A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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I also weirdly enjoyed how third (and fourth) wheel you could tell Ichabod and Hawley were feeling when you finally saw them at the very end of that scene -- that was well played, and I loved that it really was all about the sisters and their mother.
That was pretty great all around. I was missing the Mills family last week, glad the show made things right.
I also feel kind of bad for Ichabod that treatments for the common cold haven't gotten that much better in the past 200 years! We've probably got safer ways of temporarily treating symptoms, but we still can't do shit about the actual virus.
One thing I wonder about: Moloch tends to be associated with infant and child sacrifice. I wonder if her trying kill Moloch is actually a necessary ritual for Moloch to come into his true powers and she is being played.
I was wondering that, too, TB.
Man, I love the Mills family.
The Flash: so that red/yellow blur at the end has to be Harrison Wells, right? Which makes him... Reverse Flash? Professor Zoom? (OK, I actually don't know the difference between the two since I've been trying not to read up too much on the comics canon in order not to get spoiled for the show.) Or maybe show just *wants* us to think it is Wells. But honestly, who else could it be?
The villain was boring, but I really liked Eddie in this ep, maybe for the first time ever.
The Flash: so that red/yellow blur at the end has to be Harrison Wells, right?
I feel like the show *wants* us to think that, so THEN that makes me think it's a misdirect.
I actually don't know the difference between the two
I had to look up the difference last night (I haven't read much in the way of Flash comics, because the Flash family isn't my comics thing), and it sounds like "Reverse Flash" is a sort of all-purpose moniker that's been applied to several Flash villains who are also speedsters, including Professor Zoom.
Or maybe show just *wants* us to think it is Wells. But honestly, who else could it be?
I won't spoil you, since you don't know a lot of comics canon. I mean, *I* don't know for sure, either, but there's some heavy comics linkage going on, and I'll be surprised if the show doesn't go along with it.
I really liked Eddie in this ep, maybe for the first time ever.
Yeah, I've been neutral on him, but I liked him last night. Which probably means he's going to die or turn evil. Or turn evil and then die. Or -- because it's comics -- die and come back and THEN turn evil.
I have to confess I spend every episode afraid that Joe West is going to die, because he's just that awesome and killing him off would be maximum HSQ and pain. He's pretty much my favorite part of every episode.
Well, no. My *favorite* part is when Dr. Wells gets to be evil. Every scene with Joe and Dr. Wells made me tense up and say "He's going to STAB YOU, JOE!"
Seriously, this show has thrown so many breadcrumbs for comics nerds that you have to assume that most of them are misdirects.
Grodd had better not be a misdirect. I want Gorilla Grodd on this show SO HARD.
I feel like maybe Barry taunting his former bully by talking to him with his mask off is going to bite him in the ass when the inevitable prison break happens. (That's not a spoiler; just speculation based on the GIANT FLASHING SIGN of Nothing Can Go Wrong When You Store Metahuman Villains In One Place.)
Yeah, I've been neutral on him, but I liked him last night. Which probably means he's going to die or turn evil. Or turn evil and then die. Or -- because it's comics -- die and come back and THEN turn evil.
Hee! Well, he's got that name. Which could be a misdirect as well! I'm chuckling right now, remembering Barry's "whaa??" face when Eddie told him to come along so that he could hit some stuff.
As for the blur at the end, this is a show with time travel so I'm assuming all bets are off. Hell, it could be Barry himself from the future for all I know.
Joe and Wells' cat-and-mouse game was my favourite part of that episode. The way Wells' face changed when he cottoned to what Joe was doing! ILU TOM CAVANAUGH. (Also, there would be NO KILLING OF JOE WEST, EVER.) (Shit, it's gonna happen, like, in the season 2 finale or something, innit.) And Joe was totally on the right track to suspect the timing of Wells' arrival in Central City, of course. God knows what really happened with his wife/research partner. My understanding is that, unlikely pretty much every other character on the show, Harrison Wells does not have a comic book counterpart. Which is a smart move. What Creepy And Sketchy Shit Wells Is Up To This Week is a fun dark nugget embedded in this otherwise funny, sunny show.
