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What The Flash Has Already Given Us From Wally West And Jay Garrick

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Worried that The Flash would take its foot off the gas after a rush of ideas and concepts during its first few episodes?

Geoff Johns says you shouldn’t be. As the Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment and someone personally involved with the show, he should know, and Johns recently answered a number of Buzzfeed’s questions about the latest DC hit on The CW.

While he didn’t go into details, Johns did confirm that a certain simian member of the Flash’s villain roster would be making an appearance on the show:

We want to inspire people with this stuff. And we want to get it out there. Like, I can’t believe Gorilla Grodd’s gonna be in a Flash TV show. That’s insane. Like, I say it out loud and I still think it’s insane. But that’s what we want to do; we want to break new ground.

He also mentions that the effects necessary to do The Flash wouldn’t have been possible even a few years ago (so doing it in the early 90s, like CBS tried to do, was apparently even more of a feat than it seemed at the time). That leads to a presumably half-joking question about whether or not the series blew it’s effects budget on the pilot and would just be “Barry skipping down the street” the rest of the way.

Fortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case, as Johns promoted a scene we should see in the very next episode, the fourth of its debut season:

No way. Oh man, there’s a sequence in Episode 4 that I’m partial to because I love Captain Cold [Wentworth Miller] — there’s a sequence at the end that is so insane, that I’m like, “Are we actually going to be able to pull this off?” And they did. It feels like a movie.

That sounds promising. It’s not surprising to hear Johns play cheerleader for The Flash since it stars his favorite childhood super hero, but as a fan, it’s even more comforting to know the producers and writers are only limited by their imaginations.