So the premise of Barry going back in time was the fact that they needed to create a magnet from Savitar's suit, the speed force injector that Zoom used and some dark matter from the first particle accelerator explosion. I loved this idea when I first heard it but it turns out that Barry and Nora really only spent time with different versions of Harrison Wells and Eobard Thawne which was super sad cause I was hoping for more interactions with the extended cast in general. In a way this episode did feel like a more of a recap than anything else with quick shots here and there to show us critical scenes from the past 5 seasons of The Flash. I think I hoped we'd get to see Barry talk with Zoom or previous versions of Team Flash or even seeing Eddie would have been nice or more Ronnie. Instead we talked a smidge to Harry who was in the middle of his angst about Jessie and a bit more to Eobard Thawne who actually I had a fun time with (and who I'll get to in a bit.) Zoom got a line which didn't make all that much sense in the course of the timeline cause why would he have come back to gloat after taking Barry's speed and Caitlin? It was sweet though that Barry originally didn't want to take Nora cause he was afraid of her seeing not so great parts of his past. What I liked was that she was able to see how much Iris meant to Barry over the years!
Now let's Thawne who of course was the most exciting part of this episode though I was really really hoping that we would have gotten the Matt Letscher version cause we already get so much Tom Cavanagh that it would have been more exciting and different to get Matt's version. If I'm following the timeline correctly, the Thawne we visited in the past was the 1st version that died after Eddie killed himself so the fact that he didn't know that Nora was Barry and Iri's child was a fun Easter Egg cause he name dropped Dawn which means his version of the future had the Tornado Twins (still not over the fact that we went with Nora instead of them!) The 2nd version was the version Barry grabbed as he came back to stop him from killing Nora (resulting in Flashpoint) and that version went on to form the Legion over on Legends and he died cause Black Flash grabbed him considering that he was a time remanent. The Thawne we seem to meet in the future is the one I'm not sure about. We met another Thawne on Earth X last season and we never got an explanation on where in the timeline he came from cause I don't know at what point he could have jumped to another Earth during season 1 which is the only time he wore Harrison Wells's face!
Speaking of future Thawne, the most exciting twist of tonight's episode was the reveal that Nora is working with him! I had a hunch that the person Sherloque mentioned to be telling Nora what to do was him cause in the comics Thawne is the curator of the Flash museum and since Nora spent all her time there, it only made sense to me that they would be close and that he might be able to manipulate her into doing whatever his plan is. I use the world manipulate cause I'm sure Nora thinks she's doing something good but Thawne is obviously not. The thing is though that curator story wouldn't make sense if Thawne had Harrison Wells's face cause Iris or the others would have known so Thawne wearing Wells' face must have been captured sometime before 2049 and locked up which then doesn't explain why Nora trusts him or talks to him in prison.... I can't wait to find out more and I would seriously love it if someone he became the Big Bad by the end of the season cause I'm already a little over Cicada tbh....
The final story that happened tonight was the attempt to capture Cicada. Like I mentioned at the top, our plan was to create a magnet that would attract his dagger and then send the dagger through a breech and capture Cicada while he was powerless. Honestly this was a solid plan but when the team enacted it, so much went wrong and didn't make sense! First of all, why on Earth would Cisco not send the dagger to another Earth (Earth X maybe cause we know it's already shit) or out further to space like another galaxy or into the sun! Sending it just outside of Earth's orbit was an awful idea! Secondly, why wouldn't one of the four people hanging out go slap a metacuff on Cicada? He can't use his powers to bring the dagger back if he has no powers! I was literally screaming at the screen to use metacuffs but nope. I did love that Killer Frost was the one to save the day and that she will be our ace like I thought two weeks ago after we learned about her powers and how she's not a meta due to dark matter. Cicada's terrified face when he saw her powers still worked was everything!!
Anyway overall this was a solid episode and a pretty fun midseason with the cliffhanger of Nora working with Thawne! I'll see you all next week for the crossover!
xoxo Allie
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