Following a tremendously well received first season, The Flash is back on Tuesday for Season 2. Per usual for this series, a key element is that things move fast, both where the main character is concerned and in plotting, and Season 2 will be introducing a ton of new elements from the comic books.

I sat down with The Flash’s showrunner, executive producer Gabrielle Stanton, to talk about what’s to come in Season 2, including Jay Garrick, Zoom, Wally West, Earth 2 and more.

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We definitely have a spin on him. He’s going to be, kind of in that classic Jay Garrick way, a little bit older. He’s a little bit more of the Flash that you expected from the comic book. Our Barry is a young Barry, a little bit geekier. He’s going to kind of play mentor a little bit to Barry this season. He’s going to have seen a little bit more, done a little bit more and as Barry is understanding his powers and what he can do, Jay’s going to be there to mentor him and teach him the next steps toward becoming an even better Flash.We’re doing Earth 2. We’re focusing. In the comic books, the possibilities are endless. I think there’s 52 out there? Don’t expect to see all 52.Absolutely. Last year we worked with time travel and showed what we can do with that. Having an Earth that’s like ours but not like ours is really a fun thing to play with and we’re definitely going to see different iterations of playing with that over the course of the season. We’re going to unravel Earth 2 a little bit slowly. So it won’t be this one thing that’s kind of shocking. I think Earth 2 is going to play a big part in some of the decisions that Barry makes over the course of this season.

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[Laughs] No pressure for us this season at all, right?I can’t tell you a whole lot. We’re keeping it all close to the chest this season. I will say that like we did last year, Andrew [Kreisberg] is great at taking the character in the comic book and giving it a little spin, making it a little different than what they are there. The Wally West you’re going to see in Season 2 of The Flash is not going to be the traditional Wally West you see in the comics.Super fun energy. Which obviously makes sense, but he just had such a great energy about him.Zoom is going to be very different from Reverse-Flash in every way. Zoom is very scary. Zoom will make Reverse-Flash seem like “Oh, he’s here to sell girl scout cookies.” So that will be really fun. Yeah, he’s our big bad for Season 2 and he’s going to be bigger and badder than anything in Season 1. No question.We have Earth 2. We also have parallel time lines with time travel. But I can say that the Harrison Wells we’re going to meet is going to be a very different Harrison Wells than we worked with last year. Harrison Wells was really Eobard Thawne taking over his body and that informed everything he was doing. This year we’re going to meet Harrison Wells in a completely different way.We’re definitely going to explore their characters more this season. The challenge in setting them up for another show is, “Oh, wait, we want them on our show. Hold on Legends, you’re stealing our characters!!” Captain Cold, like we said, we’re going to learn a little bit more about him this season and then when we have the big crossover where you’ll see more characters. It’s really fun because we’re getting to play a little bit more with those characters in our world and Arrow will in their world and then we get to send them off to their own little world.Exactly. It’s really going to give Barry some new insights into Captain Cold and he’s going to see kind of why he ended up the way he did. Thematically, it’s interesting, looking at their relationship. They’re -- I’m not even going to say Frenemies. That’s too friendly. But I think they definitely have kind of a weird bond. I think Barry is really going to see how childhood affects the man or the woman that you become. They both have these messed up childhoods and two very different paths that they took. It’s actually a really cool episode.

Continue to Page 2 as Stanton discusses Iris, Cisco, Barry’s father figures and more.