Post by stargazer1682 on May 25, 2019 2:09:21 GMT
Hmmm...I wonder if these recaps about Nora connecting to the Negative Speed Force or Sherly flirting with his ex-wives' doppelganger are indicative of what will happen in this episode?
It's probably a coincidence.
I've listened to Sherloque's accent so often now, there was a moment I actually expected Thawne to speak with a French accent...
So let me get this straight, the cops or whomever in the future are planning to use something that gave Thawne his powers to "end" him? What could possibly go wrong with that?
One of these days I want to see Team Flash do one of these exposition recaps using puppets and a jaunty song about team work and friendship - you know, to help Ralph and Barry understand what's going on and feel like they're actually included in the grown-up speak.
I'd pay good money if, part way through Ralph saying that Cicada must being missing something, or else they'd all be dead; if all the metas in the room just keeled over, because Cicada had released the virus 5 minutes earlier.
What could possibly go wrong with asking meta-humans - many of whom are known and possibly wanted criminals, while others are lumped in as being as bad just for being a meta - to come down to a police station and taking a "cure"? Never mind the whole pesky, "it hasn't strictly been test or approved by the FDA" thing - we're just going to hand it out like candy; if candy were injected into your veins with a syringe. So I guess it's more like they're handing it out like heroine, which is not where I thought this train of thought was going end up, but here we are....
So if Team Flash has to make enough doses of the "cure" to administer it to each meta one at a time....should Cicada kind of need to do the same thing with the anti-cure? I mean, I know they keep calling what Cicada has a "virus," but seeing as how it's just a failed attempt at a cure, it's probably not actually a virus. And if the difference is because of the disbursement method, then maybe Team Flash should consider applying their focus making their own....whatever that device is that's going to seed the clouds with meta-death, or something; and beat Cicada to the punch by spreading the cure that way?
I know, I know, because they're concerned about taking away people's powers without their consent; and yet something tells me that losing literally unnatural powers is the preferred option to being murdered by a crazy quasi-meta from the future. Maybe that's just me.
Did Cisco just throw out a random reference to Sydney Freeman from MASH?
Ralph: "Where did it go?"
Cisco: "It doesn't matter."
Ron Howard Voice Over Narration: "It will."
Jesus, why the fuck is Sherly grilling his supposed girlfriend about not checking her phone? You're coming on a bit possessive. Especially when you segue to "her secret". Dude, if she has a secret and hasn't told you, maybe she has her reasons not to want to. Just because you've figured it out doesn't mean you should try getting her to tell you; don't beat around the bush, tell her what you suspect and let her confirm or deny it.
And of course Cicada just happens to land three feet away; and apparently incidental of the pair even being there, because she lands (because apparently Cicada can fly? Or is it like a Thor thing, where she throws her knife and just keeps holding on?) she responded to the knife's indication of a meta presence as though she hadn't expected one to be there. So in this seemingly large city, Cicada touches down right next to Sherloque and his sort of girlfriend....
It's taking Barry and Nora an awfully long time to get to Sherloque's location.
Wait, it took Barry and Nora so long to get there, that Cisco and Ralph get there first? I mean, I get it, it's something short of teleportation, but then why even run there instead of accompanying Cisco and Ralph?
Okay, so the "Quantum Tunneling Converter," is "the first working prototype of its kind" - so how the fuck do Barry and Cisco know what this thing can be used to build and what needs to be added to it in order to do it? If it's the first of it's kind - a prototype no less - then how would they know what it could do to dark matter or why Cicada would want it? (And no, I'm not calling her "She-Cada" - because there's no reason to; she's just Cicada II, there's no need to qualify her gender).
It would have made more sense if Cisco and Barry were just as clueless as Ralph, for the very fact that it was a prototype; whereas Nora recognized its potential, because in her time they're more common devices and their application has been more deeply explored over the next 30 years.
And so, because Nora inherited from both her parents their penchant for calm, deliberate and rational decision making, Barry and Iris were successful in talking Nora out of taking what probably would have been a reckless measure of tracking Cicada through their mental link and the Negative Speed Force; and they came up with a safer way of finding her....
How the hell is Joe this hesitant and self-doubting about administrative decisions?
That's a fuckton of metas in Central City, who have apparently been flying under the radar for five years.
Remember when they gave the cure to someone for the first time and he had to be closely monitored and started seizing after receiving it? Man, that seems like forever ago.
What's that? It was like a month ago? Man, they're soooooooo gonna get sued.
Damn, when did Ralph get a brain? Did he pay a visit to a certain wizard recently?
Because of course Nora can use her speed to become invisible; and not even her father, the fucking Flash, has the level of perception to see her...
I'm assuming there was no risk of causing any kind of brain damage by just ripping that thing off Nora; and Barry knew that.
I can also assume that sugar is derived from a plant, the ice cream I'm eating right now constitutes as a salad.
What I'm saying is, I'm not great at making assumptions about things.
"You could have given away our location" - Wait, doesn't Cicada II already know your location? Didn't you bring Cicada I to Star Labs for his treatment; which is where Grace attacked you?
The writers watch their own show, right?
Yeah, no, I heard how stupid that sounds even as I typed it....
"When I first got here I rushed in to fixed things; and by doing that I always ended up making them worse."
Good thing you don't do that any more. Not for like, at least a week...
You know, listening Cecile compare administrating the officers at the CCPD to all the times he's given advice to the likes of Barry and Isis; I suddenly picture Joe having long, heartfelt talks with other officers about whether to send two cops of three on a specific assignment, or the merits of treating metas on a first come, first serve basis; and then hugging it out afterwards.
And does Singh not have a second in command, a Sergeant or someone that would be higher up in the ranks and actually trained and actually possessing some level of experience with this sort of thing, to delegate the responsibility to? This seems like it would literally be above Joe's pay grade.
Nothing says love like chasing a woman down to convince her to have a medical procedure she doesn't actually want....
Is Sherly going to introduce Renee to her doppelgangers and reveal that he's kind of married her several times before?
Remember when the device that was needed to open a breach to another Earth was huge? And didn't it need Barry to run at full speed to even make it work?
For that matter, remember when the entire plot of season 2 was the danger of the breaches created after closing the singular created at the end of season 1; and how it was important to seal them?
Has Cecile taken the cure yet?
"Hold onto your butts."
Really, Cisco, a Jurassic Park reference? This will not bode well.
Oh, yeah, I guess some of those metas were probably created during the Enlightenment.
Gee, Cicada's going the CCPD? Who could have imagined she'd end up there? It's not like they broadcasted a citywide invitation to Cicada bait earlier or anything.
Cisco needed to be reminded to use his brain....
So they really just have a little hand held wormhole generator that allows them to travel to anywhere in time and space, don't they? Why don't they use that more? Hell, why don't they develop that for practical, global application and die drowning in money?
Hmmm... My curiosity is piqued by the ending; enough to jump to the next episode, rather than watch the others that would have aired first. So that probably needs to count for something.
It's probably a coincidence.
I've listened to Sherloque's accent so often now, there was a moment I actually expected Thawne to speak with a French accent...
So let me get this straight, the cops or whomever in the future are planning to use something that gave Thawne his powers to "end" him? What could possibly go wrong with that?
One of these days I want to see Team Flash do one of these exposition recaps using puppets and a jaunty song about team work and friendship - you know, to help Ralph and Barry understand what's going on and feel like they're actually included in the grown-up speak.
I'd pay good money if, part way through Ralph saying that Cicada must being missing something, or else they'd all be dead; if all the metas in the room just keeled over, because Cicada had released the virus 5 minutes earlier.
What could possibly go wrong with asking meta-humans - many of whom are known and possibly wanted criminals, while others are lumped in as being as bad just for being a meta - to come down to a police station and taking a "cure"? Never mind the whole pesky, "it hasn't strictly been test or approved by the FDA" thing - we're just going to hand it out like candy; if candy were injected into your veins with a syringe. So I guess it's more like they're handing it out like heroine, which is not where I thought this train of thought was going end up, but here we are....
So if Team Flash has to make enough doses of the "cure" to administer it to each meta one at a time....should Cicada kind of need to do the same thing with the anti-cure? I mean, I know they keep calling what Cicada has a "virus," but seeing as how it's just a failed attempt at a cure, it's probably not actually a virus. And if the difference is because of the disbursement method, then maybe Team Flash should consider applying their focus making their own....whatever that device is that's going to seed the clouds with meta-death, or something; and beat Cicada to the punch by spreading the cure that way?
I know, I know, because they're concerned about taking away people's powers without their consent; and yet something tells me that losing literally unnatural powers is the preferred option to being murdered by a crazy quasi-meta from the future. Maybe that's just me.
Did Cisco just throw out a random reference to Sydney Freeman from MASH?
Ralph: "Where did it go?"
Cisco: "It doesn't matter."
Ron Howard Voice Over Narration: "It will."
Jesus, why the fuck is Sherly grilling his supposed girlfriend about not checking her phone? You're coming on a bit possessive. Especially when you segue to "her secret". Dude, if she has a secret and hasn't told you, maybe she has her reasons not to want to. Just because you've figured it out doesn't mean you should try getting her to tell you; don't beat around the bush, tell her what you suspect and let her confirm or deny it.
And of course Cicada just happens to land three feet away; and apparently incidental of the pair even being there, because she lands (because apparently Cicada can fly? Or is it like a Thor thing, where she throws her knife and just keeps holding on?) she responded to the knife's indication of a meta presence as though she hadn't expected one to be there. So in this seemingly large city, Cicada touches down right next to Sherloque and his sort of girlfriend....
It's taking Barry and Nora an awfully long time to get to Sherloque's location.
Wait, it took Barry and Nora so long to get there, that Cisco and Ralph get there first? I mean, I get it, it's something short of teleportation, but then why even run there instead of accompanying Cisco and Ralph?
Okay, so the "Quantum Tunneling Converter," is "the first working prototype of its kind" - so how the fuck do Barry and Cisco know what this thing can be used to build and what needs to be added to it in order to do it? If it's the first of it's kind - a prototype no less - then how would they know what it could do to dark matter or why Cicada would want it? (And no, I'm not calling her "She-Cada" - because there's no reason to; she's just Cicada II, there's no need to qualify her gender).
It would have made more sense if Cisco and Barry were just as clueless as Ralph, for the very fact that it was a prototype; whereas Nora recognized its potential, because in her time they're more common devices and their application has been more deeply explored over the next 30 years.
And so, because Nora inherited from both her parents their penchant for calm, deliberate and rational decision making, Barry and Iris were successful in talking Nora out of taking what probably would have been a reckless measure of tracking Cicada through their mental link and the Negative Speed Force; and they came up with a safer way of finding her....
How the hell is Joe this hesitant and self-doubting about administrative decisions?
That's a fuckton of metas in Central City, who have apparently been flying under the radar for five years.
Remember when they gave the cure to someone for the first time and he had to be closely monitored and started seizing after receiving it? Man, that seems like forever ago.
What's that? It was like a month ago? Man, they're soooooooo gonna get sued.
Damn, when did Ralph get a brain? Did he pay a visit to a certain wizard recently?
Because of course Nora can use her speed to become invisible; and not even her father, the fucking Flash, has the level of perception to see her...
I'm assuming there was no risk of causing any kind of brain damage by just ripping that thing off Nora; and Barry knew that.
I can also assume that sugar is derived from a plant, the ice cream I'm eating right now constitutes as a salad.
What I'm saying is, I'm not great at making assumptions about things.
"You could have given away our location" - Wait, doesn't Cicada II already know your location? Didn't you bring Cicada I to Star Labs for his treatment; which is where Grace attacked you?
The writers watch their own show, right?
Yeah, no, I heard how stupid that sounds even as I typed it...."When I first got here I rushed in to fixed things; and by doing that I always ended up making them worse."
Good thing you don't do that any more. Not for like, at least a week...
You know, listening Cecile compare administrating the officers at the CCPD to all the times he's given advice to the likes of Barry and Isis; I suddenly picture Joe having long, heartfelt talks with other officers about whether to send two cops of three on a specific assignment, or the merits of treating metas on a first come, first serve basis; and then hugging it out afterwards.
And does Singh not have a second in command, a Sergeant or someone that would be higher up in the ranks and actually trained and actually possessing some level of experience with this sort of thing, to delegate the responsibility to? This seems like it would literally be above Joe's pay grade.
Nothing says love like chasing a woman down to convince her to have a medical procedure she doesn't actually want....
Is Sherly going to introduce Renee to her doppelgangers and reveal that he's kind of married her several times before?
Remember when the device that was needed to open a breach to another Earth was huge? And didn't it need Barry to run at full speed to even make it work?
For that matter, remember when the entire plot of season 2 was the danger of the breaches created after closing the singular created at the end of season 1; and how it was important to seal them?
Has Cecile taken the cure yet?
"Hold onto your butts."
Really, Cisco, a Jurassic Park reference? This will not bode well.
Oh, yeah, I guess some of those metas were probably created during the Enlightenment.
Gee, Cicada's going the CCPD? Who could have imagined she'd end up there? It's not like they broadcasted a citywide invitation to Cicada bait earlier or anything.
Cisco needed to be reminded to use his brain....
So they really just have a little hand held wormhole generator that allows them to travel to anywhere in time and space, don't they? Why don't they use that more? Hell, why don't they develop that for practical, global application and die drowning in money?
Hmmm... My curiosity is piqued by the ending; enough to jump to the next episode, rather than watch the others that would have aired first. So that probably needs to count for something.
