5x18 Godspeed

First of, really impressed that this was Danielle Panabaker's directorial debut. Congrats to her! She did an excellent job. The building of tension was outstanding, especially in that scene when Nora confronted Iris about using the chip. It was perfect, especially when Nora zoomed towards her. Brilliantly threatening!

The episode was great. Like some others posted on the comment section, it has been a while since I have been that invested in an episode of The Flash. I was on the edge of my seat the whole episode, waiting for the Eobard scenes and for Barry facing him. However, there were a couple of things that I didn't quite understand.

I assumed that Nora already knew his dad was The Flash. However, we just learnt that it was Gideon who told her the truth, then, why did she idiolized him so much before even knowing it? Was it just because she loved the Flash? Or are the writers trying to mirror Iris' actions when she was obsessed with The Flash even before she knew it was Barry? I got quite confussed by that.

Even though I thoroughly enjoyed the episode, I expected so much more from Godspeed. He didn't seem that intimidating and I hated that they write him as the typical villain of the week, which was no other than Trajectory 2.0. Besides, I expected the suit to be more...I don't know, more of a suit, if that makes any sense. Now I'm mistaken. They named the episode after him. So, was it just to miskead us and to hook us in or are they implying that he's not really gone gone?

Now, let's get into the Sherloque stuff. 2 minutes into the episode and I was already pissed off. I hope I'm not the only one mad at how they acted towards him. Iris was mad at him for, in her words "shed light". Then she realized that he was suspicious of Nora since she first appeared, and she was even angried because he didn't say a word. And my question is, if Sherloque had tolf them without proof, would anyone have believed him? No way. In fact, they would've told him to leave at once and to never come back. Sherloque was great overall when he said "your anger in misplaced". He's definitely growing on me. And besides, didn't Iris actually know he was investigating Nora? I seem to recall a scene in which she told him to back off.

I fully understand Barry's behaviour. His daughter lied to him, but the worst thing about it is that she kept on lying to him once she knew Thawne killed her grandmother. That's the sad thing about it. Not the lying, not the conspiring with the enemy, but the fact that she knew and she kept on doing the same instead of coming clean. However, he straight outta left his kid in the future and literally threatened her not to go back in time, which translates as "get the fuck out of my life". I mean, not that I can shed much light into the matter of my own kids coming from the future and all that stuff, but it is actually pretty hard not to look at Barry differently after this episode.

If there's one scene that I love with a passion in the show was the one when Barry learns how to phase. The "breath. Feel the ground beneath your feet" scene back in season 1. So words can't describe how much I loved the scene when he's teaching Nora how to do it. Eobard mentoring his enemies will always be a plus for me on the show.

Since I learnt Eobard was being kept in a glass cell, I've wanted Barry to go to the future and face him in there, as a callback to the season finale of season 1. I just hope it doesn't end there and that we get a couple more of scenes between them.

I get the feeling that next episode, Iris is gonna face Barry and tell him that he shouldn't have returned Nora to her current timeline because she couldn't even say goodbye becasue she's so attached to Nora now. Also, wouldn't that future Nora and her whole timeline be actually different now that she's met her parents and that she finally knows who Cicada is? Can't wait for the next episode.