Existing solely to get Joe, Chester, and Allegra into the episode, they don’t really add anything at all and one of them is arguably even more confusing than before. Wrapping up B-storiesĪnd just like every other episode of The Flash season 7, the subplots here just feel like an afterthought. It’s beyond frustrating and just extremely contrived writing. This leads to Eobard Thawne’s return and the pair then explaining how they brought the Reverse-Flash back instead of actually showing it, again. There’s no real discussion of the process as to why they changed, the plot just needed them to, so they did. In one scene they have one opinion and in the next they have another. The most egregious thing, however, is when Barry and Iris change their minds, off-camera, extremely suddenly. It makes absolutely no sense but Tom Cavanagh steals the show in the scenes that he’s in and shows exactly why the comparison of Godspeed to Thawne was embarrassing. So this just feels like a really baffling decision in every way. Now, I should say that I’m a massive Star Wars fan, but The Flash isn’t Star Wars. When the entire Flash Family runs up to a massive group of Godspeeds, it seemed like a prime time for an awesome fight, but they all went out like chumps when the convenient writing made it so that the villains were suddenly sapping the speed out of Team Flash and the Speed Force, with the reason basically being “just cause.” And then the final fight scene – which sees Barry temporarily battle Godspeed one-on-one – turns into a war with lightsabers. This only really encompasses one scene, but it’s the best scene of the episode, which is immediately thrown out when he gets speed and immediately turns evil for no reason whatsoever.īut hey it’s the finale, that means that they’ll finally give us a good fight scene with Godspeed to wrap things up, right? Right? Nope. It’s incredibly interesting seeing someone wrestle with their demons even if they don’t remember them. On the other hand, the few scenes that we see of August when he is still suffering from his memory loss are actually really compelling.
He even goes from “I am the god of speed!” to something along the lines of “I deserve real speed!” very, very quickly and it’s all just very over the top in the worst way, making it hard to watch.
He comes across as little more than a whiny little kid complaining how he deserves speed and doesn’t have it. That means it will make up for all of the uninteresting things that the show has done with the character so far, right? Right? Well, if you had been watching the rest of this season, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that giving Godspeed a personality actually makes him worse.
So, now that we have an actual personality given to Godspeed several seasons after the character was introduced. And in The Flash‘s season 7 finale, “Heart of the Matter, Part 2”, they reach out to a few friends to help them. Now, with an ultimatum, they must decide what they need to do to defeat him.