Today’s a bittersweet day for me on both personal and professional levels, because after nine seasons, The Flash is ending. Although I’ve known about the Scarlet Speedster since the late 1990s, I became a true fan of his after reading The Flash: Rebirth, followed by Flashpoint a few years later. So I was excited when it was announced that Flash would be getting his own TV show spinning out of Arrow, and followed along with it for the entirety of its run. But more importantly in this instance, I’ve also been covering The Flash for literally my entire CinemaBlend career, and that’s not an exaggeration.
I started writing for CinemaBlend on October 6, 2014, with my first article being about how the costumes for 2015’s Fantastic Four were going to be weirder than expected. Later that same day, I wrote about The Flash executive producer Geoff Johns discussing the possibility of Booster Gold appearing on the show (while that never came to pass, Donald Faison did play Booster in Legends of Tomorrow’s final episode.) The following say, the pilot episode premiered on The CW, as audiences reunited with Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen 10 months after his debut on Arrow and watched him battle the Clyde Mardon incarnation of Weather Wizard in his first outing as a superhero. Naturally The Flash’s second episode followed the week after, although that was the same day as it was announced that Ezra Miller would play Barry in the DC Extended Universe… but that’s a topic for another discussion.
