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Well, he's got that name. Which could be a misdirect as well!
Okay, so you know that. I didn't want to mention that if you didn't know it. The thing is, I don't think the Reverse Flash/Yellow Blur Guy is Eddie. Unless it's Eddie traveling back from the future? All of the Flash-related time travel stuff confuses the shit out of me.
But Eddie is like Slade Wilson -- with that name, if you know the comics, you know from the start what his eventual path is going to be.
Hell, it could be Barry himself from the future for all I know.
I almost want that to be true. Except future!Barry killing his own mom is a little darker than I think the show will go.
My understanding is that, unlikely pretty much every other character on the show, Harrison Wells does not have a comic book counterpart.
I think so. He's like Diggle (in that he wasn't in the comics)...but stabby and probably evil.
Which is a smart move. What Creepy And Sketchy Shit Wells Is Up To This Week is a fun dark nugget embedded in this otherwise funny, sunny show.
Seriously. I'm always a little let down when the final scene isn't Wells pulling off some nefarious deeds.
LOVED Iris mentioning the man on fire who isn't burned (or however she said it). Firestorm! (I mean, even if Ronnie Raymond *wasn't* played by Robbie Amell, we all knew he'd be back, right? How do these 3 sooooper geniuses not stop to think that everyone else affected by the particle accelerator was given metahuman abilities...except Ronnie? Or I suppose Wells probably knows what's up, but Caitlin and Cisco are supposed to be pretty damn smart.)
when the inevitable prison break happens.
OK, if that happens, they HAVE TO have Captain Cold come back and lead that prison break because that would be the meta-est shit ever.
Ahahahahaha! YES PLEASE.
I gather he's(?) a villain, but I am a little in love with the name Professor Zoom. It is fun to say the way I say it in my brain.
The actor who plays Barry -- or the way he plays Barry, though he just seems like he'd be a nice guy in general -- is just unfailingly appealing in this role.
Who Wells is is my favorite mystery, even beyond Yellow Killer Flash. I think he's on the side of good, ultimately (Wells, that is), or at least that it's not a "Ha! I've fooled you all! I've been working against you the whole time!" situation.
Who Wells is is my favorite mystery
Totally. Although he's so unrelentingly creepy that I swing toward the HE'S EVIL AND HAS A KNIFE RUN BARRY RUN side.
The actor who plays Barry -- or the way he plays Barry, though he just seems like he'd be a nice guy in general -- is just unfailingly appealing in this role.
Seriously. He's been unbelievably endearing since his appearance on Arrow.
Jesse L. Martin makes all shows better just by being there and occasionally smiling.
Jesse L. Martin makes all shows better just by being there and occasionally smiling.
Preach. For just the two of those guys, whoever handled casting deserves a cosmic high-five. [Although, Barry was cast from Arrow. Still. High-five!]
The Faces of Joe West
I love when the internet is adorable.
I almost feel like it's a waste to have Martin on a CW TV series rather than off winning a Tony on Broadway, but then I wouldn't be able to watch him in new material on a weekly basis.
My feeling about Wells is that he thinks he is a good guy, but is so ruthless and indifferent to collateral damage in the course of achieving his (laudable) goal that he is not.
The Flash: so that red/yellow blur at the end has to be Harrison Wells, right? Which makes him... Reverse Flash? Professor Zoom? (OK, I actually don't know the difference between the two since I've been trying not to read up too much on the comics canon in order not to get spoiled for the show.) Or maybe show just *wants* us to think it is Wells. But honestly, who else could it be?
They were selling it pretty hard this episode. If it's not, then one has to wonder who else even knows that Joe is investigating the case again. If they don't explain that if it's not Wells, I'm going to be very disappointed.
I feel like maybe Barry taunting his former bully by talking to him with his mask off is going to bite him in the ass when the inevitable prison break happens. (That's not a spoiler; just speculation based on the GIANT FLASHING SIGN of Nothing Can Go Wrong When You Store Metahuman Villains In One Place.)
Yeah. As emotionally satisfying as I'm sure that was for him (and vicariously for Cisco and Caitlin) my thought was "You never taunt the super-villain, Barry. They ALWAYS escape!"
My feeling about Wells is that he thinks he is a good guy, but is so ruthless and indifferent to collateral damage in the course of achieving his (laudable) goal that he is not.
I think he's almost definitely evil, but he has a very specific plan in mind for Barry, and will do whatever it takes to make sure he gets him there.
