zannej August 8, 2016 Share August 8, 2016 The icy mother reminds me of an episode of the old Flash where they had Dr. McGee's mother show up and it turned out she was rather icy and had trouble showing affection/approval, so the relationship was strained. Link to comment
Trini August 9, 2016 Share August 9, 2016 DC All Access video with the Flash cast and EPs at Comic Con; nothing new if you have been keeping up with CC interviews, but if not, *spoilers* : Link to comment
Trini August 9, 2016 Share August 9, 2016 Hee! Apparently the Supernatural boys made a set visit: 4 Link to comment
zannej August 10, 2016 Share August 10, 2016 I've never watched Supernatural, but people seem to be crazy about it. Cast members seem to have a good sense of humor. 1 Link to comment
mtlchick August 11, 2016 Share August 11, 2016 The Flash/Supergirl Musical Crossover is a go! http://tvline.com/2016/08/11/supergirl-the-flash-musical-episode-two-parter/ 4 Link to comment
Trini August 11, 2016 Share August 11, 2016 YOU GUYS, 'The Flash and Supergirl Teaming Up for Musical Two-Parter' 1 Link to comment
Artsda August 11, 2016 Share August 11, 2016 Musical? I guess they're using those "Glee" skills. They should bring back Melissa Benoist's husband for that episode too. 3 Link to comment
NorthstarATL August 11, 2016 Share August 11, 2016 All I want is a superspeed dance off, and for at least one of the episodes to be called "Flashdance"! 3 Link to comment
Trini August 11, 2016 Share August 11, 2016 It'd be the perfect time to bring back Andy Mientus, AKA, Pied Piper! Link to comment
zannej August 12, 2016 Share August 12, 2016 Flashdance! I love it! Btw, I would love to see Carlos and Tom (Cavanagh) sing together in the musical episode. Especially after this gem: Link to comment
MarkHB August 12, 2016 Share August 12, 2016 19 hours ago, Trini said: It'd be the perfect time to bring back Andy Mientus, AKA, Pied Piper! I've also seen suggestions that Neil Patrick Harris should reprise his Music Meister role from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. (Plus, I believe Pied Piper was reformed last season.) 1 Link to comment
Kromm August 13, 2016 Share August 13, 2016 He hadn't been mentioned in that context, but I had zero doubt Cavanagh could sing. Once again I urge every single person on the planet to sit down and listen to his podcast with Michael Ian Black, by the way. Has nothing to do with singing, or anything we've been overtly been discussing here, but man is it 100 episodes (so far) of some of the funniest stuff you will ever hear. 1 Link to comment
zannej August 13, 2016 Share August 13, 2016 That would take me forever to load. LOL. I'll have to find a way to download the podcasts during my "free" bandwidth period. I think I have one or two downloaded already. I really wish there had been a video of the guacamole episode. I hope there will be more behind-the-scenes things and maybe an update to the chronicles of cisco soon. Link to comment
Kromm August 13, 2016 Share August 13, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, zannej said: That would take me forever to load. LOL. I'll have to find a way to download the podcasts during my "free" bandwidth period. I think I have one or two downloaded already. I really wish there had been a video of the guacamole episode. Soundcloud is probably not the best source to actually download them vs. streaming them. Try here instead: http://mates.libsyn.com/ (each episode has a "direct download" option below the streaming link there) I'd advise listening from Ep 1, mostly because there are a lot of running jokes (like the whole ongoing bit where they endlessly argue over whether they can call podcast listeners "viewers", and the other bit that went on literally for years where Michael would intentionally mess up introducing Tom). Oh. It's not a video of the Guac episode, but Tom talks about it here, on The Talk: Edited August 13, 2016 by Kromm 1 Link to comment
zannej August 14, 2016 Share August 14, 2016 9 hours ago, Kromm said: Soundcloud is probably not the best source to actually download them vs. streaming them. Try here instead: http://mates.libsyn.com/ (each episode has a "direct download" option below the streaming link there) I'd advise listening from Ep 1, mostly because there are a lot of running jokes (like the whole ongoing bit where they endlessly argue over whether they can call podcast listeners "viewers", and the other bit that went on literally for years where Michael would intentionally mess up introducing Tom). Oh. It's not a video of the Guac episode, but Tom talks about it here, on The Talk: Thanks! The Talk episode was actually where I first heard about the guacamole episode and someone was kind enough to tell me which episode it was so I could load it. I only have a few hours of unrestricted bandwidth and then I only have 10Gb per month and just looking at facebook can use 30Mb or more per hour. So, I have to be careful with what I load during regular hours. Tom is very entertaining in his storytelling. Link to comment
Trini August 17, 2016 Share August 17, 2016 Spoilery interview with EP Aaron Helbing about Season 3. Link to comment
Trini August 17, 2016 Share August 17, 2016 And Grant, Danielle, and Carlos did a PSA for STEM careers: Link to comment
ruby24 August 17, 2016 Share August 17, 2016 Okay, that was cringe-y. I really don't think three ACTORS who do not do anything involving stem should be doing a PSA telling people to go into a certain field. 1 Link to comment
Trini August 18, 2016 Share August 18, 2016 Eh...yeah. I guess they picked the Flash cast because it's the most "science-y" show on the network. ---- Grant Gustin interview from TV Guide. (from a few months ago) Two more *spoilery* EP interviews:IGN,E! Online. 1 Link to comment
zannej August 18, 2016 Share August 18, 2016 I find it highly amusing that Eobard is somewhat of a sociopathic villain who was fine with letting people die or killing them if they got in the way yet his influence was what made Cisco a good guy and prompted Cisco to want to help people-- and that if not for his influence, Cisco would not really care about helping. Link to comment
Trini August 19, 2016 Share August 19, 2016 (edited) Another metahuman cast; Interview with Tom Felton - he gives very little away about his character; An article about Candice Patton, with some quotes from her: Making history: Candice Patton of CW Network’s ‘The Flash’ Edited August 19, 2016 by Trini 2 Link to comment
Trini August 24, 2016 Share August 24, 2016 Jesse L. Martin a nominee in EW's "Poppy Awards". Go vote! Link to comment
Trini August 28, 2016 Share August 28, 2016 Candice reunited with Teddy, Rick, and Robbie at the Heroes & Villains Fan Fest: Aw! Comparison of other musical episodes: 'What 'The Flash' and 'Supergirl' Can Learn From TV's Unlikely Musical Episodes': Quote The bottom line: If The Flash and Supergirl make the premise of why the comic book characters are breaking out into song and dance believable, if they only give songs to actors who can actually sing, have legitimate stakes and reasons for the songs while staying true to each of the shows' core DNA and propel the plot forward, then viewers are in for a great two episode musical crossover. But bringing in Joss Whedon couldn't hurt. But there were a bunch of other musical episodes they didn't mention; I wished they had talked about the ones from Fringe, Daria, and Xena. 1 Link to comment
Trini August 28, 2016 Share August 28, 2016 I don't think there's any actual new info, but an interview with Tom Felton about his Flash character. 1 Link to comment
Trini August 28, 2016 Share August 28, 2016 Violett Beane interview (video) from Comic Con. 1 Link to comment
Trini September 5, 2016 Share September 5, 2016 Candice, Danielle and Victor Garber get quizzed on DC comics trivia; they're all adorable in this! 2 Link to comment
Trini September 6, 2016 Share September 6, 2016 (edited) On his AMC show, Geeking Out, Kevin Smith shared some BTS video and inteviews with Grant and Candice from when he directed episode 2.21. Someone uploaded just the part about The Flash here on youtube. (The producers should get Kevin to direct more episodes -- if only for the free press! :-) ) Edited September 6, 2016 by Trini 4 Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule September 6, 2016 Share September 6, 2016 14 minutes ago, Trini said: On his AMC show, Geeking Out, Kevin Smith shared some BTS video and inteviews with Grant and Candice from when he directed episode 2.21. Someone uploaded just the part about The Flash here on youtube. That was HILARIOUS! Who knew Kevin Smith could string more than five words together? And I got a wee bit verklempt when I saw that Grant was wearing a Supes T-Shirt: of Christopher Reeves' SUPERMAN! *sniff* 2 Link to comment
MaggieG September 6, 2016 Share September 6, 2016 My apologies if this is the wrong thread but.... I met Carlos Valdes at Dragon Con in Atlanta this past weekend! He was super nice and I got a pic with him. He was doing an autograph session in one of the halls, there were a bunch of others in the same room signing autographs and taking pics. Violett Beane was sitting at the table next to him, next to her was Teddy Sears. On the other side was Ciara Renee and Caity Lotz (though at the time I was there, Caity wasn't actually sitting there, she may have gone on a break) Arthur Darville was at another booth. I was pretty much geeking out like crazy. 6 Link to comment
Trini September 6, 2016 Share September 6, 2016 Carlos Valdes interview; some mild, and non-specific *spoilers*: Quote “This is the biggest year for crossovers that there ever has been.” Carlos noted when asked about The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl crossing over. “There is a LOT of stuff planned. It’s going to be a busy year.” 1 Link to comment
Trini September 7, 2016 Share September 7, 2016 New promo with a few more new clips: 2 Link to comment
Trini September 7, 2016 Share September 7, 2016 That gag reel is funny, but poor Teddy Sears! They really did haze him. And LOL at Grant pointing out Barry's poor decisions. ---- In other news, a new interview with Greg Berlanti. Flash related bits: Quote Is that part of what makes superhero stories unique? They’re aspirational stories that are a fusion of different elements. But in a particular moment they can be anything. Some days on The Flash, we’re making a family show, and there are other days where we’re making a crime show. Then, in the next hour, the whole cast might have to turn around and do a huge visual-effects sequence, and then in the next hour, they’ll have to turn around and do something comedic. At the same time, they’re really grounded in basic truths of, Can you overcome? What does it take? Quote What comic books did you read growing up? I read some Marvel, but I was more of a DC guy. Particularly the Flash, Barry Allen. I latched on to him because I felt like him. You thought to yourself, Well, you can’t really be Superman. You couldn’t really be Batman — Batman was a really dark figure. I identified with Barry Allen’s hopefulness. Quote Your first superhero property is one most people have forgotten, No Ordinary Family on ABC. You’ve called it a learning experience. The lesson was not to change the DNA of what you promise to the audience, even if the network goes, “We don’t want that.” [ABC] didn’t want superpowered villains. They wanted Bewitched with powers, if you can imagine. And I wanted to make a superhero show! Another lesson was: Visual effects in a superhero show on a TV budget executed on TV production time was not a threshold we were ready to cross. We just didn’t have the science. It wasn’t until Flash that enough advancements in technology for TV had happened. Not that we are at a cinematic level, necessarily, but with Flash, his powers are a big part of why you enjoy him. Twenty-five percent of the show is animated. Sometimes it takes from that moment we start writing the story to two days before it airs to complete a given visual-effects sequence. I didn’t know how to do that when we were doing No Ordinary Family. Quote To what extent are the comics R&D for the TV and movie properties? Does DC Comics president Geoff Johns come to you and say, “Hey, here’s something we tried out in a comic. Let’s try it here”? Sometimes, or he has other executives mention that to us. They said to us a year and a half before they started developing Suicide Squad, “Will you guys put [a version of] the Suicide Squad in your show? Because we want to have it as a film at some point.” It also happened with Geoff when Geoff and Andrew [Kreisberg] and I were creating Flash. They were both really huge fans of Cisco Ramon, [also known as] Vibe, and had written a Vibe comic [in 2013] to try and bring him back. They said, “Could we please have Vibe on the show?” Quote Do you pay much attention to what Marvel’s doing? We talk about how they show a superpower. For instance, we were in the middle of postproduction on Flash when Bryan Singer did that sequence with Quicksilver. We were talking about that in terms of our version of Flash. 1 Link to comment
Trini September 9, 2016 Share September 9, 2016 From the EW Fall Preview issue: 'Everything you need to know about Flashpoint' *spoilers* -- but nothing that hasn't been mentioned elsewhere already. Link to comment
Trini September 9, 2016 Share September 9, 2016 Short video of the cast photo shoot at Comic Con: 1) It's Season 3, how about some updated cast photos, CW? Please? 2) I like all the guys in the cast, but this show needs more women. Tina McGee as a regular -- make it happen show! 2 Link to comment
Trini September 11, 2016 Share September 11, 2016 New interview with Berlanti -- talks about the crossovers, as well as his other non-superhero shows. Quote How far along is the “Supergirl”/”The Flash” musical crossover? We just finished writing the fall crossovers. And now we’re trying to figure out how to produce them. That’s probably the most challenging thing we do all year. And now we’re doing it across three shows! But next week we’ll have to start talking about clearing music. I have a few ideas for tone and style in my head but we’re just starting to talk about what that can be. I do want to try and get an original piece of music written. As we make a deal on that we’ll probably make some announcements on the original songs. 1 Link to comment
Trini September 20, 2016 Share September 20, 2016 New poster: Is it supposed to be that red...? Link to comment
GHScorpiosRule September 20, 2016 Share September 20, 2016 20 minutes ago, Trini said: New poster: Is it supposed to be that red...? Take away that wee smile, and he totally looks like the Flash from the straight to home dvd of {i]Flash: Paradox[/i]. Link to comment
Trini September 21, 2016 Share September 21, 2016 At EW PopFest, a sponsored festival, Grant and Berlanti will part of a panel: Quote SAT. OCT. 29 Watch out, villains, metahumans, and time-traveling bad guys! Heroes collide in this epic panel of DC Comics' stars, featuring Stephen Amell (Arrow), Grant Gustin (The Flash), Melissa Benoist (Supergirl), and Caity Lotz (Legends of Tomorrow), along with their four series’ mastermind, uber producer Greg Berlanti. The fivesome will join forces at PopFest to talk superhero TV and answer fan questions in a special Q&A. An interview with producers the Helbings at FlashTVNews; (some *spoilers* for the premiere) A few non-spoilery excerpts: Quote ... [Flashpoint] is also a way to tell stories about people that, while their appearance may be slightly different, at the core, it’s hard to completely strip what is true to that person away. I think ultimately, whatever differences there are, you’ll find that there are as many similarities. ... When we broke Season 2, we always knew the end point was Flashpoint. ... Will Barry’s costume get any more upgrades this year? TH: If Grant has anything to say about it, yes. AH: That’s not the plan at the moment. TH: We’ll see. I think there’s a natural evolution. AH: Just like the Flash universe, anything is possible. ... We always try to challenge ourselves, and a musical is no different. ... Was there anything that worked so well in Season 2 that it made you change your plans for Season 3? I guess the one thing I would say is that with Zoom, it got really dark in the last 5, 6 episodes; and I think maybe it went a little bit too dark, so I think this year we want to make it more tonally similar to Season 1. Link to comment
Trini September 22, 2016 Share September 22, 2016 Someone on another forum pointed out that maybe the promo dept. was trying to emulate this Alex Ross portrait: Yes, this has a lot of red too, but it doesn't overpower. They should have kept more of the yellow, and had more shades and tones of red. 1 Link to comment
scarynikki12 September 24, 2016 Share September 24, 2016 It's official: the Media thread will remain a spoiler friendly zone. If you want to talk Media but not spoilers, head over to Unspoiled Speculation. If you only want to talk spoilers, keep it to the Spoiler thread. Otherwise, Media+Spoilers is good to go for discussion. 1 Link to comment
legaleagle53 September 25, 2016 Share September 25, 2016 On 9/20/2016 at 6:16 PM, phoenics said: That is blindingly red. Well, he is called the Scarlet Speedster for a reason. 2 Link to comment
hello September 25, 2016 Share September 25, 2016 On 9/20/2016 at 9:16 PM, phoenics said: That is blindingly red. And I LOVE it! So very sick of super-heroes wearing black faux-minatrix leather outfits (cough XMEN cough) or shit-dinge versions of their original vibrantly-colored costumes. It's time to have FUN with comic book characters again, long overdue in fact. If Flash is fighting talking sharks and telepathic apes, why even bother trying to make it look serious emo-gritty? 2 Link to comment
Trini September 25, 2016 Share September 25, 2016 Mildly *spoilery* interview with Candice about Iris' role in a Flashpoint and Season 3: http://tvline.com/2016/09/24/the-flash-spoilers-season-3-candice-patton-iris/ 2 Link to comment
Trini September 25, 2016 Share September 25, 2016 Early reviews of the premiere; somewhat *spoilery*: Five Things You Want To Know About The Flash's Season 3 Premiere, The Flash Season 3 Sprints Out of the Gate Quote It's not a perfect episode, but it certainly addresses a concern that plagued some of last season: a monolithic fixation with a single big bad and plodding pacing meant to keep that story moving along. In the season premiere, there are three speedsters, but it's really the story that you're running to keep up with. ... As was often the case in the second season of The Flash, it's the fantastic cast that elevates the material, delivering an eminently watchable show. There's a lot going on in the plot of the premiere -- necessary, as you might expect, to set up the whole of the Flashpoint timeline, Wally as Kid Flash, and the mystery of The Rival -- but ultimately the thing that feels the most urgent is the relationship between Barry and Iris. ... 4 Link to comment
Trini September 25, 2016 Share September 25, 2016 The Flash is #3 on Comic Book.com's Comic Book TV Show Fall 2016 Power Rankings: Week 1: Quote So how do we decide where shows wind up on the list? We take into account fan buzz, ratings, and critical response, as well as feedback from our readers. Link to comment
quarks September 25, 2016 Share September 25, 2016 (checks list) The main thing that jumps out at me there is that by the numbers they have below the pictures, Flash should be #2, or at the very least ahead of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., even if Agents returned this week and Flash didn't. Flash has a higher comic book composite and user rating. 1 Link to comment
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