If I’m being honest, Barry and Iris’ relationship feels a little underwritten at times, so moments like this peppered throughout the series are key. Barry walks in at this moment and, in a particularly sweet moment of partnership between the two, tells Nora that he supports his wife’s decisions – past, present, and future. Iris tells her daughter that she trusts herself and that she stands by whatever decision she hasn’t made yet. In any case, stepping in to harm Nora for her own good made Iris realize that, if she put a dampener on Nora, it’s not to simply control her as she seems to think. Now a crime-scene investigator, his dedication to learn the truth about his mother's death drives him to follow up on. At 11, Barry Allen's life changed completely when his mother died in a freak accident and his innocent father was convicted of her murder. Perhaps it’s foreshadowing for a later date. Select an episode below or record this series. Cicada has been dampening powers with his dagger, but he was nowhere in sight and this seemed like something different. In an odd and unaddressed moment, it seemed like Barry stopped and then reversed within the speed force, allowing Nora to catch him and almost murder him. Before we get into how that moment resolved the episode’s plot, let’s talk for a second about XS catching up to Flash. When Spin uses her phone’s power to try to get Nora to kill Barry, Iris steps in and subdues her before she can take him down. Perhaps Nora’s crush might make a resurgence at some point? After all, she wasn’t a meta, but the satellite dusted Central City with dark matter, meaning now objects can carry meta properties, meaning the villains of the city were gifted a bunch of new toys just in time for the holidays.įurther reading – The Flash Season 5 Villain: Who is Cicada? While The Flash is likely best when the politics of the day don’t rear their ugly head, it’s certainly an area that could have used more fleshing out. As quipped above, it’s a very rich metaphor for a character’s superpower to be fake news that literally becomes reality. While all this family drama is coming out, the gang learns that Spin is manipulating people to create high-profile news stories (also known as tragedies) so that she can be first on the reporting.
That is to say, it’s understandable and you and I might very well do the same. Nora may be a flawed character in many ways, but her decision to come back in time suddenly feels less like a selfish speedster’s abuse of power and more like a lottery winner going a bit overboard on a new sports car. She only learned she was a metahuman less than a year ago, so we can’t fault her too much for not understanding the intricacies of time-travel and the multiverse. Suddenly Nora’s reckless disregard for the sanctity of the timeline is more understandable. However, it’s also the moment when Nora reveals that the reason she seems so bratty toward her mom has nothing to do with her dad’s disappearance, it’s the fact that she discovered Iris had planted a power dampener on her and didn’t allow her to know that she was a speedster until six months prior. Further reading – The Flash Season 5: Who is Spin?
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