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Welcome back to Maid of Steel – post Supergirl!! We’re talking about The Flash!! No, we haven’t jumped shows or heroes, we’re back to discuss the first five episodes of The Flash Season 8 – “Armageddon.” Why, you ask? So glad you did! Armageddon involves a kind of crossover event within the Arrowverse that includes many of our favorite heroes and villains. Among those is our very own Alex Danvers / The Sentinel! So, let’s run down the plot summaries of the five episodes and summarize the Alex aspect of things, shall we? Yes, we shall! Plus we bring in our resident “Flashes from the Underground” reporter, Force 11!!
Part 1: When a powerful alien threat arrives on Earth under mysterious circumstances, Barry, Iris and the rest of the team are pushed to their limits in a desperate battle to save the world.
Part 2: Despero warns The Flash that great tragedies will lead to Armageddon; Barry doubles down on proving his innocence, but a devastating revelation pushes him to seek counsel from Black Lightning.
Part 3: Barry meets Black Lightning at the Hall of Justice after things take a dire turn with Despero; Iris suspects something is off with Despero’s vision of the future so she seeks help from a powerful ally.
Part 4: Barry is shocked when Eobard Thawne returns in the most unexpected way, and with a tie to a loved one. Damien Darhk offers advice to Barry but there is a catch. An epic battle begins with The Reverse-Flash against The Flash and Team Flash.
Part 5: Barry must decide whether to let his greatest enemy die, or save his life.
As for Alex and The Sentinel, she is consulted when Team Flash interacts with Despero to find out anything the DEO knows about Despero’s species, which is not much. We then catch up with Alex at the celebration event on the impending nuptials of Eobard Thawne and Iris West. When Barry Allen shows up on the scene (as Reverse Flash) everyone goes into battle mode, including the Sentinel. Alex stays to hang with Team Flash to understand why Barry is here and what kind of trouble he might be trying to cause and takes it upon herself to try to navigate the potential relationship between two members of Team Flash, Allegra and Chester. She is successful in bringing the two together with the help of the Paragon of Humanity – Ryan Choi. And, that’s about it. When Eobard is discovered to have created a Reverse Flashpoint most of everything in Parts 2-4 of this event are…negated. Gotta love the time shenanigans on The Flash!!
Summary: This Armageddon event was highly advertised with amazing visuals and the potential for some very cool crossovers but ultimately was uneven in its story telling and the heightened expectations fell short. As we mention in the podcast, this is sooooooooooooooo much better than what The Flash Season 7 delivered so we’ll see what the rest of the Season delivers beginning in March of 2022!
Was Armageddon understandable and enjoyable to fans not currently watching the Flash?
- Yes (67%, 2 Votes)
- No (33%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 3

Cougar’s Comic Corner
Supergirl (1996-2003) #17
Written by Peter David, released November 19, 1997. Despero wrests control over his body from L-Ron; Supergirl undergoes another change. $1.99 on Comixology!
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Imagine if …
Sentinel was needed to track down a macguffin needed to boost Cecile’s powers temporarily to investigate Barry’s memories to see if he went mad and bad and attacked innocents. She could use her skills and powers as Sentinel to track down and “encourage” people to talk.
Maybe Alex could have done so in a montage as a way of covering tight shots of her, a scene, someone she’s talking to, as a way of isolating her and her scene partner, per COVID protocols.
(The need for a temporary boost to Cecile’s powers is so she wouldn’t always have full telepathy to instantly solve every mystery. Otherwise you get a superhero so superpowerful it’s hard to write credible challenges for them.)
What if they save the love arc between the two Team Flash members for when you don’t have audiences who couldn’t care one wit about their romance watching the show?
Despero hulks out requires a lot of energy and that’s why he’s normally in smaller, Tony Curran mode.
Team Flash was a lot more chill about ends of the world seeing how they’ve survived several of them. I’ve been spoiled by Buffy’s Scooby gang. Also, why are they still arguing over the timeline being immutably changed? They know it can changed. They lived through half a dozen changes
Jefferson Pierce was awesome. Don’t change a thing. Well,he could knock around Barry some more, to knock some sense in him. ????
Same for Ray Palmer. This was a nice epilogue to his time in the Arrow verse.
Less lovebirds would’ve allowed more Mia Smoak.
Caitlin focused on investigating Barry cell samples since she’s a medical expert and found a biological way to limit Despero’s telepathic powers affect on Barry.
More … flashes … from the Underground from Geoff, X-Force 11, Gentry aka the Blue Lantern of Hope is always a great crossover with the Green Butterfly and the Silver Box. No way I could improve that. ?????
“What if they save the love arc between the two Team Flash members for when you don’t have audiences who couldn’t care one wit about their romance watching the show?” thank you!!
i’ve said this on the facebook page but i think the only reason alex was there was to explain why kara wasn’t
Alex being the stand in for Kara I’m fine with Daryl, she is our second lead after all and Kara’s personal hero.
Again give me black polo DEO director Danvers, that’s Alex as a superhero NOT her in actual colored spandex!
I think eventually one day Melissa will come back, especially if for Chyler’s show if she got an Alex spin-off, but it’ll be awhile so if you need Supergirl why not her own hero until she can come back herself? 🙂
So what I’m hearing is Alex did a grand total of nothing really…I’m not surprised sadly.
“Next Time On Maid Of Steel” – this sounds SO much better and I’m already working on comments. 🙂
We need to do a MOS fandom roundtable at some point, I’m just saying. Ha
On to the podcast…
“The now closed book” ?
I would argue outside of Crisis X the small show to show crossovers have been historically better than the mega events these last few years.
I like Geoff, I can really get excited about Barry; Nora West-Allen now she is exciting. 🙂
Legends doesn’t validate Nyssa’s effect on Sara’s life therefore I do not care for them. I would care about Charlie/Zari but the writers are dumb and have her with Nate for some reason even though watching paint dry would be better than their scenes and more in continuity. Zari never liked Nate like that, she was nice to him because he was Amaya’s boyfriend and she was her friend.
The best part of “Batwoman” is still Alice and Sophie.
Oh it’s dirty every time you say “Sentinel”…it hurts my soul; #NotAllHeroesWearCapes! Can Barry be useful and break time to fix it so that never happened?! If they ever get smart and have an Alex spin off can we set it post season four at least so she’s still just awesome DEO Director Danvers and not cosplay Alexandra?
I only want the Alex spin off of it’s Alex, I don’t want that generic Sentinel bull – don’t bring that over here calling it an Alex Danvers spin off CW! You let her be the one step below Lyla Michaels anti-hero she is and you put her in the black polo she deserves! If you involve Odette Annabelle bonus points to you! I’m sure they’ll keep Kelly/Alex which does hurt my Sam/Alex game but maybe then at least we’ll get more than lip service to the Kelly/Alex relationship. OR again Barry could do something actually useful for once, besides contributing DNA to the adorableness that is Nora, and he could set us back to an alternate time where we still have Azie as Kelly but she’s not named Olsen because that really hurt her long term and instead she’s just the court mandated shrink Alex needs and you do a triangle with Sam, Kelly, and Alex…the CW loves a good triangle after all. 🙂
Love Count John. 🙂 How do you not have seasons 1 and 3 at least John? Oh you’re doing yourself a disservice; get them now!
“I’m hear to talk about Supergirl.” “Too bad!” lol!
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No I dropped out after they had Alex do a grand total of nothing in episode two even though that was suppose to be her intro into this event. Maybe if Nora was in it more I would have watched but I’m not here for Sentinel. I did watch season five of FLASH for Nora so I did my extended time with Barry. Ha again I can do him does but a full show no.
It was the baby Sara thing that turned me on him…I’ll never forget Baby Sara even if she is back now. Ha.
Damien was a good villain on “Arrow” but I’ll always love Noel as Dum Dum Dugan in Marvel. 🙂
Collar jungle – Georgia is trying to speak, why is no one asking her her opinion? That’s rude John.
“We’re not going to do Green Arrow & the Canaries” – boo! I wanted Black Siren flirting with all the ladies. 🙁 She thought Dinah was hot you can’t tell me otherwise. Ha.
“Budget. Just budget.” – lol.
There’s no poll counter in the blog post but for my vote I’ll say NO because I don’t watch and I had no reason to start based on this. Killer Frost is the most awesome thing they have beyond Nora and she’s not there enough so no.
Wasted potential is sadly the legacy of the series to me. 🙁 To it’s credit, there are good things about it still, but on the whole the legacy is wasted potential. I mainly blame the Superman obsession for this but there are other contributing factors…again a list is coming. 🙂
Happy holidays all!
Lol the sign off went about as well as Kara’s and Brainy’s greens commercial.