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The Flash
2014 · TV series · 9 seasons
Created by Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
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This is why they stopped The Flash after season 9 in 2023.
I was joking a bit. Flash is part of DC. The writing on that series is atrocious. I didn't really comment on marvel.
MCU is good writing. Tony Stark especially is just well written.
The movies are obviously not works of literature. Super heros are a genre and within that genre the writing is excellent. The writers fulfilled the role well.
Personally my feelings on this lately have been 'shit or get off the pot'.
You can put romance, drama, and even sex in your TV show but please just get somewhere with it. If I start getting CW flash/arrow vibes I am turning it off. I can just read abandoned web serials for that if it's what I want.
Agreed but unfortunately the CW has a very common denominator amongst the content it produces and Babylon 5 does not fit that mold in my mind. Think 23 episodes a season, the entire main cast young adults 18-23 with maybe a few adults as supporting cast, and lots of screen time dedicated to “shipping” different romance scenarios.
I enjoyed Arrow and early seasons of Flash despite being well well past their target demographic but I’m not sure how well this show will in if it sticks to the CW formula.
Man, reading through this thread, I feel like such an odd man out. I'm enjoying Foundation. Sure, it's not amazingly intellectually stimulating, and it's not really based on the books, but I find it fun to watch. As it's own thing, it's entertaining to me.
I also really enjoyed The Flash (up until season 6 or so when it just got too repetitive). It seems like there's a lot of people that can't seem to enjoy things "just for the fun" that I don't get.
Not by those standards but, by believability and realism standards, it definitely is. The difference is that the Flash TV show is one of the shows that knows exactly what it is and when it's campy and it leans into that instead of trying to play it straight.
> The Flash TV show is campy.
The current one? By 90s and earlier standards, it really isn't even close.
The MCU movies are not considered campy by most standards since they take themselves and their internal universe completely seriously.
Batman of the 1960s was campy. The Flash TV show is campy. The MCU may have some humorous moments but the tone, overall, is serious and thought-provoking. Civil War, Black Panther, Winter Soldier, and Iron have all been mentioned here already but you can go on and on with those films.
Disney owns ESPN, a controlling stake in Hulu, Marvel, Lucas Films, Pixar, Disney Animation, and 20th century fox (FX, fox searchlight, many classic movie franchises, X-Men, Fantastic 4, etc). I'm probably missing something. I imagine that Disney will eventually sell a mega subscription service that bundles all of their media.
HBO Max will have all HBO content (obviously), all Warner Bros content, the CW (you know all of those teen dramas people love to watch on netflix like Riverdale, Supernatural, the Flash), Cartoon Network and a bunch of other subsidiaries that I can't name off the top of my head.
Amazon people will have prime subscriptions which gives them access for free.
I don't know why anyone would keep a lifetime subscription for any of the rest. Maybe only subscribe when your favorite shows are on?
Anyway, I think the future of streaming will be interesting to watch. I've made a fairly large bet on Disney stock and I would have bought Warner bros stock if it wasn't owned by ATT (I like Warner bros, I don't like the rest of their business).
You can see it on TV if you are a scifi fan. Look at the x-files, Outer Limits, and early Stargate episodes filmed in 1990s Vancouver. Vancouver's wet climate gave them a very specific tone that became an industry standard. 1990's scifi was generally dark, as opposed to the more colorful productions filmed in California (Trek) or Australia (farscape). But today Vancouver suffers droughts every summer. The Flash is a colourful production. The foggy grey backdrop is now a blue sky. Rainfall numbers might not be very different, but the perpetual cloud that coloured scifi for a generation is gone.
Absolutely sure.
For instance. This is the latest episode of The Flash. No login required. It's usually available the next morning
http://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-flash/
While I love RottenTomatoes for Movies, I find it abysmal for TV Shows. Here are some shows with a >90% score:
- Almost all seasons of Supernatural
- Seasons 3 & 4 of Veep
- Seasons 4, 5 & 7 of New Girl
- Season 2 of The Flash
- Season 2-4 of Arrow
Now I'm not saying that those shows are all shit (tho they are certainly not in my ballpark), but I doubt anyone thinks of them as 100% shows, in the same sense that Moonlight is a 98% movie.
The problem comes with few reviews (which is also a thing with more niche-y movies), which is probably amplified in later seasons, where reviewers who don't like it stopped watching.
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I thought I was watching an episode of Flash for a moment.
How do you feel about The Flash? To me, it was fine at first, but as the show went on, too much habdwaiving was used, even for a tv show of its genre and it's becoming increasingly annoying (to me at least). I'm no physicist, though.
The most egregious example I recall recently was in the Flash TV show, where a character lamented that the energy required for their weapon against the main villain was more than the sun could provide. Except, of course, the writers got it wrong by orders of magnitude.
I could call Shakespeare a Jazz musician, and and still be closer to being correct than they did.
TIL Netflix has a lot of great movies I'd like to see.
But my viewing time is already overfilled with all the Arrow, Flash, iZombie, and other shows I'm binge watching. And 80% of the time I'm more interested in seeing some "weird" Indian/Turkish/European movie than same Hollywood drivel.