Hi folks! Welcome back to our weekly recap of The Flash. This week’s episode is named “Snow Pack” and it had some dense moments. Let’s dive right in.
1. Iris and Barry’s fight
This time we started right in the heat, Iris protest’s Barry’s decision to bring back her daughter to her time, 2049. She complaints because he made that choice all by himself, instead of asking her, his wife and Nora’s mother, about the path to take after last week’s revelations.
Her argument is that he makes choices alone, his argument is that he didn’t think they needed to come to an agreement, she is untrustworthy, she got help from fucking Thawne! And then, Iris broke Barry’s heart (and mine too, that bitch): she is not bothered by the fact that the killer of his husband’s mother is manipulating her daughter, OUCH.
After the fight, Iris decides to go to the future and bring back Nora, with her goes Ralph, acting as some kind of chaperon, thanks to Cecile’s request to look after her. Yes, she does the exact same thing that made her be angry with Barry.
2. The negative Speed Force
Meanwhile, in the future, Nora is -obviously- with Eobard, really affected by his father’s choice, she asks her mentor how he managed to travel to the past without any other speedster noticing, and he reveals what may be his masterplan: he created an alternative Speed Force, a negative one, nurtured of bad emotions.
Nora is desperate, and choices to use the negative Speed Force, when they first attempt to use it, she fails, clearly not full of enough bad feelings, then fucking Iris finds her daughter, but Barry is not with her, which disappoints Nora, those negative feelings are enough to embrace her darkness and use the negative Speed Force.
Although I’m loving this season, I talked before about how much Nora annoys me, she must be between 25 and 29 years old, yet she reacts like a 14 year old, angry because the parent that grounded her is not apologizing for doing so, even when the other parent is trying to help her, come on woman! You know very well what you did, you are still doing it even after they discovered the truth! How can you blame your dad instead of yourself?
3. Icicle
In the other plot of this episode, Icicle steals a “cryo-atomizer” and kidnaps his ex-wife and their daughter, his plan is to put Central City in a new ice age, and awaken his wife’s ice-persona, just like him and Killer Frost, then, at their maximum potential, the “Snow Pack” will dominate this world.
In all honesty, the writing team solved this pending plot-point of the season by making him the “monster of the week”, there’s not much to it, and the crisis resolves itself when Barry saves Caitlin’s mom and Thomas Snow takes over Icicle right before he tries to kill his daughter.
4. Barry’s doubt
What’s important about this week’s villain, is that first, the Snows are back together, and the situation helps Barry realize that family is important.
After his fight with Iris, Barry is full of doubts, did he make a bad choice? Should he have had a conversation with his wife before doing the right choice? This is all reflected in how he fights the villain and how he choices to act.
Finally, after help from Joe and Sherloque, he accomplishes his mission and realizes that he needs his family together, but that might be a little too late.
5. Cicada is back
At the end of the episode, old Grace appears, kick’s Barry’s ass and is about to kill Killer Frost when Tomas blocks the hit, and he dies right there, leaving Caitlin without a dad, forever. Cicada 2 flees with the ice-gizmo and turns out she kidnapped her younger self: she has a plan.
BONUS: In the cliffhanger scene, Nora arrives to the present, with her eyes bright red, which can only mean one thing: she’s now a bad guy, just like I suspected since last season.
And that’s it for this episode, overall, it felt a little slow paced, but it was really important to set the fight between husband and wife, not even the perfect West-Allen family can be happy all the time. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on episode 520, “Gone Rogue”.
