I'm watching The Flash and I have FEELS

[sholio]

I bounced off season one of The Flash a couple of times, for various reasons. But I finally made it to season two (admittedly with a bit of selective storyline skipping) and season two is SOO GOOOOD. Or at least idtastically satisfying.

I'm up to 2x12, "Fast Lane".

... 2x12, a.k.a. the one in which Harry tries his best to be a bad guy and utterly fails at it (all the writhing with guilt throughout every scene in which Barry talks about how he thinks of him as a mentor and tries to hug him was AMAZING), and then the team decides that even if he did try to betray them, he's still TEAM and they're going to help him get Jessie back.

♥ ♥ ♥

I'm such a sucker for that kind of thing.

So basically Harry Wells' storyline (Harry Wells: action hero, accidental team dad, utterly incompetent villain) has been hitting all of my buttons epically hard. But the others are super adorable too -- especially Cisco and Caitlin (CUTIES!!). They're all just such nice people; they try so hard to do the right thing, and in general the show seems to reward them for it, and doesn't seem especially inclined to kill characters off just for the angst value.

*fingers crossed*

I even like Barry now - I spent a lot of season one just sort of wanting Iris to punch him in the face, but when he's not constantly moping over her, he's basically a big ball of hearts and puppies. They all are. It's a very happy-making show and I want to watch the next episode NOW (more Earth-2! I can't wait! I love its art-deco-steampunk vibe) but ... sleep first.

Please no spoilers beyond 2x12!

Also please someone tell me that I have useful things tomorrow and don't need to spend the whole day marathoning Flash episodes on Netflix.

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

Hee!

Maybe 2 hours of work earns one Flash ep on Netflix?

[sholio]

It's an excellent distraction from political news. :D

[madripoor_rose]

As is Supergirl, ie I've watched Mon-El eat a stack of pancakes like it was a hamburger about fifty times today.

[sholio]

HAHAHA. I need to watch that. (Supergirl, I mean.) It'll probably be next up, when I'm done with all the Flash. I want to get around to Arrow eventually, but it looks so heavy and dark, and that's why AoS doesn't really work for me, so ... maybe one of these days, but not soon.

[madripoor_rose]

Arrow has some fun moments, but yeah, it is darker than the rest of DCTV....Oliver is basically their Batman stand in. I think we do have a 'all four shows crossover' coming up with the plot starting with Supergirl-Flash-Arrow-Legends, but so far all the crossover eps have worked on their own.