Just let's pretend the very last episode never happened and I give this series a 7/10.
The last episode (had at max some nice visuals) degrades everything to a 3/10.
I liked the fight scenes. BUT...
... that was probably the worst series finale this series has ever had. So much set up this season and barely any payoff. I'm absolutely disappointed.
I won't repeat all the flaws of this episode (you can read them somewhere above and/or below my take here).
It started out as fan fiction.
Then they made John Diggle a Stewart.
Then they send him on a "journey".
... only for him to throw away everything they have achieved so far?
Are you fucking kidding me?! Ôo
I don't know what to say. Is it normal that Barry is so ... i dunno, dumb?
What are the writers doing? So Barry hears that he is about to go gaga and the first two things he does is chasing a meta who can drive him crazy in a instant, instead of leave that task to someone who hasn't been accused for destroying the earth yet. Great idea!
And then that thing with Joe :
When you hear something you can't believe, wouldn't you ask at least once "how" could that happen and "why"?
And btw: Am I the only one who wonders why everyone immediately reacts insulted to Barry when he talks about something he obviously doesn't know about ?
Things might make sense if Barry is still trapped by Xotar and it was all just an illusion from the point they first met. But then what would the point of this episode have been?
They tricked me really in believing there's no Iris in this Episode again, BUT...
...what the actual f***?!
So, Nora can spend a whole season in the past without changing anything, but Barry will not even travel to the future to see if she's well, because of Flashpoint? How does that make any sense? That Flashpoint argument is nonsense. He wouldn't change the past by doing so. He would only change the present and it's future outcome which he is already doing by trying to prevent the "Godspeed Civil War". At least he tries timetravel after a talk about family with Diggle and fails by doing so, because of a Godspeed barrier. At the end Nora shows up and all concerns Barry had are unfounded. It's great that we literally dealt with something over a period of two full episodes that didn't need to be worried.
And why is Diggle still Spartan after he found something that glows green? Was that scene from the last Arrow episode, which indicated that he's becoming Green Lantern and was shown again in this episode, just a lie? And how did non-superpowered Spartan defeat a Godspeed clone? I have so many questions, but not in a good way.
Are you kidding me?
They set up a great threat with six(!) Godspeeds, which gets only solved be another six(!) Godspeeds?
This episode has literally twelve Godspeeds and goes nowhere with that.
This episode was a complete waste of my time.
The movie isn't bad, it's just very, very predictable.
I knew the solution just in the moment everything goes down and shit starts to happen.
It was too obvious from my perpective.
So heartbreaking ... and so shocking.
IMHO a really good final episode of the season, cliffhanger included. Dumb thing about it: it isn't the final episode.