So I watched The Flash episode 1 (leaked) last night…one word – OhmyfuckingGoditisamazing! It’s a DC fanboy(or girl)’s wet dream. But you don’t have to be a DC fan or even know who Flash is to enjoy.
This post will contain spoilers but they’ll be hidden so only click if you’re sure you wanna know. No spoilers in the comments either!
Similar to Arrow’s style, the show doesn’t really require prior knowledge of the content nor do you have to have watched Arrow as this episode gives a very nice little call back to the events leading up to Barry Allen’s transformation without making it feel tedious for those initiated in CW’s origin story for Mr Allen.
The show is full of references and I may be doing it an injustice (ha, like the name drop?) by missing some out but the main things are outlined below.
Spoilers
In STAR Labs, after the incident, yu see a cage with the name ‘GRODD’ which has been wrecked – others have been affected by the particle smashing catastrophe that took place so clearly this is indicationg Grodd’s origin and paves the way for his appearance later in the series hopefully. When Barry has flashbacks to the night his mother died, you see streaks from a Flash-like being – later you see a but more and this guy is wearing a yellow suit…Reverse Flash is in Flash does a ‘speed test’ at Ferris Airfield…bearing in mind Flash and Green Lantern’s relationships within the Justice League features and books…DC are clearly planting the seeds within it’s very strong TV base to gear up to take a choke-hold of the movies to compete with Marvel at a level they haven’t before Barry’s relationship with Iris is a complicated one similar to the typical comic fodder Weather Wizard is in… Arrow is in – not really a spoiler as Stephen Amell stated this on his Facebook page The Infinite Crisis arc is clearly in at some point – at the end of the show, Harrison Wells sneaks into a hidden room in STAR Labs and gets out of his wheelchair and reveals a headline from the future showing Flash goes missing
The only problem? Due to the fact this is leaked, gotta wait months until we get to see episode 2. I normally feel a week is too long between episodes but this is a killer!
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