Can we keep Chester? Cisco is basically checked out, there's room.

Seems like they are back to a similar tone to Season 2 and 3.
Good idea.
Season 4 was probably the lightest season, and while it had a great villain, it just had too much forced comedic moments.
Seaon 5 had a good tone outside of a few comedic moments, and while Cicada was good, he just was not a good enough villain to last a full season, which is probably why they had the second Cicada, but she was just too bland. Luckily they also had Reverse Flash

Nice premiere that set up a lot of stuff.

They are cooking something up with Godspeed that feels like it is being saved for the next half of the Season. No one sends during summer all the way from the future 4 clones that are not even the real Godspeed without a purpose.

I thought that the MAC chamber they built was going to be used next week for Barry to glimpse at all the possible solutions for Crisis but seems it'll be used to make this Chester guy to recover. TBH I am literally very neutral about him. I think I'd rather have Curtis around than him, maybe I'll change my mind later.

Ralph's storyline involving his future one and only, Sue Dearborn, was also set up here.

I get from where Ramsey is coming from, he is in a lot of pain and angry with what happened to his mother. At least he used himself as his own guinea pig for his own research. But Caitlin was right about the differences of the metahuman cure's use and his own: the former was to stop Cicada from killing or turn his victims into humans so that they weren't targets. And obviously the metahuman cure was a lot more carefully designed because his HLH just turned him into Bloodwork.

Iris' scene with Cecil and Barry about Nora's absence were good, specially when she said she wanted to be swallowed as well by the black hole when she lost her jacket.

I kind of want them to play again Queen's Flash in the finale because it fitted nicely here when Barry jumped inside the black hole.

Ralph's had a lot of good character moments with both Caitlin and Killer Frost and this one was another. It is going to be interesting how Killer Frost approaches the Bloodwork situation since she isn't the one that knows him like Caitlin does.

Turning the standee where Thawne's suit used to for 5 Seasons into a tribute for Nora with her costume there instead of his was a nice touch from Barry.

If Oliver made a deal with The Monitor to spear Barry and Kara, why is he then telling him that he has to die as well for many to live? What is the catch.

Can't wait for next week.