User blog:Konstant888/The Flash 4x23 "We Are The Flash" - Review

This episode did everything except two things perfectly. I have some minor complaints here and there but mostly what’s bothering me are the cliffhanger and the deaths. So, spoilers for the episode, even though you have probably either seen it already or have heard spoilers.

Let’s do this recap style. The episode starts off where we left off last time with DeVoe having just activated the enlightenment. Iris brings Marlize to help the team. I am a very big fan of her…I mean Marlize, not Iris. She has had a great arc this season and I sorta hope she comes back for an episode or two. So, she tells them that the only way to beat The Thinker is to enter his mind a possibly bring out the good in him. That is one of the most creative plans I have ever seen. And so is DeVoe’s plan to enlighten the world. Unlike in all the other season finales this show has had, here the main villain’s plan didn’t come out of nowhere in the last second, he was building up to it the whole season. So back Barry, he enters DeVoe’s mind using Cecile’s powers, which is cool because that means they weren’t just a random joke but actually paid off.

In DeVoe’s mind Barry goes searching for the only good that is left in him. But instead he finds good ol’ Ralph Dibny, which is also great. I am so glad he is back. His return felt so satisfying and I had a huge smile on my face when Barry saw him for the first time. They start going around different parts of The Thinker’s mind. Harry gives them the idea to search where DeVoe’s happiest memories are. I like Harry’s story this season and this episode it was really sad. That scene where Cisco helped him put the Thinking Cap on and then left him was so sad because I totally thought Harry was gone. Not dead, but mindless and emotionless forever. That would’ve been way to cruel for the writers, tho. So, he survived. I loved when we went to the DeVoe house, to the place of their first date, to Oxford. It felt like a great trip down memory lane. And when they found the good in him…dead…it was awesome.

Meanwhile, The Thinker hunts down Team Flash in real life. He was so threatening. I was legit scared, especially for Cecile. He could’ve killer her with the baby or she could’ve died from child birth. After all, she wasn’t in the best environment. And yet nothing happened to her. Oh well, there is still some time left in the episode. And DeVoe was still a scary villain. He almost killed Joe! Team Flash had nothing on him.

Inside his brain it is not a very different story. The Thinker is going after The Flash and the Elongated Man, all suited up, and there is a great fight. He went full Matrix and cloned himself. Barry took Ralph’s hand and spun him around to destroy some of the DeVoes. It was magical! At the end they realized that Ralph has to escape through “the Hellmouth” (great joke!) to take control of his body. And he does. The Thinker is defeated and it is amazing. That’s the best way they could’ve brought Ralph back. It was also the best way they could’ve defeated DeVoe. DeVoe makes one last stand, but Marlize destroys his chair, which sends the S.T.A.R. Labs satellite into orbit. Oh wait, but who are we gonna call when we need a convenient device that does everything now!

The last few scenes are all Season 5 teasers. The team saves the people of Central City from the crashing satellite. Barry tries to destroy the big piece, but time rewinds and when he does it again he is joined by the Mystery Girl who has a cool looking suit (even though we only saw her arm). Cecile’s baby is born, Jenna-Marie West, and we have a party. There the Mystery Girl comes, introduces herself as Nora Allen, Barry’s daughter, and says that she has made a big mistake. I love this. I wanted the Mystery Girl to be Dawn Allen so much and she basically is, she just has a different name. I don’t get why they changed it, but it’s OK. I really like this cliffhanger. It is pretty big, just not too crazy, which is my biggest problem with it. She should’ve said what mistake she made. That would’ve hyped me up so much more for Season 5. Nora is such a cool character. Jessica Parker Kennedy, the actress that plays her, is great and she is such a scene-stealer. I am glad we are gonna hang around with her more. I just wish there was the villain cliffhanger that the writers promised. I would’ve loved if they told us who will be the Season 5 villain and now it seems like the finale wasted it’s end tag.

The other problem I have was that nobody died. I wanted more consequences to this finale. Harry or Cecile or Marlize, one of them should’ve died. That would’ve made me love this finale so much more. I love it now too and these aren’t really big complaints, bit is could’ve been a little better.