Late last night (June 20) saw the big reveal of the costume being used for The Flash in the second season of the superhero series, with just some minor changes made which could signal a big shift towards the DC comic books universe.
The Flash's new suit / Credit: The CW
Barry Allen's chest insignia has now changed to white following on from the red one Barry had started out with, and it was this insignia we all saw a few times in season one, most recently in the finale when Barry saw the 'white insignia Flash' battling Reverse-Flash on the night his mother was killed.
Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con 2015 about Barry becoming more of a heroic figure, the producer said:
"Last year was sort of really about getting the band together, in a way, and Barry, his first initial steps into being The Flash. This year it's really like, "OK. Great. We're doing it now." What does that mean?
"I think one of the biggest things that we're sort of tackling this year which is very different from any of the other shows we've done is [public perception] about The Flash. He's becoming a public figure. The notion that [these people] live in a universe where people have superpowers, and there are evil people with superpowers, and you could be walking down the street and somebody could melt the building in front of you is not outlandish anymore.
"By the same token, they all know that there's a savior out there who has powers to fight them back. So watching Barry deal with the fact that he's becoming a little bit famous and he's not just the mysterious red streak is something that gets dealt with a lot in newer episodes."
Teasing who would be causing mayhem and destruction in the second season, Kreisberg continued: "There's definitely going to be more Rogues.
"We don't sit down and say how many characters do we dump into this? It's like: What can we do for the characters that we have? And when we bring somebody on, it's not just to bring a character on. It's to: How is that character coming in going to affect and change and help our characters grow?"
Kreisberg went on to address the technical aspects of crafting this story which will now involve time travel, and how important it was to give Barry's story an emotional root.
"I think when you do anything like time travel, obviously time travel is not real, so everybody sort of has their own theory on how it works. I think what was important for us was that it... more than making logical sense, it had to make emotional sense. As long as you understood what's happening to characters emotionally and as long as you understood what the stakes were, I think any of these, if you start going backwards on it, you're like, 'Well, wait a minute. I went back three levels, and if that happened, then wouldn't that have affected that?' It's like you can really sort of stopgap the logic of it so much. We feel like we have our roles... there certainly is cause and effect, that time is not immutable, that time can change. Our entire series takes place in an alternative timeline from the one that should have existed."
Actor Grant Gustin also spoke about time travel, and the potential for actor Rick Cosnett - the show's Eddie Thawne - to make a return.
"They said when Rick Cosnett was leaving the show, just for personal reasons, there'll be ways to bring him back. Obviously it's true. There's time travel in the show. But yeah, we have a multiverse on the show that anyone who has died can still be on the show."
The Flash returns to US television on The CW from October 6.
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