
Even though HR is dead, leaving his new girlfriend Tracy Brand behind, Tom Cavanagh still has Harry. He tries to plead with this Barry, but Savitar makes it clear that, to him, that’s not his name.

Neither did any of the team until Iris comes running up to Joe as HR and reveals herself. Facing off with Barry (Grant Gustin) after last week’s reveal, Savitar (also Grant Gustin) details how he exists: In the wake of Iris’ (Candice Patton) death, Barry creates time remnants in.

Savitar didn’t realize this until afterword. Most actors on “The Flash” have mastered the art of playing multiple characters, but we’ve never seen an evil Barry Allen before, so it’s going to be fun to sit back and watch Grant Gustin bring the character to life. He used face swapping tech to disguise himself as Iris. Whether you were let down by the reveal or not, there’s no denying that it’s intriguing. So to have our lead actor be both the hero and the villain isn’t something we’ve done before, so that was exciting for us as storytellers.” We’re not only competing with all the stuff that we’ve done on Flash, but we’re always competing with everything we’ve done on all the other shows. Barry time traveled, this time accidentally, to the future and saw Savitar. “The idea that the darkest villain we could come up with was actually a very damaged version of our hero was interesting and fresh to us. The Flash dropped a huge depressing bomb on its audience in the winter finale.

Funny how later in the episode Iris says In order to honour the truth. “What’s really cool for anyone who thought that there wasn’t a plan, or we didn’t know, or we were making this up as we go, this was always where we were heading,” Kreisberg says. i feel like the red death time traveled after the flash defeats savitar. “You get that in the next episode, and the mystery is ongoing, but obviously Savitar is a version of Barry Allen, a heavily scarred version,” executive producer Andrew Kreisberg tells EW.Īndrew Kreisberg also noted that revealing Barry as Savitar was always the plan, and they thought the idea of having Grant Gustin play both the hero and the villain was new and exciting. We waited almost a whole season for the Savitar reveal, but luckily we won’t have to wait much longer to find out why he wants to kill Iris. In 2018, the Monitor invaded Earth-90 and seemingly killed all of its residents.
