#the crisis plotline should have been saved for the final season. you won't change my mind

[coldflasher]

we got up to 6x08/9 in our flash rewatch and i would like to make the bold claim that part 1 of the temptation of barry allen is among the best content that this show has ever produced and i WISH they’d delved deeper into it

like aside from grant going harder in that ep than he’s ever gone before, we have the unbridled rage and resentment and fear and hatred that barry lets out when he’s like “this was done TO me.” he never chose to be the flash; the lightning chose him, and he’s answered its call over and over regardless of the personal cost, only to be expected to sacrifice everything he has repeatedly, in the face of an unfeeling cosmic force that cannot even begin to comprehend the pain and suffering he’s gone through in its honour... as it reveals to him, it doesn’t even FEEL pain. it can never know what he’s given up. that was so fucking interesting. genuinely some of the most fascinating character work this show has ever done imho

my biggest complaint is that they did not show even a HINT that barry was feeling this way leading up to that point... we see his unshakeable calm and this almost religious fervour in his commitment to his own sacrifice leading up to crisis, but we don’t get to see the cracks. we see the other characters having doubts, and barry attempting to reassure them and prepare them for his disappearance. we never really get to see how barry feels. we never get to see his faith waver until this episode, but when we do see it, it’s SO good. seeing him rage against the speedforce and seeing him get angry and seeing him finally acknowledge the injustice of having this huge weight placed on him. him being the type of person who physically cannot stand by and watch bad things happen when there’s even the slightest chance he could do something... but he has been torn up by this, he’s so angry about the sacrifices he’s made and that others have made in his name and he finally gets to give voice to all that resentment and anger... it’s SO GOOD. so powerful. that’s why, regardless of how i feel about them massively dropping the ball with the crisis plotline, 6x08 is legit one of my favourite episodes of the whole show

6x09 is also good because it has this shot of barry handcuffed to a car.