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Starstruck protege of scientific genius murders those harmed after an industrial accident gone wrong.
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May 13, 2016 04:13
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What a terrible episode. And, wow, they really are going for the whole Barry-Iris thing... 
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May 13, 2016 04:50
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned how stupid Grindr's zombie walk was. The whole time it looked like he was trying to keep his pants from falling down. Also I'm glad Zoom continues his descent into Power Ranger villain by employing a group of terribly non threatening mooks that will probably come at the Flash one at a time.
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May 13, 2016 05:08
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Just to get it straight, Zoom murdered all the cops and took over the police station, and then the Flash died and Zoom had to go get a bunch of alternate universe metahumans, so basically the death of all the police in the city didn't have any immediate repercussions?
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May 13, 2016 05:14
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boom boom boom posted:Just to get it straight, Zoom murdered all the cops and took over the police station, and then the Flash died and Zoom had to go get a bunch of alternate universe metahumans, so basically the death of all the police in the city didn't have any immediate repercussions? Well the show's a bit out of sync with Arrow right now but I believe these events take place after (last night spoilers) Damien Dhark set off a Russian nuke on American soil so the national forces do actually have other things to deal with atm
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May 13, 2016 05:54
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Dresh posted:Well the show's a bit out of sync with Arrow right now but I believe these events take place after (last night spoilers) Damien Dhark set off a Russian nuke on American soil so the national forces do actually have other things to deal with atm The fact that Barry had his powers at Laurel's funeral and said he was late because of Zoom would suggest that Arrow is actually ahead of Flash, so I wouldn't expect the nuke to happen in Flash for a couple of weeks yet. That said, the timing of that crossover and the Supergirl one suggest that no one cares about keeping things synchronised any more, so who knows.
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May 13, 2016 06:42
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The real reason is the writers are bad and don't think about how to make the plot at least remotely realistic. Supervillain murders a bunch of cops and claims the city as his own as the rest of the country watches on TV and does nothing? Yea OK. 
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May 13, 2016 08:22
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Boring episode. Fitting that they mention TWD in it actually. At least Iris actually had some good lines for once.
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May 13, 2016 11:25
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JT Smiley posted:I'm shocked no one has mentioned how stupid Grindr's zombie walk was. The whole time it looked like he was trying to keep his pants from falling down. It's the Thriller intro before they start dancing basically.
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May 13, 2016 14:30
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Chokes McGee posted:What I want to know is, what kind of powers does Newsboy behind Not Dolph Zigger have? It's weird that you're picking up on Dolph Ziggler and not the fact that Newsboy is a dead ringer for Miz. enraged_camel posted:What a terrible episode. This...surprises you? If this were a Superman show, would you start banging your head against a wall when he started making eyes at Lois Lane?
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May 13, 2016 16:40
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SonicRulez posted:It's weird that you're picking up on Dolph Ziggler and not the fact that Newsboy is a dead ringer for Miz. Maybe if Lois Lane was his adopted sister
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May 13, 2016 16:43
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SonicRulez posted:This...surprises you? If this were a Superman show, would you start banging your head against a wall when he started making eyes at Lois Lane? If they'd made Lois Clark's adopted sister, with whom he'd consistently had less chemistry than various other LLs introduced, yes.
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May 13, 2016 16:45
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Maybe if Lois Lane was his adopted sister Yeah. That is a bit.. unsettling. I mean I get it, they're not related by blood, but it still seems a little off to me.
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May 13, 2016 16:45
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If I learned anything from watching every season of Dexter, it's that adopted siblings still count as incest.
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May 13, 2016 16:51
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It would maybe seem less incestuous if he wasn't still living with their dad.
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May 13, 2016 17:20
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punchymcpunch posted:If I learned anything from watching every season of Dexter, it's that adopted siblings still count as incest. Ehhhhhhhhh as an adopted person I feel like there is a pretty substantial difference between adoption and late childhood foster care. Did the Wests ever even fully adopt Barry? It still has the potential to be weird but they didn't grow up as brother/sister from birth. poo poo I dunno maybe I am being insensitive to foster kids here tho.
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May 13, 2016 17:31
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greatn posted:It would maybe seem less incestuous if he wasn't still living with their dad. Henry's going to move in and the show renamed to "My Two Dads"
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May 13, 2016 17:39
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flosofl posted:Henry's going to move in and the show renamed to "My Two Dads" The man in the iron mask is his best friend Joey Gladstone and it becomes Full House. Instead of telling Barry to go faster, he tells bad metas to cut it out.
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May 13, 2016 17:48
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Guy A. Person posted:Ehhhhhhhhh as an adopted person I feel like there is a pretty substantial difference between adoption and late childhood foster care. Did the Wests ever even fully adopt Barry? It still has the potential to be weird but they didn't grow up as brother/sister from birth. I'm pretty sure Joe was legal guardian idk if he way fully adopted though. It's a moot point however, because it was still established that Barry loved Iris before he moved in and was also already preteen at that point. If you want to get into the weird science of sexual attraction they were well beyond that point of the Westermick effect being a thing and didn't grow up as siblings. If you want to blame someone besides the writers for this all being muddy, I'd blame Joe since he knew the entire time and was basically like, sure move in during the most sexually awkward period of your life and I'm just going to pretend you're not jerking off to my daughter who will be in the next room, it's nbd.
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May 13, 2016 17:49
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And then Joe having multiple talks with Barry: "Hey Bear, why ain't you loving my daughter yet?" "Uh, Joe, Iris isn't Iris engaged?" "Answer the question"
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May 13, 2016 17:54
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According to my Gmail spam folder, incest is super in right now anyway. (Actually darkpriest said in his AMA that it really is super in.)
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May 13, 2016 17:56
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A lot of people are acting like the writing's gone downhill, as if it had a hill to go down. The writing was never good. The big difference is the show isn't fun and lighthearted this season, and that was a breath of fresh air. Mortanis posted:It'd be pretty weird for them to revisit Barry trying to save his mom yet again, but it's possible. The first season was basically leading to Flashpoint and then swerved at the last minute. And we just got the "depowered Barry gets his powers back" plot last week. He has to revisit it again to stop himself from saving his mom in the first place.
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May 14, 2016 00:04
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Aphrodite posted:According to my Gmail spam folder, incest is super in right now anyway. There's no other explanation for the popularity of The Game of Thrones.
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May 14, 2016 00:11
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boom boom boom posted:There's no other explanation for the popularity of The Game of Thrones. titties
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May 14, 2016 01:21
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Koalas March posted:I'm pretty sure Joe was legal guardian idk if he way fully adopted though. Barry "loved" Iris before he moved in? Dude, they had not met before. There's actually a scene earlier this season where Joe takes little Barry home, and Iris is standing at the top of the stairs and introduces herself. And they're both like... 8 years old.
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May 14, 2016 01:39
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enraged_camel posted:Barry "loved" Iris before he moved in? Dude, they had not met before. There's actually a scene earlier this season where Joe takes little Barry home, and Iris is standing at the top of the stairs and introduces herself. And they're both like... 8 years old. Pretty sure you're misremembering. They were already best friends.
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May 14, 2016 01:52
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enraged_camel posted:Barry "loved" Iris before he moved in? Dude, they had not met before. There's actually a scene earlier this season where Joe takes little Barry home, and Iris is standing at the top of the stairs and introduces herself. And they're both like... 8 years old. Uh no dude, he explicitly tells her last season how he 'had to go and live with the girl he had a crush on'. She wasn't introducing herself in that scene, they'd known each other for a while. She was just greeting him.
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May 14, 2016 01:52
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BreakAtmo posted:Uh no dude, he explicitly tells her last season how he 'had to go and live with the girl he had a crush on'. She wasn't introducing herself in that scene, they'd known each other for a while. She was just greeting him. Or, more believably, the writers loving suck and don't know what continuity is and can't keep track of what happens on previous seasons.
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May 14, 2016 01:54
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flosofl posted:Or, more believably, the writers loving suck and don't know what continuity is and can't keep track of what happens on previous seasons. I mean, not going to say this isn't true but I don't think they've contradicted themselves about this and enraged_camel is just misremembering. Although his enraged yet super confident posting style makes people trust him about this kind of knowledge. Barry is 11 when his mom dies and the Wests and Allens already have some kind of friendship. Joe didn't adopt him just because he was the first cop on the scene or whatever (despite what Dexter, the Powers comic, at least one episode of Law and Order: SVU and probably a bunch of other things would have you believe).
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May 14, 2016 02:05
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flosofl posted:Or, more believably, the writers loving suck and don't know what continuity is and can't keep track of what happens on previous seasons. Remember when Thawne extracted DNA from Blackout's corpse the first time Barry lost his powers and it was treated like it was going to be a big deal, but was then never mentioned again?
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May 14, 2016 02:05
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Guy A. Person posted:I mean, not going to say this isn't true but I don't think they've contradicted themselves about this and enraged_camel is just misremembering. Although his enraged yet super confident posting style makes people trust him about this kind of knowledge. Yeah they were already friends. He said that he had to move in with the girl he has a crush on, and he tells Iris that he loved her before he even knew what love meant, implying he's loved her since they were kids.
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May 14, 2016 02:16
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Wheat Loaf posted:Remember when Thawne extracted DNA from Blackout's corpse the first time Barry lost his powers and it was treated like it was going to be a big deal, but was then never mentioned again? I was about to correct you and say that was Earth-2 Wells, but no, it really has happened twice. I'm guessing they have a plot they're planning that really needs someone to have access to an anti-speedster bioweapon
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May 14, 2016 02:39
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JT Smiley posted:I'm shocked no one has mentioned how stupid Grindr's zombie walk was. The whole time it looked like he was trying to keep his pants from falling down. I'm still not clear if this is intended as a joke about the actor/character, or an unintentional autocorrect admission.
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May 14, 2016 02:45
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What is earth-2 crutchy's super power?
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May 14, 2016 04:53
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BreakAtmo posted:Uh no dude, he explicitly tells her last season how he 'had to go and live with the girl he had a crush on'. She wasn't introducing herself in that scene, they'd known each other for a while. She was just greeting him. In any case, it hardly matters. Kids at that age don't know what "love" is. Using that as justification to marry them 20 years later is just stupid.
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May 14, 2016 04:57
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enraged_camel posted:In any case, it hardly matters. Kids at that age don't know what "love" is. Using that as justification to marry them 20 years later is just stupid. He literally said, "I loved you before I knew what love meant". The last couple episodes have squarely been about fate. Barry and Iris are gonna be endgame no matter how dumb people think it is, so deal with it or dip out. And honestly if they didn't end up together the backlash would be crazy. Like there are articles in magazines about how important Iris is for little black girls watching superhero shows, and part of that is predicated on Barry/Iris getting married, because of how TV treats black actresses as either hypersexual sluts not worthy of true love or strong don't need no man statues. It's crazy but it's true.
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May 14, 2016 05:11
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Koalas March posted:He literally said, "I loved you before I knew what love meant". Well people thought that Oliver and Laurel would end up together too  What I'm saying is that Barry will die.
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May 14, 2016 05:12
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Koalas March posted:He literally said, "I loved you before I knew what love meant". Exactly quote:And honestly if they didn't end up together the backlash would be crazy. It's as if we haven't learned anything about how shippers ruin TV series... quote:Like there are articles in magazines about how important Iris is for little black girls watching superhero shows, and part of that is predicated on Barry/Iris getting married, because of how TV treats black actresses as either hypersexual sluts not worthy of true love or strong don't need no man statues. It's crazy but it's true. 
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May 14, 2016 05:13
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That means that retroactively, as an adult, he knows it was love
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May 14, 2016 05:17
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enraged_camel posted:Exactly quote:Characters who are black women often fall into many negative stereotypes. They are often written as fat, sassy, aggressive, angry, self-indulgent, hypersexual, and gold digging single mothers. Rarely are they portrayed as vulnerable, desirable, loving, carefree, silly, elegant, soft or genteel. quote:The rare characters that become love interests for a white male protagonist are often sidelined for a white woman. It’s inexplicably rare for the black women character to be the one to whom the white protagonist declares his devotion to and stays with in the end. http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/the-power-of-black-women-in-fandom/ I mean I can dig up more articles that say the same thing but as a black girl I'm pretty confident that I know how people like me are portrayed in the media and how that bleeds into real life.
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May 14, 2016 05:29
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