I don't think i've ever seen The Flash put so much hype behind one of their episodes, here we have a mini-justice league team-up between Flash, Arrow and Firestorm...for about 5 minutes. Here's what happened for the other 40 minutes: Team Flash realises that Dr Wells is going to reactivate the partical accelerator, which doing so will kill the meta-humans trapped in there so the gang attempt to transport them, but of course transporting several supervillains is not an easy task, so they recruit some back up, Captain Cold and his sister Golden Glider, however, Cold betrays Barry and frees all of the meta-humans, killing one of them, and then makes his escape. Then in the end, Wells shows up ready to fight and Oliver and Ronnie show up in the nick of time to fight alongside him.I've said before that I am not a fan of Captain Cold, I don't think he's well acted, written and his costume is silly (it's just a coat!) and I can say the same thing for his sister, so i wasn't happy about him returning in this episode. The fact that Barry trusted him was stupid, especially seeing as it turns out he didn't need him and if he didn't bring Cold along then everything would have been peachy, but his plan was idiotic in the first place, freeing all of the meta-humans just so they'll owe him a favour. The reason why this is stupid can be explained by para-phrasing him "i'm a criminal Barry, I break my word" so what exactly makes him think that any of these meta-humans are going to feel as if they owe him a debt? As far as they should be concerned, they don't have to do anything for him. I admire Barry's dedication to saving lives, even for criminals, but his desire to be more like Oliver and take risks doesn't make sense, back in the crossover episode, Barry was shown to be shocked at Oliver's methods and disapproved of them, why all of a sudden he feels he should be more like him comes across as very abrupt. Also why they felt the need to kill off the best actor in the group (Doug Jones) just screams bad decision.
Then there is the finale where Oliver and Ronnie show up to help fight Wells, the fact that they both show up at the same time in the same place is already rather silly, but that they fight him and then leave almost as quickly makes this feel very tacked on, and as if this was supposed to be connected to an entirely different script. Yes they say early on that they did contact them for help but they weren't available, so what happened inbetween that time? Seeing the three of them on screen together, ready to fight was a nice treat except next time this happens i hope it is in better context. And while we may not know what's going to happen next week, I guarantee that Wells losing and getting captured was all part of his plan, because of course, this guy plans for everything.
I will say that this episode does have it's focus in the right place, everything here is to progress the main plot, but I feel as though releasing the villains is just going to lead to a lot of back peddling next season and a lot of the choices that Barry makes in this episode seem out of place, yes he's in a desperate situation but he's still a logical person, and this doesn't make any sense. I will say I am glad that Eddie has ended things with Iris, because this means that the writers may actually have to write her an actual character next season and give her something to do that doesn't involve Eddie or Barry in some way. Nevertheless, for a lot of the build up that this episode got, the payoff was severely lacking. 6/10.
-Danny
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