The Flash The Flash Season 1 Episode 23: "Fast Enough"

[Broseph44]

Well I thought that was perfection, the first 25 minutes or so were just filled with one great character scene after another, everyone was at their best, especially Grant, easily his best episode to date. I also loved Hannibal Wells pulling the strings from his chamber.

The actual scenes of Barry in the past were heartbreaking and so well done, it was an impossible choice to make but the pay-off of the season build of Barry getting a final moment with his Mom was perfect and bittersweet.

Jay Garrick's hat!

I loved Wells spaceship and I LOVED the shot of Barry coming through the wormhole and smashing right through it! The final battle between The Flash and RF being interrupted by a gun shot had me expecting to see Joe standing there having shot Wells, the reality that it was Eddie shhoting himself completely caught me off guard, brilliant conclusion for him with a truly heroic sacrifice.

The disintegration of Wells/Eobard as he was erased from time was fantastic and a fitting end(?) for the character.

The cliffhanger ending worked for me and was visually cool. It means season 2 can hit the ground running (no pun intended) With endless possibilities on the table!

Couldn't agree with you more buddy you said it perfectly. What an excellent episode and what an amazing first season! SO pumped for season 2!

 

[Headliner]

I don't see them topping season 1 honestly. It was that good. And that's not a knock because I'm sure season 2 will be good.

How did Eddie and Iris randomly make up? Eddie just walked into Iris job and everything was all good like Eddie never dumped her last week?

 

[Broseph44]

I don't see them topping season 1 honestly. It was that good. And that's not a knock because I'm sure season 2 will be good.

How did Eddie and Iris randomly make up? Eddie just walked into Iris job and everything was all good like Eddie never dumped her last week?

Randomly make up? Did you not watch and listen to the whole talk/speech he gave to her....

 

[Lighthouse]

Now that parallel universes has been mentioned, that means in a future episode were going to see Jay Garrick showed played by Shipp.....right?

 

[Chip Chipperson]

Now THAT is how you do a season finale.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Now that parallel universes has been mentioned, that means in a future episode were going to see Jay Garrick showed played by Shipp.....right?

Both Henry and Jay?
That would make it funny, even better thinking that his Barry had a brother named Jay.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

Exciting emotional unpredictable finale.

The scene where Barry lets his mom die and talks to her afterward was just so well done, starting from when he sees the other Flash and he lets his mom die while he listens from behind the door. Gut-wrenching. A very touching way to show how much a selfless hero he has become.

...The only problem is that he risked the world to get there. I would have preferred if they didn't know those world-ending risks going in. Ending the season on Barry's world-ending mistake was a bit irksome.

 

[Gaultheria]

Oh and also, let's not assume Eddie is dead, or that Cavanaugh has to come back as Wells instead of RF, or literally anything. The episode ended with Barry running into a freaking black hole. All bets are off. Literally anything could be rewritten by that, and I think that was the point of the writers doing that.

Since (according to RF) cobalt can protect time sphere tiles, it can probably protect Thawnes, because, you know, cobalt and Thawnes.

 

[Lighthouse]

Both Henry and Jay?
That would make it funny, even better thinking that his Barry had a brother named Jay.

Infinite universes, infinite possibilities. Plus, think of the drama possibilities when Barry is running around with a an alternate universe Flash that looks just like his dad.(not to mention Jay is kind of his surrogate dad in the comics.)

 

[Reversezoom]

Didnt expect to cry that much, what an episode. Too bad the ending sucked really bad :/

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Infinite universes, infinite possibilities. Plus, think of the drama possibilities when Barry is running around with a an alternate universe Flash that looks just like his dad.(not to mention Jay is kind of his surrogate dad in the comics.)

I love the possibilities.
Jay was more of a father to Wally.

 

[vantheman77]

Eddie Thawne is the Flash equivalent to Tommy Merlyn.

 

[Lighthouse]

My version of Eddie's death:

*Eddie sees the new wormhole*
Eddie:"Hey, I know what, I'll just get a vasectomy! That will solve it"
*looks to see if it works*

Meanwhile in the future(or some version of it)
Doctor:"Sir, we're sorry to say this, but apparently that vasectomy you had 5 months ago was unsuccessful."
Eddie:"NOOOOOOOOOOOO."

Back to the present
Eddie:".......oh no, it's not working."
*shoots himself*

fin

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I saw the vasectomy suggestion somewhere else and wanted to mention it.

 

[TheBZ]

Yes his initial going back was a bit selfish, although he had the support of those around him to do it. He's done nothing but good for others since he got his powers and this was his one chance to do good for himself and change the main cause of his superherodom, getting his father out of jail.

Once he got to the past and had the encounter with himself he realized that doing this would change everything he's known and he'd be better off in the world he knew, not the world he could create.

Thawne killing himself and in the process Eobard wasn't Barry's fault, they were both heroes and saviors in their own ways. The Black hole was going to happen regardless of Barry changing the past or not.

I swear some of y'all don't even watch the same show I do.

Totally agreed...He had the moral support, but even with that he could not take the final step change who he has become and who the people are around him. That was incredibly unselfish. He accepted it and made peace with it.

Amazing finale...They killed it on Season 1. I cannot wait until Season 2.

BZ

 

[Lencho01]

This show reminds me a lot of smallville but that is why I love the show so much because I loved smallville.

It doesn't really remind of Smallville since they're such different shows with different goals. But, it does look like they're doing the same cliffhanger approach. Time will tell with future seasons if that's the route they will always take.

 

[Lighthouse]

Totally agreed...He had the moral support, but even with that he could not take the final step change who he has become and who the people are around him. That was incredibly unselfish. He accepted it and made peace with it.

Amazing finale...They killed it on Season 1. I cannot wait until Season 2.

BZ

Don't care if he had the support of his family. Once the sentence, "It'll create a black hole" occurs....really? He's going to risk destroying the solar system to save his mom?

 

[Gaultheria]

Jay's helmet flying out of the wormhole looks like a tip of the hat to "Day of the Doctor".

 

[TheBZ]

Don't care if he had the support of his family. Once the sentence, "It'll create a black hole" occurs....really? He's going to risk destroying the solar system to save his mom?

Good point...Why bother? Why not leave your father in prison? Why stop metahuman supervillains or do anything at all? Why not just go home and watch tv? It's good enough for us.

I would totally watch a show where everyone makes very sound decisions based on the sustained existence of the solar system.

It wouldn't be called The Flash though, and that was the show I tuned in to watch tonight.

BZ

 

[Demon Hunter]

Please tell me Tom Cavanagh is still a series regular in season 2! Can't imagine the show without his character!

 

[Herolee10]

Is there a reason by the way on why Barry's House in the Past was lit to look like it was day when it's been established that the event in there took place at night?

 

[Reversezoom]

Please tell me Tom Cavanagh is still a series regular in season 2! Can't imagine the show without his character!

That is confirmed by Kreisberg.

 

[Kster95]

Future Barry is so cool. He has such a Flash feel to him.

 

[combocaz]

great episode but jesus i hate cliffhangers.

 

[chamber-music]

Awesome finale!

I bet Harrison Wells and Eddie are back next year with the timeline changed somehow.

Nice Vibe tease. Nice Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy refence as well from Cisco.

I liked the Flash Museum, Killer Frost, Captain Cold and Hawkgirl cameos.

Martin Stein was fun in this episode.

Nice name drop of Rip Hunter and Jay Garrick Easter Egg.