She wakes up later to a worried Caitlin berating her for endangering herself. It’s the first of several bizarre about-faces in this episode.īecause we’re not even halfway through the episode yet, the initial plan does not work and Frost gets knocked out by the black flames when they try. Even more senseless for the narrative, it takes one brief conversation in the next scene for Frost to convince Barry to let her be bait anyways. Even though Frost is a superhero who puts herself in danger every time she goes out into the field. The plan seems smart and doable, but Barry’s against the idea of putting Frost in danger and vetoes it outright. With this in mind, Frost wants to use herself as bait to capture the black flames. For a moment, they think Frost has that extra element and they could figure it out via her - but Carla nixes that idea by proposing that the cold fusion flames actually wanted Frost for fuel supplied by her cryo-kinetic powers. Team Flash knows the flames target grief but don’t know what kind of grief or if there’s an extra element to who it picks. Regardless, Frost has brought her mom into the fold because the black flames have decided to target her, but they only burned her instead of outright killing her like previous victims and her scientist mom has insight. Like the ghost connection between the Central City plot and the Coast City plot last week, this connection is so fragile that there’s a chance I’m making it up on my own in a desperate attempt to find cohesion in the episode. Carla Tannhauser, is brought in to help the team find a way to capture the black flames. Meanwhile, in Central City, I think the writers wanted to go for a mother-daughter connection between the parallel plotlines because Caitlin and Frost’s mom, Dr.
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They find the mom, but clearly Iris wasn’t as stabilized as Deon led her to believe, because she ends up disappearing a whole room full of stuff and then Tinya’s mom via green time sparkles.
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Iris’ plotline, while doubtlessly going to fuel future episodes, is a series of almost-nothing-scenes in an episode of almost-nothing-scenes so I’ll just summarize it up top before we get into the A-plot: Iris has to stay in Coast City so Deon can stabilize her, which is fine on her end because she still wants to hunt down angry teenager stereotype Tinya’s mom. I get the feeling the writers didn’t quite know what they wanted time sickness to be before they set this plot up and now they’ve realized that temporal tuberculosis isn’t quite as narratively compelling as an enemy the team could possibly fight in a pre-hiatus finale episode. They’ve been using illness language to describe what’s been happening to Iris, but actually something’s coming for Iris and affecting time as it goes. We start where we left off last episode, which is Iris getting the bad news from Deon about her time sickness. IT’S A FLASH CHARACTER’S PREROGATIVE TO CHANGE THEIR MIND I am bored and slightly confused by what the writers are doing. People decide things and then decide the opposite thing in a matter of moments. Iris is infected with green time sparkles that steal stuff. Caitlin and Frost’s mom returns, significantly nicer than she was in previous appearances. This week on The Flash: Frost is targeted by the black flames.
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