The Sanctuary Killer HIC #8

There's a lot to talk about but for now I'm just going to try to focus on who we are told is responsible.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Wally West (the original red headed version) is behind it all because of his trauma and failure to undo his mistake. I don't understand why he didn't go back in time or why the fastest man alive that's using time travel needed five days. King will need to have one hell of an explanation for these questions because thus far his actions are pretty inexcusable.

Not counting the fake Wally deaths didn't we see characters dying in a different manner before the speed force reveal? Neither Booster or Harley were there to witness it. Sure there's misleads but at this point can we believe any POV? It's just confusing and doesn't work as a mystery since most of the "clues" we're given are worthless. Since when was the speed force a bomb? If being emotional makes someone with the speed force unstable then why haven't we seen this before? With villains, with Barry, with Impulse? A lot of questions for how Wally was able to pull any of this off are simply answered with "the speed force did it" which really feels cheap. Because it does whatever you want it to do.

You know...I wouldn't like Wally accidently killing other heroes but if it ended there I could at least get the intent. It wouldn't excuse everything else that came before in this series but Wally wouldn't be tarnished in my eyes. Not if it was done right and it could possibly be retconned as someone else making him lose control if it wasn't executed well. But that's not what King and DC did. What makes Wally's actions disgusting and unforgivable is what he does after most of the patients were killed. The cover up. There still needs to be some kind of logic in place. Some semblance of who the characters are behind their actions. Wally West would have turned himself in.

There's A LOT of padding and the "mystery" isn't solved by the world's greatest detective or the CSI guy that knows the speed force. Why did Bruce think Harley was the killer and Barry assumed it was Booster? It makes no sense given the way the heroes died. Yes Wally uses things he learned from Barry and Batman but by now they should have figured something was off. Or assumed Harley and Booster were working together... Or, you know, thought it was a little weird that either Harley or Booster could somehow kill everyone including Wally. Since Wally is literally the fastest man alive.

I don't care if he used the fake teeth for one of the bodies it still makes no sense with the power levels involved or the fact some had holes blown into them. Wally West was able to outsmart Batman and Barry with little effort. Does this mean that everyone that worked with them would be able to do the same? I guess this is confirmation that the original Titans would be unstoppable if they ever went bad.

Wally violated the privacy of the other heroes by watching their recordings. He literally messed with the bodies of heroes, comrades and FRIENDS to frame the other two survivors. He apparently didn't care what happened to Booster or Harley. Not if the families of the victims blamed them or if they were imprisoned for his crime. This is the same Wally West that once testified against Barry Allen for murdering Zoom? The irony really is too much with this one. Even the Rogues--the Flash rogues--have better standards.

So Wally positioned Roy Harper's body holding up a Sanctuary badge, wrote the puddler note on the wall and sent information to Lois Lane? Roy, his long time friend, is coldly arranged next to his future body because it "seemed right." What?! Puddler because it was something Barry was interested in but does that really sound like something either Booster or Harley would write?

And I still don't get why he leaked the others information. Seriously the cover up is done just like a villain would. Why not just come clean to begin with if he's going to confess anyway or commit suicide? (As I said above King has to have a compelling reason otherwise this is just another plot that makes no sense.) Instead he comes across like an unfeeling murderer that frames others for no good reason and doesn't care about the bodies he's messing with.

I don't care what anyone says, this isn't how trauma is written. I've seen far too many write this off as being okay simply because of the trauma involved, so does that mean all of the characters King wrote are okay because their all traumatized? That somehow it was perfectly in character for Barbara to leave Booster defenseless against Harley while she was trying to murder him because of the Killing Joke?

Like I said the problem with Wally is how he acts. A mistake is one thing but what he did with the bodies was calculated. He intentionally took the time to carefully position bodies, added fake evidence, framed others and got his future corpse. This is not the mind of someone who never killed before and is panicking. People that are freaking out over their actions make mistakes. They flee, they act more rash, they aren't in control of themselves enough to commit the perfect cover up. Yet he was able to fool Batman and his uncle Barry?

I think we're supposed to see how trauma led to this disaster but all I can think of is how stupid the Trinity were in their creation of Sanctuary. I've said it before--I think most people have--but the way it's run is dangerous. No human contact to the point Wally felt isolated and killed everyone. Then he sets Booster and Harley up for murder? Really? Wally made a hero with trauma and a murderer with her own trauma think the other did it. Did it never occur to him how that would seriously mess with their minds or did he not care? The guy that apparently had a break down over others trauma makes the survivors suffering with PTSD/etc. think they either murdered the heroes or witnessed a murder. Harley could have and almost did kill Booster because Wally framed them. Why did he do it?  To buy time? When he can TIME TRAVEL?!

Here's a thought...have Wally explain to Booster what happened and ask to go back. That way the person that understands the tech can actually get better results. No one there, not Ted and apparently not Wally, should get future tech as well as Booster.

This is such a mess.