I honestly hope that's what's happening here, as I've always been a sucker for "villain redemption" stories. So what do we think about Thawne here? The episode goes to great lengths to make it look like he genuinely cares about his "little runner" Nora, and is attempting to atone for a lifetime of misdeeds. That would make her at least twenty five years old in 2049. Although we don't yet know her exact date of birth, it has to be sometime between 2020 (since Iris isn't pregnant yet) and 2024 (when Barry disappears in the Crisis. While I agree that Nora often acts like a whiny teen, anyone who thought she was one is reeeeally bad at math. Disappointing!įor some reason, many fans of The Flash were under the impression that Nora was a teenager, and were shocked when this episode confirmed the fact that she's well into her twenties. Fans of the show were beside themselves, anxiously awaiting the live-action appearance of the character.Īnnnnnnd then he finally shows up, but he's a one-off villain of the week and is defeated by a tiny girl who just got her powers. That seems unlikely.įor weeks before this episode aired, the internet was abuzz with the news that it would feature the debut of Godspeed, an awesome new speedster character from the comics.
I'll get into it in detail below, but basically this episode would have us believe that she learns how to time travel, Thawne teaches her his time language, she creates a costume and then visits various members of Team Flash in the past, all in the space of about half an hour.
Too bad she didn't have some better material to work with.Īs I mentioned above, there's a MASSIVE plot hole in this episode involving Nora becoming XS. She does a pretty good job too, considering it's her first time in the director's chair. On the plus side, this episode was directed by Danielle Pannabaker, aka Caitlin Snow.
Unfortunately it's marred somewhat by budget limitations, a MAJOR problem with the sequence of events of said origina and the waste of what could have been an awesome Big Bad for a future season/ This week on The Flash we get a fair to middling episode that finally details Nora's origin story.