What I’m Watching: The Flash

The Flash: Season 9, Episode 7 “Wildest Dreams” (B-)

Sure, Iris did come to some important realizations about what’s important in her life and how she enjoyed the dream of being a cop and her time working as a barista. But this episode was just as much about Dreamer and yet another reminder that maybe “The Flash” wasn’t the Arrowverse show that needed to keep going for one final swan song. Meeting the original Dreamer felt like a plotline that should have been handled on “Supergirl,” and all these mentions of other people from that series being off-world are disappointing given just how enticing it would be to get all the casts from the Arrowverse shows back together before this one signs off for good. Dreaming was a big part of this episode as Mark imagined that he and Khione were falling in love before he was woken up to the harsh reality that planning dates for someone based on who you want them to be and not who they are isn’t going to result in appreciation. That everyone groaned when Mark showed up to the big extended family meal is indicative of just how little Mark has fit in with this bunch since he first started, and now it seems like he’s finally parting ways with them, but we’ve seen this before and it hasn’t lasted then either. I think it’s time to bring on the future and maybe jump forward a bit in time so that we can see how everything turns out with the time we have left.