‘The Flash’ season 2, episode 19 reaction: Show boss on Killer Frost surprise

Tonight’s new episode of “The Flash” is ultimately an hour that was probably defined by two big twists. One is the notion of Harrison Wells decided to open up a new particle accelerator incident as a means to get Barry some of his powers back. Meanwhile, the second one has to be the death of Earth-2 Caitlin Snow a.k.a. Killer Frost.

Why kill her now? We imagine that it had to be a tough choice, but executive producer Andrew Kreisberg explained to TVLine that there was no logical way to have her stick around now that Zoom has Earth-1 Caitlin to spend time with on his Earth. Keeping Killer Frost had lost a little bit of its appeal:

“We loved what Danielle [Panabaker] did with [Killer Frost], so when we were designing this episode and we had Zoom kidnap Caitlin, it seemed like a fun thing to do to be able to have the two of them together. To have Caitlin actually experience time with her [doppelganger] gave us an opportunity to sort of deepen both characters.

“But ultimately, she had to go … Like even she said, the only reason he had to keep her alive was she was a living remembrance of him caring about [Caitlin].”

With this interview did not tell us, unfortunately, was whether or not this particle accelerator incident could lead to some further consequences among the members of the team we do know. It’s going to be tough for Harry to do something that works to only get Barry his powers back; with that, it’s certainly possible that he does something that causes Caitlin to become Killer Frost once more, and forces Jesse to become Jesse Quick. Also, could it bring about new meta-humans? It’s certainly a way to kickstart everything entering season 3.

For now, feel free to share all of your new Killer Frost theories below, and head over here to read our full review of the episode from Tuesday. Also, sign up over here to get some more TV news on all we cover, sent right over to you via our CarterMatt Newsletter. (Photo: The CW.)