The Flash Season 3: 7 Ups And 2 Downs From 'Paradox'
Downs
2. Again?
Really?
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I’m sure I wasn’t the only one letting out
a bemused sigh and slapping my forehead at a certain point of Paradox.
Yes, I’m talking about Barry Allen wanting
to go back in time again. I know, it
was ridiculous, it was stupid, and it made Barry look selfish, thoughtless, and
as if he’d learnt absolutely nothing from all of his previous time-travel
jaunts.
To get this straight, Barry had created a
whole other timeline by deciding to go back in time and save his mother. With
Reverse-Flash pretty much laughing in Barry’s face at this decision, the Sultan
of Speed had to make the heartbreaking decision to let his nemesis once more
kill his mother in order to right the timeline after realizing that his
travelling back in time had caused too much chaos.
So, you’d think the last thing that you’d
want to be doing from here on out is messing with the timeline and altering the
past again, right? Right? Wrong!
When Barry realises that this new new present day has Iris and Joe not
speaking, and that Cisco can’t stand Barry, the Fastest Man Alive decides that
the best way to easily fix this is to once more go back in time.
No. Just… just… no. Did you learn nothing?!
Luckily, Jay Garrick would turn up in the
nick of time to stop Barry from making another boneheaded decision.
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