The Flash

of all the characters we're going to talk about in this class, the flash is probably the one character i'm familiar with, but don't have a very strong opinion about. my familiarity with the flash mostly is through his relation to the justice league. i had never seen the show before today and have only read a handful of flash comics over the years. i have nothing against the flash, but i'm also not a huge fan. and i don't think it's because of his powers (i love quicksilver) so much as the tone associated with his character. in a lot of ways, he really is the anti-batman as far as tone (ignoring adam west's portrayal). but i'm still glad that the flash has his own tv show and that it's as bright and colorful and light as it is. because there's such a large audience for that. not everything should be be "the dark knight". something great about comic books that has hard a hard time translating to films and television is that there isn't a universal tone that everything needs to copy. we need to have bright, happy flash exist next to dark and brooding batman. i think that goes back to what marvel is doing better than dc in terms of movies. while there is a very noticeable "marvel-formula", we still have movies like "ant-man" exist with a drastically different tone from say, "iron man". whereas, every dc movie looks like they all used the same zack snyder-approved darkening filter.