![]() While Arrow viewers (and certainly those who watched the Elseworlds finale last year) may have an inkling that Oliver Queen has a plan to make sure Barry gets to live, Barry and Team Flash don’t know that, and this entire season is playing this right down the middle like the final days of Barry Allen, with no winking or nudging to the fact that we all know Barry will ultimately live to run another day. Every episode of this season has driven home the fact that not only is Barry destined to die, he MUST die in order for everyone else to live. In other words, we’ve known since episode 1 that Barry disappears (and probably dies) during Crisis on Infinite Earths. No, what I really find remarkable about this episode is how the writing never once makes it feel like Barry’s fate is anything other than set in stone. Sure, Cisco is trying to prove to himself that he’s worthy of becoming Team Flash leader when Barry is gone, but that’s obvious. But taken in context with everything else we’ve seen this season, with first Barry and then the rest of the team coming to terms with the fact that he’s going to die in Crisis on Infinite Earths, it takes on another meaning. And it could be taken as a convenient bit of wheel spinning. See, on its own, this episode still feels a little formulaic. So for all the little things that bug me about “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach” (the hacky “12 hours earlier” opening, the convenient “well, we’re off on a quick vacation” setup, the ol’ reliable “two people at odds with each other trapped in a cave in with oxygen running out” nonsense, etc) there’s plenty of others that make it work. I can’t remember the last time we had it this good with this show. We’re now five episodes into this season without a traditional “villain of the week” installment, and five consecutive episodes where there’s not a single ongoing b-plot that feels like it grinds the season’s story to a halt. ![]() We’re coming off what might be the best four episode stretch in the show’s history, so a detour like this one was bound to feel like a little deviation from the pace.īut as far as detours go, at least this one was fairly adventurous. While “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach” may very well be the weakest episode of The Flash season 6 so far, it’s tough to really hold that against it. ![]() ![]() Well, if you’re going to do a filler episode, this is how you do it. ![]()
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