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The following THE FLASH article contains spoilers through Flavor 7, Episode 15.
The Wink Season 7 Episode 15
The Flash isn't really the sort of prove that does a lot of what y'all might call long-atomic number 82 storytelling, and so the fact that the prove has been teasing the return of villainous speedster Godspeed for over a twelvemonth is a adequately unprecedented result.
Granted, "Enemy at the Gates" is perchance not the episode that all that build-up deserves, since information technology tells us precious little about where all the Godspeed clones are coming from or what they want. But it does feature several fantastic fight sequences between Barry, Frost, new Team Flash sort of friend Marking Stevens/Chillblaine, and a half dozen Godspeeds. And though it doesn't make a ton of sense just yet, it'south still pretty darn entertaining to watch.
Do I have any thought what these goons desire from Barry or why they talk to one another in what are substantially Jurassic Park screeches? Non actually. Do I know why some of them are fighting each other? Nope. Am I genuinely curious to find out? Surprisingly, yes.
Look, I was every bit tired of speedster villains as anyone, merely after a one-half-season of the Forces of Nature storyline, I'one thousand suddenly feeling more kindly toward bad guys that make me feel like The Flash is at least The Flash once again. And nothing feels more than like The Flash than two squads of dueling Godspeeds slo-mo throwing white speed lightning at i another while Chester'southward funk beats play in the background.
I'yard not made of rock, hither.
That kind of story is but direct-upwardly fun to watch, and fun is not a discussion that could generously exist used to describe this season thus far. (The Cisco cheerio episode aside. That one was pretty much perfect.) Yes, with just a handful of episodes left in Season 7, The Flash is going to have to figure out what this mini-arc is nearly pretty quickly, but if there'southward anything this show knows how to do, it's fight villainous speedsters.
If annihilation, the episode could have used more evil speedsters. Because the true Large Bad in "Enemy at the Gates" isn't Godspeed, it's the v competing subplots that took much-demand fourth dimension and attending off the whole evil clones situation and which run the gamut from fairly decent to mostly pointless to utterly cringeworthy.
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Sure, Season vii has a shortened episode count due to the coronavirus pandemic, and it had to spend at least three of those episodes tying upward the Mirror Master plot from concluding yr. Simply maybe we could have left some of these actress subplots for next year rather than trying to cram them all into this terminal handful of episodes. "Enemy at the Gates" feels overstuffed with moments that have footling to do with our promised Godspeed story, and to be fair none of them (even the 1 I liked!) feels worth the merchandise-off.
The heart of a Godspeed clone assail seems to be a strange time to launch The Wink's beginning big romantic pairing in who even knows how long, just despite their slightly rushed status, Frost and Chillblaine are even so adorably well-matched as a pair of former villains trying to figure out what comes next in a world that will always side-eye them for their previous dark ways. True, The Flash should accept given us more approximately thirty seconds to suit to the thought of an even mildly reformed Chillblaine earlier having him fight side-past-side with Team Flash, merely that idea that Frost might go the chance to evidence someone how to exist a meliorate person – considering Caitlin did it for her – is stll a pretty highly-seasoned concept.
Dissimilar, say, Joe's ongoing team-upwardly with the nonetheless very awful Kristen Kramer, which is the sort of horrible that I have to actively pretend isn't happening. The Wink has never made Joe'southward out of the blue faith in Kramer's "good cop" status conceivable, particularly when the show pointedly avoids wrestling with the fact that she was fix to use the power of the land to forcibly depower any meta she vaguely suspected of committing a offense something similar iv episodes ago.
The hour ends the sort of obvious cliffhanger that feels more than a little insulting to literally anyone who has always watched a TV show before. (Or who is capable of reading the synopsis of next week's episode on their DVR guide.) Joe's obviously not dead and nosotros're definitely not lucky enough to become rid of Kramer this easily, so delight don't autumn for clickbait headlines wondering if The Flash killed someone off this week.
There's also something very foreign and uncomfortable almost The Flash dealing with a potential pregnancy story for the West-Allens in an episode in which Iris does non appear. Your mileage may vary on whether at that place should even be inklings of any sort of West-Allen pregnancy arc so close on the heels of whatsoever you want to call the Forces-are-bad-metaphors-for-our-future-children thing merely showing us simply Barry's side of conversations and discoveries that could literally change these characters' lives forever is…well, it's definitely not a great expect.
And, if we're honest, The Flash is grievously sick-equipped as a series to tell a proper story nigh Barry and Iris raising a infant and fighting bad guys. (Just ask yourself when the terminal time you saw Baby Jenna was, is all I'm saying.) Yet, there's even so something painfully sweet about Barry's open delight in the concept of fatherhood – and Grant Gustin sells the heck out of it.
Yep, the comedy of errors centered around Barry'south attempts to smuggle bodily fluids into STAR Labs for testing got old fast– guys, simply go to a CVS! – but the hour'due south predominantly breezy tone and lighthearted feel has been painfully absent-minded from much of this season. Sure, it didn't always hit the mark, only at least The Flash is trying for something similar joy and laughter and fun again, and in my book that counts for a lot. Let's encounter where it goes.
Source: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-flash-the-return-of-godspeed-kicks-season-7s-endgame-into-gear/