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Today's post is going to be on my thoughts on the season five premiere of The Flash. The Flash is based on a DC comics character with the same name. The Flash is a customed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at a superhuman speed. It's a spin-off from Arrow and it's apart of the Berlanti Arrowverse. If you like superheroes, comic book shows, and superpowers this is a show for you.
When it comes to comic book adaptations I'm more into the Marvel stuff but the DC tv shows are some of my favorites. I think that the Marvel movies are much better than the DC ones but the tv shows are at the same level. I watch all of the Arrowverse shows and The Flash is one of my favorites. The way that they use humor but still manages to keep the villains kind of serious is great. The season four finale left us on a bit of a cliffhanger and this premiere gave us a lot of answers and many more questions. I loved it.
SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Season five picks up right where season four left off. Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) has just told everyone that she is Barry (Grant Gustin) and Iris's (Candice Patton) daughter from the future. I love that they did this instead of jumping ahead, it would have been too confusing otherwise. The episode starts off with Nora telling everyone who she is. She knows everyone's names and everyone is confused. I mean of course they are who wouldn't be. She says that she's stuck here and can't go back to the future and she needs help. Barry is very skeptic about the whole situation and he doesn't seem to want it to be true. Iris, on the other hand, is so excited to meet her daughter. In the beginning, I thought that Barry was so standoffish about it because of everything he has gone through. He has had other speedsters manipulate and use him before and he was also scared that she was going to screw up the timeline. I mean if anyone has experience with that it's him. And how could he know for sure that she is their daughter? Iris thinks it's clear though, she has Barrys yellow lightning and her purple lightning. Later in the episode, Barry explains that he just felt like they missed out on all the firsts. His whole life has been out of order and this he wanted to experience as it goes. He wanted to experience all those first without knowing how their child would turn out. Iris comforts him by telling him that they will go through all those firsts anyway. I really like that scene.
Throughout the episode, Nora is so eager to be with Barry. I mean she messes up a case for him. Barry finally gets his job back at the police station. She turns up at his work and wants to help him with the cases. She's also a CSI like Barry. She knows everything about him as The Flash because there is a museum in the future about him. From the beginning, I felt like something was off. She says that she knows everything about Barry as The Flash from the museum and my question right then was why hasn't Barry told her?! My alarm bells in the back of mind started to go off. And then she is so eager to be around him all the time but when she is with Iris she's not nearly as excited. When they are in the coffee shop she is so mellow. Iris really wants to get to know her and now she all of a sudden is careful about messing up the timeline.
The team is doing all kinds of tests to find out why she's stuck here. Wally (Keiynan Lonsdale) goes to the legends with a sample of her blood to see if they can find anything. When he's gone they are going to try to get her back to the future. When they have to say goodbye she basically doesn't give a shit about saying goodbye to Iris but she hugs Barry like she has never hugged him before. When she did that my first thought was he's either dead or she just has a better relationship with him. She mentioned that Iris gave her her speedster name, XS, because when she was younger Iris used to say that she did everything in excess. They can't get her to the future and Wally tells them why. She has negative tachyons (or something) in her blood which means that she can't time travel. When Iris and Barry have their conversation about firsts Barry realizes that he isn't in the future. He goes to Nora and asks her. She shows him the newspaper from the future. The Flash is missing. He has been missing for twenty-five years. He missed all her firsts anyway. She went back in time to meet her father. She's not really stuck, she made herself stuck in time to be able to spend more time with Barry. In the end, Barry wants her to stay. I think he wants to get to know her because he knows that he won't get to experience those firsts anyway. They don't tell anyone else either about Nora not actually being stuck or Barry going missing in the future.
The small storylines in this episode were great. Cecile (Danielle Nicolet) still has her powers. She reads the baby's mind. When that happened Joes (Jesse L. Martin) response was amazing. His face said it all. He never liked her reading his mind, and for good reason. Who would want their romantic partner to be able to read all of their thoughts? Not me.
Cisco (Carlos Valdes) has gotten the time to start processing his breakup with Gypsy. He drank a lot of champagne at Joe and Ceciles. The actor is just great at acting those comedic moments. I love Cisco.
Ralph (Hartley Sawyer) has totally missed that time travel is a thing. This was just so fucking funny to me. I loved how the actor played it. And the excuses he had for not catching on was great. Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) tells Ralph about Killer Frost being gone. Ralph decides to look into Caitlin's past and he finds that her dad's death certificate was faked. He was the one there when she first manifested her powers and now it seems like he faked his death. I honestly don't know how I feel about this storyline. I love Caitlin but I feel like this whole Killer Frost thing has been a bit too drawn out. I'm looking forward to knowing how she got her powers though.
The bad guy of this episode is a meta called Gridlock. He can harness kinetic energy. He gets stronger from every hit that he gets and every punch that he throws. Nora is so eager to help that she actually messes things up and Gridlock gets away. Oh, and Barry has to use his old suits since the newest one was trashed when he fought DeVoe. He eventually gets a suit from the future from Nora. I don't know how I feel about the suit, and I don't really care that much. I don't read the comics so I don't have a huge attachment to all that. I don't know if it looked extremely different either so.
Later Gridlock makes a plane fall out of the sky, and Cisco vibes Wally, Nora and Barry up into the plane. They are able to incapacitate him but he has blown both engines. They have to phase the plane through the buildings until they can get the plane to land safely in the river. Since Barry was never around to teach Nora about her powers she can't phase. This scene was so beautiful because he coaches her through phasing and knowing that she has never had this type of interaction with him made everything better. I feel like they bonded over that and that's also a reason why Barry decides that she can stay.
The last scene we see Gridlock in prison transport. A lightning bolt is struck into the ground. The guards are killed and then the doors open to the truck with Gridlock in it. A man comes in in a cloak and a mask. He says that he wants all of them to die. I think he means all the metas. And then he walks towards Gridlock like he's going to kill him. I believe this is going to be the big bad of the season.
I liked this season premiere. We got a good tease for who the big bad is and I have a feeling that we're going to try to figure out why Barry goes missing in the future. We're off to a great start.
/Johanna
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