# The Flash Season 4

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-season-4/798475>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 10, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-season-4/798475 "2017-10-10T12:11:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-season-4/798475/301 "2018-06-11T18:26:54Z")

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I finally caught up after missing the last few. Here are my random thoughts:

1. I don’t know if this season was necessarily bad, just… boring? A lot of wheel spinning waiting for the “Enlightenment.”
2. I think the Enlightenment would have been better if it had made everyone smart like Devoe, instead of wiping their minds. More of an ethical dilemma for Team Flash.
3. Devoe barely used the luck powers in the end, despite his early on prediction that Becky might be the most important. The writers were clearly writing in foreshadowing having no idea where the story was going.
4. Speaking of which, did all that weird writing and speaking from Barry/Wells actually mean anything or not?
5. Not a huge reception coming from Team Flash for Ralph coming back from the dead. I wonder if he has the other meta powers?

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-season-4/798475/302 "2018-06-11T21:29:44Z")

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> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> 1. I think the Enlightenment would have been better if it had made everyone smart like Devoe, instead of wiping their minds. More of an ethical dilemma for Team Flash.

“And when everyone is special … then no one will be!”  
– Syndrome, _The Incredibles_

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-season-4/798475/303 "2018-06-13T07:15:52Z")

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> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> 1. I think the Enlightenment would have been better if it had made everyone smart like Devoe, instead of wiping their minds. More of an ethical dilemma for Team Flash.

I like this idea. And then, like with what happened to Harry, not everyone’s mind would be prepared to be that intelligent and burn out.

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> 1. Devoe barely used the luck powers in the end, despite his early on prediction that Becky might be the most important. The writers were clearly writing in foreshadowing having no idea where the story was going.

I dunno, that whole business with the satellites seemed incredibly lucky to me.

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