Because, frankly, there is a lot to process and - in a network show with 22 episodes per season - show’s should use these midseason fillers as something other than momentary distractions from the larger story arcs.įor Barry, it is hard to get the death of Earth-2 Joe West out of his head - and for good reason. This was a great narrative choice on The Flash’s part. “King Shark” may have had the return of King Shark as a major plot device, but it was really about everyone dealing with the repercussions of what happened on Earth-2.

Also, does this mean that Zoom has potentially been sneaking into STAR Labs as Jay this season? And, on top of all that, is Jay Garrick actually dead?Įveryone mourns the events of the Earth-2 crossover. This is particularly fascinating because it means that Zoom is seemingly from Earth-1, which raises a lot of questions about how he ended up on Earth-2. It appears that he is Hunter Zolomon, the man introduced as Jay’s Earth-1 doppelganger and the character behind Zoom in comic book canon. In the final moments of the episode, Zoom finally reveals his mask to reveal that he has a Jay Garrick Face. OK, let’s get the big reveal out of the way because it’s hard not to start speculating about what this might mean for the larger The Flash story. And it made for some heartbreaking, thoughtful, and masterful television. Not only did “King Shark” finally reveal the face under that dreaded Zoom mask, but it became a larger treatise on the consequences of Team Flash’s actions over the past two seasons. If you went into tonight’s episode of The Flash thinking that it would be an off week for the larger story arcs of Season 2, then you would have been sorely mistaken.

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