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- "The Flash" S2 & "Legends of Tomorrow" | Candice Patton & Cynthia Addai Robinson Interview at MCM London Comic (24-10-15):

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- The Flash | 2.04 "The Fury of Firestorm" Clip #1 | The CW:

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- The Flash | 2.04 "The Fury of Firestorm" Clip #2 | ComicBook:

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- Las estrellas de Flash adelantan la introducción Firestorm y la dinámica de 'Amor-Odio' (TVLine):

Las estrellas de Flash adelantan la introducción Firestorm y la dinámica de 'Amor-Odio'
Por Vlada Gelman / 26 Octubre 2015, 11:38 AM PDT

Has the flame gone out for Firestorm?

On this Tuesday’s episode of The Flash (The CW, 8/7c), the team will attempt to reignite the ailing Dr. Stein’s fire as he deals with the fallout from the death of his combustive superhero other half, Ronnie Raymond (played by Robbie Amell).

“We need to find someone to pair him with to make his body whole again,” star Grant Gustin previews during a recent visit to the show’s Vancouver set. “So we’re trying to find a compatible match, but he’s declining quickly and things don’t go as smoothly as everyone would like them to go.”

It doesn’t help that the S.T.A.R. Labs crew was not expecting Dr. Stein to have such a potentially catastrophic reaction to Ronnie’s demise. “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.

Once they wrap their heads around the surprising turn of events, Barry & Co. line up some candidates to replace Ronnie. “There are a couple Firestorm options, and there are some fun scenes with those guys,” teases Gustin.

The Flash New FirestormBut there can only be one winner, and he’s Jax, an ex-high school athlete and mechanic (played by Franz Drameh) who nabs the position because “he’s not power-hungry for it, and in that respect, he won’t abuse” his abilities, Drameh says.

In a departure from his predecessor, “Jax does not want to be a hero,” Drameh describes. “He does not want these powers,” but the newcomer realizes that “he has to step up and embrace it and do his job.”

However, that doesn’t mean he and Stein will always get along. “It’s going to be fun to see this whole new Firestorm and just how Jax reacts with Stein,” Drameh says. “There’s a lot of back and forth, and it’s a love-hate relationship between the two.”

Adds Garber: “The dynamic is very different. I miss Robbie [Amell] because I love Robbie, but I’m very happy with the casting in this department. He’s a tremendous actor and a wonderful person. Because it’s a very different dynamic, it’s completely challenging and fun to play.”


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- Kreisberg y Panabaker adelantan el futuro de Caitlin como Killer (Frost), Earth-2 y más (CBR):

Kreisberg y Panabaker adelantan el futuro de Caitlin como Killer (Frost), Earth-2 y más
Por Scott Huver 26 Oct, 2015

When it comes to superhero shows fully embracing their comic book roots, The CW's "Flash" leaves most other comics-inspired series coughing in its dust. Throughout its freshman season, the show went all-in, and by the end of the season viewers had watched the Flash deal with the telepathic Gorilla Grodd, a healthy percentage of the classic Rogues, and even time travel. Now, a mere three episodes deep into Season 2, it's already clear the creators and actors have no intention of slowing down.

With the introduction of the Multiverse and Earth-2, the show has opened up a literal new world of possibilities and stories -- and brought in a threat beyond universal proportions -- setting up what is promises to be a season full of high-octane comic book adventure.

"Flash" executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and Caitlin Snow herself, actress Danielle Panabaker, spoke with press about the series and the upcoming fourth episode "Fury of the Firestor," focusing on Caitlin dealing with everyone around her having powers, her potentially Killer superpowered future, and how things are "about to go doppelgänger-a-go-go."

Caitlin seems to be better this time around in dealing with losing Ronnie, with Jay being there, but that'll only be for a little while. Is she going to get her heart broken again? What is she going through right now?

Andrew Kreisberg: I think I can answer that. [Laughs]

Danielle Panabaker: [Laughs] I think you're right. This grief for Caitlin is very different from last year. She was in a much darker, much unhappier place. I think there is a new purpose for her being in STAR Labs. Especially with the loss of Harrison Wells as he was in Season 1, she's going to find her new position and find new things to focus on. I think that helps her get over her devastation from losing Ronnie again.

Kreisberg: Plus, there was a six month gap that helped cover the time. I think one of the things for us that a lot of the actors have commented on is that it feels like the show has gotten more mature over the past year, and every one of the characters have grown up a lot. So, everyone is not dealing with things in the sort of binary, raw, "I'm happy! I'm sad!" People are starting to grow up like any of us do and starting to realize that there are complexities and there is grief in happiness and sadness in joy and you can still find your way.

Cisco's got a power, Ronnie has got a power, Harrison Wells had powers, Barry has a power -- everyone around Caitlin has a power, and while the viewers know about her Killer Frost future, she doesn't. So, how is she feeling being surrounded by everyone with powers?

Panabaker: I don't think it consciously occurs to her. I think it's the world she lives in now. Cisco's new powers come in slowly, and there are some complications about all that, and he has feelings about them as well, so I don't think Caitlin is particularly jealous of all of these superpowers. She's a doctor. She's a nurturer. She wants to make sure everyone is okay and follow those methodical, scientific steps first.

I also don't mind not having superpowers, because somebody has to hold down the fort, like Felicity on "Arrow." Caitlin has to make sure everything is all right.

You were in "Sky High," where you played a character with superpowers. Are you itching to get to that point when you have your powers in "The Flash?"

Panabaker: Oh, for sure. I'm so excited to get to Killer Frost.

Kreisberg: I was there [when they filmed the scene in the Season 1 finale], and she was so happy. It was also funny, because she looked so incredibly scary and she's still going, "Isn't this great?" [Laughs]

Panabaker: [Laughs] I can't wait! It's going to be great!

We got a short glimpse of it so far, but how much Earth-2 are we going to get to see?

Kreisberg: It's funny -- when we were starting to do the season, we were afraid. A lot of it by design, and a lot of it by luck, we really feel like with Season 1, we told the right story and we told it the right way, with all of the time travel stuff. So when we decided to do Earth-2, we were like, "How do we do the time travel thing and how do we not mess this up?" In the beginning, we kept it all on the backburner and we didn't show a lot of the time travel stuff so people could ease into it. Then, when we were starting to look at some of the earlier episodes, we realized we weren't starting from scratch again. People have already watched a year of "Flash" and -- even the characters on the show -- when somebody flies in front of them, they're not like, "What's happening?!" They're like, "Oh, that's probably a metahuman."

The whole idea of it -- since the characters were more accepting of it, we realized that the audience could be more accepting of it. Because as long as Caitlin and Cisco, especially -- because we really feel like those are the two characters that mostly represent the audience -- and Joe, we could do that. So, when we first wrote episode 2, we were like, "You know what? I want to see Jay fighting Zoom." That whole opening with Jay fighting Zoom and seeing Earth-2, that came after the original conception, because we realized that people could handle it and see it and not be like, "What the hell is going on?"

Is Harrison Wells going to be the only Earth-2 doppelgänger we see, or will we have some twin action going on?

Kreisberg: It's about to go doppelgänger-a-go-go on the show. [Laughs] With time travel last year, we tried to easy everyone into it, and we kind of tried to do the same thing here, where the first episode has that, "How could two guys look exactly alike?" And then Jay comes over and we established the idea of Earth-2, and then we've had it sort of playing in the background for episodes three and four, just to remind everybody that the show is still "The Flash" and you're still going to get the typical episodes that tie into the normal mythology of the show. But now, we're really going to pick up, with five and with six and with seven, the Earth-2 storyline.

When we were talking about the idea of Earth-2 last year, for us, it was a way to introduce a whole bunch of villains without having -- like, if the particle accelerator happened two years ago, what have all these people been doing until now? In Year One, it sort of made more sense. So there are a couple of villains this year where we see how they got their powers from the particle accelerator, but why they haven't been able to use them.

With the Multiverse, there's a scene in episode 2 where they did the Flash symbol in the sky, which is a reference to Batman. Obviously, there are characters that are off limits, but are those references there just because you know the fans will get them even though you can't use those characters or is that a nod to the Multiverse?

Kreisberg: That one -- originally, the Flash was going to be running in circles and creating a sort of wind tunnel with lightning and the guy was going to show up. It was the same set up, but we priced it out and it was going to be really expensive. We were literally sitting there like, "How are we going to get this guy to show up?" and I can't remember if I pitched the light and someone else pitched the line, or it was the other way around, but we were all sitting there laughing. And then we were like, "Is it the worst idea ever?" And that's where that came from. It was really more just that people were either going to hit us over the head, or they're going to laugh.

From our perspective, we've gotten to do Green Arrow and Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins and Deathstroke and the Flash and Killer Frost and Vibe, and now we're doing "Legends," and we got Rip Hunter and Constantine coming onto Arrow, and we're doing "Supergirl." It's not like we're sitting there going, "Goddamn it, why won't they just give us Batman?" [Laughs]

It really is the truth. For us as writers, it's a lot more fun to take these characters that people haven't constantly seen. and you're not trying to do the umpteenth iteration of something. No disrespect to Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and Aquaman. I love those characters, but it's not like we don't get a lot. We're never sitting around wringing our hands going, "Those bastards!"


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- Reiniciando un Héroe: la historia destrás del nuevo y diverso 'Firestorm' de "The Flash" (THR):

Reiniciando un Héroe: la historia destrás del nuevo y diverso 'Firestorm' de "The Flash"
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 27 Octubre, 2015 8:00am PT

Firestorm is coming back to The Flash, but the superhero is getting a big makeover for his return to The CW series.

Franz Drameh joins the DC Comics universe Tuesday as Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, a potential new half of the Firestorm duo along with Dr. Martin Stein (Victor Garber).

The Attack the Block star's character takes on the alter-ego formerly occupied by Ronnie Raymond, whom Robbie Amell portrayed for most of the show's first season.

"It's always daunting when you take over a character even if you do play a different character, because Jax and Ronnie Raymond are very different people," Drameh tells The Hollywood Reporter. "But taking on that half of Firestorm definitely was nerve-wracking. I think the fans will appreciate the difference between the two Firestorms and like it, at least I hope."

The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg revealed that the showrunners wanted to "introduce a different kind of Firestorm" with Drameh, who has also joined the cast of the forthcoming Legends of Tomorrow spinoff.

"What worked so well in the comic books was the idea that they were so different, Stein and Ronnie," Kreisberg says. "In the comic books, Ronnie was a dumb jock. Obviously, Robbie and the character we created for our Ronnie was an engineer and was more mature and has a girlfriend and is more of an adult. So the second Firestorm is somebody who is just in his early 20s and somebody who was radically different from this Firestorm."

Jax is also a major departure from the previous iteration of Firestorm iteration because of the color of his skin. Although there are both male and female superheroes in the Arrow andFlash universe – and now Supergirl, which also hails from Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti – there has been less racial diversity thus far. The shared universe does include a wider range of ethnicities including Diggle (David Ramsey) on Arrow and Jimmy Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) on Supergirl. The Flash's ensemble includes Iris (Candice Patton) and Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) as well as Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes).

"It’s just a different face. It’s a freshness and it’s an excitement," Kreisberg says. "We’re all, as always, so proud to have another African-American superhero with superpowers. For a whole generation of kids who are growing up, who this show is their entree into the superhero world, for them, Firestorm will always be African-American. We’re so proud of that."

The significance of playing this new version of Firestorm is not lost on Drameh. "It's really humbling," the actor says. "There is a very diverse range of superheroes, especially with the Firestorm character. In the comics there is a black Firestorm. But we still don't see that many black superheroes. So what The CW is doing and what DC Comics is doing with this whole universe with diversity is absolutely amazing."

There has been controversy with other comic book projects casting an actor from a different race in roles recently, such as when Michael B. Jordan was cast in the Fantastic Four reboot as Johnny Storm, a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes. However, Drameh isn't worried about how fans will react to seeing an African-American Firestorm.

"The way that I look at it, people who complain about that kind of stuff, it's a different universe, you know?" Drameh says. "Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, 'It's not like that in the comics!' Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They're always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn't be an issue, if the race changes for a character. It's actually one of those things that I find cool."

Seeing as it was already announced Drameh has joined the cast of the forthcoming spinoff Legends of Tomorrow, it's safe to say that this new Firestorm will have staying power.

Off-screen and on-screen, Jax will add a healthy dose of reality to the whole superhero situation. "The previous Firestorm duo, both halves came from a scientific background, whereas Jax is literally just a regular guy," Drameh says. "He's not super smart, he's not familiar with the science world. He's an ex-high school athlete now working as a mechanic. He's just your average guy who gets thrown into a crazy situation. It's going to be refreshing to see how a character like that reacts, because he does react how I would react in that situation. It's crazy!"

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- Danielle Panabaker y Andrew Kreisberg hablan sobre Firestorm y Killer Frost (IGN):

Danielle Panabaker y Andrew Kreisberg hablan sobre Firestorm y Killer Frost
Por Eric Goldman 27 Oct, 2015

This week’s episode of The Flash is called “The Fury of Firestorm.” As the title hints, the issues facing Dr. Stein (Victor Garber) are at the forefront, as Barry Allen and his team search for a new match for their ailing friend, who has been showing increasing physical side effects since the death of his “other half”, Ronnie Raymond.

“The Fury of Firestorm” introduces Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (Attack the Block’s Franz Drameh), who will be a part of the upcoming spinoff, Legends of Tomorrow (as will Garber). However, while Jax seems like a candidate to merge with Stein to become Firestorm, Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) has some notable reservations.

This is highly personal for Caitlin, of course, because she was married to Ronnie, and Panabaker remarked, “I think that’s what’s especially hard for Caitlin, and maybe ultimately cathartic about this experience, is she’s so connected to Stein and cares so deeply about him and for him because he is this last connection to Ronnie. So she’s particularly invested in taking care of him and getting it right and not messing this up and making sure that his next partner is just as good, if not better, than Ronnie was.”

The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg had high praise for Panabaker, saying, “I thought she was amazing in this episode. As always in any ensemble, some shows are more about one character than the other, and even though we did have the episode where Ronnie died and moved past it, as Danielle said, this was the episode where she kind of dealt with it.”

He added, “Because it’s The Flash and it’s science-fiction, she can grieve through wanting to protect her dead husband’s co-superhero. And we thought Danielle was just… this episode makes me cry, especially at the end.”

Panabaker in turn spoke very fondly of Garber, who is now filming Legends of Tomorrow. “I have such love for Victor and we’re so lucky to have him; saying goodbye to him - I’m gonna tear up right now! - knowing he’s going off to do [Legends], it’s sad. We miss him!”

Said Kreisberg, “That’s the thing that you can never count on about a show, about why it works or why it doesn’t - all those scenes, it’s all genuine." He added, “I think that’s what’s really special about The Flash. Everybody on the show, the characters really care about each other but the actors do too and that really shines through, and I think that’s why the audience has become so invested in them. It’s also why the audience is willing to go on these Earth-2s and doppelgangers and all that nonsense - it’s not nonsense, I love it! - but it’s because you’re so invested in the characters you’ll watch them go through anything, because you know you’re experiencing with them emotionally.”

Of course, Flash fans are eager to see how and when Caitlin will transform into her comic book alter ego, the villain Killer Frost - especially after we got a glimpse of Killer Frost in The Flash: Season 1 finale, as Barry ran through his past, present and future.

Matching, if not surpassing, fan enthusiasm is Panabaker, who exclaimed, "I’m so excited for Killer Frost! I can’t wait!" Kreisberg laughed, noting how happy Panabaker was the one day she was in costume for the finale and recalling, "She looked so incredibly scary and she was going ‘Don’t I look great? Don’t I look awful?!’"

That being said, it didn't sound like Killer Frost is going to be directly introduced very soon - but Kreisberg stressed that didn't mean they don't have a plan, noting, "Greg [Berlanti] and I and Marc Guggenheim and everybody who works on both shows [Arrow and Flash], we’ve been so blessed with the success that we’ve had that we’ve been able to… A lot of things we’ve done, we’ve rushed and we’ve rushed through them and we’ve gotten to them very fast. But because of the success that we’ve had, we’ve been able to know that we’re going to be on for a years and we were able to play some things the sort of slow con [way] on some of these things. Just because one thing is happening fast, it doesn’t mean that something else is never going to happen, it just means that it’s being platformed. Sometimes you guys realize that these things are being set up [or] it’s only in hindsight that you look back and you go, ‘That thing in episode whatever from early Season 2, that tied to the thing that led to the other thing’ There are plans for a lot of this stuff."

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- El elenco y los productores de "The Flash" sobre el nuevo 'Firestorm' y 'Legends of Tomorrow' (comicbook):

El elenco y los productores de "The Flash" sobre el nuevo 'Firestorm' y 'Legends of Tomorrow'
Por Russ Burlingame 27/10/15

Tonight's episode of The Flash sees the introduction of DC's Legends of Tomorrow star Franz Drameh as the second Firestorm -- one of only a very select number of superheroes ever to have their legacy passed on to a successor in a live-action adaptation.

The new Firestorm comes along following the death of Ronnie Raymond (played by Robbie Amell), revealed during the season premiere of The Flash, and subsequent health issues suffered by Professor Martin Stein, who had been merged with Ronnie on an atomic level to create the hero Firestorm prior to Ronnie's sacrifice to save Central City from a singularity that threatened to consume it.

"It's a big deal," Victor Garber, who plays Stein, said during our visit to the set of The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow last week. "It's a reveal of the new partnership that I think the shock for all of us was that Professor Stein wouldn't exist without being able to be conjoined with another person because of his metabolic...problem."

He was far from the only one who had thoughts on Drameh, and on "Jax" Jackson, the former high school quarterback who finds himself conscripted to merge with Stein in order to save the professor's life in tonight's episode.

When one of the reporters present at the set visit asked Garber what differentiated the second Firestorm from the first, he was somewhat coy.

"Well, because it's a different person, so its' very different and the dynamic is very different," he said wryly, adding, "I miss Robbie because I love Robbie, but I'm very happy with the casting of Mr. Drameh. He's a terrific actor and a wonderful person and because it's a very different dynamic it's completely challenging and fun to play."

"I think we decided to use it as a opportunity to introduce a different kind of Firestorm," added The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow showrunner Andrew Kreisberg during a recent Q&A at a screening of tonight's episode in Los Angeles. "What works so well in the comic books was the idea that they were so different, Stein and Ronnie. In the comic books, Ronnie was like a jock. He was like a dumb jock. Obviously Robbie, and the character we created for our Ronnie was an engineer and was more mature and has a girlfriend and is more of an adult. The idea of the second Firestorm being somebody who was just in his early twenties and somebody who was radically different from this Firestorm. Here you got to see the camaraderie and when you guys get to see Legends you're going to see a lot more of, 'What the hell are you talking about? Why are we doing this?' while they're merged, so there's a lot more room for comedy with the Firestorm character than we've previously had before. We love Franz."

"It's a love-hate relationship," Drameh said of his relationship with Stein. "Jax does not want to be a hero. He does not want these powers, but at the end of the day when it comes down to it, he had to step up and kind of embrace it and do his job. So yeah, this Jax is an athlete -- he's en ex-high school athlete working as a mechanic when he becomes Firestorm, so he's a very different character from Ronnie Raymond."

Ironically, though, Drameh suggested that it's actually his lack of interest that marks him as the better candidiate -- presumably because it appears Henry Hewitt, the Firestorm villain known as Tokomak and someone who in the comics wanted to reproduce Firestorm's powers for profit, is the alternative.

That said, there were other alternatives, of course; during the first season of The Flash, they introduced Stein's research assistant, Jason Rusch, who in the comics was Firestorm for a time. Many fans even expected that Drameh would be playing Jason, since the previous iteration had shown up only briefly and the casting call Drameh answered sounded like it was for a person of color to play Firestorm.

He wasn't playing Rusch, since they wanted the "jock" background and the conflicts that come with it but, as it turns out, having a black Firestorm was something the producers thought was a worthwhile goal.

"It's just a different face, it's a freshness and there's an excitement and honestly, we're also, as always, so proud to have another African-American superhero with super powers for a whole generation of kids who are growing up, and this show is their entre into the superhero world," said Kreisberg. "For them, Firestorm will always be African-American, and we're, as always, so proud of that."


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- Estrellas de 'The Flash' hablan sobre un 'muy diferente' Firestorm 2.0 y un posible regreso de Ronnie Raymond (ETOnline):

Estrellas de 'The Flash' hablan sobre un 'muy diferente' Firestorm 2.0 y un posible regreso de Ronnie Raymond
Por Philiana Ng 27 Oct, 2015 11:23 AM PDT

The Flash team is in a desperate search for Firestorm 2.0 and it’s far more difficult than they’d imagined.

In tonight’s all-new episode, “The Fury of Firestorm,” Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and the team race against time to find another suitable match for Dr. Martin Stein (Victor Garber), who’s becoming dangerously ill after the death of his Firestorm half, Ronnie Raymond (Robbie Amell).

“He’s declining quickly and things don’t go as smoothly as everyone would like them to go,” Gustin told reporters on a recent trip to the show’s Vancouver set. “There are a couple Firestorm options and there are some fun scenes with those guys.”

Those possible choices are Henry Hewitt (Demore Barnes), an intelligent and capable scientist, and Jefferson “Jax” Jackson (Franz Drameh), a former high school football player whose bright future was taken away following the particle accelerator explosion.

It’s a big episode for Danielle Panabaker, whose alter ego, Caitlin Snow, will have to grapple with saying goodbye to her late husband Ronnie and welcoming a new Firestorm to the fold.

“[The] episode, in particular, is very good for Caitlin because she has to deal with the fact that Ronnie’s gone and she’s so invested in taking care of Stein,” Panabaker told ET during a recent visit to our Burbank offices. “I think on some level, because it’s her last connection to Ronnie, she wants to make sure she’s in good hands and finds a good partner.”

“It’s challenging for her because she idolizes Ronnie and she wants someone to fill those shoes well. It’s hard for her to find someone she thinks can measure up,” she continued.

Drameh, who along with Garber, will transition over to The CW’s midseason spinoff series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, spoke of Jax’s initial lack of desire to become a superhero.

“He does not want these powers, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it, he has to step up and embrace it and do his job,” he told reporters on the Legends set. “He’s a very different character to Ronnie Raymond that we’ve previously seen.”

Garber, meanwhile, was admittedly nostalgic for Amell, his former partner-in-crime.

“The dynamic is very different,” the veteran actor said of the new Firestorm on the set of the upcoming series. “Because it’s a very different dynamic, it’s completely challenging and fun to play.”

But there could be a slim chance Ronnie will be back in The Flash fold in some way, shape or form. Last week, Amell posted a cryptic Instagram with Drameh, teasing, “I’ll be back.”

“Presumably Robbie knows more than I do,” Panabaker said coyly. “We love him so much. He’s super successful, working in a lot of features, so we’re anxious to get him back.”

One thing’s for sure, if Ronnie did somehow return, he’d likely have to contend romantically with Earth-Two speedster Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears), to whom Caitlin has taken an immediate liking.

“It’s great to have Jay around now. He’s obviously a fellow science nerd and Caitlin can relate to him on that level, and there’s chemistry between them. It’s going to be exciting to see how that progresses,” Panabaker said.

The 28-year-old actress also revealed that Caitlin will be getting out into the field as the season unfolds, most notably when Grodd returns, to resolve some unfinished business between the two.

“You are going to see Caitlin getting in the action a little bit more,” Panabaker teased.

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- Victor Garber, Franz Drameh sobre el encontrar a un nuevo Firestorm y ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ (Variety):

Victor Garber, Franz Drameh sobre el encontrar a un nuevo Firestorm y ‘Legends of Tomorrow’
Por Laura Prudom 27 Oct 2015

In the Oct. 27 episode of “The Flash,” titled “The Fury of Firestorm,” the team learns that recruiting a superhero is harder than it looks.

When Professor Martin Stein’s (Victor Garber) health begins to fail following the loss of his partner Ronnie Raymond (Robbie Amell) — aka the other half of the heroic entity known as Firestorm — it’s up to Barry (Grant Gustin), Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) and Cisco (Carlos Valdes) to find a genetic match to take Ronnie’s place and help stabilize Stein.

Two candidates emerge: Dr. Henry Hewitt (Demore Barnes), a fellow scientist, and Jay “Jax” Jackson (Franz Drameh), a former high school athlete whose career was derailed by an injury he suffered during the particle accelerator explosion. If you’ve been paying attention to promos, photos and casting notices for “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” you won’t be surprised to learn who eventually gets the gig, but in this case, the journey is just as important as the destination — especially since Jax plays pretty hard to get when initially approached about being a potential match for Stein.

“Stein and Barry Allen turn up at Jax’s garage, and they kind of trick him, essentially, into coming down to the lab to meet these guys who can help him, he thinks, fix his knee, because he injured it in the particle accelerator explosion,” Drameh previews. “He gets there and they tell him all this stuff about how he’s been changed and can be this Firestorm, and he wants no part of it. He is not interested at all. They have a bit of a tough job to bring him around and convince him that this is a good idea.”

As for what’s behind his character’s reticence, Drameh has a few theories: “All he ever wanted to be was a pro athlete til he was injured, and I think that really shot his confidence, so he wants what little he has left of a life of normalcy. To essentially throw all that away and become a superhero is a very daunting thing, and a responsibility that he’s not sure he can handle.”

As two halves of the same hero, the chemistry between Stein and his new partner (and by extension, Drameh and Garber as actors) was of the utmost importance. Luckily, Drameh says, “We got on straight away; we’re always bantering with each other, always having a laugh. We get on really well. I always try to get him to play ‘Would You Rather,’ which he absolutely hates — like, ‘I’m not playing this game’ and I’m like, ‘come on, just one! Would you rather be a tomato or a cucumber?'”

That chemistry can also be combustible — at least on screen — as Jax and Stein get to know each other. “With Jax and Stein, it’s a very love-hate relationship. I think there’s a lot of differences than with Stein and Ronnie, where they both come from a scientific background, whereas Jax does not in the slightest,” Drameh explains. “He’s essentially a jock and mechanic, against a quantum physicist professor, so they’re at loggerheads quite a lot and it can tend to get a little tumultuous sometimes, but they work it out.”

Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg says the differences between Jax and Ronnie were part of the attraction. “We decided to use it as an opportunity to introduce a different kind of Firestorm. What worked so well in the comic books was the idea that they were so different, Stein and Ronnie. In the comic books, Ronnie was a dumb jock. Obviously, Robbie and the character we created for our Ronnie was an engineer and was more mature and has a girlfriend and is more of an adult. So the idea of a second Firestorm being somebody who is just in his early 20s and somebody who was radically different from this Firestorm [made sense].”

Having the opportunity to “have another African American superhero with superpowers” was also appealing, according to Kreisberg — sister show “Arrow” just introduced Echo Kellum, who will play DC hero Mr. Terrific, while this season “The Flash” will debut Wally West, who becomes a speedster in his own right in the comics. “For a whole generation of kids who are growing up [and] this show is their entree into the superhero world, for them, Firestorm will always be African American and we’re so proud of that.”

For Drameh, the chance to join the DC universe was a dream come true. “I remember being on set and I was saying to Grant, ‘this is literally like being a kid again.’ It’s the stuff you do as a kid: ‘I’m this one!’ and you’re running around, pretending to shoot fire out of your hands, pretending you can run really fast; it’s absolutely great make-believe.”

Variety also caught up with Garber to find out where Stein stands in the hunt for his new partner, and what he’s most enjoying about filming “The Flash” and “Arrow” midseason spinoff “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.”

Where do we find Martin physically and emotionally when this week’s episode begins?

Martin is in bad shape. [Laughs.] He’s on his, literally, last legs. And thanks to Caitlin and Cisco, they basically do a genetic search for the perfect person to match him and allow him to live, so it’s dramatic, but there’s also a lot of humor which is what I love about the show anyway, and also a sense of “how will this work?” of course. What’s great about the episode too is that you see the arrogance that is persistent in him and his disdain for who he thinks is not really up to par.

Finding a potential match is a lot like going on a blind date; what is Martin looking for in an ideal partner?

He’s interested in someone he thinks is more educated, more worldly, more someone that he can have dinner with. [Laughs.] Jefferson is not that guy, and that’s what makes it interesting, of course. He’s so different from Robbie [Amell] in terms of the casting, and so unique. I miss Robbie, I love Robbie and I was very concerned about who [would take over] — literally I, the actor, was concerned. So it was not so different from Martin Stein, and it turned out very well.

We’ve seen the physical effects of losing Ronnie, but how is Martin dealing with that loss emotionally?

Martin does not always reveal his feelings, and interestingly enough, the scene I’m about to do on “Legends” really deals with it much more, so I won’t give it away, but it’s a deeper wound than one would have thought.

At this point, Martin is the only one who knows that Cisco has developed powers of his own – how does that progress between them?

Some of Martin’s better qualities come out in that instance, and his sense of wonder and also his paternal instincts are more in play in terms of his relationship with Cisco. I think that’s what really shows.

One of the most appealing aspects of “Legends” is how eclectic this roster of heroes and antiheroes is. How does Martin react to so many disparate personalities in one group?

That’s, to me, the interesting and unique part of this series – you have this dysfunctional family all together and traveling through time and trying to combat the worst possible evil history has ever known. In every situation, every person has their own idea that they think is the best, and Rip Hunter, played by Arthur Darvill, is no exception. He’s sort of the captain, but you find out so many things about each one of them as we go on — that’s the reason I wanted to be involved in this, because it’s really fun. Like on “The Flash” — and it’s part of why I thought “Alias” worked — because they are a family who happen to be superheroes, as they were a family who happened to be spies. That’s what, I think, keeps people watching – that connection, and they do that really well on “Legends” as they do on the other shows, and that’s what keeps me interested, frankly.

For someone with Martin’s scientific background, getting to explore time-travel and all these abilities must make him feel like a kid in a candy store.

Yes, literally – going back to a time when Martin was young, it is like being in a candy store, and also, the melancholy, sentimental aspect of it as well, which they bring out. That’s a really interesting thing to play as an actor, and also for the audience to witness. It’s unique.

Anything you can preview about the upcoming “Arrow” and “Flash” crossover that will set up “Legends”?

I honestly have not left this lot where I am, but I know that the other characters have, and even though I don’t really know what happens, I know it’s all part of the same world and the lead-up to the premiere of “Legends.” By the time it hits, I think people will be really excited and ready for it.

You’re also working with an organization called Beyond Type 1 — what prompted you to get involved and why is it so important to you?

This is very recent for me, but Sarah Lucas is the woman who contacted me about it, with Nick Jonas and some other people, they are trying to educate people on Type 1 diabetes, and I was diagnosed when I was 12 years old, so that was a long time ago. I’ve lived with it my whole life, obviously, and it’s very different from Type 2 diabetes, which is what people think of as diabetes, like “just don’t eat that” — but it’s way more complicated. Type 1, most people are diagnosed at a young age, sometimes in their infancy, so mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters are all dealing with an infant who has to be given insulin shots, has to have urine tests and blood tests on a regular basis — it’s very serious and very hard to manage, and some people develop complications, and complications can cause death. So I am a face — basically the old guy who’s still living with it. Mary Tyler Moore, people knew she had it, and she’s still with us, but she’s had some terrible complications with it, so it’s really education and to say that you can live with this and you’re not defined by this disease; you are more than a Type 1 diabetic, and that’s what this organization is trying to instill in people, and also to raise awareness and money so we can cure it. It’s why I’m on Instagram, it’s really the reason, so that I can tell people about it and hopefully affect change.

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- Danielle Panabaker, Andrew Kreisberg sobre la Season 2 de ‘The Flash’, Firestorm, y más (collider):

Danielle Panabaker, Andrew Kreisberg sobre la Season 2 de ‘The Flash’, Firestorm, y más
Por Christina Radish 27 Oct, 2015

“The Fury of Firestorm” episode of The CW series The Flash sees Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and the team having to look for another Firestorm match for Dr. Stein (Victor Garber), and Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) expresses her reservations about whether Jefferson “Jax” Jackson (Franz Drameh) is the right match. Meanwhile, Iris (Candice Patton) must decide just how well she wants to get to know her mother (Vanessa Williams).

Collider was recently invited, along with a handful of other press outlets, to screen Episode 4 of the season and learn more about what’s to come for the much loved characters. During the interview, actress Danielle Panabaker and executive producer Andrew Kreisberg talked about the search for another Firestorm counterpart, how Caitlin is handling her grief this time around, whether we’ll see more of Earth-2, what fans can expect from the next big cross-over with The Flash and Arrow, and why the cross-overs work so well. Be aware that there are some spoilers.

Question: What can you say about the search for another Firestorm counterpart for Dr. Stein?

DANIELLE PANABAKER: What’s especially hard for Caitlin, and ultimately cathartic about this experience, is that she’s so connected to Stein and cares so deeply about him and for him. He’s this last connection to Ronnie, so she’s particularly invested in taking care of him and getting it right, and not messing this up and making sure that his next partner is just as good, if not better, than Ronnie was.

ANDREW KREISBERG: In any ensemble, some episodes are more about one character than another. We did have the episode where Ronnie died and Caitlin moved passed it, but this is the episode where she dealt with it. Because it’s The Flash and it’s about science fiction, she can grieve through wanting to protect her dead husband’s co-superhero. This episode makes me cry.

Caitlin has lost Ronnie again, and now Jay Garrick is only there for a little while. How is she handling her grief, this time around?

PANABAKER: This grief for Caitlin is very different than last year. She was in a much dark, much unhappier place. I think there is a new purpose for her, being at S.T.A.R. Labs, especially with the loss of Harrison Wells. She’s going to find her new position and have new things to focus on, which helps her get over her devastation from losing Ronnie again.

KREISBERG: There was also a six month gap that helped cover the time. It feels like the show got more mature, over the past year, and every one of the characters has grown up a lot. They’re not dealing with things in the very binary, raw way they used to. They’re starting to grow up, just like any of us do, and they’re realizing that there are the complexities of grief and happiness, and sadness and joy, and that you can still find your way. [Caitlin and Jay] are actually going to have multiple projects to work on. There are problems that come up that they’ll be working on together.

PANABAKER: He’s a fellow science nerd. What could be better for Caitlin?

What can we expect to see coming up for Caitlin?

KREISBERG: Obviously, we’re building a relationship between Jay and Caitlin. There’s going to be some fun and some surprises there.

Will Caitlin be stepping into more of a leadership role at S.T.A.R. Labs?

PANABAKER: Absolutely! The old dynamic from Season 1 was that this was Wells’ S.T.A.R. Labs. He created it, so he was the boss and we all followed along. This year, it’s feeling a little bit different. We’re trying to figure it out. Whoever has the most expertise or passion about something tends to be the one we follow.

KREISBERG: It’s a conscience effort on our part, too. The thing that Iris adds to those scenes, when she’s in them, is the heart that they don’t always have, being a bunch of scientists talking about things. But Caitlin, especially, has taken the reins, in a lot of ways.

Will we ever see Barry Allen fight a meta-human outside of Central City?

KREISBERG: We had actually talked about doing that last year, with a story where everybody goes to another city that looks remarkably like Vancouver. But, Arrow has such an international feel to it with the flashbacks that we wanted to keep The Flash homegrown. It’s actually one of the reasons that we were talking about the idea of Earth-2. For us, it was a way to introduce a whole bunch of villains without having to explain what all of these people have been doing until now, since the particle accelerator exploded two years ago. There are a couple of villains this year where you’ll see why they haven’t been able to use their powers. But we did have that idea, so maybe. We’re also seeing some of these meta-humans show up on Arrow.

Are we actually going to get to see more of Earth-2?

KREISBERG: It’s funny, when we were starting to do the season, we were afraid. A lot of it by design and a lot of it by luck, we really feel like in Season 1, we told the right story and we told it the right way, with all of the time travel stuff. When we decided to do Earth-2, we were like, “Wait a minute, how do we do the time travel thing, and how do we not mess this up?” In the beginning, we kept it all on the backburner and didn’t show a lot of the time travel stuff, so people could ease into it. And then, when we started to look at some of the earlier episodes, we realized that we weren’t starting from scratch again. People have already watched a year of The Flash. And even the characters on the show, when somebody flies in front of them, they’re not like, “What’s happening?!” They’re like, “Oh, that’s probably a meta-human.” So, since the characters were more accepting of it, we realized the audience could be more accepting of it. As long as Caitlin and Cisco accept it, because those are the two characters that most represent the audience, along with Joe, we could do that. That whole opening with Jay and Zoom fighting, and seeing Earth-2, was actually after the original conception ‘cause we realized that people could handle it and see it and not be like, “What the hell is going on?,” like the show just turned into a David Lynch thing.

What can you tease about the upcoming The Flash/Arrow cross-over?

KREISBERG: What Barry is facing when he goes into the cross-over is part and parcel with what everybody is going through in Episodes 5, 6 and 7. Just conceptually speaking, one of the ways we thought of these episodes, in a macro sense, was that The Flash episode this year plays more like an episode of Arrow, and the Arrow episode plays more like and episode of The Flash. That’s part of the fun of these episodes. This year, both Arrow and The Flash are different, and I don’t just mean the characters themselves. Thea is on the team now. There are all sorts of different color combinations that are occurring.

PANABAKER: And it’s exponentially bigger this year. We factored in all of the characters from Legends, too.

KREISBERG: It’s killing us. It really is bigger. We looked back and thought those Flash and Arrow episodes were the biggest things we’d ever done, and now we have more heroes, more people with powers, and bigger villains. It’s really exciting.

Do you find yourself doing more cross-overs than you initially expected?

KREISBERG: One of the special things about the shows is that all of these people are friends and they care about each other. The one thing we didn’t do last year on The Flash, and I keep kicking myself for it, is that when Oliver got exposed as the Arrow, there was no mention on The Flash about everything that Oliver Queen was going through. It’s two different shows and you don’t really think about it, but they’re all friends and they all know each other and they all know each other’s secret identities, so you think somebody would have said something about it. It’s actually gotten to the point now where it’s less about trying to prevent the cross-overs and to constantly make sure that we’re honoring the fact that all of these people are in each other’s lives. There are probably a lot more of the mini cross-overs, with one person here for one scene. We acknowledged the Green Arrow change in The Flash because Oliver went on television. In the beginning, there was concern that cross-overs would diminish the shows. For whatever reason, at least for us, and it seems like for the audience too, the cross-overs actually make both shows feel bigger. Because both shows are similar, as far as popularity is concerned, it never feels like a phony attempt to generate ratings. It’s just what we want to do. We make the show that we want to see. If we think, “Oh, my god, wouldn’t it be so cool if Oliver showed up?,” or “Wouldn’t it be great if Cisco went over there?,” we just do it.

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- Primicia sobre la impactante revelación de la familia West (EW):

Primicia sobre la impactante revelación de la familia West
Por Natalie Abrams 27 Oct, 2015

While Team Flash was busy finding a new Firestorm match for Stein (Victor Garber) — welcome to the Berlanti-verse, Franz Drameh — Iris West (Candince Patton) put on her investigative hat during Tuesday’s episode of The Flash and discovered the truth behind her mother Francine’s (Vanessa Williams) sudden reappearance in town.

It was revealed that the West matriarch is dying, but she was also trying to hide a second, even bigger secret: She has a son! And yes, that son is none other than Wally West. Destined to become the speedster known as Kid Flash, West will be portrayed by Keiynan Lonsdale — scoop on his character here.

First and foremost, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg confirms that Wally West is Joe’s (Jesse L. Martin) son that Francine had after she left Central City, which makes things even more complicated for Iris. “Iris is now in the position that Barry [Grant Gustin] was in last year, she’s keeping a secret to protect somebody,” Kreisberg says. “She’s going to find that for all of her anger at Barry and Joe from last year, keeping this secret is not going to be so easy. It’s going to be weighing on her before she finally decides to take some action in an upcoming episode.”

But the Wally reveal wasn’t the only shocking moment from Tuesday’s episode, as Barry came face-to-face with Earth-Two’s Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh), who saved the scarlet speedster from King Shark in the closing moments of the episode. “The next episode opens in a slightly surprising way,” Kreisberg teases, potentially hinting toward seeing things from this Wells’ perspective.”The beginning of [episode] 5 is really exciting and you’re going to get a lot of answers to questions you probably have.”

In fact, the next few episodes will be exploring more of the other side. “It’s about to go doppelgänger a-go-go,” Kreisberg teases. “Now we’re really going to pick up with… the Earth-Two storyline, so there will be doppelgängers and doubles.”

Elsewhere in the episode, before Stein departed to train with his new Legends of Tomorrow partner, he encouraged Cisco (Carlos Valdes) to open up to Team Flash about his newfound powers. Though Cisco is on the path to embracing those powers, he is still very hesitant. “He’s seen what happens to the other metahumans, good or bad intentions, they all go nuts and they all get locked up,” Kreisberg says. “Cisco is really scared. Also, he doesn’t see what the benefit is yet, he doesn’t see that it really is a gift, and he doesn’t see that it’s a blessing and a power that could be used to help people. Right now all he sees is the nightmare. That’s what’s really scary for him.”

“It’s not like he woke up and he can fly,” Kreisberg continues. “Not only is he scared about what it means to be a metahuman, he also feels he drew the short straw. ‘Barry got super speed, Ronnie [Robbie Amell] gets to fly, me, I get these blinding headache nightmare visions of people being killed.’ It’s not, at first blush, the most heroic way to step into the world.”

Meanwhile, Cisco’s S.T.A.R. Labs partner-in-crime Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) is also destined to follow down the metahuman rabbit hole. While Panabaker is beyond excited to eventually take on the mantle of Killer Frost, Caitlin is not itching to fulfill that destiny just yet. “Cisco’s powers come slowly and there’s some complication with that,” Panabaker says. “I don’t think Caitlin is particularly jealous of all these superpowers. She’s a doctor, she’s an nurturer. She wants to make sure everyone is OK and follow those methodical scientific steps first.”

In the meantime, Caitlin will find herself drawn more toward Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears) in the coming episodes. “Obviously we’re building a relationship between Jay and Caitlin,” Kreisberg says. “There’s going to be some fun and surprises there… They’re actually going to have multiple projects to work on. There are problems that come up that they’ll be working on together.” Panabaker adds: “He’s a fellow science nerd. What could be better for Caitlin?”


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- Dentro del suceso impactante de la familia West de "The Flash" (THR):

Dentro del suceso impactante de la familia West de "The Flash"
Por Sydney Bucksbaum 27 Oct, 2015

After doing a background check on her newly resurfaced mother, Iris West (Candice Patton) discovered that while Francine West (Vanessa Williams) was telling the truth about how she's dying from the fictional MacGregor's Syndrome, she didn't disclose the fact that Iris has a brother. When Francine left Iris and Joe (Jesse L. Martin) 20 years earlier, she was pregnant at the time, meaning that Joe has a son he never even knew about: Wally.

"We always knew we were leading up to this and rather than them suddenly having some cousin," executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told reporters. "Iris is now in the position that Barry was in last year. She’s keeping a secret to protect somebody and she’s going to find that, for all of her anger at Barry and Joe from last year, keeping this secret is not going to be so easy and it’s going to be weighing on her before she finally decides to take some action in an upcoming episode."

And yes, Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) is "definitely Joe's son," Kreisberg says.

Wally, aka the future Kid Flash, isn't the only DC Comics character being added to The Flash ensemble. During the hour, humanoid shark supervillain King Shark was brought to life via CGI.

"We said, 'No one’s going to let us do this,'" Kreisberg said. "It was a very expensive 30 seconds in the show. But our visual effects team are the best and they really love challenges like this. Obviously we can’t afford to do an entire killer King Shark episode, the fact that he’s one of Zoom’s minions ... he’s just the latest in another line of [bad guys], which does mean there is King Shark in Earth 1."

Despite the threat poised by King Shark, Barry's life was saved by the Earth 2 doppelganger of Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh).

"The next episode opens in a slightly surprising way," Kreisberg teased of the first face-to-face confrontation between Earth 2 Wells and Barry. "Obviously, this scene will play out but how it unfolds in [episode] five, I think the beginning of five is really exciting. You’re going to get a lot of answers to questions you have. Maybe [from Wells' perspective]."

While the show has no plans for an entire King Shark episode, fans can expect to see a future episode this season focusing on another metahuman, Gorilla Grodd. "We have another one in which Caitlin plays Fay Wray to Grodd’s Kong," Kreisberg said.

Added Danielle Panabaker: "In season one, you got to see just a tiny bit of her relationship with Grodd and you’ll get to see a little bit more of that and understand their connection from before. He has some unfinished business with her."

Also helping matters is the close bond Caitlin will develop with Earth 2's Flash, Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears).

"Obviously, there’s something going on there," Kreisberg said. "They’ll actually have multiple projects to work on. There are problems that come up that they’ll be working on together. Obviously we’re building a relationship between Jay and Caitlin and there’s going to be some fun and surprises there."


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- Kreisberg & Panabaker sobre los ultimos desarrollos de "Flash" y las revelaciones de la Familia West (CBR):

Kreisberg & Panabaker sobre los ultimos desarrollos de "Flash" y las revelaciones de la Familia West
Por Kevin Mahadeo, 27 Oct 2015

From the birth of a new Firestorm to the face-to-face meeting of Barry Allen and Earth-2's Harrison Wells, the fourth episode of "The Flash" season two featured a number of big, big surprises -- not the least of which included an appearance by King Shark and the revelation of Iris West's long-lost brother. And while the episode, "The Fury of Firestorm," left the identity of this brother a mystery, Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg was rather candid in a press event at CW headquarters last week about this character, confirming, "Yes, that's Wally [West]" and "It is Joe's son."

Taking questions from a group of reporters including CBR News, Kreisberg and Caitlin Snow actress Danielle Panabaker also discussed the thought process behind altering Iris and Wally's comic book relation, the introduction of the "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" Firestorm and, of course, that King Shark appearance.


So, Iris's brother. It's Wally West, right?

Andrew Kreisberg: Yes, that's Wally. We sort of had this idea -- just like with any of the shows we do -- we have these ideas in the previous season. We always knew we were leading up to this. We always hated on TV shows where it's Year Two and somebody is like, "Cousin John is coming," and it's like, "Oh, good old cousin John no one ever mentioned before." It was weird. So the notion that they don't know Wally is where it came from and that led to the idea that Francine was still alive, and that whole storyline. Now Iris is in the position that Barry was in last year. She's keeping a secret to protect somebody and for all of her anger at Barry and Joe from last year, she's going to find that keeping this secret is not going to be so easy. It's going to be weighing on her before she finally decides to take some action.

And it's Joe's son?

Kreisberg: It is Joe's son.

In this episode, we saw Caitlin becoming a lot more proactive. Was that mainly because of the Firestorm connection or are we seeing her stepping up into the leader role now that Harrison Wells is gone?

Danielle Panabaker: I think absolutely. The old dynamic from season one was that this was Wells' S.T.A.R. Labs and he created it and he was the boss, so we all followed along. This year we're feeling a little different. We're trying to figure it out and suss it out and whoever has the most expertise or passion or hutzpah about something, we tend to follow.

Speaking of Firestorm, this episode also introduced the "Legends of Tomorrow" version of the character. There have been a few versions of the character in comics but what made you decide on this Jefferson Jackson interpretation [played by Franz Drameh]?

Kreisberg: I think we decided to use it as an opportunity to introduce a different kind of Firestorm. What worked so well in the comic books was the idea that they were so different, Stein and Ronnie. In the comic books, Ronnie was like 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? Why are we doing this?" while they're merged. So, there's a lot more room for comedy with the Firestorm character than we previously had before. And it's a freshness and an excitement.

Honestly, as always, we are so proud to have another African-American superhero with superpowers and for a whole generation of kids who are growing up and this show is their entry into the superhero world, for them, Firestorm will always be African-American.

Before he departed, Professor Stein gave Cisco some advice regarding his powers. Are we going to see Cisco taking that advice to heart and start to embrace [his powers] a little more?

Kreisberg: Yeah. I don't want to give too much away, but yeah. I think for Cisco, one of the things for him is that this evil man said, "I gave you this gift," and he's seen what happens to the other metahumans. Good or bad intentions, they all go nuts and they all get locked up. Cisco is really scared, and he doesn't see what the benefit is yet. He doesn't see that it really is a gift. He doesn't see that it's a blessing and a power that can be used to help people. Right now, all he sees is the nightmare and that's what's really scary for him. Not only is he scared about what it means to be a metahuman and all that, he also feels like he drew the short straw. Barry got superspeed and Ronnie gets to fly and he gets these blinding headache nightmare visions of people being killed. It's not at first blush the most heroic way to step into the role.

This episode ended with two pretty big things, notably that Barry and Earth-2 Harrison Wells have come face-to-face. Does the next episode pick up from that confrontation?

Kreisberg: The next episode opens in a slightly surprising way. This is going to come as a giant shock to everyone in this room but I'm a fan of "Doctor Who." [Laughs] I think one of the things that Steven Moffat does so brilliantly is that when he has cliffhangers and two-parters, they don't just pick up exactly where they left off. You come in with an expectation and you're not quite where you thought it would be. So, obviously this scene will play out but how it unfolds in [episode 5] is really exciting and you're going to get a lot of answers to questions you probably have.

The other, literally big thing that occurred was King Shark. Can you talk a little about that?

Kreisberg: We actually put him in the comic book adaptation because we said, "No one is ever going to let us do this and we're never going to be able to do this" since we weren't going to be using the Squad anymore. We were talking about it and it was really Todd Helbing who was like, "Let's do it!" It was a very expensive 30 seconds of the show but our visual effects them are the best and they love challenges like this.

It was just fun for us. Obviously we can't afford to do an entire King Shark episode so the idea was that he was one of Zoom's minions and just the latest in the line. Which does mean that there is a King Shark on Earth-1.

Well, you did do an entire Gorilla Grodd episode.

Kreisberg: Yeah. And we're doing another one in which Caitlin plays the Fay Wray to Grodd's Kong. [Laughs]

Panabaker: In season one you got to see just a tiny bit of her relationship with Grodd and you'll get to see a little bit more of that and understand their connection from before. He's got some unfinished business with her, I'd say.

We're about a month away from the "Arrow"/"Flash" crossover. Last year's crossover was about Oliver teaching Barry how to be a good hero, but Barry is a hero now. So, what will we see when they crossover again?

Kreisberg: It's hard to talk about it in those terms only because what Barry is facing when he goes into the crossover is part and parcel with what everyone is going through in episodes five, six and seven. I will say that conceptually speaking one of the ways that we thought of these episodes in sort of a macro sense was that the "Flash" episode this year plays more like an episode of "Arrow" and the "Arrow" episode plays more like an episode of "Flash." We thought that was kind of part of the fun of these episodes. And this year, both "Arrow" and "Flash" are different. Thea's on the team now.

Panabaker: And it's exponentially bigger this year, too, because we factored in all those characters from "Legends," too.

Kreisberg: It's killing us. [Laughs] We have more heroes, more people with powers, more mouths to feed and bigger villains. It's really exciting.


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- Productor de ‘The Flash’ Revela la identidad de un importante nuevo personaje (thewrap):

Productor de ‘The Flash’ Revela la identidad de un importante nuevo personaje
Por Linda Ge 27 Octubre, 2015 @ 6:00 pm

“The Flash” episode “Fury of Firestorm” was all about the remaking of a superhero, but by the end of the hour, two bigger revelations left fans reeling.

After several emotional roller-coaster conversations triggered by the return of Francine (Vanessa Williams), Iris’ (Candice Patton) mother and Joe’s (Jesse L. Martin) ex-wife, Central City’s resident investigative reporter uncovered that her mother wasn’t just keeping a terminal illness from her estranged family — she was also pregnant when she left town years ago, and had a son in secret.

Is this new member of the West family who fans think it is?

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“Yeah, that’s Wally,” showrunner Andrew Kreisberg said at a press event for the episode, also confirming that the future speedster (to be played by Keiynan Lonsdale) is indeed Joe’s biological son.

Lonsdale will make his first appearance in the winter, playing the iconic character from the DC comic book universe who became the speedster known as Kid Flash.

In the comics, Wally West is related — distantly — to Iris and Joe, but here on the CW drama the connection much closer.

“We always hate it on TV shows when it’s like Year 2 and someone’s like, ‘Cousin John’s coming!’ and ‘Oh, good old cousin John,’ like no one ever mentioned him before? It was weird, ” Kreisberg joked. “The notion that they don’t know Wally, that’s sort of where that came from. Then the idea that Francine was alive, and that’s where that story came together.”

The introduction of another prospective speedster to “The Flash” won’t just mean one more superhero for Central City, it will also particularly impact Iris, who’s thus far the only main character who knows of Wally’s existence.

“Iris is now in the position Barry [played by Grant Gustin] was in last year, she’s keeping a secret to protect somebody,” Kreisberg said. “And she’s going to find that, for all her anger at Barry and Joe from last year, keeping this secret is not going to be so easy. It’s going to be weighing on her before she finally decides to take some action in an upcoming episode.”

On top of the Wally West reveal, the episode also ended on a whopper as Barry came face to face with a man who looked exactly like his former mentor and nemesis, Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh).

Of course, on a season that’s all about alternate universes and doppelgangers, it’s unclear just who this Harrison Wells really is. And don’t expect a straight answer right away.

“I think the next episode opens in a slightly surprising way,” Kreisberg said. “I’m a fan of ‘Doctor Who.’ I think one of the things Stephen Moffett always does so brilliantly is when he has cliffhangers and two-parters, they don’t just pick up exactly where they left off. You come in with an expectation and then it’s, ‘Wait, I’m not quite where I thought I was going to be.’ The scene [between Barry and Wells] will play out, but how it unfolds… The beginning of Episode 5 is really exciting and you’re going to get a lot of answers to questions you probably have.”

The new version of Wells also won’t be alone in showing up in this version of Central City to add confusion and chaos.

“It’s about to go doppelganger a go-go on the show,” Kreisberg teased. “With time travel last year, we kind of tried to ease everybody into it and we tried to do the same thing here. The first episode was, ‘How do these two guys look exactly alike?’ And then Jay [Garrick, played by Teddy Sears] comes over and we establish the idea of Earth 2, and then we’ve had it sort of playing in the background for a couple of episodes… but now we’re really going to pick up with Episode 5, 6 and 7 the Earth 2 story line. So there will be doppelgangers and doubles.”


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- Jefe de ‘The Flash’ habra sobre la noticia bomba de Iris y el inesperado encuentro de Barry (Variety):

Jefe de ‘The Flash’ habra sobre la noticia bomba de Iris y el inesperado encuentro de Barry
Por Laura Prudom 27 Oct 2015

While much of this week’s “Flash” focused on the team’s hunt for a new Firestorm, the biggest bombshells of the hour came courtesy of Iris’ (Candice Patton) long-overdue meeting with her mother, Francine (Vanessa Williams), and Barry’s (Grant Gustin) unexpected run-in with DC Comics villain King Shark, closely followed by an even more unexpected encounter with the Earth-2 iteration of Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh).

Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and star Danielle Panabaker shed some light on the episode’s many revelations and what’s coming up in the impending “Arrow” and “Flash” crossover, which is designed to set up midseason spinoff “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.”

Where’s Wally?

Iris’ investigative chops led her to uncover that her mother secretly had another child eight months after Francine left Central City — a son with a name that should be familiar to DC Comics fans: Wally West. In comics canon, Wally is Iris’ nephew, not brother, but Kreisberg admitted that they dismissed the possibility of contorting Iris’ family tree to fit the comics fairly early on.

“We have these ideas in the previous season so we always knew we were leading up to this, and rather than them suddenly having some cousin that inexplicably… We always hated on TV shows that it’s year two and somebody’s like, ‘Well, Cousin John’s coming!’ And it’s like, ‘Oh, good ol’ Cousin John!’ who no one ever mentioned before. It was always weird. The notion that they don’t know Wally was where that came from, and then that was the idea that Francine was still alive and then that whole storyline,” Kreisberg explained. “Iris is now in the position that Barry was in last year – she’s keeping a secret to protect somebody and she’s going to find that, for all of her anger at Barry and Joe from last year, keeping this secret is not going to be so easy and it’s going to be weighing on her before she finally decides to take some action in an upcoming episode.”

And yes, conspiracy theorists, Kreisberg also confirmed that Wally is definitely “Joe’s son.”

Mama Drama

The downside of Iris’ journalistic digging was that she confirmed that her mother really is dying of a disease known as MacGregor’s Syndrome, which DC fans may recognize as a fictional disease that also afflicted Nora Fries, the wife of Batman villain Mr. Freeze in “Batman and Robin,” before being co-opted by “Arrow” as a terminal illness suffered by the Clock King, William Tockman, in season two.

“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. “You try to tread lightly on those things, because when you really start to analyze those things, especially episode three [“Family of Rogues”], it’s really an episode about violence and violence against children and parental abuse. It can be heady stuff if you really take a step back from it… For that [MacGregor’s] reference, for example, it’s a useful tool to say something like that — that sounds spooky and scary, without saying [cancer]. We used it on ‘Arrow’ and we all remembered it.”

The Devil You Know

The episode ended with a gobsmacked Barry staring down a familiar (yet different) face: the Harrison Wells of Earth-2. But next week’s episode won’t pick up exactly where we ended, according to Kreisberg: “The next episode opens in a slightly surprising way … I’m a fan of ‘Doctor Who.’ I think one of the things that Steven Moffat always does so brilliantly is that when he has cliffhangers and two-parters, they don’t just pick up exactly where they left off. You come in with an expectation and ‘oh wait, now I’m not quite where I thought I was going to be.’ Obviously, this scene will play out. but how it unfolds in 5, I think the beginning of 5 is really exciting. You’re going to get a lot of answers to questions you have.”

As for whether we’re seeing a Harrison Wells doppelganger or an Eobard Thawne-as-Harrison Wells doppelganger, Kreisberg would only tease, “I think part of watching the show is learning all of that stuff.”

Seeing Double

Kreisberg says “it’s about to go doppelganger-a-go-go on the show,” so we can expect more alternate universe shenanigans in upcoming episodes, and not just with Wells. “With time travel last year, we kind of tried to ease everybody into it and we tried to do the same thing here where the first episode was how the two guys look exactly alike and then Jay comes over and we establish the idea of Earth-2, and then we’ve had it playing in the background for episodes three and four just to remind everybody that the show is still ‘The Flash’ and you’re still going to get the typical ‘Flash’ episodes that tie into the normal mythology of the show. And now we’re really going to pick up, with 5 and with 6 and 7, the Earth-2 storyline. There will be doppelgangers and doubles.”

Although the producers were initially cautious of overwhelming the audience with too much multiverse action, Kreisberg said they came to realize “people have already watched a year of ‘Flash.’ Even the characters on the show, when someone flies in front of them, they’re not like, ‘What’s happening?!’ They’re like, ‘Oh, that’s probably a metahuman.’ Since the characters were more accepting of it, we realized the audience could be more accepting of it… That was why, when we first wrote episode 2, we wanted to see Jay fighting Zoom. That whole opening with Jay and Zoom fighting and seeing Earth-2, that was actually after the original conception. We realized people could handle it and see it and not be like, ‘What the hell is going on,’ like the show just suddenly turned into a David Lynch thing.”

Snow Day

The episode also saw a more assertive Caitlin, something that Panabaker said is set to continue this season, now that there’s a power vacuum where Wells’ leadership once was. “The old dynamic from season one was Wells — he created S.T.A.R. Labs, he was the boss and we all followed the law. And this year it’s feeling different. We’re trying to feel it out and suss it out and whoever has the most expertise or passion or chutzpah tends to be the one we follow.”

Kreisberg agreed, “It’s a conscious effort on our parts too. The thing that Iris adds to those scenes when she’s in the cortex is the heart that sometimes they don’t always have, being a bunch of scientists talking about things. Caitlin especially has taken the reins in a lot of ways, especially since they can all sit around arguing about the best thing to do. The other day we were watching a cut of an episode and it’s Caitlin saying, ‘No no, this is what we’re doing.'”

The episode also provided a measure of closure for Caitlin following the loss of Ronnie, which makes sense, given that she’s been growing closer to Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears). Kreisberg confirmed, “we’re building a relationship between Jay and Caitlin and there’s going to be some fun and surprises there,” but Panabaker also thinks she’s a little further along in her grieving process now.

“This grief for Caitlin is very different than last year. She was in a much darker, much unhappier place and I think there is a new purpose for her being at STAR Labs, especially with the loss of Harrison Wells as he was in Season 1. She’s going to find her new position and have different things to focus on. So I think that helps her get over her devastation from losing Ronnie again.”

Kreisberg added, “I also think there was a six-month gap… Even though it was a chyron, it definitely helped cover the time. And one of the things a lot of the actors have commented on to us [that] was something that we weren’t able to articulate necessarily in the writers room was, it feels like the show got more mature in the past year. Every one of the characters has grown up a lot and so everyone isn’t dealing with things in a very binary, raw, ‘I’m happy.’ ‘I’m sad.’ People are starting to grow up just like any of us do and start realize there’s complexities and there’s grief and happiness and there’s sadness and joy and you can still find your way.”

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. “We’ve been so blessed with the success that we’ve had that we’ve been able to… know that we’re going to be on for years and we were able to play the slow-con on some of these things. Just because one thing is happening fast, it doesn’t mean that something else is never going to happen, it just means that it’s being platformed,” he noted. “These things are being set up [and] it’s only in hindsight that you look back and you go, ‘that thing in episode whatever from early season 2, that tied to the thing that led to the other thing.’ There are plans for a lot of this stuff.”

Good Vibrations

Cisco’s own metahuman twist is developing a little faster, Kreisberg promised: “One of the things for him is this evil man said, ‘I’ve given you this gift’ and he’s seen what happens to the other metahumans. Good or bad intentions, they all go nuts and they all get locked up. Cisco’s really scared. He doesn’t see what the benefit is yet. He doesn’t see that it really is a gift and he doesn’t see that it’s a blessing and a power that can be used to help people. Right now, all he sees is the nightmare. That’s what’s really scary for him. It’s not like he woke up and he can fly. So not only is he scared about what it means to be a metahuman and all of that, but he also feels like he drew the short straw. ‘Barry got super speed and Ronnie gets to fly and me, I get these blinding headache nightmare visions of people getting killed.’ It’s not, at first blush, the most heroic way to step into the world.”

Cross-Eyed

Unlike last year’s “Arrow” and “Flash” crossovers, which were ostensibly about Oliver (Stephen Amell) helping teach Barry how to be a hero, this year’s mash-up is much more plot-based, not least because it serves to set the stage for “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.”

“What Barry’s facing when he goes into the crossovers is part and parcel with what everybody’s going through in [episodes] five, six and seven,” Kreisberg said. “I will say that conceptually speaking, one of the ways we thought about these episodes in a macro sense was ‘The Flash’ episode this year plays more like an episode of ‘Arrow,’ and the ‘Arrow’ episode plays more like an episode of ‘Flash.’ We thought that was kind of the fun of these episodes. And what’s always fun about them is, this year, both Arrow and Flash are different, and I just mean the characters themselves – Thea’s on the team now so there’s all sorts of color combinations that are occurring.”

“And it’s exponentially bigger this year too because we factored in all the characters from ‘Legends,’ too,” Panabaker noted.

Monster Mash

Kreisberg hoped fans would be surprised – and thrilled – by the King Shark cameo, which he described as “a very expensive 30 seconds in the show. But our visual effects team are the best and they really love challenges like this. Armen Kevorkian, who’s the head of our team, got really excited, and it was probably the thing he sent me the most, like, ‘Check it out! Here’s how it’s coming!’ And I literally can’t believe that. That’s beyond feature quality and they realized it so well. Obviously we can’t afford to do an entire killer King Shark episode, but the fact that he’s one of Zoom’s minions … He’s just the latest in another line of [bad guys], which does mean there is King Shark on Earth-1.”

We’ll also get to see the return of Gorilla Grodd in season two, in which “Caitlin plays Fay Wray to Grodd’s Kong,” said Kreisberg.

“In season one you got to see just a tiny bit of her relationship with Grodd and you’ll get to see a little bit more of that and understand their connection from before,” Panabaker teased. “He has some unfinished business with her, I’d say.”


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- Productor habla sobre Wally West, King Shark y el próximo crossover con Arrow (IGN):

Productor habla sobre Wally West, King Shark y el próximo crossover con Arrow
Por Eric Goldman 27 Oct, 2015

A lot was in play this week on The Flash, as a new Firestorm was introduced, King Shark (!) showed up, Harrison Wells made his presence known to Barry Allen and more.

At a recent press screening of the episode, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg discussed these recent reveals and more, including hints at the next big Flash/Arrow crossover.

Wally West

No, there’s no bait and switch being played. We’d heard Keiynan Lonsdale is playing Wally West in Season 2 and yes, Kreisberg confirms, when Iris learns from her mother that she has a brother, “That’s Wally.” In the comics, Wally was originally Iris’ nephew, but Kreisberg said he and the Flash team decided to make it a sibling Iris never knew about, noting, “We always hated on TV shows that it’s year two and somebody’s like, 'Well, Cousin John’s coming!' And it’s like, ‘Oh, good ol’ Cousin John!’ who no one ever mentioned before. It was always weird. The notion that they don’t know Wally was sort of where that came from and then that was the idea that Francine was still alive and then that whole storyline."

He added, "Iris is now in the position that Barry was in last year – she’s keeping a secret to protect somebody and she’s going to find that, for all of her anger at Barry and Joe from last year, keeping this secret is not going to be so easy and it’s going to be weighing on her before she finally decides to take some action in an upcoming episode.”

Kreisberg also confirmed this Wally is Joe West’s son.

King Shark!

A hugely entertaining moment in “The Fury of Firestorm” is when Barry is confronted by King Shark, a villain from the comics. Kreisberg noted they’d actually included the character in one of the Flash TV show tie-in comics, because they assumed when it came to the show, “No one’s going to let us do this.”

He then explained, “Since we knew we weren’t going to be using the [Suicide] Squad anymore and we were talking about it, it was really [Flash writer] Todd Helbing who was just like, 'Yeah, let’s do it!’ It was a very expensive 30 seconds in the show. But our visual effects team are the best and they really love challenges like this. Armen Kevorkian, who’s the head of our team, got really excited, and it was probably the thing he sent me the most, like, ‘Check it out! Here’s how it’s coming!’ And I literally can’t believe that. That’s beyond feature quality and they realized it so well. Obviously we can’t afford to do an entire killer King Shark episode.” However, since the King Shark who confronted Barry was sent by Zoom, Kreisberg said, “That does mean there is King Shark in Earth-1.”

Firestorm 2.0

The new Firestorm, who will play a big role on Legends of Tomorrow, was revealed to be Jefferson “Jax” Jackson (Franz Drameh), a supporting character from Firestorm comics, but not someone who’d been Firestorm himself. Regarding why they chose Jax (as opposed to either using Ronnie Raymond or Jason Rusch, who was briefly introduced in Season 1), Kreisberg explained, “I think we decided to use it as an opportunity to introduce a different kind of Firestorm. What worked so well in the comic books was the idea that they were so different, Stein and Ronnie. In the comic books, Ronnie was like a jock. He was a dumb jock. Obviously, Robbie [Amell] and the character we created for our Ronnie was an engineer and was more mature and has a girlfriend and is more of an adult. So the idea of a second Firestorm being somebody who is just sort of in his early 20s and somebody who was radically different from this Firestorm. Here you got to see the camaraderie and when you guys get to see Legends, you’ll gonna get to see a lot more of the, ‘What the hell are you talking about? Why are we doing this?!’ while they’re merged, so there’s a lot more room for comedy with the Firestorm character than we’ve previously had before.’

Kreisberg had a lot of praise for Drameh, bringing up his performance in Attack the Block. He also added, “And honestly, we’re all so, as always, so proud to have another African American superhero with superpowers. For a whole generation of kids who are growing up, who this show is their entree into the superhero world, for them, Firestorm will always be African American and we’re so proud of that.”

Doppelgangland

It seems we’re seeing Harrison Wells’ Earth-2 doppelgänger on the show now and that we could potentially meet many other alternate versions of The Flash characters. Admitted Kreisberg, with a laugh, “It’s about to go doppelganger-a-go-go on the show. With time travel last year, we kind of tried to ease everybody into it and we kind of tried to do the same thing here where the first episode was how the two guys look exactly alike and then Jay comes over and we establish the idea of Earth-2 and then we’ve had it sort of playing in the background for episodes three and four just to remind everybody that the show is still The Flash and you’re still going to get the typical Flash episodes that sort of tie into the normal mythology of the show…”

As for Wells confronting Barry at the end of the episode, Kreisberg said, “The next episode opens in a slightly surprising way. I am a fan of Doctor Who. I think one of the things that Steven Moffat always does so brilliantly is that when he has cliffhangers and two-parters, they don’t just pick up exactly where they left off. You come in with an expectation and oh wait, now I’m not quite where I thought I was going to be. Obviously, this scene will play out but how it unfolds in 5, I think the beginning of 5 is really exciting. You’re going to get a lot of answers to questions you have.”

Meanwhile, on Earth-2...

Regarding how much we will see of Earth-2, Kreisberg remarked, “It’s funny. When we were starting to do the season, we were afraid because we didn’t … a lot of it by design and a lot of it by luck, we really feel like Season 1, we told the right story and we told it the right way with all of the time travel stuff. So when we had decided to do Earth-2, we were like, wait a minute. [In Season 1, we asked] how do we do the time travel thing and not mess this up? In the beginning, we kind of kept it all on the back-burner and we didn’t show a lot of the time travel stuff so people could ease into it. But then when we were starting to look at some of the earlier episodes [of Season 2], we realized that we weren’t starting from scratch again. People have already watched a year of Flash.

Even the characters on the show, when someone flies in front of them, they’re not like, 'What’s happening?!' They’re like, 'Oh, that’s probably a metahuman.' The whole idea of it, since the characters were more accepting of it, we realized the audience could be more accepting of it. As long as Caitlin and Cisco especially, we really feel like those are the two characters who most represent the audience, and Joe, that we could do that. That was why when we first wrote episode 2, we wanted to see Jay fighting Zoom. That whole opening with Jay and Zoom fighting and seeing Earth-2, that was actually after the original conception. We realized people could handle it and see it and not be like, 'What the hell is going on?”'Like the show just suddenly turned into a David Lynch thing.”

Crossovers

The next big Flash/Arrow crossover is coming, which will also help launch Legends of Tomorrow. Said Kreisberg, “It’s hard to talk about it in [story] terms only because what Barry’s facing when he goes into the crossovers is part and parcel with what everybody’s going through in [episodes] five, six and seven. I will say that conceptually speaking, one of the ways we thought about these episodes in a macro sense was The Flash episode this year plays more like an episode of Arrow, and the Arrow episode plays more like an episode of Flash. We thought that was kind of the fun of these episodes. And what’s always fun about them is, this year, both Arrow and Flash are different, and I just mean the characters themselves - Thea's on the team now so there’s all sorts of color combinations that are occurring. “

Kreisberg added, with a laugh, “It’s kind of… it’s killing us. It really is bigger. We looked back and we thought those Flash and Arrow episodes [last season] were the biggest things we’d ever done and now we have more heroes, more people with powers, more mouths to feed and bigger villains and it’s really exciting.”

As to how many other crossovers we might see, including smaller ones, Kreisberg noted, “The first one was Felicity in episode four of Flash, that was also designed to make sure everybody was tuning into Flash early on, and we’ve had the big crossover and I think it’s one of the special things about the shows - all of these people are friends and they care about each other. The one thing we didn’t do last year on Flash, and I keep kicking myself for it, is when Oliver got exposed as the Arrow, there was no mention on Flash for all those episodes about everything Oliver Queen was going through. And it’s funny because you’d think ‘Oh, it’s two different shows’ and you didn’t even really think about it, but for me it’s like, they’re all friends and they all know each other, and they all know about each other’s secret identities and they all care about each other, and you’d think somebody would’ve said something about it. It’s actually gotten to the point now where it’s less about trying to prevent the crossovers and just to constantly make sure that we’re honoring the fact that all of these people are in each other’s lives. I think there’s probably a lot more of the mini-crossovers, like one person here for one scene, and that was why we acknowledged the Green Arrow change in Flash, because Oliver went on television. I think in the beginning there was concern that crossovers would diminish the shows, and for whatever reason, for us and it seems like for the audience too, we’ve found that crossovers make both shows feel bigger. And I think that’s because both shows are somewhat similar as far as popularity is concerned so it never feels like a phony attempt to generate ratings. It’s what we want to do. We make the show we want to see so if we think, wouldn’t it be cool if Oliver showed up or wouldn’t it be great if Cisco showed up over there? We just do it.”

MacGregor's Syndrome

While it was first introduced into the Flash/Arrow universe on Arrow (where the Clock King was suffering from the disease), Iris’ mother Francine brought MacGregor's Syndrome back into this world – one of the more amusing references these shows have included, given the origin of this fictional disease is Joel Schumacher’s infamous Batman & Robin. I asked Kreisberg about using MacGregor’s on the shows and he admitted, “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. You try to tread lightly on those things, because when you really start to analyze those things, especially episode three, it’s really an episode about violence and violence against children and parental abuse. It can be heady stuff if you really take a step back from it, and giving it that emotion. Certainly Peyton

• ’s performance in that was amazing and I think it deepened and enriched everything and it made you understand Snart a little bit more. Yeah, Barry and Iris had tough childhoods but the Snart kids really had tough childhoods. For that reference [MacGregor’s], for example, it’s a useful tool to say something like that -- that sounds spooky and scary, without saying [it].”
  
  
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- ¿Qué es lo próximo para Cisco? Andrew Kreisberg y Carlos Valdes contestan (comicbook):

¿Qué es lo próximo para Cisco? Andrew Kreisberg y Carlos Valdes contestan
Por Russ Burlingame 27/10/2015

While tonight's episode of The Flash belonged to Franz Drameh's Jay "Jax" Jackson -- the new Firestorm -- there was no shortage of teasing what's coming up for Cisco Ramon, Barry's tech guru and recently-revealed metahuman known to comic book fans as the onetime Justice Leaguer Vibe.

Since Cisco's abilities started to manifest late last season, fans have wondered if and when we'll get a version fo Vibe who will suit up and join Barry on adventures -- but so far, he hasn't even been able to bring himself to reveal his abilities to his closest friends.

That's something Professor Martin Stein -- the other half of Firestorm -- has encouraged him to do...but will he?

"I don't want to give too much away, but yeah," showrunner Kreisberg said following a screening of tonight's episode in Los Angeles last week. "One of the things for him is this evil man said, 'I gave you this gift,' and he's seen what happened to the other metahumans. Good or bad intentions, they all go nuts and they all get locked up. Cisco's really scared. He doesn't see what the benefit is yet. He doesn't see that it really is a gift and he doesn't see that it is a blessing and a power that can be used to help people. Right now, all he sees is the nightmare. That's what's really scary for him."

"All I know is that we're really hinting at some stuff from the Vibe lore, so things look good," said actor Carlos Valdes, who plays Cisco, when asked about the possibility of suiting up during a recent visit to the set of The Flash. "I haven't' heard anything. I don't even know if that's in my future, so I don't like to make assumptions."

The nature of the power, too, plays into Cisco's reluctance to share his secret with the team and pursue his potentially-great destiny.

"It's not like he woke up and he can fly," Kreisberg added. "Not only is he scared about what it means to be a meta-human and all of that. He also feels like he drew the short straw. 'Barry got super speed and Ronnie gets to fly and me, I get these blinding headache nightmare visions of people being killed.' It's not at first blush the most heroic way to step into the world."

"I guess when you think about it objectively, on paper, considering that Cisco is such an eager personality, you would think he would be geeked about something like that happening to him," Valdes said. "But I think what the writers have done is actually much more interesting; they're flipping the expectation on its head and Cisco actually isn't responding well to what's happeing to him. It's not a good thing for him and he's very scared, and he doesn't know how to handle it. I like that."

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- The Flash | "Life-Changing" Promo | The CW:

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- Danielle Panabaker Interview on ET Online about S2:

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- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Promo | The CW:

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- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Extended Promo | The CW:

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- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Australian Promo:

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- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Stills:

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http://canadagraphs.weebly.com/the-flas ... orrow-cast

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- Descripción oficial del 2.07 “Gorilla Warfare”:

2.07 “Gorilla Warfare” (17/11/15): GORILLA GRODD REGRESA A CENTRAL CITY — Grodd regresa a Central City y secuestra a Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker). Barry (Grant Gustin) y el equipo corren para encontrarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Mientras tanto, Cisco (Carlos Valdes) planea su primera cita con una nueva camarera en el Jitters, Kendra Saunders (la estrella invitada Ciara Renée) y Patty (la estrella invitada Shantel VanSanten) empieza a sospechar que Barry le está escondiendo algo. Dermott Downs dirige el episodio escrito por Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing (#207).

http://flashtvnews.com/the-flash-gorill ... urns/22140

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- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Clip #1 | The CW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoEzNbiIgI


- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Clip #2 | ET:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fel5s2dvWq0


- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Clip #3 | TVLine:

http://tvline.com/2015/11/03/the-flash- ... son-wells/


- The Flash | 2.05 "The Darkness and the Light" Producer´s Preview | The CW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoiUo4DVPCc

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- Estrellas de "The Flash" hablan sobre la 'Fácil' relación de Barry y Patty y los sentimientos de Iris (TVLine):

Estrellas de "The Flash" hablan sobre la 'Fácil' relación de Barry y Patty y los sentimientos de Iris
Por Vlada Gelman / 02 Nov 2015, 3:38 PM PST

Superheroes need love, too.

So while The Flash‘s Barry Allen has his hands full with Zoom, multiple Earths and now King Shark — can’t this kid ever catch a break? — this Tuesday’s episode (The CW, 8/7c), finds him somehow making time to take Patty out on their first date.

“They just get along really well, and it’s kind of effortless,” star Grant Gustin says, when asked about the couple’s dynamic during a set visit last month. “They are interested in a lot of the same stuff. And it’s an escape for Barry right now because everything else is heavy in his life, other than his relationship with Patty.”

With the couple enjoying some “fun” interaction for “consecutive episodes,” Gustin is hopeful that viewers “will enjoy seeing Barry be happy with at least one aspect of his life,” he adds with a laugh.

But what will his best friend (aka the woman to whom he professed his love) make of his new girlfriend? After all, Iris had some opinions about his romance with Linda Park last year.

“What’s important is Iris loves Barry and wants to see him happy,” actress Candice Patton replies, noting that the situation is similar to the Barry/Iris/Eddie setup last season. “As hard as it was for [Barry], he just wanted her to be happy. So when Iris sees that Barry has an interest in a woman – and a really great woman at that – she’s quite supportive and happy for the both of them.”

Despite Iris wanting nothing but the best for Barry, his current squeeze and his BFF aren’t going to be gal pals – yet. “We won’t see a relationship with Iris and Patty for a while in Season 2,” Patton reveals.

However, that will change as the show approaches its fall finale and beyond. “We’re moving into Episode 10 now, and it’s less of a business relationship that Iris and Patty have,” the actress continues. “It’s more of a friendship where they ask each other for advice. It’s going to be really nice to see two women share a common love for a man, in a different way at this point, to having a bonding experience over that.”

Meanwhile, Joe will also get caught up in Barry’s love life drama, leading to “a couple awkward situations” for the detective, Jesse L. Martin shares with a laugh. Barry and Patty are debating “about when at work, how much do they show their relationship, and it flips back and forth. There’s a point where I encourage him to just be free with it and then I see them being free with it, and I don’t like it,” he finishes, laughing again.


http://tvline.com/2015/11/02/the-flash- ... ris-patty/

- Candice Patton sobre Barry/Patty, Wally West & más (Ksitetv):

Candice Patton sobre Barry/Patty, Wally West & más
Por Craig Byrne 03 Nov, 2015

A new episode of The Flash airs tonight at 8PM (ET/PT) tonight on The CW. The episode is called “The Darkness and the Light” and it looks like Iris West, the well-loved character played by Candice Patton, will be playing a large role.

A few weeks back, we spoke with Patton at the Vancouver studio of The Flash. Video of the interview can be found below — though be aware that this interview was conducted before the third episode of Season 2 had aired, so things are teased that we have already seen.

Can you talk about how Iris will be juggling her career with her time at STAR Labs?

That’s an interesting question, and I’m still trying to figure that out on the show myself. Iris, we know her as the iconic reporter from the Picture News, but the thing is, she’s now kind of a part of Team Flash, which is really cool. I’m enjoying seeing her just being in STAR Labs and feeling like she’s a part of the team, and that she’s no longer kept in the dark… you’ll definitely see more of that this season, but it’s important to remember that she is a reporter and that’s how we know her, and that we will mostly – soon, hopefully – start to see her show up in Picture News mostly.

How does being a reporter who is intimately involved with stories and having to keep secrets — ethically, how do you wrestle with that as a reporter?

The problem is, we haven’t really delved into that yet, so I don’t know how the writers are going to handle that, but just me guessing as an actor… the thing is, Iris has a moral integrity to be a great reporter, but at the same time, she loves her city and she loves Barry Allen, and she will do anything to protect that. So, I think that would probably be her number one priority, is making sure that the identity of The Flash stays secret so that he could do his job, which is to protect Central City. And sometimes that means that as a reporter, you have to bend the rules.

Will we see any more of Iris’ reaction to losing Eddie, or is that all in the past?

You see moments of it. It’s not heavy in this season, I will say that. I think we wanted to not spend so much time seeing Iris grieve over an entire season. I think we kind of tried to cover that with the six month advance in the Season 2 premiere. It’s been six months; she’s had time to absorb what’s happened. She’s not in deep grief anymore. It doesn’t mean that she’s not aware of the fact that she lost the man that she loves; we just won’t see it playing a heavy role in Season 2.

How does Iris deal with Barry’s developing relationship with Patty?

All these new women, man. Ahhh! Well, it’s funny, I think… I don’t know what I can say about this without getting in trouble… but I think what’s important is, you know, Iris loves Barry and wants to see him happy, and it’s the same thing I think we saw with Barry and Eddie and Iris last season – as hard as it was for him, he just wanted her to be happy. So I think when Iris sees that Barry has an interest in a woman – and a really great woman, at that – that she’s quite supportive and quite happy for the both of them.

What can you tell us about this year’s holiday episode?

It’s a lot about family, which is a big plot point for Iris this season, so that’s really exciting. Other than that, I don’t know if there’s much more I can say. We see a reappearance of some Rogues from the past that we know very well… it’s a good Christmas episode, just like the last one. Good villain, and good love, and good heart.

What can you hint at about Wally West coming into the picture, and what kind of interactions they will have?

They will be having interactions. What can I say? We definitely know Wally’s going to make an appearance. I know that’s a huge point of excitement for a lot of fans. I personally don’t know very much. I can’t really say when he’ll appear, how he will appear, what the relationship between him and I will be like… so, all I can say is “yes, I’m sure we will share some sort of dialogue.”

http://www.ksitetv.com/interviews-2/the ... ore/85805/

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- The Flash | 2.06 "Enter The Zoom" Promo | The CW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8vXATT-pk8


- The Flash | 2.06 "Enter The Zoom" Extended Promo | The CW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYjk753-EzI


- The Flash | 2.06 "Enter The Zoom" Producer´s Preview | The CW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53SkrlGxJc



- The Flash | 2.06 "Enter The Zoom" Clip #1 | The CW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJ2wB08me0

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- Nuevas imágenes bts del elenco en la S2 (03-06 Nov 2015):



(@dpanabaker: Who's excited for tonight's episode! We are!
@grantgust: Just wrapped and haven't seen it yet but I can't wait to see that date with @therealshantel. #BarryAllen #PattySpivot
@grantgust: My job is dope af. #TheFlash)

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- Nuevo póster promocional de la S2:






- Nuevo póster promocional del crossover:



Junto a él, se da la oportunidad a los fans de participar para conseguir un pase vip exclusivo al screening del crossover:

http://www.cwtv.com/contest/enter/crossover/

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- Stills del 2.06 "Enter The Zoom":