Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-7890302-20171011001439/@comment-27700324-20171012002446

Kaestal wrote: I did enjoy the episode, I felt the theme of rebirth was appreciated as was Happy-Barry when he regained his sanity. The special effects were also impressive compared to the norm of Arrowverse.

My biggest complaint about this episode is simple, Barry came out of his speech issue far too quickly for my liking. To me it should've been a multi-episode arc of him processing whatever information he gained while in the Speed Force with Cisco gradually learning to translate what he was writing correctly; have the first translation be incorrect and needing refinement.

Also Iris was sorta weird about not wanting the love of her life to be brought back from the Cosmic Super Prison, but she did bring up a few good points.

They really didn't know if retrieving him would cause a Speed Storm again.

And onto my second actual complaint, how the hell is the Speed Force too stupid to not recognize the difference between Barry's hair (or whatever DNA sample they used) and a full person? I can only explain this as the Speed Force just letting him go to deal with whatever's about to happen.

I'm curious about what he saw in this journey into the Speed Force, maybe a centuries-long therapy session? A Smallville Fortress of Solitude-style information dump? Who knows, both could've been done to make him free from the darkness which was holding him down while also making his speech really, really out of whack to everyone else.

TL;DR, I liked the episode, had a few iffy parts to me, want to see more.

Season start has just enough questions to spark that desire to learn more about it.

I give it 2 World-Ending Shitstorms out of 3. Well Barry being affected by the Speed Force isn't over as the creators have said.