After watching Flash S1, the female mainline is really flawed... But here I want to talk about the role of Harrison Wells.
There is no doubt that the actor's unique temperament in conversation and the character's own righteous and evil nature make Dr. Wells one of the biggest attractions of S1. But unfortunately, with the closing of the final game, the audience will find that Dr. Wells's so-called righteousness and evil are just staying on the objective level that he has been helping Barry to save others, and all other details are a vain shot. . At the beginning, I revealed these very human places that moved to Midtown due to the death of my wife, but later I told you that they were all acting. To say "I will protect my own person" is also a verbal rhetoric. In fact, the fate of other superpowers is not fate to him at all. He kept saying that he regarded Cisco as his son, but there were no details to support this image. Later, when Cisco confronted him, he said that he did not feel sad for killing him because he believed that he had a good reason. The same is true for the male protagonist. On the surface, he is also a teacher and a friend, but the savior and the training of the male protagonist are all for their return to the future. In the end, the male protagonist broke off his fantasy and began to kill people without hesitation... Seeing that all the decision-making moments related to Harrison Wells's interests, they did not hesitate to make a good choice for oneself. The script did not arrange for him enough internal conflicts of the drama, at most he just said beautiful words, which caused his righteousness and evil to stay on the objective level instead of the subjective level. Spiritually speaking, the flashback is a bad guy through and through.
Of course, this is not to say that such a purely evil image cannot be set up, but the real problem is that doing so wastes the many early stage hints of the complexity of the role, and it also obliterates the audience from the play to the outside of the play. The role's cognitive space. Therefore, when Harrison Wells completely tore off the disguise in the late stage of S1, the tension of the story was greatly weakened, because no matter whether it was the flashback himself or the protagonist, there was no room for entanglement and struggle. So it's a pity that although I like Harrison Wells, he really didn't live up to my expectations.
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