The Flash Season 7 ends as it lived, with a mixed-bag finale that is generally entertaining to watch, but that doesn’t make much sense if you look at it too closely. “Heart of the Matter, Part 2” gives us some highly entertaining visuals (the Flash family runs together at last!) and the surprising return of an old enemy (welp, we made it almost two entire seasons without Eobard Thawne!), but, on the whole, this isn’t an hour that feels like a conclusion that’s especially worthy of the story that kicked off last week.
Even though The Flash has featured a speedster as the main villain previously, the Godspeed war stood out for one main reason: As it became an all-hands-on-deck situation, Barry recruited several speedsters like Jay Garrick, Impulse, and XS to help fight the Godspeed army. Due to the enormous threat that Godspeed became, the arc resulted in being the biggest Flash Family storyline of the series so far. After Godspeed was defeated, Barry and Iris renewed their vows in a charming ceremony with friends and family; however, one major plot thread was left hanging by the finale's end.
Following the cliffhanger in the 150th episode, The Flash season 7 finale expanded upon August Heart's true motives as he wanted to possess organic speed. The only way to stop the Godspeed clones from terrorizing Central City was if Barry gave August what he demanded. After the Flash Family tried to stop the clones, Barry ended up giving August what he wanted, but Godspeed went back on his promise in true villain fashion. While August had organic speed in his system, Barry and Iris put plan B into motion to stop the psychotic speedster: using the Negative Speed Force.
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Fisher’s Impulse has lived up to his character’s name throughout this two-parter, rushing into danger whenever the opportunity presents itself. He unwisely tries to rescue John Wesley Shipp’s Jay Garrick from the clutches of the Godspeeds and ends up in a coma for his trouble, an injury that’s only healed thanks to the convenient intervention of the Speed Force herself.
While Barry and Godspeed duked it out, Eobard Thawne, a.k.a. the Reverse-Flash, reemerged. Unlike their past encounters, The Flash and Reverse-Flash had to put aside their differences in order to fight Godspeed together as a team. Godspeed created a lightsaber-like weapon made from Speed Force energy and eventually stabbed Godspeed, who did survive but was locked up at Iron Heights, bringing the Civil War to an end.
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hey it’s the finale, that means that they’ll finally give us a good fight scene with Godspeed to wrap things up, right? Right? Nope. When the entire Flash Family runs up to a massive group of Godspeeds, it seemed like a prime time for an awesome fight, but they all went out like chumps when the convenient writing made it so that the villains were suddenly sapping the speed out of Team Flash and the Speed Force, with the reason basically being “just cause.” And then the final fight scene – which sees Barry temporarily battle Godspeed one-on-one – turns into a war with lightsabers.
Oh, and Thawne is back. It makes absolutely no sense but Tom Cavanagh steals the show in the scenes that he’s in and shows exactly why the comparison of Godspeed to Thawne was embarrassing.
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