This season has been an exercise in the writers carefully sidestepping obvious solutions in order to prolong a tired storyline - without this, Cicada would not have lasted so long. Let's face it Cicada (and Shecada) should have been a freak-of-the-week villain, as he/she lacks the substance - and, quite frankly, the powers - to feature as the villain for the entire season.
Some of the sidestepping obvious solutions that were shown in this episode:
They can build a vault, force field, or any other "what ever the writers are calling it" powerful enough to indefinitely contain ANY villain, with ANY meta power, but they just couldn't go that extra millimeter and create a force field that could withstand Cicada's fancy dagger for more than a couple of minutes. Or how about just keeping her in the force field, separate from the dagger, since you have managed to separate him/her from it a zillion times
Dibney was able to figure out Thorne's plan before Sherloque, and even after Dibney left some significant clues - like, y'know, throwing his body in between the dagger and the blasty thing - Sherloque was still slow to catch on
Nora can run fast enough to reverse time; Barry can run fast enough to go back in time AND create speed mirages - but none of them are fast enough to search "one of the largest wooded parks in the country". So, how do they defeat their biggest enemy yet (the wooded park)? Walk slowly, on foot, using Cecille as an empathic detector. "We must be getting close", someone quips, after - how many hours of trudging through the woods. Terrible, terrible writing, and, as I've said, sidestepping the obvious solution
There was somewhat of a payoff when it came to the showdown with Thorne, but that is entirely down to Tom Cavanagh and his ridiculously impressive ability to carry a scene
This was a yawn-fest of a season, but I will watch season 6, if only to have something keep me occupied while I'm eating lunch
Some of the sidestepping obvious solutions that were shown in this episode:
They can build a vault, force field, or any other "what ever the writers are calling it" powerful enough to indefinitely contain ANY villain, with ANY meta power, but they just couldn't go that extra millimeter and create a force field that could withstand Cicada's fancy dagger for more than a couple of minutes. Or how about just keeping her in the force field, separate from the dagger, since you have managed to separate him/her from it a zillion times
Dibney was able to figure out Thorne's plan before Sherloque, and even after Dibney left some significant clues - like, y'know, throwing his body in between the dagger and the blasty thing - Sherloque was still slow to catch on
Nora can run fast enough to reverse time; Barry can run fast enough to go back in time AND create speed mirages - but none of them are fast enough to search "one of the largest wooded parks in the country". So, how do they defeat their biggest enemy yet (the wooded park)? Walk slowly, on foot, using Cecille as an empathic detector. "We must be getting close", someone quips, after - how many hours of trudging through the woods. Terrible, terrible writing, and, as I've said, sidestepping the obvious solution
There was somewhat of a payoff when it came to the showdown with Thorne, but that is entirely down to Tom Cavanagh and his ridiculously impressive ability to carry a scene
This was a yawn-fest of a season, but I will watch season 6, if only to have something keep me occupied while I'm eating lunch