The Flash will be battling it out against two villains in Season 3: Dr. Alchemy , and speedster Savitar . This will be the third season to feature a speedster villain, after Reverse Flash in Season 1 and Zoom in Season 2.

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Executive producer Todd Helbing is aware there's the concern of getting repetitive, but explained to me during a recent interview why it feels important to have a speedster battling out against Barry Allen. He also discussed how Flashpoint will be translated from the comics to the small screen, how Jay Garrick will fit into Season 3 and why he's looking forward to the upcoming Supergirl/The Flash musical crossover. Read the Q&A below:

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Yeah, I think in general if you have some of these other meta humans, it gets hard to show how Barry can't get them. If you have another speedster, especially someone like Zoom, or Reverse Flash, you need somebody on an equal level to provide that threat that a lot of these other metas can't do.Savitar is more of a psychological villain in a weird way. I think the Hindu word for Savitar means God of Speed; he's all about speed. Everything about this guy is different. I can't go into super detail, but he's not like Zoom or Reverse Flash.I'll just say that Dr. Alchemy's plan and Savitar's plan are not much different.Last year we got pretty dark with Zoom, and I think we want to go back to more of a Season 1 lightness to it. We still need those darker moments, and I think when you find out what Alchemy is doing, it sort of provides that "holy s**t" moment that we really love to have on our show.Yeah. I think that anytime we can have Reverse Flash on our show -- in a lot of ways, to me, Reverse Flash is my favorite villain.Because the psychological torment, and just this whole idea that I need you to sort of exist but in that existence, I'm going to make your life a living hell. For me personally, it's the best version of a villain because it's not only about the powers at that point. That's why we try to get some of the psychological aspect in with Savitar. And Matt Letscher, he's amazing. You have Tom Cavanagh, his performance, which is every time he just knocks it out of the park. And then you have this different version and they're both playing the same guy. Even though they're different, if you were take them and overlay them together, it's like the perfect version. I just enjoy working with Matt so much.When he stopped Reverse Flash, he did something with him. You'll discover exactly how Flashpoint is able to exist. Every time we get any of those big, iconic moments in comic books, we have to take it and use the spirit of it, and figure out the way to do that in our show. This is no different.Much like in the Earth-2 episodes, they were fun, a lot of fun, I loved both of those episodes, but we couldn't do a whole half-season in Earth-2. In the same regard, I don't think it would be the best version of the show if we did half the season -- almost the whole season -- in Flashpoint. That said, the things that Barry changed in the timeline really do ripple throughout the whole season. And that's really the depth I can go into. It'll all make sense after you watch the episode.The first two seasons are about family. Family that I had, family that I lost. Now this is really the family that I've created. And so, this whole idea that Barry can change the people in his lives that are important to him by going back in time. What Barry is constantly learning is the consequences of his actions. Creatively, it's such a fertile ground to explore what somebody's life would be like if they actually had something that they lost, and what the reality of that is. I think often times as people you think one version would be better -- it's always grass is greener -- but it's always, in Barry's world, the consequences. He's going remember. He's going to know what he's lost at the same time.Jay Garrick and him are free. Those other Earths aren't affected, much like Supergirl is not affected because she's on whatever Earth she's on. Jay Garrick on Earth-3 still exists as Jay Garrick -- nothing has changed. And I think that now Barry knows where he is, and that there is somebody a lot older than him, a lot more experienced, even though he looks like his father, he's going to use him for advice every-so-often.I mean, if we can get a dance sequence in there on top of it, I would love to do that. Listening to Joe as the lounge singer, singing, and to see Grant and he was karaoke-ing first season, and even watching Danielle, not being able to sing ... I'm just really excited, to be honest, to see how it all comes together. I know Greg [Berlanti] is very close to this story. He's been thinking about it -- I don't know how long, probably not just yesterday, you know what I'm saying? He's been percolating. Seeing Jesse sing, seeing Grant sing, it's just one of those -- like whoa, we can totally pull this off. I don't know why we wouldn't do this. Let's go for it. This year in general we're really swinging for the fences.

The Flash: Season 3 premieres Tuesday, October 4th at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz