Jessie Robertson reviews the sixteenth episode of The Flash season 2…
Best thing to do on a Thursday night: “Earth-2’s equivalent to watching Netflix and chill!”
“Hello, Jessie, Goodbye Jessie”- whenever Team Flash’s roster gets too bloated, there’s always a quick exit out of town; Henry Allen, Patty Spivot, and now Jessie Quick is vamoose. It was weird too; we started to get some pieces to her puzzle; likes to watch pop culture news, had a thing for bad boy but well spoken drag racers and loved to give her dad a hard time; but it looks like there’s not enough extra material to go around and there’s already too many characters to keep straight. Was kinda liking her; but as we saw, she was injected with the V-9 formula; what kind of odds you give me that they didn’t get all of it out?
Sorry (should have lead with this) Welcome Back to Central City! – This episode had every hallmark that makes the Flash a great, watchable show. Immediately the tone was lightened from when we left Team Flash, we got jokes galore, we got a new interesting villain (for a change), and that villain’s struggle taught Barry not one, but 2 important lessons this week, so yay! yay! Barry continues to struggle with how to match Zoom’s speed and “Trajectory” highlights that with a failed attempt at him jumping a canyon (that is until Fitz lets Cisco borrow his hoverbots). He has Jay’s death on his shoulders and now there’s a speedster that’s making him look bad. I love that, in the midst of this new mystery, Barry is worried about Flash’s reputation, because to make sure Central City knows he’s their hero is of utmost importance to him. The mystery to this new villain lay in V-9, which keeps rearing its pesky head. It feels a bit cheap to know that Caitlin could just create super speed in a lab at this point, but that’s what happens with long running shows; you build and build until there’s almost nothing new to surprise anyone. Anyways, Barry’s values sort of keep him grounded in this one-upsman (or woman) battle with Trajectory (why do the crazy ones always name themselves?) as he rescues the people she trapped on the bridge instead of just duking it out with her straight away. Barry’s empassioned speech to Eliza as she struggles with her addiction to the V-9 was heartfelt and what guts you every time when Grant Gustin wears that scarlet costume like maybe no other can.
Trajectory’s “trajectory” was a lesson for Barry; nothing more and it worked on just about every level. Her backstory made sense with the weird visions she was having, sort of a split personality, and it highlighted V-9’s effectiveness and deadliness while Barry at the same time struggled with “cheating” and using it. Everything fit into place this week in a nice tight package, plus the end was dramatic as hell and cool stuff.
9/10- excellent comeback episode with all the great notes hit that make this show great
Other Notes:
– Welcome Back Again! Damn, I missed this show
– Wells handing Jessie a meta watch detector feels like it’s more appropriate than that other protection she thought he was referring to.
– Again, doesn’t need to be said but here goes: Tom Cavanaugh is brilliant on this show; the way he’s reinvented this character, credit to the writers as well, is nothing short of brilliant
– Liked the comment Wells makes to Barry “Be Better” then he pauses and says “Be like Jay” which was hard for him to say, as he never particularly seemed to like Jay; it works in a few ways, as when he tells him to be better, he means be a better man, but when he says be like Jay, he unconsciously is telling us, the viewers, be faster.
– “Villains going to Vill” I really hope ‘vill’ gets added to Webster’s this year! #VillainsgoingtoVill
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Originally published March 23, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
