sickness will get before the team finds a cur

[Jin Wah]

While the initial wave of episodes of The Flash‘s eighth season debuted in November, those were part of the show’s five-episode-event, in which the characters crossed over with characters from Batwoman, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Arrow, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. With that event concluding in December, the show went off the air for the holidays.

Now that it’s back, The Flash season 8 is officially underway. The midseason premiere allowed us to catch up with Bart and Nora in the future (and the past), but now we’re officially back in the present as Barry and CCPD officers find themselves in some serious jeopardy.

When Goldface invades CCPD, Barry and Kramer must work together to overcome him. Will they be able to stop him and can the former don his suit and save the day with his speed?

Now that we’re finished with this side plot, we’ll be diving into Iris’ time sickness once again. “Impulsive Excessive Disorder” ended with Iris’ hairbrush disappearing right after she and the rest of the Flash family were whisked off to Paris by Barry.

It’s not clear how bad Iris’ time sickness will get before the team finds a cure, but we do know that this will be a season long storyline. Other plots that season 8 will focus on is Caitlin’s dating life. She mentioned in the Armageddon event that she wanted to date again. We might be seeing the first steps of that decision in episode 7, “Lockdown.”

It is. Folks don't really realize is, when we wrote this, it was originally supposed to air in January. And things happen, it's no big deal, but there was a moment in the post-production process, where it was like, "Well, do we change this? Do we make it a birthday celebration or something, and do we walk away from New Year's?" And I said to myself, "I don't recall seeing lot of episodes of my favorite shows that specifically celebrate New Year's. Let's stick with it, regardless of when it airs." And I'm glad we made that decision because I think it makes it a little more unique and very fun.

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I think it works since it's still The Flash's first episode of the year. As we move into the next Graphic Novel, how would you describe the tone and themes of season 8?

I would say tonally very intense, perhaps one of the most intense seasons we've had in a while, I would say. The first couple of episodes after "Armageddon," one of which you just saw, are designed to be interludes that are a little lighter, and they're designed that way on purpose because when the next Graphic Novel of this season starts in a few more episodes, it's going to get very hardcore for Team Flash. We have a lot of things to explore emotionally, especially in Barry and Iris' [Candice Patton] relationship with Iris' time sickness; with Caitlin's [Danielle Panabaker] decision to start dating again that we introduced in "Armageddon." Also, Chester [Brandon McKnight] and Allegra [Kayla Compton], we saw them kissing in the future. What does it mean? Do we have to explore a little bit of that this season and how do they eventually get there? Do they get there? Is something standing in the way of them getting there? So it does get very emotionally intense, especially in the middle of season 8, very much so.