The Flash
(2014– )
Barry takes on his childhood bully, who can now turn himself into steel. Iris finally coins the moniker "the Flash."
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Title: The Flash Is Born (18 Nov 2014)
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| Grant Gustin | ... | Barry Allen / The Flash | |
| Candice Patton | ... | Iris West | |
| Danielle Panabaker | ... | Caitlin Snow | |
| Rick Cosnett | ... | Detective Eddie Thawne | |
| Carlos Valdes | ... | Cisco Ramon | |
| Tom Cavanagh | ... | Dr. Harrison Wells | |
| Jesse L. Martin | ... | Joe West | |
| Greg Finley | ... | Tony Woodward / Girder | |
| Patrick Sabongui | ... | Captain David Singh | |
| Lauren Denham | ... | Stacy Conwell (as Lauren Lee Denham) | |
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Austin Dunn | ... | Young Tony |
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Amina Elkatib | ... | Young Iris |
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Daniel Mallinson | ... | Officer Doyle |
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Travis MacDonald | ... | Tat Man |
| Logan Williams | ... | Young Barry | |
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The Flash faces Tony, a new meta-human who can turn himself into girded steel at will. While Dr. Wells and Caitlin worry for Barry's safety, Cisco comes up with a plan to take Tony down. Meanwhile, Iris's blog on The Flash gets her into trouble, and Eddie, witnessing Tony's abilities firsthand, begins to ask questions that Joe doesn't want answered. Joe asks Dr. Wells to help him solve Nora Allen's murder. Written by Jiilo_Kim
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Iris West: [on her blog; voice-over] To understand what I'm about to tell you, you need to do something first. You need to believe in the impossible. Can you do that? Good. Because all of us, we have forgotten what miracles look like, maybe because they haven't made much of an appearance lately. Our lives have become ordinary, but there's someone out there who is truly extraordinary. I don't know where you came from, I don't know your name, but I have seen you do the impossible to protect the ...
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Tony Woodward is a comic book character who made his debut in Flash: Iron Heights (August 2001). He is a villain known as Girder who developed his powers after being thrown into a vat of molten metal for assaulting a female coworker. Unknowingly there was remnants of a S.T.A.R. Labs experimental liquid steel that attached to his body giving him incredible blunt force resistance and physical power. See more »Goofs
Ripping out a fire alarm pull station will not stop an alarm once it has been tripped. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Iris West: [on her blog; voice-over] To understand what I'm about to tell you, you need to do something first. You need to believe in the impossible. Can you do that? Good. Because all of us, we have forgotten what miracles look like, maybe because they haven't made much of an appearance lately. Our lives have become ordinary, but there's someone out there who is truly extraordinary. I don't know where you came from, I don't know your name, but I have seen you do the impossible to protect the ...
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The Flash is a great show. And arguably a better start than what Arrow had a few years back. But every great show has a misfire. The Flash Is Born was the weakest episode of the series to date, saved by the final scene.
It was basically another filler episode to get us closer to the Flash vs Arrow episode in a few weeks. Filler episodes are fine but in order to still capture my attention you have to add to the overall story with elements that you wont necessarily need later on. The villain was absolutely dreadful this week. 'Girder' had cool powers sure, but the dialogue and delivery of the this character was pitiful. The writers have actually done a great job so far 6 episodes in capturing a completely different tone than Arrow, while still giving us an awesome superhero show. It felt like an Agents of Shield villain to be honest.
But the episode had it's great moments, led by Detective West and Harrison Wells' meetings. At this point, we know Wells is a villain but who is he? Is it possible he is Eobard Thawne from the future AKA Reverse Flash? Just an idea one of my friends proposed to me but who knows. It was just about the only interesting part of this episode. I even thought the Iris-Barry scenes were pretty cheesy and weak. And why is Thawne 'training' Barry? Just felt completely out of place. But I did think the flashbacks were a fun little addition to this week. So in a week that didn't have much going on, we did get an introduction into who Reverse Flash may be, and also got a quick sneak peak to the Arrow-Flash episode in two weeks.
+Detective West investigates Wells
+Flashback scenes
+Wells may be Reverse Flash?
-Terrible villain
-Already tired of Iris going after 'The Streak'
-Really bad dialogue all around
6.8/10