Flashpoint Confirmed to Kick Off THE FLASH Season 3
After a lot of rumor and speculation since the second season finale of The Flash, Grant Gustin has confirmed that season three will launch with one of the character’s most popular storylines: Flashpoint. The end of the season two finale pretty much set it up, so it’s great to see that the team behind the series is moving forward with it.
Gustin revealed that he had read the script for the season three premiere, and then with the permission of writer and executive producer Greg Berlanti he said that the title of the episode was "Flashpoint" and he’s not messing around! You can read the series of tweets from Gustin below:
Just finished reading episode 3-01 titled JK NOT GONNA TELL YOU YET! I'm SO excited to get back to work in 2 weeks. #TheFlashSeason3
— Grant Gustin (@grantgust) June 20, 2016
@grantgust I'm cool with you telling them the title :)
— Greg Berlanti (@GBerlanti) June 20, 2016
FLASHPOINT. This is not drill. https://t.co/nzq2NJh9pl
— Grant Gustin (@grantgust) June 20, 2016
Season 3 is gonna be lit.
— Grant Gustin (@grantgust) June 20, 2016
It’s not really a shocking reveal as the fans seemed to see it coming from a mile away, but it is nice to have this confirmation. It gives us something we can get extremely excited about.
In the story, Barry Allen finds himself in an alternate timeline in which his mother is no longer dead, and most of the world’s heroes are now more like villains and some of the villains are heroes. For example, Captain Cold is actually a Central City hero named Citizen Cold. That should give you get the idea of what could happen in the series3.
There’s no word on how this storyline will effect Arrow, Supergirl, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, all of which are expected to have an epic four-part crossover. However, EW makes the following suggestion:
Technically, those storylines could feasibly continue without a direct effect — these heroes move on in this timeline, while Barry has created an entirely new timeline in which his mother never died. Or — hold onto your hats for a moment here — we could see Flashpoint leading up to another comic book storyline: Crisis on Infinite Earths, which The Flash has also been teasing since its pilot, with the crossover potentially serving as the episode that realigns the timelines and maybe even brings Supergirl to our Earth. But those are theories for another time.
Are you excited to hear about the new direction of The Flash and where it could lead?