THE FLASH EP Promises Plenty Of Answers & Tears In Tonight's Season Finale

THE FLASH EP Promises Plenty Of Answers & Tears In Tonight's Season Finale

Ahead of tonight’s highly-anticipated Season 1 finale of The Flash, the show’s executive producer and writer Andrew Kreisberg has promised fans it will be an "incredibly emotional" episode - with plenty of answers. Hit the jump to check out what he had to say!

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By Minty - May 19, 2015 04:05 AM EST
Filed Under: The Flash
Source: EW

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost eight months since The Flash first sped onto our screens last October. Since then, the show has gone from strength-to-strength, exceeding all expectations in the VFX department, and telling exicting and heartfelt new tales week-in-week-out. Following on from star Grant Gustin's comments earlier, the show's EP Andrew Kreisberg told EW that it's been an emotional ride – and not just for the fans:
 
"It’s incredibly emotional. When we had the table read for that episode, everybody just started crying... I read the stage directions, and after a while I just stopped because everybody was in tears and quiet. We’ve worked really hard to build up these believable relationships between everybody throughout the course of the season. We did the greatest hits of all the scenes that made us cry over the season and put them all in the finale again."
 

The CW show has always tried to balance the onscreen drama and heroics with an element of mystery, and Kreisberg promised that (along with all of the tears) there will be plenty of answers tonight. Having teased viewers about the Reverse-Flash for months, the writer confirmed that fans will finally learn “the full measure of Wells’ plan, why he’s doing what he’s doing, and what really happened the night that Barry’s mother died”. He concluded:
 
“I hope people will feel like it’s a satisfying conclusion to this year’s story. It really wraps up season 1 in a complete way, while at the same time helping to launch what’s going to be the storyline for season 2.”
 

What do you think of Kreisberg’s comments? Are you excited to finally find out the real reason behind Wells Thawne’s evil plan – or will you be too busy bawling your eyes out to care? Leave your thoughts, theories and tears in the comments below!
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staypuffed
staypuffed - 5/19/2015, 4:36 AM
Possible spoilers:
My prediction is that this heartbreaking moment they keep going on about is Barry going back in time and coming face-to-face with his mother, like they showed in the preview, then realising she has to die, otherwise the timeline will be absolutely [frick]ed. How will he realise this? Because Wells will taunt him, saying he could go back and save her, but in doing so will cause major repercussions.

So that's what I think.

Either that or Barry does save his Nora, and we get quasi-Flashpoint for a little while next season.
Darktower
Darktower - 5/19/2015, 5:16 AM
Best show on tv!
tugboy
tugboy - 5/19/2015, 5:16 AM
Ronnie will die too. Not sure how that's gonna happen, but it will. Someone else becomes part of the Firestorm matrix. Or he's just vaporized for good.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 5/19/2015, 5:17 AM
I have a feeling this episode is going to get me right in the feels.
supes123
supes123 - 5/19/2015, 5:18 AM
^^Indeed it is...Very excited about tonight's episode.
tugboy
tugboy - 5/19/2015, 5:20 AM
But I think staypuffed might be right. All the trailers are leading us to think it will be a Flashpoint type of turn for next season, when in reality it could be that Barry comes to the realization that he has to keep the timeline intact by allowing his mom to die. That would be hard on the feels.
KindredMac
KindredMac - 5/19/2015, 5:20 AM
I totally think that Season 2 will be Flashpoint with an altered timeline until the season finale next year where things get straightened around. OR OR OR OR what if Season 1 was Flashpoint and Season 2 will be the REAL timeline????
DUN DUN DUN.....
tugboy
tugboy - 5/19/2015, 5:21 AM
And then the particle accelerator creates...HAWKMAN!
supes123
supes123 - 5/19/2015, 5:23 AM
Since Eobard changed time, wouldn't that make this show the Second timeline?
AbhiShake
AbhiShake - 5/19/2015, 5:24 AM
What if Barry will realise that he already gone back in time and let her mother die because of the Flashpoint, I don't know, I can't wait for the finale.
AbhiShake
AbhiShake - 5/19/2015, 5:26 AM
@KindredMac

If you read the comic, then you'd know Season 1 wasn't like Flashpoint at all, it could be post Flashpoint however.
tugboy
tugboy - 5/19/2015, 5:41 AM
Maybe it will be really crappy and hurt all our feelings. And be emotional in that way.
But probably not.
scapegoatjones
scapegoatjones - 5/19/2015, 5:43 AM
cant wait for tonight
SKOne
SKOne - 5/19/2015, 5:43 AM
Brandon Routh, Caity Lotz, Ciara Renee, Stephen Amell and maybe Franz Drameh will be on the season finale, so I wonder how much of the Legends of Tomorrow trailer will be included (ie Atom shrinking, and Sara Lance Lazarus Pit). Hopefully we will get some idea of why Jay Garrick's helmet was next to the time sphere (maybe he is Eobard's next target). Maybe Barry's dad in one timeline is really Jay Garrick with a different name and that's why the comic preview had Thawne saying he was going to kill Barry's dad.
LEOSTRATOR
LEOSTRATOR - 5/19/2015, 5:46 AM
https://vimeo.com/120664735
Thatman12
Thatman12 - 5/19/2015, 5:47 AM
So many possibilities as to what this show can do for tonight. Whatever happens it's going to be epic. Can't wait!
TheRockmore
TheRockmore - 5/19/2015, 6:01 AM
@Rumo

Technically no, if Wells is regularly checking it to make sure everything he does in the present leaves the future intact then thats fine, not EVERY single thing changes the timeline, and if he was enforcing his own law aka trying to keep the future intact so his OWN past would stay intact, then there shouldn't be a huge issue. Also we don't actually know if 2020 was then the Flash was supposed to become the Flash, we just know the accelerator was supposed to be turned on. There is plenty that alludes to the fact that Barry struck himself as he did in post-Crisis on Infinite Earths, it is quite possible that the accelerator just...accelerated future-Barry striking himself
VictorMancha
VictorMancha - 5/19/2015, 6:46 AM
lol spoiler, Caitlin dies
McGee
McGee - 5/19/2015, 6:47 AM
Crazy how a lot of shows this week are either ending or closing its season.

Mad Men (Series Finale), The Flash (Season Finale) and the Late Show (David Letterman's last episode is tomorrow, then Colbert takes over in September).
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 5/19/2015, 7:43 AM
Cant wait for the finale!!!

slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 5/19/2015, 7:45 AM
How does firestorm not burn off his clothes? Did he buy flame retardent Gap apparel?
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 5/19/2015, 7:54 AM
I have a theory for the finale.

Barry will go back in time and still won't be able to save his mom. His mom will still die but he will get some last words with her and show her what happens to him when he gets older and will make his mom proud and then she dies.

In her dying, future Barry will take both himself and his dad from the house so his father couldn't be arrested for the crime meaning Barry's dad won't go to jail.

In that happening, Barry wouldn't have lived with Joe and Iris meaning Joe likely may have remarried and have had another kid in Wally West.

But Joe and Barry's dad are still close friends and Joe is still Barry's mentor at the police force.

Thawne will still take over Wells because Tom is so damn good as the Reverse Flash, Caitlin will have been affected by the particle blast explosion and become Killer Frost.

All the villains stay the same.

That's my theory sort of.
SKOne
SKOne - 5/19/2015, 7:58 AM
@slickrickdesigns,

Aside from them not wanting to have a Dr. Manhattan nudity situation on heavily censored network tv, I think it has to do with Firestorm being able to generate a specific bio-electric energy field so the energy can come out of whatever extremity he wants. To me, the whole point of having Stein and Ronnie connected is so that Ronnie can understand how the nuclear Firestorm matrix works because it is Stein's life project.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 5/19/2015, 8:01 AM
Sooooo its probably better for Caitlin Snow to become Killer Frost so that his fire rocket don't burn her crouch pocket.




Pheezmatic
Pheezmatic - 5/19/2015, 8:08 AM
Why does everyone have to say that they "cried" during their first reading sessions. I feel like that's such a Hollywood cliche and I wonder how many of them actually cry. And if they do cry, I wonder how much of it is actual tears or just actors tears. And if all these people really are crying, then Hollywood's full of a bunch of crybabys. They should come live a day in my shoes. ...give em something to cry about.
SKOne
SKOne - 5/19/2015, 8:09 AM
I think whatever happens, Ronnie will be back in Season 3.


I also think we are all making way too much of what Flashpoint might be. While a lot of people on here have had fantastic theories, the CW just has too many shows that it would complicate and I just don't see the average (not us)CW fan being able to understand why Arrow and Flash are so different. I really think that it will just end up being new people affected by the second particle accelerator explosion and Barry possibly erasing himself from history for season 2.
Ofniee
Ofniee - 5/19/2015, 8:21 AM
"What's fun about this show is that there's going to be multiple timelines as we move forward," Gustin says. "I think we're going to start showing Earth-One and Earth-Two in the near future. There will be kind of different dimensions going on."

http://www.tvguide.com/news/mega-buzz-the-flash-multiple-universes/
SKOne
SKOne - 5/19/2015, 8:46 AM
The Flash already has multiple timelines, because in the season zero digital comic, he puts the Hydro villain in the pipeline and they didn't acknowledge it in Rogue Air unless Barry really wanted him to die.
TheGDBatman1
TheGDBatman1 - 5/19/2015, 8:53 AM
Oh the feels that are coming with the finale
EthanSmith1
EthanSmith1 - 5/19/2015, 8:58 AM
It's way too early for Flashpoint. But I do think that they may reveal that while he's chasing Wells, Barry is the lighting that struck him and caused himself to become the Flash.
EthanSmith1
EthanSmith1 - 5/19/2015, 9:01 AM
And I wonder why original timeline Barry is there. We know it's Barry from the Original timeline because of the white emblem. I think he disappears because Barry's mom dying and Barry becoming Flash early causes original Barry to disappear. Man, time travel is confusing.
Ofniee
Ofniee - 5/19/2015, 9:17 AM
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