The Flash season 3 episode 21 recap
In our last episode, we finally found out that Savitar —
the speedster robot god — was actually Evil Barry Allen from the future.
Why and how? Well, tonight we start getting some of those terrible
pieces put together. Turns out that a time remnant version of Barry
basically gets created as part of the effort to stop Savitar ... in the
future. This time remnant Barry is basically treated as an outcast
because he's both required to defeat Savitar but also becomes Savitar,
and he's obviously super bummed about that.
So he makes a big evil robot suit and becomes his
destiny. Yeah, this is all bad, but here's the work around that makes
sense: The more time Barry spends stupidly messing up Time, the less
Time can be controlled. Barry made so many bad Time Choices, Barry
essentially ruined time. You know what? Yup, I buy it. I spent three
years yelling at Barry for being bad at this, and finally even time
ttself has to agree.
Cool.
As part of a not-that-well-thought-out plan, the team
decides to destroy Barry's ability to remember things moving forward, as
they create a plan to stop Savitar, hoping this means that future Barry
won't be able to beat them to the punch. The result is that Barry
accidentally gets an entire memory wipe, and holy cow we have an actual
Fun Flash Episode in ways we haven't touched since season one.
Barry is delightfully awkward about not knowing his own
name, the color of the skin of his brother, who he is romantically
linked to, and even his super powers. The result is that everyone else
in Team Flash gets to project their hopes and beliefs for Barry back
onto him, while he seems to be dealing with a self-inflicted disaster
on-par with the greatest meta villainy.
Also, Barry makes fun of his own headshots. We've got Meta, folks.
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