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FLASH series being developed for The CW

davejames said:
Well nice to hear he'll be wearing an actual costume at least. Be interesting to see what they come up with.
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I'm also happy to hear that. No weird black style shirt and trenchcoat like Smallville, or plain green pants/hooded shirt like arrow (I don't dislike arrow's look, I'm just pointing out its more vigilantye than superhero) but an actual costume. I'm hoping its fairly close to classic Barry.

Icemizer said:
I wonder if they will tame Barrys powers down to the Wally level back when his series originaly started. Cant exceed the speed of sound, cant vibrate through things, has to eat constantly. A full blown Flash is a very powerful creature. I also hope the Speed Force figures into things. This would allow them to actually introduce dare I say Wally at some point in the series.
Captain Cold, Heatwave, The Top, Captain Boomerang, Mirror Master, Reverse Flash and The Eradicator(no not the Superman one) top my list of villians to see.
Colonel Computron, Big Sir, and Rainbow Raider need never appear.
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I don't know, I think Rainbow Raider would be pretty funny to see on the TV :lol:


When it comes to powers, I don't want him to be a wimp like in the first Flash TV show. He shouldn't be near death after running a pitiful 2-300 miles. He doesn't neccessarily need to be able to run all the way around the planet in less than 5 seconds (which I remember happening in the comics) but he shouldn't be completely handicapped. The Justice League cartoon did a good job of showing a Flash who wasn't all powerful but wasn't pathetic like the live action one when it comes to powers.
 
Am I the only one who has trouble picturing how this show could really work? Granted, I haven't seen any DC animated stuff, but if your hero can move so fast he can kick everyone's ass before they even know he's in the room, what danger can he possibly face?

Also, if the tone is considerably more lighthearted, maybe a half-hour format would be best? I doubt they'd do it, because hourlong shows are no doubt much cheaper on a per minute basis, but the live action The Tick had some great light-hearted half-house superhero stories.
 
Gaith said:
Am I the only one who has trouble picturing how this show could really work? Granted, I haven't seen any DC animated stuff, but if your hero can move so fast he can kick everyone's ass before they even know he's in the room, what danger can he possibly face?

Also, if the tone is considerably more lighthearted, maybe a half-hour format would be best? I doubt they'd do it, because hourlong shows are no doubt much cheaper on a per minute basis, but the live action The Tick had some great light-hearted half-house superhero stories.
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How is the Flash, with his Super Speed, any more difficult to imagine then Superman, who has so many other powers on top of Super Speed? Or Thor who's a God?
 
Well you could make the same argument for Spider-Man as well. With his spider sense, he should logically be able to dodge or evade every punch that's thrown at him.

But the movies (and cartoons, etc) conveniently ignore that fact for the most part, and I'm sure this Flash series will do the same with Flash's superspeed.
 
I expect the Flash's abilities on the show will be not quite as exaggerated as they are in the comics. I mean, they'd pretty much have to be, or you'd never see him move at all; he'd just seemingly teleport somewhere else.
 
It always gets me that from Flash's point of view everything else is in slow motion, so that while it appears to an outside observer that he ran across the continent in a few seconds, to him the subjective time is still weeks and months. That would suck. Unless he has some way to selectively control his perceived passage of time.
 
Before you begin to type out that comment about how The Flash won't ever actually be in his costume and never be called "The Flash," Kreisberg says you have nothing to worry about. "No sweat suits or strange code names; he will be The Flash."
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Imagine how silly they'd be if they called him "The blur" or something like that.

;)
 
I know it gets ridiculed a lot, but I still think the slow-motion running in the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman was a surprisingly effective way to show superspeed.

Obviously it was slowed down for our benefit (like slowing down footage of a hummingbird so you can see it's wings flap), but it was still easy to believe that they were moving at crazy fast speeds.

And it was a lot more exciting that watching a hazy blue or red blur zip around the screen.
 
Christopher said:
I expect the Flash's abilities on the show will be not quite as exaggerated as they are in the comics. I mean, they'd pretty much have to be, or you'd never see him move at all; he'd just seemingly teleport somewhere else.
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The Smallville episode where Lana finds out about Clark is a good example of this. They showed Clark taking off at super speed from Lana's perspective and one second he was there and the next he just seemed it disappear into thin air.
 
Sindatur said:
How is the Flash, with his Super Speed, any more difficult to imagine then Superman, who has so many other powers on top of Super Speed? Or Thor who's a God?
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Thor's some kind of alien who doesn't move at super-speed. Superman is a similar case, yes, but since his strength is more of a defining attribute than his speed, it never really bothered me on Smallville when Clark would simply brawl with his opponents rather than zipping around them and whaling on, say, the back of their necks. His zooming around was a bonus, not his selling point. Hard to see "The Flash" having the same excuse...
 
^The '90 series pulled it off for a whole season. The animated shows have pulled it off too. I don't see why it would be so problematical for this show to make it work.
 
Christopher said:
^The '90 series pulled it off for a whole season. The animated shows have pulled it off too. I don't see why it would be so problematical for this show to make it work.
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That show wasn't half bad.

As for effects ... :lol:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPiwd2pocPE[/yt]
 
^ I have to watch that show sometime.

Anyway, I want a Flash that's FAST! I don't want them to tone down his powers for dramatic purposes. Part of his appeal for me is his absolute masterly over speed. I want to see him pull the guy out of the electric chair after the switch is pulled. As for what effect to use for his super speed, I like the afterimage effect best right now. I don't like the trailing blur either, though it didn't look too bad in that clip above.

Gaith said:
Also, if the tone is considerably more lighthearted, maybe a half-hour format would be best? I doubt they'd do it, because hourlong shows are no doubt much cheaper on a per minute basis, but the live action The Tick had some great light-hearted half-house superhero stories.
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I definitely don't want to see that. I want something more akin to the 90s show. That's the Flash I know best. I've never seen the character as lighthearted despite how he was presented in Justice League or whatever.

I wonder if we'll get a John Wesley Shipp appearance at some point, either on Arrow or the spinoff.
 
I have no interest in Arrow, but the Flash thing has me curious...I may have to check it out.

Just please, don't put him in another muscle suit....

The 1990 series wasn't that bad, other than that.
 
Ugh. If anyone should be wearing something sleek and form-fitting, it's a speedster. Runners don't wear padding.
 
Agent Richard07 said:
I definitely don't want to see that. I want something more akin to the 90s show. That's the Flash I know best. I've never seen the character as lighthearted despite how he was presented in Justice League or whatever.
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Well, that's the thing about the '90s show -- it changed drastically in tone over the course of its season. It started out trying to be as dark and serious as the Burton Batman, but by the season finale it was at full-on Adam West levels of campiness. And really, even well before that, the show's Barry had become more lighthearted than he was in the pilot where he was all about avenging his brother. Heck, as early as the fourth episode (the third one aired) they introduced the recurring love interest that he had a fairly light and comic romance with.
 
The 90s show did not really have a muscle suit. Not long ago I read an article of its designer explaining it. They approached it more like makeup. It was made up of different pieces sculpted to fit John Wesley Shipp's body. Than it was sprayed with a texture similar to flocking.
 
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