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The Flash - Season 1

Comics = Eobard Thawne = 25th century = Professor Zoom = Reverse Flash = Stalks/murders Iris West.

TV = Eddie Thawne = Blonde Cop Shtupping Iris West.

:)

The producers who do not have to tell us the truth claim that Wells is a new character.

What was the story from Eddie's past tonight? He was a bullied fat kid, and something about his parents being dicks? Did that sound more like a 20th century life or a 25th century life?
 
Absorbing Man!

Wrong universe! Absorbing Man is from Marvel--and was recently seen on Agents of SHIELD. :)

As for the battle, the one thing that bugged me was that the Flash didn't immediately carry Iris to safety, miles away from the school, before rushing back to fight the bad guy. Instead, he arrives in the nick of time to grab Iris and transport her . . . a few feet away?
 
Wondering if Wells is meant to be the obvious Professor Zoom, or the slightly less obvious Vandal Savage (cos of that "been waiting for centuries" line)...
 
^Wells appears to have knowledge of/tech from the future, though. I suppose it's possible that Savage could've met a time traveler at some point, or be working with one, but the hints so far seem to point more to "guy from the future" than "ancient immortal." Unless that's a red herring.
 
Well if he is Zoom he has still been waiting centuries just in the wrong direction. Savage would not normally have access to future events so that would probably rule him out.
Wells future knowledge is inconsistant at best, so maybe he got glimpses of something before he killed his wife.
 
^Wells appears to have knowledge of/tech from the future, though. I suppose it's possible that Savage could've met a time traveler at some point, or be working with one, but the hints so far seem to point more to "guy from the future" than "ancient immortal." Unless that's a red herring.

There was a JLA thing where a future Savage came back in time, IIRC. I think it was in the animated series.

Of course, the very name "Wells" implies HG and his Time Traveller...
 
I dont think any version of Savage would have control over his ego enough to sit in a wheelchair for months to hatch a plan.
 
Vandal Savage is in the future too.

No reason Vandal from the future couldn't have come back?

Current day Vandal could be in a cell downstairs somewhere.
 
It's funny (but believable) that Joe is trying to think out of the box, metahuman-wise, but hasn't quite made the leap to time travel yet.

"If there was a metahuman fourteen years ago, that must mean . . . there was another particle accelerator way back then!"

Or . . .
 
Of course, there are many particle accelerators in the world and have been for over 80 years. So I wish they'd spoken in terms of "another particle accelerator as powerful as this one" rather than just "another particle accelerator," as though this were the first one in history.
 
I dont think any version of Savage would have control over his ego enough to sit in a wheelchair for months to hatch a plan.

As a hunter, he'd have to sit still, laying in wait for hours just to get one kill.

Dinner.

Although since Cromagmon died off, maybe they were shitty hunters?

I think it was the golden age Green Lantern Alan Scott who said "Vandal Savage may not be the fastest or strongest or most powerful villain you may go up against, but he is the most dangerous because for every moment that you are thinking about how to put him in jail, he is thinking about how he is going to eat you."
 
Hell just spinning him in circles like a centrifuge would have tossed the boy miles away, and the landing would have been irksome.

Or heat.

A super sonic rubdown would have fused Girders steel flesh together... No, it would have liquidized him, and then an hour later as he cooled, he probably would have been in no humanlike shape at all.

Dudes gotta breathe?

Create a vacuum with speed, stuff something down his throat too quickly to stop, or use knock out gass.

Pick him up, or drag him through the streets for a hundred miles in a fraction of a second to some place "difficult".

Take his pants. Most sane people don't commit crimes naked.

Timing a sonic boom to go boom right by his ear would jellify his brain or at least destroy any hope at equilibrium for the next year.

Meanwhile he actually turns to metal very slowly, Barry should be able to punch flesh before it turns to metal without too much difficulty, especially if the big dumb galoot has been stripped naked.

But the winner is...

Finding the natural "Resonance" (Never, never shake a baby!) of Girder's flesh would either transmute him bodily into a different compound or disintegrate him entirely just by shaking the bastard at a precise speed.

Yeah I was kinda disappointed that with all these so-called experts the most creative solution they could come up with was... having Barry run at him really really fast.

I realize it's still early, but I'm hoping as time goes on the writers will show Barry being a lot more inventive when it comes to taking down these bad guys. Even if it's just by taking more advantage of his surroundings or creating mini sonic booms to disorient someone for a bit or something.
 
^Yeah, I'd like to see more stuff like in Days of Future Past where Quicksilver just changed a few things in the surrounding area.

I'm digging the show though. Loved the man of steel line :lol:
 
This was a very good episode. Girder is a bit obscure, but he was a decent villain. I'm glad Flash finally got his name, and we won't be hearing about "the streak" every episode. The ending with Joe seeing Reverse Flash was pretty creepy, hopefully he'll actually tell Barry about it, and not just stop investigating Barry's Mom's death without explanation. I actually liked the super speed punch, even if it wasn't super realistic. I'm not watching the Flash for realism anyway.
 
I was 8 when they showed me how to punch in an Officer and a Gentleman.

Use the fleshy part of your palm.



Hit with he highlighted red bit.

It's not quite as powerful, but you can do it hundred times in an hour without hurting yourself.

After breaking all the bones in his fingers maybe Barry might think this a wise idea too?

Although after the boxing glove arrow last week on Arrow, and that flashback where Barry was learning to fight, the lesson this boy should have taken more notice of might not have been how to run away, but that if he wore boxing gloves, he might not break all the bones in his hand again.

Giant punch = giant boxing glove.

Although if he's running at mach one and throws a bowling ball at his target? Isn't the Bowling ball now travelling faster than Mach one?

Throws or Bowls?

There was something awesome that Kitty Pryde did to the Juggernaut years ago that Barry should be able to do eventually. She took Juggs out of phase and then submerged half his body into asphalt. Which didn't bury him up to his naval so much as fuse half his body on atomic level with the pavement.

Steel isn't naturally magnetic, but you can magnetize it without too much fiddling. Magnetic suspension would make the ####er completely impotent if he's just floating there & can't walk or run... Although you can almost do the same thing by hanging him by one ankle from even a medium height.

Organic steel?

I wonder how conductive organic steel is?

All that lightning following Barry when he runs.

He could have stopped Girders heart or wiped his brain by lighting the baddie up with his lightning trail.

Oh here's something out there...

If Girder was into Iris, then why couldn't the Flash threaten Iris with enough harm until Girder surrendered?

What a bizarre game of chicken?

"Surrender or I'll kill Iris!"

"No, you surrender or I'll Kill Iris!"

"No, this is your last warning, I'm going to kill Iris unless you stand down!"

"No, this is your last warning, I'm going to kill Iris unless you stand down!"
 
Yeah the use of the CG double was a little too obvious in that scene unfortunately.

Didn't bother me. The shot looked like it was homaging a comic book panel. The visuals on this show are very comic-booky, and so I don't mind if they occasionally look more like artwork than photography. Really, modern CG blurs the line between the two anyway.
 
Absorbing Man!

Wrong universe! Absorbing Man is from Marvel--and was recently seen on Agents of SHIELD. :)

As for the battle, the one thing that bugged me was that the Flash didn't immediately carry Iris to safety, miles away from the school, before rushing back to fight the bad guy. Instead, he arrives in the nick of time to grab Iris and transport her . . . a few feet away?

Yeah, this guy was closer to Colossus from the X-Men.

And Barry was clearly subconsciously trying to impress Iris.;)
 
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