This show has always been about fathers and children, which is why the Barry/Zoom conflict didn’t work nearly as well as the one between Barry and Thawne last year, and so having another guy looking for his daughter while wearing the face of the team’s greatest enemy was absolute genius. Of all the bad moves The Flash made this season, bringing Harry over to Earth-1 was most definitely not one of them. There were also some pretty big apparent departures I could stand to see reversed – Wells and Jessie, most notably. Might the race have resulted in some damage to the barriers between other Earths? Sure, the deal for the show to move to The CW probably wouldn’t have been finalised by the time this was being conceived, but Berlanti and co. I could have sworn at points in the episode that Zoom’s plan to destroy the multiverse was a way for the writers to potentially have Supergirl on Earth-1 for the next season. It’s almost comical in its pettiness and insanity, but I guess that’s just Zoom in a nutshell. I don’t know what we could have expected for a final showdown that serves as a full stop to an arc I don’t think anyone’s particularly interested in, but a big race wasn’t it. The biggest problem in this finale is Zoom. The trouble is, we never saw much of that on screen. With the Wests happy and adjusted, that could have made Barry feel out of place. I guess what I’m saying is that the season had multiple ways in which it could test those connections, from the discovery of Iris’ mother and Wally to the abandonment of Henry once he was out of jail to the comparative goodness of Earth-2 Harry and his love for his daughter. They could easily have used Wally differently, or at least cut his line about Joe being both of their fathers, but that bond has been left consistently strong. Henry’s death is about the only thing that’s changed since last season’s finale, in which he chose to let his mother die over losing his surrogate family. The death of his father pushed him over the edge, but what was missing from the impulse to completely rewrite time was any rift between him and the Wests. Are we about to be greeted by a show that doesn’t have Barry and Joe’s relationship at its core?īarry’s been a broken man for much of this season, and when Barry’s sad he makes stupid decisions. I’m not saying I’m especially against that final twist, then, but it does make me worry for season three. That means that the personal stakes are what we have to hold on to and, while not nearly as strong a through-line as last year, the episode did an okay job of putting us in Barry’s headspace. There have been great things about season two, of course, but finales are designed to feature a big showdown and, unfortunately, the show has struggled to make us care about Zoom ever since his real identity was revealed. This was, in many ways, the only finale we could have had following a disappointing second season of the show.
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