Barry's a nice guy, but he's hopelessly earnest, and when he's not hopelessly earnest he's hopelessly mopey. What makes Barry Allen so interesting? Not his personality, really. Team Flash is still too big, but now it also has too many Speedsters. It feels forced more than anything, and it contributes to #3 on my list.ģ. He was Thawne in Wells's skin.īut the show keeps dragging new versions of actual Harrison Wells into the story for no good reason. The man and mentor who Cisco and Barry loved was never Wells to begin with. Thawne wasn't Harrison Wells. Harrison Wells on Earth has been dead for years. But with every new Wells introduced, we cheapen the legacy of the Reverse Flash. as a character, probably because Cavanagh is one of the best things The Flash has going. His reason for being on the show is flimsy at best.ĭon't get me wrong. He's a goofball, an author, a lady's man (kind of?) and has a lot of funny lines about the differences between Earth and Earth 19. Wells, a not-genius version of the same character, this time from Earth 19. Instead of a likable villain, he was a curmudgeonly hero (or sort of hero.)īut here we are in Season 3, and instead of just sticking with Wells 2.0 the show has introduced H.R. Wells 2.0 was a grumpy, unlikable, self-centered prick, also, which was a fun twist to the character. He was an enemy of Zoom, who had his daughter held captive, and it all worked well enough as part of the parallel Earth storyline. In Seasons 2, The Flash brought Harrison Wells from Earth 2 over to Earth 1 to help out Team Flash. There's something similar going on with Wells. I love Tom Cavanagh and his performance in Season 1 will always hold a special place in my heart, but enough is enough already.Īt the end of the first season of Heroes, they should have killed off Sylar instead of trying to make him into a semi-hero (to be fair, Heroes should have done so many things differently it's impossible to list them all.) By neutering the character Sylar just so Zachary Quinto could return to make fans happy, the show sacrificed its soul.
I love Harrison Wells, but enough is enough already. Alchemy could have been a really fascinating new nemesis, but I guess it just wasn't in the cards. What makes it all so much worse is that Alchemy was actually an interesting bad guy, but instead of going with a new kind of villain they stuck with the Speedster angle and the Team Flash twist. Here we have scary Barry in a mask, hopping back and forth in time and meddling with things with a strange degree of accuracy given how badly each time change works for Barry the hero. There we had Thawne plotting for decades his return to the future, grooming his enemy, taking a secret identity for years, and sparking the entire meta-outburst in Central City.
Once again we have time travel, only it's not used in nearly as interesting a way as in the first season. Color me shocked.Įven if you didn't see the twist coming, it's just more of the same. We'll get into that more in a bit.Įither way, once again we have an evil Speedster who just so happens to be part of Team Flash. Oh, and the twist is that he's actually Barry from the future! Or, rather, a Time Remnant duplicate of Barry from the future. Now we're in Season 3 and the bad guy is yet another Speedster, Savitar, who is even more evil and speedy than Zoom or Reverse Flash, only this time he wears a suit of armor. He was actually Hunter Zolomon, a psycho speedster who had the real Flash locked up in an iron mask. Jay Garrick, it turned out, was only pretending to be the Flash from Earth 2. And once again, Zoom turned out to be someone from within Team Flash. Then in Season 2 we got Zoom, another Speedster but this time even faster and more evil than Thawne. Even after his villainy was revealed, Barry and Cisco and Caitlin had a hard time not liking him. Evil Harrison Wells, played beautifully by Tom Cavanagh, was one of the best super-villains I've ever seen, if only because while he was an awful, evil person, you still grudgingly liked him.
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