'The Flash' Showrunner Explains Why Season 4 Doesn't Have Speedster Villains
Showrunner Todd Helbing said he could "understand" fan frustration with speedster 'big bads'.
Grant Gustin has done incredibly well in his leading role in 'The Flash', playing a superhero who's one of the fastest men on the planet, but who in his every day life is known to everybody as Barry Allen. Only ever brought to the live-action small screen successfully in the past by The CW, it's been very interesting to see him develop the character and stick to his roots, whilst bringing a modern originality to the Scarlet Speedster.
Todd Helbing serves as showrunner on 'The Flash'
In the first three seasons of 'The Flash', Barry has gone up against some of the world's mightiest villains, but all of the 'big bads' that he's taken down seem to also have been embedded with the power of speed. In fact, they all seemed to be even faster than The Flash. When a fourth season of the show was confirmed, fans begged those working on the series to give them something a little different.
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