The Flash : Season 6 Episode 22
The sixth season of the American television series The Flash, which is based on the DC Comics character Barry Allen / Flash, premiered on The CW on October 8, 2019. The season follows Barry as he navigates through the Crisis and the emergence of Bloodwork and Eva McCulloch. It is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other television series of the universe, and is a spin-off of Arrow. The season is produced by Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television, and DC Entertainment, with Eric Wallace serving as showrunner.
The Flash : Season 6 Episode 22
The season was ordered in January 2019, and was originally planned to have 22 episodes. Filming began that July, and production was shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the season with only 19 episodes. Grant Gustin stars as Barry, with principal cast members Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes, Hartley Sawyer, Danielle Nicolet, Tom Cavanagh, and Jesse L. Martin also returning from previous seasons, while LaMonica Garrett was promoted to series regular from his guest status in season five. They are joined by new cast member Efrat Dor while former series regular Keiynan Lonsdale makes a guest appearance. This is the last season to feature Sawyer as a series regular. The series was renewed for a seventh season on January 7, 2020.[1]
The series was renewed for a sixth season by The CW on January 31, 2019,[48] along with a 22-episode order.[49] In March 2019, it was announced that Eric Wallace would replace Todd Helbing as showrunner for the season.[50]
The season is split in two halves, each having their own self-contained Big Bad story.[24] Each half is referred to by the producers as a "Graphic Novel", the first one is titled "Blood and Truth",[2] and the second one titled "Reflections and Lies".[12] The split was done to avoid inducing fatigue by keeping one Big Bad for 22 episodes, as previous seasons had done.[51]
Main cast members Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes, Hartley Sawyer, Danielle Nicolet and Jesse L. Martin return as Barry Allen / Flash, Iris West-Allen, Caitlin Snow / Frost, Cisco Ramon, Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man, Cecile Horton, and Joe West.[52] Tom Cavanagh also returns as a regular, portraying Nash Wells,[53] another doppelgänger of his character Harrison Wells.[24] Cavanagh also returns as Eobard Thawne / Reverse Flash.[54] Valdes also portrayed Cisco's Earth-19 doppelganger "Echo" in the episode "Kiss Kiss Breach Breach".[55] Sendhil Ramamurthy was cast in a recurring role as Ramsey Rosso / Bloodwork, the Big Bad of the season's first half.[25][24] Efrat Dor appears as a series regular in the second half of the season as Eva McCulloch.[56]
Production for the season began on July 2, 2019, in Vancouver, British Columbia,[58] and was expected to conclude on April 6, 2020.[52] However, on March 13, 2020, production was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[59] 90% of the planned 20th episode was filmed by that time, with one more day of filming anticipated to complete it.[60] Though it was initially planned for production on the rest of the season to resume later in the year,[61] the remaining episodes were ultimately not filmed as part of the sixth season.[60]
The season premiered on October 8, 2019, in the United States on The CW.[64] It was initially set to run for 22 episodes,[49] but as production on the season could not continue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nineteenth episode was later announced as the season finale.[65]
As the episode begins, the war for control over Central City is exploding in the streets. The CCPD and a handful of citizens are doing their best to fight the army of evil meta-humans that Zoom has brought from Earth 2. Joe (Jesse L. Martin) and the rest of the officers are finally aided and, to be honest, saved (they were in way over their heads) when The Flash uses his super speed to zip around and take down the attacking meta-humans.
Watching Team Flash take such a major loss is a fresh idea -- it leaves things worse than how they started, which is a new take. It's a take that would have worked flawlessly in a 13 or 16 episode season.
All the big reveals got blatantly hinted at throughout the season, so there were no real stakes in any of the major climactic moments. It's continuity at its finest, but shock factor always makes things a little more fun.
Tuesday night's episode of The Flash was the biggest and most surprising of the season so far. Sure, revelations about Zoom's identity were shocking, but we'd all figured that out before the big reveal anyways.
After an entire season trying to free his father---and an entire life spent separated---now Barry has to live with the crushing loss of orphanage. That's cold. So cold I'm not sure how to feel about it. Barry's father had a minor role in terms of Team Flash, but that doesn't exactly make him expendable. The showrunners upped the emotional oomph of his death even more by having him and the doctor from Mercury Labs embark on the early stages of the mating ritual.
Making matters worse, Barry had finally gained some real confidence and a bit of a zen nature following his time in the Speed Force, so much so that several of his friends try to talk him out of it. Only Iris, who I really liked this episode, could make a dent in his armor, reminding him that a little fear is healthy.
And honestly, the only way I can see either show getting out of this mess is through some sort of flash point, some kind of major time event that resets everything. Either that, or we have to just accept that in this universe nukes can go off and life pretty much goes on as usual, and that Barry and his friends would ever truly feel comfortable sitting down for dinner knowing that Zoom could show up at any second and kill or capture them. Even with his speed back, Barry is obviously not fast enough to stop Zoom from doing serious damage.
The Flash's fifth season has had more than its fair share of highs and lows. While it has been a vast improvement over the lacklustre mess that Season 4 was, featuring a compelling and well-mapped out narrative, it has suffered from episode-to-episode due to its weak villains (Cicada and "She-cada").
That being said, it all came together nicely in this week's season finale, which saw Team Flash grapple with whether or not they should destroy Cicada's dagger, knowing the consequences that such an act could have on the timeline. As they found themselves in this dilemma, the Reverse-Flash himself, Eobard Thawne, was moments away from execution in 2049, waiting patiently for the power-dampening dagger to be erased from history, and when his prophecy came to pass, the timeline was changed forever.
'Legacy' effectively relegated the Cicada arc to the subplot in order to place the spotlight on the more interesting story revolving around Reverse-Flash's master plan. In doing so, it allowed the divisive season to end on a high and produced one of the show's strongest season finales.
Now that Barry has his speed back he will be faced with an army of Meta-humans brought together by Zoom. Things will start to ramp up in this episode as it is the penultimate one of the season. Can the Flash save Central City from the forces of Zoom?
Overall it was a good episode. Caitlin seems to have recovered from her PTSD very quickly but this might come out again later. Why did Zoom let her go? It was good to see Laurel again, even if it was in the form of a villain but it was good to see her darkside!
Beginning with this season, seasons were broken up into story arcs which were called "Graphic Novels". The first half of the season was called "Blood and Truth"[5] and the second half was called "Reflections and Lies".[6]
What are you the most excited to see in regards to The Flash season 5 episode 22, and how do you personally believe that this season will end? Be sure to share right now in the comments. (Photo: The CW.)
On March 12, 2019, it was reported that Todd Helbing, who had been serving as showrunner for the past two seasons, would be stepping down his position with the intention of focusing on the development under his overall deal with Warner Brothers Television. Eric Wallace, who has been a co-executive and executive producer since the fourth season will take over the position as sole showrunner beginning this season.[3]
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