A vax from Merlyn saves the day,
And Flash briefly comes out to play,
And while he's sympathetic,
He offers a pathetic
Handwave as to why he can't stay.
Then, somewhat to my dismay,
Katana steps out of the fray.
But Ollie, still sane,
Sabotages the plane
The trap's sprung, but Ra's still gets away.
Ra's wants to make the virus spread,
But Thea's back, now decked in red.
And newly-supported,
The team sees the plan thwarted,
And Oliver kills Ra's stone dead.
Freed from being Ra's' tool,
Nyssa goes back to ninja school,
Only to find
That there's no peace of mind,
For Merlyn's the new Ra's Al Ghul.
Now Ollie, guided by a dream,
Chooses to pursue a new stream.
And thus it transpires
That Ollie retires,
And leaves the city to his team.
I've said this show could be a gem,
If it would focus on the femmes.
Now we're happ'ly aligned
To leave Ollie behind
And retool the show around them.
Thawne, interrogated, is calm,
But drops an offer like a bomb:
If he won't be harried,
Then he'll permit Barry
To go back and rescue his Mom.
The choice here is hard to assess,
And Barry takes a brief recess
To ask for advice
Whether to pay the price,
And, at great length, decides to say yes.
He's shot back in time like a spring,
And when the time comes for a swing,
He comforts and cries
With his mom while she dies,
But chooses not to change anything.
Returned before Wells could get gone,
Barry fights his escape with fists drawn.
And to turn the tide,
Eddie commits suicide
To erase his descendant, Thawne.
A resultant black hole starts its clanging,
And without a moment's haranguing,
Barry runs 'round,
Trying to shut it down,
And 'til next season, we're left hanging.
The series has really progressed,
And during the time of its rest,
It will be missed.
But aside from one twist,
This wasn't the show at its best.
Diplomacy's hit a few snags,
The sort that require body bags.
So war's broken out,
The battle's a rout,
And Jiaying's busy planting false flags.
Now, Raina serenely objects,
But Jiaying needs all her subjects.
So rather than gloat,
She just cuts Raina's throat,
But Skye catches her and defects.
Now Cal seems to be in a clamp,
But a drug cocktail gives him an amp.
And while those prosthetics
Might fail in aesthetics,
MacLachlan's delightfully camp.
The Inhumans will not be barred,
And catch the carrier off-guard.
They capture the ship,
But some give them the slip,
And Mack gets to pull a Die Hard.
Hunter and May found the spot
Where Bobbi was tricked and then caught.
The two win the day,
Although in the melee,
Both Bobbi and faux-May get shot.
Jiaying has Terrigen, and gets to it,
Flying out to more broadly spew it.
Skye's ready to spring,
But then Cal kills Jiaying
To spare Skye from having to do it.
That's done, but there's still more to set,
And there must still be some kind of threat.
So Terrigens fly
Into the food supply
To set up more Inhumans yet.
So Cal, for his dopey part,
Is set loose with blank mind but big heart.
But Coulson and Skye
Must return to play spy.
There's a Secret Avengers to start.
With FitzSimmons together anew,
A few people's ships have come true.
But before that's adjourned,
While Fitz's back is turned,
Simmon's swallowed by alien goo.
For a while, the show had declined,
And I'd written it off in my mind,
But free of that fetter,
This finish is better
Than the rest of the season combined.
So our heroes find Wells' track,
But he runs when they come to attack.
Wells remains un-caught,
But it wasn't for naught,
'Cause they manage to get Eddie back.
But Wells' plans aren't saved for later,
And he might turn the lab to a crater,
And "meta"s under key
Will be doomed if he
Re-starts the accelerator.
Although Barry never forgave them,
He still won't let Wells autoclave them.
And though it's not smart,
He even hires Snart
In one last-ditch effort to save them.
So he gets them all out, perforce,
But it turns into a Trojan Horse.
They all get in a scrape,
The rogues make their escape,
And it all goes to crap, 'cause of course.
And there's time for one more mad dash,
With a massive blowout, team-up clash
As Firestorm and Arrow
Both jump on the barrow
To beat up Wells, the Reverse-Flash.
Ollie's, by now, purged of all pity,
And his affect seems all dark and gritty.
And now he's come through,
He is thusly meant to
Marry Nyssa, then kill Starling city.
But he has a new plan unfurlin',
That, with luck, will set us whirlin'
Although it's unclear
Where it all goes from here,
He's secretly plotting with Merlyn.
To Starling town Merlyn then treks
To recruit those who Ollie respects.
They launch an assault
On old Ra's Al Ghul's vault,
And Tatsu puts a sword through her ex.
Ollie's meant to confuse and inspire us,
Though the flashbacks continue to tire us.
So Akio's dead,
Ollie's soon to be wed,
And his friends are locked up with the virus.
It*s not meant to be understood
Whether Ollie's with the brotherhood.
Nobody knows.
That keeps us on our toes,
And this ep was uncommonly good.
Although tie-ins were once a fixture,
This episode sidesteps that stricture,
And only devotes
Its first couple notes
To a plot point from their latest picture.
Bobbi thinks she's with May, unshaken,
But quickly learns that she's mistaken.
The May that we see
Is Agent 33,
And Ward secretly has Bobbi taken.
Now Raina, precog, sounds the chimes,
And warns of impending SHIELD crimes,
But as much as it grieves her,
Still no one believes her.
She's cried wolf too many times.
Gonzalez wants peace, no one blames him,
But an impulse to catalogue claims him,
And the threat of a cage
Provokes massive outrage,
Skye's mom kills Gonzalez and frames him.
It does seem an odd way to go,
And a break with the character flow.
Skye's mom was a pillar,
But now she's a killer.
Why? I guess the plot said so.
Iris finds she's the newcomer
To knowing 'bout Flash. That's a bummer,
So she doesn't tarry
In tracking down Barry.
She confronts him for keeping it from her.
A new rogue, who's dour and unsmiling,
Runs about in milit'ry styling.
Flash takes him to task,
But when they unmask,
It turns out to be General Eiling.
But the Eiling facade is for show,
And the real puppeteer dwells below.
The team goes in madly,
But that goes quite badly,
Wells has Eddie, and Grodd now has Joe.
Barry finds that it's quite a strain
To fight one with a psychic brain.
Though it's not well played,
With Iris' aid,
He defeats Grodd by way of a train.
It's easy enough to be snide,
And the CGI's fun to deride,
But really, whether Grodd
Made you jeer or applaud,
I just love the fact they even tried.
Ra's Al Ghul has a hidden scheme,
And wants Oliver on his team.
And through some blackmail,
He acquires his grail,
So Ollie's training as Al Sah-Him
We get some more flashbacks for filler,
But Ra's' hand's still on the tiller.
And Nyssa's betrayal
Was beyond the pale,
So Oliver's sent back to kill her.
John's wife, newly un-estranged
Is kidnapped and pulled out of range.
He starts an attack
To try getting her back,
And there's a violent hostage exchange.
As for Nyssa, Ra's still declares her
A traitor, and so he ensnares her.
He says execution's
The only solution
But at the last minute, he spares her.
At the end, we hear the same old ditty
Of population control without pity.
So his ninja clan
Will soon enact his plan
To unleash a virus on the city.
With Mike and Lincoln off the field,
And Coulson with no choice but to yield,
Seems they're all forsaken,
Or otherwise taken,
They by Hydra, Coulson by SHIELD.
Hydra wants their prisoners' condition
To bring their own plans to fruition.
With minimal winces,
Phil Coulson convinces
SHIELD to go on a rescue mission.
Though at times they just scrape by,
They get back their people and fly,
Especially now
That their team is endowed
With a freshly returned agent Skye.
Raina's visions brought about
Skye's new, SHIELD-convergent route.
But post this collision,
She has one more vision:
That Age of Ultron's coming out.
Of late, the show has a good spine,
But feels it must pad out the time.
To that end, we have scenes
About what it all means
That it could have covered in one line.
Our heroes found Wells' little shrine,
And a plan they soon start to design.
And through science intel,
They find out that Wells
Killed Cisco in another timeline.
From these memories Cisco repressed,
They plan for Barry's dad's egress.
They set traps and wait,
Using Cisco as bait,
And try to get Wells to confess.
Things go south, and Joe shoots Wells dead,
But turns out they've all been misled.
The newly-dead laddie's
The shapeshifting baddy,
And Wells is still one step ahead.
And now that he's set them unsteady,
Wells begins to get himself ready.
He's already displaced
To his underground base,
And made a prisoner of Eddie.
The show is swiftly making tracks,
And gives us no time to relax.
After weeks of cases,
We're off to the races,
Looking forward to the climax.
Last time, Ra's stabbed Thea, then fled,
And given just how much she bled,
It beggars belief
That to our slight relief,
She ends up in a coma, not dead.
But this was hardly a botched hit,
And Ra's just refuses to quit.
And says, to their chagrin,
That if Ollie gives in,
He'll let them use the Lazarus Pit.
With no choice, Ollie takes this route,
And lets the succession come about.
Though while they hold court,
The league has to thwart
Abortive tries to break him out.
Ollie's friends try to give chase,
But he thinks their efforts are misplaced.
He says 'bye to each friend,
And so by the end
He's ready to be the new Ra's.
Whatever the villainous cackles,
Or whatever drama it tackles,
The plan of attack
Will always be held back,
For the flashbacks are still self-made shackles.
Fitz is still in last week's scrape,
Agents trailing behind like a cape.
He calls friends to sort
Out a little support,
And they talk him through how to escape.
With not enough people aboard,
Coulson puts pieces back on the board.
So despite the treason,
And against all reason,
He tracks down and then recruits Ward.
Cal is intent on restoring
His fam'ly with feelings outpouring.
And he uses his clout
For a father's day out.
That ends up surprisingly boring.
We're almost glad when things emerge
And Hydra pours forth in a surge.
And Skye chose to invite
SHIELD for the firefight.
Meanwhile Hydra and Coulson converge.
Skye gets teleported and grabbed,
Hunter gets shot, Hydra gets stabbed,
No one wins the brawl,
And most crushing of all,
Both Lincoln and Deathlok get nabbed.
With the prof betraying no tells,
And the info here ringing no bells,
Cisco and Joe
Hit the road and go
To Starling City to get dirt on Wells.
They find a body, and are wary.
They must bring this info back to Barry.
But not quite before
Cisco works to restore
And improve a sonic for Canary.
Back home, Flash must be even swifter.
There's a well-disguised, superpowered drifter.
And before they're ready,
Both Barry and Eddie
Must battle a skillful shapeshifter.
This baddie's got serious chops,
And Barry's first plan rather flops.
And while they're in a tizzy,
The shapeshifter's busy
Framing Eddie for shooting two cops.
But the shapeshifter's cover gets blown,
And the real truth about Wells gets shown,
But it's just so much grinding,
Because they're just finding
Out things viewers'd already known.
Roy's gambit was foolish, but brave,
And soon might send him to the grave.
The team thinks they can
Work out some kind of plan,
But Lance unearths the Arrow Cave.
But then, they have to improvise
As a new villain starts to arise -
An unpleasant soul
With ambiguous goals
And lasers coming out of his eyes.
With cops' eyes upon him all day,
Ollie is no longer free to stray,
But the ball can't be dropped,
And Deathbolt must be stopped,
So instead, the task falls upon Ray.
Team Arrow remains in no doubt
That Roy's escape must be brought about,
So within a short span,
They carry out a plan
To fake Roy's death to break him out.
With all plan A's chances now fled,
Ra's makes a new one in its stead.
And so his rebuttal
Gets rather unsubtle:
He seems to kill Thea stone dead.
With Coulson a late escapee,
And Fitz on the lam with the key,
The show takes a breather
To focus on neither,
But three stories concurrently.
First, we find out what's so extreme
That it managed to curtail May's dream,
And what she went through
Is that she once had to
Kill a child to save her whole team.
Skye's story, by contrast, is calm,
And she takes to her life with aplomb,
And especially
When she learns guide's ID,
And gets to spend time with her mom.
And, fin'lly, May with the new crew,
Trying desperately to sort through
The myriad plans
That have passed through her hands
And find what Coulson's been up to.
The crosscutting sometimes gets clogged,
But the whole thing is hardly a slog,
And after that bout,
We get to find out
That Raina might be a precog.
Central City suddenly sees
Lots of bee-sting deaths causing unease,
Which opens the door
For hijinks galore,
And SO MANY jokes about bees.
Felicity drops by en route,
Bringing Ray and his super suit.
And I'm perfectly hip
That it's not everyone's ship,
But Raylicity is so cute.
No matter how dire the threat,
Our heroes don't just mope and fret.
In fact, I'd agree
That this might just "bee"
The funniest episode yet.
Once the goods and bads have their clash,
And the robot bees got soundly thrashed,
Iris throws a fit,
And threatens to split
If Eddie won't talk 'bout The Flash.
Barry conquers his inhibitions,
And makes his most dreaded admissions.
He calls up his friends,
And fin'lly contends
With his Harrison Wells suspicions.
