Can someone explain to me, perhaps with short words and diagrams, why Barry's Dad is still in prison? Not only does that seem a huge price to pay for Barry's secret, but now they have blood from the crime scene and photographs taken by that 'mirror' to show that other people were there -- alongside increasingly believable reports of people with special powers all around town. Shouldn't they at least try to get him freed on that account?
I do not know. Flat out. What I do theorize, is that they're slowly going to chess-move the 1990's version back together. Barry's dad will be freed, Trickster will be a re-occurring villain, and after they expose and kick out (or imprison) Reverse-Flash, I'm betting Amanda Pays will come on board as their new science guru.
*watches rest of episode Oh. Well, even so. Something of the mannerisms and character seems to have been to have been retained. Perhaps it can be salvaged.
Actually, Barry's dad still being in jail is the most realistic aspect of the show! Go to the site for the "Innocence Project" which works to free wrongly convicted people on death row, and read some of their success stories. You'll find, more often than not, that even when the evidence of someone's innocence is overwhelming, its still almost impossible to get them freed. And once freed, their convictions aren't automatically expunged, and they have to sue for compensation for being locked up for all those years. With Barry's dad having only gotten life, and not a death sentence, there's little pressure to have him freed. Realistically, even if they got a confession from Reverse Flash that he killed Barry's mom, and him showing them high speed footage of committing the murder, they'd not be inclined to release Barry's dad immediately.
I'm fascinated by the development vis-a-vi the Reverse Flash because there's a lot of story left there to tell
I'm guessing that our season finale will be the kick off of "Flashpoint Paradox" cliff-hanger, which when resolved, will both fix and subtly current events in both The Flash and Arrow early next season.
The Atom battlesuit is incredibly lame. If they were going to use the battlesuit hero, they could have gone lots of different directions. On the plus side, the nanobots that 'shrunk' Ray's tumor are a really interesting concept that could account for the traditional atom's powers. I'm hoping the battlesuit ultimately fails, but Ray figures out how to use the nanobots, and we get the Ivy Town Atom from DC's Golden Age.
Anyhoo, "The Atom", is kinda lazy for a show with a bunch of other heroes on it. That'd be like calling "Heroes", just "Hiro". Hope it's not the final title.
I love the use of the phrase "through experimentation" in that quote. That explains it! I also love Ray Palmer.
Though his old ability to travel through phone lines isn't very useful any more - what, the guy doesn't have a land line? D'oh!
Hmmm... seemed the changed that so he can ride photons across fiber optic lines now. Very ingenious. You'd think if he could shrink to subatomic levels then he could do all sorts of cool stuff - including ionizing atoms to induce electrical charges, possibly even synthesizing new elements. Hard to incorporate those in a show, but cool none the less.
Which means he can never be sure whom he's calling and what he's calling about at the same time. Clearly, Atom works for an outsourced call centre.
I assumed the nano-tech was a precursor to some sort of shrinking going on, no idea who you'd be called the Atom if you don't shrink. I kind of assume the suit will be refined to be less clunky and less "battle suit" in time, probably with some help from Sisco
Might as well crib some abilities from Air Wave, as I really doubt he'll ever see even animation, let alone live action.
Is it wrong that I feel like I'm the only one who noticed that Mayor Bellows is the actor (Vito D'Ambrosio) who played officer Bellows on the 1990 Flash? Can Bif Maynard and Tim Thomerson be far behind?
Having seen last night's episode of The Flash, I think they've made their first serious misstep. The Atom is not Iron Man. But the character is basically being portrayed as a copy of the Tony Stark/Iron Man character in the Marvel movies. Ray Palmer is not supposed to be a billionaire industrialist, he's a freakin' college professor. He doesn't wear a powered armor suit, he can change his size and mass. Ugh.
I think they finally hinted towards the shrinking when he held up the robot bee in the test tube he's going to study, and said something about "going smaller".
New episode of Gothham out this week. Unfortunately, I drifted in and out of sleep in the last 20 minutes, so I think I missed some kind of big reveal. Sigh.
