Except Barry didn't get what the Speedforce was saying at all, and assumed he would have no more tragedy. And then his Dad died. I mean through all of this, he had at least had Henry to tie him to the past. Now Henry's dead, and there's some dude from another Earth who's the spitting image of Henry but is a superhero - I think it's fair to say Barry is beyond fucked up and depressed at this point and isn't thinking as rationally as posters on a message board.
He also doesn't have the benefit of using TV Tropes to keep track of his character development during Season Two.
Alright. Perhaps I am not very clear with this, but my problem is not Barry's irrationality (although that can hurt too, but not to the point of me actively not enjoying the show, opposed to S1 finale which properly made me cry, easily).
My problem is that the show's writers write ALL characters as dumb as physically possible.
Just look at what they did.
"Lets go against Zoom"
"Lets lock up barry"
"Oh barry, you cant fight for revenge, it wont work (it did)"
"Oh sorry for locking you up, buT WE ARE FULLY SUPPORTING YOU THOUGH"
Either EVERYONE is fully irrational or the writers could not come up with any proper finale for this season. Let me reiterate: In Arrow S3, Laurel's all problems were NOT the focal points of the show, and YET people did not tolerate her failings (which I did. It was a good character Arc). What they did to Barry now is the equivalent of letting Laurel go back to alcoholism before approving on Olicity and
. Oh, and also that being the *main* point of the show - since Flash's main hero should be Barry.
Flash used to be clever in ways that was surprising. This episode shows that it is not clever anymore. Simple as that. And yeah, that is very painful. Like with modern Doctor Who episodes, the solutions (time remnant usage, for example) are not earned honestly, they just come to save the day. Oh, and Barry, you shall not kill? Because...comic book rules? Oh, luckily the Wraiths are just popping in to kill for you. That is good, we can now all sleep at night.
Flash S1 was MUCH more clever than this.
If anyrhing, this season should have been Flashpoint over the multiverse. Barry is just regressing as a character at this point at the expense of the writers needing a hook for S3. I wouldn't even be half as upset if they dedicated an extra episode this season to Barry being destroyed by Henry dying. Like if it wasn't rushed for the finale, his turmoil could have actually unfolded over an entire episode instead of 15 minutes. We never really had time to feel what he was feeling. Either Zoom should have won or Barry should have gone back in time and stopped Zooms mother from being killed. I'm glad they left the opportunity for the multiverse to exist but if Flashpoint is how they plan to merge Supergirl than they can piss off after wasting a perfectly good fucking Crisis scenario. Easily the worst kind of fanservice is where you don't actually follow through on it.
Exactly.
