CCPD goes to take down Alchemy and Julian is nowhere to be found? Hmmm…
I see Iris has inherited her dad’s “one punch knockout” gene. Wally, on the other hand, could use more lessons. Although now that he’s a - tree?, pillar of salt? - the point may be moot. Neither Rival’s nor Magenta’s transformations involved an intermediate chrysalis step, did they? The husks do imply that the new metahumans emerge from at least their skins. Also, I don’t think we’ve seen Alchemy with any other lackeys before.
This episode took a page out of Legends by showing us what it looks like when speedsters are going at it at full speed, without slowing anything down. Savitar must be really fast if no one else could see anything and all Barry could see was a blur.
Oh, that was Savitar? I misheard him…thought he identified himself as an Avatar of the God of Speed…so he said ‘Savitar, the God of Speed’, then? Definitely a much better look than the goofy getup he had in the comics.
My main thought was that I didn’t like how they explained Shade’s powers. While I could, vaguely, buy the explanation as an explanation, how that led to light stopping him…didn’t so much work.
Like Kamino, I didn’t like the explaination of Shade’s powers. At all. Not everything needs to be speed-related guys.
Savatar? On top of Kid Flash, Jesse Quick and Rival this season, on top of Reverse Flash and Zoom last season? C’mon. Too many speedsters.
Joe’s girlfriend Cecile (who looks WAAAAAAY too much like Iris for comfort) is an improvement over her comic book version. I wish they’d give her a different haircut or something though because I really don’t like doing double-takes when Joe’s flirting with her.
Douche-Wells is starting to actually ruin the show for me. He’s not funny, he’s not evil, he’s just an annoying pest. My “He’s really Abra-Kadabra” theory is still vaguely possible given that he pulled some future-tech out of his bag: “Oh yeah, this face-changer doodad. Just happened to have it and somehow it projects a new face on top of mine even when it’s in my pocket”. But even if he’s not Kadabra, kill him with fire.
Speaking of: what’s with Alchemy’s fight with the Flash? It’s just ‘send a blast at him, send a blast at him, send a blast at him, send a blast at him, get whupped’?
Dude’s name is Alchemy! He should be, I dunno, changing the Flash’s costume into a solid mass of iron, immobilizing him while suddenly making that big electromagnet over there relevant – and if you say “over where?”, the answer is going to be “well, you’ll see it when the floor under the Flash changes into helium.”
Or whatever: distract the Flash for a moment by threatening the normals with an instant poison-gas cloud, and have it do double duty as an instant smokescreen covering your escape; or do tricks with an instant cloud of hydrogen, and sparks; anything, everything; just something involving alchemy, y’know?
I find Snow’s issues the most aggervating of all - I get being afraid of the new power - but you don’t generally have to worry about ‘becoming evil’ - you either are or you’re not. As far as the vibe - how many times do things have to be ‘not quite what they seem’ before you say’well, it looked like we were fighting, but we know it must be something diferent then it appears’
I found that annoying as well. If she’s really worried that the development of her powers will compel her to do bad things, then the term she wants to use is not “becoming evil” but rather “developing a mental illness” - and while that is scary, “going away” is not what you do about it - getting treatment is.
I get where she is coming from. She has seen an alternate version of herself who is a monster. Now she sees herself becoming that monster. She wanted assurance from Cisco that it couldn’t happen to her from his Vibe but the vibe actually proved the opposite. Wouldn’t that make you feel miserable?
no - it would re-enforce that I am in control of my future and that I wll take whatever means needed to make sure that won’t happen, and no one will stand in my way.
The fact that Julian wasn’t around, and they made note of that, makes me 100% certain that he is NOT Alchemy. They wouldn’t be pointing it out if it was supposed to be a twist.
I’m still leaning towards Alchemy being Flashpoint Wells.
Was Killer Frost ever morally ambiguous in the comics? Did she ever cross lines, or play both sides as it suited her?
I was thinking it might make sense for the TV show to have Caitlin turn into kind of a morally-unreliable character. Sometimes she’d come through for her Star Lab buddies – and perhaps she’d never truly lose her affection for them. At the same time, she might grow compelled to follow her own path, and thus sometimes have to square off against the Arrow-verse heroes for what she sees as a “greater good”.
I think just turning Caitlin evil with the sudden flick of a switch would be sloppy writing. Having her walk the moral tightrope for a while would feel more natural.
