The Flash season 3
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beccaelizabethmoving in to their new place and actually talking to each other
... also some jewel thief had a shiny gun? and no personality.
... also also there was a STAR labs museum.
I was unimpressed with this one. the amount of time taken to get everyone on the same page? and why are they even having the conversation about if you can change the future? you can change the past, of course you can change anywhen. the closest they got to the real problem was when HR tried to point out you need to be real careful which bits you change. the problem with changing the future is unlike your past you don't know how it happened anyway so you don't know which bits are changes, and can, like HR also said, run towards it all unknowing. If they'd described that as the problem the the solution becomes a different set and all this ridiculous wasted angst goes away to be replaced with the usual sort. ... because wtf do we do next is pretty usual.
They're also ignoring, just a bit, what happened to Cisco last time they tried changing things he saw. Like, they could change the immediate future, but couldn't keep Eobard because too much paradox, and it hurt Cisco first. So he can see things and change them... wait, didn't he say the only thing he'd seen that didn't happen was Earth 2 splitting? Can't remember for sure now. But if so then that ignores the whole Eobard incident.
Also, how can Iris forget the time vault, isn't it memorable to know a page of the future?
maybe stuff is vanishing for them?
or i'm remembering wrong.
ANYway...
Having misidentified the problem, they spend time wondering if you can change the future, when we've had multiple seasons about that already. Barry changed the furure, Eo!Wells was scared of changing the future and did so many times, it's not even a thing. They need to worry how to steer clearly enough to avoid this thing.
What else...
HR lives like all this is one long sci fi convention and it's hilarious when it isn't too squirmy annoying. I keep watching him through my fingers.
Also, did he just say he won a nebula and then get all sad he isn't destined for greatness? dude, greatness achieved, nebula is pretty great.
His face when Cisco said maybe his partner deliberately got rid of him... :(
He's annoying because he's energetic and enthusiastic and attempting closeness and involvement too hard, not yet accepted by this group. If he's a con man he's from a different enough culture it's not working here. If he's just ordinary lying on his cv then he's every socially awkward one of us, which makes it squirmy to watch.
He also spends a lot of the time being the joke. When his thing is basically being a fanboy. Why do shows do that?
Other characters... Caitlin needing to recharge her devices made her sound so petty? I mean, recharging is a basic necessity? I can see how it must be terrifying to have so much riding on running out, but, she had solutions, spare batteries, she could have a spare set to put on to charge, this is a very ordinary problem, why let it get so red light? Also solar power isn't a great solution when she works in a building with no windows.
Also also that star they made her has too many points to be a snowflake.
... Mum says I've been pointing out Wrong Snowflakes since probably before school, so, I am unlikely to stop now.
Caitlin inviting Julian without telling the others set him up for embarrassment at best and was not nice. And why do it that way around, story wise? did they just need another drama twist?
Julian might start being a people instead of a function.
Also, why set him up as the 'I don't help metas I imprison them' guy? I mean, that's what STAR labs did and does, just without due process of law. Why make it out like he's doing bad to have that attitude as a police? He's a crime scene investigator and possibly anthropologist, how does that translate to helping with the cure? TV and comic book Science! skill is the most annoy.
Wally did pretty good. I like Wally winning. Yaay for him.
In the flash forward there were two of the flash standing around in uniform as well as Barry and Cisco vibing but they didn't notice. I mean I'm only mostly sure but I did rewind a couple times to see.
I can see why they weren't at their most observant.
I think I'm liking neither the mental health nor the time travel stuff, because of how they deal with it and talk about it, and that leaves very little to potentially like.
Ah well. Onwards anyways.
... also some jewel thief had a shiny gun? and no personality.
... also also there was a STAR labs museum.
I was unimpressed with this one. the amount of time taken to get everyone on the same page? and why are they even having the conversation about if you can change the future? you can change the past, of course you can change anywhen. the closest they got to the real problem was when HR tried to point out you need to be real careful which bits you change. the problem with changing the future is unlike your past you don't know how it happened anyway so you don't know which bits are changes, and can, like HR also said, run towards it all unknowing. If they'd described that as the problem the the solution becomes a different set and all this ridiculous wasted angst goes away to be replaced with the usual sort. ... because wtf do we do next is pretty usual.
They're also ignoring, just a bit, what happened to Cisco last time they tried changing things he saw. Like, they could change the immediate future, but couldn't keep Eobard because too much paradox, and it hurt Cisco first. So he can see things and change them... wait, didn't he say the only thing he'd seen that didn't happen was Earth 2 splitting? Can't remember for sure now. But if so then that ignores the whole Eobard incident.
Also, how can Iris forget the time vault, isn't it memorable to know a page of the future?
maybe stuff is vanishing for them?
or i'm remembering wrong.
ANYway...
Having misidentified the problem, they spend time wondering if you can change the future, when we've had multiple seasons about that already. Barry changed the furure, Eo!Wells was scared of changing the future and did so many times, it's not even a thing. They need to worry how to steer clearly enough to avoid this thing.
What else...
HR lives like all this is one long sci fi convention and it's hilarious when it isn't too squirmy annoying. I keep watching him through my fingers.
Also, did he just say he won a nebula and then get all sad he isn't destined for greatness? dude, greatness achieved, nebula is pretty great.
His face when Cisco said maybe his partner deliberately got rid of him... :(
He's annoying because he's energetic and enthusiastic and attempting closeness and involvement too hard, not yet accepted by this group. If he's a con man he's from a different enough culture it's not working here. If he's just ordinary lying on his cv then he's every socially awkward one of us, which makes it squirmy to watch.
He also spends a lot of the time being the joke. When his thing is basically being a fanboy. Why do shows do that?
Other characters... Caitlin needing to recharge her devices made her sound so petty? I mean, recharging is a basic necessity? I can see how it must be terrifying to have so much riding on running out, but, she had solutions, spare batteries, she could have a spare set to put on to charge, this is a very ordinary problem, why let it get so red light? Also solar power isn't a great solution when she works in a building with no windows.
Also also that star they made her has too many points to be a snowflake.
... Mum says I've been pointing out Wrong Snowflakes since probably before school, so, I am unlikely to stop now.
Caitlin inviting Julian without telling the others set him up for embarrassment at best and was not nice. And why do it that way around, story wise? did they just need another drama twist?
Julian might start being a people instead of a function.
Also, why set him up as the 'I don't help metas I imprison them' guy? I mean, that's what STAR labs did and does, just without due process of law. Why make it out like he's doing bad to have that attitude as a police? He's a crime scene investigator and possibly anthropologist, how does that translate to helping with the cure? TV and comic book Science! skill is the most annoy.
Wally did pretty good. I like Wally winning. Yaay for him.
In the flash forward there were two of the flash standing around in uniform as well as Barry and Cisco vibing but they didn't notice. I mean I'm only mostly sure but I did rewind a couple times to see.
I can see why they weren't at their most observant.
I think I'm liking neither the mental health nor the time travel stuff, because of how they deal with it and talk about it, and that leaves very little to potentially like.
Ah well. Onwards anyways.