Pages

Wednesday 10 February 2016

THE FLASH - Welcome To Earth-2 Vibes

Welcome to Earth 2 amigos. Now, I know my excitement for this week’s episode of The Flash is justified because I really enjoyed the episode. It was great. Like episode Unchained of Arrow, it had quite a number of things going on but unlike Unchained, it didn’t seem all too much and loose. It was an enjoyable chain of events. Phew! There's so much to talk about this week. Brief recap: Cisco, Harry and Barry journeyed to Earth 2 through the last opened portal in Star Labs leaving Jay, Caitlin, Joe and Iris back to hold the fort. The breach collapsed sort of as they left which means they’ll be stranded in Earth 2 forever if Jay doesn’t work to fix it ASAP. Earth 1 crew had to battle a villain without Barry and Earth 2 crew’s plan didn’t go quite as planned to fins zoom and save Jessie.



EARTH 1
Just as Jay was working on trying to fix the problem to the instability of the breach, a metahuman, Geomancer went on earth-rumbling rampage asking to confront The Flash. Problem though, Earth 1’s Flash was AWOL. Joe tried to plead to Jay to use Velocity 6 to help stop Geomancer but Jay refused (initially at least). He later explained to Caitlin how he was obsessed with getting faster which made him invent Velocity 6 which did help but had the side effect of zapping his speed out of him after and apparently the cause for his dying state which means he lied about Zoom stealing his speed. Hmm… so, Jay is a liar. My confusion here though, didn’t Zoom also say something about him taking Jay’s powers and him wanting more and stuff in earlier episodes? So… who is confused? Or maybe Jay’s sickness is affecting his memory too, just saying. Or maybe it's me assuming what I didn't hear.

Wally dropped by to say hi to his pops at the station but he came at a bad time. Cop duty was calling. You could tell he was hurt. I felt bad for him but it wasn’t Joe’s fault, just bad timing, I guess. Hopefully, he understands.


Velocity 7! Caitlin helped upgrade the Velocity 6 shot and seemed to work quite better before it wore out on Jay. He sort of saved the day with the bad guy, that is not until he almost got squashed but Joe saved him. Velocity 8 coming up soon. What was that thing Joe did with his hat? I assume it’s some straight-out-of-comic-thingy, I don’t know but I thought it was cool. For a change, he did something other than utterly being just almost useful every time. He didn’t help with stopping the bad guy though but the guy was scared off. He’ll be back next week more prepared this time, I suppose. He’s cool though, he can do cool stuffs like making the party rumble but then I don’t get why he would think he could take down The Flash (if not stupidity). C’mon, this guy should be robbing banks or something. Why look for Flash? Maybe it’s just a villain complex thing.


EARTH 2
Hello, hello! Welcome to Earth 2. In the time vault or whatever that space they passed through is called, I think I caught a glimpse of the Green Arrow, Flash, Supergirl (yeah, we get. The crossover happens, mmph!), and then some old guy (Jonah Hex maybe, lol) and some tech-y thing I have no idea of and the last bus stop, Earth 2. It was glorious and Bary and Cisco here were just super fun to watch.and there there was their reaction when they saw Henry was priceless. Barry kidnapped his doppelganger and realized how pathetic he looked when he was geeking over Harrison Wells, it was really cool watching our Barry and Harry throw the taser around and shut Barry-2 up. Apparently, this Barry has the perfect fairy tale life our Barry wishes for. Barry-2 is married to Detective West (yes, Iris West-Allen), his parents are alive and happy (quite an emotional scene where he got to talk to his mom on phone). Only problem was he’s not buddies with Joe who as it turns out has a nice voice and makes a living as a musician.


Let me for a minute talk about Deadshot-2. It’s pretty ironic that he literally shoots dead shots at nothing. That guy can’t shoot a giant standing in front of him if his life depended on it.this guy emptied his clip trying to shoot Reverb who was just feet away and not even one bullet could at least by mistake graze him (pathetically hilarious). Earth-1 CCPD Captain's doppelganger is a criminal here. It all was very hilarious

No bad blood here, I promise but I just didn’t think like Iris-2 so much here, Candice is a great actress and she did a good job with the act but I just didn’t like her and I think it's because she continued her rolls of not-so-smart acts and then she even did way dumber things than Earth-1 Iris. Cop or no cop, I think anyone with an iota of common sense would know to not go gun-blazing against a metahuman unless you have some kind of reinforcement. Then, she went all hero-cop on not even one but two metahumans with just a revolver (like seriously? What was she thinking? I doubt she was even thinking. RIP Joe. He got burned by deathstorm, sad. Barry is bad luck, I’m telling you. (jk, I love him but then it’s true. He brings trouble).


Zoom’s contract couples: Killer Frost and Deathstorm. I was glad to have Ronnie on the show (villain or not) and they seemed like some really cool power couple (evil ones). Ronnie’s the only one Caitlin-2 can hookup with apparently. Her powers would freeze any other person as that other thief found out. So, I felt them as my other Captain Cold and Heatwave only cooler and then Mr & Mrs. Storm actually froze and burn people unlike their counterparts (Cold and heatwave just shoot those guns, I haven’t actually seen anyone get burnt or freeze from it lately. Just saying)

Speaking of Captain Cold, on the news in Harry’s office, it was mentioned that the Mayor is Snart (I'm not 100% sure if it's Captain Cold or his dad). We’ll probably know next week. Our dear Cisco so haven’t uncovered even half of his powers as his doppelganger showed us some cool stuffs he could do, even Killer Frost and Deathstorm were scared of him. It is sad Zoom just laid waste to them like that. I didn’t think it should be that easy to kill especially not Deathstorm but anyways, I guess Zoom is like the all-powerful big bad boss. That guy was hold the whole city to a curfew. Whew!


So now, the breach's unfixed problem doesn’t even matter yet because Zoom has Flash now and he knows Harry is around with him o he’ll be ready. They’ll find a way to fix all these and find their way back to Earth 1. Hopefully, without losing anyone important like Jessie.


Quick mention: What is it with Earth 2 and their ‘ 90s dress sense? Why? Why did Iris’s metahuman tech only act up once around Barry and why did every other person not get a metahuman alert on their gadget when Barry entered Jitterbugs like it did when Killer frost and Deathstorm showed up? 
I just have to stop before this article gets any longer than it already is. What did you think of Welcome to Earth-2? 


Watch The Flash Season 2 Episode 14 (Escape from Earth-2) next Tuesday on The CW at 8/7c

No comments:

Post a Comment