The Flash - Season 1

[JD]

REally enjoyed the episode.
We got our first mention of the Speed Force, and learned that Wells is apparently losing his speed. So I wonder if his interest in Barry is purely due to his desire to regain his speed. I did get a kick out of actually seeing him use his super speed. Was this the first time we saw him use it, or did he somewhere last week too?
FYI: Wells' computer or whatever she is, Gideon, is voiced by Morena Baccarin from Firefly, Homeland, and Gotham.
I thought the Piper was a pretty good villain. It was nice to get one who was connected to the STAR Labs team. I enjoyed the flashbacks to their early days.
If we ever get to a point where they are dealing with alternate universes, then we need one set in the '90s show's universe with all of the returning cast members reprising those versions of the characters.

 

[Mr Light]

Woah. Apparently I was REALLY not paying attention to this episode. When did Wells use super speed and when did they mention the Speed Force?

 

[Christopher]

REally enjoyed the episode.
We got our first mention of the Speed Force, and learned that Wells is apparently losing his speed. So I wonder if his interest in Barry is purely due to his desire to regain his speed. I did get a kick out of actually seeing him use his super speed. Was this the first time we saw him use it, or did he somewhere last week too?

Well, it's the first time we've seen him use it when he wasn't in the Reverse Flash costume.

If we ever get to a point where they are dealing with alternate universes, then we need one set in the '90s show's universe with all of the returning cast members reprising those versions of the characters.

Well, it'd be hard to explain why that universe's Barry Allen was a double for this universe's Henry Allen. But yeah, it would be fun to see a "Flash of Two Worlds" story.

 

[Kelthaz]

If I hear one more Chess reference I think I'm going to scream.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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[Guy Gardener]

When The glass ceiling in his house was exploding he ran to get out of the way.

And at the 24 minute mark, Cisco tells Wells that Hartley has escaped, Wells speeds into action and then his powers peter out.

Later at the very end.

Wells has the Tachyon device clamped onto his chest.

(C'Mon! More Tina! Joe needs a love interest. Lock them in an broken elevator until they discover feelings for each other! It happens all the time in sitcoms!)

Gideon "Warning Tachyon out up has passed acceptable tolerance range continued exposure is not recommended."

Wells "Increase to maximum Gideon."

Gideon "Increasing to maximum Doctor. Speed force absorption at 35 percent and rising."

Wells "I'm not stabilizing. I can't hang onto my speed. It comes and goes and I cannot control it. Gideon, for how much longer is the tachyonic device viable?"

Gideon "Calculations inconclusive. I'm sorry Doctor."

Wells. "That's okay Gideon. This is supposed to be a temporary fix. The real end game is almost here."

The Flash always seems like it's ended, and it's safe to go make a coffee, but then after the ad break theres another minute and a half of Wells being an evil douche, like a secret apendix.

 

[DWF]

Woah. Apparently I was REALLY not paying attention to this episode. When did Wells use super speed and when did they mention the Speed Force?

Wells used super speed twice, once in the attack on his house and again after the Piper escaped from his cell. And the speed force was mentioned at the end of the ep.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

He wasn't crippled before the reactor "accident".

Hunter Zolomon wasn't always crippled either.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Flash (the series) is probably building a justice League.

Although Metamorpho was in the Justice League, he's more thought of as an Outsider.

Katana is running around in Arrow, and they've mentioned Markovia more than once, it's where that Earth Quake machine came from.

Is Arrow building the Outsiders?

Doubtful.

More likely it shows which comics the show runners were reading back in the day.

 

[Guy Gardener]

He wasn't crippled before the reactor "accident".

Hunter Zolomon wasn't always crippled either.

I was more suggesting that Wells was born in the 20th century.

No speed powers, no time travel, not born in the 25th/30th century.

But then the presence of Gideon in the "present" seems to indicate that time travel is possible with out super speed.

 

[theenglish]

Flash (the series) is probably building a justice League.

Although Metamorpho was in the Justice League, he's more thought of as an Outsider.

Katana is running around in Arrow, and they've mentioned Markovia more than once, it's where that Earth Quake machine came from.

Is Arrow building the Outsiders?

Doubtful.

The Outsiders would actually be a great street-level team for a television budget.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That's certainly what they were working towards in (the recent animated series) "The Batman".

 

[theenglish]

That's certainly what they were working towards in (the recent animated series) "The Batman".

A version of Metamorpho could be fairly easily done with a make-up job. Flying seems to be fairly easy to do on a television budget these days so Geo-Force and Halo could work. Black Lightning is pretty easy. The Atom could easily be the leader of the team.

 

[Christopher]

Actually it was Beware the Batman that built up toward the Outsiders. They actually teamed up at the end of the show's single season, though the show's version only featured Katana and Metamorpho from the comics team, along with Man-Bat and a teenage version of Barbara Gordon/Oracle.

 

[Brent]

First mention of The Speed Force in the series in this last episode, made me happy

I like that they are jumping in full on with The Flash.

I always got upset and annoyed about the "no tights no flight" rule on Smallville. I like that The Flash is going full force into the super hero.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Flash (the series) is probably building a justice League.

Although Metamorpho was in the Justice League, he's more thought of as an Outsider.

Katana is running around in Arrow, and they've mentioned Markovia more than once, it's where that Earth Quake machine came from.

Is Arrow building the Outsiders?

Doubtful.

Shouldn't we move this to the Arrow thread?

And Arrow is kinda doing a lot of Batman-ish stuff anyway (such as Ra'sAl Ghul)...they had an embargo on direct Batman stuff because of the movies..i would imagine there might be a similar Justice League ban now in place (whereas it was just a pipe dream during Smallville)..so Outsiders seem like a viable JL alternative...a superhero team but not so Justice League-like that the fear of "creative problems" between movies &TV are avoided.

The Outsiders would actually be a great street-level team for a television budget.

 

[Christopher]

...they had an embargo on direct Batman stuff because of the movies..i would imagine there might be a similar Justice League ban now in place (whereas it was just a pipe dream during Smallville)..

Except that they're planning on including the Flash in the movie Justice League and giving him a solo movie, and that hasn't pre-empted a Flash TV series with a different actor and continuity. And they're developing a Supergirl TV series which will apparently mention Superman as someone who exists. And of course we have Gotham, with characters who will be in the movies, such as Bruce Wayne and Alfred. So I don't think the old "embargo" approach applies anymore.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's possible that DC now believes that ordinary boring people can grasp the concept of a multiverse.

I remember on Cheers they tried to describe the concept to their savage audience that all Christians go to heaven, but there's barbed wire and guard dogs separating the baptists and the episcopalians.

 

[Taylirious]

The Flesh!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Are you to young to be aware of Flesh Gordon?