Every time I see these two together I forget how much I
enjoy those moments between John Wesley Shipp, the original television series
Flash, and Grant Gustin today’s Flash. The writers couldn’t have made a better
choice in actors for the man who would be Flash’s father. The other thing I’ve
come to love about the series is its racial dynamics; especially in light of the Ferguson
riots. The father son dynamic between Joe and Barry ranges from heart wrenching
to inspirational. Every time I see these two men together I keep thinking if
only America as a whole had the capacity to parent all of our children into healthy, successful
adulthood regardless of our racial differences – what an incredible country we
would have! However that’s not the case so back to tonight’s episode. I was
actually hoping that Wells was not Professor Zoom once he and PZ had made their
appearance together at Star Labs; unfortunately, I was right Wells is Professor Zoom.
What tonight’s episode brought home for me was the lesson of compassion,
restraint and humanity; it was an appropriate episode for the Holiday season. I
don’t really believe there’s going to be any deep or even superficially deep psychological
underpinnings within the episode until its January season. Right now all I can say is great
episode, and way to go in terms of setting things up for a future relationship
between Iris and Barry. Yes, I believe that Iris’s present bow might experience
a short life span during the series. I don’t see him as being a long term
character at least not in his present incarnation as Detective Eddie Thawne. He’ll
either die, move out of town or become a superior villain; my money is that he’ll
die during a clash with the reverse Flash.
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