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The Flash – Season 2, Episode 21 The Runaway Dinosaur

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The Flash – Season 2, Episode 21

The Runaway Dinosaur

Aired May 10, 2016

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Iris volunteers to act as the bait in a plan to trap Girder (Greg Finley) in S.T.A.R. Labs; Barry struggles to go back to his old life.

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Barry Allen confronts his past so that he can return to his present in "The Runaway Dinosaur," an emotional chapter in The Flash that also gives Iris West some welcome spotlight.

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Angelica Jade Bastién

New York Magazine/Vulture

07/26/2018

4/5

Even though Smith's typical flourishes are present in The Runaway Dinosaur, the episode didn't annoy me the way his work usually does. Instead, I was impressed.

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Jonathon Dornbush

Entertainment Weekly

07/26/2018

Barry is in no mood to hunt down a phantom and be visited by the Ghosts of Barry's Present, yet he initially chases because it's all he can do.

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Scott Von Doviak

AV Club

07/23/2018

On paper, an episode titled "The Runaway Dinosaur" directed by Kevin Smith suggests The Flash has gone completely off the rails, but in practice, it's far from the worst case scenario.

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Joseph McCabe

Nerdist

08/07/2018

The Speed Force is used to assist Barry in confronting the one element in his life he's never fully come to terms with: his mother's death.

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Jesse Schedeen

IGN Movies

08/02/2018

9/10

As much as the villain has improved since the disappointing reveal that he was basically a Speed Force vampire, I still want more out of his master plan than simple death and conquest.

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Andrew Dyce

Screen Rant

08/02/2018

Just when Barry seemed most optimistic, and seemed to recognize that his team had managed to defeat every villain thrown their way, fate reared its ugly head to show him that Zoom wasn't like any villain he had faced before.

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Synopsis

Iris volunteers to act as the bait in a plan to trap Girder (Greg Finley) in S.T.A.R. Labs; Barry struggles to go back to his old life.

Director: Kevin Smith
Executive Producer: Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, David Nutter, Sarah Schechter
Screenwriter: Zack Stentz
Network: The CW
Rating: TV-PG (L|V)
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

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