The Flash tv series pilot review

Hey guys ,

Yesterday I saw the pilot of the CW's new tv series entitled The Flash, which is a spinoff series of ARROW. I want to share my thoughts about the leaked pilot episode with you.

This is a spoiler review. Don't go on if you have not seen the pilot.

First of all my general impression is that the first episode was really good and very well-done. The show looks promising! Second of all I want to focus on specific scenes.
Let's start.

In the pilot we see the origin of the flash (Barry Allen).The story is narrated with flashbacks, also we  see some old scenes that we already saw in arrow season 2 episode 9 "three ghosts". Some of those scenes are inconsistent (i.e. Barry using a tissue when walking into his lab) with what we saw in arrow but this is just a little mistake...it does not matter..what matters is that the pilot was online months before it was supposed to come out and whoever put it online had not idea of how much money the CW was gonna loose.

 The best moments of this episode, in my opinion, are:

• the first scenes in which there is barry running into the city while is narrating! I have to say that despite the fact that it is a tv show and the production budget is not as high as a blockbuster movie, the special effects are awesome and I liked them very much

• Starling city 

after failing to catch the Weather Wizard, Barry runs to Starling City to his friend Oliver Queen aka The Arrow and Oliver tells him that now he can be a guardian angel for his city and says that the lightning chose him to inspire people and I like this scene because it is mind blowingly beautiful because we have the flash and the green arrow standing in front of one another in a very epic scene.

• Pilot finale 

the ending is unexpected  beacuse I would never have imagined that  they would bring time travel  into the show especially if we consider the implications of that into a share universe. Anyway, what a cliffhanger, right?

• Harrison Wells speech to Barry

when barry goes after the bad guy (the Weather Wizard) and has problems defeating him, Harrison encourages him and when at the end he says "you can do this...now run barry.....RUN!!!!"...I jumped out of my seat because it really was a great scene and I liked it very much.

• Barry's father 

One of the things I really enjoyed is that Barry's father is  John Wesley Shipp and he was played back in the 90s The flash on television and I think it was great to see him now play The Flash's fahter.

In this first episode there are also a lot of Easter Eggs and these are some of them (please tell us if we missed any):

• Gorilla Grood

After Barry wakes up from coma  at Star Labs , doctor Harrison Wells explains to him what happened after the particle accelerator  was turned on and they,while talkink, walk passed a broken cage on which we see "Grodd"..and that's a reference to Flash's enemy Gorilla Grodd.

• Wayne tech\Queen inc

at the end of the episode Dr Harrison Wells goes into a secret room and opens a newspaper from the future(2024) On this newspaper we read on the left ,at the bottom of the page we see"Wayne Tech\Queen Inc Merger complete"...that's clearly a reference to Wayne Industries which is the compaany of Bruce Wayne aka Batman.

• Ferris air

After discovering his abilities, Barry with Dr. Harrison Wells and his assistants test how fast he can run and they test him in a ferris air testing facility which is clearly a reference to agent Carol Ferris aka Hal jordan(Green Lantern)'s love interest. .A Ferris easter eggs also appeared in arrow season 1 finale....so HOPEFULLY one day we'll see green lantern POP UP in either Starling City or Central City.

• Crisis on infinite Earths 

Also in the end on the newspaper from 2024 we read the Heading which says "Flash vanishes in Crisis" which is a reference to the comic book series Crisis on infinite Earths but It will remain simply an Easter Egg since that particular story needs Batman, Superman and other important comic book characters but I guess it could be a great idea in the case they decide to have a shared universe with Batman and Superman from the movie universe.

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