I had this delightful feeling at the beginning of this episode...
"FRANCINE-IS-FROM-EARTH-II!"
Meh?
It was just a feeling.
"FRANCINE-IS-FROM-EARTH-II!"
Meh?
It was just a feeling.
Spoilers The Flash - Season 2
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Noticed that, eh? Turnabout is a shoe that is best served on a fair foot, or something like that....
Wally was a crack baby.
Crack heads get MacGreggers.
Crackbabies get broken worse by crack than adult crackheads.
Wally has McGreggors.
Barry is the cure.
Crack heads get MacGreggers.
Crackbabies get broken worse by crack than adult crackheads.
Wally has McGreggors.
Barry is the cure.
An episode of Arrow already made a "MacGregor's Syndrome" reference. The Clock King was suffering from it.
That shark thing at the end was... unexpected.
Hopefully there will be a good explanation for why Earth-2 Wells was acting so much like a bad guy here.
I do wonder why they created a new character to be Firestorm 2.0 instead of bringing back Jason Rusch. Maybe the actor they used as Jason last season wasn't right for/interested in an ongoing role, but they could've recast the part. Still, Franz Drameh was effective as Jax. He offers more of a contrast with Stein, which might be more effective over the long run, giving them an Odd-Couple dynamic.
Hopefully there will be a good explanation for why Earth-2 Wells was acting so much like a bad guy here.
I do wonder why they created a new character to be Firestorm 2.0 instead of bringing back Jason Rusch. Maybe the actor they used as Jason last season wasn't right for/interested in an ongoing role, but they could've recast the part. Still, Franz Drameh was effective as Jax. He offers more of a contrast with Stein, which might be more effective over the long run, giving them an Odd-Couple dynamic.
I vaguely recall that back in early 80s Firestorm comics, Ronnie had a high school friend named Jefferson in his supporting cast. I don't remember if his last name was Jackson. Maybe the new character was named after him?
[ETA: I've since gotten a couple of Google hits indicating that he was indeed!]
I also got a giggle out of the fact that both candidates had alliterative names.
[ETA: I've since gotten a couple of Google hits indicating that he was indeed!]
I also got a giggle out of the fact that both candidates had alliterative names.
The STAR Labs gang is really sloppy about the whole secret identity thing. Consider the scenario: Someone is brought into STAR Labs and interacts with a team including STAR employees Caitlin and Cisco, physicist Martin Stein, and, for some reason, a police forensic scientist named Barry Allen. Then, later on, they see the Flash working with Caitlin, Cisco, and Stein, and Barry is nowhere to be seen. It's not exactly rocket science.
Or maybe this world goes by the same logic as the '70s Wonder Woman, in which a bad guy could chase Diana Prince into an elevator, see Wonder Woman come out of the same elevator moments later, and not even suspect a connection between the two.
Or maybe this world goes by the same logic as the '70s Wonder Woman, in which a bad guy could chase Diana Prince into an elevator, see Wonder Woman come out of the same elevator moments later, and not even suspect a connection between the two.
I wonder if David's OK? He'd just been [thrown in that basement / buried in that pit / whatever] that the big green creature came out of!
I think they also had the Flash outfit on display in its case when they broght him over.
They did indeed Jack, they did indeed. Could have at least hid it in the room Wells used to hide his suit. At least the treadmill is now Cosmic! So Barry can't tell the difference between human and shark DNA? Sad we probably won't see the shark again due to cost but just the fact they used him was awesome? Now let's bring in the Shade.
I think the implication is that it was human DNA on the shark teeth, because King Shark is still part human so his dna comes up as at least partially human in tests, not that Barry messed up the test.
Presumably he was a metahuman mutated to look like a shark, which was why his DNA was human.
On top of my concern about the secret-identity issue, the gang is still being pretty damn cavalier about civil rights. First there's Barry taking blood samples from people without their permission. That's a major violation; in fact, in addition to the gross violation of privacy, I believe it legally constitutes battery, since sticking a needle into someone and taking their blood is causing "corporal hurt," even if it's to a mild degree. It's probably also theft.
Then there's the revelation that they still confine metas in the Pipeline. I thought that Joe's line a couple weeks back about how Iron Heights Prison is now equipped to hold metas would mean that the whole ethical quagmire of illegal detention in the Pipeline would go away, but they're still doing it, at least with Wannabe Firestorm Dude -- which seems to be mainly because they were careless enough to reveal their whole secret superhero setup to him before doing a background check. (Man, these guys are really bad at this.)
Even an idiot dentist, or a vet even, should be able to tell that that tooth is the wrong shape to be human and came from something 13 feet tall.
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The King Shark effects were great - very well done for a TV show. Very well done period.
OMFG! Yes!!! 
New Firestorm was great, Wells from E2 YES!
New Firestorm was great, Wells from E2 YES!
And this is why you do background checks.
Whithout proper superpower control laws people will just use particle accelerator loopholes to sell firestorm matrices to anyone.
And before you know it, the bad guys all have them and people shout only a good guy with a firestorm matrix can stop a bad guy with a firestorm matrix.
What's next? Firestorm Matrix free zones have to be put in place to keep the peace, like in stadiums.
And a simple background check was really all that was needed!
Whithout proper superpower control laws people will just use particle accelerator loopholes to sell firestorm matrices to anyone.
And before you know it, the bad guys all have them and people shout only a good guy with a firestorm matrix can stop a bad guy with a firestorm matrix.
What's next? Firestorm Matrix free zones have to be put in place to keep the peace, like in stadiums.
And a simple background check was really all that was needed!
One thing that seemed odd to me was that Caitlin was the one who was so gung-ho about recruiting a new Firestorm, to the degree that she rushed the introductions and bypassed the background check and so forth. I would've expected the opposite -- that she'd be resistant to the idea of, essentially, replacing Ronnie with some stranger. I don't think the episode really did enough to justify why she was in such a hurry. I mean, sure, she was concerned for Stein's survival, but still, she was unusually driven, in a way that didn't seem to make sense for her.
Could this perhaps be evidence that she's starting to develop a mild case of Killer Frost...?
Could this perhaps be evidence that she's starting to develop a mild case of Killer Frost...?
She's a snob?