The Flash Season 4 Thread

Pretty good episode. Dig the new suit. Glad they didn't try to drag out Barry's return.

Nice opener, if he can cry less than once every 2-3 episodes it would be a win for me.

Panabaker is foxy when she is "icy"

caitlin has a bangin body she was showing off the whole show.

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Well a lighter season kicks off tonight.

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I hope they keep it a lighter season, the show is better when it is lighter and "fun". Hopefully we've seen the last of emo and depressed Barry.

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Who is the villain supposed to be?

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In the comics, Clifford DeVoe is a genius inventor who used technology of his own creation to make his infamous “thinking cap” which gave him formidable mental powers. DeVoe was a member of the Injustice Society, as well as one of the Flash’s oldest foes. Originally introduced way back in 1943, he actually wasn’t a villain of Barry Allen’s Flash initially, but fought the original Scarlet Speedster, Jay Garrick.

So is this the version of the Thinker we are getting next season? Not so fast. (Ha, get it?) While DeVoe was the real name of the original Thinker, there have been several other villains to use that name in DC Comics‘ 80-year history. The second Thinker was Cliff Carmichael, who was primarily a Firestorm villain. Carmichael took the original Thinker’s “thinking cap” and tried to upgrade it, implanting microchip versions of the helmet into his own brain. The Cliff Carmichael version of the Thinker didn’t have as long a career in villainy, and died not long after joining the Suicide Squad.

There was a third Thinker named Des Conner, who was a telepath that seemingly didn’t have much of a connection to the previous two, who briefly fought Batman. Finally, the most recent Thinker was actually not a person at all, but an artificial intelligence. The Justice Society’s Mr. Terrific (now appearing on Arrow, as luck would have it) designed a computer system based on the original Thinker’s “Thinking Cap” technology, and modeled after his brain pattern. As always seems to happen, the A.I. system gained consciousness and took on a visual hologram form before wreaking havoc on Wally West’s Flash.

We know that the Thinker will carry the original character’s last name, DeVoe. He’ll probably have some kind of version of his “thinking cap” that gives him mental powers. But don’t be surprised if, over the course of a season, he upgrades the technology and implants microchips into his own brain like the second Thinker, and ultimately, downloads his consciousness into a computer system like Thinker #3, creating one unique “big bad” truly worthy of team Flash’s time.

So why is the Thinker worthy of being the main villain for a whole season of the Flash? Frankly, I think that the whole “Barry needs to be faster than person X” plot line has run (Ha again! its course after three years. We know Barry is ultimately the fastest man alive – the pre-opening credits always remind us of that. What Grant Gustin‘s version of the character needs now is someone who poses a challenge not to his physicality as the Flash, but to his intellect as Barry Allen. It’s something we haven’t really seen on the show before, and would be a welcome change of pace (Man, I’m full of ’em!). A baddie like the Thinker could be perfect for this.

Just watched, they should’ve killed off Iris last season. Interested with this new villain though

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they should’ve killed off Iris last season.

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That's like killing Lois Lane in a story about Superman.

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The Thinker

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Interesting. I was thinking he looked a lot like a certain chair-sitter from the New Gods area of the DCU...

Anybody have any thoughts as to what was going on with Caitlin and the sketchy dude from the bar?