In light of actor John Wesley Shipp taking on the role of Barry Allen’s dad in CW’s The Flash reboot series, we figured the show’s writers couldn’t avoid doing what we all want to see anyway. And that would be? Revealing that the new series isn’t really a reboot, but a sequel–that Shipp, who originally played Barry Allen, is somehow the same Barry Allen, and Grant Gustin is either his son or some part of him, some kind of Kid Flash.
This idea was bolstered when the 1990s The Flash series co-star Amanda Pays returned as Dr. Tina McGee for the December 9, 2015 episode, “The Man in the Yellow Suit.” They didn’t even hide her as some different character. For those of us who still view the 1990s The Flash series as the best superhero TV series ever, we couldn’t ask for more. Well we could, and that would include Mark Hamill returning as The Trickster. For years fans of Hamill wondered what he was up to, and then he surprised us by showing up out of nowhere as a villain on TV.
Ask and ye shall receive.
The CW Network has released a new preview for its next three episodes, airing Tuesday nights March 17, March 24, and March 31. And it looks like Mark Hamill is back 25 years later in a story that flows from his original story line.
Check out the preview, after the break:
The Flash returns to the CW March 17, 2015, with The episode with The Trickster airing March 31, 2015.
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