Hi folks! Welcome back to our weekly recap of The Flash. This week’s episode is named “Timeless” and after last week’s murder, two plans are set in motion to prevent any more casualties, Let’s dive right in!
1. The Lighting Rod
This episode started right at that deeply disturbing event we saw last week, Speed Force/Nora used Barry’s lighting to kill Alexa aka Fuerza. Nora is angry at the fact that Barry and his lighting rod, Iris, created other Forces, and still believes that they are dangerous and tried to attack her, although at this point it is questionable if that really happened or if the Speed Force is trying to get rid of the other Forces to get something else.
This set’s up this episode’s conflict, on one side, Iris wants to argue with Nora, so maybe she could convince her that they all can work with the other Forces and avoid conflict. On the other side, Barry feels guilty for putting regular human lives in danger (Alexa, Deon and Psych) and the solution to that is to not affect them in the first place.
This creates a rift between the team, and two different plans are set in motion. If you ask me, I prefer Barry’s plan, to fix everything from the root, and I also think that Iris’ plan could backfire on her because, to me, Nora is not human, she is NOT Barry’s mother but a physical representation of a Force and, more importantly: she is evil! She already killed someone!
2. Iris’ Plan
So, the couple argue and Iris leaves S.T.A.R.Labs, she goes with Kamilla and Allegra and together they go on a quest to find the Speed Force and argue with her. Cisco adapted Kamilla’s camera to receive the Force’s signal and it turns out that Iris is full of Force-energy, so, they use her as a “finding rod” and end up where they believe they could find Nora: Barry’s old house, where the real Nora died.
The problem is, they don’t find Nora, instead they find Psych, and he uses his power against them, but it seems that Iris is somewhat more resistant to the villain’s power, given that, you know, she ultimately created them. At the end, she is saved indirectly to Barry’s plan.
3. Plan B(arry)
On the other side, Barry wants to go back in time and “flashpoint” the moment where the forces were created, to avoid them getting to their respective hosts and prevent the Speed Force from getting killed. There are many problems with the logistics of his plan, he could even lose his powers (again), so he recruits the only person capable of solving these dilemmas: the original Wells.
Together they create a tight plan, Well’s is going to create a “time-bubble” and everything that has happened in those 17 days is going to be the same. But suddenly Deon appears at the labs and argues with Barry, his existence is not a mistake, he just wants to be left alone and is willing to defend himself if it’s necessary.
With that, Cisco sides with Iris and believes that erasing the Forces is also erasing the hosts, so he ultimately chooses to help them even though he doesn’t agree.
4. Plan… Joe?
Before going back in time, Barry goes to talk to Joe, I don’t like when he is used just as the “wise man” who is there to give advice to Barry, because his story is great, but I believe that it is because of the pandemic that he has been used rather sporadically.
Well, the important thing here is that Joe talks to Barry, and he tells him about the struggle of being the father of someone, and how he sometimes made bad choices believing that they would help Wally, but they often backfired. The best thing to do is to let them be.
And so, when Barry and Wells go back in time, Barry does take the other Forces of off the creation of the Speed Force but decides to let them exist, Iris is right, they should always find a better way to save the world, and maybe they can avoid a worse confrontation.
Continued belowOh! And just when I was wondering how the fuck they were going to deal with the fact that there is a murdered person on S.T.A.R.Labs, thanks to the (re)birth of the Forces, Barry and Iris manage to revive her. So, conflict with the authorities avoided!
5. Cisco is leaving
Trough the episode, the seeds for the new Status Quo were being planted, Kamilla tells Cisco that she is temporally moving to San Francisco to help set up an exposition of her photos, and of course, Cisco seems disgruntled by the fact that she might leave, because it implies that she is going to be safer.
Then, after his moral fight with Barry, and a last talk with Wells, he is confronted with his own truth: he doesn’t want this “hero” life anymore and he is moving out with Kamilla to a new place.
With that set up, the episode ended, and we are going to have next a two-part episode named “Family Matters”, which will finish the first Graphic Novel of this seventh season, and then we will have “Good-Bye Vibrations” which seems to be Cisco’s send off.
And that’s it for this episode, I liked that we are seeing conflicts with Iris and Barry and Cisco and Barry, not always they are going to be happy and sometimes those conflicts are healthy. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on episode 710, “Family Matters, Part 1.”
