Hello everyone and welcome to another Flash catchup post, this time looking at season 4 episode 15, Enter Flashtime. This episode was different…and I liked it. It deserves applause for its creativity and uniqueness as it set most of the episode within less than a second of regular time. It is a concept that few other shows could do and it had you engaged throughout as they actually made the stakes feel very high and very real. It worked in its simplicity: there wasn’t magic or meta-humans or time bending speedster rivals. It was a bomb that was nuclear and would have killed a lot of people set off by a crazy activist turned terrorist. It was as real a villain as you are going to get in Flash and it felt more dangerous than many of the super powered villains that the Scarlet Speedster has battled.

We also saw the returns of not one but two Speedsters with Jessie Quick and Jay Garrett both coming to help out. It hurts me to say that Jay was pretty useless here but his return seemed more to set up a future debuting Speedster who he is training. Jessie on the other hand was a bit more helpful but stil succumbed to freezing, leaving Barry all alone. She made more of an impact in her final scene with Harry which actually got me feeling a tad emotional. You took Harry’s side which I’m not sure if you were meant to, but it was nice to see them come to a somewhat mutual understanding over Harry’s feelings towards his wife’s death.

I liked how they answered questions like why can’t Cisco breach it away within the episode. The excuse for not running time was a bit iffy but at least they bought it up. I was hoping to see Devoe and Flash team up to stop it with the fastest man alive and the fastest mind alive coming together to save the city as Devoe does not want to die. Instead we got the speedforce-ball thing which was fine and made the episode more of a stand-alone.

I only have two real nitpicks: how can Jessie run to different Earths while in Flash time if Cisco can’t open breaches and couldn’t she have just opened a portal to a barren earth? And my other thing was surely now Barry can never be hit or slower than anything ever as he was going ridiculously fast all episode and was put over strongly as the fastest of the Speedsters. He should never get hit in a fight again (even though he will as this show has no consistency).

Overall though I very much enjoyed it and can say that is one of favourite episodes of the season.

DD Rating: 8.5/10