{"id":4456,"date":"2016-04-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:56:54","slug":"box-watch-the-flash-2014-onwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-the-flash-2014-onwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch: The Flash (2014 onwards)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Flash_Intertitle.png#\/media\/File:The_Flash_Intertitle.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/9\/98\/The_Flash_Intertitle.png\" alt=\"The Flash Intertitle.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy <span title=\"must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia\">Source<\/span> (<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Wikipedia:NFCC\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:NFCC#4\">WP:NFCC#4<\/a>), <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Flash (2014 TV series)\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Flash_Intertitle.png\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50741037\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50741037<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swamp_Thing#Volume_2\" target=\"_blank\">Saga of the Swamp Thing<\/a><\/em>, 24 May 1984, <em>Roots<\/em>, Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Moore<\/strong>&#8216;s description of the Flash has always stuck with me, capturing both the speed at which the character lived as well as the loneliness that his powers burdened him with.<\/p>\n<p>The current television show approaches those notions very differently and I really enjoy what the writers are doing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not my typical small screen fare \u2014 it&#8217;s got men with six-pack abs and women with stick figures \u2014 but it has an infectious charm and a lightness of touch that makes me look forward to each episode. I can obviously suspend disbelief with the whole fastest-man-alive, sharing the screen with super-heroes and -villains aplenty, in a world where everyone is under thirty (unless they&#8217;re a victim) and the maximum permissible body size for women is 8.<\/p>\n<p>But my suspension goes only so far when:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_cECd5_7V4w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See all those moments of time when he&#8217;s gawping when he could be rescuing? Really? Aren&#8217;t you the fastest goddamned man alive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=50741037 \u2026 a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues \u2014\u00a0Saga of the Swamp Thing, 24 May 1984, Roots, Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben Alan Moore&#8216;s description of the Flash has always stuck with me, capturing both the speed at which the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-the-flash-2014-onwards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Box Watch: The Flash (2014 onwards)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[103,1170,1150],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-alan-moore","tag-swamp-thing","tag-the-flash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}