Where his character failed was the lack of punch to many of his monologues. Once he hijacked Ralph’s body, that confidence went through the roof and Sandilands’s villainous strut offered the presence of an unlikable and formidable black hat.
Neil Sandilands plays his character with an arrogance that, while not likable, is somewhat admirable. The Thinker’s demise, though we all knew was going to happen was just as underwhelming as the villain himself. What it does not do is tell a streamlined narrative or even a true ‘holy crap’ moment, a la Supernatural’s Season 13 cliffhanger. It’s a halfway decent season ender that expertly sets the table for next year’s Central City shenanigans and even delivers a few heartfelt moments. That’s not to say that “We are the Flash” is a failure. Sure, on the surface, three plotlines that are so intimately interconnected wouldn’t seem to be an overload but it’s the chaotic nature of the script that takes away from what could have been an epic conclusion of the Thinker arc. In the first five minutes, we have the first consequences of the Enlightenment assaulting Central City (and, presumably, the world), Cecile going into labor, and Marlize offering the solution to stopping DeVoe-having Barry enter his mind and finding the good within him. Unfortunately, it’s also obvious that there’s just too much going on and there’s no way a satisfyingly coherent story will be told. Dom Toretta would be proud.įrom the start, this season’s The Flash finale seems as if it’s loaded for bear, ready to deliver the goods on a hard hitting finale. No, DeVoe may possess the conviction that his is ‘The Way’ but he lacks the support of others. But like all (or most) supervillains, he will fail because he is missing the one thing the heroes have in spades. I’ll say this: his plan is nothing if not ambitious.
Clifford DeVoe-the Thinker-is on the cusps of his dream to reset humanity to save them from the perils of technology and to lead them into a new age of prosperity.
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