Now this is interesting! According to Deadline, the CW has been happy enough with the two Arrow episodes featuring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen that instead of a backdoor Flash pilot near the end of this season, they want to do a stand-alone pilot. (Via Flash TV News.) No word yet on what this means for the originally-planned 20th episode of the season.
Arrow episode 2.8, “The Scientist,” airs December 4.
Update: There isn’t much more detail, but you can find more commentary at at Comic Book Movie, CBR, Newsarama etc.
@SpeedForceOrg He may still return for ep 20 but not as #Flash. Still, this is very exciting news to hear! cc: @grantgust
On one hand it’s great because it shows faith.
On the other, it makes me feel like the pilot will never air.
Excited!!!
Man, I hope it is good….fingers crossed!
If it is at least as good as the 1990s pilot I will be surprised (and happy).
Yeah man the 90s pilot was actually kinda great for its time.
If they give us a pilot that’s a whole hour I’ll be extremely happy.
Despite all the relationship/teen drama I really like arrow, especially season 2. Hopefully flash is at least that good