Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of The Flash season 4…
Okay Flash fans, we are back in Central City. This week, our title comes from the 11th bus meta, Nora Petty, a woman whose power (I think?) is to basically make anything she touches float, which eventually wears off and then it comes crashing down. Interesting power and I have no idea what in the hell DeVoe would use it for. She doesn’t seem to be a particularly troubling villain but The Flash does what it does best sometimes with the writing and makes problems for itself just to make the villain seem more imposing. The gag this week is that Ralph doesn’t take anything seriously, even if he lives in fear. Well, since no one really bothered to ask him about it, it took the whole hour for Ralph to share the story of his lost father, and how he ended up using laughter and gags to mask, and eventually, eliminate the fear he had. These characters talk so much but rarely, do they ever talk about anything that would get them out of the hairy situations they put themselves in.
Ralph does come through for Barry and the team but it takes Felicity, oh I’m sorry, Iris (who basically is Felicity now) to point that out to Barry. The “b” story is the return of Breacher, Gypsy’s disapproving father who has lost his vibing powers and needs Cisco’s help to get them back. Caitlin pitches in and reveals that from all her tests, he has just gotten old and the strain this particular power puts on your body will cause you to lose it. Cisco is just straight up afraid to tell him but once he does, and Breacher comes to grip with it, he retires and poses an interesting question: he wants Cisco to replace him at their agency and this way, he can be with Gypsy all the time. This would be a huge change for not just this show but Cisco builds costumes and weapons for seemingly the whole CW universe. This is now a storyline to watch.
It’s official: I hate the Thinker. He’s just worn out his welcome. His whole subplot was Marlize finding out she’s being made to love him every week then Thinker erasing her memory and doing it all over again. It’s obviously what’s going to lead to his downfall and it’s stupid. And I’m also over all the body switching and it looks more and more like Ralph will be used against Team Flash and he is the most important meta DeVoe needed. Just defeat him already, Team Flash. It looks like this was another Kevin Smith directed episode and I could be wrong but did Jay and Silent Bob just enter the Arrowverse?
Rating: 6/10
Jessie Robertson
