Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of The Flash season 2…
Oh, nice guy Eddie, you are missed, sir.
This week’s episode was all about going back to the past and then realizing that time moves on and you need to leave the past behind you. But, when the past was this good…. I mean, we’re talking nice guy Eddie and Thawne-Wells! Two sorely missed presences on the show, at least from this reviewer’s prospective. We got to visit both of them tonight and they both reminded you how much they are missed, and that’s on a show with great characters. But, replacing them with Jay and Wally (and E-2 Wells) sort of, just doesn’t match up. Rick Cosnett (Eddie) deserves a bit of praise for a role that could easily have been turned into a jealous douche or a goofy joke of a character real easily but his performance kept Eddie real and likeable and I applaud that. Thawne-Wells, as a character, is still the benchmark on Flash, because it was equal parts hamming it up and stern mentor, which Tom Cavanagh pulled off brilliantly.
All that being said, man, this felt like a placeholder episode. We find out Jay is Zoom; from there we get another timeline episode which keep in mind, every time you do one of these, it could potentially cause errors and plot holes in the show. I do like the cleverness of using the Takion Particles as the means to an end for Barry and pulling that out from the past so I can’t be too harsh on the episode but it was missing a lot of its normal pep this week. Barry and Thawne-Wells trading wits was a good scene, but the stuff with Hartley (who apparently now is on the team) and the Time-Wraith (yes, there’s a freakin Time-Wraith) was unnecessary and didn’t enhance my viewing one bit.
Also, is there a more shoehorned character than Wally West? Shame on me, but I have not been paying that much attention to these dinner scenes with the West family but now, apparently, Wally’s a super-engineer scholar reading the diaries of Ferrari and Lambourgini? How did I miss all this? And where does this dude live? After his initial plot, which was directionless, he’s been slotted in random storylines that aren’t needed. Still not connecting with him and I think they would have been better served not to squeeze in Wally West just because this is The Flash; it’s only Season 2! Space these mofo’s out!
7.0/10- Great cameos but no Joe, no funny Cisco and very underwhelming time travel plot drag this one down for me.
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Originally published March 31, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
