Oliver and the gang work to end Dahrk's threat to the world and the aftermath leads to some surprising decisions....
While I did enjoy the finale, I felt a bit let down. The year started off so well and I was honestly hoping that the show would regain the glory it had in season 2. Don't get me wrong, I truly think that Damien Dahrk was one of the best villains this show has had, bested only by Deathstroke. But the show seemed to almost run out of gas towards the end of the season and sputtered to a decent, but not great ending, quite unlike the ending to The Flash last night which left us with all sorts of questions. I think what has happened is that the show runners has tried to make Arrow too much like The Flash, which is a mistake because they are fundamentally different shows. It doesn't help that the writing seems to be wildly inconsistent and the characters do odd things (Felicity throwing a temper tantrum over Oliver's son for one). I really hope the show can get back to what made it so great in the first couple of seasons, which was a man and his team trying to protect and save a city in a world that is really grounded in reality. Don't get me wrong, i love it when the Flash or someone else comes to visit, but the shows really do need to keep their unique tones.
All that being said, I did like that Oliver has decided to acknowledge that he does have light and dark impulses within him. He wants to be the person who can save and inspire the city, but he also needs to sometimes do things which are more pragmatic than moral in order to do so. For example, killing Dahrk tonight. Was it moral? No. It was cold blooded murder. However, it was the right thing to do. Trying to contain Dahrk has been shown to be next to impossible, so in order to make sure he couldn't threaten the world again, he needed to be killed. While Oliver may not like it, it is something that he can accept and do as a part of protecting people.
Dahrk underestimated what Oliver would do in order to protect the world and the people he loves. Oliver didn't kill Deathstroke in part because Oliver helped to create him because of what happened to Shado. Also, Oliver knew that ARGUS could contain Deathstroke on Lian Yu. Dahrk, on the other hand, enjoyed being the villain and relished the opportunity to kill and destroy and (as I said above) he couldn't be contained in the same way. The two circumstances called for different tactics and that is what Oliver did. In both instances, he applied the appropriate amount of violence necessary to resolve the situation and made the choice to live with the consequences. That is one of the things that makes Oliver the right person for the job. He avoids killing if he can, but he will kill if the situation calls for it. He may beat himself up a little afterwards, but he doesn't torture himself the way Diggle would.
Now that he's mayor of Star City, his life will be very interesting. I am not sure how he will go out at night as the Green Arrow, or if he will. I imagine that he will find some reason to, but I am curious about the how. I can't imagine that any bodyguards he has will be as easy to shake as Diggle was in the first season. I also hope that he and felicity manage to patch things up, because the two of them are very good for each other. Seeing as she's the only one who stayed with him, I am really hoping that things get back on track.
I do like that this year they had Diggle, Thea, and Lance all leave the city. After everything that happened, the three of them really needed to get out and just clear their heads. Diggle needs to come to terms with his brother's betrayal and the fact that his simplistic view of the world needs to change, Thea really needs to think about whether or not she really wants to stay in her brother's world as Speedy or if she'll just go away and visit periodically. And Lance just needs to leave. While I don't hate the character or anything, he has become increasingly marginalized, so having him disappear and resurface on occasion will be a good thing. He and Donna need to go live a good life together.
I'll be back in a week or two with some thoughts about the seasons of the shows of that Arrowverse and where Id like to see them go. And then on June 20th, The Fosters returns. Until then!
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
My Review of The Flash 2.23- The Race of His Life
As Barry is reeling from Henry's death, the gang takes matters into their own hands, the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask is revealed (and it's a doozy!), and Zoom reveals his plans. Then Barry does the unthinkable....
Let's start with Barry and his reaction to Henry's death. Unsurprisingly, he becomes unhinged and obsessed with ending Zoom. When Zoom challenged him to that race, I have to admit to mixed feelings about the whole thing. I think Barry was right when he decided to race Zoom and save everyone else, but I could see the gang's point. Barry was not thinking clearly, but he needed time to do that and he wasn't going to get that time. I do think that locking him up was going too far, but I can sympathize with their motives. I knew that their plan to take down Zoom on their own was going to go sideways, but I wasn't expecting Zoom to grab Joe on his way out, so that was an interesting development.
I was so glad that Wally let Barry go. He was right that the gang was making the wrong decision. Leaving Joe to Zoom's tender mercies would have been a horrible idea and Iris would have tortured herself over the decision. Not to mention the fact that they would have totally lost Barry because I don't know if he ever would have forgiven them for that one, and rightfully so. Again, good intentions, but poor execution.
When they revealed that the Man in the Iron Mask was the real Jay Garrick and that he was Henry's doppleganger fro Earth-3, I was floored. I thought for a second that maybe he was Ronnie (hey, hope springs eternal!), but seeing John Wesley Shipp in the Flash outfit again was totally awesome. I watched several of the episodes from the 90's TV series (and I have the DVDs!), so seeing him as the Flash again was a total trip! It sucked that it was super hard on Barry, but it was a really nice bone to throw to people who watched that series.
I wasn't far off about Zoom's plan. He wanted to use the energy generated when he and Barry raced in order to power a machine that would destroy every other universe in the multiverse. As I've been commenting on all season, this was a variation of Crisis on Infinite Earths, right down to Barry (albeit a time remnant) sacrificing himself in order to save the multiverse. That was quite the nice way to wrap up the whole Zoom storyline, which leads us to the ending....
Barry ran back in time and saved his mother from being killed by Eobard Thawne. The ramifications of that are too varied to really list. By saving his mother, Barry completely altered time and created a brand new timeline. Rather than simply changing a relatively small moment like he did once or twice last year, he altered a formative event in this timeline. By saving his mother, he made it so he wouldn't live with the Wests and he will have lost his reason to work as a CSI. He may or may not have stopped Thawne from killing Wells, which would also mean that the Accident would never have happened and he won't become the Flash. Also, since Thawne (as Wells) hired Cisco and Caitlin so that he could create the Accident, they won't be there either. And that is only on The Flash itself.
If you extend the potential ramifications to other shows in this universe, Firestorm will never exist which will affect the team on Legends of Tomorrow and who knows what the effects will be on Arrow. I suspect that the other shows will continue on the current timeline and that only The Flash will switch timelines, but that will mean that the shows won't be able to sync up again until Barry restores the original timeline. There is a story in DC comics called "Flashpoint" which seems to fit in with what they are doing, and that may provide some clues about how Season 3 will go. I plan on writing some more thoughts on all three finales in a week or two after I've had some more time to process and think things through.
Tomorrow is the Arrow finale and then I'm done until The Fosters returns on June 20th. Until tomorrow!
Let's start with Barry and his reaction to Henry's death. Unsurprisingly, he becomes unhinged and obsessed with ending Zoom. When Zoom challenged him to that race, I have to admit to mixed feelings about the whole thing. I think Barry was right when he decided to race Zoom and save everyone else, but I could see the gang's point. Barry was not thinking clearly, but he needed time to do that and he wasn't going to get that time. I do think that locking him up was going too far, but I can sympathize with their motives. I knew that their plan to take down Zoom on their own was going to go sideways, but I wasn't expecting Zoom to grab Joe on his way out, so that was an interesting development.
I was so glad that Wally let Barry go. He was right that the gang was making the wrong decision. Leaving Joe to Zoom's tender mercies would have been a horrible idea and Iris would have tortured herself over the decision. Not to mention the fact that they would have totally lost Barry because I don't know if he ever would have forgiven them for that one, and rightfully so. Again, good intentions, but poor execution.
When they revealed that the Man in the Iron Mask was the real Jay Garrick and that he was Henry's doppleganger fro Earth-3, I was floored. I thought for a second that maybe he was Ronnie (hey, hope springs eternal!), but seeing John Wesley Shipp in the Flash outfit again was totally awesome. I watched several of the episodes from the 90's TV series (and I have the DVDs!), so seeing him as the Flash again was a total trip! It sucked that it was super hard on Barry, but it was a really nice bone to throw to people who watched that series.
I wasn't far off about Zoom's plan. He wanted to use the energy generated when he and Barry raced in order to power a machine that would destroy every other universe in the multiverse. As I've been commenting on all season, this was a variation of Crisis on Infinite Earths, right down to Barry (albeit a time remnant) sacrificing himself in order to save the multiverse. That was quite the nice way to wrap up the whole Zoom storyline, which leads us to the ending....
Barry ran back in time and saved his mother from being killed by Eobard Thawne. The ramifications of that are too varied to really list. By saving his mother, Barry completely altered time and created a brand new timeline. Rather than simply changing a relatively small moment like he did once or twice last year, he altered a formative event in this timeline. By saving his mother, he made it so he wouldn't live with the Wests and he will have lost his reason to work as a CSI. He may or may not have stopped Thawne from killing Wells, which would also mean that the Accident would never have happened and he won't become the Flash. Also, since Thawne (as Wells) hired Cisco and Caitlin so that he could create the Accident, they won't be there either. And that is only on The Flash itself.
If you extend the potential ramifications to other shows in this universe, Firestorm will never exist which will affect the team on Legends of Tomorrow and who knows what the effects will be on Arrow. I suspect that the other shows will continue on the current timeline and that only The Flash will switch timelines, but that will mean that the shows won't be able to sync up again until Barry restores the original timeline. There is a story in DC comics called "Flashpoint" which seems to fit in with what they are doing, and that may provide some clues about how Season 3 will go. I plan on writing some more thoughts on all three finales in a week or two after I've had some more time to process and think things through.
Tomorrow is the Arrow finale and then I'm done until The Fosters returns on June 20th. Until tomorrow!
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
My Review of Blindspot 1.23- Why Await Life's End
Jane struggles to come to terms with what happened; Weller is rocked by a deathbed confession; and Zapata, Patterson, and Reade realize that there is a lot more going on than they thought...
Well, that was one way to end the first season of a show. I want to start with Jane, who had a really rough time. She was absolutely reeling from Oscar killing Mayfair and was trying to figure everything out. Then she finds out that she is not Taylor Shaw, but was planted in the same office as Weller in order to remove Mayfair and make Weller the head of the office so that the group she was a part of could proceed to take down and remake the United States (or at least the government). Add to that the fact that she killed Oscar while the two of them were fighting and you have the recipe for a very lousy day. And then it got worse: Weller arrested her for various unspecified crimes.
Before I look at Weller I want to look at his arresting Jane. From his perspective, it's fairly obvious that he thinks Jane was working with people to ruin his life. The problem is that there is nothing he can prove. He was pissed when he arrested her and that is not a good thing because it totally clouded his judgment. He thinks that she was part of a conspiracy, but he can't prove it. He may even have arrested her for lying to him, but to be a crime the lie has to come in the course of an investigation and has to be knowingly made. While he may think she did both of these, the fact is that he can't prove the second and she never lied about an investigation. All she lied about (inadvertently, I must add) was her identity, which was not (unless my memory is bad) a part of an investigation.
That being said, I do totally get his anger. He thought she was his childhood friend and she lied about memories. Add to that the fact that he just discovered that his father did bury (and maybe kill) Taylor Shaw, and you have a disaster in the making. The only reason I am not unequivocally saying that his father killed Taylor is that we don't know the circumstances or anything, so I will withhold saying anything definitive until we learn something for sure. It is obvious that the relationship between Jane and Weller will never be the same again. I just hope he can learn to trust her, because she never purposefully lied except for some memories, which she thought were true (just out of her memory's reach).
Zapata and Reade finally told Patterson everything they had discovered. I'm glad that the three of them have gotten on the same page. It is totally understandable why they kept things from each other, but we have learned that it was not a good thing for them. I just want to know what Orion is (or was). I think it must have been some government program due to the number of files that Mayfair had on that flash drive. I also hope that they bring Weller in on everything, because Orion appears to be a major key to the conspiracy that Jane is a part of.
Who is Shepherd? I was under the impression (from Oscar) that Jane was in charge of the group he was in, but that is obviously untrue, unless Shepherd is some sort of identity hidden within Jane (which is doubtful). Sophia could be Shepherd, but I think it's someone else, maybe even someone we've already met. Only time will tell.
Until next season!
Well, that was one way to end the first season of a show. I want to start with Jane, who had a really rough time. She was absolutely reeling from Oscar killing Mayfair and was trying to figure everything out. Then she finds out that she is not Taylor Shaw, but was planted in the same office as Weller in order to remove Mayfair and make Weller the head of the office so that the group she was a part of could proceed to take down and remake the United States (or at least the government). Add to that the fact that she killed Oscar while the two of them were fighting and you have the recipe for a very lousy day. And then it got worse: Weller arrested her for various unspecified crimes.
Before I look at Weller I want to look at his arresting Jane. From his perspective, it's fairly obvious that he thinks Jane was working with people to ruin his life. The problem is that there is nothing he can prove. He was pissed when he arrested her and that is not a good thing because it totally clouded his judgment. He thinks that she was part of a conspiracy, but he can't prove it. He may even have arrested her for lying to him, but to be a crime the lie has to come in the course of an investigation and has to be knowingly made. While he may think she did both of these, the fact is that he can't prove the second and she never lied about an investigation. All she lied about (inadvertently, I must add) was her identity, which was not (unless my memory is bad) a part of an investigation.
That being said, I do totally get his anger. He thought she was his childhood friend and she lied about memories. Add to that the fact that he just discovered that his father did bury (and maybe kill) Taylor Shaw, and you have a disaster in the making. The only reason I am not unequivocally saying that his father killed Taylor is that we don't know the circumstances or anything, so I will withhold saying anything definitive until we learn something for sure. It is obvious that the relationship between Jane and Weller will never be the same again. I just hope he can learn to trust her, because she never purposefully lied except for some memories, which she thought were true (just out of her memory's reach).
Zapata and Reade finally told Patterson everything they had discovered. I'm glad that the three of them have gotten on the same page. It is totally understandable why they kept things from each other, but we have learned that it was not a good thing for them. I just want to know what Orion is (or was). I think it must have been some government program due to the number of files that Mayfair had on that flash drive. I also hope that they bring Weller in on everything, because Orion appears to be a major key to the conspiracy that Jane is a part of.
Who is Shepherd? I was under the impression (from Oscar) that Jane was in charge of the group he was in, but that is obviously untrue, unless Shepherd is some sort of identity hidden within Jane (which is doubtful). Sophia could be Shepherd, but I think it's someone else, maybe even someone we've already met. Only time will tell.
Until next season!
Saturday, May 21, 2016
My Review of The Originals 3.22- The Bloody Crown
Marcel returns with vengeance on his mind and Klaus makes a bold move to save his family....
The first thing that has to be said about tonight's episode is that it was rather quiet for a season finale. After the last few weeks of mayhem and death, this weeks episode seemed less about wrapping up this season and more about setting up the next. Not that there weren't effects from this season, but the effects seemed to be getting ready for what is to come.
That being said, I really did like the episode. It was nice to take a break and reflect on everything that has happened. Cami is dead, Davina is dead, the witches have been cut off from the Ancestors, and Marcel is a super-vampire. The Originals are all out of commission for one reason or another and Hayley is left to protect them and find a cure. I will want to look at next season, but I want to talk a little about the episode itself.
It's hard to be upset at Marcel, because he was correct in most of what he said. The Mikaelsons do protect each other before they protect anyone else. Klaus has done a lot of awful things during his time on earth. And people definitely have a right to be pissed off at them. Where I disagree with him is the way he handled everything. The "trial" was nothing more than a show meant to give everyone a chance to yell at Klaus and for Klaus to be defiant one last time. Not that it could have been handled any differently (let's be honest), but it wasn't a trial, so let's just call it what it was: a show.
Klaus' and Rebekah's speeches were both wonderful. I honestly thought Rebekah was betraying Klaus, and to be honest I'm not sure there was much acting on her part. He has been awful to his family in the name of protecting them so she simply told the truth. And Klaus was as Klausian as ever. Defiant, self-righteous, and arrogant as hell, that is our Klaus. He may have become something of a better person thanks to Cami, but he sure knows how to put on a show.
The prophecy was fulfilled. Klaus was taken down by family (Marcel), Elijah by a friend (Marcel), and Kol by a foe (Marcel). The twist is that, as I just showed, the same person was all three. Nicely played.
Freya's plan to link the entire family to Klaus so that they would be protected from death was really smart. Since Klaus didn't die, Kol, Elijah, and Freya will have at least something of a chance to survive. And that is where my thoughts for next season begin.
We know that The Vampire Diaries is three years ahead of The Originals and that Klaus hasn't been seen in New Orleans during that time. I am willing to bet that the show will pick up about three years in the future (to catch up with TVD) with Hayley looking for; or maybe actually finding; a cure for the three siblings. They will then have to get back into New Orleans and freee Klaus from his prison that Marcel put him in. Doing this will allow them to cast a new actress for Hope and maybe have her do more. I am wondering if she somehow holds the key to a cure. Not that she is the cure directly, but maybe she may have something to do with one.
The Originals comes back at mid-season, so I'll see y'all then!
The first thing that has to be said about tonight's episode is that it was rather quiet for a season finale. After the last few weeks of mayhem and death, this weeks episode seemed less about wrapping up this season and more about setting up the next. Not that there weren't effects from this season, but the effects seemed to be getting ready for what is to come.
That being said, I really did like the episode. It was nice to take a break and reflect on everything that has happened. Cami is dead, Davina is dead, the witches have been cut off from the Ancestors, and Marcel is a super-vampire. The Originals are all out of commission for one reason or another and Hayley is left to protect them and find a cure. I will want to look at next season, but I want to talk a little about the episode itself.
It's hard to be upset at Marcel, because he was correct in most of what he said. The Mikaelsons do protect each other before they protect anyone else. Klaus has done a lot of awful things during his time on earth. And people definitely have a right to be pissed off at them. Where I disagree with him is the way he handled everything. The "trial" was nothing more than a show meant to give everyone a chance to yell at Klaus and for Klaus to be defiant one last time. Not that it could have been handled any differently (let's be honest), but it wasn't a trial, so let's just call it what it was: a show.
Klaus' and Rebekah's speeches were both wonderful. I honestly thought Rebekah was betraying Klaus, and to be honest I'm not sure there was much acting on her part. He has been awful to his family in the name of protecting them so she simply told the truth. And Klaus was as Klausian as ever. Defiant, self-righteous, and arrogant as hell, that is our Klaus. He may have become something of a better person thanks to Cami, but he sure knows how to put on a show.
The prophecy was fulfilled. Klaus was taken down by family (Marcel), Elijah by a friend (Marcel), and Kol by a foe (Marcel). The twist is that, as I just showed, the same person was all three. Nicely played.
Freya's plan to link the entire family to Klaus so that they would be protected from death was really smart. Since Klaus didn't die, Kol, Elijah, and Freya will have at least something of a chance to survive. And that is where my thoughts for next season begin.
We know that The Vampire Diaries is three years ahead of The Originals and that Klaus hasn't been seen in New Orleans during that time. I am willing to bet that the show will pick up about three years in the future (to catch up with TVD) with Hayley looking for; or maybe actually finding; a cure for the three siblings. They will then have to get back into New Orleans and freee Klaus from his prison that Marcel put him in. Doing this will allow them to cast a new actress for Hope and maybe have her do more. I am wondering if she somehow holds the key to a cure. Not that she is the cure directly, but maybe she may have something to do with one.
The Originals comes back at mid-season, so I'll see y'all then!
Thursday, May 19, 2016
My Review of Arrow 4.22- Lost in the Flood
Oliver and Diggle go on a mission to rescue Thea while Felicity, Noah, and Curtis work together to stop Dahrk and Donna gets a bit of a shock.
Ruve Adams is dead. That was a little unexpected, but it is obviously a major deal to Dahrk, who no longer seems to care whether or not anyone survives in the world. With the destruction of his town underground and the death of his wife, he seems to have gone mad and wants to take the whole world out. Put that together with the power he has at his disposal and next week is going to be very interesting. I really want to know how the gang is going to stop him, seeing how the arrows and bullets Oliver and Diggle fired at him were turned to dust without his even trying. Not good, not good at all.
Watching Donna and Noah snipe at each other was fun, if a bit uncomfortable. I was really surprised to hear that Donna has been lying to Felicity when she said that Noah left them. Turns out Donna took Felicity away from Noah. I suspect that is why Donna didn't remain super upset at Felicity for hiding the fact that she worked with the Green Arrow. It's hard to be mad at someone for lying when you have been lying to them for most of their life. Donna is very perceptive, so I wonder how long it will take her to realize that Oliver is the Green Arrow.
I really enjoyed watching Curtis with Noah and Felicity. While he is no where near their level when it comes to hacking or anything, he was enough to tip the balance in their little hack off with Cooper. I wish I could say that I was surprised that he got the upper hand, but I wasn't. It's not that he's better than them, rather it is that he had the easier job. Felicity and Noah were trying to hack into and disable an extremely advanced device and Copper was just trying to block them and get into their system, which he did. I do wonder if anything would have been different if Felicity knew that Cooper was on the other end of the computer. I suspect that she would have tried harder to protect her system if she had known. Then again, given how hard their job was, it is entirely possible that she and Noah couldn't have done anything about it. Curtis' plan to overload Rubicon with access requests and to use the power surges Cooper sent to them against him was smart.
Poor Oliver had a rough time with Thea tonight. She was given the pill by Malcolm and he ended up having to fight her. Fortunately, he was able to get through to her and she overcame the pill. I was surprised to learn that most people in the city were not there because of the pill Dahrk gives out, rather they chose to be there. I was not expecting that one. I wonder if that is an indication that the pill has a limited supply or if Dahrk will only use the pill in certain circumstances. Or maybe it's both.
So we have a grieving and possibly insane Dahrk who is very powerful because of the death from the missile, the collapse of the Glades, and the destruction of the underground city. He's holding Felicity, Curtis, and Donna hostage while Oliver, Thea, and Diggle are on their way back to the loft with Dahrk's daughter. This is going to be an insane showdown next week.
Until then!
Ruve Adams is dead. That was a little unexpected, but it is obviously a major deal to Dahrk, who no longer seems to care whether or not anyone survives in the world. With the destruction of his town underground and the death of his wife, he seems to have gone mad and wants to take the whole world out. Put that together with the power he has at his disposal and next week is going to be very interesting. I really want to know how the gang is going to stop him, seeing how the arrows and bullets Oliver and Diggle fired at him were turned to dust without his even trying. Not good, not good at all.
Watching Donna and Noah snipe at each other was fun, if a bit uncomfortable. I was really surprised to hear that Donna has been lying to Felicity when she said that Noah left them. Turns out Donna took Felicity away from Noah. I suspect that is why Donna didn't remain super upset at Felicity for hiding the fact that she worked with the Green Arrow. It's hard to be mad at someone for lying when you have been lying to them for most of their life. Donna is very perceptive, so I wonder how long it will take her to realize that Oliver is the Green Arrow.
I really enjoyed watching Curtis with Noah and Felicity. While he is no where near their level when it comes to hacking or anything, he was enough to tip the balance in their little hack off with Cooper. I wish I could say that I was surprised that he got the upper hand, but I wasn't. It's not that he's better than them, rather it is that he had the easier job. Felicity and Noah were trying to hack into and disable an extremely advanced device and Copper was just trying to block them and get into their system, which he did. I do wonder if anything would have been different if Felicity knew that Cooper was on the other end of the computer. I suspect that she would have tried harder to protect her system if she had known. Then again, given how hard their job was, it is entirely possible that she and Noah couldn't have done anything about it. Curtis' plan to overload Rubicon with access requests and to use the power surges Cooper sent to them against him was smart.
Poor Oliver had a rough time with Thea tonight. She was given the pill by Malcolm and he ended up having to fight her. Fortunately, he was able to get through to her and she overcame the pill. I was surprised to learn that most people in the city were not there because of the pill Dahrk gives out, rather they chose to be there. I was not expecting that one. I wonder if that is an indication that the pill has a limited supply or if Dahrk will only use the pill in certain circumstances. Or maybe it's both.
So we have a grieving and possibly insane Dahrk who is very powerful because of the death from the missile, the collapse of the Glades, and the destruction of the underground city. He's holding Felicity, Curtis, and Donna hostage while Oliver, Thea, and Diggle are on their way back to the loft with Dahrk's daughter. This is going to be an insane showdown next week.
Until then!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
My Review of The Flash 2.22- Invincible
Barry takes on the Metapocalypse including a familiar face, Joe worries about Wally, Caitlin has PTSD, everyone wonders about Barry, and we say goodbye to someone in Barry's life....
Damn. Henry died. I was afraid of something like this after the comeback he had last week. After Barry defeated his metahuman army, Zoom took Henry and killed him by punching right through his chest. If Barry didn't already hate Zoom enough, this totally sealed the deal in that respect. I knew something was going to happen when they seemed to drive Zoom off and there were still 10 minutes left in the show. I was afraid for Henry, but I was hoping that I was wrong. Oh, and as a result of Barry rushing off after Zoom when he took Henry from Joe's house, Wally now knows that Barry is the Flash. That should produce an interesting conversation or two.
Barry's overwhelming fatalistic optimism in the episode did get a bit grating after a while, but it was sort of fun. He has had such trouble with Zoom all year that it was nice to see him finally get to a place where he could do something. It was really amusing to watch everyone try and figure out how to deal with his new attitude. I think that Iris handled it the best. She made sure that she didn't do anything to burst Barry's bubble while simultaneously making sure that he kept in mind the fact that he could still be hurt by Zoom,. I just don't think that she envisioned the hurt happening the way it did.
And man, I think Barry has gotten faster. He took out all of those metahumans at the beginning very quickly. I can only assume that his decision to free himself when he was in the Speed Force last week somehow increased his connection to it. I know we saw him getting stronger and faster last week, but he really showed it this week. Unfortunately, he met Laurel's doppleganger and she was not someone that you trifle with. Given the fact that Zoom brought over metahumans, I can only assume that she actually has abilities and doesn't use tech the way Laurel did. I loved her swagger and attitude. The way the Black Siren carried herself totally set her apart from Laurel, as did the costume. It's easy to see why Zoom thinks so highly of her. She is deadly and very powerful.
Poor Caitlin was released by Zoom, but she did not emerge from her time with him unscathed. She was seeing him all over the place and just generally having a bad time. I did enjoy seeing her as Killer Frost and Cisco as Reverb. That made for a very interesting scene. Can't say that I'm surprised that the Black Siren saw right through them. While they did a credible job passing as their dopplegangers, the Black Siren had to know that Zoom had taken care of both of them. And when Cisco managed to whip out that power of his, I was impressed. He lacks control over his abilities, which is something he needs to change soon. Hopefully he'll get them under control next season.
Poor Joe now has three kids to worry about being involved in everything. Barry is the Flash, Iris helps out, and Wally was striking out on his own. While I get why he wanted to prove that the Flash didn't make a mistake, this probably wasn't the right time to go out on his own. Granted, he was quite helpful when the Black Siren was attacking the Flash with her Cry, but taking on a bunch of metahumans all on his lonesome was not terribly smart. Brave, but not smart. Hopefully the talk he had with Barry will give both him and Joe some needed perspective on everything. I don't see Wally backing away now, but I hope he is more careful about things and works with the group rather than on his own.
Once again, Cisco and Harry seem to be sharing a brain, which is really amusing to watch. One o them starts on an idea and the other picks up the thread and they finish the thought together. Throw Jessie into the mix and you have a trio who are probably the smartest and most tech savvy group around. Using Barry's speed to create anecho chamber to disable the Earth-2 metas was a brilliant idea.
It was nice to see Amanda Pays and John Wesley Shipp finally get a scene together considering the fact that they were both in the last live incarnation of the Flash in the 90s. The two of them seemed to be having fun and it made for quite the cute moment.
Then there is Cisco's vibes throughout the episode. He keeps seeing dead birds on the ground and at the end of the episode he sees Earth-2 being torn apart. Is this Zoom's ultimate plan? We've seen bits and pieces of the storyline of the Crisis on Infinite Earths this season, so I wonder if mayer Zoom is trying to merge the different earths together so he can rule them all. If he tries, maybe the vibrational differences will make the different earths rip each other apart.
Until next week!
Damn. Henry died. I was afraid of something like this after the comeback he had last week. After Barry defeated his metahuman army, Zoom took Henry and killed him by punching right through his chest. If Barry didn't already hate Zoom enough, this totally sealed the deal in that respect. I knew something was going to happen when they seemed to drive Zoom off and there were still 10 minutes left in the show. I was afraid for Henry, but I was hoping that I was wrong. Oh, and as a result of Barry rushing off after Zoom when he took Henry from Joe's house, Wally now knows that Barry is the Flash. That should produce an interesting conversation or two.
Barry's overwhelming fatalistic optimism in the episode did get a bit grating after a while, but it was sort of fun. He has had such trouble with Zoom all year that it was nice to see him finally get to a place where he could do something. It was really amusing to watch everyone try and figure out how to deal with his new attitude. I think that Iris handled it the best. She made sure that she didn't do anything to burst Barry's bubble while simultaneously making sure that he kept in mind the fact that he could still be hurt by Zoom,. I just don't think that she envisioned the hurt happening the way it did.
And man, I think Barry has gotten faster. He took out all of those metahumans at the beginning very quickly. I can only assume that his decision to free himself when he was in the Speed Force last week somehow increased his connection to it. I know we saw him getting stronger and faster last week, but he really showed it this week. Unfortunately, he met Laurel's doppleganger and she was not someone that you trifle with. Given the fact that Zoom brought over metahumans, I can only assume that she actually has abilities and doesn't use tech the way Laurel did. I loved her swagger and attitude. The way the Black Siren carried herself totally set her apart from Laurel, as did the costume. It's easy to see why Zoom thinks so highly of her. She is deadly and very powerful.
Poor Caitlin was released by Zoom, but she did not emerge from her time with him unscathed. She was seeing him all over the place and just generally having a bad time. I did enjoy seeing her as Killer Frost and Cisco as Reverb. That made for a very interesting scene. Can't say that I'm surprised that the Black Siren saw right through them. While they did a credible job passing as their dopplegangers, the Black Siren had to know that Zoom had taken care of both of them. And when Cisco managed to whip out that power of his, I was impressed. He lacks control over his abilities, which is something he needs to change soon. Hopefully he'll get them under control next season.
Poor Joe now has three kids to worry about being involved in everything. Barry is the Flash, Iris helps out, and Wally was striking out on his own. While I get why he wanted to prove that the Flash didn't make a mistake, this probably wasn't the right time to go out on his own. Granted, he was quite helpful when the Black Siren was attacking the Flash with her Cry, but taking on a bunch of metahumans all on his lonesome was not terribly smart. Brave, but not smart. Hopefully the talk he had with Barry will give both him and Joe some needed perspective on everything. I don't see Wally backing away now, but I hope he is more careful about things and works with the group rather than on his own.
Once again, Cisco and Harry seem to be sharing a brain, which is really amusing to watch. One o them starts on an idea and the other picks up the thread and they finish the thought together. Throw Jessie into the mix and you have a trio who are probably the smartest and most tech savvy group around. Using Barry's speed to create anecho chamber to disable the Earth-2 metas was a brilliant idea.
It was nice to see Amanda Pays and John Wesley Shipp finally get a scene together considering the fact that they were both in the last live incarnation of the Flash in the 90s. The two of them seemed to be having fun and it made for quite the cute moment.
Then there is Cisco's vibes throughout the episode. He keeps seeing dead birds on the ground and at the end of the episode he sees Earth-2 being torn apart. Is this Zoom's ultimate plan? We've seen bits and pieces of the storyline of the Crisis on Infinite Earths this season, so I wonder if mayer Zoom is trying to merge the different earths together so he can rule them all. If he tries, maybe the vibrational differences will make the different earths rip each other apart.
Until next week!
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
My Review of Blindspot 1.22- If Love a Rebel, Death Will Render
Mayfair is out and a new head for the New York office is appointed, Weller and Jane both find out some disturbing news, and tragedy strikes...
Wow, I can't believe that they killed Mayfair. After everything she's done and how close she got to the truth, she was killed by Oscar after she threatened Jane. I wonder how she would have felt Sophia was directly involved in everything that happened to her. Turns out that when Sophia was ready to kill herself, Jane and Oscar found her and Jane convinced her to work with them to take Mayfair down. That was just cold. I know that Mayfair is not the best person in the world, but she deserved better than what she got. I think now is the time when Jane has to choose whether she will follow Oscar and the plan or if she will side with Weller and the FBI.
The only problem with the latter course is that she is no longer a consultant with the FBI. The director has decided to close down and archive the files related to Jane and to revoke her access to the FBI. That is not what Jane needs right now. If she is going to go back to the FBI, she will either have to convince the upper echelon of the FBI to let her come back and work with them. If she confesses all, she will probably lose Weller, at least for a while. But I don't think she can put off choosing any longer. Oscar has gone so far that there is no way she can not choose. This should be interesting.
And Weller's dad confessed; on his deathbed; to killing Taylor Shaw. The question is if he was lucid and in his right mind at the time or if he was just going back to something before Jane came back, If Jane isn't Taylor, then there is going to have to be a whole lot of explaining. The only way I can see her not being Taylor is if Oscar (or somebody else) swapped out her DNA for Taylor's or if someone bribed the scientists testing the material. One alternative is that Taylor was either a twin or Weller's dad killed someone he thought was Taylor but actually wasn't her. I so can't wait to get this explanation, hopefully next week.
I am glad that Reade and Zapata finally came clean to each other about everything that has happened to them. Zapata finally seems to have realized that something was rotten in what happened. Just wish she had recognized it sooner.
I have to wonder if everything that is going on is truly because of some group wanting to out government secrets and punish people who did corrupt things or if maybe, just maybe, there is actually government involvement in all of this. Between Sophia, the prosecutor, the FBI director shutting down Jane's files, and everything else, it seems to me that there is something more to this than just a groups looking to out government officials as corrupt or something. If this is something bigger, than everyone in the group is in some serious trouble. If there is no government involvement, than there has to be someone with major cash backing them up.
Next week, the season finale. Until then!
Wow, I can't believe that they killed Mayfair. After everything she's done and how close she got to the truth, she was killed by Oscar after she threatened Jane. I wonder how she would have felt Sophia was directly involved in everything that happened to her. Turns out that when Sophia was ready to kill herself, Jane and Oscar found her and Jane convinced her to work with them to take Mayfair down. That was just cold. I know that Mayfair is not the best person in the world, but she deserved better than what she got. I think now is the time when Jane has to choose whether she will follow Oscar and the plan or if she will side with Weller and the FBI.
The only problem with the latter course is that she is no longer a consultant with the FBI. The director has decided to close down and archive the files related to Jane and to revoke her access to the FBI. That is not what Jane needs right now. If she is going to go back to the FBI, she will either have to convince the upper echelon of the FBI to let her come back and work with them. If she confesses all, she will probably lose Weller, at least for a while. But I don't think she can put off choosing any longer. Oscar has gone so far that there is no way she can not choose. This should be interesting.
And Weller's dad confessed; on his deathbed; to killing Taylor Shaw. The question is if he was lucid and in his right mind at the time or if he was just going back to something before Jane came back, If Jane isn't Taylor, then there is going to have to be a whole lot of explaining. The only way I can see her not being Taylor is if Oscar (or somebody else) swapped out her DNA for Taylor's or if someone bribed the scientists testing the material. One alternative is that Taylor was either a twin or Weller's dad killed someone he thought was Taylor but actually wasn't her. I so can't wait to get this explanation, hopefully next week.
I am glad that Reade and Zapata finally came clean to each other about everything that has happened to them. Zapata finally seems to have realized that something was rotten in what happened. Just wish she had recognized it sooner.
I have to wonder if everything that is going on is truly because of some group wanting to out government secrets and punish people who did corrupt things or if maybe, just maybe, there is actually government involvement in all of this. Between Sophia, the prosecutor, the FBI director shutting down Jane's files, and everything else, it seems to me that there is something more to this than just a groups looking to out government officials as corrupt or something. If this is something bigger, than everyone in the group is in some serious trouble. If there is no government involvement, than there has to be someone with major cash backing them up.
Next week, the season finale. Until then!
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