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8 Ways To Fix The Flash In Season 4

Let's just come out and say it: The Flash isn't quite what it used to be. Back in season 1, the show quickly rose to be many fans' favourite superhero TV series around due to its sense of fun and wholehearted embrace of comic book goodness. Somewhere along the line since then, however, The Flash has lost its way. Don't get us wrong, there's still much to enjoy about the show, but it is missing the spark that made it truly great in its debut year.
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Published: May 12, 2017 01:39 pm

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3) Enough With The Mystery Villains

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So far, each season of The Flash has had a very clear formula. A new evil speedster comes to town and terrorizes Central City (well, sort of. They generally turn up and threaten people a lot but don’t really do anything). There’s then a big mystery as Team Flash try to find out who’s under the mask. Then, in a shocking twist, it turns out to be one of the members of the team.

This worked great the first time around, of course, as the reveal that Harrison Wells was really Reverse-Flash was an excellent one as it really hit the team hard. Subsequent seasons have tried to repeat the trick, though, and it hasn’t quite landed since. Season 3’s problem was that it kept the mystery going for too long and many fans had already worked out what the surprise was going to be.

Going forwards, let’s hope that The Flash dispenses with the ‘mystery villain’ plotline in favour of a fresh approach to the Big Bad. The likes of Deathstroke or Damien Darhk over on Arrow prove you don’t need to keep the villain’s face hidden to make them an entertaining antagonist.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered. Since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester, he has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade. The MCU is his comfort place but, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is The Incredibles.
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