Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Arrowverse catchup, this time we are looking at the season 5 finale of Flash, Legacy. This season has had it’s ups and downs with episodes varying in quality from the great (What’s past is Prologue, Godspeed and King Shark VS Gorilla Grodd) to the pretty bad (Gone Rogue and The Flash and the Furious). This finale fell just on the positive side of the middle as they did manage to tie everything together and round off the season in a satisfying enough manner.

The decision to involve Reverse Flash this season really has saved it and Thawne definitely pulled his weight here. The performance was superb and it was great to finally see him with his powers back. The prison scene when he took out the guards was great, as was the rewind sequence when Nora and Barry came to confront him. He survived to so you have to presume that he will be back at some point. We also saw Tom Cavanagh’s other character Sherloque get a happy ending and his goodbye actually made me a bit sad. He was a fun iteration of Wells and I do hope that we get to see him again. We also lost Vibe as Cisco chose to get rid of his own powers. I felt it coming and actually agree with his decision. The guy deserves to be happy! They have also used the portal discs a lot more this season to set them up as permanent Vibe replacements in fights.

Then we had the stopping of Cicada 2, a villain who now I have seen the whole season can finally conclude that she was just rubbish. Them using the cure to try and stop her without destroying the dagger was clever but why did they have to drag out the whole consent thing? This was a child who never knew she had powers, was in a coma and grew up to murder loads of people. Just jab her with the cure! There were part of the time line with Thawne and everything that I still don’t get including how Nora ended up disappearing. It was sad and you felt sorry for Barry and Iris but what change made her not be born? Just go and make that baby now Barry!

Overall this episode summed up the season: it had it’s great moments, the time travel stuff was partly really clever and partly made no sense, Tom Cavanagh was great and not all of the emotional beats completely landed. I am still looking forward to season 6 though.

DD Rating: 7.5/10