The disaster is over, and now it is time for issues to get again to regular on The Flash. Type of. 

The finish of the most recent Arroverse crossover made issues regular after which additionally by no means regular as Oliver Queen died and rebooted the multiverse into one singular Earth-Prime. All of the superheroes now exist collectively, which is a very nice thought until you are interested by it too arduous. Spoiler alert: among the members of Workforce Flash are interested by it extraordinarily arduous. 

The Flash returns tonight for its first post-crisis episode, which takes place after Oliver’s funeral however earlier than Diggle (David Ramsey) and his household headed to Metropolis (and earlier than Diggle acquired that mysterious inexperienced field). Diggle takes a journey to Central Metropolis to “function a conduit,” as Ramsey described it, “a option to grieve, however there’s additionally a case, there’s one thing to resolve.” 

The group is unquestionably struggling after current occasions, some greater than others, and we talked to showrunner Eric Wallace about how they’re all coping with the fallout of disaster and what’s to come back over the remainder of the season, particularly now that they’ve all survived the factor they had been sure they weren’t all going to outlive. Iris and Barry had principally been planning to say goodbye without end, and now they do not must anymore—a good thing, however sort of a unusual one on the similar time.

“Now that they don’t seem to be in disaster mode, issues can calm down a little bit, and so they can have a life as soon as once more,” Wallace instructed us. “And I feel going by way of close to loss of life experiences, which is what Barry and Iris and all of the gang did, provides you a new zest for life, a new appreciation for life, so it permits among the enjoyable to sort of come again as a result of you already know, the primary half…there’s some heavy, heavy moments happening there. And I like crying, and we like to make individuals cry, and never that there will not be crying within the second half, however not as a lot.” 

Wallace says there are “completely different stakes afoot” now that the disaster is over. 

“It is coping with a new world and saying, what is that this new world I am in, let me discover it, and what surprises await me?” he says. “A few of the surprises are good. Some are very enjoyable, after which a few of them are so stunning it is unbelievable. We get a huge shock on the finish of our very first episode again, and I am very curious to see what the viewers goes to suppose.” 

(And massive shock is true. We let loose a little scream.) 

The new world goes to hit Cisco notably arduous, since his personal powers had been extraordinarily related to the multiverse. Wallace says the modifications are “going to make him query his whole existence, his whole place in life.” 

He is acquired a “huge journey” to go on all through the remainder of the season due to how related to the multiverse he’s. 

“It’ll mess with him in a huge method, and it’ll ship him on…he will go on a little walkabout, a sojourn, a journey to find his place on this new world. And I consider all of the members of Workforce Flash, Cisco’s gonna take this the toughest and must do essentially the most soul-searching—him and Barry, particularly.” 

Developing later within the season, Wallace says there’s a two-parter that may tackle the query of ensuring the present does not erase six seasons of story with all the brand new histories that Earth-Prime has created. 

“We’ve a visitor star I will not reveal who’s a visitor villain from The Flash’s previous, from the primary season, who we’ve not seen in a very long time, and that individual exhibits up completely different, however we do not realize it at first, which is why we make errors on Workforce Flash,” Wallace says. “It leads us into a nice story when this individual from the previous comes again. It lets us perceive what it actually means to be dwelling in a world that you simply thought you knew and you do not anymore.” 

That story performs closely into what Wallace says is the theme of the again half of the season: “You may make a lot of errors for those who do not maintain an open thoughts.” 

The first episode again will get a little bit humorous with this new zest for life that Workforce Flash has, particularly as Cisco is unraveling over the modifications, and Wallace references the present’s a lot lighter tone in season one when describing it. However after we requested if the present on the whole is returning to its lighter roots, Wallace says it is “proper down the center.” 

“I feel the present is rising up a little bit. It was in its infanthood in these first 5 seasons, and it did get a little darkish, however the present now…Barry Allen is not the identical individual he was when he first acquired struck by lightning again within the pilot,” he says. “He is grown up, so the tales he is skilled really feel like tales which are a little bit extra grown up, so generally they’re hilarious–there’s some very humorous issues developing—generally they’re absurd, however they’re nonetheless all the time going to have a little bit extra…I will not say edgy. Folks throw that time period round and it will get overused, but when the primary six and a half seasons had been the early childhood of the present, we’re positively within the adolescence of the present, now heading in direction of extra maturity.” 

“So there will probably be extra intense themes, however with out shedding the humor of it, as a result of that is a trademark of the present,” he continued. “Ralph and Cisco and even some Nash Wells, he is doing a little fairly humorous issues this season. Plus having a few of our visitor villains from the previous come again, or generally coming again in new and other ways, permits for each humor and alternatives to touch upon this new post-crisis world.”

The Flash can also be taking up a new function because the longest-running Arrowverse present, now that Arrow has stated goodbye. Wallace says that accountability was one thing that was mentioned a lot within the writers room.

“I instructed my writers it is on us now, you already know what I imply? We take it very critically. We need to honor the legacy Arrow arrange for us for these eight seasons, and it is a huge one. It is a huge accountability to be now the mothership, because it had been. However what meaning is that we should be as inventive and daring and as experimental [as they were] of their early seasons.” 

Wallace says he goes again to seasons one and two of Arrow and appears at how they expanded their world, and feels The Flash can now try this.  

“So that is what we’ll be doing, is making an attempt to increase the Arrowverse as a lot as we will, from a perspective of no matter we do sort of now trickles out to all people. It is one thing we take very critically, and it is a very thrilling problem, and I feel it is created among the largest surprises that you’re going to see.” 

A type of surprises contains the return of Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West/Child Flash, and apparently Wally is doing extraordinarily effectively in an episode Wallace says is “extraordinarily intense.” 

“We filmed that episode. It’s phenomenal, I am simply gonna put it on the market. You are gonna see some progress and a few change in Child Flash that I feel has been a very long time coming, that each myself and Keiynan…we had been simply guffawing about it. We’re like, that is terrific, the shackles have been taken off, we will do stuff with this character we could not do earlier than, how superb is that this?” 

And that is not simply restricted to Child Flash.

“That’s a excellent instance of how we’re approaching the characters and the feelings and the tales,” Wallace says. “Hey, we will do issues otherwise now as a result of Disaster modified all the pieces. There’s nearly a new historical past to all the pieces, so what does that imply?” 

The Flash begins to determine it out tonight at eight p.m. on The CW.