Current Events > Did the flash show turn into power rangers? What's with all the colors. Spoilers

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The show's problem is constantly bringing in new speedsters as heroes and villains.

The show's problem is constantly bringing in new speedsters as heroes and villains.

This is what killed it for me. Every new seasons villain being a speedster got old quick

the problem is non speeders shouldnt really be viable villains.

The thinker was cool though

Basically became rogue and his big master plan was to have 12 power sets to beat barry. I forgot whatever the fuck he was trying t to do with the satellite.

Dont worry, s9 is even worse.

Different energy trails for different speedsters isn't a new thing. The show's problem is constantly bringing in new speedsters as heroes and villains.

As for the video itself, the answer is budget. First season Flash you had 2 Arrowverse shows running, as they began to greenlit more and more shows the budgets got smaller and smaller.

And are they all JD's older brother in Scrubs?

the problem is non speeders shouldnt really be viable villains.

The thinker was cool though

At least Savitar had a reason to bide his time. He needed a certain event to happen in order to be born. The other villains took 20 episodes to do something that should have happened in 2 or 3 episodes.

I think he was trying to reduce everyone's intelligence and make them obedient to him. He thought the best way to solve the world's problems was to take away people's ability to think and make them subservient to him. Since he was so damn brilliant.

The lightning bolts are the worst thing about modern Flash.

And there is a lot wrong with modern Flash so that's saying something.

That basically every fight for like the last 3-4 seasons has become just characters shooting lightning at each other. Like punching, kicking, and the like basically doesn't happen. Just various colored lightning blast.

This is the problem with writing speedsters in a traditional action setting. Particularly in live action. How are you supposed to show Quicksilver-style scenes of how cool and invincible super speed is, and then still create credible threats for the speedster? Pretty much the only option to make combat work is more speedsters. Which means the hero's speedster powers are void.

Comparing the current state of the Flash to Power Rangers is an insult at this point

Captain Cold can make the floor slippery, Mirror Master can use mirror trickery to throw Flash off

I think Flash has a villain named Vertigo who can literally make him dizzy, which would throw off his movement

Plus, S1 always brought up how Barry needs to eat A LOT due to his high metabolism so maybe a more strategic sort of villain could take advantage of that.

Yeah but an insult to whom

Sure, but incapacitating the hero is not a functional challenge of their powers. It neutralizes them similar to how matching them against a speedster neutralizes them. That's the thing with Speedsters, writers always come back to "Oh wait they can't actually use super speed or they nuke."

Plus, S1 always brought up how Barry needs to eat A LOT due to his high metabolism so maybe a more strategic sort of villain could take advantage of that.

That's kinda how speedsters need to work.

You can pretty much pinpoint the moment The Flash died as a show as when Cisco gave his powers up

This is the problem with writing speedsters in a traditional action setting. Particularly in live action. How are you supposed to show Quicksilver-style scenes of how cool and invincible super speed is, and then still create credible threats for the speedster? Pretty much the only option to make combat work is more speedsters. Which means the hero's speedster powers are void.

JoJo gave a villain speedster powers and portrayed it as an apocalyptic end of the world ability. And that's how it really is. Superspeed done cool beats almost any other power.

Just paint a tunnel on a rock wall boom speedster is done for.

Alternatively, you can start hearing the death knell when fuckin' everybody started sprouting superpowers.

They chickened out with Caitlyn didn't they? Isn't Killer Frost one of his big villains? In the show she was a split personality who ended up helping out anyway when I watched lol

This is the problem with writing speedsters in a traditional action setting. Particularly in live action. How are you supposed to show Quicksilver-style scenes of how cool and invincible super speed is, and then still create credible threats for the speedster? Pretty much the only option to make combat work is more speedsters. Which means the hero's speedster powers are void.

3. Being tied to the CWverse and being forced to use Batwoman instead of Batman and similar examples

Fuck the Speed Force.

Red Death should have been Oliver.