The Flash |OT| Gotta Go Fast - Tuesdays 8/7c
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family_guy
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You know I suppose it makes it more realistic for Flash to get help from people like the Arrow, but it makes it look he can't handle things on his own. It's like if we got a Batman show and he just calls in Superman when he's out of his league. It just makes it less interesting for a major story arc and villain to be handled this way. It would be fine for a one episode team up here and there, or if they did an actual Justice League show.
The Technomancer
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How the hell is
Flashpoint even going to work in the context of a show that's already tied in with one other and about to launch a second?
Poodlestrike
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Maybe they go whole-hog, tie Arrow into it too. I imagine they overlap in viewship is pretty huge, maybe they figure they can risk it.
Razgriz-Specter
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Wayne Industries?
probably by
just having things continue in the current timeline, but barry is gone for x amount of time. Unless like the poster above said, they wanna risk it
I seriously doubt they planned things this far ahead, but if they did, then my oh my good job for them. Anyways Flashpoint stuff can easily be used just to retcon a bunch of stupid shit like people being dead or alive. It's not a true comic book show until that happens
Poodlestrike
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Eh, not really. They lay out the general picture pretty well.
JokerAceX
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It would help a bit.
the recap at the start of the next arrow episode will likely cover things fine. they have been just doing completely pointless things to stall out the season for a while anyways so it's not like there is much for a preview to cover. (and heck the flash cross overs have covered all the main plot points in arrow anyways lol)
Discotheque
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that was certainly fun. god damnit Eddie, i feel this move he made will make Iris resent Barry for a bit.
he might bite the bullet in the finale.
loved the scenes with all the rogues. Spartacus is free!
he might bite the bullet in the finale.
loved the scenes with all the rogues. Spartacus is free!
Ugh I hope they don't have flashpoint carry over to Arrow to fix it, that'd be way too obvious and a cheap escape route. I've said they would do that ever since Barry travelled back in time pretty much, so I wouldn't be surprised but I really hope they don't.
Arrow/Flash spin off show featuring Canary (Not Black Canary), Firestorm, Captain Cold, Atom, Heatwave, Hawkgrill, Rip Hunter, and some guy still unannounced.
It's just going to be Barry disappearing until the mid season finale I can imagine. Then he brings a letter home with him from Papa Queen to come full circle
evil solrac v3.0
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Hell if I know. Just passing on rumors
It does make a lot of sense for them to go with John Stewart, though. He's bigger in the public consciousness thanks to JLU, and he adds some extra diversity to the main cast. He's also not Hal Jordan, which after the last Green Lantern movie is probably considered an asset in and of itself
As for actors, you're right that they probably haven't locked down anybody in particular yet, but they've probably started working on preproduction for JL, so the rosters should be coming together.
Stewart only had JLA/JLU while Hal has had two TV shows, three animated movies, a movie which while was not great (I haven't seen it so I don't know) it wasn't because of the character itself.
but enough thread derail, seeing a GL, any GL, on TV would be glorious. though I'm not sure if it would be done justice. but Flash has been pleasantly surprising with what they have done with the CG this season.
Poodlestrike
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It's the new spinoff. 13 episodes, assembly of various characters. Caity Lotz and Wentworth Miller are regulars, though I don't think we know who (precisely) they're playing; could be the characters we're familiar with, could be from somewhere else in the timeline/multiverse. Also, Hawkgirl and Rip Hunter are in it, though I can't remember their actor's names. The latter is Rory from Doctor Who, if you've seen that.
EDIT: Beaten, and incomplete, not a good combo
And yet, none of those managed to make the impact JL/JLU did. And the movie is something they probably want to actively avoid.
OdysseusVA
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I want John Stewart, Hal can go take a rest.
I personally think his mom still dies - and we miss the totality of the Flashpoint change, but I think there will be other changes. I think she probably says something along the lines that if he became the man he is because of her death, she's proud of him -- and that he should let it be. But, we'll see ...
But John is the most boring Lantern there is.
Maybe there's branching timelines, and Barry travels into the timeline where he saves his mother like in flashpoint, while the Arrow TV show remains in the current timeline (and Barry would go missing during the period he's in the other timeline). The Flash will probably have rules similar to the Steins;Gate's time traveling rules.
Poodlestrike
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It's not like he doesn't have potential. For whatever reason, his writers keep circling back to variations on the Mogo plotline.
I know people are on the Flashpoint hype train now, but I hope they hold off on it. I know since Flash has been delivering everyone is just in "give it all to me now!" mode but I would rather see them start laying some seeds and letting some stuff stew so we get more satisfying payoff's. The thing about Flashpoint is it really worked because of seeing all the characters you knew twisted all around. To give something like that more impact I would much rather see them hold off on that but keep hinting at it, bring in the new Legends show and introduce more characters for a whole season and get started, give Flash another season to flesh out characters even more, give Arrow a season to right itself and then BAM have one whole season of all three shows in the flashpoint universe just all out batshit crazy.
the_firewithin
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Didn't like teleporter beatin up baby girl caitlen
RaySpencer
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Yeah, common people.
I come to this thread to read about the current episode, not get spoiled for the next one.
I honestly would prefer if they never did Flashpoint or if they do it make it one or two episodes but have everything revert back to normal after.
They're hit and miss. Sneider said he was 95% sure we weren't getting a white Spiderman and that's what we seem to be getting. When it comes to GL none of the scoopers can seem to get any info. The only info I've seen about him is
that he's not in BvS and is rumored to show up at the end of JL Part 1. That was before a script was even written, so I'm not sure what's going on now.
For some odd reason I think for Justice League 3 we're getting a multiverse movie.
Stallion Dan
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Wow, I was expecting a 'to be continued' the moment he activated that ring.
And yet she was the one with the most potential to reform herself.
I'm curious to know when Ray developed these speed altering nanites for Oliver since this all takes place before the Arrow finale and Oliver has been in Nanda Parbat for quite some time.
Captin Quacker
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"Your not the arrow Barry"
Neither is Oliver right now
BOOM
Neither is Oliver right now
BOOM
the_firewithin
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Dat missing pilot
Cisco got that game with glider
Cisco got that game with glider
That was some really dumb comic book shit, like a childish fanfic with Sonic the Hedgehog solving crimes with Obama. They were willing to sacrifice the fantastic plot and pacing that this show had since the last few weeks just for the sake of pushing their middling spin-off and making the audience pay attention to Arrow's crappy third season. Pretty nice of Ray to create those arrows on his malasian cell under the effects of sleeping gas.
You shoo, go away now.
Schweinehund
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I don't take names at face value. They're totally going to write movie Barry as Wally (if it ends up being Barry) and I'm sure they'll take traits from Kyle and Hal for John. Arrow is more like Batman than Oliver.
At least the fight against the X-Men was nice, I still dont get why Storm is Spartacus tho, but im okay with Cyclops getting shot in the face by Mr Freeze.
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