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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

The Flash "Dead Or Alive" review

Warning, possible spoilers if you haven't seen the episode. About a month ago, I talked about the arrival of a new character named Gypsy on The Flash. Gypsy was supposed to be based on a superhero in the DC Comics universe, a young woman who usually went barefoot.

Well, having seen the episode, I can say that, unlike her comics' version, this Gypsy (played by Jessica Camacho) definitely wasn't barefoot--and I really wasn't expecting her to be, anyway. But what was surprising was how much they changed the character.

In the episode, she's a bounty hunter from Earth 19 (this is a parallel Earth in another universe, but why would the people from that planet call it number 19? The population of a planet would consider their home to be number one, the prime place in all universes, right? But I digress) who comes to take back HR Wells (Tom Cavanagh) for execution (traveling to parallel worlds is against the law on Earth 19).

When Cisco (Carlos Valdes) decides to fight for Wells, this creates a battle supreme across several parallel Earths--including Supergirl's, where Cisco and Gypsy wind up slugging it out in Jimmy Olsen's office in a great scene. Neither Supergirl nor Olsen are there to see this, but Olsen's secretary, poor Miss Teschmacher (Andrea Brooks), witnesses everything while hiding behind a desk. This was a really fun and inspired scene.

Despite the massive changes to Gypsy, I still enjoyed this episode very much. The Flash always manages to bring a sense of fun to the superhero proceedings, and this ep doesn't disappoint in that regard.

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