The Flash : Who is Gypsy?

The Flash Episode 10 Season 3 was not an action packed episode but a character centric episode, making us proud upon our favorite speedster and it was good to see the whole team working together to save Iris and Killer Frost.

But at the end of the episode we saw someone coming through the portal to Earth 1. From the official synopsis and the promo of the next episode, the character who visits through the portal is Gypsy.

This leads to questions like
Who is Gypsy? Is she a character from comics? If yes, how is she different from her TV counter-part?

In COMICS:
Gypsy's real name is Cynthia Reynolds. In new 52 where most of the show takes inspiration from, Gypsy has the powers of inter-dimensional traveling much like the show's version of Cisco has and guess what she debuted in new 52 in Vibe comic book series.

Gypsy's power has changed a lot in the comics, when she debuted in pre-new 52 era, she had powers of astral projection, chameleon(i.e. camouflaging), energy absorption etc. but in new 52, they have taken her name literally, making her a gypsy, a nomad traveling between earths.

She has been part of a lot of superhero factions like: Justice League, Conglomerate, and Birds of Prey.

In TV  Show:
The synopsis of the episode 11 reads as:
"Inter-dimensional travel is illegal on H.R.’s home Earth, so Gypsy (Jessica Camacho) — a bounty hunter with vibe powers — makes the journey to Earth-1 Central City to bring H.R. back to Earth-19 to stand trial for his crime.
H.R. surrenders, but when Barry (Grant Gustin) and Cisco (Carlos Valdes) learn that the novelist's only hope would be to challenge Gypsy to a duel to the death, Barry and Cisco intervene, with the latter offering to fight Gypsy in his place."

We have to wait and see what will be the outcome of the 'duel'. It seems that she has the powers of the Vibe (Cisco), but has more control over her abilities. One may also say that she can become an ally of the Team Flash. Possibly can become a love interest for Cisco. Personally I would love to see this dynamic play out just for the reason that I loved the scenes with Cisco and Golden Glider.

And yeah! we get see Cisco in full Vibe costume!!!!!

I feel that Cisco will also learn new aspects of his abilities which he never knew before. This might help them in future fighting Savitar. 
 

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The Flash Season 3 Episode 10: "Borrowing Problems From the Future"

Before I review the episode, I must say that our favorite Speedster is growing as he didn't waste any time to spill the beans and told the team about the future he saw. It was refreshing to see that.

Operation Save Iris is a go!

We have to thank Barry for his unexpected actions on The Flash Season 3 Episode 10 "Borrowing Problems from the Future."

He told the team the truth so they could work together on stopping Iris' murder by Savitar instead of keeping it a secret for no reason.

Especially since Iris clearly saw right through his half-answers when it came to the nightmares.

Moving in together, having sexy time, exchanging the l-word wouldn't mean much if Barry had chosen to keep her in the dark any longer.

How much did it hurt to watch Iris' face as the news slowly sank in?

My heart broke when she started to cry. We're so used to seeing Iris be strong for everyone else.

But some things, like learning you're going to die in four months, are just too much for one person. It makes sense at that moment she would have felt helpless.

Thankfully, they've got a team of superhero scientists on the case.

Please don't get me wrong, I love Tom Cavanagh. I have always felt that his characters and Cisco are the main backbone of the show. But I have always found HR annoying.

Having said that, it was almost strange how useful HR was in the episode.

To the point where I didn't even mind his scooter or his obsession with opening Star Labs.

Obviously I would take Harry back in a heartbeat, but if they keep this somewhat toned down version of HR, the odds of me smashing my TV decrease from week to week.

Of course it seemed a little silly that he claimed the future would happen no matter what.

Maybe on a show where time travel via speedforce didn't occur every two or three episodes.

But we're all used to that kind of plot convenience on our superhero shows, right?

Plus, he turned out to be wrong and Barry saw his love being killed again, which was one of my predictions.

I also feel that as the future is changing, Savitar's prophecy.

The future Barry saw on The Flash Season 3 Episode 9 already changed. And now we know it also comes with problems for Caitlin. 

Considering she spent most of the hour fretting over her malfunctioning cuffs, it's not a shock Killer Frost could be loose in four months. 

I love that Iris instantly jumped on the 'we have to save Caitlin, too' bandwagon.

This show doesn't often treat its female characters well, but I do appreciate the writers never pitting Iris and Caitlin against one another. 

I also love Caitlin inviting Julian to be part of the team.

Yes, I can hear the collective groans over another love interest for Caitlin, but maybe that's not the plan this time.

Okay, it's probably the plan. But maybe they'll give us a slow burn romance for a change.

That would be new and different.

Even without the romance, I like the idea of Julian joining Team Flash because if you have a metahuman expert and who know The Flash's secret, bring me on the team. Plus, I like Tom Felton's chemistry with Barry. The writers made a great choice when they decided to make him possessed rather than pure evil.

Now if only those same writers would make the actual villains more interesting.

Yes, the point of Plunder was to lead Barry toward changing the future rather than the past.

That's all well and good, but this is a comic book show. And one of the reasons we watch comic book shows is to see our heroes battling worthy adversaries.

Not a random robber whose gun stole his thunder.

Speaking of stealing thunder, I have to mention HR giving him the name Thunder and the new speedster on the block, Kid Flash taking all the accolades this week. There was also a nice easter egg, when they said that lets send this Kid Flash to Keystone city, which in comics, was the place where Wally West operated as the Flash.

 I still don't know why it's so important that he's faster than Barry, but he earned his credit this week. 

I worried he'd revert back to rebellious form when Barry laid out the plan for him to stop Plunder. Thankfully, Wally put his sister first, and followed Barry's instructions.

Will it last? Doubtful. 

I also feel that a major ass whooping awaits Wally because of his doing things before thinking and his lack of experience in fighting metahumans.

 Flash Points

• Not telling Joe the truth is a terrible idea. And considering this version of Iris stopped talking to him when she learned the truth about mom, this seems hypocritical (or like the writers forgot their timeline).
• Cisco being more like his old self is cause for rejoicing. Please don't ever leave us again.
• The Music Meister and Grodd are coming! At least we got some good news from the future.
• The Central City Museum looked a lot like the Flash museum which Barry saw during the finale of the season 1. The showrunners have said that they will do all the things which Barry saw. Amazing!

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Did The Flash Reveal The Season’s Next Big Twists?

Fans of The CW’s gallery of DC Comics superheroes know to come into a season premiere, finale, or midseason finale expecting some serious bombshells, and the fan following of The Flash means more eyes typically watch Barry Allen’s twists and turns than any other. Surprisingly, the Flash's midseason didn’t include any jaw-dropping changes to the status quo, or even the character deaths of the past. What it did include, however, has given fans some serious questions to ponder in the coming months beginning with the most obvious: how much can Savitar really know?

While previous episodes had limited Barry Allen’s interactions with his new nemesis to brief threats or super-speed beatings, the finale brought a full conversation. Blaming Barry for his imprisonment in a timeless nightmare, Savitar vowed to exercise his authority over the life and death of the entire show’s cast. Not only that, but the self-titled ‘god of speed’ used his knowledge of the future to state the team’s destiny as an unavoidable fact.

The question now is whether Savitar’s claims are exactly as they seem… and who may be the most likely candidates, if they are.

"One Shall Betray You"

With Julian strapped to a chair and rigged up to act as microphone and speaker for Savitar, the villain claims – somewhat nonchalantly – that the destinies of Barry’s friends is already known to him, having seen the future that awaits them. While he doesn’t name names, he begins by stating that “one shall betray you,” but his words (and the character shown as he utters the words) requires a closer dissection. For starters, it’s Wally West upon whom the camera focuses as the claim of an impending betrayal is made. Although the most immediate interpretation of the words and image is obvious, two things stand out: the “you” being betrayed isn’t explicitly stated… and if we’re keeping track, Wally West has kind of betrayed the team already.

Now assuming that Wally won’t actually betray Barry in a truly cowardly, cunning, or deceitful fashion, the term “betray” – and what it could mean to a villain who believes himself a god – is more vague than one might assume. If we’re defining it as characters sharing knowledge they shouldn’t, aiding an enemy through manipulation or succumbing to pressure, or believing they know better, then again, nearly every major cast member is guilty of the charge.

Also worth mentioning is the fact that Savitar (through Julian) refers to each of the present company by name, but calls the Wells doppelganger from Earth-19 as “the fake Wells.” Since the alternate universe Wells would still be a legitimate Wells, is Savitar hinting at a deceiver in the team’s ranks already? We would dock the writers points for making yet another Wells betray his friends for a secret purpose, but… well, we wouldn’t be shocked, either.

"One Shall fall"

Savitar is just as cryptic and ambiguous with his second bit of prophecy, as the claim that someone present will “fall” actually reveals a lot less than what it first implies. Taken at its most direct, it would seem to suggest that a main cast member will be killed by something in the future – and with the camera trained squarely on Cisco, it looks like the youngest Ramon will once again cement his place in the timeline with a memorable death (the last one having been reversed). The idea that someone among the S.T.A.R. Labs team will give their life before this chapter of Barry’s career is over isn’t staggering – only troubling – since his parents have already both been killed by villainous speedsters. And while fans can place bets on the most likely to be offed, we would remind everyone to consider that a “fall” doesn’t necessarily mean a death.

Could Savitar instead be hinting that a currently-heroic character will descend into darkness, duplicity, or even villainy – thus constituting their “fall”? And before fans argue that such a symbolic reading is using a bit too much imagination, this season has already followed one character’s decent into the darker side of metahuman police work. When Cisco and Barry got an eyeful of Killer Frost on Earth-2, they raised the specter of such villainous future being possible for their own Caitlin Snow – and the prospect hung over their collective heads ever since.

Until that very story began to play out following Barry’s messing with the timeline, and dropping Caitlin into rage, violence, and metahuman superpowers. Her friends managed to stop the descent before she was completely lost, but should Caitlin’s power-dampening cuffs break, or her composure be challenged, then the predicted “fall” may be less of a shock than even the aforementioned betrayal. Either that, or the camera pointing at Cisco is a sign that he’ll be transformed into his Earth-2 counterpart – a “fall” that’s as ironic as it would be tragic.

"One Shall Suffer a Fate worse than Death"

Now you would think that in an episode which leapt forward, showing the murder of our hero’s significant other at the hands of his nemesis would be the headlining shocker… but even Barry’s accidental trip to such a grisly future pales in comparison to one destiny teased by Savitar. Sure, one future may see Iris killed at the speed god’s hand… but according to that same villain, one member of our cast will be forced to “suffer a fate far worse than death.” If this future is just one of infinite possibilities, as Jay Garrick claims, then Savitar may not have seen it coming at all. But if he’s as powerful as all evidence suggests, then it wasn’t actually Iris he was referring to as the one doomed to a worse fate.

First things first: a fate worse than death is an idea that can be defined differently by everyone who considers it. What’s worse than dying in pursuit of a better world? Being forgotten? Being written out of existence altogether? Or, perhaps, it’s becoming the villain yourself? We also can’t tell if these destinies refer to three different people (the camera falls to Caitlin, then Iris), or if a fall, a betrayal, and a fate worse than death all await the same person. That’s obviously the point, but if an inciting incident is needed to trigger these tragic fates, then the impending death of Iris West may be just what’s needed.

Surely, Barry wouldn’t attempt to change history yet again… right? Only time will tell, but the writers of The Flash have succeeded in delivering as puzzling and restrained a finale as is likely possible. Rather than wondering “what happens next,” fans everywhere must now speculate on how Barry will handle the known challenges and twists as they come – and just how heartbreaking these destinies will be when they rear their heads.

To see my rest of the season 3 predictions, click here.

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18 amazing F.R.I.E.N.D.S facts which will change how you watched the show

While your Friends knowledge may have rusted over a bit now that E4 no longer airs episodes 24/7 – we're still not over that, FYI – we're betting you still know Rachel, Ross and the gang reasonably well. We were pretty sure we knew everything there was to know, but in the course of researching this feature we uncovered a few real surprises (number 12 explains so much!)

18 Things you may not already know about the TV series:

1) The cast didn't want Rachel and Joey to get together anymore than you did.

"It felt wildly inappropriate," Matt LeBlanc admitted to Vanity Fair in 2012. "Everybody got super-defensive about the whole thing. We went to David and Marta as a group and said, 'We're really concerned about this. It doesn't feel right. We have a problem with it.'" Right there with you, Matt.

2) The cast of six was originally meant to be four.

In the early stages, Friends was going to focus on Monica, Rachel, Ross and Joey, with Phoebe and Chandler conceived only as supporting characters.

3) Courteney Cox is the only regular cast member who never got an Emmy nomination for the show.

Which just goes to show once again that the Emmys are stupid.

4) Friends' Thanksgiving episodes are iconic, but surprisingly season two didn't include a dedicated Thanksgiving show.

'The One With The List' was the episode that aired closest to the holiday – not exactly a feel-good one!

5) Having been turned down twice for the role of Joey, Hank Azaria ended up playing Phoebe's scientist boyfriend David.

The one who she should really have ended up with instead of Mike. #stillbitter

6) Before the show had been cast, Monica and Joey were intended to be the central couple.

Although that was swiftly abandoned after the pilot, we got a glimpse of their dynamic in 'The One With The Flashback' where Joey mistakes Monica's offer of lemonade for an invitation to sex.

7) The real address of the Friends' apartment, as used in the exterior shots, is 90 Bedford Street in Manhattan's West Village.

If you visit today, you'll find an adorable restaurant called The Little Owl and lots of apartments you can't afford.

8) James Michael Tyler, aka Gunther, really did work as a barista when he was cast.

He was initially cast as an extra in what was then a nameless role. He kept up the day job for the show's first four seasons, "but once Gunther was more established and they would have me on all week… I thought, OK, I don't really have time for this," Tyler told Buzzfeed.

9) Remember that guy who accidentally threw a condom into Phoebe's guitar case and then ran back to get it?

He seemed familiar, right? That was Giovanni Ribisi, who later starred as Phoebe's half-brother Frank – we like to think it was Frank with the condom too, but he and Phoebe had no reason to recognize each other at the time.

10) The only person who wasn't a fan of the show's iconic 'The Rachel' haircut was Jennifer Aniston herself!

"How do I say this? I think it was the ugliest haircut I've ever seen. What I really want to know is, how did that thing have legs? Let's just say I'm not a fan of short, layered cuts on me personally, so I don't love revisiting that particular era," Aniston told Allure.

11) Phoebe was originally conceived as a goth girl.

That version of the role was offered to Janeane Garofalo, who passed.

12) Phoebe thinking her dead mother has been reincarnated as a cat is one of the weirdest storylines ever, and there's a reason.

The idea was pitched by co-creator Marta Kauffman soon after the death of her own mother, and according to a later interview with the writers it should have been shot down at the table read, but nobody felt comfortable saying no under the circumstances. Although this has been widely reported online we can't find the original source, so take it with a pinch of salt – but it does explain a lot.

13) Right before the show premiered, the cast took a group trip to Vegas for one last taste of anonymity.

"Once the show comes on the air, you guys will never be able to go anywhere without being hounded," director James Burrows told them, not inaccurately. The gang headed to Caesars Palace, a location which later became central to Friends' Vegas-centric episodes.

14) The refrigerators in both apartments really worked.

Fittingly, Monica's was always well stocked with drinks for the cast and crew, while Joey's was generally empty.

15) Courteney Cox was rooting for Monica and Chandler from the start.

Long before they got together on the show, Courteney Cox named Chandler as the Friend she'd "do" if forced to pick, in a revealing 1997 profile with Elle.

16) While we're on the subject of couples, did you ever wonder why Phoebe and Joey never became a thing?

You're not alone, if so – early on, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc even suggested to the writers that it be revealed the pair had been occasionally hooking up for years. While you can see how this idea was shot down for being out-of-step with the show's tone, it really would have made a whole lot of sense for both characters.

17) A subplot involving Monica and Chandler being interrogated by airport security was pulled at the last minute.

The scenes were pulled from season eight's The One Where Rachel Tells Ross', because the episode was due to air a few weeks after 9/11. The episode aired with a hastily filmed replacement plot involving the pair trying to get an upgrade. The scenes have now been made available on YouTube, and while they're really funny, you can definitely see how badly they would have played at the time.

18) The Friends have pretty much all kissed each other

One hard-working Tumbler fan, did some serious research on this, confirming that the only two characters who have never locked lips in any way are Monica and Phoebe – everyone else has, if you include off-screen moments and hypothetical 'what if?' episodes

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SPEEDFORCE Lightning Colors Explained:

The depiction of lightning surrounding a speedster has been a topic of discussion for a very long time since we have seen a different colors of the lightning in the Flash TV show but how does it differ from the depiction of the lightning color in the comics.

IN COMICS:

Someone tweeted to Brett Booth, the former Flash artist and current Titans artist, asking about the different colors of speedforce lightning. This is what he said:

"the closer you get to the light speed the color shifts. So the red being the slowest. Blue and indigo are  fastest."

This is called blueshift. Blueshift refers to the shifting in the color of light in the visible spectrum as the wavelength decreases and frequency increases.

new 52 Barry with red lightning

DC Rebirth Flash with yellow lightning

I went to discuss this because this all makes sense as the speedster increases his speed, his lightning changes color, that is, lightning shifts towards blue or indigo. If one notice that in the start of the new 52, Barry had lightning of color red surrounding him but now in new DC rebirth, he has lightning of color yellow. Some may argue that this is done for aesthetics. But the shift can represent that Barry is getting faster and thus being more intoned with the speedforce. For knowing more about speedforce, click here.

In the "Out of Time" comic-arc, the future version of Barry has blue lightning which not only indicates that he is faster than the present Barry but also can further tap into Speedforce.

Wally West, the ginger one, who recently returned in the DC rebirth has white lightning to his new design, which makes sense as he spent a lot of time in the speedforce and can access it more than anyone else. This makes him the fastest version of the flash. 

This also holds up as the new Flash villain, Godspeed, has white lightning surrounding him as he observed speed of many speedsters making him much faster than Barry Allen. 

If you want to read the whole conversation with Brett Booth, click here.

IN TV SHOW:

The color of lightning generated by the speedster shows the type of connection, the speedster has with the speedforce.

1. Yellow: This lightning is generated by speedsters with a pure or natural connection to the Speedforce. This is seen from Barry Allen, Jay Garrick, Jesse Quick and Wally West and also formerly from Hunter Zolomon and Eliza Harmon.

Barry's Lightning

2. Red: This lightning is strongly implied to the result of an individual having a corrupted or negative connection to the speedforce. This is supported by Eobard stating to have replicated the reaction that gave Barry his powers, yet claims the essence of his powers is the exact opposite to the Flash's. This is seen from Eobard Thawne and Edward Clariss. Also, speedsters such as Hunter who are taken by Time Wraiths into the Speed Force also have their lightning turned red.

Reverse Flash's Lightning

3. Blue: Blue lightning generation is the result of an individual speedster who artificially develops/boosts a connection through a strong enough usage of the "Velocity". While greatly increasing the user's speed, it also comes with lethal/life-threatening side-effects as seen with speedsters like Hunter Zolomon and Eliza Harmon.

Zoom's Lightning

4. White:  White lightning is uniquely generated by the original speedster and the self-proclaimed "God of Speed" Savitar. It is currently unknown the nature of his coloration is a result of his extraordinarily long and potent connection to the Speed Force.

Savitar's Lightning

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SHERLOCK Season 4 Episode 3: "The Final Problem" Recap

The series finale, The Final Problem, puts heart above brains and it works. Its not the perfect episode but it is one of my best episode as it puts our beloved sociopath through hell, shreds him apart and then puts him to the test.

So spoliers, if you have not seen the episode yet.

Welcome to the final problem.

Those fans still wishing that every single episode of Sherlock involved a stranger knocking on the door of 221b and recruiting Holmes and Watson to solve a case might well have found this fourth (and final?) series frustrating.

But what's easy to miss is that our dynamic duo are still very much solving mysteries: it's just that these mysteries no longer arrive from outsiders, but are deeply ingrained in the central characters' own backstories.

For me that brings another dynamic edge, to the already complex detective. It feels fitting that in his last bow (for now, at least) Sherlock must face his own dark mirror image.
Even more so than Moriarty, Eurus (Sian Brooke) is Sherlock gone wrong – all cold, hard logic and no feeling, her emergence highlights her brother's humanity and just how emotional he can be.

While Brooke delivers a hypnotically dead-eyed turn, 'The Final Problem' features Cumberbatch's most humane performance yet, as Sherlock learns to use his biggest asset to win out – not his mind, but his heart.

A child prodigy with an intellect greater than Isaac Newton's, the young Eurus was also seriously disturbed and obsessed with her younger brother to such an extent that she murdered his best friend – plot twist!

Mycroft (Mark Gatiss) would later lock Eurus away in the prison island of Sherrinford to keep Sherlock safe, but her supreme powers of manipulation still allowed her to collaborate with Moriarty on everything, before he died.

A side note: Moriarty's return – to the strains of Queen's 'I Want to Break Free' – is so outrageously over-the-top that you can't help but love it. It's a neat trick, too, inserting a flashback into the episode in such a manner that we're briefly fooled into thinking he's actually back from the dead.

Mark Gatiss might've rejected comparisons between The Six Thacthers and the super-spy antics of James Bond – quite rightly – but once Sherlock, John (Martin Freeman) and Mycroft take the trip to Sherrinford, 'The Final Problem' starts to absolutely reek of agent 007's adventures.

A supervillain with a phenomenal brain, an army of soldiers and a top-secret HQ? This is unquestionably Gatiss and co-writer Steven Moffat having their cake and eating it by telling a Sherlock Holmes story that also indulges their Bond fandom. To tell you the truth, I loved every bit of this detective being Bond. Tell me in comments who want to see our Dr. Strange as 007.
But once it becomes clear that Eurus has assumed control – the lunatic quite literally running the asylum – this breathless adventure transforms again, taking inspiration from another, very different film franchise...

It's Sherlock does Saw as we get to the meat of the episode: an absolutely superb second act that goes to some seriously dark places, as our heroes – reduced to rats in a maze – are set a series of harrowing challenges.

Art Malik delivers a hugely sympathetic performance as the tragic governor of Sherrinford, but it's the desperately cruel manipulation of Molly (Louise Brealey) that takes the biggest emotional toll.

Cumberbatch and Brealey are both wonderful in this stand-out sequence – weaving an emotional pay-off to their relationship into a pulse-pounding, race-against-time narrative, it's quite remarkable that the scene was a last minute addition.

But after all the pulse-racing, heart-pounding sequences, the climax of the series, of the episode fell flat for me. Don't get me wrong whole episode was superb, gut-wrenching scenes but Eurus is arguably the most clever and calculating adversary that Sherlock's ever faced. She's tortured him, John, their friends and family. She's murdered dozens of innocent people. And all it takes to stop her is a hug?

The whole thing's so swift and simple that, as Eurus is whisked back to Sherrinford, you find yourself waiting for one last twist... but it never arrives. It's a resolution which highlights that, for all its good qualities (and there are many), 'The Final Problem' is a story oddly without consequences.

With this quite possibly being the show's final episode, it's understandable that Moffat and Gatiss wanted to end on an uplifting note – Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, the Baker Street boys, out solving mysteries... forever. But after everything that's happened, they're required to hit the reset button to deliver that jolly final tag. I loved the whole montage of them rebuilding the whole Baker Street, kind-of showing the reset they need.

I loved the idea that Sherlock can never be more intelligent than Mycroft or Eurus, but him having emotional context, makes him a stronger person who will always prevail.

The way, they left things, there can be a season 5 but the cast and crew have said if they do it, it would be not for another 2 years.

Tell me what you loved in the episode.

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The Flash : Season 3 Predictions

This weekend a lot of the Flash information bombs were dropped. We have so much stuff to talk about like Black Flash, Gorilla Grodd, Solovar.

Based on the information, here is my Top 10 predictions for rest of the season 3 of the Flash.

10. Jesse Quick and Harrison Wells from the Earth-2 will be back rather sooner than you expect. The main reason that these two characters are not in every single episode of the Flash because they have so many actors and different characters to focus on and develop them. If they have them on every single episode, it can become a mess.

The best thing they can do with Jesse Quick's character is that if they don't want to have her on the Flash, she can go to Legends Of Tomorrow. 

9. Harrison Wells from Earth-19 (HR) will be here long enough to introduce us to Earth-19 Flash who seems like a big a part of the Gorilla Grodd episode.

No idea if HR will stay for the entire season but he will surely stay here for a while longer.

I know some people think that he has hidden motive other than his book because he come off so strong in the beginning. But I feel he just wanted everyone to be comfortable with him,now that everyone is cool around him, he has also laid off a lot. His main motive is to start the Star Labs Museum  which can be the stepping stone for the Flash Museum. 

I am really interested to see what new character Tom Cavanagh will play next season.

8. We all know that Earth-19 Flash, the Accelerated Man, is coming to the show, But this version of the Flash will not be Barry from Earth-19. Since he will play alongside Grant Gustin, it seems a logical choice, to have someone else play this Flash.

It will be interesting to see if we know the character already who will be the Accelerated Man.

This character is from Grand Morrison's Multiversity story line which they don't reveal his identity or face. The show-runners can also go this route.

7. Gorilla Grodd 2-part episode will take place in Gorilla City in Earth-2 and not in Earth-19, contrary to the popular belief. This means that we will meet our version of Gorilla Grodd. Supposedly, the Accelerated Man is part of this episode. 

Speaking of Gorilla city, brings me to my next point.

6. We will finally meet Solovar in Gorilla city, and he is voiced by none other than Keith David. If you aren't familiar with Kieth David, one of his animated voice works is the Reverse Giraffe from Rick and Morty.

If you don't read the comics and don't know who Solovar is, don't worry I will talk about him when we will get near the Gorilla City episode.

The basic thing is that Solovar is the good gorilla in this Planet of the Apes like fight with Grodd who wants power and control of the Gorilla City. 

This will be so amazing to see this Grand fight as in Planet of the Apes with only CG-Gorillas.

5. We will see Barry betray the team to save Iris. We have heard the prophecy that Savitar spoke that one will betray the team Flash. Many believe that person to be Cisco because when Savitar spoke those words camera zoomed on him but I believe that the person will be Barry. 

He will betray the team in small ways to save Iris. He knows that he can't change the past but will try to change the future as that try to do things different to save Iris. But we all know that self-fulfilling prophecies tend to happen regardless of what way you try to change the sequence of the things.

4. I predict that we will see Iris die more than once in that exact moment. So in keeping with the theme that Barry will be unable to change time at least in the short term, 

We are going to see it more than once. I know for sure that Candice Patton is not going to leave the show. There would be some crazy explanation on how Barry saves her or how she comes back, escaping death.

3.  The Black Flash will be back. By the Black Flash, I mean the Black Flash, in whom Zoom changed into at the end of season 2 finale.

In comics, it only shows up when a speedster is going top die. The crazy thing is that the show-runners have said that the Black Flash is coming to other DC TV shows making it sound like the Black Flash is coming for Reverse Flash in Legends of Tomorrow.

2. We will see human form of Savitar. We will learn about him, what he looked like, who was he before he created speed-force armor and started calling himself "God".

For the time being, Savitar is this whole CG villain voiced by Toben Bell from SAW. So far Savitar is in this state in which he can't manifest within this world, caught up between speed-force and the real world. 

Lets see how they address his human form, either we will see it in present day or in a flashback.

1. Barry will get a new suit. Grant Gustin has teased this on twitter about Barry being long due to get his new suit. There are a couple of ways for this to happen. One is that they upgrade this original suit, What they do is that change the suit or give it some upgrades every year with a new season. 

They have teased the Flash Ring but not done yet. 

The other way is that as Barry keeps trying to see the future to save Iris, we might see a future version of the Flash with a new suit.

These are my predictions for the rest of the season. Tell me in the comments if you want some articles about certain topics of the Flash you are not familiar with. I will do reviews as the episode airs after the mid season break. If you want to learn more about Savitar click here.

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Sherlock Episode 2 Season 4 : "THE LYING DETECTIVE" Recap and Unsolved Mysteries

Before I speak anything about the episode, I just want to thank Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat for this wonderful adaptation of the world's most famous detective. Now coming back to the episode, great pacing, beautifully shot and so many twists and turns, it felt like roller-coaster ride. A lot of credit for this also goes to the direction.

So careful for spoilers, if you haven't seen the episode yet.

This was proper Sherlock- a dark story drawing real-life parallels and of course, Mrs Hudson is speeding in a sports car. As i said before the episode was amazingly shot specially the scenes where John Watson is hallucinating his dead wife, Mary. The episode had a perfect dark villain, a beloved public figure- Culverton Smith, a business man and philanthropist who uses his power and fame to commit monstrous crimes. He is very well described by Sherlock,"the most dangerous and despicable human being I have ever encountered". Smith regularly confesses to his crimes, deriving pleasure from doing so, but after he divulges his sins he wipes the memories of his confidants, administering them with a drug that causes some sort of amnesia. This was the only part of the episode that felt hammy to me, a bit of sci-fi trickery that doesn’t make sense if you think about it too much. 

 At the start of the episode, we see Smith’s daughter try to scrawl what she can remember of the confession before her father takes the paper from her hands.

Somehow, she retrieves it and brings it to Sherlock, who, following Mary’s death, is in the midst of a bout of extreme drug abuse, his powers of observation partly blinkered. Perhaps because he is feeling analytically rusty, Sherlock suddenly seems able to feel pity. He takes Faith, who he believes to be suicidal, out for chips and agrees to tackle her case (although he also has a bit of fun telling Mycroft, who is tracking him via drone, to “fuck off”, by spelling out the letters in the walking route they take).

Mycroft doesn’t have too much else to do here, except get hit on by Lady Smallwood and make more references to Sherrinford, his no-longer-very-secret sibling.

Meanwhile, a grief-stricken John is receiving therapy and being visited by Mary. John spends an awful lot of time grief-stricken, doesn’t he? Remember the hissy fit he pulled when he thought Sherlock had died? Well this time, he is refusing to talk to Sherlock and has closed himself off emotionally, unable even to look after his daughter. It’s down to Mrs Hudson to kidnap Sherlock in the boot of her sports car, bring him to John’s therapist’s house, and force the game to become afoot. Sherlock shows John that he predicted everything about his own kidnapping two weeks earlier as a means of demonstrating his sound mind and the urgency with which they need to deal with Smith, who Sherlock has since worked out is one of the most grotesque serial killers ever to walk this earth.

There’s a lot of back and forth over what are Sherlock’s genius deductions and what is heroin-addled nonsense. When Faith turns up, he realizes she is an entirely different woman from the one who turned up at Baker Street and doubts are cast over his theory. But eventually Sherlock, beaten by his own addiction, ends up in a bed at Smith’s hospital. It turns out that Smith had the ward built especially so he can creep into patients’ rooms and murder them. Sherlock knew that was his fate, and tells Smith he doesn’t want to die but knows he must let himself be killed. There are particularly sinister scenes while Smith is drugging and strangling Sherlock, demanding that Sherlock keep looking him in the eye as he dies.

Back at Baker Street, John has discovered Mary’s message to Sherlock from last week’s episode. Seen for the first time in full, we learn that Mary demanded Sherlock to “go to hell”, to allow himself to be in such danger that John would be forced to save him (hence the heroin addiction and willingness to be murdered by Smith). With this, Watson races to the hospital, of course saving Sherlock in the nick of time.

‘Oh he’s making a funny face, I think I’ll put a hole in it'

But the fun barely stops there. In a lengthy epilogue, we learn Irene Adler is still alive and still sexting with Sherlock, especially on his birthday. John admits his infidelity to his hallucination of Mary, something his imagined version of his wife immediately forgives him for (what are the chances). Then, in the final twist, it seems John’s therapist knows slightly more than she should about Sherlock’s secret sibling. John calls her out on it, and the reveal begins: she is Sherlock’s secret sister Euros and, in various disguises, was also the woman John met on the bus, and the “Faith” that first met Sherlock, providing him with the note that began the whole case. She says that she was given Faith’s original note, which Smith stole as soon as it was written, “by a mutual friend”. So does that mean Smith was involved in the plot from the start, or just that they are in some kind of criminal mastermind club? And could that mutual friend be Moriarty?

Also, are we to assume that Sherrinford is somehow Euros? “Didn’t it ever occur to you that Sherlock’s secret brother could be a secret sister?” as she puts it. 

I personally loved this episode because not only it was stand out 90-minutes movie itself but it also sets up the final episode of this season with stakes so high. Assuming that Euros is as smart as her brothers, this will be war of wits that you don't want to miss.

Mysteries unsolved

• 1. When Sherlock first meets “Smith’s daughter”, he makes deductions that she has been in a very small kitchen with no visitors, hiding the paper in a book to avoid it being discovered by her lover. Perhaps the small room was actually a cell, and the lover some kind of prison guard.

• 2. Euros explains to John her name means “the east wind”. We know from His Last Vow that Mycroft used to tell Sherlock a story about “the east wind coming to get him”. It used to terrify him. But perhaps Mycroft used the story to make Sherlock forget about the real east wind, and what she did to him.

• 3. There’s something odd going on with Lady Smallwood. Previously she’s been “Elizabeth Smallwood” but on the card she left for Mycroft she was “Alicia Smallwood”.

• 4. I’ve often thought there was more to Miss Me, Moriarty’s oft-repeated posthumous coda. Perhaps now realizing it’s an acrostic: Mycroft, Irene (Adler), Sherlock, Sherrinford, Moriarty, Euros.

5. Mycroft has been keeping in regular contact with Sherrinford, so either Sherrinford is a code name, or they are in cahoots, working together to do Moriarty’s bidding. Or is there actually a fourth Holmes still to be discovered? As Sherlock says here, people always give up looking after three.

Comment below what you think of this episode.

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