Hi folks! Welcome back to our weekly recap of The Flash. This week’s episode is named “The People v. Killer Frost” and I think that the big theme in this episode was about biases and our choices. Let’s dive right in!
1. What’s the sentence
First let’s talk about the titular character of the episode, Frost declared herself guilty and skipped trial, so all that remains is get her sentence. On one side she was a villain, yes, but in the other, she literally saved the world and the city, so, only one person will decide her fate and that’s the judge.
This is a weird situation to be on, the rest of her life will be decided by a person that she doesn’t know and has to be neutral, but how can you be when the conflict is so important that it involves the life of a person.
The problem is, that the counsel is no longer seeking to put Frost in jail, they want her depowered and it implies a whole lot of problems.
2. Personal motives
Despite Frost’s request to Team Flash, to do the things the correct way, Caitlin, with the help of Allegra and Cisco, infiltrate CCPD’s precinct and destroy all the vials of the meta cure that were supposed to be used in Frost and possibly other metas, but they get caught and that complicates things for Frost, instead of helping.
When she confronts Caitlin, the human sister tells Frost that she is terrified of not having her in her life anymore and that’s why she destroyed the cure, but Frost tells Caitlin that she was seeing for herself, instead of protecting Frost.
On the other side, it is revealed that Kristen Kramer has in fact occult interests, she led a group of soldiers and was betrayed by a meta, therefore she despises “hypocrite” metas that are criminals but pretend to be good guys; you know, a very racist argument if we translate it to the real world: “It’s not that I don’t trust you… it’s that I don’t trust *your kind*.”
Kramer’s plan is that, if Frost get’s sentenced to be depowered, that punishment is going to set a precedent for other cases in the future, so, forcing the meta cure will become a viable option. Fortunately, Frost offers to get a life sentence to avoid setting that precedent, and saves the identity of every methahuman. Unfortunately, that kind of tactics get used in American courts and around the world to arrest minorities and punish them “legally,” just ask to every person on jail for non-violent marijuana possession.
3. Alexa Rivera
On the other plot of this episode, Barry finds a signature of the Strength Force and goes investigating with “Nora,” they get to a place where volunteers take care of homeless people and they arrive at a tent with only one person: Alexa Rivera.
She is an ex-addict and believes that Barry and Nora are police and are harassing her, in fact, Nora does get a little “bad cop” and they have to leave. Later, The Flash visits Alexa to try to argue with her and convinces her of coming with him, get tested and try to get Fuerza off of her. No forcing was necessary.
4. Speaking of having personal motives a.k.a. the Speed Force is evil
The problem is that Nora is being…let’s say defensive, and she wants Alexa (and Fuerza) neutralized, so the Speed Force end’s up killing her. Plot twist! It turns out that the Speed Force is trying to kill the other forces in order to protect herself, she had a hidden motive all along.
And to be honest, it was there all along, she comes to the world arguing that she was attacked, using the face of Nora Allen to be included in the team. In retrospect, I can see the clues that were set by the creative team in earlier episodes, the Still Force was just a kid, Barry did not trusted Nora for a while, and immediately argued that the forces are bad and had to be killed.
I really liked this twist, as you know I was not very keen on seeing Barry’s mother running around the world, and this betrayal seems fitting to me, something felt off and it was because something was off indeed. Let’s see how this story keep developing.
Continued below5. Farewell, Tom Cavanagh and Carlos Valdes
Yesterday, Deadline reported that both actors, who gave life to many Wellses and Cisco Ramon were leaving the show. In fact, Cavanagh left the show on season 6, but given that we had three episodes “overlapping” in this season, he had his last episode in this seventh season. Although there will be opportunity to have guest appearances, in fact there’s one confirmed for Cavanagh soon.
Usually, at the beginning of every season I speculated on what version of Wells we would have, and I was fooled this season, mistaking a farewell for a new version. But I’m glad that his story closed on such a heartfelt note. As for Carlos Valdes, it seems that his last episode will be the twelfth of the season, titled “Good-Bye Vibrations”. To be honest, it was surprising but not unexpected, we have been seeing less and less of Cisco for a while now, since he lost his powers and then went on a journey through the world.
So, two big members of this show have left, it’s going to be a weird season without their spark, but I am happy for both the actors and the opportunity to bring a fresh perspective on The Flash, with new characters and more time to explore the old ones. Also, this is another reason to end the series now (despite the fact that I love it), otherwise a lot of the regulars are going to leave the show and it’s time to refresh the slate.
And that’s it for this episode, it was marked by the choices everybody made and those choices set up a whole new set of troubles for our Team Flash. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on episode 709, “Timeless.”
