The Flash Writer Admits To Not Understanding The Speed Force
Following Zack Snyder's Justice League win at the Oscars, a writer for CW's The Flash admits that she still does not understand the Speed Force.
Screenwriter Carina Adly MacKenzie, who penned The Flash season 3 episode titled ‘The Once and Future Flash’ admits she still doesn’t understand what the Speed Force is. Perhaps best known as the creator of Roswell, New Mexico, she began her career writing for The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals. The episode she wrote for CW’s The Flash saw Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen travel into the future in a bid to discover the identity of the season 3 big bad, Savitar.
According to DC comic lore, the Speed Force is a cosmic energy source and one of the seven primordial cosmic energies from which all realities in the Multiverse originate. Much as the name suggests, the Speed Force is based around movement and velocity and is able to be tapped into by speedsters such as Barry Allen and his metahuman ilk. By entering the extra-dimensional Speed Force, Barry and other speedsters are able to travel through time as the Speed Force is, in fact, time itself, and the very motion of existence moving through reality.
Most recently the Speed Force has recently become a trending topic, thanks largely to the scene showing Ezra Miller’s version of the Flash entering the Speed Force from Zack Snyder’s Justice League winning the Most Cheer Worthy Moment at this year’s Academy Awards. Not everyone seemed to understand the mechanics of the Speed Force, however, even MacKenzie who took to Twitter to admit to having “once wrote a TV episode in The Flash literally enters the Speed Force” and still does not understand what it is. Check out her original Tweet below:
This feels like the moment to finally confess that I once wrote a TV episode in which The Flash literally enters the Speed Force and I still don’t understand what the Speed Force is.
— carina adly mackenzie (@cadlymack) March 28, 2022
Despite having penned an episode that featured Barry traveling through time as a result of entering the Speed Force, one can certainly forgive MacKenzie for not entirely comprehending the obscure and vaguely nonsensical explanations for what the Speed Force actually is. After all, in Justice League, even Barry himself struggled to explain the intricacies of his abilities and the Speed Force to Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne. Given that the CW has also gone on to introduce alternate versions of the Speed Force including the Negative Speed Force and the Artificial Speed Force, it’s easy to see how even the show’s writers could find it hard to keep up with it all.
Regardless of the fictional quantum mechanics involved, perhaps all viewers really need to know is that the Speed Force led to both fans and Snyder himself celebrating their recent Oscars’ win. Given the long and winding road it took for Zack Snyder’s Justice League to even become a reality, it is certainly a feather in the cap of the director and his loyal fanbase. Hopefully with Miller also set to return to the role in his own solo film next year, fans of The Flash will finally get a more simple explanation of what the Speed Force actually is.
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Source: Carina Adly MacKenzie
