Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
After last week's stellar Flash episode, it seemed prudent to have lowered expectations going into "Escape From Earth-2." That's a high bar to reach two weeks in a row, and this show has never been terribly consistent when it comes to two-part storylines and crossovers. Unsurprisingly, "Escape From Earth-2" didn't quite live up to the standard of its predecessor. But that hardly means it wasn't am enjoyable and dramatic addition to Season 2.
Half of the fun with "Welcome to Earth-2" was in getting acquainted with the Earth-2 setting and seeing all the amusing ways the lives of various characters have diverged in this alternate world. That element was much less a focus this time around. It didn't help that the writers pretty much cleaned house last week, killing off the Earth-2 versions of Joe, Cisco and Ronnie before the end. It's unfortunate we didn't see more of the latter two, especially since there's no telling when or if we'll see Ronnie on this show again.
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After last week's stellar Flash episode, it seemed prudent to have lowered expectations going into "Escape From Earth-2." That's a high bar to reach two weeks in a row, and this show has never been terribly consistent when it comes to two-part storylines and crossovers. Unsurprisingly, "Escape From Earth-2" didn't quite live up to the standard of its predecessor. But that hardly means it wasn't am enjoyable and dramatic addition to Season 2.
Half of the fun with "Welcome to Earth-2" was in getting acquainted with the Earth-2 setting and seeing all the amusing ways the lives of various characters have diverged in this alternate world. That element was much less a focus this time around. It didn't help that the writers pretty much cleaned house last week, killing off the Earth-2 versions of Joe, Cisco and Ronnie before the end. It's unfortunate we didn't see more of the latter two, especially since there's no telling when or if we'll see Ronnie on this show again.
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