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No flash this week?
US: The Flash (2014)
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Finally got around to watching ep 4, the fact that it took me a week pretty much expresses my feelings on it. The cast is too weak and the writing just pretty much awful.
Seriously the ending, flash leaves building, flash travels at super speed to a location, bad guy gets on a train, train derails... his team manage to arrive on scene, sans super powers, with no way to predict where they'd be, and cause a guy to back off.... a guy without super powers or speed. So when flash was free about 8 seconds later they guy was a maximum of what 100m away while the flash could check every single spot in a 10 block radius in seconds so.... they let a murderer just walk off to come back to bite them in the ass. I love the he has super speed, and uses it for travel, the rest of his team just magically appear places without superspeed because they want them there for that part of the episode... crap writing.
I also particularly liked that he cleared one train car but you know, the other passengers be damned.
The trouble with the flash in general is that it doesn't lend itself to freak of the week at all. A gang/cartel/whatever makes sense, there are lots of bad guys to go after, it makes sense he has to fight multiple people. But really with a single enemy he can find them, watch them from any distance then just knock them the hell out with a sucker punch. This retarded run 10 miles to bad guys location and stop 6 metres away in the line of fire thing..... it was awful the first time and gets more cringe inducing with every episode.
Action was always going to be difficult with any Flash series, but due to the nature of his powers, freak of the week smallville formula makes absolutely no sense at all. But they've also gone with a poor cast, teen angst all over it(despite these guys not being teens or even particularly young adult).
With the Arrow I like the characters, okay some aren't the best actors in the world, but they aren't actually bad(for the most part). But even with bad acting the characters are mostly good. Everything about the show is down to lazy writing. Need the team there, they can magically appear. Need him to not be able to take down the main bad guy in one second.... have him stop to talk to him rather than write in an actual reason he can't attack him straight off or it didn't work.
Seriously the ending, flash leaves building, flash travels at super speed to a location, bad guy gets on a train, train derails... his team manage to arrive on scene, sans super powers, with no way to predict where they'd be, and cause a guy to back off.... a guy without super powers or speed. So when flash was free about 8 seconds later they guy was a maximum of what 100m away while the flash could check every single spot in a 10 block radius in seconds so.... they let a murderer just walk off to come back to bite them in the ass. I love the he has super speed, and uses it for travel, the rest of his team just magically appear places without superspeed because they want them there for that part of the episode... crap writing.
I also particularly liked that he cleared one train car but you know, the other passengers be damned.
The trouble with the flash in general is that it doesn't lend itself to freak of the week at all. A gang/cartel/whatever makes sense, there are lots of bad guys to go after, it makes sense he has to fight multiple people. But really with a single enemy he can find them, watch them from any distance then just knock them the hell out with a sucker punch. This retarded run 10 miles to bad guys location and stop 6 metres away in the line of fire thing..... it was awful the first time and gets more cringe inducing with every episode.
Action was always going to be difficult with any Flash series, but due to the nature of his powers, freak of the week smallville formula makes absolutely no sense at all. But they've also gone with a poor cast, teen angst all over it(despite these guys not being teens or even particularly young adult).
With the Arrow I like the characters, okay some aren't the best actors in the world, but they aren't actually bad(for the most part). But even with bad acting the characters are mostly good. Everything about the show is down to lazy writing. Need the team there, they can magically appear. Need him to not be able to take down the main bad guy in one second.... have him stop to talk to him rather than write in an actual reason he can't attack him straight off or it didn't work.
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No. There's a few programmes taking a break this week
Dont worry it will be back in a ...........oh whats the word im looking for
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Due to mid term elections in America, this and agents of shield are on break and return next week.
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God help me, I agree with DM 
Still, I have a higher tolerance and can dealwithit.gif
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Got to agree with DM too, this show currently suffers from some pretty lazy and poor writing. I think the reason I prefer Agents of Shield to The Flash and Arrow is because I constantly get the feeling when I'm watching Flash and Arrow that all I'm watching is a soap opera with some action chucked in there, and I hate soaps. At least AoS has some very well choreographed fight scenes, particularly this season, and it feels like plot progression is the main focus.
There's just a bit too much 'teen angst' as DM said in both Flash and Arrow. It feels like the action (which is often really poorly done, particularly in Arrow) is chucked in there as an afterthought.
There's just a bit too much 'teen angst' as DM said in both Flash and Arrow. It feels like the action (which is often really poorly done, particularly in Arrow) is chucked in there as an afterthought.
remember he keeps on running out of energy and collapsing - that's how I looked at it anyway , he doesn't know (yet) how much energy he is using up / has left
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The Wells Character is fantastic and really makes this show, this guy is not part of the old DC universe, hes an enigma.
I'm only up to ep 3 so I skimmed over some of your post (not that spoilers about this show will really bother me) but I do agree with this; it's cheesy, poorly-written and the actors just aren't up to the task. Arrow had a similar feel at the start but for the most part it improved considerably and is quite good now, but Flash feels like it's aimed squarely at a younger audience more concerned about the "will-they, won't-they" relationship between Barry and his lifelong best friend. Eugh.
The actor playing Eddie (the cop) is also providing one of the limpest performances I've seen in a long time; everytime he opens his mouth I want to hit mute so I don't have to hear him murder the delivery of his lines. It actually feels rather creepy that he's screwing around with his partner's daughter because he looks a lot older than her.
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His character was recently killed off in The Vampire Diaries, he was dreadful in that as well.
I said it before and I'll say it again now. There's a back story evidently to this flash dude that killed his mum, and it's obviously the disabled scientist. Is he Barry's real father or something silly. Did Barry have these powers before he got electrocuted. Why did he end up in the street without knowing.
Shows still with it's faults, but it's mildly entertaining.
Shows still with it's faults, but it's mildly entertaining.
My brother ruined that part for me. Didn't even see it coming because:
Thought it was the cop, Eddie Thawne. Because Eobard Thawne is reverse-flash in the comics.