As CW’s The Flash
preps for its season 2 premiere later this year we’ve received a steady drip of
teaser trailers and character reveals.
The latest installment of this is the reveal of Flash’s new costume for
the upcoming season. For the most
part this costume is looking the same as Flash’s old duds with the major
addition of a white circle emblem eclipsing his chest lightning insignia. The new design could mean a lot of
different things but it certainly conveys a central new fact about The Flash as a show overall and its
plans going forward. This new,
circle costume actually appeared previously on the show, worn by a future
version of Barry.
It was the future Barry who came back in time with the
Reverse Flash the night Barry’s mom died and even convinced his younger self
not to save his mom. It seems
clear from the outfit change that The
Flash wants to maintain a sense of chronological momentum with its
characters moving forward and changing as the series goes on. This was always sort of in question for
The Flash as unlike Arrow it didn’t take the tract of its
hero having to really earn his stripes.
Barry Allen is the Flash from about mid-way through season 1 forward
while on Arrow Oliver Queen is only
considered to be Green Arrow in this upcoming season.
