The Flash episode 5 was overall pretty good, but it definitely suffered from a lot of issues many CW TV shows have. I just had a lot of eye-roll moments in episode 5, and I hope that The Flash doesn’t fall into the trap many other CW shows fall in. But here’s a couple nitpicks The Flash can do without.
I have two little pet peeves when it comes to movies and TV shows. The first is when a bomb gets stopped with literally 1 second to go. It’s just seems really cheap. I know, such a minor thing but it still annoys me. The other one is when someone is dying and they have something really important to say, but when they are just about to say it, they die. Gahhh, no, don’t do that!
Anyways Flash episode 5 had one of those dying confessions, that didn’t end up coming out. Such a big eye roll moment for me. Flash you don’t need to do stuff like that, you’re already such a great show! There’s no need to employ cheap tricks for dramatic tension. I understand the need for dramatic tension, but there are better ways to do that.
And what was up with the incredibly static conversation between Plastique and the army doctor. It was very
Plastique: “you are a bad man”
Bad guy: “no, I had to do what I had to do”
*dramatic music*
Plastique: “now I have to do what I have to do”
*dum dum dum*
That scene’s dialogue was so cliche and weak, and the bad acting didn’t help either. But to be fair they didn’t have much to work with.
Now of course these are all minor quirks, but it’s these type of issues that other previous CW shows such as One Tree Hill and Smallville suffered from.
Oh and one last thing, there are very close to making Iris West’s character irritating. There’s of course the cliche of the superhero love interest not figuring out the superhero’s secret identity. Even when it’s so glaringly obvious. Now granted, it’s completely understandable Iris doesn’t know now, but I can see them stretching this story line out for like 3 seasons, and really making Iris seem very unaware, and well just plain stupid. And that stupidity can get pretty irritating if it stretches out for too long. I can imagine Iris doing something silly and ending up getting in The Flash’s way when he’s well, trying to save the world! So let’s not do that Flash writers okay?
Also can I just say that if you’re best friend is pleading to you, to stop you’re crusade on writing about ‘The Streak’ because he says he wants to try to move on from his mother’s murder, don’t you think that maybe you should at least consider it. Sure you want the world to be inspired by this new hero, but she just completely brushed off her best friend for some stranger. All I beg is that they don’t make Iris West’s character like Lana Lang’s character on Smallville. Because I already had to deal with 8 seasons of that shit.
But of course this all being said I still loved The Flash episode 5, it just had a lot of eye roll moments that could have easily been removed. And to be honest, all is forgiven because of that amazing final scene. Gorilla Grodd people! Who knew they would actually bring Gorilla Grodd to live action. The extent of his character is unknown so far, will he have his psychic abilities? Will he be able to intellectually speak? Right now we don’t know, but the idea of Gorilla Grodd speaking to The Flash and using his psychic powers on him is getting me really excited!
Anyways do you have any nitpicks with The Flash episode 5, or am I just being annoying? And are you looking forward to some Grodd action!? Let me know!
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I enjoyed the episode enough, but I felt that the acting, writing, and especially the editing were off a bit. This was the hokiest episode yet, and the special effects were sort of weak. Still, the rest of this season has been solid, and hopefully this episode was just a blip in an otherwise excellent season. I’m also a little worried about Grodd. If they use CGI on him, I hope that the bulk of the budget went to his look.
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Yeah a lot of things were really off in this episode. Agreed i’m really interested in seeing how they do Grodd, it’s going to come off as really bad if they use bad effects on him, and he’s already a talking gorilla, so they need to make him at least look good so it doesn’t come off as a complete joke
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The CW-ness of the show is the reason I dropped it after last weeks episode on the “perhaps watch during hiatus” pile. All this nonsense (along with the melodrama) already ruined Arrow for me. They literally killed my interest in the show.
I just can’t with the conceding way Iris gets treated by both Barry and her father. Honestly, not telling her makes no sense, because if I were a villain and would want to get to Barry, who would be the most obvious target? The quasi sister he grew up with, that’s who.
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Yeah I hate the whole not telling her, that’s never ever the right move
But there so much good about the show, that I can forgive some of the CW-ness, but this episode had too many CW moments. And Arrow is doing a lot better with removing some of the soap-opera elements of the show which is good
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This feels a lot like the first season of arrow with Laurel wanting to know the Arrow And Iris wanting to know the flash Arrow wanting to be with her. Flash wanting to be with Iris. Laurel willing to put herself in danger Iris willing to put herself in danger I understand its made by the same people but I should see some differences They both have flashbacks Arrow not wanting to ttell her. Flash not wanting to tell Iris
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Yeah and that whole arc in the first season of Arrow got kinda annoying, so I really hope they don’t drag this whole will they won’t them story out
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Did you see Gorilla Grodd in the Flash I wonder how they are going to a Giant talking ape in live action
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Yeah I did, it’s going to be super weird yet awesome if they do it right..
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Do you think Roy Really Killed Sara I think he did but I also think it might have been a clone
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Nahh i don’t think he did it, they wouldn’t reveal it this early
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I dont think this is another Red Herring I think he did kill Sara because he has been saying he hasn’t been sleeping and dreams are often supppressed memories. He probably still has Mirakuru in him and laspeing in and out of Mirakuru. Komodo was a red herring and Malcolm was a red herring I think he did it
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Did you see the Laurel Black Canary Costume
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Yeah and apparently tommy is coming back to the show
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Yeah I know I wrote about it do you think its the Lazurus pit
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Do you think Laurel is becoming black canary too fast
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Yeah its wayyy too soon, she’s hardly trained herself, interested to see how they do it
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did you see the new arrow
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yep, knew roy didn’t do it
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I hate that they did that they have had too many Red Herrings Komodo, Merlyn Roy and Cupid It just seems like they are dragging this on way too long and the thing that dont make sense about him not being the killer is because he heard Saras last Words He was throwing the arrows and he killed the cops by stabbing
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yeah that was brought up to stephen amell and he was just like i don’t know, so i think that was just a case of bad writing
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Good write-up. Completely agree with you on Iris. I didn’t want to jump to conclusions so early but she’s looked like Lana 2.0 ever since the Pilot. Hopefully The Flash is finding its feet, just like Arrow did.
For the record I liked both Smallville and One Tree Hill when they were airing, but TVs improved so much since then – it comes with higher expectations I guess.
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Oh I loved Smallville! For most seasons, but some seasons were not so good, and Lana was kinda the reason why, so I’m really hoping they don’t make her another Lana.
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Yep, totally agree 🙂
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Late to this but I feel like a lot of the hate people have on Lana should go on the writers and the Iris comparison should further show people who disliked her that a lot of it goes down to writers not knowing what to do with a character who they set out to be nothing more than a love interest.
I actually liked Lana as a person and character and felt a lot of actions where justifiable and she wasnt trying to be the damsel fans perciveved her to be but no many times she was regressed back into dealing with Clark.
I guess say all this to say its frustrating that is the character’s legacy and its stuck with it and the actress who excelled when not given drab material.
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Yeah I mean it’s not the actresses fault, writers have always had a problem writing female love interests in superhero properties.
Kristen is a great actress, but unfortunately her character was written in a needy and a lot of the time not very intelligent way, so there was only so much she could do with that
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i have a prblm wit how he got his Powers…if i’m correct i think almost everybdy in dat city got hit by dat scientific experimental wave misharp shit,so how is it dat he got d flash power and odas got somethin different?…might i add dat d misharp was man-made.
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Well it’s kinda like in Smallville, the machine affects people differently according to their immediate context. So Barry got super speed because he was also around those chemicals. It just depends on the individual’s situation.
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