#Watch the flash season 5 episode 3 series#
#Watch the flash season 5 episode 3 tv#

But that is literally the MonitorвЂ™s job in this whole mess. The MonitorвЂ™s literal hand-wave to get Vibe back might be considered one. Sure, I could probably complain if I really wanted to find something to complain about. ThatвЂ™s all the more impressive considering that the episode concludes with the literal destruction of everything that has ever been. Even though thereвЂ™s probably only 15 minutes in here that I would truly consider to be a pure episode of The Flash, every single one of those minutes counted.

#Watch the flash season 5 episode 3 tv#

And we had Superman and Lex Luthor and the official introduction of Black Lightning to the Arrowverse and Harbinger and the Anti-Monitor and the deaths of untold billions upon billions of lives as the final worlds of the DC multiverse were eliminated by the antimatter wave and a partridge in a pear tree.Д«ut we also had tender moments between Barry Allen and Iris West, the return of Vibe, a quietly emotional scene with the original three members of Team Flash (вЂњYou two were there the first time I opened my eyes as the FlashвЂќ almost broke me), the live action depiction of one of the most legendary and iconic moments in DC Comics history, and the onscreen death of a beloved TV superhero of days gone by. Yes, there were plenty of side missions, notably involving John Constantine, Diggle, and Mia trying to save Oliver QueenвЂ™s soul via detours to the world of Lucifer (yes, that one) and actual Purgatory (which, not coincidentally, manifested as Lian Yiu). Each did just enough to deliver the goods for the home team while the surrounding elements told this insanely big and cosmic tale. The first two chapters ( Supergirldid the honors with Part One, with Batwoman taking the lead on Part Two) felt just enough like episodes of their respective shows but not as explicitly as they had in the past. And Crisis on Infinite Earthsis the most consistent and cohesive of them all. In recent years, thereвЂ™s been more cohesion. An episode of Supergirl would feel very much like an episode of SupergirlВ for example, regardless of how many other characters from the other shows were hanging around. In the early years of Arrowverse crossovers, the respective episodes that told the story always explicitly belonged to their shows. And like that latter film, IвЂ™m just going to call it right now: Crisis on Infinite Earths succeeds. The easiest comparison is Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which had the unenviable task of bringing ten years of moviemaking to a close in a satisfying way. Sure, thereвЂ™s two episodes left, but this is a form of TV storytelling never before attempted. The thing about вЂњCrisis on Infinite Earths Part ThreeвЂќ is that this not only had to deliver 100+ episodes worth of emotional and narrative payoff, it was also the climax of the single most ambitious crossover in television history. But get him there they sure as hell did, even though things ended up a little differently than we expected to. Given that the original date on that infamous newspaper headline indicated that Crisis on Infinite EarthswasnвЂ™t going to take place until 2024, wellвЂ¦so few shows make it to 10 seasons these days that this just seemed like more of a way to make fans know that the showrunners knew where Barry eventually had to end up, rather than a way to get him there. IвЂ™m not sure I ever truly believed we would ever get here. The one that they spent five seasons and change reminding us would happen eventually at every possible opportunity.

#Watch the flash season 5 episode 3 series#

The one we knew that Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and friends always wanted to do so badly that they baked it into the very concept of the series from the pilot. ItвЂ™s THE episode weвЂ™ve been waiting for since the very first episode of The Flash. вЂњCrisis on Infinite Earths Part ThreeвЂќ is the big one.