The Flash: 7 Things That Season 1 Has Done Right (And 3 It Hasn't)

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3. Too Super Too Soon

In the pilot, Barry Allen ran so fast around a tornado that it unraveled. Over the next two months, he would best an army of clones, save a train full of innocent passengers, race up the side of a skyscraper to rescue a window washer, run across water to dispose of a bomb, and save a handful of Central City's finest from untimely death via shotgun. Singlehandedly. By the seat of his pants. With a swelling score to make sure that we understand just how heroic he is. Huzzah. It's not that his feats aren't entertaining. Of course they are. The stunts and effects teams have worked to create some fantastic sequences that can rival those in big budget films. The problem is that The Flash is churning through material at a ridiculous pace that threatens to leave the hero without any new ground to break sooner rather than later. The Flash is essentially a guy with a good heart who can run really fast, and the show needs to space out the milestones more than it has so far. Running across water and racing up the side of a building are genuinely great stunts; they did not need to both happen in a standard Villain Of The Week episode. There are still fourteen installments left in the first season, and The Flash is almost certainly going to be renewed for a second. If the show wants us to continue to "Ooh!" and "Aah!" at the screen, it needs to ease up on the scale of the weekly spectacle. If everything is super, nothing is.