His name is Eobard Thawne, descendant of Eddie Thawne. We know that Harrison Wells is from the future. It’s a brilliant use of dramatic irony, where the audience knows things the characters don’t know. You see, The Flash just blew everything up - all of its major storylines and secrets - by telling us a major backstory and advancing the plot, only to have that plot reset. The Flash is using time travel to complicate the “cake and eat it too” device and it’s really trying to have its cake, eat it and serve us another cake that tastes awfully familiar, if you are still following my analogy. The Flash Travels Back in Time and It Changes Everything The CW Developing Arrow/ Flash Spin-Off with Brandon Routh and More > “What if” and “what is” cannot work in a serialized format. The result? It jumped the shark and I jumped from watching that show in a heartbeat. Homeland is a perfect example of this: it basically repeats the other choice from its first season finale in its second one of the what-if conundrum. When television writers decide to serialize these “cake and eat it too” devices, it’s often disastrous. It’s a fantastic, one-off episode (that has a cross-over later in the season), but it’s perfect because it’s one-and-done.
A classic example of this is an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer called “The Wish,” where we see what Sunnydale would have looked like if Buffy never came to town. Often, this scenario works best in self-contained episodes. These are often episodes that contain alternate universes. This is what I will call “the have your cake and eat it too” device. When a television show shows us “what if?” in comparison to “what is?” then it can get interesting. Television (and storytelling in general) has the ability to show us “what if?” What if this happened, what if that happened? These are episodes. The CW Sets 2015 Season Finale Dates for The Flash and More >
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Are you still there with my analogy? Let me explain, with some classic TV history, what I’m talking about (and if this can work). It’s almost like The Flash just decided to dump all of the resolutions to their storylines in one episode, only for them to pull the rug out from under the carpet.Ĭan you have your cake and eat it too? The Flash wants us to have its cake and eat it too and then throw it up and make us eat a different cake that tastes slightly different.
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