Flash Cause and XS (2014– ) Online

2014– Grant Gustin Candice Patton Danielle Panabaker Rachel Talalay

Original Title :: Cause and XS
Genre :: TV Episode / Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
Year :: 2014–
Directror :: Rachel Talalay
Cast :: Grant Gustin,Candice Patton,Danielle Panabaker
Writer :: Greg Berlanti,Andrew Kreisberg
Type :: TV Episode
Time :: 43min
Rating :: 8.4/10

Flash Cause and XS (2014– ) Online

After Iris lands in serious danger, Nora races to save her mother. Barry puts the finishing touches on the metahuman cure, leaving Cisco with a rare night off so he decides to take Kamilla on a date.

Episode complete credited cast:
	Grant Gustin	-	Barry Allen / The Flash
	Candice Patton	-	Iris West-Allen
	Danielle Panabaker	-	Caitlin Snow / Killer Frost
	Carlos Valdes	-	Cisco Ramon / Vibe
	Hartley Sawyer	-	Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man
	Danielle Nicolet	-	Cecille Horton
	Jessica Parker Kennedy	-	Nora West-Allen / XS
	Chris Klein	-	Orlin Dwyer / Cicada
	Tom Cavanagh	-	Sherloque Wells / Eobard Thawne
	Jesse L. Martin	-	Joe West (credit only)
	Victoria Park	-	Kamilla Hwang
	Lucy Harvey	-	Carolyn the Barista
	Megan Helbing	-	Megan the Barista
	Jerry Yang	-	Ian the Patron
	Thomas Miller	-	Stephan the Patron

The fact that Nora can only go back in time by one hour makes the events of this episode similar to the DC's Legends of Tomorrow episode Here I Go Again (2018), where Zari dreams that she's stuck in a time loop, re-living the same hour over and over again with the Waverider exploding at the end of each loop; here, Nora ends up being able to run only one hour into the past to keep anybody on Team Flash from getting killed by Cicada. Coincidentally, before Zari realizes she's stuck in a time loop, she feels as if she's experiencing déjà vu. In this episode, due to the fact that his powers allow him to remember things that have happened to him in erased timelines, Cisco gets the feeling that he's having déjà vu.

This is the first episode since Seeing Red (2019), and the third since The Icicle Cometh (2018), to feature Cecille, despite Danielle Nicolet being credited as a series regular.

Cisco states that giving the cure to Cicada in a month would be very fast for them to stop a villain. This is a fourth-wall reference to the fact that it takes a full season for Team Flash to defeat each main antagonist.

It's revealed that Kid Flash and Cicada both have drinks served at CC Jitters named after them, in all of the instances where Cisco goes on his date with Kamilla, a man named Ian orders a Cicada, but in the last iteration of the timeline (where none of Team Flash gets killed), a man named Stephan orders a Kid Flash instead.

Barry teaches Nora about time travel, using the example of a coffee cup being like the space-time continuum, breaking whenever you travel through time, closely quoting what Jay Garrick had told him about the consequences of time travel in S3 episode 2, Paradox (2016).

The first time that Cisco goes on his date with Kamilla (before Nora resets the timeline for the first time), he says that the company he works for is called Ramon Industries, a possible reference to the company he owned in the Flashpoint timeline.

The animation when Nora runs back in time is somewhat similar to the animation of Barry being thrown through time in The Flash: Fast Forward (1991).

The episode's title is a play on the phrase "cause and effect", and a reference to the S3 episode "The Flash: Cause and Effect (2017)".

Nora states that she has attempted 52 times to save all of them. This is a reference to the 52 Earths in the Multiverse and the reboot to DC Comics.

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DrayLOVE

This season has just failed me in every way. Cicada has been around for too long without barely any progress towards stopping him. It seems as if the writers ran out of ideas and are just giving us pointless 1 off episodes that don't mean anything to the season. I am sick and tired of Nora. She's been screwing up the entire season and it has gone beyond any comedic value, it is just annoying. I have never seen a show that has the title character barely in it. The flash is barely doing any flashing at all. This isn't a show about Nora and that's what it has become. They show Barry has crazy powers and yet he always seems to fail and need to be saved by Nora. And Iris...oh lord Iris can somehow do more damage to Cicada than Barry ever could. I have no problems with gender equality within the show but I just can't help the fact that the women have been the main focus over the title character, which just so happens to be a man (barry). Please writers bring back the Barry as the main character who actually does the saving rather than always letting Nora be the hero. Or you might as well call this show XS. Please move beyond cicada onto reverse flash storyline...because I'm beginning to lose faith

Xor

This episode could've been a 9/10 or 10/10, but it is bogged down by many reasons. In fact, these reasons was barely even a problem when this season started, but have built up over time.

Reason 1: Stop making Nora the hero (heroine) of the story. This show is about THE FLASH, and I don't care if the actor was getting married (not on this context, I do like Grant as Barry). That is what rescheduling is for, they can change episode air dates and filming dates, but CW is lazy as hell. We need Barry to be the hero, as we have grown attached to him over 5 years. This episode would've been much more interesting from his point of view.

Reason 2: Cicada is a terrible villain. When the season started, I gave it the benefit of the doubt. Cicada's concept sounded interesting at the time, but I saw it's inconsistencies right away. He is constantly and incompetently outsmarted episode after episode, but he still frog leaps away from the fight whenever he is getting beaten.... Why? Because they want to stretch an 8 episode storyline into an entire 23 episode season. How TWO speedsters (and one being faster than an exploding Nuke) cannot cuff him while he is on the ground to dampen his powers is beyond me.

Reason 3: Time for a break. Really CW? This is the episode you choose to go on a break from The Flash after? Atleast leave it as a sort of mid-season finale, otherwise it just seems too long from one episode to the next.

What a waste of potential, and I didn't hate the entire thing. I liked Cisco's storyline and some of the humor in this episode, apart from the previously mentioned concept. But that's about it, the execution is what's lacking. This show has been disappointing me throughout the Season ever since we picked up from the midseason premiere. Atleast S4 had an interesting prison storyline, and interesting weekly metahumans and a Big Bad to back the show up. Even with its problems with Iris I could still consider it interesting, now...Im not so sure. It's not bad; but it is getting there, if they don't choose to follow the intriguing concepts (like Thawne's reveal) then I'm honestly gonna lose interest in this show.

My rating: 7.3/10

Katius

This character Nora is soooo annoying, whole season sucks because of her. I mean, she can't wait an hour??? She does time travel when she wants.... I thought that there were some rules here ... Cisco is soo stupid with women? Episode fail.

Saberdragon

After the start of this season it has been the same thing day in day out with no real progression. The story of Nora coming back to see her dad got old quicker than The Flash can run, to the point that seeing her whine an not know what to do is making me wonder where it all went wrong. The Character could have an interesting back story but this episode of her running back in time every few minutes and seeing her face show about as much real emotion as the Twilight films drew the line at how low this series has been. I hope this improves otherwise the show will be over in a Flash

Uscavel

People need to understand that the actor has a personal life not just a life for The Flash. Anyway, it was a really good episode.Can t wait to see King Shark vs Grodd

Garr

This episode could have been removed from the lineup with absolutely no effect.

Even as a standalone, it got boring after the first 15 minutes. Why didn't Nora just tell everyone right away instead of acting weird for 35 minutes?

Then they finally "defeat" Cicada, only for him to fly away with absolutely no plot development?

It feels like this episode just exists to extend the lineup.

Soustil

I have never seen such a boring "groundhog" day scenario. Cisco was way way out of character just to fill up time. Only to say lesson learned kids...Be yourself.. It was a lame move. However the episode did get better as we moved along. It just was never funny...and it tried really hard to be. So we are back to throwing science out the window. Science that was put in place in the seasons before. Suddenly...going back in time does not cause duplicate Excesse's to show up...Yes..her Name is Excess...XS is short. She went back 52 times (odd number) since there are now 99 universes instead of 53.

But anyways. No duplicates..And Now suddenly, Cicada can teleport. He can teleport and fly but he never uses them in battle? Only to run away...WHY?

And as much as Nora should have changed the universe, there should be monkeys flying around...but nothing.

Reighbyra

PROS: Nice to see the evil side of Cicada instead of being Papa John. This episode focuses more on Emotional Intelligence and the ending reminds me of Season 3. I don't want to go in for more details otherwise it will spoil the fun! CONS: Nora needs to grow up now! Because of her, the script-writers are slowing up things. No need to make this episode a Valentine's Day episode. Time to concentrate more on Cicada and press the pedal! VERDICT: My ratings (based on what I marked on IMDb): Season 1: 200/23 = 8.69; Season 2: 193/23= 8.23; Season 3: 188/23= 8.17; Season 4: 146/23= 6.65 and Season 5= 99/14 = 7.07 (This episode = 6.5/10)

Duktilar

Watching this episode reminds me of Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. I mean sure it's expected because of time traveling, but it's a good episode.

Djang

I don't know why everyone hate this one ? Because I loved it, maybe some people don't like womans ? I mean I love barry but it's good to see her daughter more, I love her acting ( I saw some people say she can't act... ) if it was not related to Barry I will be mad but come on it's her daughter trying to save the day like flashtime when barry was trying to save the city from a nuclear bomb. I can agree on the fact that not everyone episode in this season 5 was good but most of them was and I don't understund why are they getting bad reviews.

Мох

I thought it was kinda weird that Barry wasn't in it much. But it was still a pretty good episode. Nora stepping up was pretty cool and figuring things out for herself.

Gaxaisvem

Leaving out the fact that they could just go 30 days back in time leave the serum there and so have it ready the exact day they wanted..and not use the speed force..like any other 'intelligent' person...the going back in time is all wrong..xs goes back in time and goes where the episode started..ok..but when she goes there her old self from 30minutes before isnt there!!!????she should be there doing the things she did in the original time line..and her shelf from the future should be hiding!!not participating in the scene...laughable..just laughable..

Thundershaper

.... i suppose it would have been to complicated for Nora to just tell everybody what was going to happen, like, the second time, so that everybody worked as a team to stop Cicada by a surprise attack that he wouldn't expect. or take Cecille to star labs as well

Also, how can XS be too slow to save everybody. I mean sure, she can turn back time but she can't save two people.

Also, when she reversed time in the end, shouldn't she have gone back with it too? how exactly did they help her overcome that? no explanation regardless, they could have done this the 2nd time

Also, why does Cisco have to play so stupid??? And why is Kamilla so rude in all their dates, well except the last one, where she goes back to being a nice person. why should she get so bothered by Cisco mixing their coffee mugs, it's not that big of a deal, and since when are the waitresses SO RUDE to clients. I hate it when the writers change people's personalities and make unusual and very much unlikely stuff happen just for the sake of a scene. but then of course

Also, aren't these deja vu episodes getting a bit old, but if u are going to do one, at least do it right. I could go on but I've made my points

worst ep of the season, and not just because Grant Gustin is not in it a lot

Felolune

Of this actually good episode. I must say, Legends did this whole thing a bit better because their episode was just sooo hilarious (the "Custodians of the Chronology ;)). In this Episode we got to see Nora step up as a Flash and try to protect her friends without her father's help. It was very emotional, her acting was great. I felt just as desperate as she seemed to be feeling. Now.. What I don't understand. Y'all loved the Flashtime episode but you hate this one. Why exactly? I mean the plot is a bit different but both are basically about a speedster being desperate to save the people they love. I can't help but feel like some of the Flash fandom is hating on women simply because they are women. Well, go find another show to watch because the CW shows are not about your misogynistic cr*p. First Iris gets all the hate, now it's Nora. (Shoutout to the CW for giving us all these awesome female characters in the Arrowverse. I wish I had had such badass female idols when growing up.) The actress is doing a great job, the plot (which is about the West-Allens as a family and NOT Cicada, if you haven't noticed by now) and Nora is going through a lot of emotional distress just like Barry did in seasons 1 and 2. I personally love these emotional family scenes and have been loving them since season 1. Furthermore, I do feel like we get to see so much of Nora because they are trying to set something up for the future (the producers of Arrowverse recently said something about the future) and I really hope we will get to see more of Nora in the future. Now, to all of those who haven't seen the episode: it's worth watching even if LoT did it just a little bit better.

Walan

Not exactly, as far as this episode goes, but I do like parts with Sherloque. Tom is a very good actor and as Sherloque investigating Nora helps add a bit of mystery to every episode. On the other hand, the script was slightly poorly written as I don't see any reason why Nora would rewrite her diary notes on the board first in her code and then next to each one of them wrote their corresponding English meanings (Cicada kidnapping, Cicada throws his dagger, failure, positions on the rooftop, point of impact, dagger trajectory etc.) only to help Sherloque get "everything he needed" to update his database and move closer to understanding the language used in Nora's diary. Boring and not-at-all-funny repetitive date scenes were, of course, inserted because of the approaching Valentine's Day which I can understand and I'm fine with, but the feminine agenda that is forced upon us by devoting most of the screen time to women is getting really annoying.

Trash

I really enjoy this... every single time that she was coming back in time I was suffering with her.

I already watched 2 times :) 10/10.

Dugor

The Flash has never been better when it deals with time matters. Temporal distortions, travels to the past and future, temporal duplicates and how these phenomena impact the timelines of human beings, this is what make both the comics and this show so special and fascinating. From this point of view, this episode has not failed and stays faithful to its roots. I would definitely love to see more like this one.

That being said, we watched another problematic issue: the writers have given up to both accuracy and consistency! Nora has returned so many times in the past, saved one by one the characters from certain death, but surprisingly never once it affected the timeline. While Barry only once saved his mother from death and created Flashpoint with the dramatic consequences that we witnessed in the season 3. So what is the logic there? I wish at least there was a bit of an explanation to this. Like Eobard Thawne finding a way of returning to the past without changing the timeline thanks to the timecodes Nora sent to him in the future or something like that. But it does not seem to be the case and we will probably never get an answer.

Adoranin

Though Cicada has been there for a long time without much progress and Nora has been constantly showing childish decisions, this episode brought two developments for Nora. First of all, she has started to realize that trusting Team Flash will get results. Secondly, Barry's talk with her at the end of the episode gave her a better chance to learn the repercussions of changing the timeline a lot. I think, we would be able to see a more mature XS in the remaining of the season.

Cicada also realized now that this is the 4th time he was not able to defeat Team Flash. He must come up with a better plan.

Onoxyleili

Why couldn't Cisco pick up basic context clues from his date's questions to know she wasn't feeling it. Why couldn't Iris say "he threw his boomerang dagger!" in the 8 seconds she had after they got to the roof? Everyone should know about Nora's time ability. Why can't she have said after the very first time, "Hey, I saw 8 hours into the future, Iris gets captured and... Let's formulate a plan to completely prevent that now that we know he's after us."

Instead, it's only at the 26 minute mark that Nora begs them to give up their plans, and for no reason. What ethics are her concern when she's trying to stop a criminal from murdering them later that night?

At 29:30, it's only Cisco's powers that get her to do what she should've done from the start. My last question: Why did the writers set up Nora to be the most hated character on the show? Nearly everything they could do wrong, they have.

It feels like they're writing for the last 10 minutes of any episode, and they don't care how we get there or if it makes any sense. She didn't need to fail on her own 52 times to get to the plan they used, even if that was the only plan they could. I like Barry Allen well enough, but I ultimately don't care who does the running. Writers made her an insufferable idiot for the first half hour, and they wonder why she's not a popular character.

Alister

Sorry I meant highly understandable (in the grant Gustin part

Samuhn

This show might not be able to gain back it's season 1 greatness but this season is bringing back it's vibe.This episode was mainly about Nora learning the consequences of time travel.IDK why people are whining soooo much about this character(I get it,she is annoying in a way),she is only going to stick around for some time because she is a very important part of the story.Grant Gustin(Barry)got married recently so it is highly unlikely table why he wasn't in the episode for long.One thing that is kinda bugging me about the ending of the episode is,well,we all know Thawne.His intentions might seem pure but something tells me that he is up to no good(Given that he is Flash's arch nemesis).There might be a chance that the 'The Timeline Is Malleable' thing goes waaay deeper than we expect.Nonetheless this episode was a good one.They crew should keep up the good work(Especially on the acting and the script).

Rating for the season 8.8/10

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