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A little research reveals that both Flash parents did indeed appear in the Silver and Bronze Age.

I just really like the idea of Barry Allen as just an average kid who grew up reading comics and suddenly gets the opportunity to become a super-hero like his favorite comic character. No need for the added tragedy, imo.

^^Again, I agree 100%.

Certainly, I agree in principle. But having some tragedy and angst in Ollie Queen's background has certainly benefited the Arrow TV show--which I LOVE--so you can't blame the same guys who produce both shows for taking a similar stance with the newer one. From what I've read, though, I think Flash will otherwise be different enough from it's brother show, going by the more fantastic superheroics alone.

Barry's parents were actually around for Barry's trial for Zoom's murder just prior to COIE. Barry's lawer actually spied on Barry at his parent's house to discover his secret identity!

I've never watched Arrow. To me, if it ain't middle-aged, cantakerous, bearded, Robin-Hood-hat-wearing Ollie, then it ain't Ollie at all.

A couple other problems I had with Flash:

- This is the second time in a row that they didn't cast a blonde as Barry Allen.

- The actress playing Iris looks so malnourished and/or strung-out that I have a hard time watching any of her scenes.

The funny thing is that Danielle Panabaker feels a lot more like Iris West to me than the actress they used.

Is Danielle Panabaker the actress playing Caitlin Snow?

For the record, I love Arrow. After a somewhat bumpy start, it's grown into a really solid series.

I'm sure it's a well-crafted show. I'm just very...particular...about Ollie. Same as I'm very...particular...about Transformers.

Yep.

Okay, thanks. Yeah, I think she was one of the few saving graces of the show.

I've seen one picture with the parka, maybe with the furry hood even. So there's hope!

Way behind, I finally checked out Gotham. I expected to hate it, so I was surprised to find myself actually enjoying it! Certainly flawed and with some hammy acting in parts, but overall, I thought it was a well done first ep with the right time and more good parts than bad.

I'll check out ep 2 and first Flash eventually. I've never watched an ep of Arrow before.

FYI, Barry's parents appeared twice in the Silver Age and 1-2 more times in the Bronze Age before being more consistently in the series in the "Trial" era. They were always cameo appearances, basically loving parents who were proud of their son and glad to see him. In both Silver Age stories they are not essential to the plot other than Barry's reason for bumping into his old flame--now a movie star--is to visit his parents.

So yeah, the whole Retcon reeks of snuff porn and is another exhibit of how DC is rife with weirdos and child molesters.

I think this story featuring Barry's dad was later referenced in Identity Crisis.

Interesting quote found on Wikipedia: "Barry is the kind of man that I would've hoped to become if my parents hadn't been murdered." --Batman, Justice #8

Anyway, apparently they've cast Victor Garber as Martin Stein, so it looks like they may actually be doing a classic Firestorm...

He's a solid actor too!

Indeed!

They can screw up a lot of things, even Barry's hair color and his love life but if they screw up Snart, it's over and won't last. Snart is the foible a fan can most easily identify with IMO. If there's not a good human foible, there's nothing to bring out the Barry. It'd be an x-man with a gorilla.

and with this, everyone got powers from the same event sillyness, how does someone identify with a baddy that just had it handed to him/her, didn't have any motivation to earn it.

The Rogues, the pre-star-labs explosion versions, invented themselves. They were great villains.

American Horror Story: Freakshow is off to an uneven start. Aside from the creepy sequences with Twisty the Clown (which were good), there wasn't a lot of "Horror" on the go. Sarah Paulson is great as the co-joined twins, but I'm tired of aging Jessica Lange characters trying to re-capture their youth. They really need to give her something better to do.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, but also noted that it seemed to actually be kind of light on the "horror" aspect.

I'm watching the first episode of Battlestar Galactica (1978). The aesthetic is very reminiscent of Star Wars and Starbuck is very much modeled after Han Solo.

Lucas thought so too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dykstra

As long as we're running with the 70s sci-fi theme, I recently tried to watch the first few episodes of The Bionic Woman for the first time in decades, and I literally almost fell asleep! Sometimes nostalgia isn't enough to get one through a TV show.

It did occur to me, though, that if a JLA movie had been made in the 70s, Lindsay Wagner would have made a great Black Canary.