THE FLASH: Barry Becomes Rag Doll's Latest Victim In The New Promo For Season 5, Episode 5: "All Doll'd Up"

This was a terrible filler episode, worst episode of the season; incredibly meh. Jesus christ, Nora losing all intellect because she has the hots for Spencer was not only the worst moment of the season, but one of the worst moments in recent history for this show. It was beyond stupid. And the riff between Nora and Iris, the forced drama, its very boring and uninteresting. Nora is coming off as a complete brat and crybaby. Plus, the villain of the week was very lame.

The ONLY good parts to this episode was the meta tech aspect, and the little detective work that they did into learning more about Cicada (which gave us the funny "be sure to check page 2 of google" quote). I also did like Barry sticking up for Iris and defending his wife when Nora was being a brat to her.

So I'm guessing that Cicada's dagger not only came from DeVoe's satellite but also stabbed him, giving him metahuman abilities as well.

Next week's episode looks pretty neat; they should have shown that this week, in spirit of Halloween. You have failed this holiday Flash!

this season would be far more compelling for me if we had bart instead of nora

Episode turned out to be better than I expected because everything ended up leading in the end to knowing more about Cicada even if he took a slightly backseat to the main plot this week but he was still around hiding as the everyman.

Finally it makes sense why Nora isn't that much of an experienced speedster because only 6 months ago in the future she found out that future!Iris had been tampering her powers for her whole life, likely for her safety after Barry goes missing in 2024, so her emotional reaction for feeling deprived from something that defines her along with her family (Barry, Wally) is not illogical.

But that just opens another can of worms: how did she found out? Someone helped her to find out and get that out? I wonder if it was any member of Team Flash and that was why she paid a visit to Cisco, Ralph, Caitlin, Harry and Cecile respectively in S4? That is one of the things that has been teased as to why she met with each of them those 3 and a half times. (Counting the wedding in Crisis on Earth-X to Barry) And also why she avoided Iris after she met Cecile.

Whoever and the howevers of that is likely what Sherloque was suspicious of last week.

Metatech, that's interesting. Nora rewinds time (the way it happened in this ep too against Barry was cool and is also how her ability works, just like she described it to him back in 5x01 when they were in the time vault but it seems involuntary and not mastered yet), punches the STAR LABS satelite along with Barry which changed it's trajectory which was already infused with dark matter from when DeVoe hijacked it in 4x22 and finally the debris doesn't effect most people this time but certain types of technology with dark matter. Thus Spin is borned and also, Cicada and his dagger.

I wonder why he shaped the dagger in the form of a lightning though.

Scenes with Ralph and Sherloque were great. They gotta keep checking his workplace, Szrek Chem factory. Caitlin punching him was funny to find out what he wanted, Cicada suffers from a damaged lung. And it seems Cicada's condition is both worsening and improving at the same time, he's gaining super strength now. (Just like Diaz huh) No wonder he's that strong and why even future Oliver couldn't do much against him. But I feeld bad for him there, that doctor was right about the risk the wound being open.

Was nice to see Joe standing after 3 episodes even if he was leaning against the door. And I missed Cisco this time, first time ever he hasn't been here but the in-universe reason made sense since he faked his death so it has to be a little more believable.

And look at that: Iris being an speedster last Season ended up serving to guide Nora in her first time making whirlwinds to put out the fire while Barry was hypno-tech-zided. It was tied in well.

So yeah good episode due to the plot continuing to advance. I think that's all I have to say.

Nora rewinding time/turning it backwards.

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Also pretty cool she's LGBT. I remember Todd Helbing saying that they would introduce an LGBT character this year so I guess Nora is the one.

Rag Doll looks damn creepy, nice that they made him wear the mask. Looks like it is Ralph's time to shine after this "seed-less" anecdote.

I wonder what will Caitlin learn this time in her search for her dad.

I think that and maybe Cicada's condition could lead to the same destination they've been teasing before S5 began, the origin of metas.