Welcome back to the new season of The Flash! With Iris putting everything to the side in order to focus on getting through, Cisco, Wally, and Joe deal with the metas in the city while Caitlin deals with her own issues.
A 66% success rate is not too much to brag about, so I am not sure why Wally seems so pleased with it. Granted, he is new and Caitlin wasn't around, but Cisco has been around for a while, so you'd think they might do better than that. I do think it would have been cool to show (or at least mention!) Nate working with them for that time, so I'm not sure why they didn't.
As for Cisco's plan, I have to back him on not telling everyone. If he had announced that he was working on a way to get Barry out, he would have raised everyone's hopes, and they did need to concentrate on protecting the city. That said, I can't understand why everyone seemed so surprised that he was working on it. I would have expected nothing less from him. I also get that Iris has been more or less coordinating the team, but her anger at Cisco for ignoring her instructions to not help Barry didn't really make a whole lot of sense. I know that Barry wanted her to move on, but I think that he just didn't want her to dwell on the past and to keep living without dropping into despair. As far as I can tell, Cisco never let trying to rescue Barry get in the way of the work they were doing, so it was a good thing.
I hope they explain why he was writing those weird symbols and babbling the way he was once he was free of the Speed Force. Did being in the Speed Force prison drive him temporarily insane? Or did it somehow temporarily overload his brain so he needed time to process it all? Or was it something else entirely? Given the fact that the season's villain is the Thinker, I suspect that what Barry was writing will ultimately be important.
And what is going on with Caitlin? She obviously still has her powers and Killer Frost is lurking within her, but she has found some way to suppress them both. Is she setting herself up for some sort of split personality? And why is she working with a group of (apparent) criminals? Lots and lots of questions on that front.
In terms of season openers for The Flash, this was not the best, but it was interesting. Barry is definitely faster and seems a lot more at peace with everything than he has been in the past. Hopefully he has learned from his past mistakes and will stop messing with time. I am curious to see how he will deal with a non-speedster foe. I am also curious about how he managed to break out of the cell he was in. That cell has held other speedsters, so it has to be something about him when he returned that enabled him to escape.
I do love the new graphics when the title flashed up at the beginning of the show. That was just nifty looking.
Until next week!
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