everybody crafty media is back and today
I'm gonna be breaking down the latest
episode of the flash season 4 episode 18
entitled lose yourself I'm also going to
be giving lots of theories and
predictions about the enlightenment and
the mystery girl towards the end of the
video so please be warned this video
contains plenty of spoilers up until
season 4 episode 18 and beyond now this
episode was probably the most
heartbreaking episode of the season so
far
as we saw the death of Roth Dabney the
elongated man I must say well freely
grew on me this season as it went along
and I was devastated to see him go in
the most heart-wrenching scene Berry
says fight at Ralph I'll save you -
which wolf replies Yuri have berry and
then closes his eyes earlier in the
episode Roth wanted to use the pocket
dimension hopping Edwin Gauss aka the
faulted man to sneak up on DeVoe and to
kill him as he explained he didn't want
to kill the vote to protect himself he
wanted to protect his family he wanted
to protect team flash there was a coup
Easter egg in the form of this bottle of
Gingold which Barry offers as a peace
offering after knocking Ralph after the
Superman punch now in the comics Kim
Gould is actually the source of the
elongated man's abilities Ralph Dibley
was obsessed with Indian rubberman and
upon investigation he found that all of
them drank in gold which was a drink
made from the gingko fruit he then made
a super concentrated Ginga juice and
found that after drinking it he had the
ability to stretch himself I really
enjoyed the way they portrayed Edwin
Gauss he of course had the power not
only to travel to his own pocket
dimension as Cisco surmised but he also
had the ability to travel to any other
pocket dimension it was also very
creative the way the faulted man got his
name from the hippy colony and I think
the reason they did this as a play on
the Burning Man which is actually an
annual hippie festival in Black Rock
City Nevada rolf vs. the t-rex skeleton
was a fanzine device - Lizzie Bowens
body was able to use dwarf stars power
to shrink and then grow the t-rex
skeleton which was an Easter Egg for the
t-rex skeleton in the Jurassic Park
movies
Davo was then able to give the jurassic
park skillets in life by using black
Bisons powers in fact I thought this
episode was the first episode that
really made use of all the bus
metahumans powers the scene where Duvall
lays waste to five killer frost and
berry is incredible Davo first uses
nulls powers to make Barry the weight of
a cement truck Barry then faces through
the floor and tries to use the Sun
acceptor but before he can gets hit with
sonic blast Cisco throws a fire blast
out but DeVoe opens a breach of his own
using the folded man's powers and then
directs the vibe blast a cat Cisco which
was very reminiscent of the opening
scene in x-men Days of Future past with
the mutant blink he then touches killer
frost and says melt this is of course a
pun as he's using melting points powers
on killer frost to melt her powers
bringing back Caitlin Cisco and Harry
later scan Caitlin and surmise that
Devoe's melting point powers have
scrambled her meta DNA and that killer
frost is no more but is that really the
end of killer frost I don't think so
usually when melting point can touch
someone and remove their powers he then
gives the power to the next person that
he touches so I think that Caitlin will
be able to get her killer frost powers
and alter-ego back plus it would be
crazy for such a big characters arc to
end in such a feeble way so don't worry
killer frost will definitely be back in
my opinion devon has now absorbed all
the remaining bust metahumans powers
except for one and that is fallout if
you remember fallout AKA neo Boorman was
unable to control his radiation powers
and was sent to a former member of team
flash traci brand tracy was trying to
get him to get his powers under control
in fact in next week's episode we see
team flash transporting fallouts with
the help of Leo snart aka citizen cold
citizen cold as the earth X version of
Captain Cold and as a hero who we were
introduced to when he fought against
evil Oliver Queen and over girl the
episode also curiously saw my least
getting her Deadpool on and deflecting
energy blasts from iris with her katana
iris pulled the sword into her allowing
her time to send my lease back into the
pocket dimension I personally found the
scene a little bit weird as there was no
indication that my lease had such skills
in the past so it kind of came out of
nowhere jumping back to the verr in the
final scene he was able to use Roth
didn't ease powers to look like his old
self and personally I'm so happy to have
Neill Sandilands back as Clifford to
vote he's just so menacing and adds a
lot more weight to the character of the
thinker then his vessels did in the
previous episodes the elongated man's
powers also keep him from aging and his
body is now strong enough to not be
affected by his ever expanding
intelligence however this also means
that DeVoe no longer actually has need
of the engineering brilliance of his
wife to modify the chair or to
his life or to travel between dimensions
and I think it's only a matter of time
before DeVoe disposes of her which I
believe will lead her to join forces
with team flash to take down her husband
as the old saying goes hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned the thinker also
seemingly anticipated and took advantage
of Harry's addiction to dark matter and
managed to siphon off some of that dark
matter after Harry had seemingly
overdosed as he explained to my lease
Harry's hubris which I had to google
means excessive pride or confidence was
his undoing and then interestingly DeVoe
finally says and now the fire that burns
down team flesh will also light the path
to enlightenment
it appears that dark matter is going to
be the key to take the path to
enlightenment and what is this thing
that will burn down team flash when we
look at the schematics it seems to have
some kind of rocket propulsion system
and I think this is actually a Dark
Matter bomb and nectar Voe wants to
detonate the stock mana bomb turning all
of central city into metahumans and of
course DeVoe now has the power to absorb
all these metahumans powers if he wants
to and I think the Enlightenment is all
about DeVoe coming all powerful and
enslaving the world and what are these
symbols exactly they are clearly somehow
tied to the Enlightenment but we know
they are also connected to when Barry
came out of the Speed Force we also saw
them on Davos face and they were even
tattooed on Caitlin's ex boss's knuckles
and most interestingly these symbols
were being written by the mystery girl
who is assumed to be from the future
I think these symbols are in fact the
language from the 30th century the
language of the United planets and the
language of the time period where the
Legion of super-heroes are from this
language is called interlac the info
lakh alphabet was introduced in the
Legion of super-heroes volume 2 number 3
1/2 but how does DeVoe know this
language from the future and hard as a
tie-in to the Enlightenment and could it
be that this mystery girl is in fact
Jenny Agnes who is a member of the
Legion of super-heroes sent back in time
to hop team flash defeat the thinker in
the comics Jenny goes by the codename
excess and during the legions first trip
back to the 20th century excess was
separated from the rest of the team and
she ended up interacting with people who
were basically her ancestors Jenny
specifically also became friends with
her cousin Bart Ellen who is also from
the 31st century if we look at the Lilly
of Ginny she is the daughter of dawn
Ellen dawn Ellen has a twin done dawn
and Dawn are the children of Barry and
iris and they were born in the 30th
century time travel can be so confusing
but I love that I know the show has
taken a bit of a break from time travel
the season but there is no way you can
remove time travel storylines from the
flash I mean that's what makes the flash
the flash in the first episode of the
season just off that Barry came out of
the Speed Force Barry said we're gonna
need more diapers along with a lot of
other Girish but this could logically be
something that Barry says when he finds
out that iris is pregnant with twins the
Speed Force has of course access to all
time and that was where Barry was
trapped Grant Gustin commented on what
Barry said when he first came out of the
Speed Force and was writing in this in
select language and talking gibberish he
was talking all over the place and
elements of that will show up throughout
the season and may already have will
circle back
I would imagine at some point the season
and connect all of them for you but yeah
that was all very important everything
he said at the beginning of the year so
personally I can't wait to find out what
happens in the last few episodes so
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