The Flash Season 8 Episode 20 Review

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When it comes to this eighth season of The Flash, perhaps someone should have run back in time and told the writers they needed to start over and come up with some better ideas for this 20-episode run. The series has been struggling from a lack of direction for most of the last year and it appears that this season finale was the obvious endpoint for that lack of direction. The show saw many a villain pop up and then get left in the dust starting from the very lackluster season premiere of The Flash that kicked off with a miniseries.

It turns out that starting out the season in a kind of self-contained story bubble should have been a big warning that the writing staff didn't really know what it wanted to do over the course of The Flash's eighth year on the CW. The one thing that the show did seem to settle on, is that it was going to just keep rehashing some of the same plot points it used in the last few seasons. Far too much of this season was about The Reverse-Flash or the Speed Force, or time travel or «The Forces» of the universe that showed up a year ago. And if the season didn't manage to rehash all of those things enough, it turns out the season finale managed to rehash all of those same story beats in one episode.

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This episode of The Flash picked up immediately after last week left off, by bringing back the Tom Cavanaugh version of Eobard Thawne (which it has now done so often that audiences have likely lost count.) In fact, between this episode and the last, the Reverse-Flash died and was brought back just a couple of times alone. While there are some hints that this might have finally been the last time that Eobard Thawne made an appearance, that doesn't feel like it's actually