sholio: sun on winter trees (Flash-Cisco)
Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2016-11-10 06:36 pm

The Flash - mostly caught up

I haven't watched 3x05 yet (and still haven't watched most of season one) but otherwise I'm caught up. And, oh, this show. I mean, the plots can be so terrible ... But it's not nearly as bad as LoT, and the character stuff is just pushing my buttons all over the place. I love it. For the past couple of days, this show has been my coping mechanism and happy place.

I don't really see this becoming a major fandom for me. My heart still belongs to Agent Carter, and also a brief dip into the fanfic is making me think that there isn't a whole lot out there to suit the particular things I want to read, and quite possibly a whole world of DNW - I've heard about the unpleasantness of the fandom's ship wars even from tangentially associated superhero fandoms without having seen an episode.

But, oh, these characters. I'm pretty sure the S2-to-early-S3 plot gave me very nearly everything I wanted (except more h/c, always more h/c).

Spoilers welcome in comments! I basically love everyone now, except for the bad guys (including Eobard Thawne, sorry fandom -- looking at the fic tells me he's popular, but for me he's somewhere between "love to hate" and "basically just hate"). EVERYONE ELSE THOUGH. ♥

ETA: Oh wait - recs! Please rec me anything good! I want to find some good vids! [personal profile] xparrot already rec'd one, and I've been poking around Youtube - anyone seen anything good? I would also like to find gen fic, especially Harry-centric with Jesse or team (I already found one author who looks VERY promising and has also written some good LoT and Avengers stuff).

[personal profile] mikeda 2016-11-13 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Not sure which episode you're remembering, although it's not a season finale.

There is a plotline in Season 1 where someone who has been Barry's mentor turns out to have ulterior motives and is the main villain of the season.

There is also a plotline in Season 2 where a key member of Barry's team is being blackmailed by the main villain of the season because the main villain is holding his daughter captive. In this case the key member isn't exactly a bad guy but does do some bad things because of the threat to his daughter's life.

[personal profile] mikeda 2016-11-13 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Note that the "mentor" from Season 1 and the "key member" from Season 2 look exactly alike because the "key member" comes from an alternate Earth.