The Flash - Season 1

[Morpheus 02]

Dibny, da Costa, Rothstein...

I recognized Rothstein from Infinity Inc. (forgot his moniker) when he said it, and from DEWLine, Dibny (elongated Man)...who is da Costa? and who were the others listed?

Loved seeing Robert Knepper...he's a great actor. I'm glad he lived.

Looks like they might seriously do a Prison Break reunion. Though they might do it in reverse..breaking in to break out metahuman . I'll definitely be geeked to see it.


Oh, and I personally thought it was REALLY funny when Joe told Barry not to ever use the phrase "mad skillz".

 

[DEWLine]

Answering "Who was Bea da Costa?"

 

[Mr Light]

OMG! RED SKIES! CRISIS!!!

How in the world would they do Crisis on Infinite Earths on a tv show??? Or is this a far future event that would never actually happen on the show...

 

[Guy Gardener]

(That's the same news paper we saw in the pilot Light.)

When linking to wikipedia Dewline, you have to square brackets url and square brackets front slash url other wise the last character is dropped off the url, which is almost always an orbicular bracket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_(comics)

That ####er was electric.

They could have taken him out with a fire hose.

Water should have ####ed him up?

Hells, they even said "Benjamin Franklin" in the clock King sequence, almost as if there was a different writer in charge of each micro-story, and one of them had complete contempt for the other one for not suggesting that the Flash stake a couple kites to Blackout to see what happens?

Grounding Blackout would have worked?

A cold gun would have worked too if it's about stopping/slowing his electric reactions. Oh? Superconductivity? Reducing his temp to well below zero would increase his hunger dramatically, and he'd feed off himself till he died very, very quickly depending how cold he got? Well that's just gruesome.

They could have just lured Blackout into a cell that would hold him? He didn't seem smart. "Follow me, Wells is in here, oh the light is broken, but even though you can't see him, I promise that he's in there... Just a couple steps more please... "

Meanwhile Blackout wasn't invulnerable.

There wasn't any heat to melt approaching bullets.

Shoot the ####ing ####er!

Barry is useless.

It would take Barry at normal speed 1/4 an hour to get suited up. And then he moved wells 5 feet away from the action which would have taken 15 seconds at normal speed.

Why not just punch the bad guy in the back of the head?

Just stay behind him while his opponent is shooting forward and punch him in the brain pan 90 times.

Morons.

As soon as Barry lost his powers I rolled my eyes, oh this, we're getting "this" out of the way quickly you sad unimaginative hacks. Go #### yourselves.

No seriously.

The metal guy was made of metal.

Metal ####s up electricity.

If he punched through blackout and then clasped his hands together that would create a circuit that would drain the stupid #### of power?

Lets just think about that.

Blackout has an elbow grating against his kidney that he's not concerned about because he's losing his precious super powers.

Wells needs to hire some ####ing security to shoot supervillains who are no bullet proof. Most of them are not bullet proof.

I would not be surprised if the homeless start squatting in the unused sections of Starlabs if there isn't a thug with a heavy flash light making the rounds twice a night.

When Sue Dibney shows up, the rest of you can #### off, I'm calling dibs, she's mine.

Oh.

Eddie did not super heal.

He is not the Reverse Flash, or he is not the reverse Flash yet.

 

[sojourner]

At this point, what if Wells is Wells? He's built a computer that can read possible futures and he's trying to guide the timeline through the best possible one?

 

[CorporalClegg]

I think this was the worst Arrowverse episode to date. It was kind of bad.

I mean, it felt like an episode of Smallville.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Another villain similar to a Marvel bad guy (Electro).

 

[Guy Gardener]

The newspaper talks about the red skies/Crisis being averted or continuing. The woolly mammoth wowing the public at the Zoo, and the Wane/Queen merger going through or not going through. There's some flux depending on what the present looks like.

In Comics the AntiMonitor eats a universe and moves onto the next parallel universe, and then the next, and despite the title to the book ("infinite"), the number of yet existing universes was down to a handfull and the antiMonitor was still "Hungry".

Hungry?

Does Blackout evolve into the AntiMonitor or does Wells become the AntiMonitor trying to assimilate Blackout's powers for his own?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Another villain similar to a Marvel bad guy (Electro).

I spent the episode thinking that Farooq was Bolt, but he's a recent character Johns invented that bares little to no relation to the comicbook's character.

 

[Taylirious]

At this rate Barry won't have a rogues.

I liked the EP.

 

[Icemizer]

The end tag of the episode really made no sense with Wells. Didnt we learn Barry had turned himself off mentally and that his genetic structure was unchanged and he still could move at Flash speed? How is taking blood from Blackout going to help alter Barrys mental state?

 

[Christopher]

The end tag of the episode really made no sense with Wells. Didnt we learn Barry had turned himself off mentally and that his genetic structure was unchanged and he still could move at Flash speed? How is taking blood from Blackout going to help alter Barrys mental state?

That wasn't Wells's goal. What he muttered to himself was, paraphrasing, "You had the ability to steal the Flash's powers. I want to find out how you did that." The implication being, as I took it, that he wants to find out how to steal the Flash's powers and give them to someone else, probably himself.

 

[Dick Whitman]

That is EXACTLY what I thought. Either Wells is the Reverse Flash himself or is the one responsible for giving them the powers.

I kind of understand the frustration of so many villains being killed off. But its clearly why they are choosing very obscure ones from the comics with generic powers. They are just stepping stones to the bigger villains.

Captain Cold and Heat Wave are not connected to the reactor accident. Grodd was already something more than an ordinary Gorilla before it.

That accident seems equally and more about setting up more heroes like Firestorm.

 

[davejames]

Another incredibly fun and well-written episode. Got a huge kick out of Barry's excited reaction at being robbed, and while the "losing his superpowers" thing has been done countless times before, I still thought they managed to wring a decent amount of suspense out of the idea by having two really strong and compelling villains on the loose that he was powerless to do anything about.

And yeah, it was hard not to notice how the writers did a MUCH better job at creating an Electro-style villain--who was both sympathetic and genuinely threatening-- than an actual, big budget Spider-Man movie. And even the Clock King (who I didn't realize was already on Arrow, since I've just started watching that show from the beginning) came across as a pretty cool and interesting villain.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Another villain similar to a Marvel bad guy (Electro).

Nerd Note: DC's Lightning Lord first appeared in 1961, while Electro didn't show up until 1964. So there.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

I didn't mind the electrical inconsistencies, I just assumed that Blackout could control the path and ignore grounds and short circuits.

I'm more confused by the timeline changes at this point. If the future changes according to Wells' computer newspaper thing, then something must have altered prescribed events since the last time Wells looked at it. Meaning, Blackout was always out there and Barry was certainly always going to fight him, so what changed things between one day and the next?

It's possible that Wells is constantly inadvertently changing the timeline every time he looks into the future, and then has to correct it, like some bad Voyager episode.

I don't think Ralph Dibney is necessarily dead. A lot (or all?) of the powered characters we've met so far were presumed dead in the accident.

 

[davejames]

Yeah good point about the timeline. Clearly it was just done that way to create some added suspense, and we weren't supposed to think about it that much.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Side note... "Gideon" the name of Well's computer is also the name of a New God from New Genesis.

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Gideon_(New_Earth)

Which might, but doubtfully so, mean that Wells is Metron.

Oh, and of course the naming of the computer might be an allusion/metaphor taken from the Bible to seem clever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon

 

[The Old Mixer]

I think the Metron thing is more than a bit of reach...but I kind of like the idea. Brainy, amoral, manipulative guy who can walk but spends most of his time sitting in a mobile chair....

Nice to see an "almost about to kiss" moment between Barry and Caitlin...go for it, you crazy kids!

I'm more confused by the timeline changes at this point. If the future changes according to Wells' computer newspaper thing, then something must have altered prescribed events since the last time Wells looked at it. Meaning, Blackout was always out there and Barry was certainly always going to fight him, so what changed things between one day and the next?

It's possible that Wells is constantly inadvertently changing the timeline every time he looks into the future, and then has to correct it, like some bad Voyager episode.

If he's from the future, then his own involvement in the present has the potential to change the future from what he knows. That could also apply if he's only viewing the future, as that could give him the ability to alter it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Unless Felicity upgraded their computers remotely, surely she would have noticed the underground jail if the monitoring/control of that is part of Star Labs network?

Is she okay with the Jail?

Is Ollie building his own underground jail?

That's two episodes in a row that the wonder twins have mentioned Felicity.