The Flash - drama series
Latest addiction.
Have long been wanting to check this drama series, specifically because of the kind of memes that were floating around, teasing the timeline concept. I started watching the current season, Season 5 and got immediately hooked to the series. The concept of time travel is pretty interestingly explained in the movie and you would never be able to use the word timeline in normal sense ever again once you start with these series. The titular character, The Flash, is played by a guy who will never age I guess. Reminds a bit of the fight club guy, Edward Norton and has a Matthew Mcconaughey-ish voice. Conceptually, I thought, Flash must be the weakest of heroes for his strength is nothing but run!! If in case of danger, he may probably be able to outrun the danger was what I felt while reading about his super powers. It’s the same, literally in the series and storyline as well. But how he develops on it and uses the same power to overcome different types of villains has been interestingly told. In fact, the premise felt very Harry Potter-ish with a bunch of friends, helping him out on every single fight and more than his powers, it’s their tools and inventions which actually help him in overpowering them. There is a DumbleDore like character who mentors Flash, only to reveal in the cinematic twist that, he ends up as the main villain. The first season of the series itself, has been neatly framed with the villain, being revealed mid-season, dies at the end of season, only to be resurrected in every season there on. With the concept of timeline, add to it the theory of multiverse with multiple Earth’s floating around different timelines, where the same person is present across every earth and some of them try to break into the other Earth’s through, worm holes and gap in timelines, it all goes beyond physics and normalcy and you’ve to be really hooked on to the series, which I am pretty sure one will, to follow up. Every episode, where the timeline gets altered, throws in so many logical queries, which are answered on subsequent episodes and the list of questions are never ending to say the least.
The “accident” which creates meta-human of an otherwise normal CSI guy into flash, also creates super villains for him to fight every episode. It also bestows his friends with super powers as well. Literally, everyone except the police guy who is guardian for flash, has some or other super powers, which are considerably better than Flash himself. Wonder, why such a simple powered guy is the theme around which other characters are built. There is a character, who can see though time, one who can freeze anything, one who runs even faster than Flash (who is the villain), one who turns into cyanide vapor at will, a guy who can turn into molten tar but to top it all, there is a character called Firestorm, who are actually two people fused by the explosion into one. Maybe Shankar lifted this concept for infusing Pakshirajan’s aura into Vaseegaran Rajini? Till the time I was watching only “Supergirl” drama series, this concept of intermixing dramas never struck as odd. But with “Arrow” episodes mixing in with “Flash” where each characters makes a guest appearance in fighting villains across different series, it kinds of adds to the ongoing confusion of which Flash from which timeline are we presently watching. I started watching 2 weeks back and before I knew season 1 got over and season 2 is more than halfway through. For someone who loves time travel and often mentions about the concept in this space, this series has been highly entertaining.
Interestingly the first weekend I was binge watching season 1, I had a dream wherein, I was the villain guy on wheel chair and not Flash!! His character is super cool and as a scientist he can do anything and come up with a fix for everything within no time, all this sitting on a wheel chair, which is revealed to be actually charging him to be more faster!!! I was actually thinking, if at all I need to go back in time to alter any event in my timeline, which would be it. There were so many that came up that, I might need to be more than just a speedster to fix those things.
Have long been wanting to check this drama series, specifically because of the kind of memes that were floating around, teasing the timeline concept. I started watching the current season, Season 5 and got immediately hooked to the series. The concept of time travel is pretty interestingly explained in the movie and you would never be able to use the word timeline in normal sense ever again once you start with these series. The titular character, The Flash, is played by a guy who will never age I guess. Reminds a bit of the fight club guy, Edward Norton and has a Matthew Mcconaughey-ish voice. Conceptually, I thought, Flash must be the weakest of heroes for his strength is nothing but run!! If in case of danger, he may probably be able to outrun the danger was what I felt while reading about his super powers. It’s the same, literally in the series and storyline as well. But how he develops on it and uses the same power to overcome different types of villains has been interestingly told. In fact, the premise felt very Harry Potter-ish with a bunch of friends, helping him out on every single fight and more than his powers, it’s their tools and inventions which actually help him in overpowering them. There is a DumbleDore like character who mentors Flash, only to reveal in the cinematic twist that, he ends up as the main villain. The first season of the series itself, has been neatly framed with the villain, being revealed mid-season, dies at the end of season, only to be resurrected in every season there on. With the concept of timeline, add to it the theory of multiverse with multiple Earth’s floating around different timelines, where the same person is present across every earth and some of them try to break into the other Earth’s through, worm holes and gap in timelines, it all goes beyond physics and normalcy and you’ve to be really hooked on to the series, which I am pretty sure one will, to follow up. Every episode, where the timeline gets altered, throws in so many logical queries, which are answered on subsequent episodes and the list of questions are never ending to say the least.
The “accident” which creates meta-human of an otherwise normal CSI guy into flash, also creates super villains for him to fight every episode. It also bestows his friends with super powers as well. Literally, everyone except the police guy who is guardian for flash, has some or other super powers, which are considerably better than Flash himself. Wonder, why such a simple powered guy is the theme around which other characters are built. There is a character, who can see though time, one who can freeze anything, one who runs even faster than Flash (who is the villain), one who turns into cyanide vapor at will, a guy who can turn into molten tar but to top it all, there is a character called Firestorm, who are actually two people fused by the explosion into one. Maybe Shankar lifted this concept for infusing Pakshirajan’s aura into Vaseegaran Rajini? Till the time I was watching only “Supergirl” drama series, this concept of intermixing dramas never struck as odd. But with “Arrow” episodes mixing in with “Flash” where each characters makes a guest appearance in fighting villains across different series, it kinds of adds to the ongoing confusion of which Flash from which timeline are we presently watching. I started watching 2 weeks back and before I knew season 1 got over and season 2 is more than halfway through. For someone who loves time travel and often mentions about the concept in this space, this series has been highly entertaining.
Interestingly the first weekend I was binge watching season 1, I had a dream wherein, I was the villain guy on wheel chair and not Flash!! His character is super cool and as a scientist he can do anything and come up with a fix for everything within no time, all this sitting on a wheel chair, which is revealed to be actually charging him to be more faster!!! I was actually thinking, if at all I need to go back in time to alter any event in my timeline, which would be it. There were so many that came up that, I might need to be more than just a speedster to fix those things.
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Junior - please whack him on the head and ask him to play with you :)