Reverse-Flash was finally caught in last week’s episode. Tonight,
Barry learns all the truth straight from the mouth of Dr. Wells or Eobard
Thawne. With a dangerous plan set in motion, Barry and his team will face its
catastrophic and heart-breaking consequences. Here are the events of “Fast
Enough,” the final episode of the first season of The Flash:
To hate or not to
hate. The show opens with Wells inside one of The Pipeline cells. Barry interrogates
him and learns that Eobard Thawne is born 136 years from the present time. In
the future, Reverse-Flash learns about Flash’s true identity and in order to
defeat him, he travels back in time to kill him as a powerless child. However,
the future Flash follows him and what happens after is the events of the fated
night. The future Flash takes the child Barry away from the scene. In order to
make Barry suffer, Reverse-Flash stabs Nora Allen in the heart. And the rest is
history.
However, the fight results to Reverse-Flash losing his
ability to harness the Speed Force and make his way home. And though he hates
him so much, Eobard Thawne helps in creating the Flash. He trains Flash so that
he can run fast enough to rupture the space-time barrier and create a stable
wormhole. If that happens, Barry will be able to undo the past and Eobard can
go back home.
To travel or not to
travel. After learning the truth and being given the chance to rewrite history,
Barry is confused on which option to choose. Joe urges him to return to his
past, save his mother, and reunite his family. However, when he visits his
father in prison, he gives an opposite answer. He fears that time travelling
may change the person that Barry is. Being a father, he is already happy with
the kind of person and hero that his son has become. And when he comes to Iris,
he finds the answer he needs. For once, he stops thinking about others and
follows what his heart beats – to save his mother.
To love again. While
Barry is in the dilemma of deciding the right action, others find time to
reconnect and love again. Ronnie proposes to Caitlin and with Professor Stein,
Firestorm’s other person, acting as the minister, the couple kisses and seals
their marriage. Professor Stein also has some quality time chatting with Eddie.
He convinces him that among them all, he is the wild card and can possibly
alter how things work. With new-found confidence, he goes back to Iris and retells
their first meeting. After saying, “How many coincidences must happen for you
and I to meet in this time?” he and Iris kiss and make up.
To build or not to
build. To make sure that Eobard Thawne returns to his home in the future,
Cisco must build a time machine. Lacking knowledge, and even against his
liking, he asks help from Thawne. They engage in sincere talk, and when Cisco
opens up about his dreams of Wells killing him from the disrupted timeline,
Eobard tells him that he must also have been affected by the explosion of the Particle
Accelerator.
To run fast. Instead
of having two particles colliding each other at high speed, the Flash will have
to run very fast and bump into a hydrogen particle. The impact will create a
portal that will connect the present to infinite times. If he fails to run fast
enough, the collision will destroy his body; and if he succeeds, he can change
the course of history. However, he must complete the mission in only two
minutes as the procedure will also create a singularity or blackhole that could
annihilate not only Central City but the whole world. At the awaited moment, Barry
passes his previous records and runs fast enough to create the wormhole. Summoning
all his focus, he finds the window into the moment of that night.
To change history or
not. Flash arrives just as his future self and Reverse-Flash are battling
against each other. After the child Barry is taken from the scene, just when he
is about to save Nora, the future Flash beckons not to interfere. Thus, he
keeps hiding inside his room and let things happen the way they happened
before. And when he becomes out, Nora is already bleeding herself to death. He
approaches her and talks with his dying mother. Before she breathes her last, Barry
says his goodbye to Nora.
Eobard, riding inside the spherical time machine, is already
excited to go back to his home when Flash emerges out of the wormhole, crashing
into his vehicle and destroying it. He realizes that Flash has not kept Nora
from dying. Infuriated, he transforms into Reverse-Flash and fights Barry. The Flash
is near defeated when Eddie Thawne appears and shoots himself in the heart. As Eddie
is his distant ancestor, Eobard begins to fade and lose his power. And when
Eddie finally dies, in the midst of grieving loved ones, Eobard is finally
erased from history.
To run once more.
After Flash comes back to the present time earlier than expected, the dreaded
blackhole begins to form. Ronnie and Caitlin stop the generator but the
blackhole continues to grow. Eventually, it begins to feed on everything – Eddie’s
dead body, cars, buildings and any thing in sight. In retrospect, Barry can
stop the blackhole using his abilities. Charging at his fastest speed, the
Flash dashes to save the day.
FINAL THOUGHTS. After
23 episodes, the first season of The
Flash has finally come to an end. It ended with so much drama and
excitement. But it was more emotional than thrilling as the show wanted it to
be, unlike its partner show Arrow. The
first five minutes of the episode is very gripping as Eobard confesses
everything to Barry. We have been waiting for this moment for a long time and
it is here finally. After which, the show becomes more emotional as Barry weighs
his options. The exciting part is towards the end when the wormhole and
blackhole are created. Eddie’s death comes unexpected and not everyone had seen
it coming.
In general, the show ended its season with much more
questions than it started. Why did Barry not save his mother? Did he just
travel back in time to say goodbye to her? What if he took the alternative
course? Is Eddie dead for good? Or will the blackhole reborn him? Did Barry
really stop the blackhole from destroying everything? That is the biggest cliffhanger. Well, in case you miss out, Eobard mentions Rip Hunter when he sees Cisco’s “Time
Sphere.” Hawkgirl as an ordinary human, along with Leonard Snart, appears
briefly as Central City becomes engulfed in he blackhole.
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