I think the finale definitely checked off all the boxes. We got a big team fight between Team Flash and a gallery of past villains. It wrapped up the positive vs negative speed force arc. It also wrapped up the character arcs for main characters. And we get a nice epilogue with Barry telling baby Nora to believe in the impossible and him sharing his speed. We are left on a happy ending that all is well and there is hope for a new world where good will win over evil.
For the bad. I agree that the villains were defeated way too easily. And it really undoes all the menace that the villains used to have. Zoom, Savatar, Reverse Flash were serious threats and super menacing. And Flash only defeated them with a lot of effort. It was epic and satisfying when they were defeated. I think it might have been a mistake to bring them back just so that OP Team Flash can defeat them in seconds. It undermines Flash's victory against them in previous seasons.
Defeating the Negative Speed Force just by talking to Eddie and appealing to his good side, did feel cheesy to me. But we've seen that before so it is consistent with the tone of the show. I do like the idea of the positive and negative speed force coexisting instead of being in conflict. But Kheon's speech about coexistence felt super on the nose.
I feel like there were some missed opportunities. Cisco should have been there. He was such a big part of Team Flash.. They bring back Wells. But the finale did not even mention or acknowledge Cisco. It was like he never existed. Weird.
I also feel like Speed Force Nora should have been present too. If you are going to have the Positive and Negative Speed Force learning to coexist then it only makes sense that the personification of the Positive Speed Force would be there.
But yeah, it was a ok as a finale. It checked all the boxes. But I do feel like the show should have ended sooner. I do think the show dragged on too long and it was basically running on fumes at the end. It missed its chance to end on a high note. I still think last season would have been a better end. Defeating the Negative Speed Force and Reverse Flash once and for all was a good ending. And they could have tagged on an epilogue with Nora's birth. This season felt disjointed and unnecessary.
You are forgetting how much slower Barry was in the earlier seasons.
To begin with he was barely cracking 200 kph.
The baby should have been a boy.
Savatar should have melted when he saw Iris pregnant, got out of the armour and delivered the baby.
Eddie should have joined with Speed force Nora and Negative Speed Force Nora, Like Decker and Ilia at the end of Star Trek the motion Picture, but it was CLEARLY sexual, and then they all should have put their hand out to Barry asking him to join a fourway.... "Dude! No! That's my Mom! Twice!"
The Thinker should have left a video message, because he anticipated all of this.
Ralph should have come back. Not the actor, but Ralph.
"Thawn says "You may be wondering where Cisco is? I killed him an hour ago. Took his heart out of his body, and fed it to him. I'm not actually sure if he choked to death, or died of cardiovascular trauma?"
Kaitlan is preggers from when Mark banged Keon, Frost comes out and stomps him. "She was my sister you a-hole!"
Chester should have died. "hello party people" is so out of date, and he's still saying it in 2052. Insanely annoying. Chunk is supposed to be massive. It was an insult from the beginning to cast a string bean.
Force lightning and lightsabres? %uck off.
Season one legends with Rip Hunter and the hawks should have turned up to save the day.
Thawn should have killed Eddie, and then Thawn disappears again.
Savatar should have wandered off, forgot about the fight, and proposed to Patty Spivot, trying to live happily ever after, before Eddie pulled the rug out from under his feet.
Negative speed is speed, but it does not get you high like Velocity Nine does. No matter how fast Zoom was running, he still should have been tweaking and offering to switch sides or give away a kidney in exchange for a whiff of velocity nine.
Godspeed is a total fail. No love. Thawn should have killed him in the original meeting and demanded that Eddie replace him with a real threat. Is Rival the only unused speed villain? Trajectory was neutral more than a villain. What about original Nora? Murdered and replaced by a shitty doppleganger who did not lose her dad? She's actually old enough to date Eddie, shades of the graduate, which should have happened, which would've have been super weird when Barry protested his original daughter making out with Iris's old boyfriend, and even weirder when the negative speedforce gave Eddie his blonde Nora doppelganger to raise. Yikes. I mean I suppose most people have to deal with their children looking similar to their spouse, but this takes the biscuit.
