KREISBERG: No. It’s about to go doppelganger-a-go-go on this show.
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The “dynamic will be different” with Jax than it was with Ronnie. What worked so well in the comic books was the idea that they were so different, Stein and Ronnie.
In the comic books, Wally West is Iris’ (Candice Patton) nephew, but as the show stands that would be impossible. He was a dumb jock. And obviously, Robbie [Amell] and the character we created, our Ronnie, was an engineer and was more mature and had a girlfriend and was more of an adult. So, the idea of the second Firestorm being someone who was just in his early 20s and somebody who was radically different from this Firestorm – you guys got to see the camaraderie and when you get to see “Legends” you’ll get to see a lot more of the, “What the hell are you talking about?” “The shock for all of us was that we didn’t know that, because of his metabolic problem, he wouldn’t exist without being able to be conjoined with another person”, Victor Garber, who plays the doc, describes while promoting the upcoming Flash/Arrow spinoff DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. He’s so good, if you haven’t seen Attack the Block. [Laughs] We have more heroes, more people with powers, more mouths to feed and bigger villains.
Aside from that, the team behind the show is proud to once more introduce a new hero for their viewers to look up to.
And in order to help make up her mind, the 27-year-old actress revealed that Iris reaches out to her best friend Barry (Grant Gustin) to ask for a few advice.
KREISBERG: The next episode opens in a slightly surprising way. I am a fan of Doctor Who. “This scene will play out, but how it unfolds in [episode] five [“The Darkness and the Light”] is really exciting”. Good or bad intentions, they all go nuts and they all get locked up. That was why, when we first wrote episode 2, we wanted to see Jay fighting Zoom.
That means we shouldn’t expect to see Caitlin’s Killer Frost alter-ego any time soon, since Kreisberg sees it as more of a slow burn story. [In Season 1, we asked] how do we do the time travel thing and not mess this up?
At the end of episode 2 of the current season, Francine showed up in Central City looking to reconnect, first reaching out to Joe. People have already watched a year of Flash. Still better than a lot of hours on television, the episode was a noticeable dip in a show that has delivered nearly every single week with a fast-paced and action packed superhero adventure. Just like with any of the shows we do, we have these ideas in the previous season, so we always knew we were leading up to this.
“The Flash” scored big with both audiences and critics last season, but Kreisberg admitted there’s still one thing he wishes he could go back and change: “The one thing we didn’t do a year ago on ‘ The Flash, ‘ and I keep kicking myself for it, is when Oliver got exposed as the Arrow”. We thought that was kind of the fun of these episodes.
“The Flash” must have a thing against family reunions.
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“For all the reality of these shows – and part of the success of “The Flash” and “Arrow” is we try to ground them as much as possible – hearing someone say “I have cancer” is a bummer and a half, and especially when you’re dealing with somebody who was also a drug addict”, Kreisberg explained. But we’ve lived separate lives for over 20 years.
