Next week, The CW will air the final episode of Flashthe popular series live action about the eponymous scarlet speedster from DC Comics. And curiously, his conclusion was conceived from the script keeping in mind shows that have nothing to do with the Justice League: the comic series The office (2005-2013) on NBC; science fiction drama lost (2004-2010) on ABC, and the supernatural show Angel (1999-2004) of the now extinct The WB.
The three previous titles were mentioned by the showrunner of Flash, Eric Wallacein a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, recalling that he saw “a lot of series finales” before sitting down to write the last episode of his own show. and the closures of The office, lost and AngelIn addition to the fact that he loves them, he admits that they are the ones that inspired him the most.
I love the end of lost because it lasts two hours and is full of emotion. They cried and I cried and the whole world cried,” commented the screenwriter about the series created by JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof. “I had a very emotional experience with these characters over the course of six seasons, and for me, the emotion was the reward. For me, that’s more important than solving a specific plot.”
On the other hand, Wallace assured that whoever watches the end of The office and then the one of Flash you may notice “some similarities in the strangest way.”
“As a spectator who saw The office For nine seasons religiously, I wanted Michael Scott back on the show so badly, and I recognized that feeling I had when he appeared,” revealed the showrunner. “I said to myself, ‘I have to convey a similar feeling in our series finale.’ That’s when I decided there had to be a lot of faces from the past.”
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About Angelthe show spin-off of Buffy the Vampire SlayerEric Wallace considers that it has “the perfect series finale” and wanted to emulate it in some way in the culmination of the Barry Allen arc, although not so literally.
“I’m not saying it’s the same story—it’s not even close—but it’s about the feelings. There are similar sentiments in that series finale. [de Angel] that I wanted to transmit”, stressed the creative leader of Flash. I could finish them [los personajes] in the middle of the battle, and some of them were going to die. That worked great for the tone of Angel. But I don’t think it would work very well for Flash. So how do you get that same feeling?”
Wallace opted for a “little twist” in which there was no cliffhangers as such, but a hint of what might happen to the lightning runner in the future.
“That’s what I got from the end of Angel“, accurate. “By wondering what happens next, I can write my own story from there. That seemed very clever to me, and we have something like that in our series finale.”
The final episode of the ninth and final season of Flashwith Grant Gustin in the title role, will be broadcast on The CW on May 24 in the United States.
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