Mark Bunting
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Lyla and Diggle have exactly the same apartment as Patty Spivot on The Flash, complete with the same piece of artwork on the wall in the same spot.
William’s Flash backpack. Still a great visual joke…
…the new, improved (and essentially lifted from The Flash) lightness of tone…
…similar to the tone in sister show The Flash…
…just by using The Flash’s Barry messing with the timeline as an excuse…
…at least compared to the equivalent episode of The Flash Season 4 (Episode 10 – The Trial of The Flash)…
…seeing Green Arrow, Black Canary, Speedy, The Flash, Hawkman and Hawkgirl teaming up against one villain is the closest we’ve come to a live action Justice League since those episodes of Smallville with The Flash and Aquaman.
…in a manner that vaguely recalls the way Smallville began assembling members of the Justice League in Season 6…
Additionally, I find it hard not to compare The Flash to Smallville on almost a weekly basis, and this was basically Barry’s version of red kryptonite.
…has been referenced in a variety of sources since, including Smallville…
That’s the pre-episode set-up for Arrow, the superhero show from The CW (the network behind Smallville), which is about to enter its third season.
David Nutter (Smallville)…
…or the show finds a clever get-out option, like 24, whose 24-hour structure left no room for funeral planning or eulogies and allowed the show to kill off characters more or less every other week, just for LOLs…
Rory makes everyone run out of the hangar (to avoid a nuclear bomb, like that time Jack Bauer avoided a nuclear explosion in 24 by hiding behind a rock)…
That ended badly, with a vial of the virus cracking and hissing on the ground, which reminded us of 24, but since Oliver was right next to it at the time, it presumably turned out to be not quite that deadly after all.
Generally speaking, it is a bad idea, both in life and in TV shows to nuke towns (just ask 24), as it’s too big of an event for things to carry on as normal afterwards.
…even if the A.T.O.M. suit is currently little more than an Iron Man knock-off.
(Actually, that bit is completely stolen from Iron Man, but that doesn’t make it any less cool or effective.)
Personally, we won’t be happy until we see the A.T.O.M suit’s shrinking powers – at the moment, it’s a bit too similar to Iron Man.
…let’s not forget that the same problems were rife in Arrow for the first season…
Arrow is busy teasing people with potential deaths…
Supergirl needs to remember what makes it Supergirl, rather than try to be another Arrow.
Arrow and The Flash have both become defined by their lead group more than their individual heroes.
Supergirl finds herself facing off against a sinister, dark version of Supergirl (called Overgirl), and Oliver from Arrow goes bow-to-bow with Dark Arrow.
…remember it took Berlanti’s Arrow until Season 2 to find its feet and move Felicity Smoak from geeky comic relief to three-dimensional character…
Occasionally, you’ll get an exception – The Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (one of the stand-out episodes of any television show)…
…like the endless stream of Principals at Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s high school…
…so they stage a two-woman rescue mission, going all Die Hard in the STAR Labs ventilation ducts…
The episode also gets great mileage out of having Thea, Donna and Felicity teaming up and sneaking around inside the Palmer Tech building, Die-Hard-style…
…including Arrow Season 3 and The Flash on Sky 1…
The pass also covers other Sky TV shows, including The Flash and The Walking Dead Season 5.
Step forward crime lord Tobias Church (played by The Wire / The Walking Dead’s Chad L. Coleman)…
It has to be said, it’s a pretty spectacular fight sequence, even if you can occasionally see the stunt man, like old episodes of Star Trek.
…since both she and Moira Queen actress Susanna Thompson played Borg characters on Star Trek…
…a very cool overhead shot of his body that’s lifted from the poster for Hitchcock’s Vertigo…
Thea goes on a break with “political operative” Alex that quickly turns into an episode of The Twilight Zone.
…they immediately trigger a load of Indiana Jones-style booby traps…
The first episode (Bang) pulls off a neat trick with pacing that cleverly plays against audience expectations, particularly if you’re a fan of other superhero shows such as Arrow, The Flash or Marvel’s Agent Carter.
Despite having the least experience, she smoothly transferred her skills from the CW DC Universe as a writer for “Arrow” so looking forward to her work.
Rene and Zoey are watching 1953’s House of Wax for some reason…
…his Robinson Crusoe-style beard and wig from the Season 1 premiere episode was, in fact, fake…
…he goes back to the Arrow Cave and smashes everything up like Phil Mitchell on EastEnders.
…which made everything feel a bit like Marty McFly revisiting the events of Back to the Future in Back to the Future II.
The fighting sequence is a little ridiculous and a tad reminiscent of Hugh Jackman’s fighting robot movie Real Steel, but it gets the job done, with Ray having to find his own inner hero (via a voice assist from Oliver) once the neural network goes down.
…the different comic book universe, television odd couple Arrow, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), and the Flash, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), which banked on the sweet and sour contrast.
Thea tries to escape, she runs smack into the wall of a giant invisible Truman Show-style dome…