The Review at the End of the Universe
“Enter Flashtime” The Flash takes a break from the DeVoe plot to tell a stand alone story with a really interesting idea at its core that presents a problem not easily solved. Over the past few episodes this season has become almost as frustrating as the last one. Focus on the DeVoe plot has felt…
“The New Rogues” The Flash introduces one of the more celebrated of Barry’s comic book villains as the team struggles with new dynamics. A few questions have been on my mind since this show began. I won’t go into all of them but one of them was definitely “when are we going to see Mirror…
“Magenta” The Flash goes back to basics with a standard metahuman story also featuring the return of Harry and Jesse from Earth-2. It’s good to have Harry back even if he has picked up the annoying habit of saying “Not!” when making statements to announce that he was being sarcastic. The episode does this not…
Clay Liford’s Slash explores the subculture of Slash fiction through the eyes of a 15 year old boy beginning to dip his toe into that world while dealing with his own sexual identity. If you don’t quite know what Slash fiction is I’ve hyperlinked the wikipedia page above but be careful when searching on the…
“The Race of his Life” Season 2 of The Flash comes to an end with Zoom’s master plan becoming clear and Team Flash having to find a way to stop him. Let’s talk about Zoom! He has been a problematic villain to say the least. At the beginning of the season he was a mysterious…
“Invincible” Zoom begins his campaign to bring chaos to Earth-1 when he unleashes a legion of Metahumans on the unsuspecting population in the second season penultimate episode of The Flash. The opening moments of this episode were visually excellent as we saw the Metahumans really tearing through Central City and setting up a problem that…
“The Runaway Dinosaur” Kevin Smith directs an episode of The Flash…oh and some stuff happens to the characters that populate this show. The reason I point out that Kevin Smith directed this one is that it seems to be a selling point for this episode from a marketing perspective but other than having a name…
“Rupture” Barry takes advice from all of his father figures as The Flash deals with the problem of Barry’s lost speed when Zoom begins a campaign to bring Earth-1 to its knees. Having a superhero TV series where the main character loses his abilities for two whole episodes is a really bold decision and risks…
“Back to Normal” Barry has to deal with not having his powers for an entire episode of The Flash as a metahuman captures Harry to make him pay for what the particle accelerator did to him. It’s an interesting idea as Harry is being made to pay for something that actually had nothing to do…
“Trajectory” The Flash comes back from hiatus by introducing a new speedster and delivering some revelations that further the conflict with Zoom. In the early part of the episode I wondered if this was going to be a fairly disposable outing with a one shot villain to kill time before the buildup to the finale…
