User blog comment:Rafe Adler/Best Cliffhanger This Season of Arrowverse/@comment-3221148-20160527070017

Gotham.

Eh, out of these three? LOT had the strongest, most emotional finale, better than most capeshit nowadays. Surprisingly, since it started as the weakest DCTV show. Flash and Arrow were complete disappointments from me, dealing with villains that we know the MCs can defeat, without any creative addition.

Arrow: the main threat in the episode is, again, rockets, with the solution being, again, hacking. This has nothing to do with Oliver Queen's abilities. They tried to give use a feeling of hopelessness, but we knew that Felicity, OH WAIT, more like Curtis, will be able to stop the rockets (already did), and that Oliver will be able to beat Darhk otherwise (already did). Lazy ending for the H.I.V.E., lazy ending for the flashback arc. The highlight of the episode for me was the appearance of Mina Fayad. Great snippet, good that they are not forgetting about the continuity.

Flash: although using Time Remnants of his own was a little bit unorthodox, we knew that Barry will be able to beat Zoom in raw speed after the talk with the Speedforce itself. The best thing was, again, the Black Flash Easter Egg. Otherwise, heavily disappointing. After all the hype about a "surprise betrayal" (which turned out to be a stupid trust issue) and Tom Cavanagh "hiding some scene" of his that would be the culmination of all 23 episodes (and which was that? his talk with Jesse? Wells barely had anything meaningful to do in this episode), Hunter Zolomon being a deeper, nuanced character... and all of that hype for a pshh. Oh, hey, Flashpoint, except it's contradictive to Barry's whole development this season. "Oh, yeah, I'm over her death. Oh wait, no more". Should have just traveled a day back and reversed the time to save Henry instead.

LOT didn't hype much, yet managed to stay meaningful and real, decided to stick with the deaths of Rip's family and that of Snart's (for now), gave us an intriguing JSA cliffhanger, removed the heavily criticized bird people from the roster. Shame that Sara didn't return fully to Star City, especially after seeing Star City 2046, which she and Ray staying with Team Arrow could prevent.