He doesn’t want power - not in the political sense, at least. He’s not a man with a plan to make a better world, who only kills because the people around him give him no choice, and he doesn’t carry any specific grudge against Barry or his friends. I also enjoyed how utterly evil they made Zoom. I actually really enjoyed Zoom’s backstory in this episode. It was an electroshock therapy session - held in a spooky hospital for criminally insane and in the filthiest, dankest looking room, - coinciding with Earth-2’s particle accelerator explosion that gave Zolomon his powers and turned him into Zoom. Why does it matter if you’re the fastest, Evil Speedsters?) and they find out that Hunter Zolomon killed two dozen people well before he ever became a supervillain. Team Flash uncovers Zoom’s history, before he became a speedster obsessed with getting more speed (a goal I still do not understand.
Zolomon received no love, no understanding, and grew up to be a mass murderer.Īnd Zolomon - not Zoom - was indeed a mass murderer.
Barry grew up with that love and understanding, and turned into a hero.
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The Wests were the perfect foster family for Barry: warm, inviting, with an understanding of how to deal with the aftermath of traumatic events, thanks to Joe West’s police training. nurture thing - after all, Barry’s dad turned out to NOT be a murderer, while Zolomon’s definitely was, and if there’s an argument of violence being in the blood or DNA, these differences would factor - but there is a theme of kindness bringing about more kindness, here. I do appreciate the parallel stories of Barry and Hunter Zolomon and The Flash’s emphasis on environment and how mishandling tragedy could lead to more of it. didn’t get to stay with a nice family - he was sent to an old-timey gothic orphanage, where I’m sure the main diet was watery gruel and a side dish of sadness. In the Earth-2 events, little Hunter “Why’d You Name Me This If You Didn’t Want Me to Be Evil” Zolomon witnesses his own mother’s murder, at the hands of his father. Then we see some similar scenes, set on Earth-2 “many years ago” rather than the more specific “15 years ago” we got for Barry’s flashback (since, as we all know, Earth-2 takes place in a bizarre 1940s time warp). We open up with a Gloomy Barry narration over the scenes of his mother’s murder, with Barry telling us that being taken in by the Wests probably made all the difference in his life. Give me back the Labrador Puppy version of Barry, show! Plus, it’s making Barry increasingly more gloomy and I don’t like that. But the Zoom business seems to have stalled just about every other type of story that The Flash could explore this season, barring a few quick mentions and one-off scenes.
Creating a good, season-long enemy to keep momentum going? Cool. It actually doesn’t seem like a whole lot has happened since the last episode though, right? The whole Zoom thing has overshadowed pretty much anything else on The Flash, which I’m not terribly sure I like. Wally seems like he’s getting along with the whole West family now? And Iris has been asking herself if the universe has been trying to tell her that she’s meant to be with Barry, and since they’re married on other Earths and married in the future I guess I can see where she’s coming from there. I suppose Harry still looked for his daughter, but with no luck. Wow, it’s been a long time since we visited Central City, eh? Since we left Team Flash weeks ago, they’ve been working on the tachyon device that should help Barry speed up enough to defeat Zoom.
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