The Flash - Season 1

[theenglish]

The number crunching was a little too show off-y. "Hey look! We're smart and we can do calculations!"

I'm surprised that he didn't go splat when he came back down.

I'll miss Bette. I'm surprised at the people they're killing off after just one episode.

By the way, doesn't Kelly Frye look like Kristen Hager from Being Human?

Same plastic surgeon.

 

[theenglish]

Yeah I can almost buy sheer speed and momentum being enough to get him all the way up the building, but it's the coming down that's a lot harder to accept. Since, as you said, there's just nothing holding him against the building to begin with.

Unless he can somehow run a certain way that his steps don't push him away from the building as much.

It's the Speed Force...

 

[Morpheus 02]

I found Barry asking for speed numbers silly. He is not carrying a speedometer with him and would have no more idea how fast he is running than I do when I run. I also thought the him giving he height he needed to go up in meters to be wrong. Central city is in the U.S. where we dont use the metric system, but well he is a scientist and they do so I guess its ok.

We've only seen it on screen, but he has speed-tested with STAR Labs quite a bit...and he would have a sense of what going at 500 miles an hour is vs. 100 or10. It'd belike we'd have a sense between us walking, running & jogging. Except he has a much wider sense of speeds (and way more than fast, medium or slow)

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well if Barry was running backwards up the building only just slightly slower than gravity was pushing against him... Or if he was using his arms like propellers, or running towards the ground as fast as he did created a massive compression of air that might as well have been an airbag or a giant pillow.

 

[Marc]

The only problem I have with the show right now is that their answer for dealing with the meta-humans is mostly killing them off. That's an easy out IMO. Too easy. I would like them to figure out what to do with the good ones and bad ones, rather than just killing them off, or trying to contain them in the prison setup.

But other than than the guy who could turn to a gas they haven't come up against any metas they had to think about long term.

They started with Bette but it became moot when general badguy shot her.

The bad metas generally died in the attempt to stop them.

 

[Brent]

The only problem I have with the show right now is that their answer for dealing with the meta-humans is mostly killing them off. That's an easy out IMO. Too easy. I would like them to figure out what to do with the good ones and bad ones, rather than just killing them off, or trying to contain them in the prison setup.

But other than than the guy who could turn to a gas they haven't come up against any metas they had to think about long term.

They started with Bette but it became moot when general badguy shot her.

The bad metas generally died in the attempt to stop them.

Right, well, I didn't think Bette needed to die.

Killing off Meta's is the easy way out of the story.

 

[Christopher]

I also thought the him giving he height he needed to go up in meters to be wrong. Central city is in the U.S. where we dont use the metric system, but well he is a scientist and they do so I guess its ok.

Barry, Caitlyn, and Cisco are scientists, so it would've been wrong if they hadn't used meters. American laypeople may not use the metric system in everyday life, but all science is done in metric. If nothing else, it's a lot simpler to do the math when everything relates in multiples of 10.

But how will they do it for reals? Surely they're not going to have a telepathic gorilla!!! A man in an animatronic suit? CGI? Either way, that would be insanely awesome!!!

Didn't you see the final shot? They showed Grodd in the cage, and he looked CGI to me.

 

[Agent Richard07]

I liked how they put a large body of water in and around Central City but made sure we saw that it wasn't an ocean.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Central to what?

Seems Oceanside to me.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Central City is supposed to be around Kansas/Missouri, in the center of the U.S., hence the name.

I was about to say that they used the right shots to conceal the Pacific Ocean but I have to remember that Vancouver isn't right on the ocean.

 

[Marc]

Central City is supposed to be around Kansas/Missouri, in the center of the U.S., hence the name.

I was about to say that they used the right shots to conceal the Pacific Ocean but I have to remember that Vancouver isn't right on the ocean.

Maybe they decided to sit Central City on on the great lakes - gives you a very large body of water but not an ocean.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Or they're just not thinking about it too hard...like when we saw snow-capped mountains from a Kansas highway in Smallville.

Where's Starling City supposed to be? Star City in the comics is supposed to be on the West Coast. The show told us that Central City is 600 miles from Starling, correct?

 

[Guy Gardener]

DC Comics had the absolute gall to sell an atlas (25 years ago for their Role Playing Game) to the public but now has the stones to pretend like that never happened!

 

[Agent Richard07]

I see that Central City was once said to be analogous to Athens, Ohio. That's kind of "central" enough.

Maybe they decided to sit Central City on on the great lakes - gives you a very large body of water but not an ocean.

If it was near Toledo or Detroit, maybe. But remember, we didn't actually see a large body of water that looked like a great lake or an ocean. There was always a land mass across the water.

Where's Starling City supposed to be? Star City in the comics is supposed to be on the West Coast. The show told us that Central City is 600 miles from Starling, correct?

What we saw of Central City could probably fit near Delaware or Seattle. That could also allow Starling City to be a coastal city that's only a few hundred miles away.

Or they're just not thinking about it too hard...like when we saw snow-capped mountains from a Kansas highway in Smallville.

There's that too.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I've really enjoyed The Flash so far, I may even go as far as saying this is the best comic book adaptation ever, well for television. Yeah it's a bit hokey, but they get so much right. The characterization, the look and feel and the team. I think Tom Cavanagh's Harrison Wells gives James Spaders Raymond Reddington a run for his money for a character you would watch a show for. This weeks episode was just filled with layers and layers of wonderful stuff. I imagine it will be Iris who eventually coins the term "The Flash" for Barry in her blog.

 

[Christopher]

I imagine it will be Iris who eventually coins the term "The Flash" for Barry in her blog.

Except it's pretty clear that Barry's already thought of that name himself. His narration at the end of the pilot suggested he'd already gotten the idea from Oliver's "in a flash" line on the rooftop, and a couple of weeks ago he almost said it to Joe before being interrupted. So the name would have to come from him. It'd be a huge coincidence if Iris thought of it independently. She might popularize it, but she'd have to hear it from Barry "or" the Flash himself.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I was expecting Barry to tell her "call me The Flash, not the Streak!"

 

[Christopher]

I was expecting Barry to tell her "call me The Flash, not the Streak!"

Oddly, though, they both imply someone running around naked in public... (Which almost happened this week.)

 

[Lonemagpie]

Watched the first two episodes so far, and thoroughly enjoyed it - it seems to have same light tone as the 1990s version, which was hugely underrated.

Definitely sticking with it.

 

[Greg Cox]

I was expecting Barry to tell her "call me The Flash, not the Streak!"

Oddly, though, they both imply someone running around naked in public... (Which almost happened this week.)

I hadn't thought of that!