Adventures in Central City

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving last Thursday! We had fun talking geek at our dinner table, but unfortunately the audio recording I made to post did not actually record. I have to say, that broke my heart just a little. We'll be commenting later on bits of that conversation though...it was too good not to use.

I was watching Arrow last evening, and I admittedly got pretty excited at the introduction of Barry Allen. He hasn’t been transformed into the Flash yet, but I hear that’s next week. My first question was, does this mean we’ll get a new Flash spin off? My sources say that we should see something for the 2014-2015 season.

I’m not a big DC girl, but I do love the Flash. I have awesome memories of watching the television show from 1990. There’s something about hearing that title theme by Danny Elfman, and I’m transported back to my youth. I thought the show was freaking great at the time, but I guess my tastes weren’t refined enough to know the difference way back then. Now I can see all the issues it had, but oddly enough, I think that's part of what makes it great. There was a lot of cheese and things were overacted, but they were fun.

Some of the wonderfully notable moments:

We get to see John Wesley Shipp in short shorts before he becomes "Dawson's dad"
Star Lab's Test Track font looks an awful lot like STNG
Barry tells Tina that she has been reading too many comic books
Seeing Barry as he's just feeling out his powers-things like super fast marathon cleaning
The awesome late 80's/early 90's clothes
Seeing beepers and enormous computers with "ancient" software
The Dick Tracy meets 1990 vibe
Mark Hamill as the Trickster and Corinne Bohrer as Prank
David Cassidy as the Mirror Master
Michael Champion as Captain Cold

Sadly, the show only lasted one season, but it still provides plenty of entertainment. Whether you've never seen it or just haven't seen it in a long time, The Flash is a throwback to be viewed again. I know I'll be working my way through the season! Happy Thursday, everyone!

~Songbird

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