Does Thawne Actually CARE About Nora?Īll this flows from Barry's spontaneous decision to return Nora to her own time, and tell her to stay there. Related: The Future Origins Of DC's New Reverse Flash Revealed 9. What more fitting weapon could Thawne find to use against Barry Allen than his own daughter? It's possible that this was Thawne's plan for Nora all along in The Flash season 5 to manipulate her into a place where she would choose to tap into the Negative Speed Force, and where she would become host to its powers. In The Flash: Rebirth, this was Thawne's masterplan to turn Barry into the ultimate weapon against his friends and family, to transform him into the one who killed everyone he loves. He became a host of its energies, and through him the Negative Speed Force attempted to consume all sources of Speed Force energy around him.
It's reminiscent of Geoff Johns' The Flash: Rebirth, which saw Barry Allen himself corrupted by the Negative Speed Force. When she returns to 2019, her eyes are blazing with a crimson light, and her usual lightning colors have been replaced with deadly red. The experience of tapping into the Negative Speed Force appears to have had a profound effect on Nora. Still, it seems rather an odd decision, in that viewers will be far more invested in the episode's sub-plots than in the main story. The show uses Caitlin's tortured family background to hold up a mirror to Barry, and make him realize just what a mess he's made of his own family. "Snow Pack" is an odd episode, only because both of these major stories are relegated to secondary status in an episode that focuses in on the relationship between Caitlin and her father.
Related: The Flash Reveals Barry's Last Moments From Crisis On Infinite Earths Meanwhile, back in the present, Future Cicada is hatching plans of her own - which presumably involve the deaths of a lot of metas. It looks as though Barry has played right into Thawne's hands. In "Snow Pack," the Flash's actions push Nora straight back to Thawne. Given Barry knows he's destined to disappear, he's basically told his daughter that he doesn't ever want to see her again, and that she can never have a relationship with the father she's always longed for. The truth about Nora has finally been revealed, and last week her father decided to take her back to her own time. The various plots are building to a climax at last. In theory, the threat of Cicada should be the A-plot in reality, the more intriguing mystery has always been Nora Allen and her partnership with Eobard Thawne. The Flash season 5 has been a strange one, carefully attempting to balance multiple overarching plots at once. The Flash season 5, episode 19, "Snow Pack," picks up the pace and raises a whole host of questions.
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