Hey flash fam it's Charlie.
This is going to be my mid season finale video so much craziness.
So many comic book Easter eggs, so much mythology.
So just careful for spoilers if you haven't seen the episode yet.
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Make sure you enable alerts so you don't miss anything during the off-season, but I'll talk
more about what to be happening during the break at the end of the video just so much
craziness in this episode is that your true midseason finale, they just try to crank up
as much mythology as much big action and hard as they could.
So there were a lot of like really touching Christmas-y moments let's do top 10 WTF and
then I'll add a bunch of extra the should be like 15 or 20 just because it was so much
stuff in this episode number 10 Julian Albert flashback to India they tell the story of
how he found the philosopher's stone than there slowly setting up.
The twist were they explain the dual personality which is right out of the comics, so number
nine.
He finds the philosopher's stone, but when Barry throws them in the prison.
He has no idea what's going on.
But then Barry reveals his identity and he explains his back story in much greater detail.
So the thing here there so many Easter eggs the paper that he wrote in college about the
philosopher's stone was written by Albert Desmond, who is the name of Doctor alchemy
in the comics the Julian Albert is his name on the TV show so Julian explains that his
sister passed away but then he saw a vision of her the way that Cisco's been seeing Dante
in the episode telling him where to find the philosopher's stone how to bring her back.
But then we learn secretly number eight is just's savitar speaking to them from the speed
force trying to get out open it and we can be together again open the box.
They don't really explain exactly how it is that savitar can manifest this way, but it's
almost in the way that the speed force wormhole aliens last season appear to bury as people
that he cared about, so number seven Jay Garrick's speed force explainer I'm actually in a turn
this into another video tomorrow into like a much bigger video because it was really
cool.
The way they included this mythology he says it's an endless void of energy time and space
which is how savitar is experiencing the future the past, the present how he knows so much
about them but just like the comics he's stuck in their, so number six the comic book version
of this is that Wally West was the first person to fight savitar they changed a little bit
of his back story for the TV show the turning and more into like an ancient person like
apocalypse in the X-Men comics like somebody who existed a long long time ago instead of
comic books savitar who was a Cold War pilot till he was struck with the bolt of lightning
and became superfast but he still didn't use the speed force in the comics so I'll explain
that in the second because savitar's powers in the comics are little bit different from
what the TV shows doing with them, but what happened in the comics is that Wally West
was able to defeat's savitar by taking him into the speed force a place that he couldn't
get to an end up getting trapped there, so became a prison for him until the first flash
rebirth.
The Jeff John's Road way way back where savitar emerges from the speed force but it was really
only a cameo.
So like he comes out of the speed force in the reverse flash has this secret plot worries
poisoned Barry with the negative speed force that makes him kill any other speedsters that
he touches it sort of like poisoning the speed force well.
So savitar dies and that's the last you see of them so they taken that part, of savitar
story turned it into a Hindu myth about him gaining powers via the philosopher's stone
and then turning into this speed God that number five gets trapped in the speed force
by a future version of Barry like he's as I am the future flash, so everyone was like
this he talking about the future flash from the new 52 comics no just saying that he is
the future of what speedsters are what they will become the savitar flashbacks that was
so cool so the human form savitar that you're seeing here is supposed to be Daniel Cudmore
who most of you know is colossus from the older Brian Singer X-Men films he didn't play
Colossus during Deadpool to just shows how he got his powers from the philosopher's stone
and then became the form that he is now.
So who knows if will ever see human form savitar.
Again we actually never learned his real name in the comics we only knew him as savitar
they never revealed what his name was before he gave himself that name like he named himself
savitar Hindu god of motion.
See you can see why the TV show chose to make it a Hindu mythological thing that wasn't
in the comics like savitar just pick that name for himself but his power, so the TV
show kind of showed that he derives his powers from the stone not from the speed force in
the way Barry does, that's also kind of a comic book thing where he can move really
fast, he's a speedster, but he doesn't touch the speed force like Barry or Wally West does.
So there was this big thing about sharing giving and taking speed force transferring
it between people so that's what savitar did, he just stole speed from other people.
He couldn't take it directly from the source like Wally West could.
So what he would do is he would just like take everyone speed.
So like Jesse quick loses all her speed, but because of Wally's direct connection to the
speed force he's not able to take his speed, the same way so that sounds confusing.
Don't worry.
It just means that, because he doesn't have the direct connection to the speed force.
That's why he can't leave the speed force prison on his own, he needs another speedster
to let him out, so number for Cisco drinks the Kool-Aid I love this scene because it's
kind of of reverse of what happened during the killer Frost episode Caitlin has to rescue
Cisco from himself, the same way Cisco did for her.
So was really touching moment actually thought that she was can have to use her powers on
but he was totally ready to vibe her ass right out of the room like that look on his face
is just so intense.
Speaking of which number three Julian Albert confirmed as Doctor alchemy.
Finally, when they take the mask off.
But then they explained.
The twist in order to get him to trust them.
Barry has to reveal his identity and then through the course of the episode he comes
around he has Christmas with them.
Meaning the Julian is now officially on team flash, so you can just look forward to more
scenes with him working at star labs and then number two.
Speaking of working together Jay Garrick flash team up.
I love the flash versus savitar seen so you have Jay Garrick flash versus savitar that
was brutal then you have Wally and Barry versus savitar just that crazy scene of watching
Barry just getting jumped around the room on the monitor because they can't see savitar,
but that Wally gets there and he can, but they did say there's gonna be a whole lot
more Jay Garrick team ups in the back half of the season so we'll see him working with
Barry a lot more.
But number one WTF Barry gets kicked into the future when they try to throw the philosopher's
stone back end of the speed force.
It has to watch Iris die to there been a number of versions of the flash that it had to watch
evil speedsters of one kind or another hurt the people they love just been forced to watch
it and then try to fix it later.
So if you live there couple big reactions the people have the scenes like this where
you one, they just flat out don't believe it like okay the neck in a kill Candice Patton
off the show still fix it somehow.
This is their ticking clock like there's no way that Barry is totally gonna chill on this.
I know they ended on a very hopeful moment there in their new apartment together but
this shit is going to bug the hell out of Barry for the rest of the season like this
at five months in the future that's basically the season finale.
So it's like saying this is going to be there finale but that is so much other stuff in
this episode like when he gets kicked to the future.
There's Infantino Street that's Carmine Infantino just a big comic book creator and I almost
forgot.
You know tied for first Mark Hamill as the trickster of earth three totally dressed as
the Joker Joker in everything but name.
He was a very small presence, just because he so busy filming the Star Wars movies right
now but I'm so happy that they brought him back on an even just so much more vicious
than previous versions of the trickster he does looks like he is so much fun when he
gets to play the character so I would expect that to happen every single year where he
comes back for at least one episode but I would expect because they can use Julian now
is a telephone for speaking to savitar that they'll do that again in the future but he's
gonna come back to haunt that they'll have to be some twist where the alchemist, stone
finds its way into somebody else's hands otherwise there be no way for savitar to get back into
the real world to kill Iris in five months so is crazy is all that is.
I really love the moment where team flash gives Wally his suit.
So for all of you who felt like they've dragged on this Wally plot for too long he's finally
going to start doing kid flash stuff, so he'll have a lot of fun when Jesse quick comes back
for those you asking.
I don't know exactly which episode is going to be but is going to be sometime early in
the back half of the season the be a whole bunch of flash family stub and yes there will
be a gorilla Grodd episode there were some pictures from the set, so if you guys want
me to do a video on the accelerated man just let me know in the comments is going to be
a whole bunch of bonus flash videos during the break.
So don't worry.
Make sure you have alerts enabled so you get everything, but let me know in the comments
what you want me to do videos about while we wait for it to come back that's going to
be January 24.
So, I know that sounds like a long time but a section out that long.
So what I'm to do if they don't drop the trailer for the next episode I'm in a drop of speed
force prison savitar explainer video in the morning before I do my Arrow mid season finale
video so speaking of trailer.
A lot of you are asking about the Spider-Man homecoming trailer that was supposed to drop
Sauternes out like the people that made this whatever came out and said no.
This is totally fake even though it looks official.
So if we get a Spider-Man homecoming trailer it'll probably drop with Rogue one, otherwise
I'm expecting the Super Bowl.
But if we learn anything I'll post a video it was supposed to be a special agents of
shield post credits teaser that was like something super special whatever that is all totally
do a video for it.
Let me note you guys think of the midseason finale.
I do love the holiday episodes when they work really well like they did a little bit a holiday
stuff like you see Caitlin use her killer Frost powers to turn it into a white Christmas.
It is on a really hopeful warm note, despite the fact that you know that there is a ticking
clock now five months in the future Iris is totally gonna get it with a steel spike right
through the stomach unless they do something to stop him.
So you can expect all kinds of very craziness trying to figure out how to do that but I'll
talk about this a little bit more in my flash video tomorrow, but he's going to have to
deepen his connection to the speed force in a way that he hasn't done before, like in
the way Luke Skywalker becomes much more powerful as he learns more about the force.
The light side in the dark side.
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let's high five I'll see you guys tonight!