After Kadabra is plagued by dreams of the family he never had, a convenient memory-restoring device by Cisco that Kadabra finds in the Flash Museum thus tips Kadabra off to the fact that he’s living in a new universe, with one of the innumerable changes to Earth-Prime’s history being that Kadabra’s wife and child no longer exist. Apparently, this is because Kadabra somehow escaped execution, went back to the 64th Century, and found a wife, even having a son, following his previous encounter with Team Flash… But that was on the Pre-Crisis Earth-1, The Flash’s former home universe that was destroyed during Crisis on Infinite Earths. This episode even brings back a high-profile Flash villain to boot, that being David Dastmalchian’s Abra Kadabra! Kadabra has had disappointingly little presence on The Flash up to this point, making his previous appearance all the way back during Season 3, where he was used to foreshadow Season 4’s big bad, Clifford DeVoe/The Thinker. The Flash is already showing plenty of signs of recovery in this episode, as Barry and Iris approach their latest bit of trauma with genuinely believable and relatable challenges. Perhaps the show really did just need to move on from the Mirror Monarch storyline. This already serves as a strong, emotionally-driven core plot for both Barry and Iris, restoring a lot of The Flash’s character appeal after a frustratingly weak conclusion to Eva McCulloch’s villainous campaign. This presents an interesting new idea for the show’s lead characters, most notably Barry and Iris, who must cope with the fact that Iris spent a long while in the MirrorVerse, while Barry failed to notice that his spouse had been replaced by a duplicate.īarry has tried to respond to this emotional trauma by spoiling Iris more than ever, while Iris finds herself refusing to acknowledge what she felt after her time in the MirrorVerse, something that eventually provokes Allegra to speak up about Iris’ sub-par MirrorVerse reporting. “Central City Strong” leans into the idea that barely any time has passed since Eva/Mirror Monarch was stopped from replacing everyone in Central City with a MirrorVerse duplicate, now showcasing the citizens of Central City, along with Team Flash, rebuilding and recovering from their trauma pretty much in real time, rather than The CW’s usual formula of picking up a new season of The Flash after several months have passed both in-universe and in the real world. Fortunately, now that ‘Mirror Monarch’ has returned to the MirrorVerse, and the latest threat to Central City has thus been averted, The Flash can start moving on to a different storyline and a different threat, even with the ranks of Team Flash undergoing a bit of a shuffle, following the loss of Ralph and Wells. This left the show’s otherwise superb Eva McCulloch storyline ending on a very sour note over the past three weeks, as Season 6’s planned finale failed to translate into being a satisfying premiere for Season 7. The Flash has had a rough start to Season 7 so far, possibly due to its former plans for Season 6’s conclusion being considerably compromised by COVID-19 complications. NOTE: Full spoilers for this episode of, “The Flash”, including a major character death, are present in this review
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