See you tomorrow - after work and shopping. 
Post by matt on Apr 23, 2023 21:03:32 GMT -5
Well. The link FINALLY is up. I can't believe the delay. 
A worried father-to-be wants to make sure his whole world is ready for his child, and so Barry decides to get Star Labs looked at by inspectors. Things go sideways, though, when Barry, Iris, and the inspectors find out that they can’t seem to leave the Speed Lab. Oh, and then a grandfather clock shows up, and everyone is dressed in period clothing.
Elsewhere, Chester and Allegra have relationship drama. With this couple, it feels almost as if the writers dug themselves too deep with the characters and feel like they can’t just leave the plot thread hanging. But it's flat.
With Barry and Iris, the episode tries to cut a nice balance between villain-of-the-week stuff and actual character development. The story itself is a woozy, but you can tell literally right away which of the inspectors is responsible because the show telegraphs it like an anime character announcing their superpower attack. You know who the thief is within moments of their introduction.
Once she outs herself, Lady Chronos is a pretty funny villain, and if she’d popped up in an earlier season I think she would be remembered as a fun, silly villain.
Thanks to Lady Chronos and lots of time spent with Barry–finally–the episode doesn’t feel like a total loss. The push and pull of the episode works okay as a metaphor for Barry and Iris’ different anxieties about parenthood. Barry is running toward it too fast, and Iris is pulling away from it a bit too much.
Some episode references call-backs to past episodes:
*The clothes that the inspectors, Barry and Iris were changed into is similar to what happened in the Season 7 episode "The One With The Nineties"
*The scene where everything returned back to normal in a flash of light due to time travel is very similar to what happened in "Armageddon, Part 4" when Barry travel back to the present to change the timeline in which a flash of light removed all of his friends that were being tortured by Despero, albeit at the same place which is at the Speed lab.
*Ramsey Rosso/Bloodwork leading an army of Blood Brothers in the Season 6 episode "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2"
A worried father-to-be wants to make sure his whole world is ready for his child, and so Barry decides to get Star Labs looked at by inspectors. Things go sideways, though, when Barry, Iris, and the inspectors find out that they can’t seem to leave the Speed Lab. Oh, and then a grandfather clock shows up, and everyone is dressed in period clothing.
Elsewhere, Chester and Allegra have relationship drama. With this couple, it feels almost as if the writers dug themselves too deep with the characters and feel like they can’t just leave the plot thread hanging. But it's flat.
With Barry and Iris, the episode tries to cut a nice balance between villain-of-the-week stuff and actual character development. The story itself is a woozy, but you can tell literally right away which of the inspectors is responsible because the show telegraphs it like an anime character announcing their superpower attack. You know who the thief is within moments of their introduction.
Once she outs herself, Lady Chronos is a pretty funny villain, and if she’d popped up in an earlier season I think she would be remembered as a fun, silly villain.
Thanks to Lady Chronos and lots of time spent with Barry–finally–the episode doesn’t feel like a total loss. The push and pull of the episode works okay as a metaphor for Barry and Iris’ different anxieties about parenthood. Barry is running toward it too fast, and Iris is pulling away from it a bit too much.
Some episode references call-backs to past episodes:
*The clothes that the inspectors, Barry and Iris were changed into is similar to what happened in the Season 7 episode "The One With The Nineties"
*The scene where everything returned back to normal in a flash of light due to time travel is very similar to what happened in "Armageddon, Part 4" when Barry travel back to the present to change the timeline in which a flash of light removed all of his friends that were being tortured by Despero, albeit at the same place which is at the Speed lab.
*Ramsey Rosso/Bloodwork leading an army of Blood Brothers in the Season 6 episode "The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Pt. 2"
