He got close with blowing up the fire hydrant, though.

"I actualy like Eddie a lot more than I thought I would."

They're just going through the classic-era ones now. But if you build up a half-dozen Rogues, you can cycle through them all once per season and you've got plenty of time for unique bad guys.

I think this was the first episode written and entirely produced following the revelation that the ratings were insane, so I'm glad to see they pulled back from the Zoom plotline quite a bit. Time to play the long game on that; Zoom shouldn't show up again until May.

D'oh! Forgot that was him.

Barry spends two minutes fighting two Rogues while RUNNING ON THE SIDES OF BUILDINGS and the missile effect is the FX of the episode?

"And why did Snart, an extremely smart and formidable foe in the first
episode he appeared in, use the stupidest possible strategy to get The
Flash out in the open?"

T-Bag would make a decent Cicada, come to think of it.

Well, Piper's parents were never the brightest tools in the shed even in the comics…..

"The good news is the show has already been renewed for a second season."

50s and 60s Flash was basically "here's member of the Rogues Gallery X, he's committing crime Y, and Barry and / or Wally will stop him by weird speed power Z", repeated ad nauseum. Usually with a kick-ass cover.

Except Eddie's the only one named Thawne we know, and, well, that's Zoom's name.

Note that it's almost always (but not 100% by any means) female fans doing the bashing of the hated female character.

To be fair, people do dumb things when they get one up on people who bullied them. I once saw a girl laugh at an ex-bully who was in a wheelchair because of an auto accident.

That's because Mark Waid started every Flash comic with "My Name Is Wally West. I'm the Flash. The Fastest Man Alive." for TEN. STRAIGHT. YEARS.

"The prequels are never mentioned—perhaps because “could LucasFilms’ GCI
render this convincingly” falls outside of the show’s purview."

" But the commercial was pulled off the air after the network received
complaints from people who just saw it as Nike using a scantily-clad
young woman in peril to sell shoes."

One thing keeps bugging me - isn't Neal's ACTUAL sentence coming to an end? A couple seasons ago he was up for early release, after all….

… I'm not the only one who read that as "Adam Ferrara" the first time, right?

And, yeah… this. Gee, go figure, an 18-year-old kid had a hard time playing in Europe in the middle of notoriously veteran-favoring leagues.