by OL » Fri Jul 29, 2016 10:51 am
Well, you do have to take into account that all of this is on a tv budget, so with that in mind the special effects and action they pull off in the Flash is actually pretty damn impressive. There are much better examples than the one you posted, but the most important thing is that the show actually captures a lot of what the Flash honestly should be. It is fun, it is a little cheesy, and that's exactly dead-on for the character. Even in the comics, just the same as Batman has his own little dark and gritty corner of the DC universe, practically separate from the rest of it, the Flash has always inhabited his own especially silly little corner. So the show really does get a lot of this stuff right.
It is the best of the current shows though. I feel like Arrow has kind of done itself to death, I won't even touch Supergirl, and I still haven't seen enough of Legends of Tomorrow to judge it. And even though it isn't really part of the same universe, yeah, Gotham is pretty terrible.
But the Flash is still really solid and fun, with its silliness being nothing but fitting (and generally intentional, at that). I only hope the movies manage to understand the mythos this well.