The Flash: Cause and XS (2019)
Season 5, Episode 14
4/10
Emotional intelligence of all characters dialed down to zero.
25 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Why couldn't Cisco pick up basic context clues from his date's questions to know she wasn't feeling it. Why couldn't Iris say "he threw his boomerang dagger!" in the 8 seconds she had after they got to the roof? Everyone should know about Nora's time ability. Why can't she have said after the very first time, "Hey, I saw 8 hours into the future, Iris gets captured and... Let's formulate a plan to completely prevent that now that we know he's after us."

Instead, it's only at the 26 minute mark that Nora begs them to give up their plans, and for no reason. What ethics are her concern when she's trying to stop a criminal from murdering them later that night?

At 29:30, it's only Cisco's powers that get her to do what she should've done from the start. My last question: Why did the writers set up Nora to be the most hated character on the show? Nearly everything they could do wrong, they have.

It feels like they're writing for the last 10 minutes of any episode, and they don't care how we get there or if it makes any sense. She didn't need to fail on her own 52 times to get to the plan they used, even if that was the only plan they could. I like Barry Allen well enough, but I ultimately don't care who does the running. Writers made her an insufferable idiot for the first half hour, and they wonder why she's not a popular character.
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