Hi folks! Finally, it feels like a whole year passed by, but yesterday was the day, The Flash’s sixth season is not broadcasting, and with that, a whole season of thoughts on everything that happens from me, hope you enjoy the ride as much as I will!
Let’s begin with the only fitting soundtrack, even if it’s from an entirely different comic adaptation; after six seasons they apparently got the rights to use the Multiversity reader’s favorite song and it was an awesome tribute. This week’s episode is named “Into the Void” and it was a very adequate season premiere.
1. There’s always a crisis, returning to Central City
The season began with the explosion of Nora’s last message, which will be important later. Then, four months later, we see the return of Godspeed, and if you remember, I thought that the Rebirth villain was absolutely wasted last season.
At least in this episode it also was wasted, easily defeated by Flash, only to be revealed that there has been four Godspeeds running (heh) around Central City, and none had the ability to speak, only emitting a high pitch sound. Well, at least there’s a mystery to explore in latter episodes.
2. Mourning
Then we see Team Flash enjoying a barbecue, I think this is an important scene because last season ended with a closed story, every problem was resolved, I feel it almost seemed like a series-finale. So, we have this scene, with the team enjoying themselves, Cisco and his girlfriend Kamilla, Joe and Cecile, Iris and Barry and Caitlin, and we notice that both Nora and Barry are still grieving Nora’s death, both eager to keep working, getting distracted of their reality.
Later in the episode both Joe and Cecile realize that Iris is dealing badly with the death of her daughter, and Cecile encourages her to confront her grief, the fact that they haven’t even conceived their daughter and that they will meet her in the future is no excuse to not grieve her. So, this process will become an integral part of Barry and Iris’ relationship this season.
3. Let it go, Caitlin (I know, cheap pun)
After Caitlin meets with doctor Ramsey Rosso at his mother’s funeral, we see her having problems controlling her powers, even with a black hole about to devour her, Killer Frost is nowhere to be seen.
So, Ralph talks to her, he believes that maybe Frost is not coming out because of fear of dying, but because she fears living, and it makes sense —as much sense as the show allows, at least— she’s always inside Caitlin, waiting to come out and punch bad guys. So, at the end of the episode, both personalities make a deal and now we are going to have much more Killer Frost this season, not only in action scenes.
4. This episode’s “villain”
Well, you can’t say villain, lets say, this episode’s conflict revolves around a bunch of black holes appearing through the city, and they discover that it’s all because of cience-streamer Chester P Runk (known as Chunk in the comics), he was trying to build something and ended up with half of his conscience appearing trough black holes to another dimension.
This may be the weakest point of the episode, Chester was used as a device for Flash having a brand new costume, with wires from the super-computer inside Nora’s gauntlet, it also serves to have Chester as a recurring character and I believe that his powers will come in handy in the upcoming crisis.
5. Setting up the storylines for the season
We were introduced to the main villain for at least the first half of the season, Ramsey Rosso, a scientist obsessed with finding a cure for death after his mothers passing because HLH, he proposes Caitlin to use dark matter as an anti-bonding agent of bad cells; of course she rejects his proposal and of course, he goes to the dark market to get the dark matter and, of course, he tries it on himself, turning into Bloodwork, a recent addition to Flash’s rogue’s gallery, appearing first in issue 30 of the Rebirth era.
Continued belowAs for Team Flash, Barry and Nora are now being more open about grieving their daughter, Cisco is enjoying his relationship, Ralph is investigating the disappearance of Sue Dearbon, his future wife, which will surely appear this season, and captain Joe is a hunk rocking that beard.
Finally, on the cliffhanger scene, Monitor appears and tells Barry that, in order to secure the life of billions, he will die in the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths, damn, he is so certain of his prediction that he even set the date, December 10, the day the Flash episode of the crossover airs.
BONUS: I was investigating a little about HLH, it’s a difficult and very rare disease, there’s even a nonprofit dedicated to bringing awareness to physicians: Liam’s Lighthouse Foundation.
And that’s it for this episode, I think some people could criticize it as slow or boring, but to me it has very good to focus on the human aspect of the characters, their grief and their problems, and a whole lot of comedy. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on episode 602, “A Flash of the Lighting”.
