Several Familiar Faces Will Return For The Final Season Of 'The Flash'
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Production continues on the ninth and final season of The Flash, and it looks like the ninth episode, directed by series regular Danielle Panabaker, is going to be stacked. There are four special guest stars set for the episode. Two originate from the series itself, while the other two promise to deliver a “full-circle moment” for not only The Flash but the entire Arrowverse.
On Tuesday, it was announced that Keiynan Lonsdale, who played Wally West aka Kid Flash (and is Barry Allen’s brother-in-law), and Sendhil Ramamurthy, who played season 6A villain Ramsey Rosso aka Bloodwork, would be guest starring. In addition, they were announced with Arrow’s David Ramsey, once again stopping by as John Diggle, Oliver Queen’s best friend, and almost-Green Lantern that often suited up as Spartan.
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Lonsdale as Wally West was introduced in season two as the son Joe never knew about. He was a series regular until early season 4 when he went on his own journey to find himself, which included a stint as a Legend on Legends of Tomorrow. He last came to town in season 6, post-Crisis, to confront Barry about the depleting and dying Speed Force, the source of their speedster powers. Having long become his own hero offscreen, he departed having to prepare for his heroism without them. He’s appeared in 45 total episodes. Rosso was a physician who tried to cure his cancer with dark matter, turning himself into a metahuman who could turn people into monsters and manipulate them, infecting them with his blood. While he was foiled, he was briefly used in Eva McCulloch aka Mirror Master’s scheme in the back half of the season, refusing to be freed and instead promising a long game. Showrunner Eric Wallace describes how they’d been looking for a way to bring him back, and in doing so it will serve to trigger “one of the Flash’s wildest and most emotional adventures yet”.
Diggle spent all of Arrow’s eight seasons as a series regular and managed to appear at least once a season on The Flash. In the two-plus years since finding a mysterious box, and with pitstops on Batwoman and Supergirl, he couldn’t figure it out, eventually rejecting it just before The Flash’s eighth season finale. Will it stick? Will this appearance be more than just an emotional reunion and one last effort to protect Central City?
It’s looking like it already because, on Wednesday, it was announced that Stephen Amell would be returning as Oliver Queen. Whether he’s Green Arrow or the Spectre is unknown. After all, he’s been dead since “Crisis on Infinite Earths” part 4. It was Oliver who helped Barry become a hero. Wallace says as soon as the final season was announced that everyone wanted Stephen to come back and felt “so strongly” the need to create that full-circle moment. What started with Barry being introduced on Arrow without a show to come from ends with one final encore from Oliver long after his show had ended. The Flash begins its thirteen-episode final season on February 8 on The CW, and will also feature guest stints from Nicole Maines and Javicia Leslie.
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