Anyone remember The Flash? Based on the DC comics character

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Yeah, I was really surprised. I had just finished watchin' the series on DVD a few weeks before the con...and this con was back in '06, I think, so a good fifteen years since the series ended.

 

[Professor Zoom]

He recently did the voice of Professor Zoom on Batman Brave and the Bold. he was great.

 

[Christopher]

Uhh, what cliffhanger? The series concluded with a happy ending, albeit a somewhat contrived one.

Spoiler: Flash finale

Even though the Flash had been brainwashed into joining the Trickster, his reputation seemed to recover easily, to the point that the series ended with Central City erecting a new welcome sign declaring itself the home of the Flash.

If that's true they must have not broadcast the final episodes in my area.

They have pre-emted it so many times I could not keep track of it. I have the DVD's and have been watching them. Here all this time I thought the show ended with all the villians teaming up to get him.

There was never any such episode. The only villain who made a return appearance was the Trickster in the season finale, and there were no villain-teamup episodes, unless you count the Trickster's groupie/sidekick Prank in the finale. And there were no 2-parters, so no episode ever ended in a cliffhanger (except for part 1 of the pilot in reruns).

Quick Trek Question:
By the way is "Watching the Clock" going to be a trilogy of books? I loved the time police starships in Voyager. If that was the Department of Temporal Investigations?

It was conceived as a standalone, but I'm already doing a followup/prequel, Forgotten History, about the origins of the DTI in the TOS era. And no, if you'd read Watching the Clock, you'd know that the Temporal Integrity Commission from Voyager is an entirely different agency.

I really liked the Nightshade episode (with a retired hero who didn't have superpowers).

I have in my head, a superhero team loosely based on the Nightshade character.

That was one of my favorite episodes also. Was that written by Howard Chaykin? I was reading the credits and noticed he was one of the writers on staff.

There were two Nightshade episodes, "Ghost in the Machine" and "Deadly Nightshade." They were both written by the team of Howard Chaykin and John Francis Moore.

 

[Vendikarr]

There was never any such episode. The only villain who made a return appearance was the Trickster in the season finale, and there were no villain-teamup episodes, unless you count the Trickster's groupie/sidekick Prank in the finale. And there were no 2-parters, so no episode ever ended in a cliffhanger (except for part 1 of the pilot in reruns).

Pike from the pilot also returned. He was in the 'thrown into the future' episode.

 

[Christopher]

^Oh, right. I was only thinking about the comics supervillains.

 

[God Magnus]

Fun series. Especially enjoyed the two episodes with the 1950's hero Nightshade portrayed by Jason Bernard.

These were my favorite episodes. I enjoyed the idea of a Noir like character predating the Flash and Bernard played the role perfectly.

 

[marillion]

And, ya know, Amanda Pays.

My thoughts exactly... I had big time hearts for her when I was a kid.

 

[TheSeeker]

I loved this show and was really disappointed when it got cancelled. I haven't seen it since it originally aired either so I might have to do something about that.

 

[NextGen123]

I remember there was an unaired Justice League pilot from CBS a decade later. I purchased it at a comic shop. I was surprised to see David Ogden Stiiers as Martian Manhunter. It was a decent 90 minute movie only I don't think the network was aware of the the sci fi audience out there who would watch that material. The Flash was portrayed by another actor, however they didn't stress the costumes so much as their super powers.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I remember there was an unaired Justice League pilot from CBS a decade later. I purchased it at a comic shop. I was surprised to see David Ogden Stiiers as Martian Manhunter. It was a decent 90 minute movie only I don't think the network was aware of the the sci fi audience out there who would watch that material. The Flash was portrayed by another actor, however they didn't stress the costumes so much as their super powers.

I saw clips. Looked awful. There's always going to be an audience for something. It's just a question, though, of how many and whether or not it would make it worth it. I think the network judged wisely.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Never liked the FLash series. Everything seemed wrong. Starting with the muscleman Flash costume.

 

[TheSeeker]

I saw clips. Looked awful.

Yes. It did look awful.

 

[Christopher]

^I've never understood why the Green Lantern in that pilot was dressed in blue. Okay, it's a greenish-blue, but next to Fire or Martian Manhunter it just looks straight-up blue.

 

[TheSeeker]

Not to mention they were combining about three different Green Lanterns into one with that suit.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I've seen that movie. It's beyond awful. It makes Police Academy Mission To Moscow looking like Citizen fucking Kane.

 

[Christopher]

Not to mention they were combining about three different Green Lanterns into one with that suit.

Not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. The Flash in the live-action series was Barry Allen, but he had some elements of Wally West mixed in, like the need to eat constantly and an associate named Tina McGee. And the DCAU's Tim Drake was an amalgam of Tim and Jason Todd (and B:TAS's Dick Grayson wore the Robin costume created for Tim in the comics).

 

[Forbin]

I saw clips. Looked awful.

Yes. It did look awful.

What's with the plastic vampire brow-pieces on the the Flash and... um... the atom?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I saw clips. Looked awful.

Yes. It did look awful.

What's with the plastic vampire brow-pieces on the the Flash and... um... the atom?

Blame the Batman movies.

 

[nightwind1]

I just purchased the one and only season of The Flash. The actor who portrayed him, John Wesley Ship was on Dawson's Creek, but has he appeared in any other show?

He played a doctor on All My Children for a year or two in the mid-ninties.

 

[Sindatur]

I just purchased the one and only season of The Flash. The actor who portrayed him, John Wesley Ship was on Dawson's Creek, but has he appeared in any other show?

He played a doctor on All My Children for a year or two in the mid-ninties.

Recently played a real sleezy slug of a character on One to Live to also. It was very jarring to see him playing such a character, when all I recall seeing in the apst was "nice guys" roles.