TRAILER TALK: Flash Vs. Arrow!

The crossover of the year. The one we've all been waiting for. FLASH vs. ARROW airs on Tuesday and I am way too excited! It's going to be a two-part episode with Flash preceding Arrow. From the trailer, we see that Oliver and Barry team up to track down this meta-human (although Oliver refuses to call him by such), whose power is still unknown to viewers.

Oliver and Barry clearly have different tactics for taking down evil doers. Barry prefers to talk things out, dodge attacks and stick to the basic fist-to-face physical advances while Oliver doesn't hesitate to take more harsh measures in order to force information out of people. Barry's close friends and family figures, especially Dr. Wells (no surprise there), begin to deem Arrow as a bad influence on him. We'll get to see how this collaboration plays out.

Now to address the real climax of the event: the epic superhero showdown! Oliver says to Barry, "Once and for all, who would win: Me or you?" and isn't that the question? The obvious difference that pretty much everyone is going to argue is that Flash has a superpower, Arrow does not. However, Arrow has experience, agility, cleverness and is entirely equipped with fancy shmancy arrows that can explode, tie people up and knock them unconscious. Plus, Flash has his cockiness which might just get him in trouble. I feel as though Barry is just to unfledged at the moment. He's gonna be like, "Yea I'm the fastest man alive, You can't touch me." Whereas Oliver would be over here with his ancient Chinese proverbs and Hitting the water gives you strength. On the opposite side, Flash can easily defect any blow that comes his way. Pair that with his fighting skills and he just might win. The outcome is a tad difficult to predict seeing as Flash and Arrow could both damage each other. However, I'm going to bet on Arrow. No offense, Barry, I still love you. Can't wait to finally find out tomorrow! Asdfghjkl;!

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving also known as National Day of Mourning for Native Americans. Also, hope none of you contracted food poisoning because that's not fun. Anyways, thanks for reading if you read. Leave answers to the following question and comment if you're as excited about this as I am. Have a great day!

Who do you think would win?

The Flash is Born

Barry Allen has just reached sonic boom speed. He is officially faster than the speed of sound. This milestone was just one of the highlights of the last Flash episode. I swear every episode keeps getting better and better. Flash has long since been one of my favorite superheroes. With his witty and slightly arrogant personality, not to mention superhuman speed, you can't help but love him and Grant Gustin is doing him so much justice. In the first few episodes, we have seen Flash encounter the Weather Wizard, Multiplex, The Mist, Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller is a perfect choice) and Plastique. Each week is a new action packed episode featuring a new villain and with the help of Cisco, Caitlin and Dr. Wells at STAR Labs, Barry defeats them. Aside from the thrill, there is also a drama aspect including the character Iris West. Just like her comic book version, she is a reporter following the movements of "The Streak", but rather than being Barry's girlfriend, she is bluntly dating her father's partner-in-solving-crimes, Eddie Thawne. Barry and Iris have to get together some time though.

In the last episode titled "The Flash is Born", the metahuman supervillain was Tony Woodward (Girder), a man of steel (CW writers are very punny). Even though I am always in anticipation, waiting for the next Tuesday to watch the new episode, I was already excited for this one because of the previews. CW has a habit of ending their shows with little seeds for what is to come which makes the week-long wait completely insufferable. Thank goodness I actually have other things to focus on or else I would die of anxiety. Anyway, Flash defeated Girder by hitting him from 5 miles away going at 837 miles per hour. Fast enough to create a sonic boom which is nothing short of awesome.

Now about Dr. Wells... I have no idea what to make of him. At first, he was just the scientist who created the particle accelerator which disastrously malfunctioned and put him in a wheelchair. Then, at the end of the pilot episode, after slipping into his secret lair, he stood up and walked. If that wasn't scandalous enough, he proceeded to bring up this news report from 2024 with the headlines, Flash Missing Vanishes in Crisis. I had my suspicions that Dr. Wells was evil and this scene seemed to prove them. First of all, why does he have that report and where in the time vortex did he get it? Second of all, why does he seem so happy about it? I was sure about not trusting him until in a following episode, he killed a man for having the slightest intention of harming Barry. Dr. Wells seems very bent on keeping Barry alive and well which makes no sense. Moreover, Joe (Iris's father) made some connections between Wells and the incident where Barry's mom got killed only to find out that those connections were all just coincidences. So one minute Wells is evil and the next, he's not.

Although my conflicting positions on Dr. Wells are important, there is something else that takes precedence. At the end of the episode, Iris and Barry are finally talking again. Naturally, Iris is going on and on about "The Streak" and Barry, being the sly-guy that he is, slipped in a comment about this guy going from place to place in a flash. Thus, making this a pretty monumental episode in the series so far, "The Flash" is born. Something tells me it's going to catch on.

Final Scene: Joe is sitting at home alone scanning all the paperwork and evidence on Barry's mother's murder. All of a sudden the lights go out. Time for Reverse Flash to make his appearance. He runs in circles, terrifies Joe, then leaves and the lights come back on. All the folders full of crucial evidence are no longer on the table and as Joe lifts his eyes to the side wall, he sees something chilling. Words are written in black: STOP...Or else, above a picture of his only daughter, Iris, hanging there with a knife stabbing where her chest is.

Who do you think Reverse Flash is?

Hollywood's Just Not That Into You

It's not a secret that DC Comics does not succeed when it comes to hitting the big screen. The franchise is notoriously known for their less-than-marvel movies.

Exhibit A. . .

One question: Why?

 

Exhibit B. . .

 

Michael Fassbender did not deserve to be a part of this.

and Exhibit C. . .

Shaq...really?

This train of mediocrely produced comic book movie adaptations is awfully dissatisfying because they have the potential to be so much more. Apart from minimal successes (Christopher Reeve's Superman and V for Vendetta), the Dark Knight trilogy is pretty much all DC has going for them. However, luckily for them, there is another great invention for our delectation and delight called television. Evidently, DC superheroes seem to have their story told better in a series of 1 hour productions rather than in a single 2 hour event. Smallville, for example, is a very successful Superman based TV series that could possibly be better than all the movies combined.

Recently, DC Comics has received the honor of having a few television series based off of their characters: Gotham (airing on FOX), The Flash (airing on CW), and Arrow (also airing on CW). As a dedication of sorts to these shows and for an environment to express my many reactions to them, I will blog about them. This blog will feature episode reviews, theories, anticipated arrivals and possibly some comic history. All you non meta-humans who watch any, all, or none of these shows feel absitively, posolutely free to comment just for the sake of it and/or start up a conversation. If there is one thing I do ask, it's to be nice. This is an electronic Planet Fitness, judgmental free zone.

Here. Have some posters. :)