I love how thawne doesn't understand that he's already lost. Even when barry is completely honest with him later it still goes over his head.

Grant and Matt have great chemistry. Wish they had more scenes together.

This was a pretty great scene. You can really see how Barry changes his tone after realizing that this is the original Thawne that went back in time to kill him as a child. Barry knows exactly what’s about to happen and seems almost sad about it. Thawne is sitting there thinking it’s because he finally beat the Flash, when its actually quite the reverse.

Just... For real WHY couldn't we have more of this rivalry between Barry and Matt Letscher's Thawne?!?!

Knowing he's driving Barry nuts its the best thing to happen to him

The Flash has over 180 episodes and Matt's Thawne has only been in 8 of them. Even worse he was basically giving 'villain of the week' status only being the main threat in 3 of the 8 episodes he was in. It's such a shame we couldn't get more of him. Matt and Grant have really good chemistry.

So glad they brought Matt back one last time as Eobard. He's so good in the role.

0:40 This is when Barry realizes...this isn't the most recent Eobard Thawne. It's the pre-S1 Eobard Thawne that doesn't even know how his plan to kill younger Barry fails.

Bruh see this is why Matt should have been Thawne after season 1 he just oozes menace and ego naturally just from these interactions. Notice how after season 6 Barry stopped letting Cavanagh’s Thawne get under his skin even after creating a Reverse Flashpoint Barry still managed to remain calm in their interactions but Matt’s Thawne? Boy this man just knows how to push his buttons without even trying

The best thing is that Barry knows where this is all going. He's playing Thawne from the beginning

if matt and tom switched turns every other episode after season one or so, it would've made things super interesting because each time barry would be confornted with two different versions that only wish to torture him. Would be even cooler if each season or so they'd teamed up to mess barry up.

The moment when Barry realizes this is the original Thawne…love it!

"You win. I can't stop you." I'm sorry, but I don't even think Wellsobard went that far to Barry in their rivalry. Just Thawne forcing Barry to admit he can't beat him... WOW

I never expected to see them having a drink together. It’s so weird, yet kinda funny 😂

Now *that* is Eobard Thawne! Not Wellsobard.

THIS SCENE IS SO GREAT!!! Every single moment if you think from Barry's pov you realize how he is coming to accept everything that is about to happen. He understands his role in this time, he sees Eobard's role and realizes how he is going to terribly fail AND how everything is going to start from this point. Grant's acting, Matt's acting and this scene are just 🤌🤌🤌

I don't think Thawne realizes that this isn't the same Barry he has a history with. Because there's so much more backstory implied here that we've never seen

In this moment, Barry found the peace he's been searching for this entire time. The idea that he can stop Thawne from taking his mother away from him was a fool's errand, so rather than attempt to stop him, he allowed events to play their part.

Thawne is such a petty little man and I love it. The tension between these two was so awesome to watch This is one of the greatest episodes of the series by far

Both RF from Tom and Matt are great . Tom played the conflicted RF that both hates and loves the Flash family extremely great. He is someone that is mature , calculating and rarely makes mistakes or slip ups due to his experience. He constantly outplayed Team Flash in his 4D chess play. Matt on the other hand depicted the ruthless , psychotic, impulsive and immature side of a younger RF extremely well. It's CW that made the mistake of using Tom's RF in story parts where Matt's RF would have fit better. They should adapted the script so that it fits Tom's RF more. For example Tom's RF fit the whole Nora arc well because they needed some sort of father figure / mentor for Nora which I can't see Matt play. On the other end however last seasons Eobard and Crisis on Earth X's Eobard would have worked better with Matt's RF because he is more psychotic , ruthless and has the flaw to overestimate himself due to his youth. There is a key difference between both RF. Tom's RF has a psychological hold over Barry because he was one of his father figures and mentor. He made him what he is. His betrayal cut very deep into Barry which gives Tom's RF a position of superiority in their encounters. With Matt's RF the roles are reversed. Matt's RF feels inferior to Barry. Barry is everything he has ever dreamed of being which is why he is much more suceptible to anger and rage which results in constant failure. Barry is here the one with the psychological advantage.

Grant and Matt just have good chemistry together really wished we could of gotten more of this duo.

Thawne probably interpreted it as Barry walking towards his funeral. Hence, that face at the end. I kind of get a sense of respect that he felt for Barry. Choosing to walk towards his end? He recognized strength and probably that fed further into his jealousy. He recognized courage. And yet....

Nothing like a drink with your arch nemesis

“I wanna hear you say it.”season 3 reference

Really love how they comeback Matt as OG Reverse Flash that's perfect... Really good episode.

This scene it's everything

Now THIS Thawne. This Thawne actually scares me. He’s way more arrogant and brutal compared to HR Thawne. He faces the heroes head on and dares them to try something. This is no coward

Imagine if, after Barry said "I know, I can run towards it," Thawne thinks "Wait what? Ok now _his_ goals are beyond my understanding"

Thawne saying “delicious” should become a meme to be honest.

I like it when Barry and Thawne talk to each other instead of trying to rip each other’s throats out.

Thawne having a glass of beer in his hand seemed appropriate, since he always did seem like someone who was drunk with power.

Why did they waste the whole season and make it trash but actually make the last few episodes good😂💀

Flash writers/showrunners the real villains they robbed of this amazing duo for 9 seasons

This scene was meticulous crafted, probably the best scene of the season. It’s like they put all their effort into one scene and take bathroom breaks through the rest

Barry knows everything...thawne has no idea what he's doing to himself,briliant!!!

They wasted matt letscher 😔 he should have been main thawne since season 2

Imagine being stuck on an island with the person you hate the most. That's basically how this feels.

Love to see Matt as Thawne. Wished we had more of him

This was the day Thawn created a hell of his own making. Stuck in a long endless cycle while every other Barry is finding ways to move forward. No matter how many times Thawn says he wins he still loses. Thanks to anyone who reads this.

It feels like we're in 2014 watching the 1st season of this great (for whose time) show!!! Love Matt's and Grant's chemistry

Man Thawne is such a great villain. The stuff with him in it is so good. Wish the show hadn't gone so stupid in later seasons.

The final arc it’s the beginning of the flash now that’s iconic

Jesus did they hire new writers for the final arc This aged like milk

The way they portrayed this is amazing actually because usually Thawn is the smarter of the two being from the future he usually knows everything that has and will happen but what makes this episode so special is that this is but Barry's last time meeting thawn while also being time he meets the youngest thawn possible.. meaning this thawn is young and dumb. Barry's warms him and instead of taking the word of the guy who not only doesn't really lie but is from the future so he would know. The last time this Thawn saw Barry was the oldest possible Barry. It's the 'The Time Traveler's Wife', (good show) in this shooter man who lives traveling accidently back in forth through time as he gets older always meeting the love of his life at different ages. There's a point in their lives where the oldest version of himself is sent back to the time where his wife was her youngest self, a little girl. Barry is now that old man and Thawn is that little girl

0:37 Barry: "Interesting.... you are THAT Thawne" It will always be funny how THIS Thawne (Matt Letscher's version), was the one who was said to have fought Barry many times before (from Thawne's perspective), before earning barry's identity and acting his plan of "trying to kill barry as a child" (that would leave him stuck in the past and set into the path of becoming tom cavanagh's reverse flash) but we never actually saw that. Only in S2 EP 11, where we saw Thawne meeting Barry for the first time (from his perspective). Which is such a shame. Matt's Reverse flash was more an enemy of the legends than barry. It would have been interesting having matt's reverse flash be a co-villain of a season, him orchestrating attacks from the shadows (as him being objectively slower than barry, would force him to rely on cunning to defeat him), until finally learning barry's secret identity. ending the season with him declaring he will go back in time to kill barry as a kid (thus seeing almost all of the events leading to the series premiere)

Wild how they got two great performances out of a single character

What's even scarier is that this Reverse-Flash didn't do anything yet disguised as Harrison Wells, and yet, he knows what he had done to Barry so...I'm now sure he knows EVERYTHING just like his comics counterpart (he remembered EVERY deaths, EVERY changes).

That’s OUR FLASH! INDOMITABLE AND FOWARD MOVING THROUGH, NO MATTER WHAT! 3:04

"You seem tense, i really think you should try it- " Always the jokester.

Eobard believes this will be his greatest victory. But some will say... It's the reverse.

Thawne looks like he came a little bit when he heard that😂😂

Man, Matt Letscher makes this show so much better. I havent even watched in years but will still click on some of his scenes when they pop up. Wish they would've used him more, he brings out the best of the show. Legends season 2 was also the only really solid season, because once again, Matt Letscher

These two shared so little screentime together in 9 seasons that this one scene was like Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the restaurant in Heat

man i really wanted a it was me barry monologue

I think they definitely underused Matts thawne but Toms thawne was just as good. Especially in season 1. It’s just a shame we didn’t get to see more of Matt

Man I really loved Matt Lescher's thawne. He really felt like Reverse Flash. Petty, crazy, charismatic, genius. Tom Caneagh was incredibly in season 1 and I liked him in season 5, but I really wish all of the other reverse flash scenes had been Matt. I mean for one it would have made more sense.

For the people talking about Matt's role as Reverse Flash, if it means anything he did great job in season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow.

Thawnes face at the end. I wonder if he just started having doubt.

Pretty great acting, Barry is so mature and tired at this point, he has given up and accepted that eobard is a tormented soul that cannot be saved. He gave his last shot and yet eobard is just too deranged.

This dynamic has always been the best part of the entire show

What I noticed here is when Barry speaks to Thawne about not killing him as a child earlier he says at the 2:00 minute mark why he says why couldn't Thawne just wiped him off the face of the Earth. I just thought it was a nice callback to season 1's finale where in that episode Thawne's locked up in the pipeline and tells Barry why he killed his mother that night and he says similar words to what season 9 Barry had just said to Thawne in the year 2000. Honestly, this episode wasn't just the best episode of the season but the episode of all time. Really liked how everything came full circle and we saw the events of the night from Season 9's Barry POV. I know there are theories of him being the Original timeline flash but to be fair in my opinion this is just the post-crisis version of the March 18, 2000 fight.

Imagine the scene a Super-Hero and his Greatest Arch-Enemy drinking together in a bar or in a coffee shop and talking as if they were best friends like you the clear tension of anger between the two but one of them is sarcastic and provocative (The Villain) like can you imagine happening with Batman and the Joker or Superman and Lex Luthor maybe with Captain America and the Red Skull or Spider-Man and the Green Goblin it would be super awesome.

As much as I love the chemistry between Grant and Tom Cavanagh’s rendition of Thawne, I love the interactions between Grant and Matt Letscher even more. If for no other reason than their confrontations were rarer throughout the show’s run. Matt was every bit as malevolent, menacing and sinister as Tom was in the role in the Reverse Flash, and his contributions to why Thawne was the Arrowverse’s greatest villain cannot be overlooked. Not just for how brilliant he was in The Flash, but also in Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 as part of the Legion of Doom.

didn’t thawne go back into time to kill young barry during a fight where they traveled back into time moments before

Now who’s the villain Flash, Now who’s the villain!

Damn I really can't tell who I prefer playing Thawne, Tom and Matt are both so good in their own unique ways

What I love most about this scene is that Barry, through all his experiences and adventures, has become a seasoned hero. So much so he’s finally become THE Flash(sorta) that Thawne always references. The one that’s got years under his belt, that one that knows what he’s doing. S3 Thawne to S3 Barry:”The you I know from the future, he’s not this stupid” Thawne to S9 Barry:”You always were smart”

I thought he was going to say : you can't walk away without finishingyour beer cause i paid for it"

All he had to say was "I forgive you" and Thawne would have exploded in confusion

Eobard thinks this is OG barry

Eobard Thawne is the new definition of a Time travelling Serial Killer, he even sounds like one when he talks about his "Parental get together".

Barry outgrew Cavanaugh' Thawne but not Matt's Thawne... It's amazing to have both Thawne's.

Finally... Season 9 just got better. I missed Thawne so much.

Pagey was right

Whoever is composing the music for seasons 8 and 9 has been really putting in work.

Barry not trying to change things is such a huge character growth scene.... T^T

Matt Letscher is awesome

Awesome scene

Thawne said DELICIOUS 😂

Imagine being a regular at this fine establishment and you hear these two talking about this at the next table. 😂

If I were Barry I wouldn’t be able to hold back a “You have no idea how bad your days going to get after tonight. You have no idea how hard your own hubris is going to destroy you”

0:50 “The you I know from *THE FUTURE* he's not this stupid..”

He should’ve said “I can run towards it.” It was practically gift-wrapped for them 😂

Grant will continue to be the best flash we will ever have.

Tom is amazing; I know, you know. You don't need me to tell you But a good chunk of my favorite scenes from the show are the interactions between Matt's Reverse Flash. I always loved when he appeared on the screen, especially now, since Barry is a more experienced version of himself than he was back in Season 3 and prior I was honestly really bitter about how the Reverse Flash was handled in the last season, especially with the whole nonsense about the forces. So this episode managed to do some really effective damage control to reignite my investment towards the character

This one of the best scene the show has had in awhile I wish the rest of seasons 5-9 were like this lol

Haven’t watched since like season 5 but seriously need to watch these last few episodes

I actually like how we didn’t get Matt’s version until the end, since he technically starts off (and now finishes off) the cycle with the Flash and himself to me I enjoyed seeing this version be the one who returned in the end so the Flash could finally complete the cycle with the REAL Thawne once and for all, needed to be saved for the final season honestly

This is the best version of reverse flash. Wells was ok but this is 💎

Tom's Thawne is great, but he could never gloat in the misery of Barry like Matt's Thawne can. Could. His version just enjoys the flash's pain to much, its criminal how underused he was

The irony is Thawne is enjoying the day and will have his own reasons to hate tonight for years to come.

They wasted Matt in this show. Realistically Tom as Eobard in season 1 was enough.

Best well written villain in the show right there

The moment Barry realizes that he is just there to fulfill the paradox with Eobard Thawne.

Man to think just last episode he was here with a dear friend

The fastest clips alive

THIS IS ORIGINAL TIMELINE SHIT RIGHT HERE

This was probably the best episode in years.

Looks like Thawne is back.

I like how Barry knew what Thawne wanted him to say. They know each other so well.