THE FLASH: Barry Allen Revisits His Past in The New Promo For Season 5, Episode 8: "What's Past Is Prologue"

I thought it was a pretty good episode with the only weak spot being that they didn't do much with Weather Wizard's return and the introduction of his daughter Weather Witch. I thought after the hyped Rogue stinger in the Rag Doll episode that this was going to end up being related but it wasn't. Maybe it's not the right time for it yet and that plot thread has not been discarded.

Beginning was pretty tense with Barry and Cicada almost running into each other at the hospital while looking for the girl's parents. That doc saved the bad guy for a change there with the truth that Grace's parents are death which was actually true. Turns out he isn't her actual father but her uncle that begrudgingly took her in once his sister (and her husband?) passed away after a metahuman attack.

Cicada AKA Orlin Dwyer really sucked at being her guardian but pulled himself together when she called him out on how much he hated himself to be anything worthy so this guy already was self-loathing before she was strucked by the satelite's debris. It my seem irrelevant now but I wonder why he was like that prior to this. He didn't seem to be mourning much for his sister unless he was compartmentalizing it, but Grace ended up being all the family he had left too, now all he has left is that doll house they were building together in their rundown house his borrowed from a cousin.

Rest is history: Enlightenment happens, he gets hit by the shard that Barry and Nora punched and the wound glows every time he commands the dagger and Grace's in a coma. Add an unchecked comment from the same doctor on how it's the metas' fault and tada, Cicada is born.

So besides why he self-loathes before he took her in I wonder why the dagger did not activate when Barry was on the other side of the hospital room's door. Maybe not close enough. And also why is the police looking for him?

Sherloque's cranky after 7 marriages for Thanksgiving and it was contagious, found the way Killer Frost can now willingly switch in and calling him out and Cisco for acting like Debbie Downers funny. So was when Barry and Caitlin messed up the pies.

Nora's fright understandable, all this time she just had the Flash Museum build up for her this ideal and flawless image of Barry when in fact he's had a lot of close calls and him literally dying for a few seconds was believable till she resurrected him. But it wrapped up nicely with the "run dad, run" speech.

Whoever ran the Museum's facts was very selective in not including when he entered the Speed Force to save the city in S3 and just leaving the singularity from S1. I bet it did not include either when he created a time remnant to sacrifice himself to stop E2 Zoom's machine for example.

They really made me think they killed Weather Wizard lol, but it was just a good ol' hologram. Was pretty surprised as wellat how quickly Barry reacted and took Mardon to the pipeline to protect him from his daughter.

Fitting that before the 100th episode Barry once again ran opposite a tornado but this time an electrical one to stop it with the weather wand. And firing his own lightning to counter Weather Witch's was just like when he and Future Flash/Savitar did it after he revealed himself, just epic.

They’re using the pipeline to keep locked all the metatech they're running into, the weather staff being the latest addition.

“I’m the Flash for my family and I don’t have to run to the future to understand why I sacrificed myself. I do it to save you and your mom and all the people I love,”, great quote.

Missed Ralph though, that wasn't explained compared to Joe and Cecile enjoying the holiday at her parents' and, obviously, Jesse L. Martin's medical leave.

And finally they identified Cicada. It's on now.

Nice to see Teddy Sears as E2 Hunter. I wonder if Grant Gustin will appear outside the Savitar suit and with the whole burnt skin make up and if it also explained how the remnant ended up looking like that better.

As well if Matt Letscher managed be there to portray the Thawne's real face.

Here for the next 100! 👌

Last night's episode was so baad. That Weather Wizard fake out was something that Ralph should have done using his shape-shifting ability. The writers keep force-feeding Iris to the audience.

It's also so stupid when you have Barry ask Cisco how to use the weather wand, he's done it twice already IIRC.

And the dialogue on the show keeps getting progressively worse. I don't know why the writing on the show has become so substandard.

What the hell boyo mod. My comment had a off topic mark. Do not challenge my love godzilla.

I loved Jessica Parker in Black Sails!

Barry really works well as a mentore, only this f*cking Team Flash keeps him back.
Can't wait for the 100th ep tho!