Tappin' the nostalgia vein
Let's take a trip back in time to 1990. There I was, fresh off of the Batman movie bandwagon. Fresh-faced and dough-eyed little 9 year old with not a care in world except that suddenly, I thought that comic book superheroes were the coolest thing EVER.A stroke of genius passes the minds of NBC executives and a pilot for a television series based on another DC Comics character is greenlit. The Flash is "racing towards primetime," to quote the advertisers.
Now, I'm not into the whole, "re-live your youth by buying retreads of old stuff" a la, Transformers reissued toys, the release of old cartoons like Rainbow Brite or Jem and the holograms as t-shirts and screen-printed hoodies, or brand-spankin' new Care Bear plushes... but one thing I will get behind is the retro releases on DVD. Let's face it: THIS is cool. So far on the old nostalgia wheel, I've gotten Magnum P.I. and The Rockford Files on DVD. The kicker, though, came a few months ago when WB DVD announced the release of one of their classic, but unappreciated and prematurely cancelled TV shows... The Flash. Suffice it to say, I've been counting the days.
So, here in all of it's glory, is the complete series of one of my all time favorite shows. Does the writing hold up? About as good as any TV show after the fact. Are the effects still cutting edge? Ha! Not by today's standards. Is there a definite, "not the right era" factor from watching a show from 16 years ago now? Just in the neckties and haircuts. All in all, though, the Flash wasn't great television because we know that's an oxymoron. The Flash was something special to me and continued to be throughout my growing up, whether it was the TV show, the comic, the cartoon, a t-shirt, or an action figure. The rub is that it STARTED with this little series that almost could.
posted by AmeroKafka @ 4:38 PM
5 Comments:
I *loved* The Flash!
i've never seen the flash.
i suppose he performs good deeds and what have you.
two posts in the same week. egads.
It's "doe eyed" implying that you have large, innocent eyes like a female deer.
unless, of course, you want to say you have eyes made from lumps of uncooked bread, or perhaps, money.
oh yeah. never saw the flash.
I remember being a kid and watching almost every episode of this short run series. I kind of want to watch it again to feel the nostalgia.
update thy blog, wop!
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