They don't fight an evil speedster!
That may not seem like much, but after three straight seasons of the big bad on The Flash being a guy who is even faster than the self-styled 'fastest man alive', it's a real breath of fresh air for his enemy to something else. Anything else.
This is not to say that I don't have issues with the execution of this season. While the main enemy is finally different and that does help a lot, there are some underlying problems with the show and its direction. The Flash continues to be more po-faced and grim every year - the team barely actually saves anyone this year, outside of the season finale - and it has some wonky writing and some decidedly odd direction. I don't know what they were going for with Katee Sackhoff's guest character, but I certainly hope they missed the target: it's hard to imagine that the performance we see on screen was what they wanted.
(Note that I don't blame Ms Sackhoff for this: I have no doubt she delivered the performance that was requested of her ... I just think it was a bad request)
And then there is the new main villain himself, who I feel starts off with great promise but whose personality, backstory, decisions and schemes grow steadily less and less coherent over the course of these twenty-three episodes. It also doesn't help that having decided on using a villain whose key ability is his intelligence, the writers heavily rely to the tiresome old 'intellect and emotion are opposites' rubric. It's possible to have and/or value intellectual brilliance without being dismissive of or blind to the importance of personal connections, guys.
I did ultimately like this season better than I did the second, and would put it about the same level as the third. If you've enjoyed The Flash thus far, you should find stuff to like here.
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