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CW’s hit DC television show, The Flash, is entering it’s third season in October and, based on how the second season ended, this upcoming season will be starting with one of The Flash’s most recognizable storylines from the past twenty years — Flashpoint. In that story, Barry Allen uses his speed to go back in time and save his mother from being killed by Reverse-Flash, but in doing so creates an entirely new, entirely different reality — he doesn’t have his super speed, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are destroying the world and Bruce Wayne was the one shot in the alley, leaving Thomas Wayne to take up the mantle of Batman. Obviously, the television series will not touch on a world-decimating war between the Amazons and Atlantis, but it will touch on Barry Allen changing his reality to one where he most likely doesn’t have his super speed and, as we’ve seen in the trailers, none of his friends really know him anymore.

It’s a topsy-turvy mirror mirror world where nothing is right and, honestly, they could stretch it an entire season if they wanted to, focusing the first half of the season on Barry trying to get his speed back and the second half on defeating the enemy and maybe putting things right with the world. But according to star Grant Gustin, that’s not what they’re doing.

At San Diego Comic Con just a couple short weeks ago, Grant Gustin sat down with Kevin Smith and IMDB to talk about the series and their starting with Flashpoint, saying everything they’re shooting is “pretty Flashpoint focused right now, which I think we are going to see the repercussions coming out of Flashpoint. There will be ramifications all season long from Flashpoint.”

Pushed a little bit further, Gustin admitted, “I think we can state … Flashpoint does not last all season long, but there are permanent ramifications.”

Gustin then went on to explain why he believes Barry would do what he did, going back in time to save his mother knowing that there would be full ramifications from his actions. For him, it’s about believing that his parents have died due to his career as a hero, due to the vengeance and hate in the heart of villains that are only after him. They’ve died only because of who b is and have had that life robbed from them and, for Barry, he needs a world where that didn’t happen. As he says,

“People were like, ‘Why did he do that?’ And I think that he wasn’t going to do that, but I think that sitting on that porch, having just defeated Zoom, Iris says to Barry what he’s always wanted to hear, and he feels empty inside. That was the moment… As selfish as it was that Barry wanted his parents, I think it’s more about ‘these two speedsters took away their life because of me and they deserve to have a chance at life. I can’t do this, I need to give them that chance.’”

You can watch the interview in the video below. The Flash Season Three Premiere is on October 4th.

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