onsdag 26 oktober 2022

The Flash

 

Flash! Aha! Saviour of the Universe!

Of course I had to continue on the second DC-series, the Flash. Only knew Flash from the Justice League cartoon and animated movies like Flashpoint Paradox. So I got some ideas about villains like Grodd and Zoom and characters like Barry Allen, Wally West and Iris. Of course, Flash for me was always Wally West which made watching Young Justice a bit harder to follow... on more than one way with Wally being Kid Flash and what happened in that series.

So basically during a failed experiment made by Harrison Wells, Central City is showered in dark matter and as Barry Allen, a forensic scientist at the local police head quarter, is fumbling around his office as lightning strikes him, he lands on some chemicals and is in a coma for 9 months. We saw that in Green Arrow. He awakes and finds out he has super speed which he trains with an immobilized Harrison Wells and his two assistants. Meanwhile since he can reach such speeds he knows that there must be a way to save his father from prison where he is falsely accused of killing his wife, Nora Allen. 

During the first season he learns that Harrison Wells is in actuality Eobard Thawn, aka Anti-Flash that is a speedster from the future that killed Nora and took Harrisons place in order to create the accident so that the wheels be set in motion to create Flash... so that anti-Flash can exist and travel back in time I guess. Time travel is weird. The second season is about Zoom, a speedster from another universe that want to be the only speedster through out the multiverse. They beat him and as it looks alright they reenact the Flashpoint Paradox. The paradox is that Barry travels back to the point where his mother is murdered and save her, but in doing so changes the time line. Since his mother and father both survives they live a happy life and he doesn't become the Flash, instead Wally West is the Flash. New villains appears and such, but the reality is falling apart as certain enemies becomes too strong as well as more violent. So he has to put it back on its original path, but it doesn't come back the same. The relationship between the heroes have changed due to certain differences, like Cisko's brother that dies in this new reality. 

New arch-enemy appears, Savitar, the god of speed that in reality is a duplicate of Barry. I gotta be honest, the main bad guy gets harder and harder to separate and how often can they bring back the speedster bad guy again? As of writing I've seen up to season 7 and I kinda could keep up until season 5-6.. Arrow lost interest after season 2, with certain problems here and there, mostly the things that make the show look a bit like Arrow. I mean, we have the season the protagonist goes to prison and the season where the protagonist daughter from the future travels back and save her father.

But the show isn't ashamed of being superhero silly. We get a couple of episodes where Central city is under siege from sentient gorillas from an alternate universe led by Grodd. Barry's father is portrayed by the actor that played Barry Allen in the 90's live-action show, and Jay Garrick which was the first incarnation of the Flash in the comics. Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker is playing the Trickster which he did both in the 90's series as well as that episode in Justice League Unlimited. I mean, first episode of season 6 have a bit where they play Queen's Flash theme from Flash Gordon in universe as Barry travels into a black hole to save a person which is AWESOME! Made me want to see Flash Gordon so that may be a problem. Overall it was kinda fun watching it, losing a bit at the later seasons and certain mysteries at least me to pay attention a bit longer. Who did Zoom have imprisoned? Who was anti-flash and then who was Savitar? A bit copy of certain story elements from Arrow, but was a bit shorter or didn't overstay it's welcome with that. Overall more fun.

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