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Once the rest of Team Flash was in on the truth, they were quickly able to come up with a way to beat him. He just got lucky Nora was completely unable to maneuver around his one idea, even though he did it over 50 times. Instead, Cicada simply executed the same plan with each and every reset. Related: The Flash Season 5 Episode 12 Review: Memorabilia And that's something Cicada has sorely lacked. This would have given him more depth beyond being portrayed as a vapid monster out to brutally kill.Ī smart villain is a scarier villain, after all. Things would have been much more interesting if Cicada had somehow pivoted his plan in intelligent and diabolical ways each time the timeline got reset. Unfortunately, it also failed in that regard. Maybe I could have supported the decision to film this episode if it at least did something for the development of Cicada as a villain. Nora is not a toddler, so why have the writers dumbed her down to a shell of a speedster who is incapable of doing anything on her own? Why couldn’t Nora get into the speed force herself?īeyond just the systematic aspects of it all, there are questions regarding Nora’s character development. I let a lot of scientific minutia slide on this show (mostly because I wouldn't understand it anyway), but this has too many loopholes not to raise questions, even for me.
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Related: Arrow Season 7 Episode 12 Review: Emerald Archer When have they ever gotten lucky with something like this? In five seasons, I can’t think of a single occurrence where “they’ve just gotten lucky.” In "Cause and XS," she absolutely massacres the timeline by running back and forth 52 times with the only conclusion being a simple shrug from Barry, stating “she got lucky this time." Nora travels to the future on a consistent basis with no repercussions.
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There hasn’t been a single attempt at a timeline change that hasn’t negatively affected a character in some way. Barry even reminded Nora of this in the last few scenes of the episode. We’ve been taught countless times that messing with the timeline results in disastrous effects. The first one revolving around The Flash's speedster mechanics. There were multiple reasons the plot didn’t work. But more than anything else, it just didn't make much sense. It would be one thing if it was just boring.
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Instead of an interesting hour delving into a race against the clock on how to prepare the cure before time runs out, audiences were left watching random members of Team Flash die repeatedly, as Nora made the same mistakes she’s been making since her debut. Related: The Flash Season 5 Episode 13 Review: Goldfaced Except once again, that got done off screen as most of the cure storyline has been. Yes, Team Flash figured out how to finish the cure. Regardless, there was little about this episode which could be deemed as necessary (or even helpful) to the overall plot for the season, which leaves me asking: What was the point? The catalyst for what exactly went wrong here may have been the absence of Barry Allen or simply the writers not having quite enough story material to fill their 22 installment quota.