The Flash
Episode Title: “All Star Team
Up”
Channel: CW
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Writers: Grainne Godfree and Kai
Yu Wu
Genre: Action,
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 43
min
Rated: TV-PG
Original Air Date: April 14,
2015
Ray and Felicity made a guest
appearance this week on The Flash
and it seemed to fit them much better than the dark tone on Arrow.
There was a lot of humor to be had this week, and the two guest
stars were in the middle of most of it. If more of the crossovers in
CW's DC universe end up this way the audience is in for a treat.
Perhaps most entertaining were the interactions between Palmer and
Cisco, you could almost hear them saying out lout, “Did we just
become best friends?”
The
villain this week was the one glaring weak point in “All Star Team
Up.” As is so often the case there wasn't much time devoted to
getting to know the character at all. She didn't even get to share
her own grievances and what drove her to her actions. Instead that
information was passed on to the audience through some clumsy
dialogue from Mercury Labs' Dr. Tina McGee. If there was one thing I
could change about the show it would definitely be the way the
villains are handled.
The
main focus this week was on who Barry can trust. His knowledge that
Dr. Wells is not a good guy has been taking a toll on his ability to
work with the S.T.A.R. Labs crew, but he's not ready to bring Caitlin
and Cisco in to the inner circle. Between Barry's inability to trust
all of those around him and Eddie being forced to keep Barry's secret
from Iris there is a lot of distrust going around. Although Barry
decided to let Cisco and Caitlin in on what he knows at the end of
the episode the secrecy hasn't ended yet, although Eddie and Iris'
relationship might have.
Iris
has, in general, been more tolerable than a lot of other love
interests on television, but the extent to which she's taking her
dissatisfaction over Eddie having a secret is starting to wear thin.
I'm not saying she's reached a level of unlikability on par with say,
Barbara Kean on Gotham,
but she's starting to become an annoyance. I find it hard to believe
that someone in a relationship with a police detective would not
understand that he can't tell her everything that is going on. I
hope they wrap that bit of the story up soon because I'm not sure how
much longer it can be dragged out before the audience starts groaning
whenever Iris appears on screen.
Perhaps
the most intriguing part of the episode revolved around Cisco. He's
getting flashes of the events that occurred before Barry turned back
time. At the end of the episode when Barry and Joe decided to bring
Caitlin and Cisco in on their suspicions Cisco realized that maybe
there was something to the visions he'd been experiencing. One has
to wonder what kind of catastrophic effect Barry revealing that those
visions were a reality could have on Cisco and the world at large.
In the same vein, Harrison Wells seems aware that something isn't
quite right, but he's playing along for now, waiting for more
information to present itself.
Conclusion:
“All Star Team Up” was a fun episode of The
Flash
that still managed to move the season's arc along. Ray and Felicity
feel much more suited to the light-hearted surroundings of Central
City than the dark atmosphere of Starling City. Now that almost all
of the secrets are out in the open it's time to reveal the truth to
Iris, before it costs her and Eddie their relationship, and the
character goodwill from the audience.
Rating:
7.75/10
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