The Flash Season 2: 8 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Last Dinosaur'

by Andrew Pollard

1. Girder's Dragged-Out Assault

The Flash The Good Dinosaur
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Since the reanimated Girder turned up early on in The Runaway Dinosaur, he was depicted as an unstoppable force. A little slow, sure, but he was a hulking undead metallic man-mountain who can smash doors and cars with ease.

With that in mind, it just felt like his attempts to break in to S.T.A.R. Labs’ safe room during the episode’s final act was all a little drawn out. This is a man who knocked through metal doors with one swing earlier in the episode, yet here it took him a good 10 minutes to knock through what is presumably a slightly thicker metal door? And then, the door gave way just conveniently at the very moment that Barry Allen returned from the Speed Force?

Whilst the episode as a whole was mightily enjoyable, and how Girder himself was used added some lightness to the outing, this all felt just a little inconsistent with how the undead rogue had been portrayed up until that point in The Runaway Dinosaur.

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