:-( my CW signal was dead tonight, so no Flash. I hope it's back tomorrow. But it's really a crapshoot if there is wind or weather.

I'm an idiot. I just remembered the first episode showed Wells watching Barry in his lab. So they established from the beginning his surveillance devices, if not specifically where they were beyond the lab.

The team was kind of stupid not to think maybe the evil mastermind is watching you.

I facepalmed when Cisco telegraphed using that remote thingie he had in his hand to a supposed super-speedster criminal mastermind. Halfwit, you do not stop to mug at someone who can outrun lightning before you trigger the force field that's supposed to keep you safe from him.

For that matter, what would have kept Wells from rapid-disassembling the equipment maintaining the forcefield, which all looked to be outside said forcefield?

Thoughts on Gotham:

1) Problem with a prequel in a long established world- too many characters who can't die yet.

2) Barbara - I seem to remember this Barbara being pretty selfish and narcissistic in the comments.

3) I don't think the problem with young Bruce/Selina scenes is the writing. I think with young Bruce they are trying portray the roots of the deeply repressed rage beneath a surface mask of calm that most of the adult portrayals of Batman had; but all they is a wooden affect. I'm not certain I blame the actor. That is one thing I suspect it takes an adult to pull off; I don't think I've ever seen a kid actor manage that.

4) From the previews of next weeks Gotham, I gather that they are going to go the "after she got out of that one" route with Fish. No long explanations: she was just badass enough to survive being gutshot, manage to fly the helicopter to safety, and either get medical attention or heal without it. My guess: Mooney will be reintroduced into action scene, and implicitly we will be told "watch the shiny gun/knife/mixed martial arts fight and don't worry your pretty little heads about why she's still alive.

Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell BBC1 trailer - but it's going to be on BBCA.

I think with young Bruce they are trying portray the roots of the deeply repressed rage beneath a surface mask of calm that most of the adult portrayals of Batman had; but all they is a wooden affect. I'm not certain I blame the actor. That is one thing I suspect it takes an adult to pull off; I don't think I've ever seen a kid actor manage that.

I think Kirsten Dunst managed it pretty well in Interview with the Vampire but she's the only example I can think of. (And she's never managed anything nearly as good in the movies I've seen her do since, so I'm assuming that was a perfect storm of good direction and playing off talented costars.)

Flash questions. Answers are probably obvious but I missed them.

I thought show had established that doppelganger guy couldn't duplicate powers. How did Wells get his double to do the rapidly moving hand trick? Or did that not happen?

Also how did Iris know from the hand-zap that Barry is the Flash?

I don't think we actually saw doppelganger's hand go vibrate-y - just threatening it with the hand position. And they showed in the previouslies (or flashbacks?) when Iris touched Barry's hand when he was comatose there was the same little electric-y reaction.

I think you're right, but that whole switching out thing confused me. For one, fake!Wells knew enough about Barry's mom's murder and the time-travel aspect to give Cisco a perfectly evasive answer. I guess you could say real!Wells was on an earpiece with him feeding him lines in real time, but I don't remember them showing that.

The other thing that bugged me was that apparently Cisco's barrier was only proof against speedsters, but ordinary people could just walk through them. Which is a weird design-limitation. I mean with technology like that they could have just set up a fake barrier anywhere to prove that Wells was a Speedster. First time I watched the scene, I actually thought Wells had phased through the barrier, because he was a better at phasing through stuff then Barry.