Monday 23 November 2015

The Flash - 'Enter Zoom'

So, it turns out that how you get away with a costume like Zoom's is to be a
monstrous colossus who is way too scary to make fun of.
Barry is cooking up a plan to lure Zoom into a trap. By having Dr Light pretend to have beaten him, Team Flash will draw Zoom out and dart him with speed inhibitors like those the Arrow used on Reverse Flash last season. Unfortunately, Light escapes* and so a plan is hatched for Linda Park to impersonate her double and pretend to defeat Flash.

In the first instance, the plan goes awry and Zoom doesn't show up, but then he does appear and kidnaps Linda. Barry is able to save her from a fall, but then the fight against Zoom... does not quite go to plan. Barry throws a lightning bolt, which Zoom catches and returns, before beating the absolute shit out of Barry then racing around Central to display the Flash's broken form. Seriously; Arrow may spend most of its time wanting to be Batman, but Zoom kinda wants to be Bane. In evidence I enter that Barry's back appears to have been broken in his fight.

One thing that becomes clear here is that Zoom is a fucking monster. He is huge and brutal in a way Reverse Flash never was, as well as capable of catching every bullet fired by a dozen cops emptying their sidearms one-handed.

Also, on current evidence not reading Patty in is going to prove a big mistake, because she's way too smart to stay in the dark for long and if she works it out herself, she's just going to be pissed off.

* If only someone had foreseen that Light could become invisible. Oh, wait, Patty did and Joe blew her off.

No comments:

Post a Comment