Why do his pants get bigger when he transforms back into King Shark?

Hey, I know I got what I paid for. ultimately I got to see a gorilla and a shark-man fight. Any problems I had are minor when put in the light of that awesome fact.

Or King Shark ate her.

I love it that someone sent Iris this gif.

On the other hand, they have tried every other method of holding Grodd captive and they've all failed so they aren't entirely unjustified going to coma.

• Flexible superhero ethics: Using the cure on Cicada against his will would be bad, but putting Grodd in a medically-induced coma forever is evidently fine.

I agree! I consider that animal cruelty. Which is particularly bad because Grodd hates humans in the first place because he as abused as a test subject at Star Labs. 

Now granted, I was already two glasses of wine in when the episode started, but more of this please show. That was delightful all the way around. Though having said that, yes, placing Grodd in a coma instead of punting him to another alternate dimension did seem a little harsh.

i disagree that this would qualify as a retcon - and I don’t recall Nora ever alluding to <i>“decades of emotional abuse”</i> other than the power dampening chip (granted, that is a big deal). Nora didn’t exactly make anything up either- she had a good childhood with a loving mom who tried to protect her, and when she…

I also liked the way they used the Inception-like concept to address the fact that human memories are notoriously fluid and unreliable.

Maybe I’m alone in this, but this plotline of Nora keeping this big secret from her parents doesn’t bother me the way secret-keeping plotlines have in the past. I think it’s because it’s a lot more drawn out, and there are pretty complex reasons why she hasn’t told them, which gives it a lot more foundation. Whereas…

Sherloque’s accent has always been Québécois and he’s mentioned poutine. The clues were there to be heard. Also, I loved him showing off his skating skills.

Ah, the eternal comic book universe problem. Once you’ve established that you can cross over characters, you ahve to come up with good reasons not to...

I feel like this expanded role has really vitalized Panabaker’s performance. First two seasons she mostly just recited technobabble and mourned dead lovers. But she clearly relishes it every time she gets to cut loose as Killer Frost, and I think it’s allowed her to enrich her Caitlin performance as well.

As long as Cisco has powers, he wouldn’t be able to sit on the sidelines while lives are at risk.

Not to mention one of my least favorite tropes- Super hero life is dangerous, so I must get rid of my powers. Like, you can have powers and just NOT fight bad guys, Cisco, getting your powers stripped just makes you more vulnerable!

I dunno, I don’t think it’s that simple. Once you introduce the possibility of a cure, there are a whole host of implications that come with it. Especially since, up until now, once you became a meta, there was no going back. It’s obviously going to be a sore prospect for people like Caitlin, and once you start…

I have to at least give The Flash credit for making this point though. It’s a common trope that someone gets the abilities needed to take on the thing they hate and in doing so become the thing they hate, but rarely do they actually address that other than some attempt at a crisis of conscience.

I interpreted it as “at least you still have one Nora.” Which was pretty chilling coming from the guy who killed Barry’s mom.

I don’t think he has a plan, and I feel like that’s kind of the point. He’s just grieving, operating off the assumption that Grace will never recover. So he’s lashing out, wanting to take out as many meta-humans with him as he can on the way to his own inevitable demise.