Post by stargazer1682 on Mar 15, 2020 18:45:12 GMT
Well, I can't believe it; first Arrow, now the Flash is going to come to an end this year too?
What's that? The show's not ending? But how can the show continue if the speed force is going to die in this episode?
You say it's probably not actually going to die in this episode; and the title is just a ploy to make us watch? Yeah, alright.
"Why is it every time I visit all hell breaks loose?"
Because you're dating a semi-retired, quasi-superhero who's on a team of superheroes, in a city in constant dire need of saving? Or maybe because the producers like the woman who portrays you and just want an excuse to have you around?
Either way, acknowledging that you're developing a tendency to be at Star Labs during moments of crisis, without actually offering an explanation, is not itself an explanation. You're just making it more obvious that there is no reason for you to be there; something I hadn't really given much thought until you mentioned it. I just chalked it up to the fact that you're in the know now and, in spite of Cisco's absence, have becomes friends with the rest of team Flash; which makes you a de facto member of the team, if albeit maybe an auxiliary one. It's basically the Scooby Gang of Buffy; no one asked why Cordelia all of a sudden started hanging around before she started dating Xander, or after they broke up. She was there because Charisma Carpenter was on contract, dammit. This would be like Cecile exclaiming, "why am I even in this episode?" It's a level of self-awareness that isn't necessary; especially if the writers do their job and make-up a fucking reason.
I'm much more interested in the fact Caitlin actually gets to be Caitlin in this scene and not Frost.
So the Star Labs equipment can tell them when a speedster is running around somewhere in the city, but isn't programmed to tell the difference between Barry or Wally.... Yeah, alright...
Random observation - would Eva really still be wearing heels in this mirror dimension after 6 years? I mean, I supposed all of that could be relative, given some of the other things that are relatively, like needing to eat or change clothes periodically in general. And while I've never worn heels myself, I understand they can get pretty uncomfortable pretty quickly; so what would be the point in wearing them in a universe you're alone in, or even now where you have just one other companion?
Wait, Eva's husband knows she's in the mirror and spend time trying to get her out? I feel like they glossed over that little tidbit.
Wait a fuck second, Eva's drinking water? How the fuck is she drinking anything? Does this mean they do get hungry and thirsty in this dimension after all? Where the fuck is she getting fresh food, much less water? I've brought up before that it makes no sense for some of the other trappings of this world to even exist; like a marker board or canisters of liquid nitrogen. Do they somehow have running water in this backwards reality with all the stuff humans made, but no actual humans beside these two people? I'm not even going to broach the logistics of the other end of the digestive cycle.
So how much of this mental breakdown is an act and how much of it is actually Eva? Because in the previous episode when Iris walked away, Eva's mentality switched from someone on the razor's edge of sanity, to someone much more composed and intent. This episode would suggest that things like her nervousness and focusing on the number of days she's been in this dimension are real, given how she's involuntarily manifested all of that in the Iris double.
Yeah, Barry, let's just assume there's absolutely nothing wrong with the speed force; and not, I don't know, look into and check. I'm sure if your speed force guide was dead, they'd have told you.
Okay, two things. First, if this meta-of-the-week can kill whomever this woman was with the wave of her hand; why not just do that in the first place, rather than whatever they apparently did to the helicopter at the start of the show?
Second, not that I want to see the transition, I take the show poured the vast majority of its effects budget into some combination of Crisis and the recent Grodd episode; which would explain why all we're going to get is the rendering of a green bubble forming over the victim and then a shot that goes on for too long of the other woman just waving her hand, before cutting to the woman on the ground mummified. And we're just going to have to fill in the exact effect of that with our imagination.
"Other people? From other Earths? Not really, because any doppelgangers who managed to make it here, they would all be dead by no due to neurological degeneration."
Shit, they must be dropping like fucking flies in National City.Good thing Other Winn snuffed it when he did. And let's not forget that it's not just the doubles, but their counterparts who are indigenous to this Earth start to die too; and without some type of intervention that would allow one of them to die first, both would die at the same time. That's a whole lot of fucking deaths; and a shit ton of stupidity they're carrying over from Batwoman.
Wow, I never noticed how cluttered Star Labs is, or how many counters it has until recently. You'd think they'd design the set better, to give a clearer shot of people; especially Caitlin. But I guess on the upside, they're making up for it with a lot of close-ups; I assume because she's so beautiful, which she is.
On a completely unrelated note, I look forward to next season's story arc for Supergirl, where the big bad will be a hoarder; who fills National City is 3' tall stacks of old magazines and others odds and ends that Kara will spend most of the season wading through.
Jesus Christ, Crisis is the shitty gift that keeps on giving. So during Crisis they made it seem like Oliver was connected to a source that was somehow related to the Speed Force; or that it was all somehow different names for the same broad reaching thing and that they were as much entering Oliver as the Spectre as they were entering the Speed Force. And they sure as hell acted like Oliver supercharging Barry was a good thing. Oliver even says, "I've unlocked your potential, Barry." Which would suggest that Oliver, the man who had the power to reboot the universe and reshape it into a better world where all his loved ones didn't die and crime wouldn't happen in Star City for decades, knew what the fuck he was doing; and that it was a good and safe thing to do.
Now it would seem that Oliver basically gave the speed force syphilis.
The speed force avatar speaking to Barry as if it really were his mother is just fucking weird.
"We still have a residual amount of speed force left in us...."
Wait, wait, I've seen this one. I've seen this one. They need to stop Rita from burning the green candle, before it kills Tommy; I mean, Barry. And then the other Rangers will need to use some of the energy from their power coins to infuse him with power. But eventually he's going to lose his powers entirely, until Zordon makes him the White Ranger.
I'll give them this, "Thawne" not realizing he has no powers in Nash's body, while predictable, was still funny.
Ah, why do they have a season 1 Flash costume hung up at Star Labs, where his current costume usually hangs?
What's that? The show's not ending? But how can the show continue if the speed force is going to die in this episode?
You say it's probably not actually going to die in this episode; and the title is just a ploy to make us watch? Yeah, alright.
"Why is it every time I visit all hell breaks loose?"
Because you're dating a semi-retired, quasi-superhero who's on a team of superheroes, in a city in constant dire need of saving? Or maybe because the producers like the woman who portrays you and just want an excuse to have you around?
Either way, acknowledging that you're developing a tendency to be at Star Labs during moments of crisis, without actually offering an explanation, is not itself an explanation. You're just making it more obvious that there is no reason for you to be there; something I hadn't really given much thought until you mentioned it. I just chalked it up to the fact that you're in the know now and, in spite of Cisco's absence, have becomes friends with the rest of team Flash; which makes you a de facto member of the team, if albeit maybe an auxiliary one. It's basically the Scooby Gang of Buffy; no one asked why Cordelia all of a sudden started hanging around before she started dating Xander, or after they broke up. She was there because Charisma Carpenter was on contract, dammit. This would be like Cecile exclaiming, "why am I even in this episode?" It's a level of self-awareness that isn't necessary; especially if the writers do their job and make-up a fucking reason.
I'm much more interested in the fact Caitlin actually gets to be Caitlin in this scene and not Frost.
So the Star Labs equipment can tell them when a speedster is running around somewhere in the city, but isn't programmed to tell the difference between Barry or Wally.... Yeah, alright...
Random observation - would Eva really still be wearing heels in this mirror dimension after 6 years? I mean, I supposed all of that could be relative, given some of the other things that are relatively, like needing to eat or change clothes periodically in general. And while I've never worn heels myself, I understand they can get pretty uncomfortable pretty quickly; so what would be the point in wearing them in a universe you're alone in, or even now where you have just one other companion?
Wait, Eva's husband knows she's in the mirror and spend time trying to get her out? I feel like they glossed over that little tidbit.
Wait a fuck second, Eva's drinking water? How the fuck is she drinking anything? Does this mean they do get hungry and thirsty in this dimension after all? Where the fuck is she getting fresh food, much less water? I've brought up before that it makes no sense for some of the other trappings of this world to even exist; like a marker board or canisters of liquid nitrogen. Do they somehow have running water in this backwards reality with all the stuff humans made, but no actual humans beside these two people? I'm not even going to broach the logistics of the other end of the digestive cycle.
So how much of this mental breakdown is an act and how much of it is actually Eva? Because in the previous episode when Iris walked away, Eva's mentality switched from someone on the razor's edge of sanity, to someone much more composed and intent. This episode would suggest that things like her nervousness and focusing on the number of days she's been in this dimension are real, given how she's involuntarily manifested all of that in the Iris double.
Yeah, Barry, let's just assume there's absolutely nothing wrong with the speed force; and not, I don't know, look into and check. I'm sure if your speed force guide was dead, they'd have told you.
Okay, two things. First, if this meta-of-the-week can kill whomever this woman was with the wave of her hand; why not just do that in the first place, rather than whatever they apparently did to the helicopter at the start of the show?
Second, not that I want to see the transition, I take the show poured the vast majority of its effects budget into some combination of Crisis and the recent Grodd episode; which would explain why all we're going to get is the rendering of a green bubble forming over the victim and then a shot that goes on for too long of the other woman just waving her hand, before cutting to the woman on the ground mummified. And we're just going to have to fill in the exact effect of that with our imagination.
"Other people? From other Earths? Not really, because any doppelgangers who managed to make it here, they would all be dead by no due to neurological degeneration."
Shit, they must be dropping like fucking flies in National City.Good thing Other Winn snuffed it when he did. And let's not forget that it's not just the doubles, but their counterparts who are indigenous to this Earth start to die too; and without some type of intervention that would allow one of them to die first, both would die at the same time. That's a whole lot of fucking deaths; and a shit ton of stupidity they're carrying over from Batwoman.
Wow, I never noticed how cluttered Star Labs is, or how many counters it has until recently. You'd think they'd design the set better, to give a clearer shot of people; especially Caitlin. But I guess on the upside, they're making up for it with a lot of close-ups; I assume because she's so beautiful, which she is.
On a completely unrelated note, I look forward to next season's story arc for Supergirl, where the big bad will be a hoarder; who fills National City is 3' tall stacks of old magazines and others odds and ends that Kara will spend most of the season wading through.
Jesus Christ, Crisis is the shitty gift that keeps on giving. So during Crisis they made it seem like Oliver was connected to a source that was somehow related to the Speed Force; or that it was all somehow different names for the same broad reaching thing and that they were as much entering Oliver as the Spectre as they were entering the Speed Force. And they sure as hell acted like Oliver supercharging Barry was a good thing. Oliver even says, "I've unlocked your potential, Barry." Which would suggest that Oliver, the man who had the power to reboot the universe and reshape it into a better world where all his loved ones didn't die and crime wouldn't happen in Star City for decades, knew what the fuck he was doing; and that it was a good and safe thing to do.
Now it would seem that Oliver basically gave the speed force syphilis.
The speed force avatar speaking to Barry as if it really were his mother is just fucking weird.
"We still have a residual amount of speed force left in us...."
Wait, wait, I've seen this one. I've seen this one. They need to stop Rita from burning the green candle, before it kills Tommy; I mean, Barry. And then the other Rangers will need to use some of the energy from their power coins to infuse him with power. But eventually he's going to lose his powers entirely, until Zordon makes him the White Ranger.
I'll give them this, "Thawne" not realizing he has no powers in Nash's body, while predictable, was still funny.
Ah, why do they have a season 1 Flash costume hung up at Star Labs, where his current costume usually hangs?
