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The Flash recap: A weird Valentine's Day ends with a twist
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Iris remains at the center of The Flash’s story in the second episode of “Graphic Novel #2,” a.k.a. the latter half of season 6. Tonight’s silly-romantic episode, titled “Love Is a Battlefield,” dove into the ways Iris grew and changed (somewhat off-screen) during the first part of the season before throwing a major twist the audience that raises some questions about that growth.
“Love Is a Battlefield” picks up immediately where the midseason premiere left off, with Iris back at McCulloch. We see a dazed Iris pull herself up from the ground behind Eva McCulloch’s desk. The next thing we know, it’s morning and she’s making Barry an early Valentine’s Day breakfast. If you’ve been watching this show, then you know Iris is a terrible cook, so Barry braces himself. To his surprise, the food’s actually good (and now I’m craving pancakes, which is a whole other story). Little does Barry know, that’s not the only surprise she’ll throw at him in the episode.
Hoping to enjoy Valentine’s Day before whatever meta-of-the-week ruins thing, the couple heads to dinner at a fancy restaurant, where Iris shows off another new skill: She can speak Italian. Apparently, she simply picked up a phrase or two while working on a story. Alas, this is Central City, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that a meta interrupts their dinner — specifically Amunet Black.
The last time we saw Katee Sackhoff as the black and metal-loving meta was in season 4’s “Harry and the Harrisons” in which she briefly teamed up with Team Flash. This time around, it feels as though Sackhoff returned determined to chew even more scenery than she did last time — and I love it. There’s a menacing giddiness in her performance that feels like it was imported from Legends of Tomorrow, especially when she threatens to reveal Barry’s secret identity if he or any of his super-friends try to stop what she has planned, which involves stealing a briefcase from one of the restaurant patrons.
Because of Amunet’s threat, this is a fairly Flash-less episode of The Flash. But that’s okay because Iris feels more than up to the task of handling the legwork on this mission. First, she infiltrates a bar where Amunet used to hang in order to get some information on her whereabouts while an anxious Barry stays in the car (Chuck could never!). Things briefly go sideways at the bar and Barry starts yelling out their safe-word (banana!), but Iris ignores him over the coms and handles the situation and gets the info they need.
Cut to Barry and Iris sneaking into Ivo and witnessing Amunet steal some kind of container. Right as that happens another familiar face returns: Goldface, who was introduced in season 5. It turns out he and Amunet used to date, but now they’re enemies and are after the same thing. As the former lovers quarrel, Iris sneakily steals what the bad guys came here to steal.
The Flash -- "Love Is A Battlefield" -- Image Number: FLA611b_0157bc.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Candice Patton as Iris West - Allen and Grant Gustin as Barry Allen -- Photo: Katie Yu/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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In the wake of that theft-gone-bad, a gang war breaks out in Central City, except we never see any of it, presumably because of budgetary restrictions, which is a bummer. Nevertheless, Iris comes up with a plan to stop it: She wants to hand the device over to Amunet and try to bring this down from the inside because she thinks this gang war is really a personal conflict. Of course, Barry objects to this idea because it’s obviously risky. But Iris fights back and basically says she’s no longer Barry’s damsel in distress and accuses him of missing how much she’s grown in the past few months. While he was preparing to die in Crisis, she was busy preparing for life without him. As a fan of the couple, it’s hard to watch this fight, but man does Iris have a point. I love that the writers specifically had her say the phrase “damsel in distress” and have her own how much of a badass she is in her own right. Moreover, their fight was very reminiscent of the one Oliver and Felicity had when the former got out of prison in season 7.
Ignoring Barry’s wishes, Iris makes contact with Amunet, who is collecting all of this tech so she can steal a rare plant that would give her telepathic abilities. Amunet is suspicious of Mrs. Flash, but Iris convinces her to join forces by saying she wants the plant for herself so that she can read Barry’s mind and hopefully fix their marriage. Amunet gleefully agrees to let her in on the heist.
So Iris and Amunet break into yet another nondescript location to steal the plant. Of course, Goldface shows up and the two former lovers start bickering once again. After a heart-to-heart with Joe about he and Iris not connecting, Barry speeds onto the scene to support his wife. Iris tells Barry to burn the plant, which ends up releasing the powerful pollen into the air and allowing Amunet and Goldface to hear each other’s true thoughts. Spoiler alert: They still love each other. Look, this entire Amunet and Goldface thing was very unusual and silly for the Flash, but I kind of liked it because the show hasn’t really ever tried anything like it before.
With the day saved, Barry and Iris return home and share a tender embrace. As that happens, Iris looks in the mirror, on the other side of which is the real Iris yelling at Barry that the woman he’s kissing isn’t the real her. So, it seems as though Iris didn’t make it out of the mirror and is still trapped, which raises some questions about who this Iris is. Is it Eva McCulloch pretending to be Iris? Is it some part of Iris, like her id? I hope it’s the latter, because any other answer would undercut the episode’s earlier emphasis that Iris underwent some major growth in the first half of the season. Furthermore, part of me wishes that The Flash had shorter seasons so that it didn’t need a filler episode like this. Imagine if this Iris plot was revealed at the top of the hour and part of the fun was seeing what that meant — like if we just got to the thing instead of stalling until the end of the episode.
It’s worth noting that Iris isn’t the only one who saw a mirror version of herself in the episode. Toward the end of the hour, Nash Wells briefly sees a bespectacled Harrison Wells in the crowd at Jitters, but the latter quickly disappears. What does it mean? I have no idea, but I would love to see Tom Cavanagh play original flavor Harrison Wells again.
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“Love Is a Battlefield” picks up immediately where the midseason premiere left off, with Iris back at McCulloch. We see a dazed Iris pull herself up from the ground behind Eva McCulloch’s desk. The next thing we know, it’s morning and she’s making Barry an early Valentine’s Day breakfast. If you’ve been watching this show, then you know Iris is a terrible cook, so Barry braces himself. To his surprise, the food’s actually good (and now I’m craving pancakes, which is a whole other story). Little does Barry know, that’s not the only surprise she’ll throw at him in the episode.
Hoping to enjoy Valentine’s Day before whatever meta-of-the-week ruins thing, the couple heads to dinner at a fancy restaurant, where Iris shows off another new skill: She can speak Italian. Apparently, she simply picked up a phrase or two while working on a story. Alas, this is Central City, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that a meta interrupts their dinner — specifically Amunet Black.
The last time we saw Katee Sackhoff as the black and metal-loving meta was in season 4’s “Harry and the Harrisons” in which she briefly teamed up with Team Flash. This time around, it feels as though Sackhoff returned determined to chew even more scenery than she did last time — and I love it. There’s a menacing giddiness in her performance that feels like it was imported from Legends of Tomorrow, especially when she threatens to reveal Barry’s secret identity if he or any of his super-friends try to stop what she has planned, which involves stealing a briefcase from one of the restaurant patrons.
Because of Amunet’s threat, this is a fairly Flash-less episode of The Flash. But that’s okay because Iris feels more than up to the task of handling the legwork on this mission. First, she infiltrates a bar where Amunet used to hang in order to get some information on her whereabouts while an anxious Barry stays in the car (Chuck could never!). Things briefly go sideways at the bar and Barry starts yelling out their safe-word (banana!), but Iris ignores him over the coms and handles the situation and gets the info they need.
Cut to Barry and Iris sneaking into Ivo and witnessing Amunet steal some kind of container. Right as that happens another familiar face returns: Goldface, who was introduced in season 5. It turns out he and Amunet used to date, but now they’re enemies and are after the same thing. As the former lovers quarrel, Iris sneakily steals what the bad guys came here to steal.
The Flash -- "Love Is A Battlefield" -- Image Number: FLA611b_0157bc.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Candice Patton as Iris West - Allen and Grant Gustin as Barry Allen -- Photo: Katie Yu/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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In the wake of that theft-gone-bad, a gang war breaks out in Central City, except we never see any of it, presumably because of budgetary restrictions, which is a bummer. Nevertheless, Iris comes up with a plan to stop it: She wants to hand the device over to Amunet and try to bring this down from the inside because she thinks this gang war is really a personal conflict. Of course, Barry objects to this idea because it’s obviously risky. But Iris fights back and basically says she’s no longer Barry’s damsel in distress and accuses him of missing how much she’s grown in the past few months. While he was preparing to die in Crisis, she was busy preparing for life without him. As a fan of the couple, it’s hard to watch this fight, but man does Iris have a point. I love that the writers specifically had her say the phrase “damsel in distress” and have her own how much of a badass she is in her own right. Moreover, their fight was very reminiscent of the one Oliver and Felicity had when the former got out of prison in season 7.
Ignoring Barry’s wishes, Iris makes contact with Amunet, who is collecting all of this tech so she can steal a rare plant that would give her telepathic abilities. Amunet is suspicious of Mrs. Flash, but Iris convinces her to join forces by saying she wants the plant for herself so that she can read Barry’s mind and hopefully fix their marriage. Amunet gleefully agrees to let her in on the heist.
So Iris and Amunet break into yet another nondescript location to steal the plant. Of course, Goldface shows up and the two former lovers start bickering once again. After a heart-to-heart with Joe about he and Iris not connecting, Barry speeds onto the scene to support his wife. Iris tells Barry to burn the plant, which ends up releasing the powerful pollen into the air and allowing Amunet and Goldface to hear each other’s true thoughts. Spoiler alert: They still love each other. Look, this entire Amunet and Goldface thing was very unusual and silly for the Flash, but I kind of liked it because the show hasn’t really ever tried anything like it before.
With the day saved, Barry and Iris return home and share a tender embrace. As that happens, Iris looks in the mirror, on the other side of which is the real Iris yelling at Barry that the woman he’s kissing isn’t the real her. So, it seems as though Iris didn’t make it out of the mirror and is still trapped, which raises some questions about who this Iris is. Is it Eva McCulloch pretending to be Iris? Is it some part of Iris, like her id? I hope it’s the latter, because any other answer would undercut the episode’s earlier emphasis that Iris underwent some major growth in the first half of the season. Furthermore, part of me wishes that The Flash had shorter seasons so that it didn’t need a filler episode like this. Imagine if this Iris plot was revealed at the top of the hour and part of the fun was seeing what that meant — like if we just got to the thing instead of stalling until the end of the episode.
It’s worth noting that Iris isn’t the only one who saw a mirror version of herself in the episode. Toward the end of the hour, Nash Wells briefly sees a bespectacled Harrison Wells in the crowd at Jitters, but the latter quickly disappears. What does it mean? I have no idea, but I would love to see Tom Cavanagh play original flavor Harrison Wells again.
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- In the episode’s C plot: Frost helps Allegra with her relationship woes. Things go badly, and Frost starts pitying herself because she feels like she hasn’t learned anything about humans in the past few months. But some advice from Nash allows her to help Allegra strike up a friendship with her ex.
- LOL at everyone calling Barry’s costume a onesie.
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Two members of Team Flash went on two surprising trips in The Flash‘s midseason return — and one of them wasn’t by choice.
Picking up in the wake of “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the midseason premiere, titled “Marathon,” saw Iris (Candice Patton) learn that the mysterious organization she started tracking in the first half of the season is called Black Hole and is led by Joseph Carver, the current CEO of McCulloch Technologies.
“The biggest villain, really, of ‘Graphic Novel #2,’ we met that person: that’s Joseph Carver,” showrunner Eric Wallace tells EW. “We’ve seen what a bad guy he is already. It’s just the tip of the iceberg, the whole Black Hole story, and this conspiracy thriller aspect that we have going on. … Every week as the season goes on, we’re gonna see another layer of the onion peeled back of what being Black Hole really means, and it’s terrifying. Obviously, as you saw at the end of the [midseason] opener, it directly affects Iris.” And Wallace is not wrong.
Toward the end of the hour, Iris had an epiphany and realized Carver’s missing wife, Eva McCulloch — who will be played by Efrat Dor (Mayans M.C., Sneaky Pete), as EW broke in November — was related to the Black Hole conspiracy. So, she broke back into McCulloch and started poking around Eva’s abandoned office, discovering a giant mirror in the process. While her back was turned, two silvery hands pulled Iris into the mirror, which wasn’t totally surprising given the fact Eva’s name is very similar to Evan McCulloch, one of the Mirror Masters in the pages of DC Comics. Yes, The Flash will definitely reveal where Iris traveled.
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“You can’t have an Alice in Wonderland story without seeing Alice in Wonderland on the other side of the looking glass, and exploring the other side of the looking glass is a huge part of ‘Graphic Novel #2.’ It’s one of the most interesting and exciting parts,” says Wallace. “Without giving away too many spoilers, sometimes reality isn’t what you think it is. Perception of what you think is real doesn’t necessarily mean it’s real. So it’s very strange.”
Iris wasn’t the only one who went on a trip in “Marathon.” Elsewhere in the episode, Cisco (Carlos Valdes), who was conflicted about giving up his powers last season, decided to find his purpose by leaving Central City and catalogue everything that changed after “Crisis on Infinite Earths” and the creation of Earth-Prime. Don’t worry, though, Valdes isn’t leaving the show. His absence is only temporary and is a “practical” decision due to scheduling.
“He’s not going anywhere. He is an integral part of ‘Graphic Novel #2.’ We love Cisco, so it was just practical in that sense. I don’t want fans to think Cisco is leaving the show. It’s not that at all,” says Wallace. “What’s great is what he’s going to off to explore on this journey of self-discovery — and we don’t go on that journey necessarily; the journey more comes back to us with his return — actually informs the rest of his emotional arc for the rest of the season, which we will learn when he returns in a few episodes.”
Looking forward, Cisco will ask himself, “How can he help Team Flash and be a true hero without having his Vibe powers?” says Wallace. “We dabbled with that a little bit in ‘Graphic Novel #1,’ but it’s the hugest part of his journey in ‘Graphic Novel #2.'”
The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
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Warning: This article contains spoilers from Tuesday’s midseason premiere of The Flash, titled “Marathon.”
Two members of Team Flash went on two surprising trips in The Flash‘s midseason return — and one of them wasn’t by choice.
Picking up in the wake of “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” the midseason premiere, titled “Marathon,” saw Iris (Candice Patton) learn that the mysterious organization she started tracking in the first half of the season is called Black Hole and is led by Joseph Carver, the current CEO of McCulloch Technologies.
“The biggest villain, really, of ‘Graphic Novel #2,’ we met that person: that’s Joseph Carver,” showrunner Eric Wallace tells EW. “We’ve seen what a bad guy he is already. It’s just the tip of the iceberg, the whole Black Hole story, and this conspiracy thriller aspect that we have going on. … Every week as the season goes on, we’re gonna see another layer of the onion peeled back of what being Black Hole really means, and it’s terrifying. Obviously, as you saw at the end of the [midseason] opener, it directly affects Iris.” And Wallace is not wrong.
Toward the end of the hour, Iris had an epiphany and realized Carver’s missing wife, Eva McCulloch — who will be played by Efrat Dor (Mayans M.C., Sneaky Pete), as EW broke in November — was related to the Black Hole conspiracy. So, she broke back into McCulloch and started poking around Eva’s abandoned office, discovering a giant mirror in the process. While her back was turned, two silvery hands pulled Iris into the mirror, which wasn’t totally surprising given the fact Eva’s name is very similar to Evan McCulloch, one of the Mirror Masters in the pages of DC Comics. Yes, The Flash will definitely reveal where Iris traveled.
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“You can’t have an Alice in Wonderland story without seeing Alice in Wonderland on the other side of the looking glass, and exploring the other side of the looking glass is a huge part of ‘Graphic Novel #2.’ It’s one of the most interesting and exciting parts,” says Wallace. “Without giving away too many spoilers, sometimes reality isn’t what you think it is. Perception of what you think is real doesn’t necessarily mean it’s real. So it’s very strange.”
Iris wasn’t the only one who went on a trip in “Marathon.” Elsewhere in the episode, Cisco (Carlos Valdes), who was conflicted about giving up his powers last season, decided to find his purpose by leaving Central City and catalogue everything that changed after “Crisis on Infinite Earths” and the creation of Earth-Prime. Don’t worry, though, Valdes isn’t leaving the show. His absence is only temporary and is a “practical” decision due to scheduling.
“He’s not going anywhere. He is an integral part of ‘Graphic Novel #2.’ We love Cisco, so it was just practical in that sense. I don’t want fans to think Cisco is leaving the show. It’s not that at all,” says Wallace. “What’s great is what he’s going to off to explore on this journey of self-discovery — and we don’t go on that journey necessarily; the journey more comes back to us with his return — actually informs the rest of his emotional arc for the rest of the season, which we will learn when he returns in a few episodes.”
Looking forward, Cisco will ask himself, “How can he help Team Flash and be a true hero without having his Vibe powers?” says Wallace. “We dabbled with that a little bit in ‘Graphic Novel #1,’ but it’s the hugest part of his journey in ‘Graphic Novel #2.'”
The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
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The Flash will be switching up its tone when the show returns for the second half of season 6, a.k.a. “Graphic Novel #2.”
“Because this is the season of thrills and chills, if ‘Graphic Novel #1’ was the chills, ‘Graphic Novel #2’ is the thrills,”showrunner Eric Wallace tells EW. “Whereas Bloodwork’s story was very much The Flash’s version of a horror movie, it’s time to go to a thriller now, and there might even be a little sci-fi [weirdness] in there… because I watch too much Twin Peaks.”
The thriller aspect is immediately apparent in the midseason return, “Marathon,” as a dangerous organization threatens Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) after she publishes an explosive exposé.
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“A lot of the things that we were drawing on for reference, which you [see] in that opener, were ’70s paranoid thrillers. All the Presidents’ Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, all of those kinds of films were kind of at the back of our heads as we went into Graphic Novel #2,” Wallace says.
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While the first half of the season was focused on how Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) was handling his impending demise in “Crisis on Infinite Earths” (which didn’t come to pass, thanks to Earth-90 Flash’s heroic sacrifice), the new batch of episodes is very much about Iris’ reaction to everything that’s happened.
“Now we get to deal very specifically with what was Iris going through and how has that affected her now and where will that take the Barry and Iris relationship,” Wallace says. “Quite frankly, it takes it to some nuts places, but what’s great is that by the end of ‘Graphic Novel #2,’ I can say unequivocally that Barry and Iris will be closer than they’ve ever been before, simply because what happens is just the craziest thing ever.”
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That said, Barry will also be dealing with some heavy things. Sure, he survived “Crisis,” but he also lost his friend and mentor Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who died rebooting the multiverse. While that loss weighs on Barry, there’s another unexpected consequence of the big five-part event that directly impacts Barry and also plays into Keiynan Lonsdale’s return as Kid Flash.
“One would think the true fallout of ‘Crisis’ is the death of Oliver Queen and not having your mentor — you know, Obi-Wan is gone, Luke must rise up, become a hero — and that happens, don’t get me wrong, but that’s not the real fallout of ‘Crisis,’” says Wallace. “The real fallout of ‘Crisis’ has yet to be seen. That is the heart of our story, and that is the heart of what is going to lead Barry on a very emotional journey that he is not prepared for. That’s one of the things having Keiynan back as Kid Flash does for us: [It] directly addresses — because Keiynan will be in one of our episodes in ‘Graphic Novel #2’ — [and] is to help Barry deal with the real fallout of ‘Crisis.’”
One consequence of “Crisis” we can address now is that the creation of Earth-Prime — which altered the Arrowverse’s timeline by moving every CW superhero show onto one Earth — leads to some of The Flash’s past baddies returning, potentially with new powers and even new identities. We already We already know Katee Sackhoff’s Amunet Black is coming back, but there’s definitely more on the way.
“The past villains that we saw in previous seasons, they’re not the same villains anymore. They are different people. They might even have different abilities, which Team Flash is going to get caught unprepared,” says Wallace. “It gives a freshness to it and even more danger to what would be a meta-of-the-week kind of story line. It becomes even more treacherous if you don’t know what the meta is, because that meta is a little bit more unpredictable.” Without revealing who we’ll see in addition to Amunet, he adds: “We’re going to dig deep. You’re definitely going to get villains we have not seen in a long time popping up.”
The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on the CW.
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The Flash will be switching up its tone when the show returns for the second half of season 6, a.k.a. “Graphic Novel #2.”
“Because this is the season of thrills and chills, if ‘Graphic Novel #1’ was the chills, ‘Graphic Novel #2’ is the thrills,”showrunner Eric Wallace tells EW. “Whereas Bloodwork’s story was very much The Flash’s version of a horror movie, it’s time to go to a thriller now, and there might even be a little sci-fi [weirdness] in there… because I watch too much Twin Peaks.”
The thriller aspect is immediately apparent in the midseason return, “Marathon,” as a dangerous organization threatens Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) after she publishes an explosive exposé.
KATIE YU/THE CW
“A lot of the things that we were drawing on for reference, which you [see] in that opener, were ’70s paranoid thrillers. All the Presidents’ Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, all of those kinds of films were kind of at the back of our heads as we went into Graphic Novel #2,” Wallace says.
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While the first half of the season was focused on how Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) was handling his impending demise in “Crisis on Infinite Earths” (which didn’t come to pass, thanks to Earth-90 Flash’s heroic sacrifice), the new batch of episodes is very much about Iris’ reaction to everything that’s happened.
“Now we get to deal very specifically with what was Iris going through and how has that affected her now and where will that take the Barry and Iris relationship,” Wallace says. “Quite frankly, it takes it to some nuts places, but what’s great is that by the end of ‘Graphic Novel #2,’ I can say unequivocally that Barry and Iris will be closer than they’ve ever been before, simply because what happens is just the craziest thing ever.”
KATIE YU/THE CW
That said, Barry will also be dealing with some heavy things. Sure, he survived “Crisis,” but he also lost his friend and mentor Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who died rebooting the multiverse. While that loss weighs on Barry, there’s another unexpected consequence of the big five-part event that directly impacts Barry and also plays into Keiynan Lonsdale’s return as Kid Flash.
“One would think the true fallout of ‘Crisis’ is the death of Oliver Queen and not having your mentor — you know, Obi-Wan is gone, Luke must rise up, become a hero — and that happens, don’t get me wrong, but that’s not the real fallout of ‘Crisis,’” says Wallace. “The real fallout of ‘Crisis’ has yet to be seen. That is the heart of our story, and that is the heart of what is going to lead Barry on a very emotional journey that he is not prepared for. That’s one of the things having Keiynan back as Kid Flash does for us: [It] directly addresses — because Keiynan will be in one of our episodes in ‘Graphic Novel #2’ — [and] is to help Barry deal with the real fallout of ‘Crisis.’”
One consequence of “Crisis” we can address now is that the creation of Earth-Prime — which altered the Arrowverse’s timeline by moving every CW superhero show onto one Earth — leads to some of The Flash’s past baddies returning, potentially with new powers and even new identities. We already We already know Katee Sackhoff’s Amunet Black is coming back, but there’s definitely more on the way.
“The past villains that we saw in previous seasons, they’re not the same villains anymore. They are different people. They might even have different abilities, which Team Flash is going to get caught unprepared,” says Wallace. “It gives a freshness to it and even more danger to what would be a meta-of-the-week kind of story line. It becomes even more treacherous if you don’t know what the meta is, because that meta is a little bit more unpredictable.” Without revealing who we’ll see in addition to Amunet, he adds: “We’re going to dig deep. You’re definitely going to get villains we have not seen in a long time popping up.”
The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on the CW.
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Grant Gustin shares untold story from first 'Flash'-'Arrow' crossover: 'It wasn't glamorous'
Grant Gustin's memory of the first-ever Arrowverse crossover isn't as geek-tastic as one would expect. In the first part of…
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Grant Gustin‘s memory of the first-ever Arrowverse crossover isn’t as geek-tastic as one would expect.
In the first part of the inaugural Arrowverse crossover, which aired in 2014, Arrow‘s Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), John Diggle (David Ramsey), and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) traveled to The Flash‘s Central City and joined forces with Barry Allen (Gustin) and the then-newly formed Team Flash to take down Ray Bivolo, a metahuman who could control people’s emotions with colors. In typical comic book team-up fashion, things went sideways, and the Arrow ended up fighting the Flash because the latter got whammied by Ray.
While the ensuing alleyway brawl between the two superheroes looked pretty awesome on television, the experience of shooting it definitely wasn’t for Gustin because The Flash had just debuted and they were still working out some super-suit kinks.
“We blocked it in the daylight, and I remember there’s paparazzi pictures of us blocking it. Stephen is standing in his Arrow show jacket and I’m glued into my mask [looking] so unhappy watching this stunt rehearsal,” Gustin told EW in July. “They hadn’t figured out how to do my mask yet. So for the first nine episodes, I was glued in for like 12 hours at a time. Like, I’d eat lunch in my mask.”
Things got even harder later that night before they actually shot the scene when a still masked Gustin was sitting in a nearby hotel room reading the script for The Flash‘s midseason finale, “The Man in the Yellow Suit,” which was the first time the Flash and Reverse Flash faced each other.
“I don’t remember exactly what the moment was in that script, it’s toward the end. I just remember sitting on the bed in my mask, like needing to go up for that fight scene and I was sobbing because it was so emotional. Just my whole mask was getting spongy, and it was terrible,” he said with a laugh. “So it wasn’t glamorous that first day of the crossover. I just remember being tired and beat down and mad about being in the mask and excited for the next episode.”
He continued: “That’s what this experience is, though, every year. It’s amazing. It’s something I’ll cherish for the rest of my life, and it’s definitely not as glamorous as everyone thinks it is,” Gustin said.
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As all of the Arrowverse actors will tell you, the experience of shooting the crossover is grueling even without costume problems because they’re often working on multiple episodes at once, running in between several shows. It’s a test of endurance. That being said, it’s also hard not to geek out when you’re on a set surrounded by other heroes, even when you’re six seasons into this.
“[Portraying the Flash] has definitely become a job and it’s a grind and I work long days, as does most of the cast and all of the crew. But there’s always something in a season that kind of snaps you out of the fact that this isn’t normal,” said Gustin. “Like last year when we did the [“Elseworlds” crossover] and Tyler Hoechlin was working as Superman and I got to be on set with Superman for the first time. That was a big moment for me — and then being in the Fortress of Solitude was a mind-blowing moment.”
A year later on “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” Gustin still couldn’t contain his excitement over Tyler Hoechlin’s Superman, according to his crossover co-star Elizabeth Tulloch.
“Grant totally geeks out about Tyler in his Superman costume because he is to this day such a Superman fan,” Tulloch recently told EW, adding that Gustin isn’t alone. “There’s something about the Superman costume, in particular, because it’s just so iconic, that when Tyler walks onto set with the cape and everything, it almost takes your breath away a little bit.”
“Crisis on Infinite Earths” kicks off with Supergirl on Sunday, Dec. 8, followed by Batwoman on Monday, Dec. 9, and The Flash on Tuesday, Dec. 10. After the winter hiatus, the crossover will resume Tuesday, Jan. 14, with Arrow at 8 p.m., and conclude with Legends of Tomorrow at 9 p.m.
should add"..with the seeming exception of Black Lightning.."
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I just read about it.
I just read about it.
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