Just saw "The Flash" live action pilot the other night...

[Kal-el]

I was wondering what people thought of it. For a live action super hero show, I really don't think it was THAT bad. It was a bit hoky, though. The suit was kinda cool looking. The guy who played Flash/ Barry Allen was pretty much right on (though maybe a few years too old looking). I always thought the theme music was pretty cool. I can't remember how long the series lasted.
Any thoughts? Ideas? Comments?


hmmmm. I wonder how bad a live action JL would be if you took the live action Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman (pick one), and Batman (TV or film) and used those characters just the way they were in those incarnations? It would be pretty goofy...

[DR.MID-NITE]

It lasted one season. Some of the episodes were hokey. But, some were very good. Mark Hamill portrayed a character name the Trickster and sounded a lot like our favorite Bat clown. He was in two of the episodes. The music was done by Danny Elfman, who did the music for the 1989 version of Batman. The series used a very similiar style than the Batman movies.
It was very popular overseas. And even the president of CBS said by him moving the show around the schedule, killed it.

[Ed Liu]

Howdy all,

I noticed it on last night, too, but my wife didn't go for watching it. The fact that it overlapped with _The West Wing_ and _Law & Order_ didn't help.

I remembered liking _The Flash_ at the time (I remember the fun "Find the Flash" game CBS made us play...grumble). My only gripe is that it was too "grim-and-gritty" for the character it was based on, but I did like the two leads quite a bit. John Wesley Shipp was believeable in and out of the suit. Amanda Pays could just sit on a stool in her little lab coat and read the phone book in her English accent, and that'd be OK by me =8^). The show itself managed to be fun without making fun of itself, which is a pretty tough balance to achieve in a lot of live-action superhero stuff.

I'm not a fan of recent live-action superhero stuff in general. I really, really hated the 1980's _Batman_ and almost everything since then, with the only major exceptions being _Lois & Clark_, _Dick Tracy_, _The Flash_, and _X-Men_.

-- Ed/Ace

[The Mad Hatter]

The reason the music was cool? It was done by Shirley Walker, the maestro behind B:TAS, S:TAS and BB.

[Tim Drake]

She's not workiing on JL is she? Its only Chris Karter right?

[The Mad Hatter]

No one's really sure... I do know that Lolita... er... can't remember her last name is involved too. She was another Batman Beyond music person.

[EarthX]

It was hammered immediately in the ratings since CBS placed it against the Simpsons, right when they were at their biggest. One would think there would be lots of symmetry between the two fan bases that CBS wouldn't want to divide, but I guess they didn't see that.

It might have had a chance if it was shown some other time.

[Green Lantern]

The boots were red though, weren't they?

[Toddman]

Yep, the boots were red.

And the show was not only going up against the Simpsons, but the Cosby Show on NBC, too.

Toddman

[X-human]

I was surprised at how good it actually was. I was going to pick up some tapes simply because of Mark Hamill, but pilot allowed me to look forward to seeing the episodes and not kringing as I press play.

[Calhoun07]

There aren't that many good live action superhero series out there, but Flash was pretty good over all. I hope they get around to re-releasing them on home video since Justice League is doing so good. It would be great to have a season set of this. The only other live action super hero series in memory that was really any good was the Great American Hero, and the Incredible Hulk was ok, too, but I still prefer Flash over those three.