Back at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, The Flash‘s Grant Gustin described the Season 5 premiere as being the best one since The CW series debuted back in 2014 and if the fan reaction is any indication, he was right.
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Tonight’s Season 5 premiere, “Nora”, saw Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) deal with the unexpected arrival of his daughter from the future, Nora West Allen (Jessica Parker Kennedy). It was an episode filled with clever Easter eggs and even some straight-from-the-pages-of-comics scenes and even in July, Gustin was very excited for it.
“I’ve been comparing it to our pilot,” Gustin said. “I think it’s our best [season premiere] since our pilot. We’ve got an action sequence in it that’s something straight out of the comics, that when I read in 2013 while I was shooting Arrow and dreaming of stuff we could do someday on Flash — we’re doing something I never thought we’d be able to do….I don’t want to speak too soon, but I think it could be our best season. It’ll be what Flash should be.”
And he wasn’t wrong. Fans were very vocal on social media tonight reacting to the episode with fans overwhelmingly excited for Nora as well as the overall energy and excitement of it all. We’ve collected some of our favorite reactions below for you, but just in case you haven’t seen the episode yet, some of the reactions may contain spoilers.
So schway.
@CW_TheFlash that premiere was super duper way ultra mega shway! @JParkerK #Nora #Awesomeness #XS #TheFlash
— Albertkitten (@albertkitten66) October 10, 2018
Off to a good start
Moments from #theflash I enjoyed: Ryan Choi name drop, the ring, Wally recapping his meeting with the Ghost of Elvis, schway, Flash Museum, 2024 Crisis reference, Happy Harbor, and a future fight between King Shark and Grodd!!! Good start to season 5!
— Matthew Mingin (@GothamNeedsYou) October 10, 2018
So excited they even forgot to tweet!
When the premiere of @CW_TheFlash is so awesome that you forget to tweet while watching it. I screamed, laughed, cried etc I love #NoraAllen #TheFlash ?⚡?
— Sophie’s Journals ✍ (@SophieNYC22) October 10, 2018
The Flash ring!
Best scene of #theflash ?❄️
— Killer Frost (@Killerfrostreal) October 10, 2018
The ring man oof @dpanabaker pic.twitter.com/gEE01fIqN2
Now THIS is what we’re taking about!
That’s what I call season premiers everybody say thank you to the best CW shows #TheFlash #BlackLightning pic.twitter.com/POD82fVM5V
— Nyla? (@peterxnora) October 10, 2018
Proud Fangirl
:’)) happy about both season premieres of #TheFlash and #BlackLightning KUDOS TO YOU IM A PROUD FANGIRL. I laughed, was shook and wanted to cry and definitely screamed. I’m excited for the rest of the season for both shows!!! pic.twitter.com/AGBQYjfFF6
— ??Spooky OTP Trash ??? (@ag3nt_m3lody) October 10, 2018
Best thing yet
#TheFlash Nora West Allen is the best thing to have happened to the show in a long time.
— . (@rubyredhearts) October 10, 2018
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