The Flash EP Explains Why There's Another Speedster Villain 

The Flash EP Explains Why There\'s Another Speedster Villain

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Executive producer Todd Helbing teases Savitar, Dr. Alchemy, Flashpoint, Jay Garrick and the musical crossover.

The Flash will be battling it out against two villains in Season 3: Dr. Alchemy, and speedster Savitar. This will be the third season to feature a speedster villain, after Reverse Flash in Season 1 and Zoom in Season 2.

Executive producer Todd Helbing is aware there\'s the concern of getting repetitive, but explained to me during a recent interview why it feels important to have a speedster battling out against Barry Allen. He also discussed how Flashpoint will be translated from the comics to the small screen, how Jay Garrick will fit into Season 3 and why he\'s looking forward to the upcoming Supergirl/The Flash musical crossover. Read the Q&A below:

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IGN: Why have one of Season 3\'s villains be another speedster? Do you think that\'s sort of ingrained in the Flash DNA? Is it more interesting to you guys when there is a speedster going up against Barry Allen?

Todd Helbing: Yeah, I think in general if you have some of these other meta humans, it gets hard to show how Barry can\'t get them. If you have another speedster, especially someone like Zoom, or Reverse Flash, you need somebody on an equal level to provide that threat that a lot of these other metas can\'t do.

IGN: How are you not going to repeat yourself with this because you have had two before?

Helbing: Savitar is more of a psychological villain in a weird way. I think the Hindu word for Savitar means God of Speed; he\'s all about speed. Everything about this guy is different. I can\'t go into super detail, but he\'s not like Zoom or Reverse Flash.

IGN: How is he going to be complimented by and compliment Dr. Alchemy, who obviously is not a speedster? Are they going to be working in concert?

Helbing: I\'ll just say that Dr. Alchemy\'s plan and Savitar\'s plan are not much different.

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IGN: What are you excited about with bringing Dr. Alchemy in?

Helbing: Last year we got pretty dark with Zoom, and I think we want to go back to more of a Season 1 lightness to it. We still need those darker moments, and I think when you find out what Alchemy is doing, it sort of provides that "holy s**t" moment that we really love to have on our show.

IGN: I love that you guys are still going to have Eobard Thawne on Legends of Tomorrow. We got to see the Harrison Wells version of Reverse Flash a lot more when we saw Eobard Thawne in this depiction. Does that open the door for you guys to maybe play around with that and maybe bring him in in some interesting ways, and maybe do some Legends crossovers?

Helbing: Yeah. I think that anytime we can have Reverse Flash on our show -- in a lot of ways, to me, Reverse Flash is my favorite villain.

Helbing: Because the psychological torment, and just this whole idea that I need you to sort of exist but in that existence, I\'m going to make your life a living hell. For me personally, it\'s the best version of a villain because it\'s not only about the powers at that point. That\'s why we try to get some of the psychological aspect in with Savitar. And Matt Letscher, he\'s amazing. You have Tom Cavanagh, his performance, which is every time he just knocks it out of the park. And then you have this different version and they\'re both playing the same guy. Even though they\'re different, if you were take them and overlay them together, it\'s like the perfect version. I just enjoy working with Matt so much.

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IGN: Reverse Flash is such a big and important part of Flashpoint the comic. How are you going to use Reverse Flash in your story?

Helbing: When he stopped Reverse Flash, he did something with him. You\'ll discover exactly how Flashpoint is able to exist. Every time we get any of those big, iconic moments in comic books, we have to take it and use the spirit of it, and figure out the way to do that in our show. This is no different.

IGN: When we found out there would be the four series crossover and also Flashpoint, I know a lot of people thought, "Oh, maybe Flashpoint will continue until the four-part crossover, and that\'ll have something to do with resolving it." Can you talk about why you decided to do it for relatively short period of time? What, three or four episodes?

Helbing: Much like in the Earth-2 episodes, they were fun, a lot of fun, I loved both of those episodes, but we couldn\'t do a whole half-season in Earth-2. In the same regard, I don\'t think it would be the best version of the show if we did half the season -- almost the whole season -- in Flashpoint. That said, the things that Barry changed in the timeline really do ripple throughout the whole season. And that\'s really the depth I can go into. It\'ll all make sense after you watch the episode.

IGN: What can you tease about the themes or some of the things that Barry deals with that you guys were really excited to get into the kick off this season?

Helbing: The first two seasons are about family. Family that I had, family that I lost. Now this is really the family that I\'ve created. And so, this whole idea that Barry can change the people in his lives that are important to him by going back in time. What Barry is constantly learning is the consequences of his actions. Creatively, it\'s such a fertile ground to explore what somebody\'s life would be like if they actually had something that they lost, and what the reality of that is. I think often times as people you think one version would be better -- it\'s always grass is greener -- but it\'s always, in Barry\'s world, the consequences. He\'s going remember. He\'s going to know what he\'s lost at the same time.

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IGN: We also learned that Jay Garrick is The Flash on Earth-3 at the end of Season 2. What can you tease of how that will intersect with this season, especially with the Flashpoint complications?

Helbing: Jay Garrick and him are free. Those other Earths aren\'t affected, much like Supergirl is not affected because she\'s on whatever Earth she\'s on. Jay Garrick on Earth-3 still exists as Jay Garrick -- nothing has changed. And I think that now Barry knows where he is, and that there is somebody a lot older than him, a lot more experienced, even though he looks like his father, he\'s going to use him for advice every-so-often.

IGN: You also have a musical episode coming up, which fans have been asking for for years now. What are you most excited about getting to take advantage of the musical talents in this way?

Helbing: I mean, if we can get a dance sequence in there on top of it, I would love to do that. Listening to Joe as the lounge singer, singing, and to see Grant and he was karaoke-ing first season, and even watching Danielle, not being able to sing ... I\'m just really excited, to be honest, to see how it all comes together. I know Greg [Berlanti] is very close to this story. He\'s been thinking about it -- I don\'t know how long, probably not just yesterday, you know what I\'m saying? He\'s been percolating. Seeing Jesse sing, seeing Grant sing, it\'s just one of those -- like whoa, we can totally pull this off. I don\'t know why we wouldn\'t do this. Let\'s go for it. This year in general we\'re really swinging for the fences.

The Flash: Season 3 premieres Tuesday, October 4th at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.