aren’t the identical with out Barry’s compassion and love; what he sees as his largest weak point is definitely his largest energy.
Sure, Barry’s velocity pondering helped determine how one can open the portal to the Mirrorverse, however the price of reaching that objective was too excessive.
Barry’s emotional deterioration was heartbreaking to look at. He began the hour frightened that his feelings and his coronary heart had been bringing the workforce down, and he slowly progressed into not feeling something in any respect.
As we witnessed Barry’s transformation, we might all predict that Barry would return to regular sooner slightly than later. And when he did, he would really feel terrible for the issues he did and the issues he stated.
Barry: Your feelings are making you irrational.
Cisco: And your lack of them are making you mistaken!
It is arduous to fault him for his actions, however they triggered actual harm — each bodily and emotional. And it is common data that Barry is his personal worst critic, so there’s positive to be lots of self-punishment sooner or later for him.
Barry’s journey together with his new energy is sort of akin to when Kara is affected by Pink Kryptonite on Supergirl.
They each made them do issues that aren’t according to their character, but it surely additionally made us respect their good hearts much more.
We have wished a WestAllen reunion ever since Iris received trapped within the Mirrorverse on The Flash Season 6 Episode 10. Nonetheless, we did not suppose that is how it will all play out.
The longer the velocity pondering contaminated Barry, the much less he was capable of calculate feelings accurately. He thought that Iris would agree together with his determination solely to save lots of her, however he could not be farther from the reality.
Barry was too far gone to acknowledge the humanity in his spouse, and it was too late for him to appropriate his mistake as soon as he pulled her from the Mirrorverse.
It appears to be like as if Iris’ resistance to leaving triggered her to have a destructive response in the actual world. So Barry was left with Iris and the remainder of the workforce unconscious and harm from his actions.
On the plus facet, seeing Iris harm is what pulled Barry out of his impassive facade and made him flip off — or destroy — the Synthetic Pace Drive, returning him to his regular self.
Together with his workforce down, Barry goes to wish assist to save lots of them and in the end cease Eva. Who higher to take action than the unique Harrison Wells?
We should always have identified that Tom Cavanagh was not gone from The Flash for good. However that is positively not the best way I assumed he would return.
As I said in my evaluate of The Flash Season 7 Episode 1, I guessed that Cavanagh would play Ralph. After all, The Flash writers are a lot smarter than that.
These Wells’, they took some getting used to, did not they? If we realized something from them, it was that our biggest weapon towards darkness is not our superpowers. It is our humanity. And our love for one another.
Joe
The main points of his return are scarce. All we all know is that Eobard Thawne killed Harrison years in the past and that he has now materialized on prime of the place the Reverse Flash buried him.
No matter it could be, the unique Wells’s look from Earth-1 is a twist that we by no means noticed coming. And, if you consider it, all the perfect surprises on The Flash at all times concern Wells. He’s the present that retains on giving.
Talking of presents, how cool was it to see Frost achieve superspeed and face off towards the Flash?
We had been simply glad to see Frost again and higher than ever. However then we additionally noticed her in an epic battle making an attempt to save lots of Barry from himself.
He was probably the most sensible thoughts I ever met. All of them had been. No matter the issue, you can rely on a Wells, a council of them, to have the solutions. Now, they’re all gone. We gotta discover the solutions ourselves.
Barry
Frost more than likely injected herself with Velocity X as a result of she, Cisco, and Allegra all believed that Barry would by no means predict that consequence together with his tremendous mind. Sadly, Barry was simply too good for them.
Regardless of the result, it was nonetheless mesmerizing to see the 2 of them zip via town. Hopefully, we get to witness extra extraordinary and stunning battles because the season goes on.
The theme of the episode revolved round whether or not or not feelings help you in your path to success. And after the outcomes from each the hero and the villain facet, it is apparent that feelings are integral to conducting your targets.
Eva is rapidly spiraling, however this is not a great factor for Staff Flash as Barry thought it will be. Barry hypothesized that making Eva emotionally unstable would trigger her to slide up, however as a substitute, she’s decided to win.
And now, Eva is much more harmful than she as soon as was.
She desires to develop the Mirrorverse to the actual world or carry the world to the Mirrorverse. And if she succeeds, the workforce goes to wish Iris.
Iris is beginning to perceive the Mirrorverse higher than anybody, and she is going to more than likely be the one to take down Eva as soon as and for all. Who is aware of? She would possibly even have gained powers from her time within the mirror world.
Twists apart, sentiment performed an enormous issue throughout this hour.
Barry’s uncommon lack of feelings enhanced everybody else’s, from Cisco’s to Allegra’s and Cecile’s.
Barry and Cisco are arguably one another’s finest pals, and all Cisco wished to do was assist him. Their friendship is a spotlight of The Flash, and seeing them work collectively won’t ever get previous.
Honey, the folks that we love, they’re solely gone after we cease carrying them with us. The way you select to hold Nash is as much as you.
Cecile
On the opposite facet of the episode, Allegra missed Nash, and Cecile, being the fantastic empath she is, helped her discover ways to stick with it after his loss.
Each single character on the sequence is worthy of screentime and fascinating, advanced storylines. It is superb to see most of them get the eye they deserve as we’re two episodes into the season.
What did you suppose, The Flash Fanatics?
Was it heartbreaking to see Barry be so unfeeling? Are you content that Iris has lastly escaped the Mirrorverse? Did seeing Allegra sporting Nash’s sash make you tear up?
And the way shocked had been you when the unique Harrison Wells appeared?
Let me know within the feedback, and don’t forget which you could watch The Flash online proper right here by way of TV Fanatic!
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