The Flash Season 3: 5 Ups And 3 Downs From 'Magenta'
Ups...
5. Barry’s
Perception Of Time
The CW
This was only a small thing, a minor moment
in the larger spectrum of the Scarlet Speedster and his world, but it was
something that has never really been addressed by The Flash so far.
As Magenta opens, we find Barry Allen
eagerly waiting for the clock to hit 7pm so that he can speed off to his date
with Iris West. It’s 6:58pm, as Julian Albert takes great pleasure in pointing out
to Barry, and those 2 minutes feel like an absolute lifetime.
Now, we’ve all been in those situations
where minutes and hours drag more than you could ever believe possible, but
here we got to see it from the perspective of a speedster, of somebody whose very existence is now based around how fast everything moves. As Barry says,
seconds feel like minutes, minutes feel like hours, hours feel like days, etc.
It was only a miniscule moment from The
Flash, but it was one that was a nice touch and something that felt well placed
and helped to give viewers a unique insight into the mind's eye of the show’s titular hero.
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