The Flash: 8 Mistakes It Must Fix In Season 3

2. The Main Villain Being An Evil Speedster

The Flash Zoom Reverse-Flash
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One of the problems with Zoom, aside from that he ended up being rather uninteresting, is that he really suffered by comparisons to Reverse-Flash.

The first season's Big Bad was also an evil speedster with a mysterious identity, and pushed Barry Allen in every way imaginable. However, he was aided by the fantastic performance of Tom Cavanagh pretending to be on Barry's side, and there was a personal and emotional side to the conflict that elevated beyond simply being a fight between two guys who could run really fast. Zoom could not live up to that, nor could he be interesting enough to stand on his own as something different.

Season 3, basically, cannot go down this route again. It'll have speedsters, as evidenced by the recent confirmation that Wally West will become Kid Flash, but the Big Bad can't be yet another evil speedster. Seeing Barry go up against a villain who can test him in others ways, either with a completely different power set or on a more mental level, would be better than repeating the same speedster method.

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