I’m here on DoG every day, but my Flash reviews won’t be back until the show returns on January 19th. I wonder if on Godfather III is any better on Earth-Two?įolks, thanks, as always, for reading my nonsense. And if you’ve read it before, I’ve updated it since then. I wrote more about the history of Zoom and my most likely suspects right here. – Zoom wanting to make Barry better and faster kind of falls in line with the MO of the original comic book Zoom, although the reasoning (TV Zoom wants to siphon off Barry’s speed force energy) was profoundly different. Hiro was a bit less villainous than others, and even built a giant, ridiculous, composite Superman/Batman robot to help those two out back when they weren’t snarling at each other in that ridiculous Batman v Superman movie. – Okamura Toys!!! Hiro Okamura was another version of the Toyman (we’ll be seeing the original, Winslow Schott version over on Supergirl soon enough). We also have an interview with Wally West actor, Keiynan Lonsdale right here. He’ll eventually become a speedster, but we’re not there yet. He took over as the Flash at the age of 21 after Barry Allen croaked during Crisis on Infinite Earths, and stuck around as headliner for the next 25 years (of comic book time) before Barry Allen returned, the DC Universe rebooted, and he was written out of existence, only to reappear in The Flash #30 in 2013. He was pretty awesome on the Young Justice animated series, too. He initially wore a smaller version of Flash’s costume, which looked faintly ridiculous, before they gave him his own, much cooler duds. They wasted no time in making him into Flash’s sidekick, known (appropriately) as Kid Flash. Back then, he was Iris West’s nephew, not her half-brother, though. – Wally West first appeared in The Flash #110 back in 1959. But it’s still disappointing when you get three classic Flash rogues together and a major league guest star in the form of Mark Hamill, and this is the best they can do. Not too big a big deal considering that episode for episode, The Flash season 2 has delivered more consistently than season one did at this stage of the game last year. This was handily the weakest episode of the season so far. I’m totally going to bust this out on my friends’ kids this Christmas. Speaking of toys, so did Harry Wells’ “your toys…give them to me” to that poor little kid. That should have been on-camera, and I feel like all of this build-up to Wally West’s debut could have played out over an additional episode. We got cheated out of seeing Joe have the big talk with Francine, though. Martin allows us to buy into their bond in a profound way. Just as impactful was his gifting the watch to Barry, where once again the effortless on screen chemistry between Mr. The scene where he learns that he has (another) son was really something special. This isn’t to say it was all bad, though. But somehow, perhaps because the Patty thing was such a mess, it just felt like one more thing that had to be rung up before the midseason break. Yes, I get it…this was a result of watching what harboring rage nearly did to Patty. Barry’s “I forgive you” speech to an unknowing Harrison Wells, while perfectly in keeping with Barry’s character and the overall themes of the show, felt strangely heavy-handed, as well. This wasn’t the only time the episode ground to a halt under the weight of its own writing, either. It’s not her performance that’s the issue here, it’s the decision to dump paragraphs of expository dialogue on one character like that. Patty’s “why I became a cop…it’s my fault my Dad is dead” speech would have been less ridiculous if they faded out the background and she simply spoke it into the camera with violin music playing. The problem is, in order for that to happen, Patty had to give a completely ridiculous soliloquy, one that, were there not such stored goodwill for this cast in general and her character in particular, would have been completely unforgivable. Mark “Weather Wizard” Mardon really felt like the most substantial piece of that triumvirate, primarily because of how he was used to flesh out Patty Spivot’s backstory. Wentworth Miller’s Captain Cold is here primarily because there needed to be some additional “hey, this guy is an eyelash away from being not so reprehensible that we won’t buy him as an anti-hero on Legends of Tomorrow” (not that I’m not happy to see him, I am, but this felt extraneous). Mark Hamill’s Trickster is here because, well…schedules lined up and they could use a villain who can make toys work to his advantage for a Christmas episode.
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