Welcome to Arrowverse Checkups. As the
Arrowverse enters its eighth year, I’ll checking in with each series premiere
see where they are and where they appear to be going. Let’s jump in!
The Flash is back and he brought a
bunch of friends. Also, black holes. How did The Flash and Supergirl both
have black hole villains in the first episode? You think there’d be someone communicating
between the shows about this kind of thing. But I don’t actually care because
we got Chunk! We didn’t get much of him here, but it seems like he’ll be
hanging around Star Labs for a while. His black hole powers combined with the
fact he made a black hole machine out of junk seems like it is heading
somewhere. Maybe in the direction of opening a business where he gets rid of
unwanted objects? That’d be dope.
Elsewhere,
Caitlin’s friend Ramsey Rosso’s mother has died. She passed from HLH cancer and
Ramsey is not handling it well. On the upside, he has discovered the cure for
HLH: Inject dark matter! Which is, at best, some pseudo-science bullshit, but
I’ll allow it. Caitlin doesn’t even consider the possibilities of this
treatment. She dismisses Ramsey out of hand because people might become
metahumans. But didn’t we make a cure for that? What’s the risk here? Towards
the end of the episode, Ramsey tests himself. Its going well for now. Here’s
the thing though, Sendhil Ramamurthy is basically just playing Mohinder Suresh
from Heroes but with mommy issues
instead of daddy issues. He thankfully won’t have gross bug powers and that’s a
blessing.
Ralph
Dibney returns from a summer abroad where he was searching for Sue Dearborn.
Sue is, of course, his wife in the comics. Ralph also helps Caitlin and Killer
Frost realize that they can coexist by taking turns being in control of their
body. That’s going to go poorly at some point.
The
final major plot here is about Barry and Iris coming to grips with the fact
that Nora is gone. They may see her in the future, but it won’t be the same
woman they know and love. They spend the entire episode pushing their emotions
down until they finally agree to work through it together. And Iris is
definitely going to be pregnant by the end of the season, right? It feels like
the natural next step after this storyline.
All in
all, it looks like we have a promising season ahead. There are a lot of plot
threads and character arcs set up in the premiere and they look to be fun and
interesting. But there is one more thing I haven’t mentioned: The episode ends
with the Monitor appearing in the Time Vault and revealing Flash’s
disappearance is now scheduled for December 10th, 2019. Which is the
day of The Flash’s Crisis episode. Oh! And he mentions that
“Flash must die.” Of course, I doubt that will be Barry. Or at least this
Barry. Could be John Wesley Shipp as either Barry or Jay Garrick. We don’t know
yet, but that will change in two months’ time.
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