It's not really about them leaving but more of Cisco and Caitlin being replaced. Flash still has a huge team behind him, but the two regulars who started it all would be gone, if they left.
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It's not really about them leaving but more of Cisco and Caitlin being replaced. Flash still has a huge team behind him, but the two regulars who started it all would be gone, if they left.
Yeah six seasons are enough for this show
7 seasons tends to be a sweet spot to end genre shows. the only reason Arrow got the abbreviated 8th season, was to be able to tie it into Crisis on Infinite Earths.
And I agree that Flash has just about run its course(heh). All good things and all that...
And I agree that Flash has just about run its course(heh). All good things and all that...
If they had the real Ralph (and Sue) on the show, I'd totally support it. Having a corrupt cop turned private detective with the Ralph Dibny/Elongated Man name slapped onto the character is an insult, as is renaming Selina Kyle to Sue Dearbon and pretending she's that character, and not obviously a slightly tweaked Catwoman without the whip and with rich parents.
The Flash producers hatred for DC Comics is palatable. Sometimes it works, with Cisco and Caitlyn being 100 times better then their source material. But sometimes its fucking terrible (Ralph/Sue, making Atom Smasher and the female Doctor Light into villains for literally no reason, and almost every other in name only character they've done during the show's run), and is easily one of the worst recurring problems with the show.
Knew you'd come around.
I'm Ralph Dibny, yes I'm the real Dibny;
All you other Ralph Dibny are just imitating.
So won't the real Ralph Dibny please stretch-up?
Please stretch-up. Please stretch-up?
All you other Ralph Dibny are just imitating.
So won't the real Ralph Dibny please stretch-up?
Please stretch-up. Please stretch-up?
They clearly love the comics. The only hater I see here is you.
How I watch every Berlanti superhero show:
- Expect comic book good guys to be villains on the show
- Expect comic book villains to be good guys on the show
It never fails.
This was a weird and clumsy one. First off, slowing someone down wouldn't cause them to age rapidly compared to everyone else; that's getting it backward. They'd be hugely accelerated compared to everyone else. (Also, "she was over 100 when she died" doesn't work. In that bubble, she would've had no food or water and would've died in subjective days at most.)
Also, killing off the Speed Force is a pretty massive deal and they handled it in kind of an abrupt manner. The pacing just didn't feel right, perhaps because they were trying to juggle it with all the other ongoing plots about Mirror Iris and Nash being possessed.
That was a neat sequence at the beginning with Wally multiplying himself. It reminded me of a common visual from Flash comics going back to the Silver Age, although those images were presumably meant to be time lapse shots of the Flash doing multiple things in very quick succession, not literally duplicating himself and doing them simultaneously. It was still a neat visual, though.
Also, killing off the Speed Force is a pretty massive deal and they handled it in kind of an abrupt manner. The pacing just didn't feel right, perhaps because they were trying to juggle it with all the other ongoing plots about Mirror Iris and Nash being possessed.
That was a neat sequence at the beginning with Wally multiplying himself. It reminded me of a common visual from Flash comics going back to the Silver Age, although those images were presumably meant to be time lapse shots of the Flash doing multiple things in very quick succession, not literally duplicating himself and doing them simultaneously. It was still a neat visual, though.
Yeah, the episode tried to juggle too many plot points. They really should have focused on just the speed force plot because it is such a big one. The episode was too casual with such a massive plot development as the end of the Speed Force.
Also, Grant Gustin is usually a good actor but I feel like he did not do well in that scene with the death of his mom-speed force. He should have been more upset and broken over it. After all, it's the Speed Force that looks just like his mom dying in his arms. He should have been crying more.
Also, the episode seemed to gloss over the point about Barry always trying to fix everything himself and not relying on others. That has been a weakness of Barry. The show seems inconsistent with whether Barry has learned this lesson or not.
I am also really curious where they go with this. Will Barry somehow restore the existing Speed Force or will he really build a brand new one? If so, will anything be different or will things just go back to status quo once a new Speed Force is back. I really hope that it changes things in a big way and does not go back to status quo.
Yeah that was a great scene. I love the Wally character. And he had great scenes with all the cast. But I feel like the writers had not handled his character right. I get that the writers did not want 2 speedsters as regulars because it would detract from Barry being the hero of the show. But in this ep, they just brough Wally back to move the plot forward a bit. He shows up, moves the needle a bit and then leaves. I wish he could have a bigger role in the show.
Meanwhile, I don't understand streaming video. Why is it that when I watch a show online, e.g. on The CW's site, a 42-minute episode can play smoothly but sometimes a 30-second commercial freezes up every 3 seconds and takes two and a half minutes to finish? It's really annoying. And this week during The Flash it happened twice with the same commercial (for Subway).
I've noticed this as well but sometimes it's even during the episode part of the episode. It feels like a new thing as well because this wasn't happening last season.
Jason
I'm not having any lag problems with the episode itself, and it's not new; it's often happened before on commercial streaming sites. But there are a few commercials that they often show on The CW's streaming site that do it all the time. I just don't understand why it is that something as short as a commercial is so glacially slow to load compared to something as long as an act of an episode. Or, for that matter, compared to most other commercials of the same length that play just fine. What is it about those particular ads that causes so much lag? I'm not just complaining, I'm genuinely curious what the technical explanation is.
Production has been put to a halt due to corona virus concerns
https://deadline.com/2020/03/the-flash-shuts-down-production-coronavirus-1202882446/
https://deadline.com/2020/03/the-flash-shuts-down-production-coronavirus-1202882446/
Not an IT expert at all but....
Streaming services don't have one server. They have many. And one show might not be on one server but spread over many. Or several servers working together. Could be that the commercials are on a server that has issues at some point. Meaning the episode is fine, but when switching to the server that hosts the commercials, lag happens.
That's how it was explained to me anyway
I thought it might be something like that, but the strange thing is that they never fix it. The commercials that lag continue to lag every single time they air, week after week, month after month. It's not just "at some point," it's every damn time. So why don't they notice it and do something about it?
The new episode that was scheduled to air March 31 has been postponed: https://www.spoilertv.com/2020/03/the-flash-episode-616-so-long-and.html?m=1