“The Flash” Season 2 Episode 13 “Welcome to Earth-2”, which aired last Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 8:00 PM on the CW, doled out several revelations and interesting DC Easter Eggs, that will definitely have ramifications not only in the immediate future, but will have a lasting effect on characters such as Earth-1’s Cisco Ramone (Carlos Valdez) and Barry Allen (Grant Gustin). However, next week, fans and viewers should expect that more will be revealed that will impact Barry’s fight against Zoom (Tony Todd). WARNING: This article will contain spoilers for “Welcome to Earth-2” and “Escape from Earth-2”.
Last Tuesday’s episode, aside from encountering the Earth-2 versions of various characters, was crawling with DC Easter Eggs, which were seen both in Barry Allen’s (Grant Gustin) journey to Earth-2, and in Earth-2 itself. During their journey to Earth-2, Barry, Cisco Ramone (Carlos Valdez), and Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) saw images of Kara Zor-El or Supergirl (Mellisa Benoist), Jonah Hex, Connor Hawke, a Legion Flight Ring, Gorilla Grodd, and John Wesley Shipp’s version of the Flash.
On Earth-1, in a bid to stop the Geomancer, Dr. Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears) began to work on improving the Velocity 6 serum, which means that fans will probably be getting to see Velocity 9 pretty soon.
On Earth-2, Easter Eggs include the fact that Captain Cold is the Mayor of Central City, the plaque at the Central City Police Department subtly hints at the Justice Society of America, Flloyd Lawton or Deadshot being a horrible shot, and a telephone which indicated that Nora Allen was alive, and that they are friends with several people with very interesting first names- Eddie, Bruce, Diana and Hal. They also referenced Atlantis in the episode. However, according to Comic Book Resources, these name drops are just going to be interesting little Justice League cameos.
Barry also discovered that his Earth-2 iteration is married to Detective Iris West (Candice Patton), and is a big geek.
They also encountered Caitlin Snow’s Killer Frost, Ronnie Raymond’s (Robbie Amell) Deathstorm, and Reverb, who turned out to be Cisco’s evil Earth-2 doppleganger, and a lounge singing Joe West (Jesse L. Martin).
At the end of the episode, Deathstorm and Reverb were killed by Zoom (Tony Todd), who then snatched up Barry in his Flash suit, and imprisoned him where he was keeping Jesse Quick and an unknown man in an iron mask.
According to a recent interview that Comic Book Resources had with executive producers Todd and Aaron Helbing, while imprisoned, Barry will begin to form an interesting relationship with Jesse. Aside from this, they teased that the unknown man with them is wearing a mask for a very specific reason.
They also mentioned that the identity of Zoom will begin to unravel thanks to the events on Earth-2, and hinted at the fact that Barry is being held with two other people as Zoom will be needing “other ingredients” in order to achieve the full potential of the Speed Force that Zoom wants for himself.
Their sojourn to Earth-2 will also have lasting effects on both the Earth-1 iterations of Cisco and Barry, moving forward.
Barry, of course, will be returning home with the knowledge that he and Iris had gotten married in another universe, which, of course, will be pretty hard to let go off.
Meanwhile, it seems like Cisco’s journey into becoming a hero in his own right might have gotten a very unconventional jumpstart as thanks to Reverb, he now knows that he has more skills that he can hone with regards to his powers.
Comic Book Resources also teased, in the teaser trailer for “Escape from Earth-2”, that fans and viewers will be seeing more of Earth-2 Barry and Killer Frost, as they will end up helping Earth-1 Cisco, and Earth-2 Iris and Wells get Earth-1 Barry back.
However, it seems like Cisco and Iris will be keeping a very close watch on Killer Frost while she is helping them.
The interview with the Helbings on Comic Book Resources also previewed the fact that Earth-2 Barry, although he doesn’t seem like much, will be going through a journey of his own in the upcoming episode, and it seems like by the end of that episode, Earth-2 Barry will never be the same again.
Are you excited for “Escape from Earth-2”? Who do you think the man in the iron mask is? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Check out the link below to get a sneak preview at what will happen in the upcoming episode!
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