First Thoughts on 'The Flash' (Episodes 6-7)
The Flash is a show that's difficult to hate on, because despite its clichés, its mostly for fun, so you just forgive it for its problems and try and enjoy it - with great ease.
The last two episodes did have those clichés, but I can see The Flash becoming its own show. Its overcoming some boring villains, its overcoming a lack of development, and is becoming some really interesting. These are characters we are interested in. This is a show that doesn't need a mid-credits scene with Dr Wells to entice the audience to come back next week. This is a show that is using its big budget to create fantastic villains and brilliantly-realized action, and to use all of this to tell interesting stories that can be told in a TV series, but not in a film.
While the Pilot was just a 45 minute first film in a series for The Flash, each episode seems to realize it needs to build its story-line and characters to tell individual 45 minute stories to build up an over-arching story. While it still isn't perfect, The Flash is becoming more interesting, and with an Arrow crossover coming up, followed by the mid-season finale with Reverse Flash, I'm really looking forward to the future of this series.
I have little to say about The Flash, but the slightly darker tone it adopted last week worked perfectly, and I hope its kept for future episodes.
The last two episodes did have those clichés, but I can see The Flash becoming its own show. Its overcoming some boring villains, its overcoming a lack of development, and is becoming some really interesting. These are characters we are interested in. This is a show that doesn't need a mid-credits scene with Dr Wells to entice the audience to come back next week. This is a show that is using its big budget to create fantastic villains and brilliantly-realized action, and to use all of this to tell interesting stories that can be told in a TV series, but not in a film.
While the Pilot was just a 45 minute first film in a series for The Flash, each episode seems to realize it needs to build its story-line and characters to tell individual 45 minute stories to build up an over-arching story. While it still isn't perfect, The Flash is becoming more interesting, and with an Arrow crossover coming up, followed by the mid-season finale with Reverse Flash, I'm really looking forward to the future of this series.
I have little to say about The Flash, but the slightly darker tone it adopted last week worked perfectly, and I hope its kept for future episodes.
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