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Rewatch in wake of the new Flash series

posted 10 years ago by Purple_Converse
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I agree with the other posters here- this series really is awesome and has really held up well over the years. I decided to rewatch it once the new flash came out, and was surprised to discover how much I still enjoyed it! Despite the 90s tech and fashion, this show seems to have not dated at all. The cast is awesome, the writing is clever and I really wish it had more seasons.
One a side note, I was surprised to see Barry using the internet in 1990. I was too young back then, but the earliest I remember getting on the internet was maybe 93/94. Does anyone else remember of the internet was commercially available in 1990?

[–] dalbrech 10 years ago

And of course you know that John Warren Ship and Amanda Pays will have recurring roles in the new Flash...Shipp as Barry Allen's father........and Amanada playing Tina McGee (though no doubt as more motherly version).

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[–] Purple_Converse 10 years ago

Yup! Super excited about that. Here's to hoping they share a scene too!

[–] cljohnston108 10 years ago

And of course you know that John Warren Ship and Amanda Pays...

John Wesley Shipp, you mean.

[–] Robotext 9 years ago

Just watched the new Flash 1st season episode Tricksters and loved seeing Mark Hamill as a Trickster (even with pictures from the original series). Also, in the same episode, Officer Bellows was the Mayor of Central City!

[–] terrencepatrix 10 years ago

Was watching Flash tonight and started poking around and ended up at this board, I watched this show with my dad as a kid.

As for the internet question though, and I only know this because during middle/high school my friends dad was vice-pres of a computer company, but the internet was commercially available during that time. It was just expensive and largely useless to the general public. The speeds were super slow and the "internet" as we know it didn't exist yet, there weren't really websites or search engines or anything like that...but you could email and access documents and newsgroups which was it's purpose at the time. It's main use was networking within a company or with other companies as you needed to directly connect to a server system to access it whereas in modern times there's massive servers to connect all of us 24/7 spread all around the planet.

So an example would be Barry was in crime forensics...so he'd have access to police server databases and science databases where specific information was stored. But he wouldn't be able to access them at the same time. It wasn't until AOL showed up that chatting and instant messaging took off...before that people only conversed in BBS newsgroups.

[–] JBrannon 9 years ago

I just finished rewatching the series on DVD [or, more properly, watching it completely for the first time, as there was this little thing called the Gulf War ongoing when the show first aired as well as audience-killing schedule-hopping per network fiat].

Yes, it definitely rocked, but what can one expect when comix-great writer-artist Howard Chaykin served as story editor. Everything meshed -- jazzy music, mural art, both classic and futuristic vehicles -- with respectful treatment of characters, including minor supporting cast. No tongue-in-cheek treatment which denigrated the source material yet it never took it so seriously that the characters couldn't poke fun at themselves.

As for the Internet, I first used it in 1977 when it was the ARPA/DARPAnet and thereafter both personally and professionally. It hadn't spawned the WorldWideWeb until the summer of 1991.

JJB

[–] wallacesawyer 10 years ago

Have owned the DVD set for maybe a couple years, and only now just finished watching it. A terrific series, with some great actors. Executive producers were Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, the writers of films I like such as TRANCERS, TRANCERS: CITY OF LOST ANGELS, ZONE TROOPERS, ARENA, and ELIMINATORS. All feel very comic bookish. Tim Thomerson and Biff Manard from TRANCERS and ZONE TROOPERS both appeared on the show. Didn't know that before.

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[–] alucardvenom 9 years ago

Executive producers were Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, the writers of films I like such as TRANCERS, TRANCERS: CITY OF LOST ANGELS, ZONE TROOPERS, ARENA, and ELIMINATORS. All feel very comic bookish.

I use to watch Trancers and Eliminators on VHS all the time when I was a kid. Eliminators does feel comic-bookish. I actually got this on DVD, it was one of those "2in1" split DVDs, it had few other gems (it was kinda boxset, few DVDs which had those "2in1" older movies), but I still haven't managed to see it. One of those also has "Project Metalbeast" another (from VHS days) comic-book like SF\horror about artificially enchanted superweapon werewolves. Pure gold. :)

[–] Slideman67 10 years ago

I'm watching it again now and it still holds up well even if it is a bit dated - i.e no internet or cell phones.

[–] atg_commish 10 years ago

ARPANET had been around for a long time by 1990. The Internet Society was founded in 1992. The Commercial Internet Exchange (CiX) was founded in 1991. According to Wikipedia, the first commercial dial-up Internet Service Provider (ISP), The World, went online in 1989.

[–] kingjn 10 years ago

Been using it since it was available to us.
Played games on the BBS as a child in the 80s..

[–] samm2000 9 years ago

Is DR wells not in the old one, im talking about the character

It's just a film!! Chilllllllllll

[–] Educator07 9 years ago

No.

Iris West-Allen. Get over it, haters!

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