‘The Flash’ Gets NYCC Sizzle Real For Second Season

The Flash season 2, episode 2, “Flash of Two Worlds,” airs tonight, as we’re introduced to the Flash of Earth-2, Jay Garrick. “They’re going to explore that a little bit”.

Todd Helbing: I would say Iris [Candice Patton] is always Barry’s lightning rod, best friend, first love of his life, but she just lost Eddie. Suffice it to say, Cisco doesn’t have a great handle on it. “The way these powers are presenting themselves, I wouldn’t say that they’re fun”, Kreisberg says. “There’s a connection that these two have, sort of an instant comfort level, that wonderful thing you don’t get with too many people in life, that I believe these two experience”, Sears says.

Elsewhere in the episode a video message from the late Dr. Wells / Eobard Thawne (Tom Cavanagh) gave Barry the evidence he needed to get his father out of prison.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin admires Jay for his bravery, and when he mentions that it’s harder than he thought, losing something that was such a big part of his life, she knows of what he speaks. I think as the season goes on you’ll start to see him deal with that problem of, “How do I tell these guys?”

Todd: Right now, I think it might be a little too confusing to have, you know, Earth 17.

Todd: There will be a few villains that you saw a year ago, different combinations. How well does Jay Garrick know Harrison Wells? And Jay can sort of mentor him on a few of the powers that he has and figure out the best way to sort of get him to use those. So yeah, it went through a couple iterations, but we also have a lot of help with Greg and Andrew and [Abby?] and the rest of our staff. So everybody read it, and if anything jumps out as being a little bit too complex or esoteric, then we take another pass at it. But Victor Garber is probably the best explainer on the planet.

“It’s such a unique opportunity to have a character that everyone fell in love with and everyone hated him at the same time then try to reinvent him in a different way”. So yeah, I think that was always the plan.

This episode brings in lot of the comic book mythology. “Not necessarily early on, but you’ll see more of it”.

Don’t expect to see any of the other earths that must also exist somewhere out there in the multiverse either, at least at this stage.

Now that we’re armed with the knowledge of alternate universes, and the fact that Earth-Two’s Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) is alive and incredibly beloved, it’s time to look forward to what’s next. “Or an Earth-49. What does that look like?”

Earth 2 is an identical Earth that has its own superheroes and villains.

Thanks to yourFlash cheat sheet, we know that there are 52-Earths in the DC multiverse, and after episode two, we know there are 52 portal breaches throughout Central City.

“It’s not good for them but they figure out a way to control it”, said Todd. They seem to be bonding quickly, no? It’s 52 breaches, and Zoom can come through any of them with whoever he wants. She doesn’t think it’s fair that someone like that would get super powers, and she wants to do whatever is necessary to stop others of his ilk.