It’s all very poorly explained and nonsensical, and for those of us – like Barry, as it turns out – who always wanted to meet this particular Wells, ehhhh, joke’s on us, because now I kind of wish we hadn’t.
Instead, he’s some poorly explained combination of the original, mixed with pieces of all the other Wellses from across the multiverse, with some time travel dust on top. The return of Harrison Wells also turns out to be something of a disappointment, precisely because he’s not entirely the original Wells. Yet, the emotional beats help carry the day to something that generally feels satisfying, particularly if you don’t look too closely at how or why pretty much anything actually happens. Season enders have never really been this show’s strong suit, and this hour is no different, an episode that leans fully into the show’s most aggressively saccharine tendencies and solves complicated problems using little more than the power of love and occasional random handwaving.
When we initially learned that the last three episodes of The Flash’sSeason 6 would be rolled over into its seventh, some of us (read: me) were hopeful that it might serve as an impetus to rethink Season 7 entirely and build these additional installments into some sort of larger story that worked as a cohesive whole.īut, unfortunately, it’s very obvious that “Mother” was meant to serve as The Flash’s sixth season finale – for all the good and ill that designation entails.