The Flash Season: 3 Review

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I'm giving this season of The Flash 1 out of 5 stars. Why 1 star? See for yourself.

Episodes with Little or No Fidelity to Characters & Plot-lines [if !supportLineBreakNewLine] [endif]

Flashpoint Eobard says something to the effect of “Go ahead. I want to hear you say it. Tell me to kill your mother.”, to which The Flash replies with something to the effect of “Please go kill my mother.” Ok… I’m sitting there like, what the heck did you say that for? He was already going to kill your mother anyways -- he WANTS to kill your mother -- he HAS to kill your mother. Shouldn’t the line have been “Screw you!” or something stronger than “Screw you!”, but no Barry is a good little boy who does what the mean super villain serial killer tells him to say. No one, & I mean NO ONE put into that situation is going to actually say what Eobard Thawn wanted him to say. Sheesh. The only way that this part could have been PARTIALLY rectified is if Thawn then said “Wow, I was just messin’ with you. I didn’t actually think you’d say it…” I mean, it still would have been bad writing but at least I would have agreed with SOMEONE on screen at that point…

The Wrath of Savitar

So, Barry shows up in time to see Wally get sucked into the speed force, but just stands there & watches it happen. He then waits until the portal closes, walk up to what’s left of Wally’s smoldering uniform & picks it up. So, you couldn’t walk up to the portal & grab Wally’s hand, but you can wait a few seconds later, walk up to where the portal just was, & grab Wally’s Kid Flash insignia? Yeah, because that’s so much more important than grabbing the actual person, right? Please tell me I’m not the only one that noticed this steaming pile of garbage. No -- scratch that. Please tell me I’m not the only one that’s NOT going to let the let the producers & writers get away with this. If anyone is out there making excuses for this part of this show, then they need to man-up, grow a pair & stop jockin’ this show so hard, long enough to admit the truth. There was no part where Cisco says “No, Barry! You can’t touch him, it’ll rip his body apart.” or anything like that. There was no establishment that it even would rip his body apart in the first place. All I heard was Cisco or someone on Team: Flash saying something to the effect of “Barry? What happened? Did you save Wally?” & I’m sitting there like “What the heck, dude?!” If they wanted Wally to be taken to the speed force so badly, they could have written it so that Barry gets there a second too late AND CAN’T grab Wally’s arm, but nooo, they decide to have Barry get there IN TIME & JUST STAND THERE until his friend is taken. Why are we as super hero fans standing for this? Where’s the quality & continuity in these types of scenes in writing?

Attack on Central City

Kid Flash & Jessie Quick defeated a bunch of gorilla warriors. The Flash ran up to Grodd & got stiff-armed into a parked taxi. If not for the part where he punches in the right code to stop the nuke from launching (with the sheer strategy of just by trying every possible combination), I’d be wondering who’s show is this anyway? I don’t think he won 1 fight in this whole episode. Shouldn’t he win, like 1 every week if it’s his own show?

The Once and Future Flash

Welp, guess it’s time to copy & paste a large chuck of what I said in my post from that week’s episode. It really gets the point across… “He goes up to Top & Mirror Master knowing full-well what happened earlier in the episode, & gets phased by Top’s powers, then the 2024 Flash shows up with the device that Cisco made that can help them defeat Top & Mirror Master. Shouldn’t they have formulated this plan before hand? What exactly was the 2017 Flash planning to do anyway, had Team: Flash not figured out the device could be used during the fight? Was he just going to show up, let the super villains see him (knowing full-well they’d never surrender), put his hands on his hips, make a snarky comment, & get killed like he almost did at the like at the beginning of the episode? I mean, what was his plan? If you had speed powers, & all a villain has to do is look at you to affect & incapacitate you, wouldn’t you just run up to them super fast & sucker punch them in the head to knock them out? He even stands there & has a conversation with them. 100% hubris, 0% plan of how NOT to get his butt kicked again. Poorly written. Not just fight-wise, but poorly written character-wise. After everything Barry has lost, he still has time to stand there with his hands on his hips & crack wise to the villains? Where’s the character growth. I just keep seeing him screw up -- HARD. Is he mentally impaired? I’m literally not trying to be funny & would never joke about a thing like that, even with a fictional character, but I could create a very, very cohesive fan theory on him being mentally impaired based off of everything I’ve seen in the season alone… I really hate to see this show suffer from such poor writing; they have such an opportunity to make this show awesome.” Top is far too powerful. All she has to do is look at him & it’s over. The writers could have just as easily used so many other super villains other than Top. But no, let’s use the character that can make The Flash fall on the ground & drool within seconds of just simply looking at him. Ugh. Why didn’t Team: Flash, or The Flash himself, say “Hey, wait. Let’s make a plan first. We all know what Top is capable of.” No, he just hits the streets, in a timeframe not of his own, to risk his life, not to mention life of 2017 Iris too, to go stop a jewelry theft of all things against super villains that he nearly got killed against earlier? … Yeah, that about covers it… The main character should never ever be written as this stupid, especially in the 3rd season. Cause & Effect Welp, guess it’s time to copy & paste a large chuck of what I said in my post from that week’s episode. It really gets the point across… "Ok, so they give Savitar a monologue at the beginning of the episode, but then the rest of the episode is just a situation comedy, complete with comedic amnesia (via untested apparatus) & CG sweat hitting the text-reading glasses at the darndest of time in the courtroom. Even if they wanted to do a story like this, the timing of using this story was very, very ill-timed. There should be a rule that filler episodes don't occur this far into the season. It was tacky & felt very amateurish. Someone said that there's only 2 more episodes left this season. If there are, this certainly isn't the time for this filler material mess. We need to get down to the meat of the meal here. Anyways, later on they have a way to give Barry his memory back, but then Cisco says something like "No, we haven't tested it yet." & I'm all like "Dude, where was that attitude when you were so quick to erase some memories before?". This show is so inconsistent. I pray that Black Lightning isn't like this. I want to like these CW DC TV shows, but they are making it really hard to."

Finish Line (Season Finale) There are so many holes in this season's plot that this episode is best expressed about through the questions I asked on The Flash Facebook page -- & I'm still waiting for answers. Why does Savitar hide out in his lair doing next to nothing for weeks instead of killing Iris as soon as possible, like in his first appearance? A.R.G.U.S. has meta-human power dampening technology. So why didn’t they just take Iris there before she got captured? Was it ever established as to why Vibe couldn't just vibe Iris' location after she was taken by Savitar? Why didn't H.R. plan something out with Vibe to get Iris back, instead of getting himself needlessly killed? Why is Iris actually on-site, at Infantino Street, during H.R.'s death, instead of hiding elsewhere? (Sure, for her Dad's sake, but isn't it more important she gets as far away from that street as possible so that she doesn't actually die that night?) Why does Team: Flash do nothing else to try to hide Iris, after H.R.'s switch? It’s been established that Savitar can waltz right into Star Labs whenever he want to. So, after Savitar finds out that H.R. pulled the switch, why doesn’t Savitar just go find Iris AGAIN & kill her in front of Barry? Why doesn’t Savitar just kill Iris in front of Barry when he's invited to Star Labs by Barry? When in the world did Iris learn to shoot a gun with such proficiency? (1 shot, 1 kill.) More importantly, when did Iris learn to shoot a super villain speedster WHILE HE'S SPEEDING with such proficiency? (Joe can't even do this.) (& again: 1 shot, 1 kill.) Why does Savitar tell Jessie Quick that he has big plans for her, yet we don't see her in the finale, or find out what the heck he meant? *Below, I asked these questions on May 12, 2017 (& I'm still asking them.) Why doesn’t Savitar just kill Iris right now? Why doesn’t Savitar just kill the rest of Team: Flash right now? It was such a chore to even put up a fight against Savitar before, but after The Flash finds out who Savitar is, why is The Flash now able to go toe-to-toe with Savitar so easily? Since Savitar doesn’t even belong in this time period, why haven’t the time phantoms come to take Savitar away, or at least try? Why does Killer Frost get that warm, cooperative, compliant look on her face when she sees Savitar unmasked, instead of just giving a fiendish grin instead? In the first season, Barry’s street clothes burned off when he ran. I’ve seen him run fast many times while wearing his street clothes, why do they never burn anymore? The Final Verdict

So, in conclusion, these glaring, blatant issues that I have with this show are hindrances. I wish I could say better things about this show, but these are things that can’t be ignored. We as superhero fans deserve better than this bull crap. Look, I realize that this show isn’t even in my age demographic; it’s for teens & a little above. But you could literally watch a kids show & these things wouldn’t happen. it’s sad when Disney XD has more plausible super hero plots than The CW. Don’t get me wrong, if I was 14 years old, I might be fawning all over this show. What ever happened to the shows that transcend age demographics? They seem like they are writing lazy plots, like they know it’s for kids, so they aren’t trying as hard. It’s kinda sad when kids shows on Disney XD have more cohesive plots than a primetime show on regular TV. Maybe they will pull an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. & address their problems in a later season. I hope so. They have already lost me as a "whole season watcher". If I do watch this show again, it will be single episodes. If I could, I'd give this season no stars at all, but as my rating systems goes, the lowest any show can get is 1.

So, season 3 of The Flash get a 1 out of 5. ★★★★★