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Post by Grayson on Feb 9, 2019 17:10:26 GMT
Well, here we are, a new forum and over halfway through the season but there are still things to be discussed.
Is Cicada really the Big Bad of the season?
What is Nora doing working with Wells Thawne?
Why is Crisco...seriously why?
My name is Barry Allen, and I am the fastest man alive. To the outside world, I'm an ordinary forensic scientist. But secretly, with the help of my friends at S.T.A.R. Labs, I fight crime and find other metahumans like me. But when my daughter came back from the future to help, she changed the present. And now our world is more dangerous than ever, and I'm the only one fast enough to save it. I am the Flash.
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Post by Amoebas on Feb 9, 2019 17:35:33 GMT
I think Achilles made a thread for this stuff over in the Pit.
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Post by Grayson on Feb 9, 2019 17:40:08 GMT
I haven't watched the newest episode yet but I am caught up through the January 29th episode "Memorabilia."
* This season needs more Joe West. Like bro, do you ever Flash without Joe?
* It's interesting to me that the version of Cicada that lives inside of Grace's mind is a female version of Cicada. Even though we only really saw her for a few moments during this episode, I think it's fair to say that there is a very real possibility that Grace is somehow behind all of this. Could the satellite fragment lodged in her brain be giving her metahuman abilities to control and/or manipulate the doctor and her uncle? Are we going to get some type of Frequency scenario in which Nora (and perhaps Wells Thawne) encounters an older version of Grace as Cicada in the future while her father encounters Orlin Cicada in the past?! We've only had a few moments of this version of Cicada and I already find her to be infinitely more interesting that her counterpart.
* Wow, are they ever really heavy handed about the way that they are trying to make Iris relatable to the audience through Nora.
* Speaking of Nora, has she always had a portable Gideon?
* Call me crazy but it seems to me that the whole "Single's Night" scene at the bar was a missed opportunity to introduce a certain "Sue" into the series for old Ralphy boy but no, you're right, it's more important to introduce another side plot for Crisco that no one was asking for on top of the curiously shoe-horned meta human cure subplot.
* And there is a meta human cure subplot going on now, of which Crisco is curiously obsessed, but we know from earlier in the season that Iris intentionally suppresses Nora's abilities. Does the cure not exist in Nora's timeline? If not, why isn't she more concerned about this divergence to the timeline? If it does exist and Cicada is still on the loose, why hasn't Nora mentioned it?
* I will admit that at first, I thought Sherloque was a bit too "kitchy" to last for the long haul throughout the season. I have also really wanted Ralph to prove his mettle by solving this Cicada mystery before him. That being said, heavy handed Sherlock analogies aside, I have been really interested in his arc during the latter half of the season so far. I am concerned that the trail that he is following could inevitably lead to his own downfall, courtesy of Wells Thawne, who looks curiously more like Sherloque than Harrison Wells but I am really interested to see where his investigation into Nora (and perhaps now Thawne as well) will lead.
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Post by Grayson on Feb 9, 2019 17:42:56 GMT
I think Achilles made a thread for this stuff over in the Pit. Oh, sorry, I did not see it. |
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Post by Grayson on Feb 12, 2019 23:29:50 GMT
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Post by chap22 on Feb 12, 2019 23:34:35 GMT
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Post by Amoebas on Feb 13, 2019 1:16:51 GMT
Way to go Iris West Allen. Just fucking sit there and not shout "He three his knife like a booomerang" to your friends.  |
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Post by Amoebas on Feb 13, 2019 1:24:26 GMT
Way to go XS. just fucking forget that Cicada threw his knife like a boomerang at your friends. |
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Post by Amoebas on Feb 13, 2019 1:36:48 GMT
Way to go Sherlock. Just fucki.... Hmmm, Kelsey thinks he's seen this one before. Again.  and again. |
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Post by chap22 on Feb 13, 2019 4:45:31 GMT
52 times. Goddammit DC, there are other numbers.
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Post by chap22 on Feb 13, 2019 14:02:50 GMT
But holy shit, next episode...King Shark vs. Grodd, motherfuckers!!!
May as well just cancel the rest of the entire Arrowverse after that, they’re never gonna top that one.
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Post by Grayson on Feb 14, 2019 3:09:26 GMT
- Ok, first and foremost, there have been a lot of utterly ridiculous things throughout the history of these CW DCU series. Having said that, Ralph and Barry's laser beam shoot out with Goldface's henchmen, all set to "Dragula" may take the cake. It was just too ridiculous even for me.
- As far as this week's episode is concerned FFS Nora. Seriously? It took you 52 fucking tries to ask for help?! You watched some variation of one or more of your friends dying 52 fucking times before you realized that you didn't know wht the fuck you were doing?! I take t back, there is NO way that you could be Eobard's daughter or even related to him. That much self important stupidity could only come from your mother.
- And finally, look, I am about as liberal as they come. I think that there a lot of men out there, that are acting like a bunch of petulant babies because they are finally being told to stop acting like pieces of shit. That being said, the whole "men in this city" line...what the fuck? What was that about? Like, you literally only walked up to deliver their coffee and Crisco made the mistake of reaching for the wrong mug. Calm the fuck down.
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Post by SporkBot on Feb 14, 2019 3:29:52 GMT
This episode was a prime example of stuff happening just to excuse the story they had, not that they knew what to do with it.
- I don't think they explained why Nora couldn't travel back to just before Ralph walked in (maybe I missed it).
- There seems to be a lot of reasons why their plan to stop Cicada should not have worked. Nora is moving forward (in the vicinity of the dagger, which should be sapping her powers), while everyone else is in rewind. Again, maybe I missed why this was supposed to work.
- Shouldn't she have a time duplicate? Or are we supposed to forget that so the story can happen?
- EDIT: Seriously, Iris? Not a word? I don't hate you like everyone else, but seriously...the Hell, woman?
- Cicada's "told ya" was not particularly clever in all those outcomes.
- Of course it was 52 times. And "technically 53" doesn't make it better.
- Cisco's various dating blunders...not as charming as the show thinks it is.
- Why did no one think to bring those anti-meta cuffs? Maybe two pairs to restrain his feet?
- Here's an idea: Instead of taking the meta-cure into the Speed Force, why not just go back in time a month? Like with the LAST thing that was "definitely" going to stop a guy that could've been stopped several times by now?
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Post by jephd on Feb 14, 2019 16:01:10 GMT
What if thawne has that face because he's not thawne he's future Loque trying to ensure the best outcome?
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Post by Grayson on Feb 14, 2019 22:07:25 GMT
- I don't think they explained why Nora couldn't travel back to just before Ralph walked in (maybe I missed it). This is a huge leap but I assume that Nora was sorta trapped between the moment that Barry entered and exited the Speed Force. This is also the reason why she couldn't enter the Speed Force herself. |
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