At this point I’m just going with TPTB preferring Cavanagh, because there’s no way Letscher (whose Thawne I like very much!) is terribly expensive, relatively, and his IMDB page doesn’t seem very busy at the moment.

Because Barry’s a fucking idiot.

Alright, we get it. It’s an ESPN metaphor. 

That’s... not good.

You know there was a Flash story in the 90's that was basically OMD but good. What happened was that Neron, a Lord of Hell, basically agreed to trade Wally’s love for Linda Park in order to save Central City.

Completely disagree that there’s no statement being made here. Allow me a bit of a spoilery rant with a tl;dr at the bottom.

This is so lovely, and Drew is going to be equal parts honored and mortified by it when he gets back. Can’t wait. 

Oh god. I'm not ready for The Reign of the Drewpermen.

Stephen Stotch yells at Butters for seemingly no reason,

The start of the handshake was also a callback to when Thawne killed Cisco with his phasing hands.

Like most people who do recaps here.

Dennis Miller saying he’s not mad for politics?  That’s like saying Emmanuel Kant doesn’t really believe in knowledge independent of experience, or Marx claiming that unpaid work isn’t a significant source of surplus value!  Amiright?

- How exactly did Barry not get hypnotized at the stadium? He did glance around and it takes less than a second to read a headline as short as that.

Dude, you called it. I was thinking future Iris was dead or a drunk, or dead drunk. Or just an asshole. But if future Iris is the big bad, whoa baby. I could imagine her turning into a J. Jonah type media mogul. Still, if she wants her future Barry back, why initiate a meta serial killer in the present?

Fucking typos....

**crash symbol**

so first - last week’s episode was better than this week’s. That you ranked last week lower than this week’s tells me you’re struggling here.

It was like Hiroshima; one second I blinked — by happenstance I was standing behind a sturdy tree — all my friends were blown to dust and their shadows burned into the concrete. I absorbed probably 5 sieverts, my body felt uncomfortably warm. But right away I thought, “ah fuck, this is like when Roseanne told the…

Behind Mike Glennon at the movie theater?

I suspect McFarlane said “sure, whatever” when the showrunner called him about it and didn’t give it a second thought until he showed up late one day to quickly read his lines.