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Damon Griffin |
I am the last person in America who has never seen the Matrix movies.
I think he's merged with the Speed Force and when he returns he'll not only have access to any amount of speed needed, but will have picked up at least one new speed trick.
Also, we just got two simultaneous origins for the price of one. I wonder if any passing reference to the Tornado Twins will be made in connection with that.
Aberzombie |
Well, at least now…
So….a supervillain takes over an entire city, kills a bunch of police officers on camera, and…nothing from the outside world? I mean, I understand that this is all about The Flash, but this nothing response kind of defies reality a bit too much.
At least the writer’s had Barry channel their inner stupidity about having him surrender his powers in the first place.
Also, seems to me, the Barry I thought I knew wouldn’t have hesitated for one second about risking his own life to get his powers back so he could save innocent people.
Rupture was kind of lame.
When the hell is Cisco going to start learning to use his powers the way his evil counterpart did. If he were doing that, he and a powered Flash could probably have whupped Zoom together, the way Deathstorm and Evil Cisco did to the Flash over on Earth 2.
Please don’t tell me they’re going to go the route of Earth1 Caitlin turning evil after Zoom’s little speech. Some clichés are better left not done.
Next week’s episode is apparently directed by Kevin Smith. That could be cool. I kind of wish he’d start writing some titles for DC again. I still fondly remember his work on Green Arrow.
Kalshane |
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JoelF847 RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16 |
Barry definitely didn't try to get his powers back initially due to concern about another uncontrolled dark matter explosion creating another bunch of meta humans. After last week's episode with a guy who literally was killed by his own powers, I can see that as top of mind.
Current man in the iron mask theory:
Thomas Seitz |
Agreed, with the people that say It wasn't so much Barry DIDN'T want his powers, he didn't want to endanger the city by having ANOTHER uncontrolled particle accelerator explosion. Or even a minor-ly controlled one. I complete understood that. However I also think Barry didn't think it through in the sense which is the greater risk, more metahumans and weird stuff or death by homicidal speedster.
phantom1592 |
Agreed, with the people that say It wasn't so much Barry DIDN'T want his powers, he didn't want to endanger the city by having ANOTHER uncontrolled particle accelerator explosion. Or even a minor-ly controlled one. I complete understood that. However I also think Barry didn't think it through in the sense which is the greater risk, more metahumans and weird stuff or death by homicidal speedster.
I was rather pleased with the resistance. They hit the notes I complained about last week. ONLY Wells thought it was a good idea. The collateral damage to the city... the increase of super-villains... VERY notworthy complaints..
I was also glad that they DID address the chemicals and lightning as being mandatory (my guess is
They even mentioned that fact that Barry was in a coma for 9 months after the first explosion.
Though I DO notice that Wells never had a response to THAT concern...
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Aberzombie |
Kevin Smith directed episode….!
I thought the parts with a reanimated Girder were ridiculous.
I did like the way Cisco and Wells teamed up to try and rescue Barry. I do wish, however, they’d have worked Barry’s return a little different. Instead of them opening a door for him (so to speak), I think I’d have preferred to have Iris call his name, he hears, and then realizes he can return on his own.
I’m glad Henry is going to be sticking around some more. Maybe just long enough for them to kill him off…?
WRT Jessie and Wally – looks like Jessie is for sure going to have speed powers. Perhaps the writers will have her run in at the last second to save Barry from Zoom. Wally, on the other hand, appears to be not as affected…yet. That’s cool. They can save it for another time when Barry is helpless and needs to be saved by someone else. Plus, too many speedsters all at once would make things even more idiotic than having a speedster be the big bad every season.
The scene at the end, with Zoom giving the Rah Rah speech to his little army of meta-humans was extraordinarily lame. The way this show has developed, there’s no way Barry can defeat them all. He just doesn’t have enough people to help him do that. Unless they have Cisco come up with a brilliant plan to use a machine he invents in 2 seconds, coupled with Barry’s speed, that’ll then suck all the people who vibrate at Earth-2 frequency back to their own earth. Except, of course, Barry’s speed wouldn’t be enough in this case, but Jessie Quick would show up just in time to save the day.
And, yes. I do think it's extremely f+%+ing stupid that Flash can't seem to defeat any single villain on his own. He's developed into not so much a hero, as a weapon smarter people use against bad guys.
Dal Selpher |
Barry's chat with Speedforce!Henry at his mom's gravestone was exceptionally excellent. And I got teary when he met Speedforce!Nora.
And as much as Cisco's "Zombie? Fer real?!" line made me bark a laugh, the whole rest of the episode that wasn't Barry in Speedforceville struck me as pretty laaaaame.
But man, did I enjoy Barry's chats with all the lookalikes. Shoot.
Greylurker |
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There are some interesting implications in Barry's chat with the speedforce.
They seemed to be implying that Barry has been subconciously rejecting his own powers after not saving his mother (IE: for all of season 2). Which dose rather nicely explain why Barry has been running dead last against every other speedster he runs into lately. In the back of his brain he has been telling himself "I don't deserve this"
The man has been wearing shackles of his own creation all season, now hopefully he has shaken them off.
Thomas Seitz |
Still unclear how fast Barry is now, but at least he's got his Speedforce connection back.
I did enjoy this episode, but like everyone else, more for Barry's stuff than the other things.
Hopefully Jesse does get powers before the big metahuman battle. Cause that's a lot of Metahumans, even for one Flash.
Aberzombie |
Yeah, I'm sure the writers will dig up someone(s) (or some plot MacGuffin) to take care of all those metahuman Friends of Zoom.
Although, I think it would be cool (and completely against the grain) if the writers had Barry come up with some clever science trick utilizing a combo of his own speed and Cisco's powers to send them all back to Earth 2 in one shot!
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Aberzombie |
Does Barry gain mass as he approaches light speed?
If so, aren't his fists really heavy?
I believe something like that has been used in the comics, at least the Wally West Flash. He was battling some guy wearing frictionless power armor and used a momentum transfer to send the guy through several buildings.
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