Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-28219731-20181017011154/@comment-32197660-20181017033358

Alright, time to ramble: Loving Cicada so far. That opening fight with Gridlock was awesome, and I love how he was just changing from Cicada in his workplace's locker room. Really showed how blurred a line between civilian and villain he walks. Overall this guy's just unsettling, with those dampener daggers, and holding his own against three heroes at once. I found the way they justified naming him "Cicada" interesting too, with it coming from the sound of his respirator. In other areas of the episode, I'm liking the power they gave this week's villain. Last season had problems, but one thing I definitely liked was the meta-criminals have started to have powers that are less strictly offensive, to give us a little variety with the fights. the villain herself wasn't really developed any, but I'm generally fine with a simple super-criminal being a super-criminal. The thing about her power that stood out most to me was the way the cubes moved like jello when they got hit. With all the arms dealing in this episode, it really reminded me of that ballistic gel used for test-firing weapons. Also, she said she recently got out of Iron Heights after four years, and her saying she was stronger now seemed to be implying her meta status was really recent. My current guess is that she, and possibly Gridlock, were created by DeVoe's Enlightenment, which if true, could possibly mean a worldwide phenomenon could soon be on its way.