Hi folks! Welcome back to our weekly recap of The Flash. This week’s episode is named “News Flash” and oh boy! We got a lot of new developments! Let’s dive right in.
The most important part of this episode was the focus on the broken relationship between Nora and her future mother, Iris. The young mom tries to make breakfast for her family, but she’s a really bad cooker and Nora is uninterested. Then she discovers that Barry got her daughter a new phone, and she’s the last to know it.
As the episode progresses, Nora keeps dissing her mother, mainly with Spyn Zone and Spencer Young, and when finally Iris confronts her, Nora reveals that she put a power dampener on her and has only six months with her powers, damn that’s heavy!
Later in the episode, Iris tells Nora that maybe she had a good reason – I’m betting on her only being scared of losing her daughter too – and, in a twist of events, Barry agrees with her wife, despite Nora’s anger.
2. Following the mask
This episode’s B plot involves Sherloque and Ralph following a hunch from the latter. At first, our newest Wells seems to dismiss Dibny’s plan, but they end up uncovering a lot of things about Cicada’s mask.
They go to Szrek Chem trying to obtain information on the mask, but it turns out every worker in the plant uses it, what they don’t know is that Orlin does work there, and he was spying on them.
As Ralph feels down because there’s a better detective in the team, Sherloque discovers that his partner was right indeed, there’s a reason Cicada uses it, most probably he was affected on an accident, and has lungs injury, more on that later.
It was nice to see that Sherloque gives Ralph credit for the discovery, if you remember last episode’s recap, I disliked the new Wells, but this episode gave him a lot of humanity, he is not as egotistical as I thought, and Dibny got his morale up.
3. Play ball!
There’s not much to say about the softball scenes of this episode, but the fact that Barry is bad at it struck with me, it’s at the same time, one of the most improbable things in this Sci-fi/superhero series and a funny and humanizing element.
The Flash can be a legend, one of the most important heroes of history and the fastest man alive, but he is not a good athlete, how funny is that?
4. Spin
This episode’s villain was Spencer Young, a girl that mind-control’s people to create news, yes, just like in Bruce Almighty. It seems that the series will dive a little into real life-inspired political storylines, like making literal fake news. This was particularly meaningful given yesterday’s news.
At the end of the episode, Flash team sees on the news that the Mayor of Central City resigns, honestly, I did not catch the reason for that, but I would like to see a story about some villain taking over the city, maybe going against our heroes.
Coming back to Spin, she is young, like Nora, and she used that to break a little more the bond between the Allen-West family. She likes XS, and tries to kill Flash just for the views in her app.
There was some flirting between the girls, which means that Nora is queer, which is great! The only other LGBT character I can think of is the Police Captain and he only appears rarely in the series, representation, having a main non-straight character matters a lot.
5. The Day of the Enlightenment
In one scene, Nora analyzes Spencer to see if she is meta, bit it turns out she’s not, but her phone is… what? Yes indeed, it turns out that the day that DeVoe dropped the satellites, they had black matter, which not only created metahumans, it created “meta-tech”!
This means that Cicada is human, his powers come from his daggers, I guess that somehow, he was stabbed with them, creating a link, giving him powers took from other metas, like the super-strength at the end of the episode.
And that’s it for this week, we learned a lot of stuff from our heroes and villains, it was a great episode! What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us in two weeks for our take on episode 505, “All Doll’d Up”. And remember, always side with your wife.
