(Image credit: Image courtesy of The CW) Change The No-Killing Rule
Season 5 should cut down on adding new speedsters to the series, with perhaps the exception of that mysterious speedster that Jay Garrick is apparently mentoring over on Earth-3. That said, The Flash did introduce two other speedsters: Nora West-Allen and (albeit temporarily) Iris West-Allen. The show had to get creative to find reasons why Barry couldn't just use his superspeed to stop DeVoe from his dastardly deeds as The Thinker, and while that may have been a bummer to fans who wanted to see Barry and a bad guy racing for the fourth time in four years, it was something new. The first three seasons of The Flash pitted Barry against a speedster supervillain, with Clifford DeVoe in Season 4 as Barry's first non-speedster nemesis. One of the most challenging aspects about crafting a show starring a hero with an array of superpowers has to be finding a villain that can - quite literally, in the case of Barry Allen - keep up with him. (Image credit: Image courtesy of The CW) No New Speedsters Interestingly, breaking a season up into arcs has done wonders for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plots in the last several seasons perhaps the same could be true for one of The CW's DC series. Just imagine one mini arc finishing, then the big Arrow-verse crossover airing, and then one more mini arc kicking off! The Flash wouldn't need to try and stretch a storyline to 23 episodes.
If the show breaks its seasons up into two or three arcs, fans could get a whole lot more story in an even more satisfying way.
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The show had to drag the stories of the bus metas out for a full season when they could have been resolved much more quickly, and Season 3 suffered for dragging out the big Savitar reveal. While that has worked well enough and kept The Flash as one of The CW's most successful series, the big Thinker arc of Season 4 could be a sign that it's time for a change. The Flash has spent four seasons building a big bad up for 22 episodes until the big confrontation in the final hour.
(Image credit: Image courtesy of The CW) Break The Season Up Into Arcs