Hi folks, I’ve missed you! Welp, five tortuous weeks have passed without an episode of The Flash (and pretty much any new episode from the entire CW) but finally yesterday we got a wonderful episode named “So Long and Goodnight”, with a ton of meat to chew on, so let’s dive right in!
1. What a bumpy ride this season has been
It all started with half a season dedicated to a plot point that was not fully concreted, with the idea of Barry dying on the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” and his an the team’s preparation for what was supposed to be the end of the world or at least the death of Flash. I liked the first half and I loved the end results of COIE, but it was all kinda forgotten on this latter episodes, with very few threads coming to fruition: the teasing of Black Hole, the coming of Sue and the erosion in Iris and Barry’s relationship, which doesn’t even counts, given that her real version is trapped on the Mirrorverse.
Then we had this pandemic and filming was halted, therefore the season had to be shortened and we only have three episodes left, so either the storylines have to be resolved with the material they already filmed, or we are going to have a cliffhanger for the ages. Well, at least we are going to have a hell of a season premiere next season, Grant Gustin teased us with a heavily GCI’ed scene on his Instagram account.
2. A Ralph and Cisco team up is the best
This episode, we follow on Ralph and his investigation to find Sue again, so, he has a lead and Cisco is here to eat Waffles help him with is investigation. It is a simple enough scene, they go to a brunch at a bank, because that’s where parties are held, in a bank, and they find January Galore, who turns out to be Sue and she escapes with the money stolen.
What’s important here is the unbeatable chemistry between Carlos Valdes and Hartley Sawyer, Cisco is lose with his wit and every single scene I laughed out loud, my favorite moment was when they find the mask of Sue and Cisco says “I think I just lost my appetite” only to keep eating waffles. I love when they are paired together, those moments are my favorite from the whole show!
3. There’s a price for Joe’s head
The episode began with Joseph Carver asking (very nicely, by the way) Ragdoll to kill Joe because he is snooping around too much and he doesn’t want his name exposed as the head on Black Hole, Ragdoll attempts to kill him two times, first cutting Joe’s car brakes and then in the CCPD.
Desperate to protect his family, and given that Barry is losing his power, he goes directly to Carver’s house and confronts him, he openly (and cynically) admits that he indeed is trying to kill Joe and he threatens him with the recording of the conversation, only to be erased by a mini-EMP. Unsatisfied, Joe punches carver and leaves the place.
4. From Dearborn to Dibny
Later, we see Sue trying to open an account on a bank, only to be interrupted by Ralph, he then tells her that he knows what’s happening: Carver is extorting her parents, therefore she is stealing Carver’s banks to pay him with his own money, she kind of accepts that’s what happening and decides to finally trust Ralph.
And the best part of all this is that I absolutely LOVE them together, Natalie Dreyfuss came to the show as a perfect pairing to Hartley, their characters are just a bomb together, I love how they tease each other and how they basically admit to themselves that they are developing feeling for each other, I hope to see a whole lot more from them next season.
5. Hitchcock’s bomb
Ragdoll’s third attempt to kill Joe involves kidnaping Cecile, using her as leverage to get him, a weakened Flash struggles to defeat Ragdoll, which openly admits he doesn’t kill for the money but he does it as a wicked way of release after the death of Ragdoll’s mother, he kills to “feed” from the suffering he causes.
Continued belowMeanwhile, Joe manages to sit on the bomb Cecile was sitting on and he asks Flash to escape, in other to save Cecile, when Barry saves her, he runs back to try to save Joe, but he managed to deactivate the bomb, Barry would have come too late, so, Joe is forced to go into witness protection, which ties up with the last thought.
6. Building up to Carver and McCulloch’s confrontation
While the real Iris is trying to come up with an idea to escape from the Mirrorverse, Eva McCulloch feels pressured to advance her plan before Iris succeeds, so, she tells Evil Iris to drain Barry’s residual Speed Force, which she manages to do draining him emotionally, first she pressures him to save Joe “no matter what”, and on the final scene, after Joe is put into witness protection, she chastise him for not coming for her running to say goodbye to her father nor looking for him to say goodbye after he left.
With all this, the final nail is put, and Evil Iris kicks him out of the house, managing to drain Barry of his connection to the residual Speed Force, what a great cliffhanger to next week’s episode! I hope Barry finally realizes she is not the real Iris (of course he does, Grant Gustin teased it on his interview with TVLine)
Oh! And that’s not all Eva did, she directly confronted her husband whom cranks his sociopathic attitudes to eleven and tells her that he is untouchable, so, we know that Eva is not going after world domination or killing the Flash, she only wants revenge for her husband’s treason.
Also, Singh is working for Eva too! It was kinda teased on the latest episode, but I didn’t connect the dots until yesterday, when he said yes to every single idea proposed by Joe like he is not concerned of the consequences, and then by directly talking to Eva, is he a mirrored version? Is he real and have occult interests? We’ll find out soon enough!
And that’s it for this episode, overall, a great episode to return after over a month of hiatus, and a great introduction to the final episodes of this season. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on episode 617 “Liberation”, damn, it’s gonna be good.
