Plastique
- Episode aired Nov 11, 2014
- TV-PG
- 42m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
6.1K
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While trying to get Iris to stop blogging about the Flash, Barry investigates a general's connection to an explosive meta-human.While trying to get Iris to stop blogging about the Flash, Barry investigates a general's connection to an explosive meta-human.While trying to get Iris to stop blogging about the Flash, Barry investigates a general's connection to an explosive meta-human.
Ron Wear
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBette Sans Souci is an actual comic character who goes by the alias Plastique. She made her comic debut in December 1982 in Fury of Firestorm #7. She was originally a villain from Canada who specialized in urban terrorism utilizing her ability to make things explode by touching them. She later reformed and became a member of the Suicide Squad.
- GoofsIf "Plastique" blows up everything she touches, then how does she get dressed?
- Quotes
Joe West: Barry, don't you think Iris would recognize you voice?
Barry Allen: [vibrating his voice] No, I can do this cool thing with my vocal cords, where I vibrate them so I sound like this. I know. It's cool, it's cool.
Joe West: Whoa.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Flash: Chasing Lightning: Carlos Valdes (2014)
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The Flash: Plastique Review
In this The Flash episode, the show took a more investigative tone, as the army got involved in the latest mission undertaken by STAR Labs to stop a new meta-human.
As we all expected, these first episodes in the series have been tricky as they have to be used to flesh out the character of Barry Allen so it is understandable if the plot of these episodes or even the villains are a bit weak for the first half of the season. The same way it went with the Arrow series which hit it's high note in it's second half and season finale. So it was surprising to see that Plastique handled it's plot fairly well by adding a more mysterious and interesting case for the Flash Team to investigate.
The army's involvement was a nice touch that gave this episode a bit of more tension and even a new shady character to join the roster. The negative was that this episode's meta-human "Plastique" had an uninteresting personality just like the previous ones (although quite good-looking) and the actress that played her gave a hurtful performance, and not in a good way. It was cool to see a different and more original set of powers though, different to the gassy ones of the other episodes. Speaking of powers this episode perfectly added plenty of new abilities for Barry to master like running on water and running up walls. These led to two awesome moments (especially the climax, holy crap!) that proved that set-pieces are The Flash's strong suit. It was also pretty awesome to see him distort his voice just like Oliver Queen does but instead of some voice changing software, using his super-abilities. It was kind of freaky how much Joe enjoyed that ability but he is still a cool dude.
One issue I have to address is the unrealistic way Iris met with The Flash. It was cool to see her meet him but why the hell didn't Barry keep shaking his head like he always does? Do they expect us to believe that the convenient lights placed in convenient places that give us, the audience, a hard time seeing Barry Allen's face due to the lens flare affect Iris the same way? Barry was lucky that Iris needed glasses at the time or was half asleep or something but next time he will have to do the shaky-face thing in order to retain believability. I had the same issue with "The Arrow" but I guess he doesn't have much of a choice aside from speaking face-to-back with people, which wouldn't be very dramatic.
But aside from that Platique was awesome. A new villain was introduced that may shine some light into some of Dr. Wells'shady activities and, as every The Flash episode does, it gave us some funny Flash Team moments that showed us how cool their friendship is and some freaking explosions and a man running on water away from an even bigger explosion!!
The Flash: Plastique is getting an 8 out of 10.
In this The Flash episode, the show took a more investigative tone, as the army got involved in the latest mission undertaken by STAR Labs to stop a new meta-human.
As we all expected, these first episodes in the series have been tricky as they have to be used to flesh out the character of Barry Allen so it is understandable if the plot of these episodes or even the villains are a bit weak for the first half of the season. The same way it went with the Arrow series which hit it's high note in it's second half and season finale. So it was surprising to see that Plastique handled it's plot fairly well by adding a more mysterious and interesting case for the Flash Team to investigate.
The army's involvement was a nice touch that gave this episode a bit of more tension and even a new shady character to join the roster. The negative was that this episode's meta-human "Plastique" had an uninteresting personality just like the previous ones (although quite good-looking) and the actress that played her gave a hurtful performance, and not in a good way. It was cool to see a different and more original set of powers though, different to the gassy ones of the other episodes. Speaking of powers this episode perfectly added plenty of new abilities for Barry to master like running on water and running up walls. These led to two awesome moments (especially the climax, holy crap!) that proved that set-pieces are The Flash's strong suit. It was also pretty awesome to see him distort his voice just like Oliver Queen does but instead of some voice changing software, using his super-abilities. It was kind of freaky how much Joe enjoyed that ability but he is still a cool dude.
One issue I have to address is the unrealistic way Iris met with The Flash. It was cool to see her meet him but why the hell didn't Barry keep shaking his head like he always does? Do they expect us to believe that the convenient lights placed in convenient places that give us, the audience, a hard time seeing Barry Allen's face due to the lens flare affect Iris the same way? Barry was lucky that Iris needed glasses at the time or was half asleep or something but next time he will have to do the shaky-face thing in order to retain believability. I had the same issue with "The Arrow" but I guess he doesn't have much of a choice aside from speaking face-to-back with people, which wouldn't be very dramatic.
But aside from that Platique was awesome. A new villain was introduced that may shine some light into some of Dr. Wells'shady activities and, as every The Flash episode does, it gave us some funny Flash Team moments that showed us how cool their friendship is and some freaking explosions and a man running on water away from an even bigger explosion!!
The Flash: Plastique is getting an 8 out of 10.
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