‘The Flash’ Finale: Teddy Sears on How Zoom Pushes Barry to His Limit
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is in for the race of his life, which also happens to be the title of The Flash’s pulse-pounding Season 2 finale. And it’s not just his speedster nemesis Zoom (Teddy Sears) who has him running wild. “Something extraordinary happens at the end of the [previous] episode that is just shocking,” Sears says, referring to Zoom murdering Barry’s father, Henry (John Wesley Shipp). “It’s totally out of left field.” It’s also part of the catalyst that throws Barry, who has endured so much already at the hands of his black-suited foe, into a mad dash to destroy Zoom once and for all.
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Barry had better hop to it: Zoom still has that master plan to take over Earth-1 and wipe all of the alternate universes out there off the timeline. “He wants to lord over Barry’s planet,” Sears continues, adding that his character—also known as homicidal time-jumper Hunter Zolomon—may be driven less by supernatural evil than simple human envy. “For all of Zoom’s obsession with Barry, I think Zolomon sees him as the guy he could have become. There is a jealousy there.”
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The best way to settle a grudge match between the two speed freaks? A race. But since we’re talking about the fate of the multiverse, as well as the S.T.A.R. Labs team and whomever Zoom has locked in that iron mask (yes, that will be revealed!), the stakes are a lot higher than bragging rights, Sears hints. “You can’t imagine that it’s all about Zoom racing Barry. There is certainly more to it.”
The Flash, Season Finale, Tuesday, May 24, 8/7c, The CW.
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BarryAllen needs a better moral compass. First he doesn't kill Zoom when he has him at his mercy though the knows the man has killed hundreds and might kill as many or more if allow to live. But no, Barry doesn't kill him with the vibro hand.
Then he trades his speed for Wally's life, even though the life and the speed of the Flash would be the only thing to spare two Earths from the depredations of Zoom. And nothing stops Zoom from killing both of them.
Isn't it perfectly obvious that Barry/Flash is worth more than a n'er do well like Wally?
Then Wally breaks Barry out of his cell because both think that a chance to bring back their father is worth jeopardizing the existence of all the Earths in all the universes.
Finally Barry goes back in time and saves his mother, undoing history for the last dozen years, in effect killing all the people he has ever known and replacing them with clueless doppelgangers and changing the history of two whole worlds.
Such monumental arrogance and moral blindness is reprehensible.
Then again, Barry/Flash/Grant Gustin is awfully cute and looks great in that tight costume.