The Flash – Wildest Dream review S9 E7
Another week, another episode of The Flash wildly flailing its wings waiting on the merciful series finale.
It’s weird how many guest stars this season has had already yet few have been the heavy-hitters longtime fans would actually want to see. Does Cisco and Wells count as guest stars? It feels like they’re overdue for an appearance.
This week’s cameo comes from Supergirl. Not Supergirl herself or Martian Manhunter or Super Alex. Nope, just Dreamer, a character who DC really seems to want to make popular in a more restrained effort than Marvel’s efforts to get Captain Marvel over.
At least Carol Danvers was a cool character before the push to make her a tippy top A-lister. Despite crossing over into the comic world, Dreamer still just comes off like a weird hodgepodge of characters with little resemblance to the Dream Girl character from the Legion that’s her inspiration.
Dreamer wakes up from a bad dream at National City Jitters. Could you imagine if every Starbucks branded itself based on the location? Norfolk Starbucks, Des Moines Starbucks, Austin Starbucks. So weird.
Barry calls Iris while she’s at her office and for a moment I was worried Grant Gustin was sitting another episode out.
It’s clear the writers have no idea of how the news cycle especially one for a web-based newsgroup works. The whole Red Death nuisance was resolved two weeks ago. Absolutely no one’s checking for that story as if it’s breaking news weeks later. And it for sure wouldn’t result in Iris getting her first Pulitzer. Sigh.
Nia met Iris in the off-camera brunch with Kara, Alex and Ryan per the fallout from Red Death. She just told Iris she’s her career role model, not her inspiration Kara. Somehow Nia thinks Iris can help her with her nightmare vision as opposed to Team Flash. The logic on the show is constantly baffling. Why meet up with Iris alone when her husband is literally one of the A-list heroes?
They’re zapped into Iris’ dream. Apparently, she’s always wanted to be a police officer as she’s at the CCPD. And not just any officer, the police captain. You know who would make sense to show up in this episode? Iris’ father Joe… Oh, right. Just to prove the writers’ lack of real-life jobs extends beyond web-based reporters, the TV station calls wanting to talk to Iris about taking down a perp in the station. And I’m pretty sure officers don’t stand around and applause after someone gets flipped in the station either.
Another dream portal has Iris as the manager of Jitters. Well, Central City Jitters at least. Iris remembers she loved her time as a barista. Hopefully she doesn’t have any dreams about loving Eddie Thawne…
Iris misses the freedom of being able to clock out at 5. Doesn’t she own her own company? And if she can write breaking news stories two weeks after the fact it seems like she’s got a pretty awesome work life balance. Barry runs in to Iris’ job only to find her and Nia passed out on the floor and it’s a little weird that he knows Nia unless I just forgot a crossover.
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With no clue on how to wake them up, Barry says he’s gonna call Cisco or the League. Yeah tease me with a fun time, why don’t you? It’s funny that Kara and Martian Manhunter are always off planet nowadays when Kara seemingly never left Earth during Supergirl’s run.
Finally, Dreamer realizes she has to give up control as the hooded figure in her nightmare dreams was the original Dreamer trying to help her. I gave up on Supergjrl so I don’t know if this has any meaning to Supergirl viewers, but this was a very questionable use of an episode in The Flash’s series finale. Unless The CW wants to try a Dreamer spin-off since that worked so well for Mia and the future kids in Arrow’s final season.
In the subplot that won’t die, the writers are still determined to make us care about Kihone as Mark takes her out on his typical Frost-style date complete with karaoke. This was supposed to make Mark look bad, but absolutely no one on Team Flash has checked in on the dude who lost the love of his life and are instead so focused on nurturing their little Kihone flower.
I love how Team Flash is all down on Mark who absolutely should be the villain of this season for how the team treated him instead of being an emo dweeb who keeps apologizing. Mark apologizes for trying to make Kihone his Frost surrogate and decides he needs to leave to heal.
That’s probably best to avoid him being neutered from everything that originally made him so interesting. This is enough to trigger Kihone’s frost powers once again as she freezes Cecile’s home cooked dinner. Nice. The rest of Team Flash surrounds her like she’s being such a close member of their family for years now and it continues to be so infuriating.
The Flash successfully wasted another episode this season on a throwaway cameo for a character regular Flash viewers could likely care less about, but clearly fan service stopped being a priority many seasons ago.
Rating: 5 out of 10
Photo Credit: The CW