Review: The Flash – Fallout

In just its debut season, The Flash has managed to not only build its characters into fully realized ideas, but has done so with amazing storytelling, fun, and classic comic book leaps of logic that leave us yearning for more.

“Fallout” picked up literally right where last week’s “The Nuclear Man” left off, with Barry (holding Caitlin) running from a nuclear explosion, and my God, did that look pretty. And looking back, when the Flash running from a mushroom cloud isn’t the highlight of your episode, you know we’re in for a ride.

Review – The Flash: The Sound and the Fury

The fun thing about watching The Flash is that whenever they introduce a new rogue, I know pretty much nothing about them. Unlike the rogues galleries of, say, Superman or Batman, I’m aware of some of the names of Flash’s villains, but aside from that, who they are, their motivations, I don’t know anything aside from the Rogues’ code they have in the comics (no drugs, no killing women and children).

And that’s what makes each new episode of this series different from Smallville or even some episodes of Arrow. I don’t take any knowledge into the episode, so I just get to judge whether or not the rogue works. While some have been pretty “meh,” like Multiplex or that gas-cloud guy, others, like Captain Cold and even Girder in his final moments, have shown that they can be fun, interesting characters to watch. Thankfully, Pied Piper falls into the latter category.