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I just got that reference.
HALLOWEEN EPISODE - Barry’s efforts to prepare Cisco for Crisis are derailed when Cisco schemes to save Barry’s life instead. Meanwhile, Ramsey Rosso uses his deadly new abilities to save his own life, while sacrificing his humanity in the process.
There Will Be Blood promo: - YouTube
I don’t think there’s any doubt that Dr. Suresh is evil now. Turning cancer patients into zombies, only for them to dissolve into black goo. Team Flash surmised correctly that Mohinder was using them as incubators to produce said goo. If they were smart they’d realize that he’d be back to collect his harvest, but I didn’t see them gathering any of it up to potentially lure him into a trap.
More than half the episode was spent on various members of Team Flash trying to come to terms with impending Barry’s demise. There as even a Last Supper-like vignette. While Cisco was angry and Ralph was sulky (and Frost was frosty), I thought Joe was taking the news rather well. Then came the waterworks at the end of the episode. Good God, it hit me right in the feels. Jesse L. Martin is a treasure.
“Nash” Wells going down into the sewer. Is he after crocodiles? Gorillas? Turtles? No, it turns out he’s after the Monitor. Is he working for the Anti-Monitor? Is he Pariah? I guess we’ll see in six weeks or less.
DANNY TREJO GUEST STARS - Cisco’s faith in his ability to fill Barry’s shoes as Team Leader is upended when he learns of a shocking murder. Meanwhile, Killer Frost trusts no one except herself to hunt down the dangerous Ramsey Rosso.
Kiss Kiss Breach Breach promo: - YouTube
Can I just say it’s refreshing to not have the first half a season being spent on trying to figure out who the bad guy even is?
Kind of a filler episode tonight. Barry and Iris go off on vacation (so Grant Gustin can go shoot the crossover?) leaving Cisco to hold down the fort. A lot of good Cisco moments, seemingly unrelated to either the Crisis or Mohinder, that still managed to advance to latter two plots. Are they setting him up to get his Vibe powers back, now that we know breach psychosis is a thing?
Gypsy was chasing after Echo, as in Reverb, as in Vibe, so I thought it was pretty transparent who the killer was. Those breach cops from Earth-19 don’t do their job very well, do they? Too bad about Gypsy - killed off screen. I guess they need an excuse for her not to appear in the Crisis.
This episode seemed to be showing us that Team Flash could function without the Flash. Cisco had an inter-dimensional adventure, even though he doesn’t have any powers. Frost/Caitlin had a run-in with the Big Bad. Joe got to meet with the new “Nash” Wells. The writers are really setting us up there, aren’t they?
Run, Bari, run!
You have a best friend, who you love (because he does have some good qualities), but who makes consistently horrible decisions. Dependably awful. And you decide to make a machine that “thinks like him” so that you can follow his bad advice even when he’s not around.
Thereby proving that you, too, should not be in charge of decision making.
Also, his favorite thing that his wife makes him for breakfast is “a banana”.
Wait, what?
To be fair, Barry did correctly predict that Cisco would give up on B.A.R.I. He knows himself quite well.
Speaking of Cisco giving up on stuff, I wanted to make sure: he could’ve just kept his powers while still showing up for work at Team Flash, right? Or he could’ve given up his powers while quitting the ‘hero’ business? Or he could’ve kept the powers while quitting the ‘hero’ business?
But he instead ditched the powers and — kept doing his old job, working alongside his superhero teammates and opposing superpowered villains?
Who is that helping?
At least in this episode Barry’s decisions were not awful. Cisco’s decisions were fair - but Joe’s were really bad (going on secret spying missions without telling anyone where you are or what you’re up to - classic Team Flash blundering).
Truth.
Except, you know, having Cisco being able to Portal out of anywhere, or into anywhere, is just too plot-convenient, and resolves stories too easily. The Cisco portal-buttons he made are equally as bad, but since they are devices, they can’t be everywhere at once like Cisco could.
Portals would also make Crisis too easy to solve for Barry.
I feel like they could have set it up better by making him lose control of his “Dead Zone” power. So he’s constantly having visions to the point where he can’t function normally.
And, of course, in the absence of that, he’s now, what, the guy who finds himself dazedly wandering around with something sharp and no alibi for whatever the heck just happened while he was incapable of functioning normally?
(Oh, and how great was his girlfriend’s response when he asked her to put that item far, far away from where he’ll be sleepwalking? Gingerly places it on the little table next to the bed? Right by the pillow? Saves time, I guess.)
RALPH GOES DEEP UNDERCOVER - Barry turns his attention to prepping Elongated Man for life after Crisis and without The Flash, but Ralph ultimately teaches Barry a lesson. Meanwhile, Cecile faces her own moment of self-discovery while helping a recuperated Chester P. Runk reclaim his identity.
This is Danielle Panabaker’s second outing as director. She also directed last season’s “Godspeed”.
License To Elongate promo: - YouTube
License To Elongate sneak peek: The Flash 6x06 Sneak Peek "License To Elongate" (HD) Season 6 Episode 6 Sneak Peek - YouTube
I really like the Flash’s new suit. They’ve moved away from the horrible leather of the early seasons. Great texturing, much more form-fitting. Plus the earpieces better reflect the comic versions.
A bit of a quieter, more character-driven episode. I’m glad they’re moving away from the villain-of-the week format and explictly showing us what’s happening to antagonists from previous episodes. Chester was introduced in S06E01 “Into the Void”; apparently he’s been on ice in S.T.A.R. Labs this whole time. Allegra and her cousin Esperanza/Ultraviolet were introduced in S06E02 “A Flash of the Lightning”.
“Nash” Bridges claims the Monitor is a fraud and wants to take him down. Could he actually be the Anti-Monitor? Also, that look “Nash” gave Allegra at the end. Does she remind him of Jesse? What happened to Jesse and Harry on Earth-2 anyway?
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PART ONE OF THE MID-SEASON FINALE - As Barry Allen stands on the threshold of his impending death in Crisis, his convictions are tested when the monstrous Dr. Ramsey Rosso infects The Flash with a mysterious, hallucinogenic contagion. Meanwhile, reporter Iris West-Allen uncovers a vast conspiracy.
The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 1 promo: - YouTube
Were Barry’s visions really generated by Bloodwork or were they just a manifestation of Barry’s own doubt and fear and guilt? If the former, then I don’t think Mohinder fully grasps the awful, terrible scale of the Crisis. What use being able to resurrect dead people when the entire universe has been annihilated by anti-matter?
Bloodwork’s dinner scene was truly demented. I guess that’s as much of a Thanksgiving we’re going to have this season. When Barry went full Reverse Flash on his mother - or rather the Speedforce in the guise of his mother - I knew that he had lost. Good job by Iris on immediately picking up that Barry had been taken over by Bloodwork.
This episode takes place two days before Crisis. Since, for all Barry and Iris know, the Flash is going to vanish then they’re going to have to get busy if they’re going to make a little Nora.
I realize that I do not have a Pulitzer like Kara Danvers, but don’t you usually wait until an event has happened before you write the story?
Or is that just silly Earth-? thinking?