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Spoilers The Flash - Season 2

This is a network that cut its superhero chops on casting a 24-year-old as a 15-year-old.

Heck, they were doing that in the '50s. Jack Larson was 24 when he started playing the teenaged Jimmy Olsen in Adventures of Superman -- and as you may recall, there was an episode called "The Boy Who Hated Superman" in which the titular "boy" was played by a 29-year-old actor. Burt Ward was 21 when he started playing Robin, but Robin wasn't old enough to drive until the third season, so the character must've been around 14 when the series started.

I believe Andrew Garfield was 47 when he played teenager Peter Parker.
 
I just hope this show gives us a great version of Wally West, however they choose to embed him into the West family.
 
Did Captain Cold just freeze lasers? You all saw that right? Okay then.

Pretty good filler episode with some nice character moments, but this was an episode that I'll completely forgot by season 3.
 
He froze the emitters. And electrical device that stopped working for a couple minutes until they returned to room temperature again. Cold explained this. If you're talking about the ice limbo sticks, well I suspect that the cooling ray/agent slowed when it hit the lasers and didn't dissipate into nothing.
 
Did Captain Cold just freeze lasers? You all saw that right? Okay then.

Pretty good filler episode with some nice character moments, but this was an episode that I'll completely forgot by season 3.

I actually yelled out "Come on!" when i saw that.. i'm ok with writers fudging a little science to make superhero powers work on the screen but freezing a laser beam?

On top of the episode featuring Captain Cold (the portrayal of the character and the actor who "acts" him which i really hate on this show) this was one of the dumbest things i have seen in a while anywhere.

Apart from Snart who is the low point everytime he appears on Flash it was an ok episode and the final scene was just gold (kudos also to the writers and Cavanaugh due to his facial expression.. i can't tell if that's a villain or just a curious scientist).

Next week should prove to be a very interesting episode.
 
Yeah, the "freezing lasers" thing was really dumb.

Oh, also when Cisco said that he was tracking the cold gun, not with infrared heat radiation, but with ultraviolet cold radiation. That was a facepalm moment. Ultraviolet radiation is much hotter than infrared. Objects cooler than a few hundred degrees radiate in infrared. When they get hotter, their peak radiation rises into the visible light range, first red, then up the scale through orange, yellow, etc. -- which is why molten metal or lava or the filaments in a toaster glow red-hot, and why stars give off light. Even hotter, and the peak wavelength goes to blue, then violet, then beyond violet -- which is what "ultraviolet" literally means (just as "infrared" means "below red").
 
I'm more concered with a gun that can supposedly make objects/people reach absolute zero...and apparently it's survivable if you're connected to the speed force and have access to a high-tech space-heater. Though, I suppose it's the same in the comics.

My favorite lines:

"So, while the cold gun reaches absolute zero, the heat gun successfully reaches absolute hot." ... "So potentially, these two guns could cancel each other out!"

:lol:
 
Is absolute hot a real thing? I imagine it would be what happens when atoms are excited to the point that they're vibrating at C, which I can only presume would do some very drastic gravitational things to local space-time. If so that'd be way more interesting a concept than "it melts things".

Perhaps a cold based villain is a more fitting nemesis for a speedster than I first thought...
 
Caitlin is certainly attracted to Jay. And they're ignoring the whole Iris/Barry attraction, which is too similar to Smallville. And speaking of Smallville, Micheal Ironside was Lois' father and Payton List was her sister, so it was kind of a family reunion in more ways than one. And I thought the idea of Louis exploding people's harkened back to Scanners.
 
Caitlin is certainly attracted to Jay. And they're ignoring the whole Iris/Barry attraction, which is too similar to Smallville. And speaking of Smallville, Micheal Ironside was Lois' father and Payton List was her sister, so it was kind of a family reunion in more ways than one. And I thought the idea of Louis exploding people's harkened back to Scanners.

Good call. I didn't even make the Scanners connection until just now.

For me though, and I know it is not going to happen, it is episodes like this that make me wish for more 13 episode seasons of shows. I would much rather have 13 episodes of Legends, Arrow, Flash, and whatever spread out over the course of the television season than 22-24 episodes seasons loaded with fillers.
 
Honestly, based on last season, even "filler" of the Flash is good to great. I'm all for longer seasons of shows, personally, especially when they're as good as The Flash has been. Sometimes shows suffer from having filler, but The Flash hasn't yet, at least in my opinion.
 
The first season was really good, I admit, but this last episode was by far the worst of the series so far.
 
I can't really call this one a filler ep. since it's part of the set up for Legends Of Tomorrow.
 
Yeah, this last episode might not have been super important, but it was entertaining. Not ever episode has to advance a central plot, especially if its just a good story by itself. I'm used to older shows that have no season wide plot anyway, so (as much as I like serialization), I'm fine with "filler" if its still good. Its more time with characters I like, even if its not technically "important" to the season in general.
 
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