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Five Thoughts on The Flash’s “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach”

By | November 6th, 2019
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Hi folks! Welcome back to our weekly recap of The Flash. This week’s episode is named “Kiss Kiss Breach Breach,” it didn’t even feature The Flash and it still had a lot of storylines, was that a good idea? I say yes, but let’s dive right in.

1. Seriously? Vacations?

So, as an excuse to have a Flash-less episode –maybe preparing us for a possible second half of this season without Barry– he and Iris go on vacation and left Cisco in charge. I mean, seriously? A killer is active in the city and they decide to just spend time in the beaches of Tahiti and other places.

Well, I’ll let it go because Barry might die and he deserves to spend time with his wife, and the show must go on, despite not having its titular character, we had three stories with a lot of things to talk about.

2. Nash & West aka Faith in People

Nash is still loking for The Monitor in the sewers of Central City, so, Joe goes down there and they accidentally trap themselves in there, and thanks to Well’s attempts to get out, they only have around 40 minutes to live.

Nash is a pragmatic man, he sees this moment as his doom, he is trapped and there is no chance at all of surviving; Joe instead has faith. Indy Nash gets annoyed with Joe’s positive attitude, and he tells us a story from when his ex-wife left –remember his ex-wife? Wow, that storyline happened 5 freaking years ago!

Where was I? Oh yeah, faith. Well Joe tells Nash a story about how the whole neighborhood helped when he turned into a single parent, and he tells him that he had no faith in gods or “the universe” moving its strings. Instead he has faith in people, he has faith they are getting saved by someon, and that someone is Ralph!

At the end of the episode, in the cliffhanger scene, Nash, now with a friendlier attitude, tells the team to see him back in the sewer, because he knows how to save Barry! (I’m guessing Nash will be revealed to be Pariah, instead of having two Wells in the season).

3. Caitlin visits Ramsay… or what’s left of him

This storyline only had two scenes, but it was a meaningful breakthrough to these two characters. After talking with Ralph, Killer Frost has a plan to find Ramsay, and Caitlin, which we hadn’t seen in a while, visits him in his lab. He offers to her to live forever with him (as a blood Zombie, I guess), and she offers him to keep searching for a cure, instead, he almost kills her but spares her life.

So, now there’s nothing of humanity left in Bloodwork, not even Caitlin could convince him to walk back to the good guy side, there’s no coming back for the monster he is now.

4. Leadership

Finally, we have Cisco’s storyline, I have one big problem with it, but first, let’s focus on what the creative team did right. After being chosen to lead Team Flash after he’s gone, Cisco created an algorithm based on Barry’s past choices called B.A.R.I, and he uses it for every single decision he has to make, no matter how mundane it seems to be.

Then, after a whole day of work, he goes to sleep with Kamilla by his side, here he accidently said “I love you.” He woke up after sleepwalking and just after they turn off the lights, Breacher arrives with bad news, Cynthia/Vixen is dead.

Then we see Cisco mourn her, Kamilla standing by her side despite all the craziness, because she’s an awesome character who understands his boyfriend’s line of work and emotions. Cisco co-vibes with Breacher and they discover that it was him who killed Cynthia, well, he’s being framed.

Kamilla encourages him to make a choice and defend himself, instead of asking B.A.R.I. what he should do (I guess it has experience with that), so, he discovers that longtime foe of Vixen, Echo, is a doppelgänger of himself, so he tricks him and the Collectors capture him.

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Carlos Valdes deserves praise here, both for his emotional and his action scenes, he dominates the screen with good acting and the creative team crafted a good story arc for him this season, he’s looks comfortable, enjoying his role.

But.

5. Women in Refrigerators, again

Yet again, they used the death of a women of color to advance the storyline of a man, to be honest, Cynthia’s death was absolutely uncalled for, she was out of his life and they both moved on, why in the hell would you bring back a female character only to kill her and make a storyline for his ex?

I want to think good things of the creative team, maybe they didn’t want people asking for a Vixen/Cisco reunion now that Kamilla is here, but her death is still unnecessary. Maybe actress Jessica Camacho couldn’t or didn’t want to act as Vixen anymore now that she’s Pirate Jenny, and they needed to close her story, but her death is still unnecessary. Did they kill her to justify her absence in “Crisis”? Because that’s uncalled for.

Seriously guys, there’s no need and no justifiable reason to kill a perfectly good character, much less if she’s not even part of the show anymore.

BONUS: Did you notice the chromed Funkos in Cisco’s bedroom? Were they the Metal Men? Was that a tease or a way of saying “to expensive to animate, you won’t have them”?

And that’s it for this episode, I really enjoyed it despite that unnecessary trope, at least they gave more agency to Kamilla, and I hope that she keeps being part of the show for a long time, I like her relationship with Cisco and what she brings to the show: positive vibes. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on episode 606, “License to Elongate,” wait, what? I can wait to see a Ralph-focused episode!


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Ramon Piña

Lives in Monterrey, México. He eats tacos for a living, literally. You can say hi on Twitter and Instagram. Besides comics, he loves regular books and Baseball - "Viva Multiversity Cabr*nes!".

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