A look back at the Eobard Thawne arc in The Flash Season 1, widely considered the series' strongest point. The story's pacing, character development, and shocking twists have earned it a lasting place in the hearts of fans.
The Flash , the longest-running series in the Arrowverse franchise, is packed with content. Running from 2014 to 2023, it told many stories, but the general consensus among fans is that the beginning is the strongest. This epic saga started with Barry Allen uncovering a time-traveling conspiracy shaping his life. Early episodes chronicled his fight against it.
Compared to the crossovers, callbacks, and intricate plots that followed in later seasons, this initial arc feels relatively self-contained. Yet, online commenters still hail it as the series' finest moment. The series began with a backdoor pilot in 2013 and launched with a short but fun take on The Flash's origin story and the setup for a long-running network serial. It introduced the supporting cast, including Iris West, Caitlin Snow, Cisco Ramon, and Dr. Harrison Wells. Wells, the mastermind behind S.T.A.R. Labs, where the technology that accidentally gave Barry super speed was developed, became one of the primary settings for the series. Wells, of course, represents the first major subversion of expectations for the show. The friendly mentor and enthusiastic scientist was just a facade hiding the season's main villain, Eobard Thawne — also known as the Reverse-Flash. Fortunately, the accident that gave Barry superspeed created several other super-powered threats for him to face, giving him practice with his powers before he really had to face Thawne. In the meantime, all that time together built up the betrayal to massive proportions. In the end, the depth of Thawne’s contrivance and betrayal was unveiled shockingly and perfectly as the season came to an end. Thawne’s true story made all the sci-fi madness the characters had experienced up to that point seem like nothing. He had actually traveled back in time from a point nearly two centuries in the future, where The Flash was a legendary hero. Hoping to replicate The Flash’s powers, Thawne experimented on himself but accidentally tapped into a “negative Speed Force,” similar to Barry’s power but not identical. With superspeed came the ability to travel through time, and Thawne realized that he was destined to become The Flash’s greatest enemy. He grew bitter over this and his failure to change his path, resulting in him coming to hate The Flash in earnest. He clashed with The Flash for years and eventually learned the speedster’s secret identity. Thawne traveled back in time hoping to kill Barry as a child, but ended up killing Barry’s mother and framing his father for the murder instead. In the process, Thawne lost the ability to travel through time and became stranded in Barry’s lifetime. Thawne then murdered the real Dr. Harrison Wells and assumed his identity, carrying out much of the groundbreaking work he knew Wells had done. After coming back in time to prevent The Flash from existing, he ended up needing to create The Flash in the hopes of using Barry’s power to return to his own time. He is nearly successful, but Thawne’s ancestor, police detective Eddie, sacrifices himself to erase Eobard from the timeline
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