What is Barry supposed to learn from this encounter? Now, we only have three or so episode for The Flash to work out this massive personal conundrum. Savitar has been goading Barry throughout this season, but without knowing who he was, his threats felt just like hollow villain speak. But it makes for great, deep character drama.
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That’s dark, and it’s something Oliver is choosing whether or not to believe, and (regardless) how to move on from it. But on Arrow, Prometheus, post-reveal, has worked to try and show Oliver who he “really” is - not a vigilante, but just a killer who thrives on death. Would any of them really have made sense? Not particularly, but how much sense does it make that Savitar is Future Barry right now anyway? It’ll all be explained away with Speed Force mumbo jump, and that’s fine. Having Savitar revealed as Ronnie Raymond, Eddie Thawne, or Wally West would have each brought unique stakes to the plot, something that could have played out over time if there had been an earlier sense of who Savitar was. Grant Gustin is an exceptionally likable and charismatic guy on screen. Thus, Barry being his greatest enemy this season has really not been particularly fun to watch, now or with the reveal of Savitar. Overly upset and introspective Barry is not fun to watch. which Barry? Is this a Flashpoint remnant Barry, or emo 2024 Barry, or another Barry we don’t yet know? And regardless, why did he give Kid Flash his powers via that cocoon, and why would he kill Iris? We know he’s been driven insane by the Speed Force, but it seems like an excessively contrived opportunity to continue to punish Present Day Barry. There’s still a lingering question, though, about who Savitar is, i.e. Evil Barry would have been a fun convention for an episode or two of alternate reality storylines, but the fact that we have spent so much time and energy on this Savitar storyline for it to just be another Evil Flash reveal was incredibly underwhelming.
It’s somehow even more repetitive than if Harrison Wells had stepped out of that suit. In Season 3, Barry is fighting Savitar - literally just Evil Flash a.k.a. In Season 2, Barry fought Zoom - an evil version of The Flash. In Season 1, Barry fought Reverse Flash - an evil version of the The Flash. But here’s why Savitar’s reveal didn’t work at all. The masked villain thing can work, and we’ve seen it work on Arrow and The Flash over and over again. Once Barry tried to suddenly pull Savitar’s head off, it because clear that he wasn’t just a Speed Force Decepticon, he was another masked villain. We know Iris isn’t going to die, so getting stuck on that scene and going through Team Flash’s flailing for months of episodes became very tedious, very fast. The faceless “god of speed” didn’t seem like a masked villain at first - he just seemed like an agent of evil, but not a particularly scary one (he’s no Zoom!) Barry then sees him killing Iris in the future, something he can’t seem to stop, yet even that didn’t raise the stakes. After that the show settled, briefly, into a pattern that helped define Season 1’s fun: villains of the week, created by Alchemy as a way to kind of punish Barry by restoring their Flashpoint powers.īut even that was dragged down but a really dour Cisco and a team that felt very broken, especially after the fairly early reveal that Alchemy could be a friend (Julien) who was blindly controlled by the ultimate foe: Savitar. For one, Flashpoint lasted one solitary episode in a season that has 22 hours to burn. For a fair portion of this season, fans have been disappointed with how The Flash has handled that Flashpoint storyline and the reveal (or lack thereof) regarding Savitar. At long, long last, The Flash revealed the identity of Savitar, the masked villain who has terrorized Team Flash since Flashpoint.
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