Board Thread:The Flash episode discussions/@comment-9346948-20150401011244/@comment-16747922-20150410015518

HERE. WE. ARE. THE CATCHUP IS COMPLETE. OH BOY!!!! Now, I'll admit despite Mark Hamill being in the episode, I wasn't quite as "pumped" for it as I was Out of Time. Thankfully, this episode lived up to all that anticipation.

This episode w as truly Tom Cavanagh's episode to shine. The whole Tess Morgan storyline was interesting to me since the beginning, since Wells has never been very expressive as a human being. Sure, Cavanagh brings this warmth to his character and balances it out with his sinister alter-ego, but we're mostly seeing Wells with the same confident and somewhat robotic mannerisms he keeps showing. He's still a very endearing character for what he does, but as a human being, who is he on the inside? Did the tragedy change him to be a little more stoic or disregarding of human life?

So when we cut back to Wells and his beautiful wife on the beach, I was invested in seeing Wells as a human being. He had mentioned being "married to his work as much as he was married to Tess", and I loved seeing the conception of STAR Labs. The whole "you are the star I see" line was a bit hammy but fit for scientists somehow, and I liked Wells' delivery of "that's gonna get you kissed". Cavanagh's delivery was still rather casual but you could see that human side in him. I think Wells is just better defined by those around him.

Well, until that goddamn car crash. That was quite brutal. And here's where I truly gasped. Wells screaming for his wife was something else. It was just profound. He looked and sounded genuinely horrified. The acting was just perfect. Thawne comes and tells Wells the same thing he told Cisco... before THROWING HIM OUT OF THE CAR, AND ABSORBING HIS BODY. Now, I am a little bit upset that all this while it's actually been Thawne, and for the first time I really feel what it's like when a nice guy like Wells is lying. It's not Wells. But thankfully, THANKFULLY, there once was indeed a Harrison Wells with the warmth and compassion shown by Tom Cavanagh's character.