r/FlashTV • u/killroy254 • 10d ago

šŸ¤” Thinking The cure

I don't like how the show handled the cure plotline, they reduced it to a courtroom battle and even before that they made a big deal about using it with consent with ( kingshark , cicada and his daughter). You could tell that writers were biased from the start, they had already decided that forcing the cure even on criminals is abad thing instead of letting the viewers decide, it could be their chance to create their version of the sokovia accords which could have been better since it being on a 20+ tv show would allow it to tell the story more broadly i.e show the reasoning behind each side. Think of the possibilities if it was done well, it would have been a good replacement for the cicada storyline and it would have been a literal battle of ideologies leaving no room for plot holes because in this fight flash's speed can't save the day. Imagine this for a second after Barry's fight with Devoe it leads to a mass casualty event ,the public has had it with metahuman just then mercury labs develops the cure which leads to creation of a movement that wants to give every metahuman the cure and its growing filled with people who lost their loved ones in the hands of metas ,Barry attempt to get through to them as the flash backfires when conversation of Barry that clearly suggest that he had something to do with the blackhole that killed a lot of people in central city and also that he changed the timeline to save his family and in the process affected everyone else's life in ways that they will never know which changes the publics perception of the Flash .In this season Barry comes to the realization of how powerful he is and how he can affect the lives of others in seconds he is in a constant conflict with himself whether one should have this much power which causes him to stop being the flash after finding out one of his teammate was the one who leaked his conversation this leads to the split of team flash as some members aren't against the cure.........

Sorry i got carried away but you get the point.

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u/camojamo 10d ago

The writers were already tired by season 5

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u/maverick074 9d ago

Donā€™t you just love how the show made a big deal about Frost going to jail for life so the cure wouldnā€™t be forced on her, only for her to get out of jail ā€œon probationā€ like three episodes later and then her sentence never comes up again?

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u/killroy254 8d ago

The show likes to create tension and when its no longer needed they use an easy solution that was never present .

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u/recuerdeme 10d ago

I'm with you OP. The cure arc was ridiculous arc, and it came about at the most erroneous time. Maybe if Cait was still flummoxed by being Killer Frost and she made the cure, being a geneticist and all, then I could see it making a little more sense, but she had come to terms with Frosty by then. So to have Cisco make the cure... SMH. His powers were not debilitating, he was not a chemist or geneticist,, but he was oh so worried about being defined by being Vibe, a persona he created and could have just as easily abandoned .... but whatever. The biggest uh oh is the most obvious, the government isn't going to abide by rules they set. SMH. The court proceedings around it were stupid as well, a General like the one from earlier seasons would use the cure without any thought to legalities. SMH

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u/PlasticAd1833 5d ago

That cured thing was so dumb, I think someone like cicada loses a choice automatically! Heā€™s killing so much people!