YMMV / The Flash 2014 S 3 E 16 Into The Speed Force

• Alternative Joke Interpretation: Is Jesse finding decking H.R “oddly satisfying” a Take That, Scrappy! to the character, or her working out issues with her own father? Or both?
• Fridge Horror: Jay Garrick performing a Heroic Sacrifice has several unfortunate undertones. First, seeing him do that is like Barry watching his father, who was Jay's Alternate Self, die for the second time. Second, Jay is stuck in the same place as the man who killed Henry who also happens to be the same man who imprisoned Jay for a long period of time under horrific circumstances (granted, that man is now a mindless Humanoid Abomination, but still...). Lastly, the Speed Force just bluntly told Barry earlier that his father's death was part of a Secret Test of Character they had for him.
• I Knew It!: Many fans had called it that Savitar was just someone using a God Guise because of all the contradictions with his character: Why would the first speedster, supposedly dating back to Ancient India, claim that Barry and his friends created him, only to backtrack when pressed for details? And why would a god envy a mere mortal even if he is superpowered?
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The Speed Force chastises Barry for putting the burden of saving Iris on Wally's shoulders. It ignores that Barry did this out of realism, since Wally has the raw power and talent to do it and Barry does not; that Barry has been doing everything he can to change the future so Iris can be saved before she is ever in danger; and that Barry has been teaching and training Wally to save Iris. But instead, Barry is made out to be an arrogant jerk about the whole ordeal.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Much like Savitar, Grodd, and Solovar earlier this season, and his own Legends of Tomorrow appearance, Black Flash looks really good for an all-CGI creation.
• Win Back the Crowd: Unlike the previous episode — which disappointed plenty of fans — this episode has the team acting rationally and logically unlike their not well-thought-out ideas last time.
• Whole-Plot Reference: Strangely enough, to the Angel episode Underneath. To whit, the protagonists journey to an Eldritch Location to rescue their Sixth Ranger from his own personal Hell, which involves a being locked in a stable time-loop (Wally experiencing the worst day of his life, and Lindsey a single day in the suburbs). The episode also ends with the secondary hero with the most information about prison (i.e. the one with the best knowledge of breaking in or out of the prison) staying behind to experience the time loop in place of the original prison.

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