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Old 02-23-16, 02:35 PM
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The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16




TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23

THE FLASH

"King Shark" - (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) (Content Rating TBD) (HDTV)

"ARROW'S" DIGGLE (DAVID RAMSEY) AND LILA (AUDREY MARIE ANDERSON) CROSS OVER TO "THE FLASH" TO TAKE ON KING SHARK - When King Shark escapes from an A.R.G.U.S. holding tank, Lila (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson) and Diggle (David Ramsey) travel to Central City to warn The Flash (Grant Gustin). King Shark shows up at the West house and attacks Joe (Jesse L. Martin), Iris (Candice Patton), Wally (Keiynan Lonsdale) and Barry. Hanelle Culpepper directed the episode written by Benjamin Raab & Deric A. Hughes (#215). Original airdate 2/23/16.

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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Ya gotta include the Jaws themed promo:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0cfw5PGBCvA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Worth mentioning:

http://tvline.com/2016/02/23/24-lega...ast-fox-pilot/

Teddy Sears (Jay Garrick) just signed on to 24: Legacy.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Originally Posted by DJariya
Worth mentioning:

http://tvline.com/2016/02/23/24-lega...ast-fox-pilot/

Teddy Sears (Jay Garrick) just signed on to 24: Legacy.
I don't think anyone really expected him to stick around for the entire series, did they?
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Originally Posted by Jason
I don't think anyone really expected him to stick around for the entire series, did they?
Gotta be honest...though i LOVE DC's Jay Garrick...This show's handling of him has been a huge let down. I'm glad they got his character on the show but shit, they fucked his powers and have him moping and crying off screen most of the time. It's unfortunate, I'm ok with him leaving.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Gotta say, as a guy still freaked out by JAWS even after all these years....King Shark is like my worst fear come to "life".
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

yeah, they really didn't do much of anything noteworthy with him. That was a huge waste of potential. Barry could at least have done more in learning from his abilities. We got one little trick, but Jay should have taken on the role of Wells from last season in being the one to teach Barry a thing or two and pushing him to improve on his powers.

What a fucking waste.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

^Exactly
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Can King Shark kill Wally, please? Wally just makes people want to punch him.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Well, the Zoom reveal was kind of anti-climatic. Still, I wonder where they are going with this now.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

King Shark looked awesome, especially for TV.

And interesting with Zoom. Guess they had a plan for Jay after all!
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Sort of made the most sense it was Jay. Could the guy in the cage be diggle?
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

If Jay is The Flash from Earth 2 and they already showed Jay from Earth 1, then where did Jay who is Zoom come from? It would seem Jay was withholding quite a bit of information on that regard. Maybe Zoom isn't from Earth 2 either...
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

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Sort of made the most sense it was Jay. Could the guy in the cage be diggle?
I was going to say Diggle since Cisco asked how his helmet was doing and he said something about it needing work. But at the end the guy in the mask looked really surprised and wide eyed as if he was seeing himself. Another Jay?

King Shark looked awesome during the water chase.

Wally continues to be an asshole.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Guesses on Zoom:

1. Future Earth-2 Jay. The guy in the mask is near-future Earth-2 Jay. Dead Jay is present Earth-2 Jay. Zoom just fucked up his timeline which is why the guy in the mask looked surprised.

2. Hunter Zolomon who was hiding in plain sight on Earth-1. Able to easily break through dimensions because he's faster than Barry.

3. Earth-3 Jay. Guy in the mask is Earth-3 Barry.

4. I don't know.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Fuck you, Geoff Johns. This is not my Wally.

The episode just sort of hits a wall when he's on. Also, there's waaaay too many fucking people in Star Labs and that know who the flash is. Those shots of when they were coming up with a plan was just ridiculous in terms of trying to figure out who's new to learning or remembering who knows who he is.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

They've done great VFX work with King Shark, I can't believe they got him to look that great on a CW budget. He is easily this show's best-looking villain.

I pretty much knew the instant they didn't cast an older actor for Jay that we'd get a poor version of the character. I'll assume we haven't met the "real" Jay Garrick yet but having an impostor running around for half a season has pretty much ruined the character. This is one case where the writers out-thought themselves trying to come up with something cool and surprising for the comic book fans.

I don't think Zoom is from either Earth.

This episode must have been made with the intention of airing before last week's Arrow episode. That episode showed Diggle using some new trick with his helmet.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

King Shark was awesome. Very impressive FX with it.

Enjoyed the little appearance by Diggle and Lyla.

Yeah Wally was a dick most of the episode, but at least he had that talk with Joe at the end to hopefully set the record straight.

The Zoom reveal was a little anti-climatic. But I bet there will be a big showdown between them in May.

Not surprising they're talking a 1 month break. There's only 8 episodes left this season.

I read that 24:Legacy's Pilot starts shooting in a few weeks. I bet after Sears wraps shooting that, he will come back to shoot the big episodes for May sweeps.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/02/sup...r-banshee.html

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/65...over#/slide/16

Apparently Grant Gustin is still shooting Supergirl right now. Here's recent set photos.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

I don't like how they are handling Wallly. Also didn't like the secrets for no real reasons. Liked the episode overall though.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

I thought the diggle mask conversation was just an excuse to later change it because it's been a major point of unhappiness from fans in how stupid it looks.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

I've hoping they don't go the Superman 3 route of a split good/bad Jay.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

The shark effects looked awesome, but frankly I think the effects for TV have improved vastly from a decade ago, so I don't get the surprise at that.

I too am very disappointed at the Zoom reveal. Makes no sense and really ruins the character stuff we have seen since Jay first arrived. I'm holding out hope they will eventually make it work.
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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

When I saw the Zoom reveal, all I could think about...

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Re: The Flash (S2E15) -- "King Shark" -- 2/23/16

Tony Todd certainly was an odd choice to do the voice if they were going to always go in that direction. Why not just have the same actor for Jay use some kind of voice modulator so it would make sense after the reveal? Oh well. Not the first time this otherwise great series made a mistake.

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