The Flash: Season 8 Episode 12 Review

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This week's episode of The Flash saw the crew doing what they do best. They fought a big bad a little bit and they spent some time in the lab trying to figure out just how to stop something that was a little too powerful than they could deal with. It's not a stretch to say that this particular show is always at its best when that happens to be the situation. The Flash is so powered up in this show that it can feel like it's quite hard for a villain to show up that could actually go toe-to-toe with him. The season usually has a couple of villains, or sometimes even just one villain that is superpowered himself to the point where he can't simply be dispatched in one episode.

The show did that briefly when it came to Despero, though in the end, he seemed more annoying than so overpowered that the group couldn't handle him. There were little fights here and there, but while Flash and the rest of his group would often claim that he was simply too strong to deal with, he always seemed like someone who sooner or later wasn't going to measure up.

The Flash Gets At Least One More Season With Most Of Its Original Cast

Episode 11 of The Flash really introduced the first villain this season that has looked like he offers something no one else that Barry Allen and company have fought against this year. Death Storm, who is apparently some sort of alien being that believes he's an evil or reborn version of Fire Storm has shown that he's plenty powerful to handle whatever is thrown at him. Not only has he confounded the group when they were trying to figure out just what he was, but there also doesn't appear to be any real way to fight him at this point.

There is also something sort of interesting behind the idea that Death Storm might