The Flash: Goldfaced (2019)
Season 5, Episode 13
2/10
A laser game episode...
8 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Another episode of The Flash which sounds like a waste of time. It brings almost nothing new to the main storyline of this season. It is badly written to say the least.

Iris stabbing Cicada with a knife looks not believable and makes no sense at all. Cicada was portrayed as invincible since the beginning of the season and now looks weaker than ever...

The assembly with Sherloque Wells' ex-wives is no better than a soap opera. The introduction of comic elements is irrevelant again and starts to be really annoying in this tv show. It also brings lot of paradoxes. Curiously, Eobard Thawne who has minutes to live finds plenty of time to advice Nora how to entertain Sherloque with a love romance...

The Flash and Elongated Man fighting Goldface with laser guns and the way they defeated him look like a bad video game. We have yet to see this season how The Flash's powers will evolve, what kind of new transformations or abilities he will acquire through his confrontations with villains. Instead the producers decide here to strip him of his powers and there are too many episodes where the Flash uses the same power again and again like he has reached his own limits.

This show has become too family friendly up to the point that it lost a good part of its dramatic intensity and its interest all together. The first three seasons were the most interesting by a large margin. I wish the show returns to its old roots.
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