One of the shows I’ve been watching consistently for the past few years is ‘The Flash’ and the last episode of the show was a bit weird and I really need to vent about it. If you have not seen the last episode (Season 7 Episode 9: Timeless) yet stop reading because this post has major spoilers for the episode.
Ok since you are still here, I assume you seen the episode. So lets get started. In the past few episode Barry/Flash has been fighting the ‘forces’ and in the last episode Nora/Speed Force killed the Strength Force. This was a big deal. So now Team Flash is trying to figure out how to stop the other forces who are basically Gods from being killed and removing their powers at the same time. Barry decides that the best way to do that is to travel back in time to prevent the forces from being formed in the first place. It’s like they didn’t learn anything thing from the whole Flashpoint fiasco. The entire team opposes the idea but Barry just handwaves their concerns away to say that he is going to do it even if they disagree. He then pulls in the Timeless Wells who would create a ‘bubble’ around the timeline to prevent it from changing after Barry prevents the forces from being born. This would be a huge paradox and the show just ignores it.
Finally Barry & Wells are back in the past and well into the process of stopping the forces from being born when suddenly Barry does an about face for no good reason (Other than to keep the show going) and lets the forces be born. I don’t mind when the characters change their decision because of some discussion or new input but this guy just makes arbitrary decisions and then changes them for no reason. He is like a Yo-Yo with these decisions and it is really annoying.
Then they both come back to the present and because Iris & Barry have a ‘connection’ to the speed force, they are able to bring Fuerza/Alexa back to life. First of all why have they put her on a medical bed if she is dead? Are they planning on doing experiments on her? Or was it just so that she could be brought back to life because the character was needed in the show.
This episode was just lazy writing and this could have been done a lot better. Let’s see what the next episode brings, hopefully it will make more sense.
– Suramya