Spoiler Alert!
Hello people!
It's a sad day for us The Flash fans. Yes, the season is back on air but we got some pretty upsetting news - Carlos Valdes and Tom Cavanagh aren't coming back next season. Well, actually, Carlos isn't coming back next season, as for Tom, it looks like the last time we saw him was his last appearance. They are planning on having him in an upcoming episode but just like a quick appearance so... I guess my questions were answered. I have been really intrigued about who he was going to play this season, having in mind that they 'killed' the whole multiple Wells thing and the Wells we got went away so... It looks like he won't be playing anything new, nor he will be on this season at all. What a shame...
And besides that, this comeback from hiatus wasn't great either. This season has been a huge roller-coaster in terms of quality. Some episodes are nice but there's other ones that are really crappy and, to be honest, I'm loosing faith in the show. Plus, without a ton of major characters... It looks like Season 8 might be the last season of the show. But, as for now, let's talk about episode 8 because, even though it wasn't great, it was important for the remaining of the season (I believe).
So, this episode was the fallout of everything that happened with Frost and Caitlin in the last one. However, they also introduced a really messy story in here, with Barry and the Speed-Force going after Fuerza. Well, not only I thought this story was really out of place (they should've just focused on Frost) but also it was so damn predictable. I'm just going to say it - Barry and Nora (aka Speed-Force) find Fuerza in her 'natural' form and the speed-force is really aggressive towards her when Barry is trying to get her to go to STAR Labs to get tested. After getting her to do so, while they're testing on her, and after seeing that she is indeed Fuerza, the Speed-Force attacks her and uses Barry's powers against himself (actually, takes some of his powers for herself) and kills Fuerza. Well, what a big reveal (not). It was so obvious that the Speed-Force was shady and she had a deeper motive in all of this. Not only it's predictable but sort of lame... Still, let's see where this goes. And as for the Barry story in this episode, that was it. Let's focus on the min thing now.
There's not a lot to talk about either though. They did throw some unexpected thing at me, starting with the cure. I had completely forgotten about the fact that they had a meta-cure and they use it here against Frost.
Obviously that agent was shady as heck and she went to ARGUS for the meta-cure and the prosecution wanted Frost's punishment to be taking the meta-cure, instead of going to prison. Of course that starts a whole thing of Caitlin and Cisco trying to 'destroy' the cure, which the succeeded, but of course the had a backup. Then, at the end, without any other option, Frost and Caitlin agree on an extreme plan - Life in Prison. That's right, they figured the only way they wouldn't take away Frost's powers was to keep her 'locked up', given the fact that what the prosecution wanted was to maintain the public safe. Well, with her forever in prison, they're safe and that's basically how the episode ended - with Frost going to prison. It was actually pretty sad, I'll give them that, and I was not expecting the life in prison thing but, this story-line only leaves two choices, both that I'm not a fan of - 1) they will do the same story they did in Arrow and try to break her free or 2) this was the last time we saw Frost which, to be completely fair, is even worse. Why do that? Why take away one of people's favorite characters? I mean, I get that it might be a lot of work for Danielle Panabaker and she was recently a mother so she might want more time at home but... I don't know, I don't like it...
And, because of all of this things, this was a pretty mediocre episode for me. Yes, it had surprising moments but, in the end, it was really lackluster.
What did you think of the episode? Do you think this is the last time we saw Frost? Or do you think they will try and break her out of the prison? Tell me all your thoughts and I'll talk to you tomorrow with more rants!
Love,
Daniela.
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