Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-26452493-20170524131004/@comment-13895380-20170527180023

I'm more interested in who was in the speed force prison before Savitar. Throughout this season, the speed force prison was treated as something integral to the speed force, which needs to be occupied for balance to remain in the speed force. That means a speedster must have been there before Savitar. Else, it means that Barry created the speed force prison himself when he first beat Savitar; in that case, I don't see why the speed force prison is so significant to the speed force and why the speed force has taken upon itself to enforce rules for something it didn't create.

I hope they explain the concept of the speed force prison much better in the next season.

An easy solution is to get an evil speedster to replace Barry or get Jay Garrick to go back in, or convince the speed force to let Barry go (e.g. they forgive him for Flashpoint), or get Cisco,Tracey and/or Earth 2 Wells to randomly create a device that can release Barry while stabilizing the speed force (wouldn't put it past the writers to do something like this LOL).