For over an hour I felt like screaming at the television. Cisco Ramon is the coolest character outside of Barry Allen on the entire show. Watching Reverse Flash outright kill Cisco really stung. I kept waiting for Cisco to do something to outwit Dr. Wells, but it never happened. I kept thinking...Cisco fixed the problem with the device designed to trap Reverse Flash and he's gonna trick the villain into the field and bam, have him trapped. Or, Barry's gonna run in and save him...only there's a huge tsunami heading for Central City that's going to kill thousands of people so yeah...the Flash can't rescue everyone.
This episode tonight felt like a season finale. There was so much stuff going on, so much second-guessing, and multiple villains doing things that raised the stakes of everything to ridiculously high levels. In recap we had:
1) Captain Singh potentially brain-damaged and paralyzed by lightning from Weather Wizard. It was awesome that they allowed the captain's same sex partner in to see him as he was the captain's fiancee and essentially "family."
2) Eobard Thawne confirmed as Reverse Flash and yes, sharing the same name as Eddie (Iris's boyfriend) who is obviously a descendant.
3) Dr. Wells plunged his vibrating hand into Cisco's chest and crushed Cisco's heart. You bastard!
4) Barry and Iris acting on their feelings toward each other with a great kiss and then the ultimate reveal to Iris that he is indeed, "The Flash." It felt like Spiderman 2 all over again.
If there is one request I want to make of the show's writers it's this: please please please bring back Cisco Ramon. Sigh. Somedays I think Game of Thrones has changed television too much. I kinda miss when characters I loved were safe.
That was a great episode last night. Although my wife yelled when the ending twist happened.
ReplyDeleteAs I said on Twitter, I'm sure the Flash will use time travel to save Cisco. That was the best moment of an otherwise blah episode.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! I sat in shock when Cisco was killed. I... I just couldn't believe they did that. But there's hope. Barry messed up the time-space continuum, so they have a chance to save Cisco.
ReplyDeleteSounds like this episode will be a tough act to outdo. How on earth will they make the season finale even more intense? :)
ReplyDeleteIt will have Gorilla Grodd in it.
DeleteIn Science Fiction anything can happen, so it's possible they'll find a way to bring back Cisco. After all, they brought back Spock.
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do is find the Guardian of Forever on planet Orion, step through the time portal into the past, find Cisco Ramon and have a chat. When you get back, Voila! Cisco is back!
ReplyDeleteI love this answer. Trek rules.
DeleteI've yelled at Downton Abbey, which maybe isn't quite the same. But I know just what you mean about killing off characters we love. Sometimes writers can be sadistic. Or maybe an actor just wants out of his contract?
ReplyDeleteBut Barry went back in time! So surely he's going to save Cisco. Oh, he'd better. They can't kill Cisco off!
ReplyDeleteI'm almost postive that Barry will save Cisco, or things will be reverted or something because i don't think it's coincidental Barry discovered he can run through time in the same episode ALLLL this other stuff happened.
ReplyDeleteBut, man, how sad was Cisco standing there crying because he knew Wells was going to kill him and there was nothing he could do to stop it. So sad. I love Cisco so much
I was amazed how many season ending things happened in this episode and felt a little pissed when I realized that next week the Flash is going to undo all of it by time travel. Singh and Cisco will live. Barry will do something so Iris won't remember he is the Flash. I just hope the writers remember that to do something good there has to be consequences. It would be weak if the only result is the viewers know more about Dr. Wells.
ReplyDeleteShush! Cisco must live or I'll be unhappy!
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