Why The Flash Put a Twist on Its Elongated Man — Plus: Has The Thinker

Why The Flash Put a Twist on Its Elongated Man — Plus: Has The Thinker Already Beaten Team Flash?

The CW’s The Flash introduced its take on the Elongated Man this Tuesday, and their Ralph Dibny was more inclined to bend rules, as a sketchy P.I., than some of his comic book iterations.

Ralph’s intro also brought with it a bit more intel on the mysterious someone who set this new metahuman incursion in motion. At episode’s end, he disclosed that the person who had him poking his nose into the mayor’s infidelity, and thus landed him on the city bus that got whammied by dark matter, is named DeVoe — thus giving Barry & Co. their first big clue to who has been manipulating their lives.

Explaining the pacing of revealing The Thinker — who thus far has waxed brilliant and egotistically from a secret lair, and has yet to come in contact with Team Flash directly — Kreisberg says, “It’s a constant problem for these kinds of shows about, ‘How much you reveal and how much do you hide the bad guy?’ We might have done a disservice to ourselves last season because we knew who Savitar was at the beginning and we waited too long to reveal it to the audience, and then we lost what I think could have been some valuable real estate exploring that. So this season we just wanted to be ‘cards up’ and reveal, ‘Here’s the bad guy at the end of Episode 1 and they’re going to get on him fast.’”

And in comparison to seasons past, the sticky wicket here will not be the annual, “Who’s behind the mask?” but “Are we too late to stop him?”

As Kreisberg shares, “The network and the studio were sort of asking, ‘Why does The Thinker allow them to know [his name] at this point?’ And we were like, ‘He doesn’t care.’ He’s playing chess — I know that’s sort of a cliche to say, but in this case it’s really true — and as far as he’s concerned, he’s already checkmated Team Flash. He doesn’t really give a s–t what they know and when, because he’s going to say in an upcoming episode, ‘You’ve already lost.’ It’s really about trying to figure out how to get ahead of somebody who is playing so far ahead of you.” (With reporting by Jean Bentley)

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