Cisco’s exasperation at their terrible banter was just icing on the cake. Linda and Barry were basically mucking it up for a nonexistent camera and exchanging terrible hero vs. If the opening scene wasn’t as dramatic as it might have been, it was still entertaining to see the fight play out in a completely different context. That humor extended to the actual “battle between Barry and Linda. She was a bit of a throwaway character in Season 1, but not any longer. It was also great to see the show making good on its potential as far as making Linda a more prominent and vital member of the cast. The cardboard cutouts alone were pretty darned hilarious (especially Cisco’s incredibly dorky poses). The warehouse scene where she tested her new “powers” easily ranks among the funniest sequences in the show’s history. Much of the fun came from Team Flash’s attempt to groom Linda to take the place of her evil doppelganger. Following that cold opening, this episode was great about slowly building tension in the lead-up to the Zoom confrontation while still keeping things light and breezy. Luckily, that was about my only complaint this week. Normally flash-forwards of that sort help give the episode an extra jolt of drama, but it didn’t really work in this instance. Even if the teaser for this week’s episode hadn’t already spelled out the entire plot, it was pretty obvious what was actually going on. “Enter Zoom” opened with a flash-forward to the big rematch between Barry and Doctor Light.

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