Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here, we will be catching you up on the week in comics TV, both through micro-reviews, as well as links to our full-length TV reviews. We also tend to review series that are dropped all at once weekly so there are a few ‘older’ shows mixed in for good measure. Are we missing your favorite show? Let us know in the comments!
The Flash – “A New World, Part Three” (aka “Changes”) (S9E12, The CW)
After attacking the Flash’s past and present, the Negative Speed Force came to the future to try to eliminate recruit a new avatar, but now that Team Flash knows what’s going on, they can help Barry, and they do so with Cecile implanting her mind to future-Cecile’s body, Days of the Future Past-style.
I found it funny, and even cynical, that they didn’t even use any kind of make up to make them look older. What’s the implication there? That Cecile, a woman in her late forties or early fifties looks the same 23 years into the future at 70 years old? Yeah, I’m sure there’s an explanation like that in the future they stopped aging, but to me, they simply either didn’t care or their budget didn’t allowed for many changes.
The heart of the episode is Eddie Thawne, who jumps from being confused but on the good guys’ side, to being angry and convinced that he deserved a better life with Iris and an imaginary daughter. Rick Cossnet gives an intense performance that I can’t fully embrace. I don’t know if it’s because of how sudden his change in mind seemed, meaning a writing problem, or his operatic reactions to his surroundings, meaning an acting problem; the point is something wasn’t fully clicking there.
This episode built on the transformation of the last villain, and I do understand his motivations; he lost his life for The Flash and it didn’t even work. That makes him perhaps the angriest foe ever for the Flash.
The most interesting part of the episode was Cecile realizing that her life in the future barely includes Joe and Jenna. She has been focusing so much in the superhero life that she simply doesn’t come back home at the end of the day or the week – the cost of being a hero. When it seems like she’s going to give up, Chester is the one who gives her the motivational talk, and she’s back in action ready to prevent that part of her future. And she is the one who saved the day by separating Nora from the Crystal by forcing out an astral projection, a move that resembled what The Ancient One and Doctor Strange like to do with people in the MCU.
Well this is it. This is the last Boomb Tube for The Flash. Thank you very much for reading me here. See you in a week for the big finale. – Ramon Piña
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – “OMG Issue #1″ & “OMG Issue #2” (S1E15-E16, Disney Channel)
Tune in later this week for our full review of the season finale by Christopher Chiu-Tabet.
Riverdale – “Hoop Dreams” (S7E8, The CW)
Read our full review by Elias Rosner
Sweet Tooth – “Bad Man” (S2E4, Netflix)
Read our full review by Alexander Manzo.
Titans – “Titans Forever” (S4E8, The CW)
Read out full review of the series finale by Michael Mazzacane.
