Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and we finally got the first real look at Grant Gustin in
action so this is going to be a breakdown of that along with an update about all the
things we’ve learned about the show in the last couple of weeks.
My review of the Arrow Finale is going to post later tonight.
I’ll have a link to that in the description.
Before this clip we’d seen a bunch of pictures from the set of him in costume, but it’s
really hard to judge when there aren’t any special effects added and they haven’t color
corrected everything.
So first off the most obvious thing.
The superpowers.
I’m totally digging what they’re doing with them.
Both the look of Grant Gustin at super speed, and the way his character treats them.
In the comics, Barry Allen isn’t a reluctant hero.
So it’s not like Bruce Banner and The Hulk.
Barry won’t treat the Speedforce like a curse, it’s a blessing.
Of all the Justice League A-List superheroes, he’s one of the more positive and excitable
ones.
Remember what a fanboy of The Arrow he was when he guest starred earlier this season?
He’s like a superhero fanboy who got called to the majors.
Because he’s up racing around in the suit in the clip there’s a bit of a disconnect.
Because right now in the normal timeline he’s still passed out, he doesn’t know about
his new powers and he doesn’t have the suit yet.
So I’d be willing to be that the events of the trailer are taken mostly from the Pilot
with a few pickups.
Right now they’re not in production for season 1 yet.
So the only footage they’d have is stuff they’ve already shot, or any green screen
stuff they did on the fly.
They don’t always include everything from trailers in the final version of episodes,
but I think we can plan for Stephen Amell and Felicity to at least have minor appearances
in the first episode.
Unless they expand it and make it a two parter.
But let’s talk about crossover’s with Arrow, because the trailer itself is an Arrow
Crossover.
The Flash will be it’s own show, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kriesberg and all the other producers
are doing the best they can to make it a shared universe.
It kind of already is as of Episode 19 with the Caitlin Snow, Ramon Cisco Star Labs stuff.
That being said, I think full on physical crossovers will be limited to a couple times
a season at most.
But there will be tons of verbal references to people on the other shows.
Like when Felicity says she’s been dumped by someone in a coma.
Talking about Barry and Iris West.
Which isn’t true.
Iris West is supposed to be Barry’s best friend in the way Oliver and Felicity are
best friends that just have a lot of chemistry.
So all you shippers out there just think of Iris and Barry as the new Olicity.
Next let’s talk about the season 1 story.
Barry is like a CSI person at the Central City Police Station.
His mentor slash father figure is Detective West.
So there will be a freak of the week crime solving aspect to the show.
But the big main story will be Barry learning to use his powers and clear his father of
his mother’s murder.
Remember that big map board in his office with all the connecting red lines.
Imagine him super speeding to all those places getting his CSI swerve on.
The freak of the week stuff will be the day to day, he’ll be solving his mother’s
murder in the background each week.
It’s like on Arrow where the team takes down criminals every week, but the main story
has been Deathstroke and the Mirakuru.
As for Deathstroke level villains on Flash, there’s the big question mark of Edward
Thawne, who will probably turn out to be Zoom.
If you look here at the end it looks like Zoom running past the credits.
So I’m getting really excited.
I’m totally expecting Flash to do the same thing Arrow did with superhero names and just
shorten them.
There are other comic book characters on the show like Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon, but
they might be doing a Laurel thing with them.
As in Laurel is the Black Canary in the comics, but Arrow made her a normal person, with the
promise that in a future season she’d become Black Canary.
So Caitlin Snow could always turn into Killer Frost, or just Frost if we’re shortening
it.
But don’t expect it anytime soon.
In episode 19 she seemed like such a fun person I think she’s going to be one of the good
guys during season 1.
Keep you eyes peeled on her though.
Agents Of SHIELD did that thing where they made Ward turn evil at the end of the season.
Let’s talk about the other characters, I already did a video for the main cast.
But Tom Cavanaugh is Harrison Wells, he’s the person that’s responsible for the Particle
Accelerator Explosion.
So he’s going to be like the Professor Ivo of the show.
Just hated on.
He’s not a villain like Ivo though.
As for John Wesley Shipp.
Yes everyone is hoping he turns out to be the Jay Garrick Flash.
Whatever his role is, it will be recurring.
But it’s also possible he could be playing Captain Frye from the comics.
He’s one of Barry’s superiors at the police department and also has a secret persona called
Captain Incredible.
So Shipp could be playing a superhero in disguise no matter who his alter ego is.
As for When Episode 1 is going to air, As I’m posting this video we don’t know which
night The Flash will air on.
But they will say tomorrow at the upfronts.
My guess is that it will either replace Star Crossed, which was cancelled, on Mondays at
8 or 9 or it will replace the 100 after Arrow on Wednesdays.
Because they’ll let us know tomorrow.
I’m just going to post an update in the description with the day and time it will
air on.
The only reason I kind of want it to be on a different night from Arrow is because it’s
super hard for me to do videos for two shows on the same night.
That’s basically why I haven’t been doing supernatural videos.
Just because I’m so tired by the time I finish doing SHIELD videos.
Fingers Crossed.
I’ll be doing weekly bonus videos for Flash and Arrow in the off season.
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My Arrow Finale Review will post in a couple hours and my Q& will post tomorrow like normal.
I’ll be combining Arrow and Flash stuff, so feel free to ask me anything about either
show.
Right now click here for my Arrow Finale video and click here for that Q&A.
I’ll add the annotations as soon as I post them.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight.
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