The Flash “King Shark” Review

<p>Holy crap&period; Congratulations&comma; <em>Flash<&sol;em> Special Effects Team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;King Shark&&num;8221&semi; was a solid entry in the <em>Flash<&sol;em> portfolio&comma; but I just can&&num;8217&semi;t get over how freaking good King Shark actually looked&period; Fans of the show have been clamoring for more since King Shark first appeared back in October&period; That showing had only been a quick scene&comma; but it had forever given their audience hope of something bigger&period; Now&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re gifted with a full episode of King Shark action&comma; and it did not disappoint&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; Barry&comma; Cisco&comma; and Wells rescued Jessie from Zoom and returned from Earth-2&comma; but not before Zoom stabbed Jay through the heart and pulled him back into Earth-2&period; Pretty climactic stuff&period; &&num;8220&semi;King Shark&&num;8221&semi; picks up right where last week left off&comma; with Caitlyn in shock and Barry determined to find a way to get back to Earth-2&period; However&comma; the breaches have all been closed&comma; which causes a problem&period; As such&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re given a montage of Barry running through Central City&comma; searching for a metahuman to take his mind off of things&period; Diggle &lpar;<em>David Ramsey<&sol;em>&rpar; and Lila &lpar;<em>Audrey Marie Anderson<&sol;em>&rpar; head over from <em>The Arrow <&sol;em>and<em> <&sol;em>warn Barry of the return of King Shark&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;100321" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-100321" style&equals;"width&colon; 800px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-100321 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;03232953&sol;The-Flash-and-John-Diggle-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"533" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-100321" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Gone Fishin&&num;8217&semi; &lpar;<em>The Flash<&sol;em>&comma; CW&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;">Barry has been struggling emotionally since he returned from Earth-2&comma; and this takes front-and-center this week as <em>The Flash<&sol;em> redirects to its final destination&colon; a showdown with The Flash on the offensive against Zoom&period; This led to a nice scene between Barry&comma; Iris&comma; and Joe&comma; and built to a welcome final monologue from Barry&period; The final member of that family&comma; Wally&comma; didn&&num;8217&semi;t fair as well this week&period; The plot exploring the relationship between Barry and Wally didn&&num;8217&semi;t quite succeed at the same level as the others&comma; but we can only hope that this is building the foundation for Wally&&num;8217&semi;s character to grow &lpar;into a superhero&comma; perhaps&quest;&rpar;&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As I mentioned last week&comma; Danielle Panabaker&&num;8217&semi;s Caitlyn simply cannot seem to catch a break with her love life and&comma; thankfully&comma; the creative team didn&&num;8217&semi;t shy away from this here&period; Caitlyn struggled throughout the episode with her remorse&comma; and her interactions with Cisco were fun and engaging as he feared she might turn into Killer Frost from Earth-2&period; This&comma; of course&comma; isn&&num;8217&semi;t the case&comma; but I can&&num;8217&semi;t help but wonder what is next for Caitlyn&period; Her character is in desperate need of more than just being the broken-hearted love interest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;100322" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-100322" style&equals;"width&colon; 800px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-100322 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;03232938&sol;The-Flash-and-Not-Killer-Frost&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"533" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-100322" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&&num;8230&semi;Still Fishin&&num;8217&semi; &lpar;<em>The Flash<&sol;em>&comma; CW&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Returning to the trophy of the week&comma; King Shark was a fantastic treat&period; His immense size and strength was never in question&period; The first fight scene was a bit anticlimactic&comma; as King Shark could probably have crushed the Flash in the time it took for the cars to arrive&comma; but the second battle more than made up for it with fantastic effects and intense action&period; King Shark will most likely have little effect on the major story arc of Season 2&comma; but it was a wonderful love letter to dedicated fans of the show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here&&num;8217&semi;s my problem with Diggle and Lila appearing in this episode&comma; and almost all of the crossovers so far on <em>The Flash<&sol;em>&colon; it probably didn&&num;8217&semi;t really need to happen&period; Diggle is a fun character&comma; but their presence wasn&&num;8217&semi;t really that necessary&period; The entire episode could&&num;8217&semi;ve conducted itself just fine without them&period; Some of the battles with the Arrow have been fun&comma; and I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t vehemently opposed to the <em>Legends of Tomorrow <&sol;em>build-up&comma; but it seems like we run the risk of crossovers becoming too commonplace&period; Part of the magic behind crossovers is keeping them special and important&period; Hopefully the pending Supergirl crossover will find this level of reverence and respect for the shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;100323" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-100323" style&equals;"width&colon; 800px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-100323 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;03232922&sol;Barry-Allen-and-Wally-West&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"533" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-100323" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">They look happy here&comma; but they aren&&num;8217&semi;t&period; Trust me&period; &lpar;<em>The Flash<&sol;em>&comma; CW&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Let&&num;8217&semi;s discuss that post-credit scene&colon; So Jay &lpar;most likely a different Jay than the one we knew on Earth-1&rpar; is Zoom&period; My initial reaction is one of annoyance&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve mentioned in previous reviews that Teddy Sears is a likable and endearing actor&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s a shame that he was saddled with some of the more sub-par plots each week&period; This isn&&num;8217&semi;t necessarily the solution I had in mind&period; That being said&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m open to exploring where this goes&period; The writers behind <em>The Flash <&sol;em>seem to enjoy playing around with both the expected and the unexpected&comma; so I&&num;8217&semi;m not convinced this is something of concern yet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m more interested in The Man with the Iron Mask&period; He sure looked concerned when Jay dropped Jay&&num;8217&semi;s dead body on the ground&period; What a unique show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Have thoughts or opinions you&&num;8217&semi;d like to share&quest; Comment below or tweet at me&excl; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;LoganASchultz">&commat;LoganASchultz<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em>Catch new episodes of <&sol;em><strong>The Flash<&sol;strong><em>&comma; Tuesdays at 8&sol;7c on The CW<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;