If there's someone that has me glued to the screen, that's Eobard Thawne. Good Lord, I love him more than words can express. My obsession is getting up to a point that it's unhealthy.
Thank God Sherloque revealed Nora's secret. I can't wait to see Barry travelling to the future to stand in front of Eobard's glass cell like he did at the end of season 1. I get the chills whenever I think of it. It still remains as one of the most powerful and well-acted scenes this show has ever had and I can't wait to see it all over again.
When Barry discoveree Nora had lied to him, for a sec there I thought he was gonna punch her. But he was all like "Not sit tight in this cell and think about what you've done, young lady", lol. Hey, now that the team is so hellbent on asking everyone for their consent. Did Barry locked Nora up without her consent? Savage.
Grant Gustin was golden. You could actually see the pain of the betrayal on his face. That was great acting. It's like Ralph in The Simpsons, you can actually pause the minute his Eobard PTSD kicks in.
I'm starting to like Sherloque more and more. I love seeing Tom Cavanagh playing different versions of the same character, but as much as I love it, I just wish the writers would stick to one for a couple of seasons and not make me fall in love only to take him away the next minute.
I have no idea what's worse, the nonsense with Cicada or the stupid family drama with Nora. I still think that Cicada's actor wasn't convincing in the role and his escapes were getting ridiculous. I still don't understand the whole Batman impression. This was the only episode in which he wasn't cringy and he gets killed off. Not that I didn't see it from a mile away, but still.
What bothers me is that no one thought of giving Kid Grace the the cure. If she gets it, Dr Ambres and Orlin are alive. Quote-unquote.
I'm pissed we have to wait almost a month for Godspeed not only for the episode and Eobard but because Danielle Panabaker is directing it
First of all, Grace is in a coma. You don't need her consent, just her guardian's. This show has gone so far up its own PC ass...
I think Barry's Eobard PTSD kicked in at the end there.
The Harrison Wells actor was so good in this one! And to think he's been in the show for so long, playing different roles. That's a highlight.
There is a thing that modern Superhero TV shows constantly try to do and I hate it. They try to make "has super powers" into a minority. The sort of thing that people are ashamed of. It's weird and it's stupid and it always screws with motivations in weird ways that don't make any sort of human sense.
Let's look at Vickie our meta this episode. Vickie a long time ago somehow got meta powers. She learned this when she blew up an ATM machine like Gambit. She made it a bomb and it blew up. This was an accident but it ended up killing Grace's parents. She didn't know anyone died because she ran before the explosion and no one told her people died. This is her backstory.
But there's this thing that happens over and over in The Flash where Barry and crew will go to some target and try to protect them. Nearly EVERY TIME the target refuses protection. It happened with the criminals metas with Cicada and it happens here with Cicada2. I don't envy TV show writers sometimes but they suck at this. If you tell me a serial killer is hunting gay people and he's coming for me, my first response isn't going to be "but I'm not gay I'll be fine, I don't want my family to think I'm gay so I won't hide from the killer of gays". This is a motivation that doesn't make sense. They also try to do this thing where people are ashamed of being metahumans. "I can't tell my family I have powers! They'll never trust me again?" But WHYYYY? That doesn't make sense. You haven't done anything wrong (as far as you or they know). You aren't out of control. Theres literally no reason for your family to hate you. Even worse when the family does find out. They see her trying to help the flash defeat the super scary serial killer that's killing people (Cicada) and what is their reaction? "I want daddy not mommy" "How could you keep this from us?". I mean they act like she lied about a bowling league to go bank robbing. This doesn't make any sense. Every episode I check the comments of this season I see people saying variations of "nora sucks" but they never say why and honestly Nora is perfectly fine it's motivations like this that don't make sense. This is the thing that's ruining this season.
There's no reason for the city to be scared of metas anymore it's been FOUR YEARS of this. We've seen lots of neutral metas. Like the paramemdic who swapped powers. He wasn't a hero or a villain he was just a dude. the first thing I would think if my sister had Gambit powers was "Is she a superhero?" not "eww gross I can't trust her". Nothing people do this episode makes sense. Nora was right though. It's her choice whether to tell people she's a meta but the show has this "if you don't tell everyone every secret you have you're not being emotionallly available" bull that they're trying to shove down my throat. It's so rage inducing because that's not how relationships work. Yeah it's how every relationship on the show works but in real life sometimes your wife has a secret or two. Sometimes your husband listens to showtunes and loves musical theatre and that's just his little secret. Sometimes your daughter is secretly into monster trucks even though she hates getting dirty. This doesn't stunt their ability to love and be loved.
This leads us to Cisco and Ralph. Where once again the show doesn't understand what right and wrong is. Ralph buts in and trys to shove Cisco's new girlfriend into the team. Rather than being told to mind his own business and not tell someone else how to run their relationship the message of the episode is literally the opposite of that. Cisco says "let me handle my relationship" and the show says "nah Ralph was right". But why? Why does Cisco have to tell everyone about being Vibe. At that point why bother with the costume and secret identity? It's not a secret if you tell everyone. Why does Barry not just go around openly doing speedster things. This episode was written by Kristen Kim and Sterling Gates but they don't understand why people keep secrets. Barry doesn't tell people he's the flash because people come and go and if everyone knows who he is he's vulnerable. The same thing applies to Cisco. He hasn't been dating this girl since childhood like Barry or married her like Caitlin (and Robbie). He's just officially "dating". His last girlfriend was from another earth and shared his powers. that's different. Goldie was a super villain that's different. This new girl is a REGULAR person. Why would we bring her into the team? The very idea is ridiculous which is why even Ralph has to invent reasons for her to be on the team. "Maybe she'll get bit by a radioactive spider"
The good parts of this episode were Nora and Tom Cavanagh's characters. Everything else was people acting stupid for stupid reasons and the show then justifies stupid without examining anything. As weak as the idea of needing consent is to police psychopaths. At least it's semi reasonable within the show. I know how people think. They hate Nora for whatever reason, they'e gonna hate how Barry refuses to cure this girl. But the problem isn't that he wants consent. It's that the only reason to need consent is because you're treating being a meta human like a minority and thus the cure is removing someone's cultural heritage from them which you should get consent for. But SUPER POWERS AREN'T A CULTURE. I HATE HATE HATE HATE that scene in Black Lightning. Jefferson Pierce find out his (ex) wife is looking into how to "cure" his daughter who doesn't want her powers and he blows up like she's trying to find a way to cure her of blackness. "this is her heritage". it's a stupid nonsensical argument that isn't justified by anything in any show ever and yet EVERY super hero show uses this logic. It's find to make a metaphor of how being a metahuman is like being a minoritiy. It works after a fashion but UGH.. just stop.
Only good scene was the end
Peter Parker? Spider person? Really?
Oh and surely, after killing her uncle, Gracie has to run, without hurting the Flash, right? Because of course, that’ll be too easy, wouldn’t it.
Dibny is jumping into portals. Why? What does he even do?
The writers should stop writing when they’re drunk off their asses, they’re ruining a character I absolutely love
I honestly don't know whats worse, the whole cicada thing or the Nora thing. but never forget the iris thing...
Ok, the whole “we need her consent if we are going to take away a little girl’s powers, thus stopping her from becoming a murderous psycho” is making me consider dropping the show now more than ever. This one is evidence that no CW show can keep being decent for more than 3 seasons.
Give me a break. The little girl is in a coma. You don’t need her consent. Sometimes writers are so full of themselves.
Oh my god finally they frickin know:sob:
Business is picking up again finally
I start to like Sherloque more and more. And it was very very satisfying when Barry took Nora to the pipeline jail at the end. One of the best moments of this season.
It wasn’t that bad... we all knew cicada was going to be a distraction the moment we saw Thawne
You should pause when Sherloque reads Nora's notes, which are displayed in full screen. Some of them are really hilarious!
Only good part was the end
This was supossed to be the episode where we Team Flash finally got the reveal of Nora working with Eobard and we got it... but not before getting 45+ minutes of MORE CICADA SHIT + some C plot about some random lady that TIES INTO THE CICADA SHIT. I thought Cicada wasn't supossed to be the big bad for the whole season as to not waste Eobard but whatever, I guess that was hoping for too much. Oh and Nora doesn't even reveal it herself, how grand!
What's better than one Ciccada? No Ciccada, but no sigar you're stuck with them both!
This episode asks the big question of "what if you could heal Hitler before Hitler got all angry and all that?" and then offers up that you should let Hitler get all pissed off with them dar people there... Cuz... Consent! And yes, HEAL not KILL.
Anyways, the past season the show has become preachy and it slowly is seeping out all the fun, turning the fun scenes in short meaningless less fun scenes and making the bad scenes borderline annoying.
Shout by Jim222001VIP 6BlockedParent2019-03-20T19:28:51Z
Chris Klein is better in this one. Finally stopped talking with a Batman voice. Grace was right though. It was too late lol.