CW's Flash

Saw the third episode/finale. Ah, the old convince the sympathetic big bad to change their ways in the 11th hour trick. Works every time.

Speaking of puns I'm sure they've been waiting to make for years: a Wells who is explicitly a time traveller (rather than being impersonated by one). I suppose in the future he'll show up exactly when he's needed and give exactly the advice he needs to give, and then bounce Time Lord style.

@Ralph: that's got to the most craziest/most ballsy way of writing around not actually having the actor I've ever seen. Still sucks that they basically rushed through the end of his and Sue's arc, but what are you gonna do, right?

I still really hope someday we get a Ralph & Sue superhero mystery show.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 17th 2021 at 8:05:30 AM

Marvel might have beaten CW to the punch on that one.

Huh? Wandavision isn't a mystery show. At best, it's cosmic horror, but that's kind of a stretch.

Were the show's first 3-4 episodes not a mystery concerning who is actually behind the events of Westview? To the extent that they did a literal song and dance number once the truth was revealed, and fans were theorizing what was actually going on for weeks?

I mean, I don't know what distinguishes it from a mystery show if it doesn't count.

Edited by FOFD on Mar 17th 2021 at 11:10:52 AM

Well yes its a mystery but not a detective mystery like Ralph & Sue typically are.

Ralph and Sue are more the investigate stuff mystery like Sherlock, not the mind-screw your not sure who you are mystery.

Edited by slimcoder on Mar 17th 2021 at 11:16:20 AM

Ok, that was so blatantly the finale.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Wells is still gonna turn up again eventually. Maybe they'll figure out a way to summon him, maybe he'll decide that re-living the past over and over again actually isn't a great idea, who knows.

Yeah, the thing with Ralph was so obvious. If I wasn't aware of the actor drama, I'd still assume the actor was unavailable for some reason.

That tease at the end was very interesting. Wonder what's happening there.

ohhhhh

.....

Frost and Caitlyn were literally having a splitting headache.

Also, it looks like there are adapting the other (insert thing here) forces, and Strength is first. I don't know much about the arc. There's speed, and there's strength, but what else?

Sage and Still IIRC

sage and still. sage is mind powers like telepathy, telekenisis, and heatwave could use it for pyromancy. still is the turtle and his baby turtle form which grodd uses it is the opposite of speed force.

also I guess it kinda makes sense this is happening now in the comics the new forces were only unleashed when barry and wally had their flash war and broke the speedforce

Edited by Deadpoolrocks on Mar 23rd 2021 at 8:03:40 AM

I think this the first time we've seen Crows Security outside of Gotham.

Some people are suggesting next week's Villain of the Week could be a Sage Force user. Maybe an adaptation of Psyche?

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Mar 24th 2021 at 12:15:00 PM

The CGI on that.....whatever that thing was, that just looked straight-up bad.

Caitlin and Frost split? Man, I could see that work, excited for next week [smile]

me: man i hate how this show is so damn insistent about making Caitlin and Frost two separate characters.

this show: *literally splits them into two separate humans*

me: ...really guys?

That was them personally spiting you.

Well its not like they can get rid of either character, so its a decent compromise.

And Danielle Panabaker gets to flex her acting chops.

I actually like it. Split Personalities aren't something you see every day in this form.

I saw this coming for a while. They haven't really utilized Caitlin and Frost's split personality connection for a while now, and now they're effectively separate characters with their own things going on - just ones who couldn't exist in the same scene together.

I could see an alternate version of the series where Frost being Caitlin's alter ego remained a major character trait, but the story didn't shake out that way and by now nothing would really change if they weren't technically the same person.

So for a while now, I've suspected that the Killer Frost situation would end either in a split in two - which they did - or a Split-Personality Merge, either way ending the split thing and consolidating the character(s). I think I would've preferred the latter, but the former makes sense for a network tv series with a "don't seriously subtract from the number of characters without reason" sensibility.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Mar 27th 2021 at 4:36:40 AM

I never liked the split personality approach to begin with, and I feel like every season it gets more and more grating for me.

@Cross: You joke, but it actually does feel like that.

Jordan Fisher has been cast as Bart Allen (Impulse) for the show's 150th episode. (For reference, tonight's episode will be #138).

This is so crash.

Oh, I like him a lot and find him charming as an actor. Interesting choice.

cool

Let's just hope he will not be shoved to the sidelines as much as Wally.

So uh....speed force's back

Yeah. That was unexpected.

But then again, so is this new dude no selling the psychic dampeners and a speed force lightning attack. I'm guessing he's one of the other forces, and that's why he's so stupid strong.

And the day is saved, by the Care-Bear Stare.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Mar 30th 2021 at 1:24:55 PM