An athlete that plays for Central City got a DUI or was dragged out of his house for alleged domestic violence. A Central City athlete is visiting other teams in secret. The owner of the team had a heart attack. Lots of things.
And then in a later development, she could turn out to be Cy-Lon in disguise. 
The problem with Flash and Arrow is that it seems like everyone is going to get their fifteen minutes as a superhero. (I do like the audacity of both shows, though.)
I caught the name “Mal Duncan” and knew he was the Guardian in DC Comics.
Jim Harper (or his clones) will always be Guardian to me!
That’s GRACE Park, not Linda.
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Jim Harper (or his clones) will always be Guardian to me!
Actually, me as well. But this Mal Duncan, singer on the TV shoiw, also became Vox, another sonic-powered super in the comics.
Good episode. They resolved Firestorm just how they should have.
So which Reverse Flash is Wells??
Lots of fun stuff this episode, but boy did I get sick of someone showing up, punching all the soldiers into unconsciousness, and leaving the general plenty of time to activate some random device or other. Sigh. This show just doesn’t know how NOT to have scenes like that apparently.
Also, they seem to have completely forgotten that professor Stein ought to have been well aware that Dr. Wells was the one who drugged him.
I am rather surprised at the pace of this series. Plot points that would, in other series, take several seasons to unfold are here developed (Dare I say it?) in a flash. I thought we’d only learn the details about Nora Allen’s death over the course of the entire series, but it looks like we’re going to see the whole thing resolved by the end of the first season.
Since our TV Flash is Barry Allen, our TV Reverse Flash should be Professor Zoom.
There was a distinct lack of sad Bill-Bixby-Hitchhiking-Away music.
Didn’t Firestorm fly away? (Must have–can you imagine anyone picking up a hitchhiker with a thumb that was on fire? :eek:) Anyway, that music doesn’t work for someone flying.
I liked the episode, but if the general knew who the Flash was, why didn’t he kidnap him already? Also, won’t the army think the Flash kidnapped him? (Although maybe that’s going to be a plot point in the next episode.)
My husband (who is Andy L) noted that although Barry and Iris are close in age, Barry’s much more advanced in his career than she is. I pointed out that it’s difficult to get a (paying) job in journalism these days. He said, “The way to solve that is to decide to go into a different line of work.”
I thought it seemed like they didn’t really have any idea where to go with the character(s?) and thus, just decided to send them off into the unknown.
Also, dammit, but I’m really finding it hard to keep tolerating Barry forgetting about his super-speed… When the general threw the needle grenade thingy, as it was flying through the air, even I would have had time to at least turn away; Barry should have been in the next county and still accelerating.
And the science-babble seems to get worse by the episode. “All matter wants to be together” as an explanation for the firestorm-matrix trying to reassemble itself? And that line about dead fiance guy’s body rejecting Professor Stein’s atoms last episode… Now, I’m not exactly expecting hard sci fi from my comic book TV, but still, at some point, it just looks lazy if you’re not even willing to come up with the thinnest of wallpapering over the holes in logic.
A lot of options… if he wants to be thought of as a super-villain instead of a super-hero. His goal isn’t only to get his father free, but to clear his name, too.
Yeah… that does kind of straddle the hero/villain line. As a very longtime Flash fan, I can’t accept that Barry would play so fast and loose (no pun intended) with the concept of due process, even when the criminals are super-powered.
Easter Eggs: Caitlin mentioned Midway and Coast City.
Midway was Hawkman’s home; Coast City was Green Lantern’s.
Well, FS isn’t a regular main cast member. They kinda had to send him off for awhile. He’ll be back. I was more of a Marvel than DC comic collector, but I did buy (and have in a box somewhere) Firestorm issue #1. Ronnie (don’t call me Ronald) had a professor stuck in his head, and I was afraid they were going to change that.
I try to let it go, but sometimes it feels like the writers aren’t even trying, in a mildly insulting-to-the-audience way. Comic book writers have had to nerf their heros since forever. It can be done.
While I am pretty sure that the brand of whisky Wells and Stein drank doesn’t exist (Auchinbach), it was obviously supposed to be an 18 year old Single Malt and they put ice cubes in it???
Where is the believability factor? :eek: 
What kind of single malt would have a name like that? It sounds … Austrian, or something. What is it, German Scotch?
Maybe it comes from one of those made-up countries so common in comics.
It did look like a single malt, though.
I’m pretty sure Wells drank his neat - so only Stein likes his booze cold.
So he drugged the ice and not the booze. At least that way you don’t waste the whole bottle.
There is a very fine whisky out there called Auchentoshan, which might have been the inspiration for the name.
Yup. One encounter was with a metahuman who can turn into a beatdown squad of a bunch of guys. So Barry is getting his ass handed to him by a squad of 8 guys kicking him, and I’m like “really, now. Why doesn’t he use his super speed to avoid getting punched in the first place”.
For that matter, I recall him encountering another metahuman with armored skin. He needed to run super fast to punch him hard enough. That’s not how physics work, but why didn’t he just get some kind of heavy cable and wrap the guy up in it with super speed instead…