Whereas before you could just watch The Flash and understand everything, its increasingly clear that the creators want the full cinematic experience in order to reel people in to the full experience. With the inclusion of both Supergirl and Legends Of Tomorrow to the mix, Season 3 carelessly jumps between all four shows, regularly introducing key subplots or character conflicts in The Flash that are mysteriously resolved in another show or never spoken of again. Keeping the intrusion minimal and away from the larger plot points to keep the story cohesive and consistent to The Flash, the third season tampers with this formula to disastrous result. Piggybacking off the success Marvel have found with this technique in their films, The Flash managed to maintain its general shape by leapfrogging to Arrow and back again in years past. With a season full of reality bending and time travel, The Flash is as quick paced as ever and whilst this helps to keep the plot moving, it also lacks the same cohesive touch with characterisation this season is in desperate need of.Īlthough the first two seasons always had an element of complication injected into the plot, the third season takes it a step further by implementing the full DC cinematic universe and the multiverse into the story. Whilst this is transpiring, a new villain lurks in the shadows, a speed God named Savitar ( Andre Tricoteux) who’s hell-bent on destroying the new reality Barry finds himself in and ultimately killing a key member of the team in the process. Struggling to survive in this new world, Barry Allen finds himself trying to get back to the original world he left behind to disastrous consequences. Things aren’t quite what they seem though as the familiar returning cast of characters from the first two seasons are changed to align with their new personas in Flashpoint. Whilst still entertaining and gripping throughout, the rush to make the third season as big and brilliant as possible is The Flash’s ultimately downfall as it unintentionally becomes a little too convoluted for its own good.Īfter Barry’s ( Grant Gustin) traumatic fight with Zoom last year and rewriting history by stopping his mother from being killed by Reverse Flash, a subsequent new reality is created dubbed Flashpoint. Whilst the ideas are interesting and well acted throughout from the largely unchanged cast, the execution is sloppy subplots are left unresolved, the plot follows clichéd resolutions and it all feels messy compared to the tightly woven first two seasons.

With the DC universe expanding and the subsequent need to cross-over all the characters into other shows continues to grow, the third season of The Flash is disjointed and unevenly paced for much of its run time because of this.

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