Hasn't there been run in the comics where pretty much everyone knew the Flash's real indentity
Have a vague recollection from and audio adaption by Graphic Audio but can't remember the story.
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Hasn't there been run in the comics where pretty much everyone knew the Flash's real indentity
Have a vague recollection from and audio adaption by Graphic Audio but can't remember the story.
Who knows, maybe it's a by-product of this being done by the same people who do Arrow and they didn't want to make it seem like they are rehashing the same dynamic between Arrow and Detective Lance that they did in the first season. Joe finding out in the first episode might have been a purposeful effort to make Flash unique from Arrow in that regard
Okay, I didn't catch the color of the blur that actually took him away, but it did seem to me that there were two blurs running around--red and yellow. So, my theory is that Barry goes back in time to save his mother from Zoom and in the middle of the fight has to get himself out of the way. In the time it takes him to do this, Zoom kills his mother.
^^It'll be interesting to see if it plays out that way.
Something like my theory could go down in one of two ways--Barry realizes the past cannot be changed--OR we have an entire "Flashpoint" inspired crossover with Arrow before Barry goes back into the past to correct his mistake and let his mother die.
A couple months before Crisis, Barry was unmasked in court (By his own lawyer) during his trial for the murder of Professor Zoom.
Quickly after that, his comic was cancelled and Barry went to live happily every after in the 30th century where The Fastest Man Alive had twins Don and Dawn Allen.
Barry died early in the Crisis.
The Graphic Audio story of Crisis is by no means a strict adaptation.
It's all about Barry.
After his "apparent" death in the first issue, the Scarlet Speedster is an mostly invisible/intangible ghostlike thing ping-ponging through time "witnessing" the unfolding Crisis and complaining like a #### trying to be relevant and braying louder and louder hoping that someone will hear him, see reason and confirm that he is not dead.
Quickly after that, his comic was cancelled and Barry went to live happily every after in the 30th century where The Fastest Man Alive had twins Don and Dawn Allen.
Barry died early in the Crisis.
The Graphic Audio story of Crisis is by no means a strict adaptation.
It's all about Barry.
After his "apparent" death in the first issue, the Scarlet Speedster is an mostly invisible/intangible ghostlike thing ping-ponging through time "witnessing" the unfolding Crisis and complaining like a #### trying to be relevant and braying louder and louder hoping that someone will hear him, see reason and confirm that he is not dead.
It wasn't bad, good but not as great as all the hype. 
you may be thinking of Wally. his identity was fairly common knowledge.
We see the potential.
Layer upon layer, with no reset button, and we could be in for something quite fun.
Layer upon layer, with no reset button, and we could be in for something quite fun.
After Barry was outed, the dominoes fell.
But Marc is not talking about comics.
You sure about that?
I'm talking about audios based on the comics because i've never read a Flash Comic and Graphic Audio's stuff is fairly close to the comic they are are adapting.
And yes i think it was wally that featured.
But at the end of the day my point is that a number of people knowing who the flash really is, isn't without precedent.
I was more looking at the second half where he's citing Audio Stories as evidence for why he would believe that there would be a period in comics where every one knew his secret identity.
Marc's not "only" talking about comics?
Marc's not "only" talking about comics?
I'm not worried about precedent. An adaptation shouldn't just be a copy of something that came before; it needs to work as an independent story in its own right. It's starting over, telling the story in its own way. It should do what works well for it, regardless of what was done in some earlier iteration.
After all, Joe West is a character newly created for the show. His relationship with Barry is unique to the show, as novel as any character relationship in a fully original series. So I'm not thinking about past versions of the franchise; I'm thinking about where this show's characters could or should go in the future.
Until proved otherwise (which could happen at any moment) Joe West is a carbon copy of Quentin Lance and might as well be Quentin Lance, and react to any given situation identically to Quentin Lance.
Quentin liked Oliver plenty before he deflowered his daughter, and then his other daughter.
(It's still 50/50 on the wife too.)
(It's still 50/50 on the wife too.)
I've a feeling the wife was deflowered long before Oliver was born.
The sins of the father...
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I really forgot what deflowered meant.
So many damn words in my head.
But if both those girls were virgins before Ollie?
In early season one, I'd have laid %4 odds that Quentin sunk the Queens Gambit.
So many damn words in my head.
But if both those girls were virgins before Ollie?
In early season one, I'd have laid %4 odds that Quentin sunk the Queens Gambit.
