I have to say...I’m in the minority here. These past couple episodes haven’t been doing much for me. Besides the CRISIS stuff (which wasn’t that present in 601), I can’t care much about what’s going on. And that’s partially not the new showrunner’s fault. I still can’t get behind Cecile, her powers, and her arc this episode with Allegra. I feel like they introduced Killer Frost and now they don’t know what to do with her. The whole Caitlin talking to herself (but talking to Frost) is something out of a Disney Channel Original movie. Ralph is somewhat likable but again the show and the cast just feels so bloated that it doesn’t feel like Barry’s story anymore. But back to it not being the new showrunner’s fault — there’s a lot of damage control to be done. A lot of clean up. And that can’t happen in one episode. The mistakes that S4 and S5 made such as Ralph, Cecile, and Frost — it’s not like they can get rid of them overnight. Narratively, it just won’t make sense. So they have to get to a place naturally where they feel right to leave. But then again, Wally was able to leave in about 1-2 episodes.
I don’t know, I’m still gonna watch next week’s but the magic of this show is gone. I was rewatching S1 episodes and it’s no competition. The quality has declined immensely. He was also hardly in the suit this past episode. My mom who’s the most casual viewer (who’s kept up here and there since S1) chimed in this episode and said “Man, what happened? There’s too many characters and a lot to keep track of now. And why does everyone have powers?” Anyone else feel the same?