Team Flash encounters Killer Frost (Danielle Panabaker) or as her true identity, Caitlin Snow. Barry and his team’s priority is finding and protecting her, in hopes to help her make the trap earlier.īut with Tracy being such an important game changer for the future, Barry and his team aren’t alone in the search. Not exactly the image they were expecting from the future theoretical physicist that trapped Savitar in the Speed Force. Well, at least the present her, which is a frustrated and defeated grad student. Tracy Brand As The Ray Of HopeĪfter Barry’s trip to 2024, Team flash heads out to find their hope in defeating Savitar- Tracy Brand (Anne Dudek). What else would a declaration from Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) saying “I know who you are” to Savitar mean otherwise? But at least the reveal came, even after all the complaints that it came too late in the season. It’s immediately established in the beginning of the episode that the revelation is indeed going to happen. It would also be repetitive to see Barry lamenting over his choices it's basically be the major motif of seasons 1 & 2, and seeing Grant Gustin brood over heroism and/or love again isn't exactly high on fans' wish list.The big unmasking is finally here in Season 3, Episode 20’s “I Know Who You Are” episode on “The Flash.” All the hype is quenched as all fan theories about Savitar’s true identity is put to rest after the big “who’s under the armor” reveal. Such a reveal would also send the show into an official rut, in which another season-long villain mystery ends in the "reveal" that a close friend is the villain. The Negative: Having Savitar be a future version of Barry Allen would be utterly predictable - which is a crime The Flash has already committed (with its reveal that Harrison Wells was Reverse-Flash in season 1). The Flash always needs something to brood over - and season 4's drama could conceivably be Barry dealing with his fear of connecting with anyone, or trusting in his own heroism. It would also set up a larger conflict for the show: Barry having to deal with the fact that he's not as purely heroic as he once thought - and that he himself is as big a danger to the world as any of the foes he's faced. The thought that Barry himself could murder Iris so violently (perhaps to catalyze his own transformation into Savitar) would drastically affect the character dynamics - even if (when?) Savitar is defeated. The Positive: On the one hand, having Barry be Savitar, would be a major emotional punch to all the characters on Team Flash - including Barry himself. The larger question in all this is: How would the reveal that Barry is Savitar affect the storyline of The Flash, and its characters? It's a storyline that has already played out in the comics: the DC Comics story arc "Out of Time" featured a Future Flash who wanted to kill his younger self, in order to fix all the damage he'd done to the Speed Force. It would explain Killer Frost's reaction at the end of the episode: seeing an older Barry having himself made the transformation into a villain (his "true" self) would probably be enough to inspire Killer Frost to follow in his footsteps. The version of Barry we meet in "The Once and Future Flash" is also a potential clue: Up until now, there has always been an underlying heroism to Barry Allen however, the Barry we saw eight years in the future was headed down a dark, and isolated path - one that could conceivably end with him deciding to surrender to the inevitable, and become Savitar. Labs, to the ramifications of Flashpoint - or the warning that Firestorm team Jefferson Jackson and Martin Stein discovered aboard the Waverider during the "Invasion!" event (that they not even trust Barry himself) - there have been repeated clues that Barry's various misuses of time travel eventually catch up to him. The Flash has been playing with the idea of Barry's career as a superhero across several epochs, ever since season 1.įrom the Final Crisis teases in Eobard Thawne's secret room inside S.T.A.R.
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