The Flash "The Nuclear Man" Review

I don't really have any way to open this, there was no one element that was amazing or terrible, let's just review it. In the latest episode of The Flash, the Flash team finally hunt down Ronnie/Dr Stein and try and cure him, but in the end, his powers get the better of him and he goes nuclear just outside of the city, blows up and dies...OR DOES HE!? Also Barry is going on his first real date ever and tries to balance out that with his superhero life. And Cisco & Joe are looking into the death of Barry's mother and discover that one of the speedsters he saw as a kid was actually an adult Barry...huh.

This episode was...okay, just okay, not a whole lot of note happened in it, all of the stuff with Ronnie/Dr Stein was fine, if a little rushed, the scene with him and his wife was well done and i thought this was an interesting way to go with the character, he's obviously not dead, i just wish this was spread out across two episodes. All of the stuff with Barry going on a date, again, is fine, but this is something that should have been made separate from this episode, because this isn't just a random villain of the week episode, this is important story arc material and i feel like the main story suffered a lot because of Barry's dating story, the two don't blend together well and shouldn't have been in the same episode.

And I know I say that the stuff with Barry just being Barry is the best part of the show (which it is), i feel like they have slowly been forgetting that the show is called The Flash because Barry barely ever suits up in this episode and when he does, he doesn't do anything. I mean I love when it focuses on the characters as people and not just superheroes because it makes them more three dimensional, but they still need The Flash to do stuff, not just show up for as a source of fast travel.

The stuff with Cisco & Joe was again, good, though a little bit out of nowhere, especially Joe still suspecting Wells, seriously, they dealed with that already, i mean yeah, we know he's involved, but Joe has no reason to suspect him still. Also, that thing with the lady who owned the house and the weird sexualization of her...yeah what the hell was that about? That didn't lead to anything, i can imagine making it for the sake of a joke but she returns later in the episode and...i dunno, it's just weird. But the reveal at the end of one of the speedsters actually being an adult Barry is...interesting, i mean if the reveal is supposed to be a "what does this mean!?" type of reaction, well it's pretty fucking obvious, time travel, the ability to see the future has already being established, so time travel wouldn't be too big of a step, honestly this kinda ruins what could have been a big twist when we actually see Barry time travel because we wouldn't have seen it coming.

This episode is good, but all of the good stuff don't meld well and should have been given focus in different episodes and the episode as a whole suffers for it, but that doesn't make it bad, just not as good as it could have been. The Nuclear Man gets a 7/10.

-Danny