The Flash - Season 1

[Vendikarr]

It just occurred to me that we've never actually seen Barry's apartment, at least not that I recall. That's weird, to go through more than half a season without ever showing the main character at home.

I realized that when he was moving in with Joe at the end of the episode. You're right, it does seem a little weird. I guess it's not hard to see Barry devoting all of his non-police time to increasing his speed, as he really didn't seem to have much of a life, anyway (except for interacting with the S.T.A.R. labs crew, Iris, and Joe).

Going only by the show's version, Leonard doesn't seem to be the crazy one at all. He seems to be the rational, calculating one, with Rory as the psychopathic hothead (playing into the cool/hot stereotypes).

These are all the Geoff Johns touches to the Rogues. His Leonard Snart was, if you'll excuse the pun, as cool as a cucumber, rarely giving in to strong emotions (the death of his sister being one of them, though she died in the comics in the mid-90's, and it was Johns' spotlight issue of Captain Cold in the early 00's where he sought vengeance for that). Being the leader of the Rogues, it was always Snart's way, and his way including some pretty good lines of thought, such as, "don't kill a 'cape' since it brings too much attention to them).

Johns wrote Mick Rory as a pyromaniac, who was responsible for the death of his family, as a kid, when he locked them in their house late one night, set the house on fire, and just stared at the flames. He'd had varying degrees (again, sorry for the pun) of control over this, but in later issues gave in to the lure of the flame.

Incidentally, both Snart and Rory created their weapons in the comics. Snart figured the emissions from a cyclotron could slow the Flash down and built a gun based on a cyclotron. Mick designed his gun to quickly eject its ammo, and even developed a quick-draw system where it would reload upon being placed back into its holster. So, I like Snart's insistence that they know their weapons backwards and forwards, even if they didn't create them themselves.

I'm thinking it was also a set up for them to make new versions when they come back. They've been pretty clear in interviews that they'll back, and I think the end made it pretty obvious too.

I was hoping they'd use Lisa Snart to charm Cisco, and then they 'abduct' her to force him to build new guns.

 

[JD]

That could work too. So I wonder if Lisa Snart will have any scenes with Ronnie? The actress playing Lisa, Peyton List, and Robbie Amell, who plays Firestorm and is also Stephen Amell's cousin, co-starred on The Tomorrow People last season.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Felicity Smoak and Ray Palmer to Guest-Star on The Flash

The episode is called All-Star Team-Up.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I'm down with that; and guessing Ray will be suiting up by that point (and maybe shrinking down? Still wondering about that).

Mark

 

[Turtletrekker]

It's just madness that no one tried to shoot those two dipshits while they were standing out in the open?

They are not bullet proof.

Yeah, one CCPD sniper could have ended the threat (and the episode) pretty quickly.

I actually wondered why Barry didn't just zoom up behind them and conk their heads together before they even knew he was there.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Some one in the future is going to notice that every super hero "origin" is tied to Felicity Smoak and designate her a target.

Hells, if she is instrumental to the upbringing of another new super, I'm going to call Time Tourist.

The Engineer from the Authority (Angela) completely paradoxed the universe so that she could play Super hero. Without her disruptive interventions/advice, Jenny Sparks would have died violently half a dozen times before she had her threesome with the Kennedy brothers.

 

[TemporalFlux]

I actually wondered why Barry didn't just zoom up behind them and conk their heads together before they even knew he was there.

The writing or direction didn't highlight it, but the cold gun was designed as a Flash stopper; it slows down his molecules and makes him slower. Cold only needed one good hit, and Flash would have a cut in speed. Knowing this, it would have also made Flash hesitant to get too close.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Heck, in the comics Cold doesn't even need to hit the Flash. He can project an invisible field of absolute zero temperatures that will bring the Flash to a dead halt if he walks into it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

But it was still a focussed particle beam and not a wave ray.

If anything less than a direct hit would have hurt the Flash, which didn't, then Colds hands would have Crystallized and fallen off.

Turtle vs Coyote?

Who wins?

Turtle with a cold gun vs a coyote?

 

[jbny67]

Not if the turtle got his cold gun from Acme. The coyote already knows this, of course.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Heck, in the comics Cold doesn't even need to hit the Flash. He can project an invisible field of absolute zero temperatures that will bring the Flash to a dead halt if he walks into it.

Yes that was mentioned a week ago in Justice League, but had Johns or anyone else brought it up before?

And again, any omnidirectional weapon that would slow the Flash down would kill all baseline humans including Captain Cold.

Those cold walls vs. The Flash, I see more as speed bumps than a KO punch considering the baseline human being Snart used his absolute zero wall on survived the attack.

 

[Captain Craig]

So I'm a bit behind but finally caught last weeks Flash.

No doubt mentioned but the cops just let the "high noon" standoff happen? Odd.
Firestorm is now---F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. just like Atom is now, A.T.O.M.? The acronym shit has to stop.

I did enjoy Heat Wave, Cold wearing the parka, Jason Rausch, Flash accepted to the point the previews show him now walking the bad guys in. Cold being busted out by "sis", Glider already, ok then. Pied Piper! Excited to really be getting into the Rogues!

 

[The Old Mixer]

Say, what does C.A.P.T.A.I.N. C.R.A.I.G. stand for anyway...?

 

[Captain Craig]

Say, what does C.A.P.T.A.I.N. C.R.A.I.G. stand for anyway...?

Well played sir!

 

[kirk55555]

Say, what does C.A.P.T.A.I.N. C.R.A.I.G. stand for anyway...?

Well played sir!

Maybe

Canniest
Achillean
Preservative
True
Abraded
Inscriptive
Natural

Cryptogamous
Releasable
Anachronistic
Inopportune
Guardian

or

Cloak
Atrocity
Phantom
Terror
Association
Innuendo
Nightmare

Chilling
Ruins
Aversion
Invisible
Graveyard

 

[The Old Mixer]

Seriously, I thought that "FIRESTORM" as an acronym was really pushing it...it sounds cool enough to use as a code-name for a secret project (which you wouldn't necessarily want to directly pertain to what the project's about, e.g., the Manhattan Project, or Enigma) without going that route.

 

[kirk55555]

Yeah, I thought the acronym was weird, too. I do kind of wish they explain it, though. Trying to hear what its actually supposed to stand for would be hilarious. At this point, I can't wait until they introduce S.U.P.E.R.G.I.R.L. in her own show, and it will be great to see Laurel as the official new B.L.A.C.K.C.A.N.A.R.Y over on Arrow

 

[The Old Mixer]

I thought they did say what it stood for out loud? (Don't ask me what it was though.)

 

[Christopher]

^Yes, they did spell out the acronym aloud, and in print -- it was the title of the research paper that Jason Rusch co-wrote with Martin Stein.

 

[Captain Craig]

I thought they did say what it stood for out loud? (Don't ask me what it was though.)

F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. stands for — Fusion, Ignition, Research Experiment and Science of Transmutation Originating RNA and Molecular Structures!

Although since it's plural maybe we'll get more than one, like the comics revealed is possible?