We needed to see that moment where the world’s smartest man found himself outwitted and forced to accept that intelligence alone can’t beat dedication, teamwork and compassion. This is a guy who’s smart enough to plan for every possible outcome, yet he didn’t count on the Fastest Man Alive being able to pull Ralph through a magic portal? DeVoe really needed a memorable and definitive defeat. What frustrates most is the thoroughly underwhelming manner of DeVoe’s defeat. At one point this battle devolved into a riff on the Burly Brawl from The Matrix Reloaded, with about the same level of visual effects quality (no, that’s not a compliment). Rather than pitting Barry’s speed and courage against DeVoe’s relentless intellect, we got a few scenes of Barry and Ralph beating up on DeVoe clones. But after an entire season of build-up, there just wasn’t much to this final battle. If you refuse to show the wider world reacting to this existential crisis, it becomes just another showdown between good guy and bad guy.Įven with that, there’s no reason the intimate focus on Barry and DeVoe couldn’t have worked. Part of that is simply the decision to set so much of the first half literally inside DeVoe’s head. But despite that civilization-ending threat, there just wasn’t a strong sense of danger or impetus driving this story forward. DeVoe’s satellites ensured that Barry and friends had mere minutes to stop the entire world’s population from being mind-wiped.
It’s not that the stakes weren’t well-established for this final conflict. That probably explains the lack of emotional investment. Very little happened in this episode that couldn’t be seen coming a mile away. And just before the end, the obligatory reveal of Mystery Girl’s identity and the setup for Season 5. It ended the season exactly as predicted, with Barry racing against time to stop an all-powerful villain while Cecile dealt with her poorly timed labor. In other words, a fitting end to a generally disappointing season.Ī lot can (and will) be said about why “We Are the Flash” didn’t work, but what it really boils down to is that this episode held so few surprises. And now we have the Season 4 finale, easily the weakest end-cap to a season yet.
But Season 2 offered a poor conclusion to the otherwise exciting Zoom conflict. Seasons 1 and 3 both ended well as they explored Barry’s final confrontations with Reverse-Flash and Savitar, respectively.
You know how the Star Trek franchise seems to always alternate between great movies and lousy ones? The same holds true for The Flash.
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