The most visually impressive episode this season, maybe ever...? I particularly liked how, right at the end, the bomb is clearly in the process of going off and so everyone who’s frozen in time is slightly tipped back, as if from the force of the blast. A very nice touch. Also, the completely unnecessary but still…

In the dead mother plotline it seemed like the speedforce was granting Barry these powers so long as it got it’s pound of flesh from him, which makes the speed force manifesting as his mother even creepier as the entity seemed to enjoy being Barry’s new mother figure.

I’m gonna go A- on this one because it confirms Scott’s theory, just not in the way that he thinks: Barry can be as fast as he wants to be — he just doesn’t think he can go that fast.

It’s a very slippery slope. Going off the old fable, how would hurting a butterfly destroy the world. After Barry’s time trips gone bad, I don’t blame him for shooting that down.

Jitters has been offering a Killer Frost beverage since the mid-season finale.

This was easily a Top 5 episode for me. Yes, the fact that Barry can do THIS much in under ten seconds makes it utterly ridiculous that he can’t instantly stop every villain moving at normal speed. But that’s not a new problem; it’s an inconsistency that’s plagued the show since the start. We’ve seen Barry from this…

I’d actually give this one an A. The techno-babble didn’t bother me. The formula provided a great little vignette with each character. Frost had a moment. The shoot out was scary at the beginning. Jessie Quick looked great - girl has grown into the role. I was impressed. One of if not the best of the season.

This episode was great. You hear me Flash, more episodes like this. Speed Force nonsense I can deal with, revel in even.

I’m not caught up to this one yet, but I don’t know, this seems a bit unfair, “as the dour Devoe saga continues.” An earlier episode got criticized for being too fun. Episodes get criticized for being too “serious.” But then when the stakes are lower, it’s criticized for not having the stakes high enough.

All Cecile’s powers did this episode was let her know about the warden’s plans to sell Barry and the other metas. It kicked off the plot of the episode, but wasn’t used to resolve it.

I liked this episode much more than you Scott. It was great to see all the “Bus Meta” villains powerless have to get out of prison and how Barry kept them in line, even without his powers. He showed his brains and skills as a scientist and experienced super-hero without his powers in breaking out of Iron Heights—and I…

Well, except technically, DeVoe is alive. So convincing the court that he wasn’t murdered isn’t actually fraud maybe?

While I certainly have issues with the way Barry got out of jail (what is Ralph going to do, pretend to be DeVoe every time someone needs to talk to the guy?), I can see how Barry could justify it to himself - (1) on a practical level it solves the ‘i don’t want to have to run the rest of my life’ issue since he was…

Which makes the original court case a mistrial anyhow since DeVoe is, in a very Central City way, alive making the murder itself an instance of defrauding the court. Morally, I can see where Dibny posing as DeVoe wouldn’t be completely wrong considering he is indeed alive and well, just in another body.

This review is quite harsh I feel. I must admit I did find the whole appeal a bit ridiculous, but I don’t mind because it just seemed like the writers fixing their original mistake of putting Barry in prison, which just smacked of a move to kill a few episodes.

I’m pretty sure all he cared about was that it was legal. And technically it was.

There’s still, what, ten episodes to go? They still have plenty of time to make this unfold, I don’t need all the answers just yet.

I don’t see what one thing has to do with another. Barry wants to not be a fugitive. He got released legally so he’s a free man despite the trickery. That’s not the same thing as escaping from prison.

Barry didn’t want to be sprung legitimately, he wanted to be sprung legally (exact word he used). So he could live a normal life and not be a fugitive.

Easily my favorite part was Mrs. DeVoe realizing there’s not a damn thing she can do about this without revealing her own scheme. It’s like the line from The Sting, “What was I supposed to do, bust him for cheating better than me?” It’s the kind of scene we don’t see enough of, so I treasure whenever it does happen.