*SPOILERS* The Flash’ writers seem pretty intent on adding more elements from the comic book source material this season (whether they accurately follow it is another matter entirely). Last week they gave us an interesting look at speedster villain Godspeed. This week, in the episode titled “Snow Pack,” we finally get a glimpse at something…
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The Flash changes course in the fourth episode of this season, “News Flash.” From a “villain-of-the-week” perspective, it feels like your average, “person with a pre-existing penchant for being a jerk (or insert female-specific equivalent thereof) gets ahold of some metahuman powers in some way, shape or form and does bad things.” The pacing of…
Flash faithful have been acutely cognizant of the liberties the hit CW television show has taken with the comic stories and characters. In many ways, the show, now in its fifth season, is asymmetrical with the comic book source material in nearly every facet beyond the name of the protagonist and his powers. Clearly, this…
Following the revelation that there’s a man out there hunting down and murdering metahumans, Team Flash realizes in “The Death of Vibe” that they’re in major need of a hand to track down this deranged serial killer. Nora explains how when she was a young girl in her time, and wanting to learn more about…
Taking the baton from the season premiere, “Blocked” begins with Nora and Barry revealing to the rest of the team the real reason for Nora staying in the present and not wanting to leave yet. The revelation that Barry will go missing sometime in the future and not return even after 25 years hits everyone,…
With the CW television series The Flash having returned for its fifth season this week, many fans of the show are now wondering about the mysterious girl Nora, who also goes by the hero name XS, revealed to be Barry and Iris’ daughter from the future. Meeting your yet unborn child is no doubt quite…
The hit CW television series The Flash premiered its fifth season last night. The void in between this season’s pilot and the finale of the previous season was one filled with questions for fans of the Scarlet Speedster, some of which were answered if you caught last night’s episode or are reading this now (FYI,…
For some time now, the Flash has been a top-tier superhero with regards to power within the DC universe. His ability to accomplish such feats as travel through time and alter the timeline, create paradoxical alternate realities, punch with the force of a white dwarf star, and outrun death itself, among other feats (see “Friday…
DC’s Scarlet Speedster, the Flash, has been gaining in popularity over the last few years thanks to the success of the CW Flash television show as well as Warner Brothers’ Justice League movie (albeit to a lesser extent). Nowadays I see just as many young boys and girls rocking Flash memorabilia as I do for…