You guys are aware that the Barry Allen character is a...character right? He’s a subject to bad writing. It becomes groan worthy to come on here every day and see the same two-step from the same people. You would think if one didn’t like the main character of a tv show, they wouldn’t show up every week to watch said…

Ralph is doing a perfectly adequate impression version of 90s Jim Carrey.

He’s incredibly cheesy, and another actor might not be able to pull it off, but Hartley Sawyer is, IMO, doing a great job with the material. He makes me laugh.

Beebo sad at Rambaldi2020's comment.

That’s... wow, not even close to an accurate comparison.

Barry in prison is actually a Barry I like. He’s having to exercise patience and a bit of foresight.

Best episode since Barry ended up in jail. I hated how he got there, but I sort of like what they are doing with him there. Very subtle uses of his powers. Making the other characters step up. It worked in that way. However, it’s also a ridiculously pointless plot device.

+ 2 points for random Bebo destruction.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Goofy fun, lots of snark, lampshade hanging, the works. My only real problem was that the gang was a bit harsh to Ralph in the beginning. Yea, I know they’re hurting over Barry, but it still seemed a bit much.

• Everyone except Ralph has heard of Kryptonite. I guess Supergirl must have mentioned it in passing.

Do you ever shut the fuck up?

That casual zap of the john was hilarious

yeah, its not clear how deadly his bolts are and comic book shows/movies often will play off something that would cripple a normal human (like, for example, getting electrocuted for several seconds, then thrown off a second floor balcony onto a car with such force that you shatter the windshield and crush the roof,…

there was one middle aged looking white guy who came running out of one of the rooms, holding his clothes in his hands. when he saw black lightning, he ran back in the room and BL just casually gave him a jolt.

> This was the snort of disbelief in a show about a dude who shoots lightning?

It seemed as though the lightning bolts were non-lethal. Though painful.

when the rest of the show was otherwise pretty restrained it stood out when they set this city up as twice as violent as chicago’s worst year in recent memory while also having a 3 way battle between heavily armed gangs, the police and the ferguson protests.

you can have credible and threatening gang violence without…

So the bad guy is an albino named Whale. And he shoots a mini-harpoon.

This sounds good, but the notion that superhero genre is “a machine churning out the same old story again and again” isn’t really reflective of reality. “Captain America: Civil War,” “Logan,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” and “Wonder Woman,” for instance, really aren’t all that similar to one another, either in style or…

I thought that the background clips of news talking heads discussing how white versus black super-powered people get portrayed differently (heroes vs vigilantes). It’s a nice reference to the differences in media & news portrayals in the real world, but doesn’t beat you over the head with it.

My enjoyment of that episode is roughly equal to my curiosity as to how long it takes before something like Fox News or some other right wing whatsit begins wailing about how the show is totally anti-cop/white/etc.