just watched the season premiere of The Flash entitled The Man who saved Central City and I can tell you right away that this was the weakest episode they have put out so far.I feared that something like this might happen. When you create a huge problem you can't simply avoid it and not address it anymore and move on but this is exactly what this episode did. I can't even mention one positive aspect about this episode, so let's only mention the negatives.
1. Atom Smasher was horribly presented and treated, he wasn't at all memorable and it is important to start off your season with a good villain. True, we did hear him dropping the name Zoom before he died but a villain featured on the very first episode of the second season needs to be better.
2. Why would Flash accept the keys to city if he knows that he's the reason why it got destroyed? Why would he show up and allow people to film and photograph him without even disguising himself? Doesn't he know that there are facial recognition softwares now?
3. For as much as I love Danielle Panabaker and her character, I also thought that she should have reacted differently to the death of Ronnie and she should have been devastated by it but it looked like she couldn't care less
4. Speaking of Ronnie, I thought that the way they got rid of Robbie Amell was just an example of the poor writing of this episode. I get that Amell had to go but having him leave like this wasn't a good choice. It was fun the first time around when they discovered that Ronnie hadn't actually died but this time around it is simply going to be repetitive and boring when and if they decide to bring him back
5. And obviously I saved the worst for last, when Eddie killed himself and therefore erased Eobard Thawne from existence doesn't that mean that Eobard was never born and therefore never went back in time to kill Norah and Harrison Wells? If he was truly erased from existence how do people remember him? An argument could be made that the singularity was the direct consequence of the timeline being changed and by closing the black hole everything stayed the same even though it wasn't supposed to. I would have been fine if they had just explained it but it seems that this series is making a habit out of not addressing the elephant in the room.
Overall, horrible episode, certainly not the right way to kick off the second season. I'll admit though that it was cool seeing Jay Garrick appear and it would have been awesome if that scene had not been spoiled by the trailers.
Let me know what you think down below
-theheroblogger
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