Barry Allen has just reached sonic boom speed. He is officially faster than the speed of sound. This milestone was just one of the highlights of the last Flash episode. I swear every episode keeps getting better and better. Flash has long since been one of my favorite superheroes. With his witty and slightly arrogant personality, not to mention superhuman speed, you can't help but love him and Grant Gustin is doing him so much justice. In the first few episodes, we have seen Flash encounter the Weather Wizard, Multiplex, The Mist, Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller is a perfect choice) and Plastique. Each week is a new action packed episode featuring a new villain and with the help of Cisco, Caitlin and Dr. Wells at STAR Labs, Barry defeats them. Aside from the thrill, there is also a drama aspect including the character Iris West. Just like her comic book version, she is a reporter following the movements of "The Streak", but rather than being Barry's girlfriend, she is bluntly dating her father's partner-in-solving-crimes, Eddie Thawne. Barry and Iris have to get together some time though.
In the last episode titled "The Flash is Born", the metahuman supervillain was Tony Woodward (Girder), a man of steel (CW writers are very punny). Even though I am always in anticipation, waiting for the next Tuesday to watch the new episode, I was already excited for this one because of the previews. CW has a habit of ending their shows with little seeds for what is to come which makes the week-long wait completely insufferable. Thank goodness I actually have other things to focus on or else I would die of anxiety. Anyway, Flash defeated Girder by hitting him from 5 miles away going at 837 miles per hour. Fast enough to create a sonic boom which is nothing short of awesome.
Now about Dr. Wells... I have no idea what to make of him. At first, he was just the scientist who created the particle accelerator which disastrously malfunctioned and put him in a wheelchair. Then, at the end of the pilot episode, after slipping into his secret lair, he stood up and walked. If that wasn't scandalous enough, he proceeded to bring up this news report from 2024 with the headlines, Flash Missing Vanishes in Crisis. I had my suspicions that Dr. Wells was evil and this scene seemed to prove them. First of all, why does he have that report and where in the time vortex did he get it? Second of all, why does he seem so happy about it? I was sure about not trusting him until in a following episode, he killed a man for having the slightest intention of harming Barry. Dr. Wells seems very bent on keeping Barry alive and well which makes no sense. Moreover, Joe (Iris's father) made some connections between Wells and the incident where Barry's mom got killed only to find out that those connections were all just coincidences. So one minute Wells is evil and the next, he's not.
Although my conflicting positions on Dr. Wells are important, there is something else that takes precedence. At the end of the episode, Iris and Barry are finally talking again. Naturally, Iris is going on and on about "The Streak" and Barry, being the sly-guy that he is, slipped in a comment about this guy going from place to place in a flash. Thus, making this a pretty monumental episode in the series so far, "The Flash" is born. Something tells me it's going to catch on.
Final Scene: Joe is sitting at home alone scanning all the paperwork and evidence on Barry's mother's murder. All of a sudden the lights go out. Time for Reverse Flash to make his appearance. He runs in circles, terrifies Joe, then leaves and the lights come back on. All the folders full of crucial evidence are no longer on the table and as Joe lifts his eyes to the side wall, he sees something chilling. Words are written in black: STOP...Or else, above a picture of his only daughter, Iris, hanging there with a knife stabbing where her chest is.
Who do you think Reverse Flash is?
