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The Lord Bude: May 23, 2007; ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

algebra testes posted:

I started watching this and I'm up to season 2.... this seems a bit uneven all of a sudden. Does the show get out of this nose dive of Barry being a un-fun grump moping around the whole time?

In season 4

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McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

There was a point late last season that would've been perfect to merge the Caitlin and KF personalities and move the character forward (if only to cut the lame Diet Hulk antics and give Caitlin some backbone) but it wooshed right over the writers' heads and now she's just a walking checkbox for "used freeze FX this episode" and having Danielle Panabaker make worried faces at a lab console.

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Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

It�s probably a pretty good gig though.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 06:49

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Joe Mama Poonana posted:

Iris your blog is fuckin ugly

Everything is ugly standing next to Iris.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 06:49

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Rocksicles posted:

Everything is ugly standing next to Iris.

It's nuts that they have these crazy attractive women on the show and Candice Patton just makes them all look like they haven't been to makeup yet.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 07:00

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Rhyno posted:

It's nuts that they have these crazy attractive women on the show and Candice Patton just makes them all look like they haven't been to makeup yet.

Have you seen Patty's instagram? Because gawd daym!.
She's a solid 99/100
https://www.instagram.com/therealshantel/

# ? Mar 17, 2018 07:32

MiddleOne: Feb 17, 2011

algebra testes posted:

I started watching this and I'm up to season 2.... this seems a bit uneven all of a sudden. Does the show get out of this nose dive of Barry being a un-fun grump moping around the whole time?

Get out while you still can!

(Legends of Tomorrow is the opposite. Terrible season 1 and then it just takes off somehow)

# ? Mar 17, 2018 09:51

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

MiddleOne posted:

Get out while you still can!

(Legends of Tomorrow is the opposite. Terrible season 1 and then it just takes off somehow)

Because it's full of Flash refugees.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 10:19

Open Source Idiom: Jan 4, 2013

Rhyno posted:

It's nuts that they have these crazy attractive women on the show and Candice Patton just makes them all look like they haven't been to makeup yet.

But that's also because Danielle Panabacker keeps stealing all the makeup. She is painfully glossy.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 10:33

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

McSpanky posted:

There was a point late last season that would've been perfect to merge the Caitlin and KF personalities and move the character forward (if only to cut the lame Diet Hulk antics and give Caitlin some backbone) but it wooshed right over the writers' heads and now she's just a walking checkbox for "used freeze FX this episode" and having Danielle Panabaker make worried faces at a lab console.

Aren't they hinting they're still gonna do this? When Cait and whoever were talking in Jitters and got interrupted by Barry's daughter, the thing Caitlin was saying is that for the first time, she actually started to remembere some of the things she was doing as Frost.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 13:53

TwoPair: Mar 28, 2010; Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta; Grimey Drawer

I'm just hoping that now since Kreisberg's gone, the entire writing staff won't get canned and the show will actually have a chance to get steadily better instead of just throwing poo poo at the wall to see what sticks.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 14:57

twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

XboxPants posted:

Aren't they hinting they're still gonna do this? When Cait and whoever were talking in Jitters and got interrupted by Barry's daughter, the thing Caitlin was saying is that for the first time, she actually started to remembere some of the things she was doing as Frost.

That episode did also have KF express concern for Caitlin's safety, so yea, there could be something moving there.

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Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

Are you telling me having frost powers doesn�t automatically make you evil anymore? I will not stand for this.

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LongDarkNight: Oct 25, 2010; It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.; Oven Wrangler

Well Iris had proven that being a speedster doesn't make you a moron so anything is possible.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 20:51

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

LongDarkNight posted:

Well Iris had proven that being a speedster doesn't make you a moron so anything is possible.

No, Iris knew if she kept the speed it would slowly give her brain damage. That's why she gave Barry his speed back.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 21:00

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

Rhyno posted:

No, Iris knew if she kept the speed it would slowly give her brain damage. That's why she gave Barry his speed back.

Yeah. Notice how Barry got markedly smarter for the duration of this episode when he didn't have his speed. Coincidence? I think not.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 21:10

Rocksicles: Oct 19, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

Rhyno posted:

No, Iris knew if she kept the speed it would slowly give her brain damage. That's why she gave Barry his speed back.

Barry's feeling the mode. Wally doesn't get his poo poo turned inside out by the speedforce.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 22:16

Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

Cause Wally left to go meditate. Barry needs to integrated Wells� smart hat into his costume.

# ? Mar 17, 2018 23:36

twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Invalid Validation posted:

Cause Wally left to go meditate. Barry needs to integrated Wells� smart hat into his costume.

Wally went to a better place, Legends of to Tomorrow!

# ? Mar 17, 2018 23:39

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

twistedmentat posted:

Wally went to a better place, Legends of to Tomorrow!

Doubly so, because Love, Simon (aka the real reason why Wally got written off of Flash) premiered this weekend in theaters, and from the sound of it it's really drat good too. It was also directed by Greg Berlanti, fyi.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 06:30

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

nine-gear crow posted:

Doubly so, because Love, Simon (aka the real reason why Wally got written off of Flash) premiered this weekend in theaters, and from the sound of it it's really drat good too. It was also directed by Greg Berlanti, fyi.

I read that he's in the film for like 4 scenes but it's nice to know that he wasn't pushed out for no reason.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 07:38

Tiggum: Oct 24, 2007; Your life and your quest end here.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Should've kept Iris as a speedster.

At least as far as this episode went, the reversed roles did seem to work a lot better.

Zebulon posted:

Then they screwed that up because Vixen takes place in and is from actual Detroit by name.

IIRC DC Earth has all of the real world's cities and also a bunch more because it's just bigger than the real Earth.

Avalerion posted:

Ep was good, though almost like they were responding to some critism against Iris directly - like rememembering she�s supposed to be a reporter.

I thought this episode actually did a pretty good job of showing that she has a significant role in the team now and the others do look to her for leadership - and then just undermined all that at the end by having her decide she needs to restart her lovely blog that looks like a website from the '90s.

Mooseontheloose posted:

I liked that Barry was willing to give his powers up so Iris could have them too, something very honest and cute about that.

It fit his character really well (the non-mopey version anyway) by emphasising his selflessness and his respect for Iris.

pile of brown posted:

They better kill melting point in the next episode because holy poo poo is his power OP.

If they were going to kill off characters whose powers were way too good they'd have to start with Barry. 90% of the team's problems shouldn't even be an issue given what we've seen him do previously.

Invalid Validation posted:

Does it matter if the Flash is a black woman? Joe even called her The Flash? I mean besides racists anyways.

When that second emergency siren went off, when Barry and Iris were in the training room, I really wanted him to notice the alarm and say something like "What are you waiting for, Flash?" By the time Joe said it I was just glad someone had.

Autism Sneaks posted:

If Barry, Wally and Avery Ho can all be the Flash in comics, I don't see why Iris can't co-Flash

Because this show has consistently demonstrated that it has no idea how to handle two speedsters at once. Although it might work if Melting Point sticks around and Iris is just the Flash while Barry's at his day job.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 14:40

OB_Juan: Nov 24, 2004; Not every day is a good day.; Dinosaur Gum

I was surprised Iris didn't end up with the fire powers.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 16:55

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

OB_Juan posted:

I was surprised Iris didn't end up with the electric powers.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 17:19

MiddleOne: Feb 17, 2011

Tiggum posted:

Because this show has consistently demonstrated that it has no idea how to handle ~~two speedsters at once~~ one speedster.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 17:28

Grem: Mar 29, 2004; It's how her species communicates

Just watching Enter Flashtime and did they literally for no reason just say "Wally's Not Here" off screen before Jesse starts talking to her dad?

# ? Mar 18, 2018 23:20

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Grem posted:

Just watching Enter Flashtime and did they literally for no reason just say "Wally's Not Here" off screen before Jesse starts talking to her dad?

They used to date. Not hard to understand.

# ? Mar 18, 2018 23:56

Grem: Mar 29, 2004; It's how her species communicates

I get that, but the way it was off screen and after she had been there for a minute was more to remind the audience than to tell her, since she wasn't even on screen at the time and before and after she was she was talking to her father.

# ? Mar 19, 2018 01:22

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

It wasn't offscreen.

# ? Mar 19, 2018 02:42

twistedmentat: Nov 21, 2003; Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Wally is better off with Zari anyways.

# ? Mar 19, 2018 03:02

DoctorWhat: Nov 18, 2011; A little privacy, please?

Also it wasn't off-screen, Barry does a loving hillarious 45-degree lean-in from behind another character to poke out his head and deliver the line in question.

# ? Mar 19, 2018 07:23

fractalairduct: Sep 26, 2015; I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream!

Grem posted:

I get that, but the way it was off screen and after she had been there for a minute was more to remind the audience than to tell her, since she wasn't even on screen at the time and before and after she was she was talking to her father.

is barry completely misreading her reason for being there, it's supposed to be incongruous

# ? Mar 19, 2018 10:38

AlliedBiscuit: Oct 23, 2012; Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?!!

Maybe it was an outtake that they decided to put in the show because it was funny?

Just spitballing...

# ? Mar 19, 2018 20:37

Azhais: Feb 5, 2007; Switchblade Switcharoo

fractalairduct posted:

is barry completely misreading her reason for being there, it's supposed to be incongruous

Yeah, Barry's an idiot. Occam's Razor. Stop looking for more complicated reasons :v:

# ? Mar 19, 2018 20:42

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Did the CCPD ever paint over that room of equations Barry was writing down when he got out of the Speed Force, or is it still there?

# ? Mar 19, 2018 22:12

WhyteRyce: Dec 30, 2001

Davros1 posted:

Did the CCPD ever paint over that room of equations Barry was writing down when he got out of the Speed Force, or is it still there?

They leave it there to intimidate perps

# ? Mar 20, 2018 01:48

Koalas March: May 21, 2007

Candice Patton played Superhero Strip Poker on GMM today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu1P3ryF3Xo

# ? Mar 20, 2018 15:51

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

Looks like we might be getting more Council of Wells in the future. The titles for episodes 21 and 22 were released today: �Harry and the Harrisons� and �Think Fast.�

Personally, I hope the second one involves Barry getting whacked in the head by a beer can, but we�ll see.

# ? Mar 29, 2018 20:55

GreenNight: Feb 19, 2006; Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

I'm sorry but until we know which house was bitchin' I can't take any of this seriously.

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muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Renewed

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