The Tragic Downfall of The Flash

I never want to hear the words ‘Run Barry run’ again

Barry: I can’t do it Everyone: have you tried running very fast? Barry: *runs very fast* Barry: I did it

Worst lines in flash history because of the CW. 3. "You are my lightning rod" 2. "Run Barry Run" 1. "We are The Flash"

"My name is Barry Allen, I'm the 42nd fastest man in my building."

Having only seen the first "run Barry, RUN" moment, I quite liked that scene. Nice to see they beat it to death.

the cw knocked the casting for the entire arrowverse superheroes out of the park (grant gustin, melissa benoist, etc) but they did them so criminally wrong with everything else

I find it fascinating how every CW superhero show has a good first season, a better second season, and then completely falls apart.

I would point out that Team Flash in season one is even smaller than it appears, since Wells isn't actually a true member in that season – being the villain and all. Yes he fills the role, but halfway through the season we learn the truth and that flips his entire dynamic on its head. Plus, that actually makes Team Flash a useful plot element, with the betrayal, rather than the drag it became later.

If only the CW took a page from the Justice League cartoons. In that show, Flash is every bit as powerful as you would expect, but in that Flash is shown as being a guy who cares for the villians and the people of the city. The villans get a leg up on him by putting him in situations where he has to choose between stopping them, or saving innocent lives. Just adding this one character trait/flaw would make the CW Flash so much more interesting.

"Iris has no powers" Excuse me?! She obviously has the power of love and friendship!!

Barrry fights a villian. He fails. He sulks. He gets a pep talk. He beats the villian. This is the main go to for every single episode. I gave up on the series in season 5.

The "bargain visual effects aren't the problem, poor writing is" argument is so spot-on, it sums up every bad season perfectly. It costs nothing to write proper build-ups, tension, stakes, character motivation, and every established storycrafting technique that grabs and keeps an audience engaged episode to episode. Consistency also costs nothing but costs everything if one screws it up. This show needed a visionary showrunner with the mettle of, say, Vince Gilligan or Eric Kripke, paired with a network that believes in them. Never liked Berlanti, but that's just me.

why dosent the flash just run at every villian at like 1000 mph and just blow a hole through their chest with a 1000 mph single punch??? like is there a reason given in the show for why he dosent just even just grab the bad guys at the speed of sound and put them in a maximum security prison cell within literally a single second?

I loved Barry as a forensic expert. I was expecting him to juggle his job and superhero duties. But like immediately he is a full time superhero.

No matter how cringey the show eventually got, watching the first season when it first came out is the most fun I've ever experienced watching tv

honestly for iris, she could have worked as a main character if they leaned more into her journalist/investigator job, imagine if she was the one that found cicada, she was the one who figured out who savitar was, who reverse flash was? but in a way that made her seem like a skilled investigator, which considering she was raised by a cop, her being good at that isnt hard to believe, and in turn, we wouldnt have needed that ridiculous french sherloque. Iris could be the person to show that you dont need superpowers to be a hero, which is what the earlier seasons of the cw arrowverse were a bit better in portraying.

Seeing Jessica Parker Kennedy (Nora) acting like a child on The Flash was really weird after seeing her in Black Sails.

Like Syndrome said, “Once everyone’s super, no one will be.”

"Why did you kill my mother?" "Because I hate you." The Flash has 0 chance of ever becoming that good again

The power inconsistencies are also a thing in the comics. At one point it's stated that the reason the main Rogues (Captain Cold, Heatwave, Mirror Master, etc) are still around is because both they and Flash treat their battles almost like a game, and Flash is holding way back