This mid-season finale is named “The Man in the Yellow Suit” because we finally get cracking on the storyline they’ve set up from the beginning. The episode opens up BOOM! with Zoom… or “Reverse Flash” as the people in this Flashverse (eventually) call him. My thoughts are running around and colliding all over the place like a thousand different speedsters from different centuries battling it out in a football stadium. “With this, we were better able to hide the ball as it were as to Zoom’s true identity.The Flash’s mid-season finale has left our minds racing. “We knew there’d be a fair amount of the audience who would know who Jay Garrick was and would take the character and anything he said at face value because of his past history,” he points out. The twist is particularly surprising given Jay’s iconic status in the DC universe, but Kreisberg says that fan expectations helped conceal their master plan for Zoom. A love interest to the heartbroken Caitlin.

Jay had been watching them and knew that so he was able to masterfully step into the role each of them needed.

“For Barry and the others, as much as they were stung by Wells/Thawne’s betrayal, he had been their mentor and friend and they all felt that vacuum when he was gone. “For us, it could only happen because of what happened last season,” Kreisberg explains. Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) in order to gain the trust of Barry Allen ( Grant Gustin), executive producer Andrew Kreisberg tells Variety that the parallel is entirely by design. While fans may be forgiven for thinking that the Zoom storyline seems eerily reminiscent of last season’s twist, which revealed that the Reverse Flash, Eobard Thawne (Matt Letscher), had assumed the identity of scientist Dr.

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