Piku_Ringo
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Yer simply not savvy enough to understand such a nuanced character.
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The Flash S3 |OT| It was me, Barry.
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Yer simply not savvy enough to understand such a nuanced character.
I swear to god if he said the show is too smart for us plebs to understand
Look on the bright side : at least it's not Power Rangers Megaforce where they don't even try to hide the fact that they're doing a lesson of the day each episode.
Just as someone's about to find out who Savitar is, the ship will pop up and knock them out.
Really not liking this series, there's really no point paying any attention to what's happening because it will likely be undone next week if not 5 minutes later,
Barry & Iris need space? Nope, engaged again.
Cisco and Gypsy an item? Yes? No? No? Yes?...Yes?...No...Yes.
Caitlin is Killer Frost? No. Yes, give her some bracelets!. No. Yes! Give her a necklace!!. No. Yes.
Barry will try to disrupt the future? Yes? No leave it as it is.
Barry can't run forward in time again? No, definitely not.....oh actually yes.
It's not so much a story arc as a story yo-yo.
Barry & Iris need space? Nope, engaged again.
Cisco and Gypsy an item? Yes? No? No? Yes?...Yes?...No...Yes.
Caitlin is Killer Frost? No. Yes, give her some bracelets!. No. Yes! Give her a necklace!!. No. Yes.
Barry will try to disrupt the future? Yes? No leave it as it is.
Barry can't run forward in time again? No, definitely not.....oh actually yes.
It's not so much a story arc as a story yo-yo.
Some super based Super villain or hero will come back with. Booster Gold anyone?
PHOENIXZERO
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Yeah, Savitar hasn't been compelling at all even with the way they tried to work this season there's just not enough there with him to make an interesting villain and we all know Iris ain't gonna die. Someone else probably will but it won't be her.
Better not be Joe either and Julian dying would be lame as well.
Well I thought it was a pretty good episode. Abra Kadabra was a cool OP villain, and the stakes and moral dilemma of letting him go versus handing him over to Gypsy were portrayed really well.
I hope that Killer Frost has fully taken over Caitlin this time. I want to see her as a true villain, not as this flip-flopping split personality that does neither character justice.
I hope that Killer Frost has fully taken over Caitlin this time. I want to see her as a true villain, not as this flip-flopping split personality that does neither character justice.
ertitoagus
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my bet is that savitar is eddie
Caitlin is a wanted criminal was the excuse.
Abduct a doctor? Have Barry run her to a European hospital?
Literally anything but "have a guy with no experience do it while instructing him via a mirror?"
Seven Force
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It's almost definitely going to be Joe (I have a feeling that's what the headline about him being honored at City Hall is about) I hope I'm wrong, because I'd be a lot less enthusiastic about the show if he does die.
Episode was one of the stronger ones of the season, dunno what all the commotion is about. We got some neat character moments Joe and a cool chase scene, and probably the best villain of the week this season. It would be criminal to not have Abra appear next season.
We also got a hint for next season's villain.
No Savitar reveal this week and the Gypsy x Cisco were the only two things that soured me.
We also got a hint for next season's villain.
No Savitar reveal this week and the Gypsy x Cisco were the only two things that soured me.
Her and Cisco just need to fuck already, then maybe we'll get less of his increasingly cringy (usually one-sided) flirting
You saw her kiss him right?
This is why the mini arc formula works better for comic book shows. Imagine if Flash gave Abra Kadabra a 5 episode mini ac, similar to what Gotham did for Mad Hatter.
She has a lot of perfect features.
Yeah the split personality thing with Catilyn is really dumb. They need to give us some sort of explanation for it.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
We actually need an explanation for the opposite: why aren't Barry, Wally, Jesse, Cisco, and Firestorm bad guys? Practically every other metahuman is a villain.
Pretty much this, this is the chance they had of not having a speedster main villain or having him as the main villain for a mini arc. For the first time a non speedster in this TV show actually felt powerful compared to Flash without it feeling hamfisted and they wasted it on one episode.
Like... there's nothing stopping them from giving a villain a bigger role in the future, next season spoilers about another show
. Like, if they can re purpose villains of the week to be regulars in another show (Cold and Heatwave), no reason for them not being able to re purpose them into a season big bad.
Black siren
Yea it's like "oh I saw my counterpart in another earth have the same power and she was evil, means if I have this then I'll be evil too so I have to get rid of it" nevermind the fact that it's her fear of power and desperately wanting to get rid of it is what made her aggressive in the first place and now it's a split personality which we have to take it as it is.
My personal belief is that it's the Speedforce giving Barry a permanent "fuck you" for Flashpoint
Dominican Power
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Maybe these CW shows wouldn't be so trash if the were like 13 episodes a season each.
Dominican Power
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Well, the comic book character is a villain.
Yeah, I was a little confused about that mention. I know it's a throw-away joke, but I don't even remember him knowing Superman even existed, besides that Kara had a cousin.
Probably just an off-screen exchange or something, they did the same with Siren.
The one sided flirting from Cisco this episode was extremely cringey. Like, it was just embarrassing.
I can't imagine they kill off Joe...they need a father figure in the show
Deadly Joker
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Season 4 Wells can be the new father figure.
Septimus Prime
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On Earth-52, Harrison Wells looks like our Joe West.
Yes, and?
I'm sorry, what's wrong with HR's parenting? He's been a great father figure to Wally.
Septimus Prime
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Pretty much the only reason caitlin is evil
Jorok Goldblade
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Not anymore, she isn't. She learned how to drain the heat she needed to survive without doing any permanent damage, changed her name from "Killer Frost" to "Frost" and joined Batman's Justice League:
She also knew the lyrics to the song he was making up. Music Meister based the sprint on both their minds, so Barry knows to sing about Superman.
Razgriz-Specter
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I really wish they could give Flash a full on Batman-like villain as the big bad for next season.
I don't care how they do it.
I'd even accept Thomas Wayne(Batman) discovering that Barry is Savitar as well as messing with time travel and he decides to fuck Barry up for the season.
And then reveal it in the last few episodes, kinda like Merlyn in S1 of Arrow .
I don't care how they do it.
I'd even accept Thomas Wayne(Batman) discovering that Barry is Savitar as well as messing with time travel and he decides to fuck Barry up for the season.
And then reveal it in the last few episodes, kinda like Merlyn in S1 of Arrow .
Of course you want a Batman like villain, you have an extremely unhealthy obsession with Batman. Whenever I see you post I'm usually surprised if it doesn't reference Batman in some way.
The Thinker appears to be a strong candidate for next season's big bad and he's obviously a villain with an intellectual bent so that's of a similar mold.
Plus they said his name hopefully we wont wast time building up a mystery about his identity.
Poodlestrike
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Not anymore, she isn't. She learned how to drain the heat she needed to survive without doing any permanent damage, changed her name from "Killer Frost" to "Frost" and joined Batman's Justice League:
This feels like a sensible place to take things tbh. Go for the Heat Vampire thing, but skip straight to the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire endpoint. Make her a Legend while we're at it.
Mini-arcs are the best way to go. Unless you've got a truly cohesive story you want to tell for its own sake, full-season plots never work out, even for shorter seasons. Look at the Netflix shows.
You wanna keep going after the season is up, you're better off using deliberately shorter arcs strung together.
Just_myles
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Too bad this won't be "The Flash" that everyone seems to be talking about whenever they reference him.