The Flash: Season 8 Episode 8 Review

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The Flash: Season 8, Episode 8 Review, titled «The Fire Next Time» is easily one of the best episodes of the current season. It has everything the best shows in the long-running series has to offer and even manages to do some of its textbook tricks a little better. However, it still feels like there are times when the writers cannot get out of their own way. If this episode of The Flash had managed to just stick to the main theme, if it had followed the «who dun it?» and the relationship between fathers and sons, it might have been one of the best episodes since the absolute heyday of the series. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a side story that didn't fit at all into the rest of the episode and it seemed to be forced. Luckily it was a small enough side story that those who were enjoying the rest of the story could just sort of tune out whenever the episode wandered off the point.

For the most part, all the best aspects of the show were back in this episode even in a way that last week's episode of The Flash missed. There was a villain that was powerful enough that it caused problems for the Scarlet Speedster. There was the involvement of the entire Team Flash. And there was the mystery of just who the villain is. There were also some really touching moments. That's notable because the CW show tends to get that wrong. However, they hit the mark this week.

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Because it wasn't very subtle, this week's episode of The Flash was all about the relationship between a father and son. More specifically it was about Barry Allen's dad (played by John Wesley Shipp sporadically throughout the show's run), who went to prison for a crime he didn't commit and a man that The Flash