The flash season 5 episode 4 full episode
At various points during the episode, the show acted as though the group had never actually been friends with Barry, especially when Iris West acted as though some distant memory from another life had been stirred by Barry calling her his "lightning rod." However, during Thon's explanation of how he'd changed the timeline, he clearly said he was the one who went back 10 years and attacked the city, dressed as The Flash. There was also the barely explained reasoning as to why the entire team thought The Flash was a bad guy. It's also something that could be ignored if the episode, in general, was better, but the writing was bad enough overall that this scene stuck out as a "are they even trying to make sense" kind of moment. How Batwoman went from civilian clothes to her batsuit in the blink of an eye makes quite a bit less sense. That makes sense for both Flash and Reverse-Flash. Especially when Thon tells "Team Flash" to suit up at what I assume was a wedding rehearsal dinner and two characters who were in evening wear appear in their costumes two seconds later. While this episode of The Flash started off strong enough, it went off the rails quickly. RELATED: The Flash: Who Is Despero? The Flash Starts Strong Enough
Setting aside that those romantic bits didn't need to be in there in the first place, they were also forced, hurried and at one point so sappily carried out that it might have been a situation where the writers were actually trying to troll one part of the fanbase that desperately want to see Allegra and Chester get together. Instead, The Flash spent entirely too much time in an alternate future, where - for reasons passing understanding - the writers decided they needed to move romantic plotlines forward that, when Barry Allen succeeded in fixing the timelines, no longer existed. What also appears to be the case in Episode 4, is that the writers didn't have enough content to actually stretch "Armageddon" into five episodes. That was especially the case with Episode 4. Forcing the characters into the story didn't help the plot or the script all that much. On the other hand, other than Jefferson from Black Lightning it feels as if the crossovers were mostly incredibly forced. On the one hand, the number of crossovers they've done can be fun for those who really do love all the superhero shows that are on the network.
It was a bit of a risk to open the year with a five-part mini-series but it appears that the CW was hell-bent on doing a crossover-thon by basically bringing characters from all over the Arrowverse into these first five episodes. This season of The Flash has been - to be generous - up and down so far.