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100 times better than the last episode (love is a battlefield) , the suspense of sue at the last was good. However, the one thing which I didn't like is that why the hell they are giving more importance to other character rather than barry. Flash is no more flash for a reason.

What a funny episode. I liked uhhh that flex guy's chemistry with the new girl.

This was a awesome episode this week and Sue debut awesome but at the end she reminds me of Catwomen for some reason lies to Ralph to get a diamond.

The twelfth episode of the Flash's sixth season fittingly titled "A Girl Named Sue" introduces Sue Dearbon and Ewa McCulloch aka Mirror Master. I loved how this episode sets up the relationship between Ralph and Sue.

The sudden twist revealed that Sue has her own hidden agenda and betrayed Ralph. Luckily, Ralph is a sympathetic and kind hearted person and was able to save Sue from Esperanza and a group of mercenaries. I am guessing that Esperanza will appear in a future episode of the sixth season and face off against her cousin Allegra.

The Nash Wells scene was brief and raises some questions. My guess is that Nash Wells is haunted by the deceased Earth-2 Harry and is forced to cope with the loss of the multiverse.

This episode was quite a low budgeted episode. The show is probably saving money for next week's episode featuring Gorilla Grodd. Additionally, the crossover was quite expensive, thus some episodes having a low budget. However, I noticed that this episode had a much higher budget than last week's episode. It featured the Elongated Man using his abilities to provide a shield barrier of sorts around Sue. This scene in particular was not inexpensive to pull off.

The absence of Killer Frost was quite noticeable in this episode. It is a shame that we did not get to see her this week. Hopefully, Team Flash will be reunited in the foreseeable future. I feel like the writers are purposefully dismantling the OG Team Flash and creating a new team with new members.

To conclude, this was a solid episode that introduces two new characters and sets up a new friendship between Ralph Dibny and Sue Dearbon. Hopefully, Ralph will find out what she is up to and help her take the clandestine Black Hole operation down. Their chemistry in this episode is great and I hope to see more scenes between them in the coming episodes.

After how terrible last weeks episode was the flash really needed a bounce back episode this week and while it definitely wasn't great it was still a solid episode

Pros: ralph and sue More joe Iris and eva trying to escape the mirrorverse Still including barry in the episode

Cons: no frost or allegra Hardly any nash Our questions from last weeks ending were not anwsered

This was a very frustrating episode to watch. The first time Ralph gets hit and knocked down I was like "WAIT??? when did he lose his powers?". And then dunked into a bucket of water and almost killed... "Yup, I must have missed an episode, he's lost his powers". Then nope, he still has his powers and swings from a building. Was he faking it to protect his identity? Then Sue kicks him and knocks him down again?? WTH? Shortly after, oh look, multiple bullets from multiple guns have no effect at all on him. Am I missing something here? Bullet proof, super strong, and invulnerable. Except when the script wants otherwise? Come people! Consistency!!!!

Because I've barely seen him for 3 or 4 episodes now. Last week was not only the worst episode in the entire series but one of the worst episodes in the history of tv. Ralph gets beaten up by a guy because he didn't use his powers? The chick stuck with Iris has been there for a long time and is still wearing heels? The chick with Ralph almost kills herself in an explosion just to dupe an easily duped Ralph? Who writes this nonsense. No wonder the ratings are 1/3 what they were since S1. Hope this gets cancelled soon if it refuses to elevate above its present mediocrity.

Last episode was once again an awful episode this season. I'm getting close to quitting what used to be my favorite show. This episode was another just absolutely horrendous episode. So, first of all there is clearly something wrong with Sue, but Ralph who's supposed to be a detective somehow doesn't notice that, but whatever, that's okay. I can forgive that. But I can't forgive what follows--like fifty plot holes. So second, Ralph seems to only have powers when it's convenient. Gets punched in the face and knocked out by a random thug. Isn't he supposed to be invulnerable??? He's gotten shot with a freakin' missile and survived. But this episode he gets knocked out with one punch? Then later that same episode Sue leads him into the bank vault and (after realizing that he is a meta-human) punches him and knocks him out. She didn't even have a taser or a gun or anything? That was her whole plan? Then she locks the grate to trap him in, even though she knows that he has the power to basically phase through walls by squishing himself. But he doesn't do that and lets her get away. Then lo and behold there's some more goons. Elongated man squeezes through the ceiling and then covers her from a barrage of gunfire. So, apparently now he has invulnerability??? Then ultraviolet shows up and knocks out the goons. And then hits Ralph with a blast because he was trying to save that guard--okay, that's cool. Then Sue challenges her to a fistfight because she's an ultra-competent fighter because she went to a YMCA tae bo class or something. And then Ultraviolet decides not to disintegrate her????????? Why???? She could have just ended it right there. She's supposed to be a villain right? Then they fight and they both escape. Then Flash shows up. Wait what show was I watching again? Oh yeah THE FLASH. He has had like two minutes of screen time on his own show for the past three episodes. Then Barry says "I looked for them but I couldn't find them." Umm, haven't in previous episodes you've been able to freeze time when a bomb was going off and you could search the entire city before a single second goes by??? Barry's powers are extremely inconsistent. This was such a horrible episode. I'm getting very close to quitting this show. I thought last weeks episode was the worst episode of the whole show, but I was wrong. This is.

Someone said in a review of the previous episode that we should stop bashing on Iris, that the writers are to blame for what The Flash has become, that they are lacking new ideas of bringing Barry again to his former glory... This is partially correct, the writers are definitely going through their own Crisis, but Iris is still a deus ex machina omnipotent character...This is just absurd, a brilliant scientist trapped in a parallel dimension for 1322 days needed Iris to come illuminate her within minutes...Iris, who is impersonating the cheerleader archetype, who probably hooked-up with the entire football team, not giving a damn about her grades and education, can go now at the same pace as genius scientists...The perfect human being, never making mistakes, never apologizing, never taking responsibility for her stupid plans, always judging others...WOW!!!

So yes, The Iris is still a big darn issue of this show. And I can understand that The Crisis arc was expensive, but if they ran out of money, why bother making so many episodes? The 10 episodes format is very popular nowadays and pays off, much better quality over quantity (one example that comes to mind is Lucifer). The Flash is missing from his own show (probably because the streak effects are expensive), the shot of Central City and STAR labs looked like it was from a '90s B grade TV show...Come on... This is still no excuse for what you are delivering, Nash for instance is such an interesting, underdeveloped character, AND WE ALL LOVE TOM CAVANAGH, the guy can act, use him if you ran out of ideas and budget to develop Barry further...

Ah and the feminist agenda...My beloved writers, might I ask why is it that you are striving for female dominance rather than male-female equality? We get it, nobody wants any more annoying female characters like Willie from Temple of Doom, who did nothing but screamed and needed to be rescued the entire movie, we get it, most women are not like that, we live among them and we can see that they are not brain-dead...but nobody likes Mary Sues either, cocky, arrogant, know-it-all, omnipotent goddesses...

Also I have learned in 4th grade that what matters is what we do, not what we say...All your female characters are claiming to be smart, strong and independent, then making the stupidest decisions ever...All these you prove, not say...Empty words...Pathetic, your female characters are mere jokes, you are not empowering women, you are shaming them even more...

Let's take Cecile as an example, I can remember her second appearance in the show, I guess, she was this badass DA, washing the floor with Joe for asking her to do something irrational...Yes, that's it, she was the freaking DA, she did her job, that is powerful, independent woman, thinking for herself, making her own decisions, not the parody that you have made her character now...All she's doing now is being loud, annoying, pushy, talking waay too much, she's a mere caricature of the woman she was...

Another thing: tell your actresses that over-acting does not make them cooler, it's needy and lame (I am looking at Amunet and now Sue)...Also stop trying to make Ralph look like a smart, genius detective...He's not, he's a nice guy, he's funny and goofy, but dumb as a brick (made me laugh when he went toe-to-toe with Sherloque...), he can be a great superhero, but not a detective, let's face it already...

I could go on, but...what's the point...

I know a lot of people joke about being able to write TV shows better than the writers, but come on...how have we gotten here. Let's start with problem 1: Where's the Flash in "The Flash"? I swear they let someone else kick ass and then call Barry to look pretty and put the cuffs on. Also why is Barry a supporting character now?I can't even remember the last time the Flash was all about the Flash, they might as well have him last in the new theme. Ralph finally returns in this episode, which when I read the description I hoped he was going to wrap up the sue Dearbon story and get back to the team...nope. The one time I wish for a one-off episode on the flash and it doesn't happen. It's hard to think that this is the same show as even the first half of the season. Cecile has gotten to be very annoying, at first her mind reading scenes were funny but now they just make her seem like she talks too much because we no longer hear the other person say what they're going to say. I can't help but feel like the people who write this show feel the need to shove female empowerment in our face all the time. Why can't we have a balance on the show of powerful men and women? Because as much as they joke about the "don't treat me like a damsel in distress" treatment of women...it's hard to see past the fact that the men are very weak on this show. We saw it in this episode how Ralph had to be saved countless times by Sue, I think they said 3 times maybe. And we see it all the time with Barry, he hasn't done anything himself since season 2 I think. I applaud showcasing women of power, I think Caitlin is another completely wasted character who they took her cold powers and basically made her a teenager. That fight scene at the end was pitiful, they might as well have played "because I'm a girl" like in captain marvel. If I wanted to watch hand to hand fighting I would be watching arrow or super girl, but I'm here to watch the flash save the day using the flashs powers. Please writers stop submitting these episodes the night before like you used to do for assignments in school. Still will come back to watch more...cause I have faith still...kinda...ask me again in season 7

Well this was one of the worst episodes of The Flash I have seen since it's beginning. The Flash himself (i.e. Barry all suited up and doing super heroics) appears for around 20 seconds right at then end. That doesn't in itself make it a bad episode, the complete lack of logic plus the amateurish attempts to showcase strong female characters does. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for strong female characters but introducing them needs a deft touch, firstly to make the character herself believable and secondly to not alienate established fans with slip shod writing which grossly exaggerates their inherent abilities in an attempt to make them relevant. The problem with this approach is that it does the exact opposite. It turns the female characters into "Mary Sue's" (a fictional character who is so competent or perfect that it appears absurd even in the context of the fiction). On the flip side of that we don't want just damsels in distress either. A balance is needed and unfortunately the writers of the episode are clearly not able to do the latter, so lazily just fall back on the former. Examples of this from this episode include -

Sue saving Ralph from a beating from so no name henchman. Not beyond the realms of possibility but the henchman took direct blows to the face by Ralph and shrugged them off like it was nothing yet Sue comes along and takes him out without breaking a sweat with some dubious martial arts she learned "at the YMCA". The henchman had at least 4 stone/ 56lbs on her and was at least a foot taller. It's just not realistic (even within the superhero universe).

Iris turning up in the mirror universe and coming up with a possible escape plan after maybe a few hours there....something that hadn't occurred once to the scientist that had been stuck there for years!

Moving away from this we also have the aforementioned lack of logic within this episode. Going back to Ralph getting a beating, what happened to his superpowers? As the Elongated Man he should be virtually invulnerable yet a bog standard, non powered henchman can take him out like it's nothing. Yet later in the episode we see him shrug off a barrage of machine gun fire. So do the writers conveniently forget about his abilities when it suits the story purpose? Again bad writing.

The writers need to get smarter. Start writing more believable characters. Men AND women can be flawed (the can, make peace with it) so filling the Arrowverse with Mary Sues will just dilute the characters and make viewers stop caring about them. Also stop conveniently ignoring in universe rules and logic to progress the story. If you've written yourself into a corner, rip it up and start again.

Last Episode was Garbage!! And I'm saying that for a person that has been enjoying Season 6 so far! Black Hole is Really Interesting now. Iris and The Eva storyline was Very Good. Ralph and Sue Storyline Surprisingly was Good. I was Really Impressed with this Episode. 8.6/10. Hyped to see Grodd next!