As The Flash starts to wrap up its eighth season, it appears that the CW show is bound and determined to stay out of doing anything fresh and new and instead is going to continue to bring back old enemies so that Barry can lose his temper a few more times. To be clear, there is a way the show can make the return of some of Barry Allen's old enemies interesting. In fact, last week's episode of The Flash featured a return of Tom Cavanaugh's Eoabard Thawne, and it was actually some of the best television of the season. As has been the problem for this show for far too long, the series went to the well once too often this week.
While Cavanaugh's Reverse-Flash is an interesting one mainly because he's seemingly gone full psycho killer, the show decided it couldn't just have one. Instead, it turns out that the original Thawne also needed to make another appearance. And the rest of the show featured Barry trying to come to terms with an old enemy who might not be an enemy at all. Once again, there are some ways that this episode of The Flash could have carried out the idea of old enemies no longer being enemies, but the continued return of the same old enemies over and over and over just seems like a lack of imagination.
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The episode starts with Barry running along with the professor who has found a way to give herself speed, at least for a smidgen of time. However, it turns out that there is definitely some kind of catch, when she accidentally shoots Barry with some of her lightning and it becomes known quickly that she can't control her powers. This is also where any semblance of an interesting storyline starts to go off the rails. Of course, maybe that's because even
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