The Flash – The Good, the Bad and the Lucky review S9 E6
In previous seasons as a rule The Flash episodes without…The Flash typically were some of the worst of the season.
For the final season with an abbreviated episode count the hope was there wouldn’t be any disposable filler episodes. And this season needed a serious rebound after the “worst episode ever” last week.
That’s gonna have to wait another week as this episode is in serious contention for second worst episode of the series.
A big part of this is simply for doubling down on the asinine decision to have Joe take his daughter, Jenna, out of Central City the hub of all crime on this Earth apparently and leave Cecile to play hero.
But it’s not a separation. Cecile happily signed off on being a part-time mother so she could play third wheel on Team Flash, who clearly doesn’t need any more help since Barry now has the Anti-Rogues on speed (heh) dial.
Barry and Iris head off to a media conference taking them out of the main plot. That’s all we get of them until the bookend ending. Becky Sharp is back, but her terrific luck has gone haywire. When her fiancé Dom ends up in a coma. she needs a lawyer. Enter Cecile.
It’s hard to stress enough how damaging the decision was to write Jesse L. Martin off the show by having Joe leave the city was for the basic common sense of the show. The writers could have simply had Cecile working in her office and just calling Joe, who we’d never see, instead of relocating him.
This enabled the writers to waste time this episode by saying Cecile has to choose between being a successful lawyer, a superhero or a wife and mother. That’s such a tiresome and stupid cliche. Women are fully capable of working and being there for their families.
As a reminder, Becky was dead and came back after Crisis. That’s so silly. Of all the scores of killed off characters (Laurel, Lance, Tommy, Professor Stein, Ronnie Raymond, Captain Cold, etc.) why would Oliver care enough to resurrect someone he never met?
Cecile’s telepathy cues her in that Becky’s future brother-in-law Tony might have something to do with it. Not enough that Cecile couldn’t get the instantly telegraphed “twist” that Tony was behind all of it.
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Two goons grab Becky and Allegra suddenly forgets she had powers. The line from Goon #2 about “Get up you’re embarrassing yourself” could have easily applied to the writers for this season so far.
In dealing with Becky’s drama, Cecile missed the train so she could arrive at Joe’s for Jenna’s birthday breakfast. Gee, if only she had a son-in-law who was a speedster… Or maybe a surrogate son-in-law who was The Flash…
“Apparently I’m failing as a hero as well as a mom.” Cecile’s been sleeping in her office because she missed Joe and Jenna so much. Again, this is so aggravatingly stupid on all levels. It doesn’t take Allegra, Becky and Cecile long to take out Tony’s goons after Chester discovers the device that made her luck powers go haywire was in her engagement ring.
Cecile offers Allegra to move in. What is this all-American? She’s not chill enough to let Chester move in too and here I thought that’s what a “bad a$$ b**ch” would do? BTW, it sure felt like the writers were trying to make “bad a$$ b**ch” the next “level up” for this season.
In the C-subplot, Mark wants to help Kihone discover her powers that no one watching could possibly care if she has or not. Kihone is a goofy purposeless character and it feels like the writers just decided to create a new alias instead of coming up with a better plot for Caitlin or Frost.
I actually would have signed on for a season where Caitlin was the big bad after feeling betrayed by Barry. That would have actually tied in to something that happened last season. Instead of this blank slate insta-fast forward character Kihone.
And in other goofy subplots, the gang decides to throw Iris and Barry a surprise baby shower. That is a surprise considering Iris didn’t know she was pregnant and is still in the danger zone of having a miscarriage. Of course, that would require the show to have a moment where everything didn’t resolve perfectly in 44-minute windows. But it would make for an emotional plot line for Iris and Barry.
Also, why in the heck would Joe miss his daughter’s baby shower? The writers just continue to not make sense on any of these decisions. And would Cisco or Sue really not be invited either? This show has seen common sense zoom right out of the writer’s room.
Rating: 2 out of 10
Photo Credit: The CW