#fartmonster

Okay, the bad guy of the week here is a fart monster who used to be a mob assassin. This is, honestly, a good start. He's a dude who can turn into poison gas. So this is a bad guy who you can't stop by just running up and punching him. You punch him, he turns to poison mist, punch goes right through. So they need to figure out some other clever way to defeat him, like containing his gaseous form, or analyzing the gas to find a way to neutralize it so that it's not deadly, or freezing him, or...

... No, sorry, this is The Flash. So he defeats the guy by running up and punching him. If there's ever a problem that could easily be solved by running up and punching it, that solution's off the table. If there's a problem that clearly can't be solved by running up and punching it, they'll have Barry run up and punch it. Fuck this show. Just... Just fuck this show.

Also, they do acknowledge it somewhat, but the Star Labs prison is SUPER fucked up. All other fictional superheros, you can kind of let the vigilante justice slide because at least they deliver the bad guys to the proper authorities, but the Flash is locking them up, indefinitely, without trial, in solitary confinement. It’s even worse than legitimate solitary confinement--which is still just barely considered to be less than cruel-and-unusual-punishment--because most prisons at least give inmates some access to the yard, daily showers, the right to call their lawyer, etc. The Star Labs prison makes solitary confinement in a regular prison look like monitored house arrest.