wally West to feature on the flash season 2#

For an episode that featured the debuts of Firestorm 2.0 and Henry
“Tokamak” Hewitt , as well as a giant man-shark, The Flash’s fourth
Season 2 episode “The Fury of the Firestorm” was a fairly boring
affair. But there were two pretty awesome moments during the
episode, and one of them involves future-Flash Wally West , and how
he’ll enter the story.
We knew news of Wally was coming, as the arrival of Iris’ mom
necessarily meant that other facts about the West family would
come to light. And it was nice that we weren’t forced to go too far
into the season before learning that Wally is, in fact, Iris’ brother,
and one that Francine was apparently hoping to keep hidden from
everyone else for as long as possible. Or at least until she died by
the end of the year due to McGregors disease, which she contacted
as a side effect of her former drug use.
It appears that Francine was pregnant whenever she left Joe and Iris
all those years ago, and that was Wally in the oven. Unfortunately,
we still haven’t gotten to meet him yet, as actor Keiynan Lonsdale
has yet to make an appearance on the show. But we can’t wait to
see what he’s like and what kind of relationship will form between
him, Iris and Joe, assuming Iris doesn’t keep her sibling a secret
until Season 3 comes around. Obviously we also want to know how
he’ll mesh with Barry and when he’ll be transforming into Kid Flash
or whatever hero he gets to be in this universe, but we know that
we’ll probably have to wait a while for all that.
Here’s how executive producer Andrew Kreisberg explained the
creative team’s decision to expand the West family in Season 2 to
ComicBook.
We sort of had this idea, just like with any of the shows that
we do, we kind of have these ideas in the previous season.
We always knew we were leading up to this. We always hated
on TV shows where it's year two and somebody's, 'Well,
Cousin John's coming,' and it's like, 'Oh, good old Cousin
John,' who no one ever mentioned before. It was weird, the
notion that they don't know Wally, and that was sort of where
it came from. That was the idea that Francine was still alive
and then that whole storyline.
If we’re being totally honest, introducing a long-lost relative coupled
with the concept of a completely unknown relative isn’t exactly
spotless storytelling, but I’m pretty much on board with everything
The Flash throws at viewers. I mean, I could do with Barry’s dad not
jetting out of Central City as soon as he got out of jail, but some
men are weird that way.
Stay tuned for next week’s episode of The Flash, in which we might
get to see Barry having a conversation with the actual Harrison
Wells for once.