These episodes haven't featured Ralph in prominent roles, in fact "O Come, All Ye Thankful," an episode that aired between the two I'm highlighting here, didn't even have him appear of get mentioned at all.
In "The Icicle Cometh," Ralph teamed up with Cecile (Daniele Nicolet) to solve a case, with her aggressive attitude serving as an unexpected perfect foil to Ralph's fast talking. Hopefully when Sue shows up, he has a chemistry with her even half as entertaining.
The episode mainly focused on Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) finally finding her father (Kyle Secor), but Cisco (Carlos Valdes) realizes that all is not as it seems.
In "O Come, All Ye Thankful," Nora (Jessica Kennedy Parker) confronts Barry (Grant Gustin) about how him disappearing in the future left her and even begs him to try to change history as the daughter (Reina Hardesty) of Weather Wizard threatens Central City if her father (Liam McIntyre) isn't turned over to her. We also discover the origin of Cicada (Chris Klein).
Last night's "What's Past Is Prologue" sees Team Flash hatch a plan to stop Cicada, creating a dark matter device to take away Cicada's dagger from items throughout the past four seasons, Barry and Nora having to sneak around and not alter the timeline as they revisit scenes with the first three season's big bads in execution nearly worth of Back to the Future Part II. In fact, when they prepare to go, Ralph even plays the Huey Lewis and the News song "Back In Time," offering the explanation that there isn't likely to be another time they can use it.
It almost seemed that the Cicada storyline could've wrapped up before next week, unfortunately a boneheaded move by a certain member of Team Flash prevented it. The real star of the latest episode was Tom Cavanagh, playing not only Sherloque, but also Harry Wells and Eobard Thawne disguised as Harrison Wells of Earth-1.
Next week, the current plots of the show take a break for the mid-season finale of The Flash as well as Arrow and Supergirl in the three-night crossover event "Elseworlds." The Flash will air on Sunday with Arrow following on Monday and Supergirl on Tuesday. Ralph has been seen in trailers for the event, but not in any promotional photos. I'll have a review next week.
Viewers in the US may view "The Icicle Cometh," "O Come, All Ye Thankful" and "What's Past Is Prologue" at no charge during a limited availability window on the CW website and app. With the current licensing agreement, the entire fifth season of The Flash will be available on Netflix in June, 2019. Digital versions of the episodes may be purchased on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, Google Play and other retailers of digital video content. Blu-Ray and DVD copies of the season are expected to be available for sale in or by September, 2019.
Non-US viewers should check their local listings, the websites of the channels that air The Flash, and digital video retailers
