I know I missed all of last week's shows to review, here are my thoughts on all three...Meh. But this time round we have Barry, Harry & Cisco heading to Earth 2 where they find out the Caitlin, Ronnie & Cisco of this world are actually evil Meta-Humans, Killer Frost, Deathstorm & Reverb and they are all working for Zoom. Meanwhile back on Earth 1 Caitlin tries to help Jay get his speed back so they can fight off metahumans without Barry there to help.
You know The Flash has kinda taken a downturn in the past few episodes of being disappointingly average, which makes me so happy that we finally have an amazing episode like this again. So what in this episode did I love? Pretty much everything in Earth 2. Let’s start off with the small things, the references; while they were travelling through the portal we saw references to 24th Century Green Arrow, Jonah Hex, Supergirl, which are all awesome. But then you see in Barry’s house on speed dial he has Hal, Bruce & Diana all listed on there, oh Flash you cocktease! Even just the design of Earth 2, I love the 1950’s deco style looks just like the Golden Age of comics, at the start of the episode when Barry and Cisco are just taking selfies with everything, I was kinda with them, I wish we could just explore Earth 2 and see all the ways that it’s different.
But regardless of all that, let’s actually get to the meat of the episode, starting with Barry. It’s funny seeing his doppelganger be so much like him but…dorkier. But then you see the reason why, his mother is still alive, his family was never broken apart so he doesn’t have that anchor weighing him down, this is of pure a Barry as you can get. Speaking of, that phone call between him and his mother was pitch perfect, almost as good as the scene in last year’s finale, it would be a perfect scene if it hadn’t been done before kinda. Also Earth 2’s Barry’s dress sense makes me think if Doctor Who ever casts American, then Grant Gustin is the way to go. Furthermore, it’s interesting to see how his relationships with people has changed, most notably is with Iris and Joe (Or should I say “Joseph”). Barry and Iris are married which he understandably finds baffling, but then that makes me question that goodbye between the two when he says he loves her, was he just playing along or are his feelings coming back? Don’t let them come back. Bury them Barry. Bury them so deep they end up in New Zealand! Seriously, don’t let that shitty plotline come back.
Oh, also Iris is a cop in this universe, because why not, and her partner is Deadshot, I love the fact that nickname works to both mean he’s a great shot and a horrible shot. Which is also partially confusing because I didn’t recall Barry knowing who Deadshot was, nor does it make sense how someone who is that bad at aiming would ever make a police officer, but hey it’s nice to see the actor back and playing a completely different type of character. Oh, and Joseph is a singer, because this show isn’t done teasing me enough about how easy it would be to do a musical episode, seriously Flash GIMME A MUSICAL EPISODE!!! But it is interesting to see him in a new lifestyle, and even more so he and Barry supposedly hate each other, which is fascinating to see…too bad they kill him off in one of the most convenient death’s ever.
Now let’s get to the big hook of this episode, Caitlin & Ronnie as Killer Frost and Deathstorm…they were fine. The best part about them was the fact that Deathstorm is still Ronnie and Prof. Stein, but Stein is just a corpse, that is so morbidly evil I love it. But my big problem with them is the fight scene with The Flash, for some reason Deathstorm is fast enough to keep up with The Flash, meanwhile Killer Frost barely does anything even though cold works so much better against Flash than heat. If anything the fact that I knew they were coming made them less entertaining to watch because I feel most of the charm of Earth 2 is what I didn’t expect to see. And then comes Earth 2 Cisco also known as Reverb! See this is what I’m talking about! What we don’t know is turns out to be the best decision! But then they had to kill him off which sucks. I don’t care if they kill off Deathstorm, but Reverb here with all these cool powers and he was willing to teach Cisco! Oh my god that could have been so cool! The potential here would have been awesome! Why waste it all with a meaningless death!?
But hey, this episode wasn’t all Earth 2 stuff, let’s go back to Earth 1, where a metahuman named…I honestly didn’t get his name, but he just seems like a rip-off of Avalanche from X-Men. Point is a metahuman shows up and they don’t have The Flash to help them, okay this could be an interesting story, seeing the regular heroes try and deal with a metahuman themselves—or you could just bring in a Deus-Ex Machina of the Velocity 7. Well okay maybe they’ll give it to Wally so we can get a taste of Wally as The Flash and—No they’re gonna give it to Jay again, making Wally’s appearance in this episode entirely pointless. Also the villain was lame, he runs off as soon as the police do…exactly what they were expected to do? The coolest part about it was seeing Jay in action again, and doing that shockwave thing with his helmet and Joe’s reaction was hilarious. But really this story feels like filler when it had the potential to be something really interesting!
In the end, this was an awesome episode, I loved almost everything about Earth 2 and I cannot wait to see more, the stuff on Earth 1 was a letdown especially when it could have been so much more. Nevertheless, I’m giving this episode a 9/10.
-Danny
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