TMC
05-24-2022, 08:52 PM
https://www.looper.com/873106/the-worst-episode-in-the-flash-season-8/
Episode 6 didn't resonate with fans
While Season 8 has garnered a score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_flash/s08), the IMDb scores show that Season 8, Episode 6 ("Impulsive Excessive Disorder") has the lowest rating of any episode of the season thus far. With an average score of 6.4 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14677088/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt), this episode is the first after "Armageddon" (https://www.looper.com/585837/the-flash-is-kicking-off-season-8-in-the-best-way-ever/) to drop below the 7.0 mark. The episode sees Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and Bart (Jordan Fisher), the children of Barry and Iris (Candice Patton), return to the future to find that they have unintentionally changed their world. Similar to "Flashpoint" earlier in the series, changing the future by altering the past seems to run in the blood of the Allen family.
Alex Gherzo of Geeks + Gamers (https://www.geeksandgamers.com/review-the-flash-season-8-episode-6-impulsive-excessive-disorder/) gave readers a scathing review of the installment. Gherzo wrote, "'Impulsive Excessive Disorder' gives you a hint of what's to come from the title — a cutesy, poorly-punned way to use Bart and Nora's superhero alter egos." He goes on to reveal the real problem with the episode isn't the overused time-travel-changing-the-present trope but the actors/characters themselves. "They're cartoons come to life, ripped out of a children's show and put on prime time for an audience that outgrew them when they graduated to numbered school grades," Gherzo said. "They're difficult enough to tolerate in supporting roles, but an entire hour with them at the helm is excruciating."
Other fans, however, disagreed with Gherzo and found more problems with the confusing and ever-changing nature of time travel within the plot itself.
Episode 6 didn't resonate with fans
While Season 8 has garnered a score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_flash/s08), the IMDb scores show that Season 8, Episode 6 ("Impulsive Excessive Disorder") has the lowest rating of any episode of the season thus far. With an average score of 6.4 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14677088/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt), this episode is the first after "Armageddon" (https://www.looper.com/585837/the-flash-is-kicking-off-season-8-in-the-best-way-ever/) to drop below the 7.0 mark. The episode sees Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) and Bart (Jordan Fisher), the children of Barry and Iris (Candice Patton), return to the future to find that they have unintentionally changed their world. Similar to "Flashpoint" earlier in the series, changing the future by altering the past seems to run in the blood of the Allen family.
Alex Gherzo of Geeks + Gamers (https://www.geeksandgamers.com/review-the-flash-season-8-episode-6-impulsive-excessive-disorder/) gave readers a scathing review of the installment. Gherzo wrote, "'Impulsive Excessive Disorder' gives you a hint of what's to come from the title — a cutesy, poorly-punned way to use Bart and Nora's superhero alter egos." He goes on to reveal the real problem with the episode isn't the overused time-travel-changing-the-present trope but the actors/characters themselves. "They're cartoons come to life, ripped out of a children's show and put on prime time for an audience that outgrew them when they graduated to numbered school grades," Gherzo said. "They're difficult enough to tolerate in supporting roles, but an entire hour with them at the helm is excruciating."
Other fans, however, disagreed with Gherzo and found more problems with the confusing and ever-changing nature of time travel within the plot itself.