"You came back to me... Always"   Best viewed in HD 1080p + earphones. Info (song, etc.) at end of the video! _______________________________________________________________________ Well as always, speed is not my strong suit lol… it took me a few days to process the ep and let the ideas stew around a little, and it always takes me at least a few days to do the actual editing, so…here I finally am! I wasn't actually planning on making a 4x01 video, if anything I was going to try to finish my longer WA vid that I started a while ago, but the premiere was just so fantastic and gave me so much inspiration, I had to do it! And I'm actually pretty pleased with it, which is refreshing, haha… Hope you all enjoy! :) I'll probably come back and write some thoughts on the ep later, I just want to get this uploaded now… _______________________________________________________________________ Okay so I thought this episode was absolutely FANTASTIC, I enjoyed it so much that I actually watched it twice and I don’t think I’ve done that since season 1 (other than rewatching scenes when I’m editing). Even though they were dealing with the loss of Barry, the tone reminded me so much of season 1 and I thought it had a really nice balance of serious and light-hearted. I also appreciated all the little callbacks and just about died when Cisco played Poker Face again and they recreated that scene alskdfjlsfj :’) And all the Killervibe scenes killed me, I swear I said “awwww” like five times during the episode because of them… ALL THE HEARTEYES XD As for Iris and WA, I LOVED her speech to Barry in the lab, it reminded me so much of 1x20 when she talks to him while he’s in a coma (that alone inspired me to vid this ep). Candice just slays those scenes. And I liked the whole thing about “strength means nothing without faith,” because I think it sums up the show really well. I definitely felt like something was off about Iris, and once I thought about that line and how much she contrasted to s1-Iris who was always ready to “believe in the impossible,” I realized that even though she was strong on the outside, it was just masking how broken her spirit was on the inside. She was basically letting herself be ruled by fear (and no wonder, after losing Eddie and her mother, and Barry 198274987 times, it had to catch up with her at some point). So I’m glad Joe reminded her to believe :’) As for Barry, the fact that they had him do his "penance" to make up for all his mistakes, and then forget all about it was honestly kind of clever haha. It means that we can get a lighter Barry who isn't weighed down by his past mistakes, while setting up mystery for what really happened in the speedforce and what all those symbols mean (I'm assuming they'll get back to this, that would just be a missed opportunity otherwise). Oh and for anyone who noticed the Reign quote, I’ve been watching Reign recently and I’m so obsessed with Frary I’m pretty sure it’s not healthy xD But I’m glad, because that quote worked well for WA this episode! Sidenote - I’ve got The Flash in 1080p now woohooo!! And yeah, I decided to change my watermark again (and bring the bars back)…just felt like time for a change.

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