They did the cover!
I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't a heroic rescue, just an afterthought for the sake of doing the gag. But I guess with Jay lacking his speed, they couldn't have done it any other way. Still, maybe they should've saved it for the episode where Jay gets his speed back.
So...is Harrison Wells-2 also Zoom, or is that too obvious?
I suspect Wells's ominous entrance was a red herring and he'll turn out to be a good guy, which is how they'll get to keep Tom Cavanaugh as a regular.
As for Zoom, I find it interesting that Jay said that Zoom emerged around the same time that Jay became the Flash. Could it be that Jay was somehow split into two halves? Maybe that's why Zoom is so determined to destroy him?
On the other hand, Zoom seems to be wearing something that looks like Barry's old logo. Could he be a manifestation of some split-off aspect of Barry? Jay said he'd been the Flash for only a couple of years. The accelerator explosion was just under two years ago. What if it created the original breach between universes, and empowered both Barry and Jay at the same time? After all, that's how it created the metahuman powers, by opening a breach that allowed extradimensional energies to enter our world.
Really liked that they kept the heavy water origin for Jay.
Actually Jay's
first origin story (didn't want to say "original origin story" -- oops, I did anyway) said he got his powers from the fumes of
hard water, not heavy water. There was apparently a belief at the time that drinking hard water helped runners get faster. But since hard water is just water with a lot of minerals dissolved in it, hard water fumes would just be ordinary water vapor. It was a pretty stupid origin, which is why they later retconned it to heavy water. That's actually almost as stupid, though, since that's just water with deuterium atoms (hydrogen with an extra neutron) instead of ordinary hydrogen, and there's a small amount of it mixed into normal water anyway.
I am curious what Iris was told by Joe about her Mom. In a deleted scene from the finale she wished Barry could try and go back and save her Mom too. Did Joe lie and tell her she died??? If so his history of lying to his daughter goes way back before hiding Barry was the Flash!
Its possible the writers changed their original plan for her. Often deleted scenes are ignored by the same people who wrote them.
Yup. Writers change their minds and their plans all the time. Anything that isn't in the final work is subject to being changed or ignored. Heck, sometimes things that
are in the final work get changed or ignored later.
I do have a question that the episode didn't make all that clear. Is there a difference between a Parallel Universe and a Multi-Verse?
A multiverse is a bunch of parallel universes, usually connected in some way.
So the TNG episode should have been called "Multi-Verse?" I'm still a little confused on the difference.
"Uni-" is Latin for "one," "multi-" is Latin for "many." "Multiverse" is simply an abbreviation for "multiple universes." Stein's line was misleadingly written when he said that a parallel universe should be called a multiverse instead. That's wrong, because a multiverse is a plurality of parallel or alternate universes, not just a single one. The parallel universes are the individual parts making up the whole that we call the multiverse.
