The Flash The Flash General Discussion and Speculation Thread - Part 2

[luis4u]

The CW originally planned to have The Flash on Mondays at 8

The CW was originally planning on putting "The Flash" on Monday nights at 8 p.m. to start the programming week, but switched to Tuesdays to avoid competition with Fox's "Gotham."
Warner Bros. Television produces both "Flash" and "Gotham" and didn't want the comic franchises to cannibalize each other's audience. Warner Bros. owns 50% of the CW network, with CBS Corp. owning the other half.

 

[luis4u]

'The Flash' Adjusted Up;

 

[luis4u]

1.9 6 4.79

 

[Bathead]

So, one question, if anyone knows and it's not too "spoiler-y", Is Wells supposed to be a good guy or a bad guy?

 

[BatmanVSuperman]

LOL the CW ratings are so tiny compared to other networks. That's why SV was able to squeak out 10 seasons

 

[luis4u]

LOL the CW ratings are so tiny compared to other networks. That's why SV was able to squeak out 10 seasons

Cw milk the shows dry vampire diaries. 112 episodes
Supernatural. 196 episodes
90210. 114 episodes
and many more..

 

[luis4u]

 

[marvelrobbins]

Smallville did better than most their shows even when they sent them to die on friday.

Even with adjustments the flash still beat AOS.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Really liked the pilot. Very well done IMO. Glad to see they are keeping the fast pace that Arrow has. Will be tuning in every week for this one.

 

[roach]

Season 3 of Arrow begins Oct. 8 on The CW. For its first two seasons, it has been the network’s most-watched show, averaging 3.8 million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + 7 ratings. On Tuesday night, relying on Arrow’s strength and presumed audience desire, The CW launched a spinoff, The Flash, also based on a DC Comics property. The Flash, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, was born out of an Arrow Season 2 arc; the two shows are set in different cities, but exist in the same universe, and will cross over. The premiere did incredibly well, drawing 4.5 million viewers. Even at this early stage, executives at DC, The CW, and Warner Bros. (the studio that produces the show), are eyeing a third character who could possibly lead another show. “There are discussions going on,” said Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, in a recent telephone interview, “but I can’t tell you what they are.”

I am thinking with Arrow being their Batman and Flash being their Superman they'll need a Wonder Woman....I am thinking Zatana...female and she will be going after magic threats which will keep her away from Arrow's gritty crime and Flash's super humans.

 

[SV Fan]

Season 3 of Arrow begins Oct. 8 on The CW. For its first two seasons, it has been the network’s most-watched show, averaging 3.8 million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + 7 ratings. On Tuesday night, relying on Arrow’s strength and presumed audience desire, The CW launched a spinoff, The Flash, also based on a DC Comics property. The Flash, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, was born out of an Arrow Season 2 arc; the two shows are set in different cities, but exist in the same universe, and will cross over. The premiere did incredibly well, drawing 4.5 million viewers. Even at this early stage, executives at DC, The CW, and Warner Bros. (the studio that produces the show), are eyeing a third character who could possibly lead another show. “There are discussions going on,” said Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, in a recent telephone interview, “but I can’t tell you what they are.”

I am thinking with Arrow being their Batman and Flash being their Superman they'll need a Wonder Woman....I am thinking Zatana...female and she will be going after magic threats which will keep her away from Arrow's gritty crime and Flash's super humans.

Isn't Firestorm going to appear on Flash sometime this season?

 

[roach]

Isn't Firestorm going to appear on Flash sometime this season?

yeah but doing a show about Firestorm would just be another Flash show

 

[Mikelus]

yeah but doing a show about Firestorm would just be another Flash show

Plus Firestorm doesn't have good villains and could be even more expensive with all his powers. Blue Beetle would be a good option, Geoff wanted to do a series a few years back:

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[luis4u]

Plus Firestorm doesn't have good villains and could be even more expensive with all his powers. Blue Beetle would be a good option, Geoff wanted to do a series a few years back:

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Jamie is expensive too. or maybe a legacy show season 1 start with dan garret

season 2 ted

and season 3 jamie

 

[Charlatan]

well they're shopping Supergirl around. Maybe she's the 3rd DC hero they're talking about?

 

[DigificWriter]

^ Supergirl has already found a home on CBS.

 

[king666]

Season 3 of Arrow begins Oct. 8 on The CW. For its first two seasons, it has been the network’s most-watched show, averaging 3.8 million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + 7 ratings. On Tuesday night, relying on Arrow’s strength and presumed audience desire, The CW launched a spinoff, The Flash, also based on a DC Comics property. The Flash, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, was born out of an Arrow Season 2 arc; the two shows are set in different cities, but exist in the same universe, and will cross over. The premiere did incredibly well, drawing 4.5 million viewers. Even at this early stage, executives at DC, The CW, and Warner Bros. (the studio that produces the show), are eyeing a third character who could possibly lead another show. “There are discussions going on,” said Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, in a recent telephone interview, “but I can’t tell you what they are.”

I am thinking with Arrow being their Batman and Flash being their Superman they'll need a Wonder Woman....I am thinking Zatana...female and she will be going after magic threats which will keep her away from Arrow's gritty crime and Flash's super humans.

Mark Hughes teased a Green Lantern TV series in his review of The Flash:

As the studio builds a rapidly-expanding shared universe of heroes and a few separate movie franchises for characters such as Sandman and Shazam, their broadcast programming is likewise growing with the expanded superhero world of Green Arrow and the Flash (perhaps soon to include Green Lantern, too).

EDIT: Or maybe he was teasing a Green Lantern cameo, idk

 

[luis4u]

 

[Herolee10]

Well, thanks to tonight's season 3 premiere of Arrow, we now know what was going on for Oliver's life when he and Barry met each other again in Starling City.

 

[Cain]

Plus Firestorm doesn't have good villains

And yet one of them was good enough to be used in her pre villain civilian identity as one of Barry's allies. While another was good enough to be the villain of the series' second episode. Funny how that works.

 

[dhandler01]

Season 3 of Arrow begins Oct. 8 on The CW. For its first two seasons, it has been the network’s most-watched show, averaging 3.8 million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + 7 ratings. On Tuesday night, relying on Arrow’s strength and presumed audience desire, The CW launched a spinoff, The Flash, also based on a DC Comics property. The Flash, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, was born out of an Arrow Season 2 arc; the two shows are set in different cities, but exist in the same universe, and will cross over. The premiere did incredibly well, drawing 4.5 million viewers. Even at this early stage, executives at DC, The CW, and Warner Bros. (the studio that produces the show), are eyeing a third character who could possibly lead another show. “There are discussions going on,” said Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, in a recent telephone interview, “but I can’t tell you what they are.”

I am thinking with Arrow being their Batman and Flash being their Superman they'll need a Wonder Woman....I am thinking Zatana...female and she will be going after magic threats which will keep her away from Arrow's gritty crime and Flash's super humans.

A show based on magic could be a lot of fun. That would make a badass "Trinity" for TV and would be completely different from the other superhero shows out there.

Although a Green Lantern show would be soooooooooo awesome...and expensive but man think of the fun you could have

 

[DrCosmic]

And yet one of them was good enough to be used in her pre villain civilian identity as one of Barry's allies. While another was good enough to be the villain of the series' second episode. Funny how that works.

Perhaps a better statement would be that Firestorm doesn't have *great* villains. Those two characters for instance would have made really weak big bads.

Season 3 of Arrow begins Oct. 8 on The CW. For its first two seasons, it has been the network’s most-watched show, averaging 3.8 million viewers in Nielsen’s Live + 7 ratings. On Tuesday night, relying on Arrow’s strength and presumed audience desire, The CW launched a spinoff, The Flash, also based on a DC Comics property. The Flash, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, was born out of an Arrow Season 2 arc; the two shows are set in different cities, but exist in the same universe, and will cross over. The premiere did incredibly well, drawing 4.5 million viewers. Even at this early stage, executives at DC, The CW, and Warner Bros. (the studio that produces the show), are eyeing a third character who could possibly lead another show. “There are discussions going on,” said Mark Pedowitz, the president of The CW, in a recent telephone interview, “but I can’t tell you what they are.”

I am thinking with Arrow being their Batman and Flash being their Superman they'll need a Wonder Woman....I am thinking Zatana...female and she will be going after magic threats which will keep her away from Arrow's gritty crime and Flash's super humans.

Would love that. One thing I wonder about is that Zatanna could tread the same path as NBC's Constantine, even down to a lot of the same DC easter eggs.

 

[Asr]

The CW originally planned to have The Flash on Mondays at 8

The CW was originally planning on putting "The Flash" on Monday nights at 8 p.m. to start the programming week, but switched to Tuesdays to avoid competition with Fox's "Gotham."
Warner Bros. Television produces both "Flash" and "Gotham" and didn't want the comic franchises to cannibalize each other's audience. Warner Bros. owns 50% of the CW network, with CBS Corp. owning the other half.

Not sure if it was the same for everyone else but The Flash ended up airing at the same time as Agents of Shield for me. Wanted to watch AoS but I ended up seeing The Flash, would be nice if one of the shows moved to another time so I can watch both.

 

[DigificWriter]

All this talk about a potential third series doesn't necessarily mean that The CW is going to develop said project in-house; with Supergirl already coming from Berlanti, and with The CW being the sister network to CBS, there's a chance that Supergirl could end up being set in the Arrow/Flash-verse and aired on/produced by both CBS and The CW, which would very much fit with the whole 'third series' thing.

 

[Herolee10]

I'll believe it when I see it confirmed by the CW Network that it's ordered a few episodes for it.

After the whole "Mercy Reef" (Aquaman) debacle that the original Smallville producers had tried to get off the ground, only to never be picked up after having filmed a pilot for it...I'm always cautious about these things.lol