9 years is a very long time for an actor to play any character, not to mention one that’s frequently pressured to put on an elaborate, skin-hugging superhero costume. So once I heard The Flash star Grant Gustin urged to the sequence’ showrunner to kill off Barry Allen within the upcoming sequence finale, I assumed he simply needed to be executed with the character. But it surely seems that the actor had one thing way more attention-grabbing in thoughts.
Chatting with the TV Line podcast (by way of CBR), Gustin defined he needed Barry—performing a few of these time shenanigans that acquired him in hassle seemingly each two of three episodes—to sacrifice himself to avoid wasting the Velocity Power, and, nicely, I’ll let him clarify it:
“After I considered [the show] ending, there was a concept on the market that Barry would sacrifice himself to maintain the Velocity Power alive and develop into the lightning bolt that inevitably struck him [in the pilot] and create this full circle second, which I assumed was actually cool. Yeah, and I kinda at all times needed him to die a hero’s demise in a method, and [showrunner Eric Wallace] was very against the thought, and we actually needed to see a cheerful ending for Barry and Iris. And in the end, I feel that … as followers revisit it, most likely how they’re going to need it to finish.”
I concur that followers would seemingly quite Barry be alive when the sequence ends, if solely as a result of Arrow’s Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) already pulled the heroic sacrifice in the course of the Disaster on Infinite Earths miniseries. As the most important, second most essential, and solely remaining sequence of the DC CW-verse, giving The Flash a cheerful ending can be a greater option to shut out this grand experiment that started in 2012 and encompassed six exhibits. In addition to, even when the Flash died, if someway the DC CW returned, demise has by no means stopped a hero from coming again to life in any medium. In spite of everything, Inexperienced Arrow is attributable to seem on the present earlier than The Flash ends on Might 24…
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