They made us wait for her to go “full Mirror Master” and it was absolutely worth it.Īnd even all suited up and wreaking havoc with her C-list metas, she was still more sympathetic than Carver. I wish this season had leaned a little further into the paranoia and uncertainty of what she can accomplish in “our” world a little bit earlier in the season, but it was really effective here. She’s one of the best Arrowverse big bads of recent years overall, too. They even waited until tonight to give her a proper (and kick ass) supervillain costume, only to show that by the end of it, she might end up being more threatening in civilian clothes after all.Įven with an incomplete story, Eva McCulloch is the best bad thing to happen to this show since season one Reverse-Flash (before they kept bringing Thawne back and watered down what made him special). That wasn’t the case with Bloodwork (although Ramsay Rosso was a little too unsympathetic from the very start) and it certainly wasn’t the case with Eva. Often (but not always), big bads on these shows emerge fully formed, and we have to kind of backtrack to figure out their motives or the source of their powers. This season managed to tell two complete supervillain origin stories. The result (the occasional pacing issue or filler episode aside) was such a resounding success that not even having this story chopped off three episodes early could hurt it. Hence this year’s two “graphic novels” (as he called them), with Bloodwork as the villain of the first half before Crisis on Infinite Earths, and then Eva McCulloch coming in as Mirror Master for the 2021 episodes. Notably (and most importantly) not trying to stretch a single villain out over a 22 (well…in this case 19) episode season. From the very start, new showrunner Eric Wallace planned to break with several conventions, not just of The Flash, but the entire Arrowverse. But maybe I should have.Īfter all, this season has spent almost all its time breaking rules. The Flash Season 6 Episode 19įor an episode that wasn’t supposed to be The Flash season 6 finale, I’ve gotta say, “Success is Assured” absolutely managed to look and feel big enough (and surprisingly mostly satisfying enough) to work as one. Read what Okieriete Onaodowan has to say about the funereal plot twist here.This The Flash review contains spoilers. But we wouldn’t find out for sure whether Dean or someone else died until the subsequent episode of Grey’s Anatomy ( recapped here). The episode ended with the ominous tone of a flatline. She couldn’t live in a world in which Pru became another her: a little girl who was abandoned by her mother and whose father was taken from her by a fire. Would Dean pull through? Andy was sure of it. There could be gas building up inside, so no one should open the… kaboom! Andy’s captain Aquino was impaled, Beckett got the hot air knocked out of him, and Dean… Poor Dean was so gravely injured that it appeared Ben would spend the whole ride to Grey Sloan performing CPR on him. Then, while evacuating neighbors, Dean discovered that a house had been knocked off its foundation. Oy - “You’re my brother.” The three words Dean really didn’t want to hear. “I love you,” she called after him as he set off on his next act of heroism. Once everyone was back down on the ground, Dean left Vic in Travis’ care. There, he gave Vic upside-down mouth-to-mouth and got her breathing again. (More? Less? Regardless, scary as bleep.) Immediately, Dean and Theo leapt into action, Miller being first up the ladder.
Suddenly, a live wire snapped and struck her, leaving her hanging backwards a quarter-mile in the air. ‘THAT’S A COWARD’S WAY OF SAYING I LOVE YOU’ | On a residential block still shaking from the explosion, Vic wound up atop a sky-high ladder spraying water on the blaze below. “I figured, but… I asked,” he said, as if reassuring himself that hey, he’d tried.
What with her life and her boo being in Seattle, though, Vic couldn’t go.