User blog:Konstant888/The Flash 4x18 "Lose Yourself" - Review

This episode reminded mewhy I fell in love with the show in the first place. This episode proves that "The Flash" can make it work, even if everybody is doubting it. This episdoe wah huge, so you are gonna want to watch it before you read this, cause there will be spoilers.

So let's start at the beginning, which I hear is a very good place to start. The episode started with Team Flash finding out where the last Bus-meta, Edwin Gauss is. In the comics he is Folded Man and that name is referenced here, but his powers are different and they aren't as cool as the ones from the sorce material. Also, he was a very forgetable and weak, although kinda charming, villain, but the entire point was to kill him off at the end of the episode, so it is ok. The coflict with the Thinker begins with that scene where Caitlyn got stabbed, which was a pretty cool and surprising moment.

I think this episode made so any characters so much better than before - Joe, Caitlyn, Harry, Ralph, Marlize and most importantly - DeVoe. Barry was also great in the episode and I liked how he took down Ralph cause it showed him as the strongest member of his team, which he should be. Let's go trhough those characters. Harry's storyline was great, he basicaly became a version of The Thinker. I am so intrigued about where this goes. And Joe, his interactions with him where great. I am a little disappointed that we didn't get to see him defeat that Samoroid, because he doesn't do a lot of cool stuff like that so it would be great if we actualy see them. I find it funny that Caitlyn and Killer Frost were leaving notes for each other. And now that Killer Frost is gone, it will be interesting to see what happens to Caitlyn. Ralph, as I have said before, gets a lot of attention, but in this episode it was worth it. His arc of learning not to kill DeVoe was great. He made some really solid points and his interactions with Barry are amazing. I feel like these two actors work so well with each other that Hartley Sawyer should be a season regular next season. And his arc in this episode (and maybe for the entire show) ended beautifully.

So let's get to the elephant in the room. After the team finds a clever way to enter DeVoe's layer, they do that, but he has already predicted that, which is what makes sense, considering that's what his character is all about. He goes to S.T.A.R. Labs with his wife and attacks the rest of the team. Marlize was all of a sudden able to weild a sword, but that makes her a bit cooler, so I can deal with it. Iris, on the other hand, should have died, it made no sense that she was able to survive. She is the only one I don't like being on this team. The Thinker gets all the Bus-metas but Ralph strikes him down with that cool-looking thingy that makes sound. And then, probaby the best part of the episode, Barry arrives just to see DeVoe kill Ralph in front of him. This was so great! It was so emotional, I got that feeling in my chest which I get when something like that is about to happen. And it was made even more emotional when at the end Barry cleaned up his office and drank for him, making the promise: "I'll save them!". So great. Elongated Man, you will be missed (unless you come back somehow, which I belive could happen)!

And also I should mention that awesome fight between Vibe, Killer Frost and Flash and The Thinker. The Thinker has almost all of the powers of the Bus-metas. He is now so powerful, that he took down all of them, which was so awesome. I love that he has went from the man who couldn't walk to the man with insane power, jsut by using his inteligence and planning skills (and his wife). I have said that I had problems with him, but here he was great and I am so excited to see what happens to him next.

P.S. Sorry that this review was up so late, although I am not sure that anyone even reads this to care. I currently don't know how many people have read any of my reviews because it doesn't give you that informations, which sucks. If anybody can fix that, they should.