'The Flash' And Cast Commemorate End Of Original Crisis
It’s a date used in fiction. Of course the involved parties are going to commemorate it with the fans, even on an averted event
His name is Barry Allen and he is truly the fastest man alive. Thursday, April 25, 2024 was the day in the original timeline of The CW series The Flash that Iris West-Allen published her coverage of the disappearance of The Flash and the end of the Red Sky Crisis. In the pilot episode, which aired October 7, 2014, Harrison Wells revealed there was more to him than he seemed, entering a secret room in STAR Labs, which would become known as the Time Vault, rising from his wheelchair and pulling up a holographic archive of the Central City Citizen. Its front page top story read “Flash Missing, Vanishes in Crisis”. Even though the Crisis would be pulled up to 2019 in season 5, and happen in season 6 looking quite different from what was described, it’s still being commemorated.
Grant Gustin, who starred as Barry for the entire nine-season run, commemorated the speedster’s first trip into 2024 back in February, a trip to a different, Irisless timeline that turned the him of it to become a shut-in. Now having survived the crisis, Gustin wrote on his Instagram “We made it - April 25, 2024. I can confirm that Flash has in fact not vanished.
* fun fact: searched “April 25th” on my phone to find a fun Flash pic to post, but that’s when we were always on hiatus. This is the only Flash related April 25th photo in my phone. April 25th, 2016.” What is that photo, since seasons were always finished filming this time each year? Him in a Clippers Chris Paul shirt adorned by a Flash bathrobe. Now that’s a clean vanish.
The show’s socials came back to life, with the Facebook page posting for the first time since a September sharing of a Fight to Survive promo that themed in other CW shows. The Twitter would be identical, if not for retweeting a CW tweet last month plugging the app. Posting a screenshot with the page, they typed out the date in number key emojis with a calendar emoji and the show’s hashtag. Candice Patton, who played Iris West-Allen for all nine seasons of the series, posted the front page her character authored to her Instagram Stories. Brandon McKnight, who began playing Chester P. Runk in early season 6 as the new Crisis (at which Grant’s Barry was still expected to disappear) approached, shared Memezar’s post of their tweet saying “The Flash vanished today. Thoughts are with the family.😔” captioning it with “Todays [sic] the day.”
Tom Cavanagh, who played Harrison Wells, his many multiversal doppelgängers, and his face stealer Eobard Thawne, aka the Reverse Flash, wrote, plugging Gustin’s stint starring in the Water for Elephants musical adaptation that he took his family to “He didn’t vanish after all. ⚡️April 25, 2024: find the protagonist grantgust on Broadway w4emusical 🐘🌹As for the nemesis #ReverseFlash ⚡️? I’m just biding my time 💛 Crisis? What crisis?” And finally (at least as of writing), in the biggest surprise of all, DC’s official YouTube channel has uploaded the original appearance of the front page as one of its “Super Scenes” and that can be watched below.
Source: The Flash