The Flash Season 2: 10 Big Questions We're Asking After 'The Runaway Dinosaur'

If there's a guaranteed way for The Flash to pull at your heartstrings, it's through Nora Allen. Barry's mother, and her death, was the focus of the Season 1 finale, and she's introduced here for a similarly emotional impact.

It did at first seem like a strange decision to fall back on this, given it was covered so much in the finale, and also the previous episodes hadn't really built up to it that much. But at the same time, her death defines so much of Barry and the Flash, and the scene here plays out so well, that it totally ends up working. That part when Barry recited the book to her? May have got something in my eye right at that moment. Weird.

This is the second time the show has really went into this territory now though, albeit in a reversal of how it happened in Season 1 (there it was after the threat, now it's getting it out of the way before the final battle). There's no doubt it's still a major part of Barry, but will the show go there a third time, or have we seen the last of Nora Allen?