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Six Thoughts on The Flash’s “The Girl With The Red Lighting”

By | May 8th, 2019
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Hi folks! Welcome back to our weekly recap of The Flash. This week’s episode, the second-to-last in Season Five is named “The Girl With The Red Lighting” and in an Infinity War fashion, it prepared our heroes for the endgame against Thawne, lets dive right in.

1. Shecada

Cicada II has a plan to wipe out all of the meta-life in Central City, just like discussed in last episode’s cliffhanger. Her plan is to collect yet another gizmo, to add to her virus-bomb, not only she wants to kill in a local scale, why do that? When she can kill every person with a power in the country (and the world).

Also, she’s seeing her uncle Dwyer, it might be weird, given that she killed him when she felt betrayed, but I guess she created in her mind (and her hallucinations) a persona of the original Cicada that agrees with her mission. Plus, they already paid Chris Klein full Main-cast-bill, so why not keep using him?

2. Joe is in charge

Given the imminent risk of Cicada releasing the bomb, the team decides to produce more veils of cure for the metas of the City, and Joe proposes to use CCPD’s headquarters, given that it’s a place trusted by the city.

When asked for permission, Captain Singh agrees, but he is going to be off town, and puts Joe in charge, if I remember well, this is the first time on the season that Joe gets a storyline, instead of being just a source of advice. I could argue that they had a storyline about him being terrified of Cicada after he invaded his house, but given Jesse L. Martin’s injury, it was resolved in a rush.

Anyway, he has a lot of doubts about being in charge, he doesn’t know how to handle the scared metas in the Police Station, and he doesn’t know how many cars dispatch or how big of a perimeter should be installed. After seeing him struggle, Cecile gives him advice this time, she tells him that if he can be boss in the field, he can also be boss in the office, it’s normal to self-doubt, but it’s something that anyone has to overcome, in order to grow as a person, no matter if you are the father figure of the team or the newest addition.

3. Renee Adler

Sherloque is trying to save the woman he fell in love with back in Goldfaced from Cicada, turns out she has some kind of telekinesis and is able to move objects. He tries to bring her to CCPD to get the cure, but she flees.

She reveals that she is scared indeed, but she doesn’t want to lose her powers, she enjoys using them and no one is going to take that from her, not even a psychotic assassin from the future. Then Sherloque comes up with the idea of bringing her to his earth and after a kiss and the promise of a reunion, she left this earth. I mean, it’s not like the team can use her powers am I right?

Five Thoughts on The Flash’s “Goldfaced”

4. Nora becomes a hero

After a whole season struggling with Nora’s way of being, I think she finally became a hero this episode. Despite knowing the risk of embracing her mental link with Gracie, because of her anger that could overcome her and bring her to the Negative Speed Force, she uses said link has a fight in Gracie’s mind and discovers that she is bringing the bomb to CCPD.

This is a lot of growth for a character that has been doing selfish acts all this season, she finally does an act that might mean her death, just to help the team and save lives, in a way, going through the Negative Speed Force, hitting emotional rock bottom, made her see that she is loved indeed, and that she can be a selfless hero.

5. The final showdown

The team arrives at CCPD, where Cicada is charging her bomb, they fight her with their powers because she doesn’t have the dagger to absorb them. It was a great fight with Flash, Killer Frost and Elongated Man against their villain, brutal and tense.

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There are three main points that I want to touch, first, I love Sarah Carter’s performance as Cicada, if Chris Klein set the basis for how the villain would act and talk and make grunting noises, she imitates and maybe even surpasses him with her performance, it’s both scary and cheesy, all I need from the series.

Second, it’s nice to see Ralph fully involved with the action sequences, in a Show full with Flash, Nora and Killer Frost, him and Cisco fighting is rare, but this time he showed up committed to the fight, despite being weaker than Cicada. And third, he alone discovered Thawne’s plan!

6. Ralph versus The Timeline

Ralph had a hard time this episode, because, as he explains to the team, there are three timelines, the one before the Enlightenment, the one with Orlin and the “actual” where Gracie kills her uncle, which did not altered the present, but in the future, that’s the third alteration, but the team ignores him, they are more worried about the present than the future.

Cicada revealed that she didn’t need the dagger in the future and right before Flash fires the mirror gun, Ralph realizes what Thawne’s plan is: THE DAGGER is dampening his powers! If they destroy it, he will be free! The episode ended with the most anguishing cliffhanger this season: the “energy” shoot from the gun in the air, in its path to destroy Cicada’s dagger!

BONUS: There’s a funny thing I thought: “Oh wow Team Flash surely forgave quickly Nora’s betrayal,” then I remembered that they have had good versions of Harrison Wells since season two, despite him having the face of Barry’s arch-nemesis, so yeah, they are fast at forgiving indeed.

And that’s it for this episode, overall, it worked as a prelude to next week’s episode, and it was great in that, it had character growth, real and grounded struggles, an intricate storyline (which we love), and a final fight where nobody held any punches. What did you think of this episode? Leave your comments below and join us next week for our take on the season finale, “Legacy”.


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Ramon Piña

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