Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-807326-20181128021222/@comment-34634914-20181129025108

The episode was kind of boring. The Weather Witch plot wasn't very interesting and the only thing that kept me on my toes was the Cicada origin scenes, so I'm going to review that instead of the episode.

I loved most of those flashback scenes. They had great spots of character development because we can see how Orlin went from being a lazy jerk who didn't care about anyone to a madman willing to kill those who he felt hurt his niece. I absolutely hate how the doctor lady gave him his motivations instead of he himself being motivated by his pain. Look at Agent Liberty. Sure, he did get input from his father, but his anger towards aliens was caused by his beliefs changing. Cicada's anger just seemed like it just existed after the doctor was all "It's not your fault it's just the metahumans ruining everything." It makes it a little more dumb that they had a setup with Orlin's sister getting killed at the beginning of the episode, but it payed off the way it did.

So there's my rant. TL;DR Character development good, cause for motivation bad