The Flash 5x03 "The Death of Vibe" Episode Review
Major Spoilers are included in this episode review. Read with Caution.
Time travel consequences, The Flash Museum, The Hall of Villains, secrets, a new Wells, and the villain blended pretty okay in this episode. Season five is continuing strong with great Easter eggs, character dynamics, and I have to say Candice Patton’s performance is incredible. The Caitlin Snow subplot is worth investing into as well. Please don’t pair Ralph and Caitlin together… keep them as friends.
Ralph’s heroic scene was funny and pushed Elongated Man to see that he isn’t taken seriously. This intersects with Sherloque Wells’ arrival as they are both classified as detectives, making him feel useless. This is a good setup for Ralph to tag along with Caitlin when they visit her mother for answers about her father.
Joe West played hostage the entire episode. I wonder if he’ll ever leave his house. Last episode, he stayed in the living room on that chair. He didn’t move at all. Give the man something to do! Cecile should have him change a diaper once in a while.
The new Harrison “Sherloque” Wells is a good combination of the French Wells and H.R. from Season 3. Tom Cavanagh is an amazing actor and is able to breathe such life / personality into these Harrison Wells’ characters. I found it hilarious that French Wells was fan-boying the West-Allen family and irritating Cisco at the same time.
Speaking of Cisco, I knew he wasn’t going to die. There was no way the show had the guts to kill him off. Despite the episode being named in his honor, Cisco didn’t have much to do beside make humorous comments.
Barry and Nora are doing the father-daughter thing. He’s teaching her how to become a better hero and to not let the guilt take over. Nora has a lot to learn, but she is getting there. Like father like daughter. Although, Nora is hiding something about interfering in the season four finale. Sherloque Wells is onto her and so are we.
I wonder if the “Thomas Snow” subplot will intersect at all with Cicada, but I don’t mind them being separate. It gives all the characters something to do outside of each other. Everyone grouping together at Star Labs was getting tiresome.
Cicada is building up to become a fearsome villain and a sympathetic character. I’m looking forward to seeing how they’ll explore his background and what drove him to kill all the metahumans in Central City.
This is how you do a “family season”… take notes, Arrow. The Year (Season Six) you did on family was not good, if we could even call it that.
Comment and Let’s Discuss theories. What’s Nora hiding? Will Sherloque Wells ever pay back the money he wrongfully took from them? I GOTS TO KNOW!