FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Meh…

It really coulda been better…

FLASH!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHH!

I’m gonna stop doing this…

Promise. Never again will I riff on the Queen classic. Freddie Mercury’s ghost wants royalties.

I’m watching Flash The Series for the third time as I type this. Not because it’s really good, but because everything else on TV is really bad.

This isn’t bad either, IMO. It’s just- incomplete. It feels as though the writers just used the sketch notes for the air-draft. Where there could eb more substance, we get- air. The last book I read similar to this in structure was John DeChancie and David Bischoff’s "Dr. Dimension: Masters of Spacetime", and I felt ripped off by it. I remember wanting my four bucks back. I’m surprised that I don’t feel more ripped off by this.

The effects are garden-variety. Not surprising, this being the Spawn of Skiffy. I’ll hope for more. The action- again, okay. Nothing to leap out of your seat and roar over. As a guy, that bothers me somewhat. I like to leap and roar. I want more carnage. Am I wrong for that?

Frankel (sp?), the Chief Scientist. He’s miscast. Should’ve been the Chief Interrogator, IMO. If I’m a scientist, and someone lands in my part of town, claiming to be from another planet, I’m going to ask a few sciency questions. He didn’t, just pressed Flash abut the "Imex" (nice touch, BTB, though I admit that I saw it coming at first shot). And, when he had Flash on the torture table, he *enjoyed* that. (Hope the CIA wasn’t watching.) I still don’t know whether Aura’s shot killed him or not. Hope not, because that would make for a nice plot point, him having a serious beef with Ming’s daughter.

The acting. Okay, I’ve seen better in high-school productions. I’ve *done* better. And that was as a dead body. (Sorry, no recreations.) But the actors, as I said before, didn’t get much to work with in the way of a story. They managed well enough. They all look nice.

Karen Cliche (wonder if that’s her real name, or just something she picked for effect?), as the bounty hunter-type, is too Starbucky for my taste. One hot, macho babe per generation should be it.

Aura? Dale says to her, early on, that Flash "wouldn’t touch her if" she was "the last woman in the Universe". Allow me to agree wth that in totis. She’s- meh. Take her or leave her, preferably leave her. She’s a catch for some guys out there. Not for me. Dale, however, can interview me anytime she likes. And I don’t even like reporters. Character-wise (forgive me for the slip into Looks City. I’m a guy, okay?), both are exacly true to form.

Flash- he’s a little slow for the world-saving type, at times. Again, this could be due to the script, so I’ll let him go. Zarkov gets a bit of a knock by me. He’s a geeky Crazy Eddie from "First Wave". Can’t even shoot straight. Back to the boards for him.

I want an Imex. (Repeat this forty-three times, and you understand my lust for power-through-knowledge.)

Overall grade? Meh. Make it a C+ But it is just the pilot. Room for improvement, and Skiffy will give it that. Look at Paincauser Jane, still chugging along, clip show after only seven eps. (stopping self before PCJ rant escapes).

Thank you for your readership, all seven of you. I now return you control of your minds and souls. (Didn’t even know I had them, did you?)

Truthseeker013 (now weeping, because nothing’s on TV. Thank Deity for the Internet. Witch Hunter Robin, here I come…)

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