Post by stargazer1682 on Mar 7, 2018 2:37:46 GMT
Not a bad episode, actually. I've always been a little ambivalent about Barry's perception of super speed just being everything else slowed down; because even though it makes sense, it also kind of detracts from the experience for any speedster. If that's all it amounted to, then everything a speedster does at super speed, for them, should be incredibly tedious and uneventful. Getting ready for work? No different than anyone else, you're putting your clothes on like normal, just no notices. Run across town and search a bunch of buildings? It's taken you hours, just sort of trotting at a brisk pace; you may not get tired, but it's taking time. Not to mention things that would suck to have to wait for at super speed. You can't shower, because the water doesn't come out any faster. You could maybe take a bath, but you'd have to let it fill up at normal speed first.
But this episode does appear to suggest that there's more to it, because even when he's slowed down, in "Flashtime," he and the others are still zipping around; Barry runs back and forth between the bomb and Star Labs a few times. There's lightning and no indication that he's slowing time more as he does this. And when Cisco asks if this is what it's like, Barry's answer is less definitive.
I kind of wish he had spent more time sped up. And it's not impossible, given the short sequence of him trying to figure things out, but I would have liked to have seen it stretch into relative days for Barry. Show some beard growth.
I like the sense of urgency, and the limit to how long a non-speedster can stand Flashtime.
Two things that bugged me as they explaired their opinions was, a) speedsters can open breaches, that's how Jesse got there and how she was going to get back. And b) time travel. The solution was fair, in my opinion, but come on, Barry isn't willing to go back isn't willing to go back a few minutes or just a day to avert the city from being nuked? Why?? And don't give me that bs about changing time changing people; we're talking about an insignificant amount of time, and more importantly, the difference between saving millions of people's lives, and letting them die. And how quickly they forget that Barry did exactly that when things went sideways the first time around with Vandal Savage. Never mind that an entire series, which now features The Flash's own Wally West, flouts changing history, even when they claim to protect it
More than that, split the difference between a breach and time travel, and open a wormhole to some far flung period in time, where it won't do any harm.
I kind of feel like this would have made a better cliffhanger, maybe season finale, with Barry disappearing at the end; and maybe have been a good lead in to Flashpoint...
But this episode does appear to suggest that there's more to it, because even when he's slowed down, in "Flashtime," he and the others are still zipping around; Barry runs back and forth between the bomb and Star Labs a few times. There's lightning and no indication that he's slowing time more as he does this. And when Cisco asks if this is what it's like, Barry's answer is less definitive.
I kind of wish he had spent more time sped up. And it's not impossible, given the short sequence of him trying to figure things out, but I would have liked to have seen it stretch into relative days for Barry. Show some beard growth.
I like the sense of urgency, and the limit to how long a non-speedster can stand Flashtime.
Two things that bugged me as they explaired their opinions was, a) speedsters can open breaches, that's how Jesse got there and how she was going to get back. And b) time travel. The solution was fair, in my opinion, but come on, Barry isn't willing to go back isn't willing to go back a few minutes or just a day to avert the city from being nuked? Why?? And don't give me that bs about changing time changing people; we're talking about an insignificant amount of time, and more importantly, the difference between saving millions of people's lives, and letting them die. And how quickly they forget that Barry did exactly that when things went sideways the first time around with Vandal Savage. Never mind that an entire series, which now features The Flash's own Wally West, flouts changing history, even when they claim to protect it
More than that, split the difference between a breach and time travel, and open a wormhole to some far flung period in time, where it won't do any harm.
I kind of feel like this would have made a better cliffhanger, maybe season finale, with Barry disappearing at the end; and maybe have been a good lead in to Flashpoint...
