The mystery speedster woman, who first appeared as a waiter at Barry and Iris' wedding is revealed to be Nora West-Allen, their daughter from the future. It would return several times to fight the Wally West incarnation of The Flash and Cyborg and also served in The Injustice Society. Unfortunately, the AI achieved sentience, went evil and created a holographic form similar to what we see in this episode. Mister Terrific personally designed the system, which was based around the reformed Clifford DeVoe's "thinking cap" technology.
Here, the Justice Society of America developed an artificial intelligence to oversee the state of the art security system for their new base.
The idea of The Thinker existing as an electronic artificial intelligence is taken directly from the JSA comics of David Goyer and Geoff Johns. The lighting and lens flare effects used to create the world inside The Thinker's brain are quite effective at establishing an otherworldly effect. The moment where Cisco and Harry hug as Harry burns out the last of his brain with the Thinking Cap to help Team Flash one last time is magical and a great bit of silent acting for both Tom Cavanagh and Carlos Valdez. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have Barry evacuate the site of the STAR Labs satellite impact and have Cisco focus on breaching away the larger mass of the satellite? (Of course then we wouldn't get to see the daddy/daughter sonic team punch.) Shouldn't Ralph have all of the powers that The Thinker stole from the other bus metas now? why didn't Barry just run for the Nexus dragging Ralph behind him in the first place? If that was DeVoe's ultimate goal, why not just take Barry's powers like he did The Bus Metas at literally any other time before now that Barry was at his mercy?Īs cool as Ralph and Barry fighting the hordes of Thinkers is.
In this episode, he claims it was because, with Barry now in his head, he had the capacity to take his powers and gain access to The Speed Force. In earlier episodes, The Thinker claimed that he had to leave The Flash alive for some reason.
That claim is directly contradicted by the flashbacks in 420, which revealed Clifford DeVoe to be a cynical, misanthropic Luddite. The Mechanic claims that there was a time when Clifford DeVoe was nothing but good and truly wanted to help the world. While what we've seen of the new mayor indicates that she is wholly obsessed with appearances and publicity, one would think the revelation of a murder victim appearing in court to defend the innocence of the man he once claimed was stalking him would be a bigger deal than some blog that only has a few thousand total views proposing that a respected college professor is a super-villain! While not really a continuity gaff, it is still worrying that the mayor of Central City is willing to give Barry Allen his job back because of information posted to an anonymous blog, but not on the recommendation of his former boss or the basis that he was completely innocent of the crime of which he was accused. The film Inception (projecting someone into another person's mind, directly referenced by Cisco), The Matrix trilogy of films (Ralph and Barry fighting multiple Thinker clones resembles Neo's fight with Agent Smith) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (referenced by Harry and Cisco with the famous "friend" speech between Kirk and Spock being quoted) and the Johns/Goyer run of JSA and The Flash comics of Geoff Johns (the holographic Thinker.)Ĭaptain Singh knows that Iris is behind The Flash Blog, despite it being established last week that she was posting to it anonymously. With The Enlightenment underway, Team Flash acquires an unexpected ally to help them stop The Thinker. For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here.
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