The Flash | Season 8 Episode 19 - "Negative, Part One"

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I know, I know... Late once again... I don't need to get into that anymore so let's just move on to the actual episode.

Honestly, I barely remember this one. I do remember how it ends which was shocking but, apart from that, and from what I remember, it was a pretty underwhelming episode. And having in mind that this is the second to last episode... It's really anticlimatic. However, that ending sort of made up for it...

So, we start this episode with the same old Barry revealing his identity to Meena, which is getting pretty old and, honestly, annoying. Then, we move to the actual plot of the episode where Deon kills Thawne and, alongside the other forces, attacks Meena and the new Thawne.

Then, we see Iris appearing in 2049 to Nora and Bart, where she learns that her body is flooded with negative tachyons, preventing her from getting back to her timeline. After learning that, Nora travels to 2022 to inform Team Flash about Iris and that's when they realize that the Negative Forces infected Iris knowing that she would infect the Positive Forces. 

This was honestly such a mess because, not only this story-line is super complicated, but also there's a million other story-lines going on at the same time in this episode alone. We have that one with the Forces, we have Caitlin's story-line where we see her and Mark enter the Consciousness Resurrection Chamber, we have another story-line revolving around Cecile and how she stole Rosalind Dillon's powers and later on realizing that she's now able to steal meta's powers. And, lastly, sort of back to that Forces story-line, we see a thing between Barry, Meena and the new Thawne where Barry teaches Meena to share her powers with Thawne which... Was super damn odd and made no sense to me!

But, as I said, the ending sort of made up for the mess this episode was because, while fighting the Negative Forces, Deon summons Iris and uses her as a sacrifice from Flash's attacks to resurrect the dead Thawne. Still, sort of a mess, but it was pretty surprising the fact that they 'killed' Iris. They didn't really because Candice Patton has confirmed that she will be in Season 9 so... Not much of a surprise anhymore.

Well, now we only have one episode left and, honestly, I don't have much hope for it. But, I'm really curious to know your thoughts on this episode and how you think the last one will go so let me know in the comments and I'll talk to you soon!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: All Stars | Season 3 Episode 8 - "Going Bananas"

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Back with another week of rants and I'm starting with the new episode of The Challenge: All Stars.

I was pretty stoked about this one because I had a few theories about what was going to happen in this episode so I was really curious to see if I got anything right. Unfortunately, the only thing that I got right was the fact that someone was going home and it wasn't Nia like he made it look like.

Well, I guess I should just start with that because that was, honestly, one of the first things that happened in the episode. Right before the weekly challenge, TJ asked Veronica about her foot (because she injuried it last episode) and Veronica made it look like it wasn't much but, turns out, she broke her toe and, because of that, she had to go home. Needless to say, I wasn't mad at all! Actually, this is karma! Remember the Treehouse?! Well, first Jemmye and Tina had to leave, then Nia sent Sylvia home and last episode Jonna sent Roni home. And now, Veronica is medically disqualified which only leaves Kailah. I guess karma really is a b*tch.

But anyway, let's move on and talk about the weekly challenge. There were no Sabotages this time but, because Veronica left, that meant the girl that won the challenge would get her star. The actual challenge wasn't much - a memory game - but only two guys and two girls were able to get everything right, so it all came to time. For the boys it was between Derrick and Mark so, either way, I would be happy, but my favourite out of the two did win, which was Mark. When it comes to the girls it was between KellyAnne and Jonna and, although KellyAnne did get it right faster, she also made it the wrong way which meant, ultimately, she got it wrong and so Jonna won - which was also my preference. It's amazing how the winners of the last elimination won the weekly challenge - that just means that they are indeed great competitors.

Moving on to the Authority, I was certain that, for the boys, Derrick was going to be safe but, turns out, you really have to think about all the possibilities and, the truth is, any of the other boys (Wes, Nehemiah and Brad) were going to choose to go against Derrick if Mark chose any of them so, ultimately, Mark decided to give the power of choosing who to go against to Derrick and sent him to elimination.

The girls pick was easier - all the girls wanted to be the ones to choose but I think, in the end, Jonna made the right choice in picking Kailah - again, there goes the Treehouse.

All of this leads us to the elimination where things got interesting but also where we were left with a cliffhanger.

This last elimination is none other that a good old Pole Wrestle and I think both players were smart when it came to choosing their oponents. So Kailah picked KellyAnne, which was the obvious choice, and Derrick went with Nehemiah. Everyone wanted Wes, so they would have a rematch of what happened years ago, but Derrick was smart and didn't pick him, which I was happy about. And that's about it. We saw a little bit of the beginning of the guys round but then they ended the episode and left us on a cliffhanger. I kind of get it though - there's two episodes left and they don't have enough of the final the fill in two episode so they had to add an extra elimination in the beginning of the next one. However, they still showed a preview for the next episode (where we see a little bit of the final) and in that we can year Derrick's voice right at the end of the preview so... I'm sorry to spoil the elimination for you (it would the shocking if I was wrong and Nehemiah wins).

And that's it guys. I guess the only thing left to mention is Bananas' little cameo when Wes went to talk to him on Skype - it was a really funny moment and it made me really miss Bananas on The Challenge (good thing he's going to be on Season 38). 

Post that, let me know your thoughts on the episode and what are your predictions for the elimination - who's going to win? Is it really Derrick? Let me know everything and I'll talk to you soon with that The Flash rant!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: All Stars | Season 3 Episode 7 - "Let's Make A Deal"

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Back with a brand new The Challenge: All Stars rant and this one was super surprising!

First of all, I had completely forgotten that this week's challenge was Trivia and, unlike the contestants, this is one of my favourite challenges so just that got me so excited! On top of that, basically every single step up until the end was so unexpected! I guess I should have suspected because a lot of the people that won or went into elimination were really prominent in the beginning of the episode, but I just didn't pay that much attention I guess. Also, we moved on pretty quickly to the actual challenge - Trivia - so I guess I'm going to get to that as well.

This Trivia challenge was played in two rounds - girls and guys - in order to get the two people that make The Authority. I wasn't a huge fan of how the girls round went though... Veronica got a strike right away from KellyAnne's sabotage, which I liked and, having in mind the outcome, I guess it was a good move on KellyAnne's part although, that did create a target on her back - not that it really mattered that much because she always had one so... Anyway... It came down to either Ronni, Kailah and Veronica - the remaining members of the Treehouse - but, in the end, Veronica won (it also showed that she's more on Kailah's side than Ronnie because she gave her the last strike).

When it comes to the guys round, Brad used his sabotage on himself, which was unexpected and not really a smart move but okay... Wes was also kind of dumb because he got one answer wrong on purpose so he didn't have to choose someone to strike first which, ultimately, got him out sooner because he got all the other answers wrong... Lastly, it came down to either Mark or Derrick and Derrick won which I'm okay with... Plust, it has super wholesome how he won and how happy he was that he won Trivia.

Fast-forward to the deliberation, I was super surprised that they went with Jonna and Jordan! For the girls, I thought the obvious choice was KellyAnne - they have a vendetta against her (don't really know why) and she is indeed a strong competitor, but I guess she sort of made a deal with Veronica so... And for the guys the easy way was to pick Nehemiah, but even if you didn't pick Nehemiah, I don't think Jordan was the smartest choice! Jordan is super unpredictable and Derrick was trying to protect Mark so... That didn't really work out that well because, next surprise - Jordan picks Mark to go against in the elimination!

I swear, this episode was such a rollercoaster! Jordan picks Mark and Jonna picks Ronni which I thought she was going to go with Kailah but I guess Ronni was a smart choice because Jonna did win very easily, I might add. Most of this challenge was a puzzle and Jonna nailed - she was so good! You can't really say the same for the boys though...

This time I was sort of torn. I'm not a huge fan of Jordan but he has been less annoying and they all were trying to send him home so I sort of was rooting for him but, ultimately, I was rooting for Mark more because I just really like him! And this looked like sort of a good elimination for Mark because it has about strengh and Jordan did have a disadvantage because of his hand, but then the puzzle part was what really mattered and they took ages - way longer than Jonna - but in the end Mark won and I'm really happy with the overall outcome of this episode!

Trivia + both my favourites staying = me happy! As for the next episode, we are getting really close to the final (only 3 episodes left) and, from the preview, it looks like the last two players of the next challenge will go home - they make it look like it's Nia, but I think they're tricking us. It might be her, but I don't think so... Then, I predict that we will still have an elimination and the last two episodes will be the final...

Let me know your predictions for the last 3 episodes, as well as your thoughts on the outcome of this episode and I'll talk to you soon!

Love,

Daniela.

The Flash | Season 8 Episode 18 - "The Man in the Yellow Tie"

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Here I am, as promised, to talk about another The Flash episode.

You know what?! I actually really enjoyed this episode! Sure, the writers didn't know how to end the episode yet again, but I was actually so invested and truly surprised with a lot of the events that took place in this episode!

This episode starts right where the last one left of - with Barry helping Meena with her speed. However, Barry and Team Flash were still not sure about how she got her speed and if it was safe so Barry went to Meena's lab to see the Biometric Lightning Oscillation Chamber (the BLOC). And that's when the episode hits you with something so unexpected! I saw in the credits that Brandon Routh was going to be in this episode so, when Meena talked about her Team and someone that helped her create the machine, I thought instantly that it was going to be Ray but I was so wrong! The person that helped her and that is currently working with her is none other than Thawne! Thawne with his original face, although this is a version of Thawne that doesn't remember his past or Barry. Of course Barry doesn't buy it and not only threatens this new Thawne but, of course, he goes to Lian Yu again to make sure that the 'real Thawne' is still there, which he is! That, right away, left me so confused but so invested in the remaining of the episode!

Well, I don't know how else to explain this but I guess this Thawne is a version from a different time-line, however, we do find out at the end of the episode, via Ray Palmer, that this is the same Thawne that helped the Legends in that show's last season so... I guess that explains it a little bit. But what really makes Barry believe that this is now the same Thawne that he knows and that he isn't evil is that fact that this Thawne is in love with Meena and did put her well being above his own and that's something that 'evel Thawne' would never do! 

Of course there's a whole thing revolving around the Negative Speed Force and Meena goes rogue for a second but, of course, they 'defeat her' through the power of love... As I said, the writers don't really know how to end story-lines and end episodes so that's one of the downfalls of this episode but I guess, overall, it was a really interesting one.

There's other side plots, one of them involving Cecile and her powers growing which, honestly, wasn't that interesting, but there was something else that was! Remember the Green Lantern box that Diggle found at the end of Arrow?! Well, we have been waiting for so long for Diggle to become the Green Lantern and they finally touch on that just for Diggle to open the box and deciding to stay with his family instead of accepting the powers. That was so unsatisfying! We've waited so long for this story to get somewhere for this?! So anticlimatic!

The episode then ends with Deon approaching Thawne, and telling him that it's time for him to fulfill his destiny. This leaves me a bit conflicted because I love Tom Cavanagh and I want to see more of him and I also know that Thawne is one of the best villains but it's Thawne again. It's getting a little repetitive so... I don't know how to feel about this... I guess let's see where this takes us.

And that's it from me for this episode. I'm actually surprised that I enjoyed this episode and was invested in the story. Let me know what you thought of this episode and what are your predictions for the remaining two episodes and I'll talk to you soon!

Love,

Daniela.

The Flash | Season 8 Episode 17 - "Keep It Dark"

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Well, better later than never, right?! And honestly, I don't feel like I missed much by not watching this live and sooner. This was another of those filler episodes that don't give us anything substancial and just shows why the show needs to end. What's new?!

This particular episode really felt like an early draft of the show that The Flash used to be and it really shows that the writers are lost. There's a number of things here that really bothered me, but one of the main issues were the actual characters. It has been really difficult for me to care about this new characters and more and more we are loosing our old beloved characters. For example, this whole episode was about Allegra and, as much as I don't mind her, I'm just not attached to her either. Also, it just feels like the character has become more annoying as the time goes one and I can't understand her motivations. The same goes for Chuck, who was also really prominent in this episode. Although, I do understand his character a bit better I just... Don't really care about him that much. And apart from those two characters, the only other main one here in this episode was Barry, but even Barry was almost a side character and that always bothers me. It's just really apparent that the Barry centered episodes are way more enjoyable and we don't have a lot of those anymore...

Something else that bothered me about this episode, even though it gave us the only cool thing about the episode, was the introduction of a new speedster. I get it, it's The Flash, it's about speed, but aren't they tired of speedsters?! Plus, this new speedster is introduced as a villain and all I could thing was 'Not Again!'. Luckily, it turns out it is not a villain (as of now) and, as I said, this side plot gave us the only exciting thing about this episode - Tom Cavanagh back! I truly miss him and, as much as I was tired of Thawne always being the villain, I kind of miss him as well and I do have to admit that he was one of the few good villains the show as ever had.

Then, the other main plot of the episode was the one revolving around Allegra and her helping Lydia and catching this gang called the Arañas which... Was just boring! They're trying to get us to care about Allegra but it's not working. She made dumb decisions, revealed her superheroe identity to the people working at the Citizen and, overall, was a just a lame plot and the villains were boring as well.

I guess the last thing worth mentioning about this episode is a video that Caitlin sent Team Flash saying that she needs some time away which I don't buy it. I'm pretty sure she's going to keep her experiment and try to bring back Frost which I'm not mad about. As I said previously, this Caitlin story-line is way more interesting to me and, honestly, just something simple. I feel like The Flash has been overly complicated and for no reason because all their plots are weak.

Anyway, I guess that's it for this episode but you'll have a new rant pretty soon because the new episode airs tonight so... I guess I'll see you soon. Feel free to hit me up with your thoughts and predictions and I'll talk to you soon!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: All Stars | Season 3 Episode 6 - "Revenge Of The All Stars"

 

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As promised, here I am with the brand new The Challenge: All Stars rant (later than usual, but before the new one comes out) and I have quite a few thoughts on this episode so... Let's get to it!

This whole episode was defined by the rivalry between Sylvia and KellyAnne and, honestly?! I'm so happy with the outcome! 

The Treehouse thing has been something that has been bothering me this season - I don't know if I just don't like these type of alliances or if I just don't like the members of this one in particular but it was really getting on my nerves! On top of that, they have all been so mean to the OG players - Kendal and KellyAnne - and in this particular one Sylvia has been out to get KellyAnne that the whole chain of events was such a huge Karma moment!

First of all, against all odds, KellyAnne won the daily challenge. Right away that was a huge blow to the Treehouse game. And, unlike last time, KellyAnne didn't really think too much on her choice to go into elimination - Sylvia was out for her so she picked her to go into elimination! And, because we're on that, the winner for the guys was Brad which was, indeed, a little bit annoying and yes... He went with MJ as his choice to go into elimination, which was also annoying.

Fast forward to the elimination, after seeing what it was (puzzle), Sylvia decided to go against Nia and MJ decided to go against Derrick. Well, for the girls it was so obvious that I was rooting for Nia and it was such a huge moment when the she won so easily and sent Sylvia home! That's karma! 

As for the boys, I like both of them but, because they were out to get MJ, I guess I was rooting for MJ. Unfortunately, he lost and so I didn't get my way on the guys round but I'm not super mad at that. The only thing that matters is that Sylvia went home - still, she trash talked KellyAnne and that looked so bad on her! I honestly think she has no idea how the things she said made her look so bad! 

And well, I guess I don't have a lot more to say. Next episode is the last one with an Authority, so that's going to be interesting. I also can't wait to see what does stars mean... That's going to be interesting!

But yeah... Let me know your thoughts on this episode and I know - I still have a The Flash rant to post. Working on that next! Until then...

Love,

Daniela.

The Flash | Season 8 Episode 16 - "The Curious Case of Bartholomew Allen"

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Stuff happened and because of that I wasn't abble to post anything for the past weeks. Honestly, it's going to take some time for me to get all caught up on all the rants I have to write but I'm going to try in the next few days... No promises tho.

With all of that said, as you can expect, I don't remember this episode that well, so I migth skip some things that might be super important to you but, because it has been a while since I've watched it, I don't remember every single aspect of the episode. But from what I remember, I did enjoy this episode!

The main focus was Barry and that is the key, usually, for me to like the episodes. In this one, Barry goes after this guy who stole a gamma absorption array but, in doing so, the bad guy - Pytor Orloff - blasts him with it and Barry starts aging rapidly. 

As the episode goes on, we discover that, the more Barry uses his powers, the more he ages. On one hand that was fun because we can see Barry gettin wrinkles and grey hairs and deal with «old people problems» such as body pain and stuff, which can be fun, but at the same time it starts to become a problem and we start to get worried because we know Barry and he just can't not use his powers to help. It takes a conversation with Cecile (yes, not Joe) to convince him to not use his speed anymore. It was actually a pretty deep conversation and, for once, I felt like Cecile served a purpose.

Without Barry, it's up the remaining of Team Flash to figure out Orloff's plan as well as how to defeat him, and it's Chester who figures that his plan is to absorb the energy from everyone in Central City in order to become immortal. 

Orloff does activate the machine but, of course, Barry is able to stop him and, at the same time, not only reverse Orloff's deaging as well and Barry's aging. And actually, Barry gets even younger than he was before, which was fun as well.

The episode ends with Barry going to check on Caitlin and finding out all the equipment in her apartment and her plan to revive Frost, which he doesn't agree with and, in order to stop Caitlin, he destroys everything in her apartment. I thought that was a bit much, to be honest, and I think he made everything worse. Caitlin is not that type but now she must be mad and must want to do it even more... I know I would so... Let's see were this goes.

I know there's one new episode out already but I havent' seen it yet so no spoilers please. However, I would love to know what you thought about this particular episode so, let me know... Again, I'm sorry for the delay in posts. Until the next one!

Love,

Daniela

The Challenge: All Stars | Season 3 Episode 5 - "More Than Friends?"

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I know, I still owe you a The Flash rant but there's no new episode this week and I just watched this one and I really need to talk about it! Not that major things happened, but it was an interesting episode.

Well, I guess I should start with the big twist that they hinted at in the preview... Well, it was indeed a twist, but it wasn't major. It was just the fact that, from now on, the Authority will be only the two winners of the daily challenge which, was to be expected.

Moving on to the actual weekly challenge, it was an interesting one but there was something really annoying that happened - not only the girls, but also the boys, made some sort of pack and created a strategy to take down certain players and decided to winner right away... That was so annoying and made the challenge less exciting. And well, in the end, Mark won for the boys and Sylvia won for the girls.

Then, it was pretty obvious who they were going to target however, they went on a different direction that was sort of surprising to me. Because now they only choose who goes in and then who goes picks their opponents (which is a nice touch, I guess), this sort of became one of those cases were people will start asking to go in because they want to be able to choose who they go against, and that's eaxctly what happened here. Jonna asked to go because she wanted to be her to pick Beth (they sort of had a beef in this episode) and Wes sort of asked to go as well but because if they went with MJ, he was going to pick Brad and Brad felt like he got the short end of the stick in the deal that they make in the weekly challenge so, Wes being the good friend that he is, he decided to go in to save Brad. I was actually pretty surprised with this decision, as well as with who Wes picked to go against - Yes. 

Yes and Wes have been having some sort of beef throughout this season, but I thought Wes was too smart to go against Yes. Well, I guess it played well for him because, unfortunatelly, in the end, Wes won and Yes was sent home. 

As for the girls, Jonna did pick Beth, just like she said and well... Beth gave up during the elimination. That really sat wrong with me. I get it, she was mad that people were helping Jonna, shouting her what to do, but that has always happened. I always felt like that shouldn't happen, but they never made a rule against it so... She should've just kept going... It's not Jonna's fault that no one was rooting for Beth... Well, needless to say that Beth went home and that left Jonna with her stars, which leave her with a few now. 

Next week's episode doesn't look really promising but, it looks like all the other girls will do something about the Treehouse and it's about damn time! And that's all I have to say about it.

Let me know what you thought of this episode and what are your predictions for the next one and I'll talk to you soon (with that The Flash rant).

Love,

Daniela.