October 8, 2014

The Flash, Season 1, Episode 1

So for those of you that tuned in to The CW, The Flash was the Best Comic Book show I've seen since Spectacular Spider-Man.  Barry Allen is a character I only recently knew anything about, and what I do know is from The New 52.  The show used the New 52 origin instead of the classic origin, so I knew what what was going on.
Clyde Mardon was an under-par villain, but it's the first episode, so I expect to see the villains become better later in the show, similar to what happened in Arrow (Season 2).  Now moving onto the DC universe at large.  At one point we see an Airfield, labeled "Ferris Air", for those of you who don't know that's where Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) works in the comics.  Near the room the particle accelerator is in, there's a cage with a sign on it, that reads " Grodd", as in Guerilla Grodd, one of the villains in the Flash mythology.  The we come to that Final scene in the futuristic room with Dr. Wells, where A newspaper from 2024 has a Crisis on Infinite Earths reference, (that's were Barry Allen died) and a smaller headline reads WayneTech/Queen Consolidated merger is finished.  This raises the question of whether like Batman, or other heroes will appear in the "ArrowVerse".  Of course integrating a Sci-Fi theme like time travel into the TVerse, would help with connecting the 2 series with Man of Steel.  However as of now, the TV, and Cinematic Universes are planned to be separate, which is dumb, I think that combining TV and Film is the way to go, if they're trying to compete with the MCU.  Also the Flash is a essential character to the JLA in my opinion, and it wouldn't make sense to have a version of him on TV  and another in the movies.
I give the first episode of the Flash...
 8 out of 10

So what do you people think? Should DC combine TV and movies to make an epic story? Or should they leave them separate?  Leave your thoughts in the comments below!!