The Flash Season 2: 11 Big Questions We're Asking After 'Invincible'
"If the universe is with us, then how can we possibly lose?"
After last week's episode, the stage was really set for The Flash to go flat out in the final two episodes of its second season. Zoom had assembled an army of Earth-2 metahumans, Barry was back from his mind-opening trip into the Speed Force, and we were ready for war.
Unfortunately, in this penultimate instalment, Invincible, the series stalls yet again.
It's not that this was a bad episode, just one that wasted a few good ideas, and then completely rushed everything into its final moments as setup for the season finale.
The impending metahuman threat was dealt with fairly swiftly, or mostly anyway, save for Black Siren. One of the episode's highlights, it gave Katie Cassidy to have more fun than she may have ever managed on Arrow, and it was great to see her as Earth-2's villainous version of the Black Canary.
Elsewhere, though, Zoom was being his usual menacing-but-mysterious self, waiting in the shadows and never revealing his true plan (this wasn't it?) before cruelly striking right at the last moment. Barry, meanwhile, fresh from a trip to the Speed Force, was feeling confident to the point of arrogance, and ended up paying the price.
That arc felt out of character (as pretty much everyone in the show picked up on), while a couple of others were a little rushed (Caitlin recovered from PTSD awfully quickly), but the tragic ending dominates everything else in the end, and there's a lot to be resolved in the last episode.
11. Was That It?
Metapocalypse? Really?
Not that I'm questioning the name - heck, it's some reasonably solid wordplay, and the show has done worse - but rather the way it played out.
Last week's episode set this up as a large scale attack on Central City, one that would fully test the resources of Team Flash as all manner of metahumans were unleashed. Unfortunately we hardly got to see any of that, and it ended up being a relative breeze for Barry and co. to deal with.
We didn't really get to see any of the metahumans in action, save for Black Siren, and it didn't feel like there was any real threat. Sure, maybe it's just a 'distraction', but it's also a disappointment. And does this mean that none of those metahumans will appear again? Just how big is that STAR Labs prison anyway?