THE FLASH Star Rick Cosnett Talks About Eddie Thawne and Professor Zoom

Nom, did you hear of the Planet of the Apes cross-over with the Flash series? Yeah, we're getting Grodd baby! ;)

@batz That's a million times better than The Flash/Mighty Joe Young crossover that almost happened:



;P

That dude should be playing Barry Allen,he looks like the comic book character.
Blonde guy,lean & athletic it seems. He's more Barry than Grant Gustin.

Some people don't care about hair color & such but to me it's being true to the comics & that's very important.
Too bad Grant doesn't due his hair blonde. Also wish on Arrow he would grow a full goatee like GA in the comics.

@sameoldthing

In a recent interview stephen amell who plays green arrow said that CW has a thing about facial hair and hes trying to push the beard as much as he can

Thank u @batmaniac I bet time travel will be a big part of the show somewhere down the line the speed force

OHHHH GOD NOT THE SMALLVILLE LEX AND CLARK FRIENDS DYNAMIC AGAIN CW?? REALLY?! SMH

what Smallville did with Lex worked for a ton of reasons, but none of those reasons apply for Arrow or Flash.

Really looking forward to this tv show.

I'm hoping it'll stand out from the rest of the tv shows based on comics, except for Constantine and The Walking Dead.

@soforizo: "There's were lots of things to dislike in Smallville, but the Lex and Clark relationship wasn't one of them."

Agreed! (At least, until they dragged that plotline through the mud endlessly before having Clark decide that Lex was evil arbitrarily and end their friendship. But the germ of the idea, and its initial execution, was a good one.)

Besides, @KINGPEN266, there's precedent for the Flash and Zoom being friends in their civilian identities; they seem to be mixing Thwane with Hunter Zolomon, the next-gen Zoom that Wally West fought near the end of Geoff Johns' run on the character.

The whole point of Zolomon, his whole motivation as a character, is that he was friends with the Flash, but the Flash didn't help him when he felt he needed it the most (he wanted Wally to go back in time and stop him from being paralyzed by Gorilla Grodd)... and when he tried to do it himself using the Cosmic Treadmill, the damn thing exploded, turning him into Zoom. He blamed Wally for his situation, and dedicated himself to making Wally a better hero... by attacking the people he cared about most.

They're probably going to use a LOT of this motivation for Thwane. After all, the whole "Flash's biggest fan from the future" angle is more than a little stupid, even if they ARE going to have to introduce time-travel to explain Barry's mother's death. So synthesizing a Reverse-Flash from the two comic incarnations sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

Z

And yes, Iris is hot.

(Kinda wonder if we're gonna see Wally on this show...)

Z

@ TheFox

Yes indeedy. Nice character wrap

@soforizo: No problem! I'd definitely recommend reading the story if you get the chance-- it ran in The Flash #197-#200. I think it was collected at some point, too.

Z