# Flash: new TV show (boxed spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818 "2014-10-09T01:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/321 "2015-02-06T07:20:55Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot John Barrowman. Now we’re looking at a cross-over musical episode with Arrow. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/322 "2015-02-06T12:02:00Z")
Are they going to call Grodd a ‘meta-simian’? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/323 "2015-02-06T15:38:45Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I also noticed the holding cells don’t have toilets or anything. Solitary confinement is okay for murderous evil doers prone to escaping, and certain beings like the one that transforms into gas, may not need food or water. Also, while the teleporter is a criminal, she’s not crazy or dangerous like the other villains have been so far. If she didn’t have the criminal boyfriend she broke out of prison, she could have been an asset to The Flash’s team. Maybe they’ll figure that out and use her in the future. > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Dude, Cisco, EVERYONE knew that that guy was going to escape. While I was impressed when Cisco was able to fight fairly well and subdue the guy in the middle of the episode, it was obvious that he would escape and not go back to prison. That was stupid on his part. They needed to setup the Firestorm stuff for future episodes and I guess they couldn’t think of any better way to do it. > [@cmyk](#): > > Was that the same CG gorilla from the latest episode of The 100 used at the end of the show? The comments at the AV Club review speculated that it was the same CG gorilla that The 100 used. It makes sense, it’s a better way for both shows to use their limited budget. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/324 "2015-02-08T02:11:57Z")
Barry dating Wally’s woman?!??! WTF ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/325 "2015-02-08T13:41:52Z")
Somebody mentioned in an earlier thread/post that in the first shots of the wreckage of the particle accelerator, there was a holding cell that was busted open from the inside, with a “Grodd” nameplate hanging from one corner over it, so Dr. Wells was already in the habit of taking prisoners before the accident. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/327 "2015-02-08T14:30:34Z")
Well there was a military/STAR Labs initiative which was dealing with the gorilla. Well’s objected to the military’s approach but I don’t think Grodd was Grodd before the accident. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/328 "2015-02-08T20:55:56Z")
Something we won’t see, but which would be fun: Flash vs. the Weeping Angels. (The Doctor: “They’re fast, faster than you can imagine.” Barry: “I can imagine quite a bit.”) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/329 "2015-02-11T15:58:13Z")
Things are getting more serious with Linda Park. I wonder if Barry has ever had an actual girlfriend before? Is he still a virgin? Do his swimmers move as fast as he does? Inquiring minds want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/330 "2015-02-11T16:16:50Z")
Huh. Too bad they didn’t get [Linda Park](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971133/?ref_=nv_sr_1) to play Linda Park. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/331 "2015-02-11T16:27:34Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Things are getting more serious with Linda Park. I wonder if Barry has ever had an actual girlfriend before? Is he still a virgin? Do his swimmers move as fast as he does? Inquiring minds want to know. It’d be over in .003 seconds, and she’d be hospitalized. When they were getting it on on his couch, at first I thought he vibrated because Cisco had somehow rig up his phone to his powers. Then I realized he almost just wet himself. So, indeed, Barry is one of the Flashes the night his mother was killed. Somehow having the professor be the murderer is too easy. It’s gotta be someone else who gets ahold of the yellow suit. Wonder if they’ll drag this over multiple seasons, since he sacrificed the chip in the tachyon device for the quantum splitter to save the Firestorm dudes. That didn’t go as planned, but I don’t think we’ve seen the last of them/him/him. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/332 "2015-02-11T17:02:39Z")
> [@GreedySmurf](#): > > I just caught up with Ep 10. I’m on board with several other posters, in that the fact either Flash and/or the cops didn’t take out the two bad guys in two seconds flat really annoyed me. > > I’m trying to like this show, I truly am, I’ve given it more time than most shows that bother me, but the writers are just pretty bad IMO. That’s all after you suspend disbelief about being smacked by a person traveling hundred of miles an hour is somehow better than falling to the pavement from the height of a bicycle ala the opening and countless other examples [after you suspend disbelief about the keeping people in permanent solitary confinement. The ethical issues alone are enough to make the whole crew villains imho Then the issues of air, sustenance, and waste…] The writers should have left the realm of actual physics and made Flash able to operate in some sort of “orthogonal time-stream” mumbo jumbo to lampshade the fact that being smacked by a nice guy at 500+ mph is going to be a great deal more jarring than hitting the ground at 30 mph. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/333 "2015-02-11T17:10:56Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Wonder if they’ll drag this over multiple seasons, since he sacrificed the chip in the tachyon device for the quantum splitter to save the Firestorm dudes. That didn’t go as planned, but I don’t think we’ve seen the last of them/him/him. By the way, the AVclub reviewer of the most recent episode suggested that Cisco’s masterful use of mirrors in this episode might hint at his future. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/334 "2015-02-11T17:53:32Z")
Barry wanted to increase his speed. If nothing else, a nuclear explosion behind him will sure motivate him in a way that a drone wouldn’t, I suspect. Oh, and of course YMMV (apparently Linda Park’s does), but if a guy said he’d eat that pepper if I didn’t go out with him, I definitely wouldn’t. I don’t find emotional blackmail appealing, especially if it’s followed by vomiting. Linda didn’t seem like the kind of person who would, either. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/335 "2015-02-11T17:57:45Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > By the way, the AVclub reviewer of the most recent episode suggested that Cisco’s masterful use of mirrors in this episode might hint at his future. But then he couldn’t be Vibe, man. Nobody wants that. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/336 "2015-02-11T18:04:20Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Barry wanted to increase his speed. If nothing else, a nuclear explosion behind him will sure motivate him in a way that a drone wouldn’t, I suspect. > > Oh, and of course YMMV (apparently Linda Park’s does), but if a guy said he’d eat that pepper if I didn’t go out with him, I definitely wouldn’t. I don’t find emotional blackmail appealing, especially if it’s followed by vomiting. Linda didn’t seem like the kind of person who would, either. Yeah, it was also weird how Barry is a CSI and something urgent and important comes up and she’s all, “what? Your job is more important than a date with me?” She’s supposed to be a hotshot sports reporter but apparently late nights and chasing down sudden leads is all beneath her, and now she questions whether Barry is worth her time. She doesn’t think Barry is worth of her time? He isn’t completely devoted to her? Imagine if Barry didn’t think she was worth his time. Oh, and then she calls his boss to check up on him. In real life, that relationship would not bode well for Barry. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/337 "2015-02-12T04:18:02Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Huh. Too bad they didn’t get [Linda Park](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0971133/?ref_=nv_sr_1) to play Linda Park. Linda Park the actress is probably old enough to play Linda Park the character’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/338 "2015-02-12T04:26:54Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Linda Park the actress is probably old enough to play Linda Park the character’s mother. “My name is Barry Allen, and I’m the fastest man alive, and I like older women.” ---
**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/339 "2015-02-12T07:46:05Z")
What was that AI voice talking to the professor? Is that new or was it in a previous episode? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/340 "2015-02-12T07:49:25Z")
> [@Habeed](#): > > What was that AI voice talking to the professor? Is that new or was it in a previous episode? She’s appeared in a few episodes. Her name is Gideon, and she’s voiced by Morena Baccarin. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818/341 "2015-02-12T15:05:58Z")
Missed this before: > [@levdrakon](#): > > Yeah, it was also weird how Barry is a CSI and something urgent and important comes up and she’s all, “what? Your job is more important than a date with me?” She’s supposed to be a hotshot sports reporter but apparently late nights and chasing down sudden leads is all beneath her, and now she questions whether Barry is worth her time. What kind of urgent, late-breaking, sudden lead would a sports reporter have to pursue? Whether LeBron James decided to play for Central City? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-new-tv-show-boxed-spoilers/700818.md?page=18)