The Flash "Fallout" Review

Last week i said i wish the Ronnie/Dr Stein dilemma was spread across 2 episodes, assuming that they were gonna leave it at Firestorm exploding and find out he's alive several episodes later but nope. They're gonna continue this straight away, giving me what i wanted, and you know what? I think it paid off.

In Fallout, we see that Ronnie and Dr Stein have indeed split, and while they no longer have their powers, they are still connected to each other, they feel the others emotions, personality traits, physical effects, and they learn that soon they are going to connect be connected once again and may not be able to be split apart. But it turns out the complete opposite happens, once they rejoin, they have full control over their mind and body and can split apart and rejoin at will. Also Barry learns that he will one day travel through time, back to the day his mother is killed and will fail to save her. So a pretty packed episode.

Let's start off with the stuff with Ronnie & Dr Stein, i thoroughly enjoyed all of it, I liked the scenes of Ronnie and Dr Stein trying to adjust back to normal life, i liked the conclusion of them having to join together in order to become Firestorm, i found that to be really creative and i can't wait to see where it goes. And i felt we got to know Ronnie as a character finally, admittedly he's a little bland right now, but they're trying atleast, but when you make reference that he has an addiction to pizza (I can relate) maybe actually show him eating pizza at some point, show don't tell, first rule of filmmaking.

The actual plot of the episode, everything involving the military seemed to be an excuse to get this Firestorm plot going, they needed a villain, who always misuses science for weapons? The military! Yeah don't expect this to be anything special, it was fine, it moved the plot along, but it's nothing to run home about.

Everything with Barry learning about his mother and stuff was good, at first I was hesitant on them ruining what could have been a great twist, but now i'm starting to like where they might be going with this if it ends up with a big emotional pay off. Also they actually gave Flash something to do this week and not just Barry, because for the past few weeks it sort of feels like they've been forgetting that the show is called Flash, so you should probably have The Flash do something.

Finally there is the ending where we finally see Wells as Reverse Flash, also with the new aspect of time travel it might indicate that there aren't two Reverse Flashes, just one who time travels. Also Wells and Grodd are apparently in cahoots and they capture and potentially kill Lex Luthor...for those of you confused, you should feel ashamed. But again, i wish they didn't reveal Grodd in full, i mean here we got a full view of him, heard him speak and saw him use psychic powers, you're giving away all your best cards here guys, save some for later.

In the end, I liked this episode, I enjoyed the development for Firestorm and think this is quite a creative set up, I liked what they did with Barry's story and the ending was great as always, i'm giving this episode an 8/10.

-Danny