He also says he understands the Flash now. Chasing meta-humans makes him feel scared and inferior too. Julian later confides in Barry that he understood how that boy felt. This all leads to the episode's climax, in which Julian nearly shoots and kills the 15-year-old coder behind the monster. But he also doesn't like the Flash, because he thinks he's making the police department weak.

He says if he were meta he'd help people. We learn Julian doesn't like meta-humans because they all squander their gifts on 'robbing banks, hurting people and spreading fear.' Which is true. The show uses the monster to explore Julian and Barry's relationship, giving Tom Felton a lot of screen time and scenery to chew. But, hey, at least we have the big Gorilla Grodd/King Shark showdown to look forward to in a couple weeks.The emotional stakes around the monster plot in this episode are a lot more interesting. Because as things stand right now, this episode seems more like filler aimed at stalling for time until plot points like SherloqueвЂ™s investigation and the Nora/Thawne alliance come to fruition. Will there be long-term consequences to Nora altering history 53 times in a row? LetвЂ™s hope so.

BarryвЂ™s warning to Nora at least helped end things on a more foreboding note. Did this episode actually do anything to push this storyline forward? Hopefully this episode will wind up having a larger impact on the Cicada conflict than is obvious right now. Cicada gets stabbed and disappears to recover and regroup. On the other, the end result is basically identical to last weekвЂ™s episode. On one hand, it was satisfying to see the Barry-less Team Flash put their head together and come up with a plan to outsmart Cicada where everyoneвЂ™s powers came into play. The payoff to this latest confrontation with Cicada proved fairly mixed. Even Nora's mounting frustration and emotional breakdown never really connected as intended. Still, it did feel as though more could have been done with NoraвЂ™s repeated hour from Hell. Groundhog Day is a very tightly paced movie, and this episode had less than half as much room in which to work. To be fair, the writers only had so much room in which to work. Cisco's date scene in particular wasn't really given the time it deserved in any of its many permutations. The fun of seeing familiar events play out over and over again with minute variations wasnвЂ™t really there. We basically had three repeated scenes - RalphвЂ™s dating advice, CiscoвЂ™s brief coffee date with Kamilla and CicadaвЂ™s attack. ItвЂ™s never great when your core conflict hinges on a character behaving very, very stupidly.Д«eyond that, this episode just didnвЂ™t take advantage of the Groundhog Day-inspired elements. The fact that Nora finally breaking down and spilling the beans was enough to immediately fix the situation makes the whole premise seem that much more flimsy. Why was Nora so dead-set against telling anyone else about her time travel dilemma? What logical reason was there for her to be so secretive, apart from the need to prolong the conflict as long as possible. For one thing, the whole premise required a pretty sizable suspension of disbelief. The execution is where вЂњCause and XSвЂќ fell flat.

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