Not since playing Henry Allen in earlier seasons of
The Flash has John Wesley Shipp had a real chance to demostrate his acting ability. That all will change in tonight's episode however as the spotlight is shone on the speedsters and the speedsters alone to save the day using a relatively new ability,
Flashtime.
Previously seen in the episode
The Trial of The Flash for a brief time,
Flashtime seems to essentially freeze time. Everyone and everything around the speedster will be motionless, only those who the speedster allows can enter this realm. In this episode, the team of speedsters will have to think of a way to defuse an already active nuclear bomb whilst it explodes, all whilst within Fl
ashtime.
Shipp, who plays Jay Garrick on the show, explains his thoughts on the premise:
I was talking to Sterling Gates -- and I have to tip my hat to Sterling and Todd Helbing, because the whole concept of this episode, I find so exciting. The idea that we all enter Flashtime, which almost but not quite freezes real time, and that if we ever stop, it's game over. And speedsters can't run forever. And so how long can we keep going? And can we keep going long enough to figure out a solution before we have to go back to real time, and it's game over? So I just think that concept is brilliant. And so, you've got us operating in Flashtime together.
Its concept is different from that of entering the speed force, its somewhat of a limbo between our world and it. Shipp explains by comparing the two:
The stakes are higher because we're under an extreme time crunch. So everything is heightened. It is the same idea going into the Speed Force, but this there's a heightened sense of what's gotta happen in a split second.
Violett Beane's Jesse Quick will also be appearing on The Flash this week to help out the other speedsters. Are you excited for this week's episode? What do you think of the intruiging premise? Check out its intense trailer below.
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