The Flash (1990) Talk Thread

[icecreamhendrix]

I'm up to episode 4, and I'm enjoying it. The acting's really good, and I really liked the version of Barry in the pilot, someone who really wants his family's respect, and tends to take things very personally. I also really like the costume.

However, it's apparent that the people who made this reallywant this to be Tim Burton's Batman. 80% of the scenes take place at night, there is this subplot about Flash's existence being a legend instead of a fact, heck the theme song is done by Danny Elfman.

Also, why'd they get rid of Iris? I mean, I know in this show she was annoying, but dammit she's Barry's wife! Maybe I'm just sore from having there marriage dissolved in the comics.

 

[scikaiju]

Yeah the show was pretty good, a pity it only lasted a season. But yeah the Burton Batman influence was in full effect. It even hit the syndicated Superboy show for the last couple of seasons, at least in tone: getting darker, a tad edgier, I'm pretty sure a villain of the week blew up once or twice.

As for getting rid of Iris I don't really know why they did it. More than likely the producers like the chemistry between Barry Allen and the female doctor (whose name and actress I am currently drawing a blank on) and tried to put in a little Moonlighting 'will they or won't they?' into it. And it's a little hard to do that with Iris in the picture, not without having Barry look like a complete and total jackass for cheating on Iris.

 

[icecreamhendrix]

I guess that makes sense. It's stupid of them to do that, but it makes sense.

 

[Bolt]

Attempted to watch this series once and it was so bad that I had to finish the pilot on 3x speed just to see if anything cool was going to happen. It didn't.

 

[Quark]

Even as a kid I didn't really dig this show, but i'm generally in favor of anything that gets Mark Hamill a paycheck.

 

[ParaParaJMo]

i re-visted this series after 20 years. i remember watching this as a child when my father had us stationed at clark air base in the philippines. its funny that dawsons father from dawsons creek plays the flash lol. i really enjoyed this show myself. i thought it was really ahead of his time. they combined some of barry's qualities with wally's. its funny my friend praises that this show is more accurate to what a crime labs officer does in comparison to csi. plus, one of the teachers from boy meets world plays barrys partner in the lab. i do miss iris, but i also liked tina in this series and the chemistry she has with barry.

 

[icecreamhendrix]

plus, one of the teachers from boy meets world plays barrys partner in the lab.

He also played the blind guy on Becker.

 

[-sdp]

Fantastic show, made me fall in love with the Barry Allen flash and to me he is Barry Allen. I think this show is hugely underrated, why isn't this show a bigger cult hit? Simply fantastic show, a shame that it didn't last long and we only got a few rogues towards the end of the show but it was still a very solid show.

Tina was a great love interest but I did miss the love triangle they were going for in the pilot movie which they got rid of in episode 2. It's this show that makes me wish for a new tv show based on the flash or at the very least a movie.

 

[ParaParaJMo]

apprently they changed the time a lot and the iraq war coverage really fucked up the ratings back in the day. plus, it cost a lot of money to do. my mother is a huge david cassidy fan, and was surprised to see him as the mirror master lol after re-visiting it on dvd. and mark hammill was the trickster and he did have some joker traces in it lol.

but i really love this show a lot.