Debuting in September 2014, rather less than a yr after Grant Gustin debuted as Barry Allen in Arrow Season 2, The Flash is about to enter its ninth and last season. The longest-running (pun barely supposed) of the Arrowverse reveals will wrap issues up with 13 episodes, and there have already been loads of large casting bulletins for this final hurrah. The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace has now revealed that the Legends of Tomorrow can even be concerned in Season 9, in addition to some Justice League plans he’d formulated for a Blackest Night time storyline that ended up being scrapped.
Beginning with the Legends of Tomorrow, Arrowverse followers will keep in mind that the present following the Waverider’s crew was cancelled final yr after seven seasons, ensuing within the present ending with a cliffhanger that launched Donald Faison as Booster Gold. The excellent news is that Eric Wallace shared with The Nerds of Colour that “all of the Legends no less than are all going to look in an episode” of The Flash Season 9. The dangerous information is that Wallace and the The Flash’s crew needed to toss apart plans to offer Legends of Tomorrow a correct conclusion in Season 9. In his phrases:
There was initially after I had hoped that we’d had 20 episodes, however my unique idea was to have no less than one — if not a two parter — that wrapped up Legends of Tomorrow. And you understand, there shall be a bit of crossover we get them again, we get them out of time jail, all these good issues, Booster Gold, and many others, and many others. Once we discovered we solely have 13 episodes, that was now not potential. We barely have sufficient time to wrap up issues with Barry and Iris’ upcoming household not to mention who’s Danielle Panabaker enjoying now, so there wasn’t sufficient time. So sadly, we’re not going to have the ability to wrap up the Legends storyline which I do know could be very disappointing to the followers. It’s disappointing to me. However we simply don’t have the bandwidth.
As a result of this Arrow storyline needed to be scrapped since The Flash’s last season already had sufficient on its plate, it’s unclear if when these time-traveling characters seem, we’ll be seeing them at a degree earlier than they had been arrested by the Time Police, or if this takes place afterwards and there simply gained’t be any rationalization for the way they’re free. Both method, no less than Legends of Tomorrow followers will get to reunite with these protagonists one last time slightly than have the Legends Season 7 finale be their swan music. Eric Wallace added that as a result of The Flash writers are nonetheless placing collectively the collection finale, “you by no means know what may occur on the very finish.” Perhaps there would possibly nonetheless be a technique to give the Legends some much-needed decision, even when it’s solely by means of dialogue.
Shifting on, Eric Wallace additionally talked about some arcs for The Flash he’d thought up had the present been introduced again for a tenth season. After sharing that he’d supposed to do The Eternally Warfare storyline at this season’s opener, the showrunner mentioned this:
I needed to do a full on crossover with as many characters as potential. The Blackest Night time storyline that we began hinting eventually yr with Diggle and the field. So yeah, it form of bums me out that we’re not going to do this. I needed to carry Despero along with his alien buddies and have a full on alien invasion. That may have featured the Justice League on the Corridor of Justice coming in and serving to Barry. We’re not going to do this both.
The ultimate minutes of Arrow’s collection finale noticed David Ramsey’s John Diggle discovering a field that’d crash-landed on Earth emitting a mysterious inexperienced glow. For a pair years afterwards, Diggle surfaced on reveals like Supergirl and Batwoman within the midst of making an attempt to get the field reopened, which he lastly achieved in The Flash Season 8’s “The Man within the Yellow Tie” with the assistance of Eobard Thawne. Nonetheless, Diggle resisted accepting the cosmic energy inside the field, as an alternative throwing it away in favor of returning to his household. Had The Flash Season 10 occurred, that Blackest Night time tease would have been totally fleshed out, although it’s unclear if Crew Flash coping with an undead horde would have occurred similtaneously Barry teaming up along with his Justice League cohorts to take care of the return of Despero, the primary antagonist in Season 8’s “Armageddon” arc, or occurred at a unique level.
In the long run, these storylines weren’t meant to be, however the excellent news is that The Flash followers have so much to stay up for in Season 9. As indicated earlier, numerous acquainted Arrowverse faces shall be again, together with Stephen Amell reprising Oliver Queen/Inexperienced Arrow for the primary time since Arrow ended, in addition to the latest additions of Rick Cosnett, Matt Letscher and Jessica Parker Kennedy. Season 9 additionally sees the debut of Richard Harmon’s Owen Mercer, a.ok.a. the brand new Captain Boomerang, and the tease of a blue crystal sitting in a laboratory in 2049 strongly suggests the present is bringing in Cobalt Blue, although that has but to be confirmed.
The Flash Season 9 premieres tomorrow, February 8, at 8 pm ET on The CW. Preserve monitor of what different reveals are presently airing or developing quickly with our 2023 TV schedule, and look over what different upcoming DC TV reveals are lined up.
