Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Day 3

Day 3

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The Flash, Season Two, Episode 17 - Flash Back

This episode is probably the best of the entire season, and maybe even the best of the series. Barry goes back in time, to a moment when he had still been ignorant of who Harrison Wells really is, for the purpose of learning how to run faster. He plans to interrogate his mentor, learning some speed secrets (The Man in Yellow was always that much faster than Barry). Of course things don't go as planned, Wells/Eobard figures out that the Barry Allen he's talking to isn't his Barry, and we end up with the EoWells/Barry Bondage Scene. It's a two-hander filled with quiet menace, massive rage, gamesmanship, and an incredible amount of sexual tension.



The rest of the episode is stellar, too - EoWells dragging his chair like a security blanket, Cisco having a not-so-quiet freak-out at the appearance of TWO Barry Allens, the redemption of Hartley Rathaway, the first appearance of the Time Wraiths, and the off-screen hatesex between Barry and Eo.

If only The Flash had been able to maintain this quality - writing, acting, characterization - the show might not have been cancelled.