The Flash Season 8 Is Missing 1 Thing That Made Earlier Seasons Good
The Flash season 8 is missing one thing that made earlier seasons good. The Flash has been The CW’s flagship series for several years now and, after a mass cancellation spree by the network, is one of the last (and longest running) Arrowverse shows standing. While The Flash has longevity on its side, the same cannot be said for the superhero series’ dwindling creativity with storylines. Aside from that, the series has lost sight of one of the primary storytelling aspects and it has become all the more glaring an issue in season 8.
The Flash season 8 began in a unique way from previous seasons. It kicked off the season with a five-episode special event called “Armageddon,” which saw Barry Allen confronted by the alien villain Despero and nemesis Reverse-Flash in an interconnected storyline. The five-episode arc felt fresh and interesting. Since then, The Flash season 8 introduced Deathstorm, an entity created at the moment of Ronnie’s death and absorption into the singularity from the season 1 finale, and continued developing Iris' time sickness subplot.
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The interlude episodes — which air between major arcs in showrunner Eric Wallace’s “Graphic Novel” sections of The Flash — certainly slow down the momentum of the narrative. But what the Arrowverse series has been without in quite some time is urgency. None of the story arcs, no matter how interesting, feel like they’re pushing forward at a good, swift pace. Iris was infected with time sickness in season 7 and yet there have been little answers as to why she got it. What’s more, Iris has disappeared entirely from the timeline, stuck somewhere in the Still Force, but Barry and the rest of Team
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