The final episode of season 8 of Sparkle It was like an action-packed episode that saw Barry (Grant Justin) and Thon (Tom Kavanagh) again after the latter’s incredible resurrection in “Negative, Part One” last week. But while that showdown was predictable, the episode was also filled with unexpected outcomes, including a death that many fans may not have seen. Now, series showrunner Eric Wallace breaks down this death and how planning the episode to function as the finale allows the series to pull it off.
Warning: spoilers for the eighth season finale of Sparkle“Negative, Part Two”, after this point.
In the episode, after Thawne’s resurrection last week, he ends up being transformed by the negative forces into a super powerful version of himself in order to confront and kill The Flash. When the duo fought, Barry was ready to settle the score between the two opponents once and for all, his anger and grief over Eris’ death enough to prompt him to want to kill Thawne, and thanks to the return of the good forces which in turn, Barry was powered, and had the power to do so – or At least fight an incredible fight. But while the two drivers were fighting, they started moving Armageddon. Eventually, thanks to Eris’s return, Barry realizes that using this much power won’t end well, so he sits down and agrees to the boundary while Thawne makes a final push to have her own power kill her.
It’s a death that Wallace said would survive, and why was this episode the right time? It turns out that the episode was written before flash renewal. The story is set to serve as the series finale.
“Well, there are two things. One, this time Thwain overstepped the bounds. He actually killed Iris in his revival,” Wallace told ComicBook.com about what made this story one for the ultimate showdown. “When that happened, I knew the story would emotionally push Barry Allen to a place he’s never been to before. A place where he’s really for the first time about to cross the line and think about killing someone. Because he’s not acting like the heroic flash as we know him, He interacts as a husband and as a partner, he interacts emotionally. I know this will be the only time we can have a story… and how should that fit in. Be in the season finale, but once upon a time we have a story about a hero who is about to kill his archenemy. So, that was pretty cool.”
He continued, “Having said that, there’s the flip side, when we were writing that script and breaking the story, we thought that was the end of the series, not the end of the season. We thought that was the end. So, we’re like, ‘Okay, well, we should That we fight the final battle against Reverse Flash, and he must die. We have to push it as hard as we can and tell the most epic story possible and deliver the most emotional fights possible. Then of course, as we finish the script, we get the great news that we’re going to have a ninth season, and I Very happy with it.”
With the show returning for a ninth season, it’ll be easy for the series to rely on the “comic book” nature of things and find a way to get Thawne back, but Wallace tells us that, like Frost’s death, this will continue, though he doesn’t rule out bringing Kavanagh back in some capacity. other.
“We had to go, ‘Oh, oops, oh. Hey, it’s totally dead. How do we get back from this? “I have no idea, to be honest with you. Wallace said, “I wouldn’t worry about that, it was for a good ending. We’ll take a break. We’ll have some new villains next year. The question is, will Tom be the reverse flash on our show again? I don’t know, man, because it’s just like Frost, the reverse flash of the negative reverse flash that he’s become, they’re really dead. But having said that, I can’t imagine a season of The Flash without a bit of the awesomeness that Tom Kavanagh brings, in some capacity.”
Sparkle He will return for the ninth season in 2023.
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