Watching ONLY the FIRST and LAST Episode of *The Flash*

[@Reymklsn]

So we all can agree Grant Gustin carried this entire show for 9 seasons and my dude didn't even took credit for it.

[@reymejiasrivera2789]

So true and that's why he is the one true flash

[@InhumanFan98]

​@@reymejiasrivera2789i second that 😊 grant gustin is the only good thing about the later seasons

[@bigJ5489]

That's for sure. His performance as Barry from day 1 with that Arrow episode has always been great and he's a real humble guy about it all. Would be awesome to see him in, at least, a cameo sometime in the future of Gunn's DCU

[@shravanaragula4877]

So true

[@Pqw3r]

Tom did a great part too

[@jeannellebouvette8856]

The coma thing actually lasted nine months in real time. In Arrow they introduced Grant Gustin as the Flash with an unofficial pilot for the Flash spin off. In that episode he explained that he has dedicated his life to forensics to prove that his father didn't kill his mother since no one believed what he saw as a kid. Then after helping the Arrow take on some people with super human strength, he went back home and got hit by the particle accelerator and was put in the coma. Then nine months later, the pilot of the Flash aired and at that point there was a lot of hype built up. I watched both these shows as they aired but it's interesting watching someone without that experience react to it because it totally feels rushed and very confusing.

[@nicanproud]

I was thinking the same. I don't think Dylan knows that we basically got a ton of background into Barry in a darker and slower show. And we all kinda knew it was happening so no one at the time wanted the slow burn during Ep 1. We already had it. We already saw human Barry and wanted metahuman Barry ASAP. I remember waiting for it to come on tv. I can totally see how watching like this would feel weirdly paced 😅

[@Mutatedcorpse]

what country is the flash on netflix in? i have the dvds but i feel like netflix is easier considering my dvd thing is having problems

[@ajdixon9962]

​@@MutatedcorpseUSA

[@Mutatedcorpse]

@@ajdixon9962 what place in the usa

[@mikalawatchesthings]

@@MutatedcorpseNetflix USA

[@mantistoboggan265]

The weird thing about the "Schway" scene is that that girl is Barry's daughter from the future, the villain she stabbed is an evil alternate future version of Barry, and "schway" is future slang for "cool". So she just killed a version of her own father and then smiled and said, "Cool."

[@AlexCuza]

I laughed so hard I cried when I first saw that scene. I imagine the writers were on cocaine or something. I hope the writer's strike fails. The people who wrote this shit deserve to work at McDonald's.

[@UltraMLPMMMunetes]

And the stabbing is a reference to a scene in season 3 where Iris was supposed to be killed that way

[@popasmurfyblue4901]

no one knew who savitar was, i doubt she knew

[@jamessheeran4931]

And it's a batman beyond reference

[@itsarthurart]

@@popasmurfyblue4901 she knew tho

[@cutieovo9943]

The fact that bro has zero context to the story and Grant Gustin still manages to make him feel the emotion and weight of the scene shows just how much the CW let grant down

[@bardockssj708]

Grant is a phenomenal actor, I hope he gets more recognition for it in mainstream media

[@JH-jw7pu]

We all like Grant Gustin’s performance and we’ve all felt so sad for him being trapped, doing this show for 9 seasons.

[@suzygirl1843]

Trapped how? This made him famous and gave him lots of money and residuals

[@eliwrites1236]

@@suzygirl1843are we actually sure about that considering studios famously short pay their actors hence all the strikes going on

[@misslaurarh]

Grant gustin should be the movie flash too, not Ezra miller

[@ashleydavis2124]

@@suzygirl1843some actors are in a binder contract by time they feel like they want to move on to a new project despite being in a show that may them big they can appreciate it but still want to leave it and be trapped it 😂

[@suzygirl1843]

@@misslaurarh If Grant is movie Barry, they're taking Candice Patton's Iris West with them. So don't cry about that

[@nbldragoness8950]

Dylan saying "botanist" to describe every single kind of scientist in the world is something so very funny to me😂😂😂😂

[@unfabgirl]

We ought to make a list of every science Dylan thinks botanists know: Animals, physics...

[@beth_m]

he thinks they study neutrons and protons 😭

[@sarahhowes8759]

It’s my favorite bit on the channel

[@artemis8396]

Now I'm imagining Poison Ivy on the show helping the team. Killer Frost and Poison Ivy would be a cool team up

[@stephengrigg5988]

I'm prepared to go toe to toe with you on bird law

[@sammytrs14]

Literally the only reason why i kept watching the show was because of Grant. His performance in the show was the best compared to the other characters, and Grant just did an overall great job. Especially considering he's in a CW show, he didn't have to go so hard during the emotional scenes, and just he excelled when it came to really selling his character. Either way, Grant is an amazing actor and did really well during his acting in this show.

[@jerrylane8351]

I firmly believe that if they hadn't cast Grant Gustin, even the brilliance of season 1 never would've taken flight. Grant seriously nailed any scenes where he was being emotional or just a casually goofy guy, hence making the viewers root for his character even after the writing went to shit after season 3. And the fact that he carried that same level of intensity for nine whole seasons demonstrates Grant's passion, and it just overall makes me respect the guy.

[@sammytrs14]

@@jerrylane8351, fr, i've been scrolling through these comments and a lot of people have only kept up with the show due to being invested in Grants performance. But yes, i agree that his acting has been great from the very start, and i, and probably many others, have stayed with the show because of him. If you want to see more of Grant's performances, i recommend watching Glee, or at least the third season, since he's in it and i like how he can play a more mischievous character (not to mention his singing is just *chef's kiss*). That and Rescued by Ruby really shows Grant's acting abilities (sorry for the long paragraph).

[@jeansmx]

Second best thing. Cisco’s hair was the best thing. Lol

[@alexaavellaneda8499]

yessss agreed

[@x97k8]

Grant act ntg like the flash in the animated movies or series bruh 😂

[@kaylahguzman6763]

okay so he doesn't understand how amazng it felt to hear the first season intro all over again on the last one 😭 IT WAS NOT THE INTRO FOR ALL THE OTHER SEASONS! so it was really special to see they brought it back for the last episode 😭😭😅😅

[@JaceDominates_67]

Reallllllllll❤❤❤

[@Sarah-sh]

Dylan realizing that Nora is their daughter that hasn't been born yet is the most I have felt seen as a flash fan

[@suzygirl1843]

They seem to forget Bart.

[@Wargasmo]

Wait, did that happen to you, too?!

[@LSG101097]

I had big Charmed flashback. But it was cool back there.

[@jomiis.]

@@suzygirl1843Bart is younger

[@Sarah-sh]

​@@WargasmoI remember being confused AF about her existence just like Dylan and even more about why she's staying in that timeline. Like when baby Nora is a child will they tell her that that grown ass woman is also her? 😂

[@Nilen96]

I remember watching several seasons of this, and that the solution to everything in the series is "you have to run faster that you have ever run before, Barry" and then he does 😅

[@patienceholmes841]

stopppp I watched a couple seasons too and istg you could make an hour-long compilation just of people telling Barry he needs to run and run fast and run faster

[@angelacanedit]

ijbol

[@habitsrabbit]

Barry: "I'm the fastest man alive!" New speedster: actually I am and I'm gonna do something bad. Anyone in team flash: Run Barry! Run! Barry then kills the new speedster, cementing his title as fastest until the next speedster shows up, and then repeat.

[@Nilen96]

@@habitsrabbit So accurate 😅🤣 They even have that This Is Very Science I Swear conversation each time about how he actually broke the laws of physics

[@kkmmrew]

He also went through a moral dilemma what seemed like every season about how he had to find a way not to kill the big bad. Like the writers constantly forgot his arc from last season and re-used it every year! If he just killed the villains he would have saved himself so many problems 🤣 Oliver Queen new what was up

[@wwCs49]

The first few seasons of arrow and flash were genuinely some of my favorite shows ever. Sad that it fell off so hard that this how I see the finale 🤦‍♂️

[@earthtoivy1892]

i literally quit after cisco left 😭

[@michellegordon1822]

Right! I loved them so much in the beginning but lost interest a few seasons in.

[@wwCs49]

@@earthtoivy1892 I think I gave up before that but I wouldn’t have missed him. Found on both arrow and flash the team members got really annoying to create dumb CW drama

[@mattsterx]

@@earthtoivy1892Nah, it fell off long before that 😂

[@earthtoivy1892]

@@mattsterx it did but i held out hope for a long time that it would get better, obviously it did not.

[@thesmellofadventure5370]

I’ve going to clear some things up: 1. Ik it was a joke, but Savitar is the future Barry. He’s essentially a god with a robot suit. 2. The girl who said “Schway” is Barry and Iris’s daughter from the future, Nora. She said “Schway” because it’s slang in the future. 3. Khione is not Caitlin. Khione is an alternate personality created after Caitlin died. She also is essentially a goddess. 4. The “believe in the impossible” intro is not used in every episode. They just used it in the finale as a callback.

[@amusedapple4933]

CAITLEN DIES!!! I stopped watching after season 6/7. Pretty much when Cisco let I left

[@thesmellofadventure5370]

@@amusedapple4933 yeah in Season 9. It was really dumb bc no one really cared

[@artemis8396]

@@amusedapple4933you do know she comes back right? But in a very dumb way

[@amusedapple4933]

@@artemis8396 nope. Like I said after Cisco left I left

[@marvel_nerddddd3067]

@@amusedapple4933same

[@lauriegrensky3617]

During the first few seasons of the show, they had Grant Gustin actually run on a treadmill for the speed running, but after that they had him only move his arms and make it seem like he was running because they never really show his legs. That’s why it looks so goofy when he runs in the later seasons.

[@Tinkvampbite89]

If I may ask, for my own personal understanding, wouldn't that be because in the earlier seasons he runs at a certain speed but in the later seasons he's constantly breaking barriers and going back and forth in time so realistically they couldn't achieve that same consistancy in videography having Grant just run on the treadmill? Or am I completely off here?

[@scrublord101]

@@Tinkvampbite89 no, they just explain he's going faster through dialogue. later seasons through the use of poor cgi/budget and different running styles, everyone else sucked except for grant and rick cosnett (the cobalt blue character that dylan watched in the finale)

[@lauriegrensky3617]

@@Tinkvampbite89 No Grant Gustin said in an interview with Conan O’Brien (I think) that they noticed that most of the shots where he was running only showed his torso and up, so they decided they didn’t have to use the treadmill anymore since it was just a waste.

[@the-quiver]

It's actually hilarious how the effects got worst at the season finale than they were at the pilot

[@justintrujillo8483]

they slowly got worse and worse as the show went on because the budget got worse

[@laurajaynenolan2149]

😂😭

[@ItsBlauze]

They shouldve kept the old crew lol

[@talawanda5164]

must be climate change's fault

[@parachpbama4372]

Likely because the CW realized the show had a pretty reliable fanbase and didn’t feel the need to put up as many resources against the show, assuming the viewers would stick around even if the quality declined.

[@MonkFilmz]

It's crazy how they all get destroyed so quickly in the last episode, knowing that each of those villains had a whole season

[@AprilMoon7]

They were poor Speed Force copies at best.

[@InhumanFan98]

Would have been better if their wasnt that red death stuff. Maybe have the season be where barry has to face off against his speedster villains one by one in an episode each. Where the villains dont know why their back and that they are gunna use that opportunity to have one last crack at killing flash. Use the episodes to build up to eddie thawne and then have him reveal to barry that he sent them and that when they die he absorbed their speed force, maybe have him appear to do that so when hes in the final episode he would have had build up. Maybe he could have worn the cobalt blue suit in those scenes so its not limited to just one episode.

[@immapotato1]

@@AprilMoon7 bro let's just call it what it was. bad writing. the majority of the last season was terrible.

[@molly_parker_1847]

I think they mainly did that to emphasize how much the characters have grown as super heroes.

[@MonkFilmz]

@@molly_parker_1847 it did not do that, mainly ruined the villians and made it feel so rushed

[@Yehuda-ej5gg]

12:25, the suit wasn't, created in two days, it was created way before Barry woke up, it was created to help firefighters, but ended up becoming the Flashes first suit. (it took five times watching it to realize that)

[@keistopherc]

I remember LOVING this show when it came out when I was in middle school. Watching it slowly go from my favorite to least favorite show was a long and unfortunate journey lmao.

[@lolrobin8038]

Me with supernatural lol

[@jojoba222]

real.

[@Narutoanime16g]

Yep lol least Arrow ended strongly imo , Flash was good for 3 seasons and tells you everything you need to know about flash lore

[@oreabejide]

that’s the journey with all cw shows atp 🥴

[@shawol5253]

Me with the vampire diaries

[@OrenjiArms]

as many people have mentioned, grant gustin's acting skills is probably the one thing that managed to be consistent throughout the series, the writing they gave him not so much but grant did a great job.

[@blessingadusei]

at least now we know that its not the directors fault its the background and writers that were payed poorly and thats why we got shitty seasons after season 4

[@syra1541]

​@@blessingaduseithe directing was kind of ass imo, grant was like the only good thing an the show lmao

[@soundaholixx]

@@blessingadusei the current happenings in hollywood sure are shedding a lot of light into why so many shows suffered.

[@lurkersmind6461]

What made the Reverse Flash so dangerous was his ability to kill someone faster than they could blink. Having any speedster losing to a non speedster in reaction speed makes them feel like a joke.

[@tr1ckboii55]

Honestly. Last episode they killed everyone in the span of 10-5 minutes and every single one really should have died besides Barry and Nora if that fight was a little more realistic.

[@monkeytae]

@@tr1ckboii55 that's what I'm saying like it was such a good concept but it was obviously they were just trying to rush through

[@MaitoFelix]

Flash vs snart was the worse saga 😭

[@monkeytae]

@@MaitoFelix I kinda liked it tho like I really loved snart as a character and his redemption arc didn't feel too rushed either

[@MaitoFelix]

@@monkeytae I meant in the context that they made him seem unbeatable even tho he’s a regular person with a gun, and the end of his arc after countless eps of wanking, they end up disable his gun(as they should’ve done in the first place)

[@goosecooker6347]

I like how every critique you have was actually done in s1. Every character gets their own arcs, the pacing is slowed down, and everything gets explored in way more depth. I think because it was a pilot, they set up all the core parts of the season and then explored them properly throughout all of s1. Even down to the critique of s9 where the villains were ridiculous, all of them except Godspeed were genuinely terrifying threats and sparked fear. Savitar was super hyped every scene he showed up and Zoom and Thawne had you praying for the characters. Like the first time Zoom and Barry meet, Zoom literally catches Barry’s strongest technique and paralyzes him for like 3 or 4 episodes. The dry acting was only dry because none of the actor wanted to be there because the show was ass by s7. 1-5/6 had amazing acting. Prime Flash is my Roman Empire. And yeah, the glasses were a plot point. It foreshadowed Wells’s real identity.

[@grayj2125]

the fact that Dylan will never know how scary Zoom actually was is a crime lol. Also my dad used to call Eddie 'show tunes' back in season 1 and I think it's hilariously fitting

[@zemmym.9437]

FACTS! Like Zoom was genuinely terrifying when I first watched season 2

[@tasneemali6607]

FR Zoom was TERRIFYING but the last episode he was so unserious😔

[@grayj2125]

@@tasneemali6607he looked like he was ready to break out in a lil song and dance

[@HysteriaVybe]

Bruh I remember being lowkey terrified when I saw him grab lightning

[@siren7452]

But why were we all terrified of a man named "zoom" 🥹😭🥹😭

[@sruthy5365]

The eye witness sketch looking EXACTLY like the photograph, pose and all, somehow always gets me 😂

[@mojomatsi]

It would be funny.. Like what dean had to do a sketch art of the suspect.. and it turned out to be stick figure. (If you have seen the show you would get it)

[@SayyTen1100]

@@mojomatsidean fron supernatural?

[@MonkFilmz]

rewatching this hurts even more, especially when you've watched every season and know how good the villains used to be, it hurts so much seeing what happened to them towards the end of the season

[@finjuno2372]

savitar case never sat right wit me

[@skyfly9301]

The first seasons were magic. I never rewatch everything, only the good seasons haha. It has so much potential

[@courtneyshumway1922]

​@finjuno2372 Savitar was when I stopped watching. Knowing full well it was CW dreck, I still enjoyed it for some reason. After Savitar I just couldn't be bothered.

[@Mrs.Ragnvindr]

Literally 😭 I love the first few seasons.... Then it just.... Like my soul being sucked away each more season gone by....

[@monimoo88]

The absolute trash that was the final season is mind blowing. How do you condense an entire final season of a show fans absolutely adore from 22 episodes to just 13 and have almost the entirety of those 13 episodes that has SO MUCH source material be filler garbage that no one wanted or needed. The fact that they didn’t actually show the moments that made Barry and Eobards enemies instead of just having them talk about it. The fact that speedforce Barry mentions tornado twins and we don’t get that pay off, the fact that we don’t even see Barry ever create Gideon. So many moments we deserved and didn’t get it’s so frustrating. They had the opportunity to do something cool with Eddie and cobalt blue and they did nothing. They could have had a final real speedster battle at the bed with all the good speedsters against the evil ones and nope. The fact that Carlos said he wanted to come back for the finale as Cisco but the show runners wouldn’t give him time to finish his other projects. There was just so much that didn’t need to happen.

[@RagingThroughSpace]

deciding to randomly watch this video, for the first time, on April 25, 2024 after not watching Dylan for months is insanity

[@dwellinginerised]

The first season is actually pretty mind-blowing. Once you get past the initial hammy episodes, the heartfelt acting and highly creative plot beats built up to a brilliant finale. Sadly, the writers started losing their minds after season 3 or 4. Only reason I stuck around to season 5 was due to Grant Gustin and the character of Cisco (who's absolutely hilarious).

[@angelacanedit]

well they didn't have a dedicated writing team! at least not for the first few seasons.

[@MsJadalicious]

I stopped watching during season 5 bc Nora just annoyed me every episode

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

@@MsJadaliciousNora is like a mini iris and iris is horrible

[@MarkelleRayneeSheree]

I got so fed up with all the crossover episodes. In a time when most people are streaming and binge watching, crossovers do not work. I probably would have finished this show and arrow if not for those.

[@kparker905]

I’m sorry Cisco, but to me you’ve been dead for centuries should’ve won and Emmy! I’m just speaking facts. Sorry

[@nellie_mae]

The concept of the Flash actually just brutally ripping someone apart because he’s moving too fast is literally the opening scene to The Boys, if anyone is ever interested in the concept of superhumans painted as super heroes gone horribly wrong.

[@astaldogal]

I LOVE the boys. It's so compelling to watch and Homelander freaks me out

[@amandabaddeley-davis6218]

Yes! I came here to say this exact thing

[@ravenpurple1527]

I was thinking the exact same thing! I love The Boys so much!

[@TVHorrorArt]

@@astaldogalHomelander is awful!! Gotta love him 😂

[@Dontreply39573]

The Boys is such a great show, but I can only watch each season once bc of the hyper-realistic political issue portrayals.

[@bluefaerie]

I didn't notice Harrison taking his glasses off and on frequently until you mentioned it and now I can't stop laughing either

[@diamondcubey8464]

It’s because he’s metaphorically showing his true face as eobard, just as irony

[@justanotherasian8908]

He doesn’t need glasses so it kinda makes sense he takes them off so much

[@zhongliidonglii]

Dead ass did it every episode multiple times just to look at you

[@Enc_Data]

Didnt even notice @@zhongliidonglii

[@sur_ronstar_fan]

Same

[@hazywildflower22]

16:54 rewatching this on april 25 2024 is so satisfying

[@Adamam123y]

My birthday btw

[@hazywildflower22]

@@Adamam123y HAPPY BELATED BDAYYY

[@Adamam123y]

@@hazywildflower22 tyty

[@sdanks1962]

I honestly didn't even know The Flash had ended, so thanks for putting this up Dylan

[@dravensrevenge]

neither did i 😂

[@liashortcake]

It did very recently

[@cassielynch1975]

it like just ended a few months ago

[@ojs5988]

9 seasons is WILD. I think I maybe watched 4 seasons

[@cassielynch1975]

@@ojs5988 i watched every single season but i will admit that it started getting a little much after season 5 😭

[@zedge527]

I would love to see Dylan do a first and last to every Arrowverse show 😂 (I say this as someone who loved the whole Arrowverse, through all the good and bad)

[@Lavender856]

Yesss

[@fallen_angel8056]

Dude I was just thinking this. I need this to be down so I can here dylan say how dumb the last ep is (coming from someone who watched the show through and loved and hated it at the same time)

[@IAmBrandonTho]

"For someone who claims to love it, you sure do complain about it a lot." ~ My Friend

[@Taetaebogue]

Sammeeee I want him to do legends, arrow, and supergirl

[@fallen_angel8056]

@@Taetaebogue dude legends was my bitch I loved that show

[@penelopebonwinkle952]

Are we all just ignoring the fact that Dylan confidently stated he was not a botanist when describing the science behind the lightning bolt…

[@eienblack8570]

you're new here huh 😭

[@solus8685]

Once again. He has a thing for calling people that have nothing to do with botanists "botanists" lol

[@undercover_idiot]

Oh so you're a Newbie😂. welcome to the troublemaker club.

[@kinmckinnon2505]

More like Boltanist

[@eastgalaxy6477]

Hey, maybe lightning and plants are related, I'm not a meteorologist

[@codelyokofan1092]

Actually wheelchair Dr wells (eobard thawne) doesn't need glasses, so it hurts while seeing through it for a long time

[@P.R.I.S.M.paranormal]

No because thawne stole his body and probably his eyes too he probably needs glasses while in that body

[@Oli-gd5hg]

⁠@@P.R.I.S.M.paranormaltrue but speed healing would have fixed his eyes but rf didn’t wear glasses whilst still being Harrison Wells

[@happysmiles4339]

This is a show I started as a teen and was obsessed with. It definitely peaked and never recovered but I stuck around for Grant Gustin until the end and can say it was a great part of my teen to young adult years.

[@happysmiles4339]

​@@crowlynnaTom Cavanaugh, who played Harrison Wells and many other iterations of the character did a fantastic job in the show too! Wells is actually the villain Eobard Thawne that killed Barry's mum. So with the glasses, an assessment I saw on Reddit that makes total sense to me is that it's widely observed that Wells tends to take off his glasses when he's telling the truth or his 'Eobardness' comes through... I hope that kinda makes sense

[@Aisha_Luv]

pretty much same. I was actually still entertained until season 7 but then they did the whole "these grown adult supervillains possesed by forces of nature are my children" and I actually bailed. I did return for the final season just because i invested so much of my life into it.

[@Werewolf914]

Same Grant Gustin and because I'd loved how the show used to be and wanted to see it end was why I kept watching though the last couple seasons or so got so bad that I'd usually put it on in the background while doing cleaning or something, and then skipped all those awful episodes that didn't have Barry in the show

[@rav3n.lum0]

Slay

[@Loocu09]

What’s bad about the last episode is that those villains took like a season to be defeated but they just get defeated in 2 minutes

[@RitikButVideos]

✨Fan service✨

[@-Kaeya9827]

I agree, that pissed me off

[@NonamenoHAndle000]

They got defeated by the weakest of superheroes with the crepiest of powers, but it took barry 16 + episodes to beat these bozo’s

[@matttherat0]

Yeah that shit made me mad

[@Pennutbuttervr]

Its cause they know all there powers they have beat them already thats why

[@vanikissa8]

In fact, I'm sad that the "first and last" scheme takes away the PURE MADNESS that is present in CW series somewhere in the middle of the plot, when neither the characters, nor the audience, nor the writers understand what is happening and where all these children and plotlines came from.

[@vernicys-shell]

I like how he said that caitlyn was gonna be his final love interest but THAT IS WHAT SHOULD OF HAPPEND CAITLIN WOULD BE SUCH A GOOD LOVE INTEREST FOR BARRY

[@PyrosCat_YT]

Grant's performance is the best in the show. However when you dont watch the entire show, you miss Tom Cavanagh's performance. He has had to play 10+ different versions of the same character. He is really good in most seasons when he isnt playing Eobard Thawne. Thawne sorta got bland later on however it could be they were going for the "he has a huge ego" approach

[@ẞooßys]

First season eobard was good

[@QuinnChester-uk3qo]

Agreed throng

[@lili.baerg._]

Real Tom Cavanagh MADE the show for me

[@caemarie83]

Dylan not having any idea about Nora or that Khionne and Caitlin aren't the same person is hilarious

[@sweetlids2898]

The Nora thing was funny 😂

[@suzygirl1843]

Caitlin should've died. When she brought Ronnie/ DeathStorm back I thought that was her cue but they took Frost instead, who has had more growth than Caitlyn. I made no sense to bring Khione when it should've been a storyline about Frost accepting Caity's death and building a new life with Chillblaine since he was useless.

[@caemarie83]

@@sweetlids2898 agreed. I didn't really understand why they killed both Caitlin and Frost and kept the actress in as a new character. It didn't really make sense as a viewers stand point

[@sweetlids2898]

@@caemarie83 wait, they did that? I didnt get far enough in the show so that’s crazy wow

[@xXdreamer4alwaysXx]

I’m guessing one of these is Danielle Pannabaker’s character. He totally missed her say she was in a MORTAL body. I was like woah wtf happened in her plot line lol. Also figured that had to do with her dry acting because this immortal person in a mortal body is just dry and finds it all not that big of a threat.

[@Bubbalubagus]

You misunderstood the Joe yelling at Barry scene. He was saying that barry was imagining the lightning storm that was in his childhood living room the night his mother died, not imagining the lightning bolt that (unknowingly to Joe) gave him powers. At this point in the story, it is believable to Barry that he could've just imagined the lightning storm in his living room killing his mom, because it was the reverse flash and an older version of himself traveling back in time.

[@nohemitrevino1177]

Yeah, I was wondering if someone was gonna comment about this cuz Dylan got it all wrong

[@danielazamora8870]

@@nohemitrevino1177me too! I came looking for this comment haha

[@jmanfym]

He also misunderstood the reason Iris and Eddie were hiding their relationship. They weren’t hiding it from Barry, as she didn’t even suspect he liked her, they were hiding it from Joe.

[@calvinjohnson4172]

Also the reason Cisco had the suit

[@stargazer1682]

Basically he missed a _lot_ of what was actually happening in the episode... 🙄

[@Eawraw11]

What kept me going is throughout every single season the emotion just got more harsher, and it was just heartfelt. It touched my heart and a lot different ways and it is literally my whole life.

[@adr3nal1ne_rush]

it is tragic dylan will never know how good the first three seasons were… for a CW show. it’s so nostalgic for me and the storyline is genuinely captivating. and the villains were terrifying!

[@jasonnguyen2575]

Yup, you right ​@Frank___hassle__! Don’t forget main villains after Season 3 such as vegetable (smort) guy in chair, or normal guy with a dagger! The latter is even more offensive than Captain Cold because he was hyped as MAIN BIG THREAT. “The one who got away” my ass. Oliver was right. Barry needs daily pep talks in his ears to activate even 5% of his brain.

[@adr3nal1ne_rush]

@Frank___hassle__ eh that’s fair. I meant more like zoom, savitar. not the normal guys with guns 😭 I do agree there were so many plot holes and there was no consistency in how his super speed worked, but considering I first watched the show when I was like.. 8? 9? it didn’t quite matter back then

[@Mattutube]

Personally I used to love this show, I think its complete dog shit now (the entire thing btw), Grant Gustins great however, iris is annoying as shit, and the plot holes are too much

[@blu3tacos37]

@Frank___hassle__ omg this is so spot on

[@whodrry2386]

Exactly, and I even think that Seasons 4 and 6 are still watchable, not near the first three but still I could make it through them, 5,7,8, and 9 just were not it

[@leffeup8117]

You have to keep in mind, this first episode is a pilot. The pilots are made separately from the rest of the show, and they usually have a more sped up story arc

[@ryannnunley791]

Or the show is shitty💀

[@pyro2287]

The fact that Dylan will never know the context of nora saying "schway" has brightened my day forever.

[@existenceisrelative]

It's schwarbage.

[@MsJadalicious]

I stopped watching at season 5 bc Nora annoyed me sooo much

[@sophienah4654]

I never watched up to that season but I got some mild spoilers. Is Nora basically the CW version of Bart Allen? The writers gave him a time travelling daughter instead of a time travelling grandson?

[@sweetlids2898]

@@sophienah4654 yeah basically

[@4everbuffylover]

Lol it’s stupid even with context 😂

[@makailadrysdale7141]

Yall its April 25, 2024. Its the date in the newspaper Wells was reading. That's wild!

[@artemis8396]

Ugh I missed that! I wonder what I did that day

[@immamlgproo]

the cgi for the flash in episode 1 was actually incredible. sadly the vfx got worse every season as they dropped the budget due to decreased viewer count

[@ianagulino6653]

Same happens to every CW show :/...except for Supernatural, that shid was dope as hell

[@em-yq1bv]

@@ianagulino6653except tvd

[@vastos2587]

​@@ianagulino6653it feels like supernatural saved their CGI budget until their crazy last story arc lol 😂

[@ianagulino6653]

@@vastos2587 and then ruined the show by making the finale a 2 part episode where the second part is actually just 15 minutes and the very last scene is both Jensen and Jared being like 'this is just a show, none of this is real' ;(

[@cinnamon7435]

I thought they would never end this show, it lasted 5 seasons longer than it should have

[@Demonmagnos]

It lasted 6 seasons too long, imo. Season 3's ending would've been a great stopping point.

[@cinnamon7435]

@@Demonmagnos ikr every season it was the same plot over and over about a bad fast guy and saving the timeline

[@shekoofamehri7618]

That’s how I feel about Pretty Little Liars they were grasping after season 6 episode 11

[@cinnamon7435]

@@shekoofamehri7618 it's pretty much every cw show honestly

[@Paradigm7977]

Ah yes. The classic CW way. Making 4 great seasons of a show and then keeping it going WAY too long

[@mantistoboggan265]

Honestly, while the show declined later on, I highly recommend watching the first two seasons, or at least just the first season. They really do a good job of creating a story and characters that you're invested in, especially season 1.

[@athroneoflies8785]

I've watched up to s3 and then rewatched s1 and 2. I have a poster of him on my wall and used to say he was my favourite superhero. I am simply ignoring the other seven seasons

[@quanashiab.9620]

The later seasons aren't good.

[@Leifur_123]

@@athroneoflies8785 agreed

[@demiemily]

Yeah I watched the first 3 or 4 season and I loved it. Then I just started the next one and it SUCKED

[@therealemmerson262]

S1 through early 6 are okay s4 through 6 arent as good but not fully ass

[@Alex-lk5pf]

8:47 if you watch closely, you can see the door shutting after him, so the glass smashes because he’s shut the car door at super speed

[@G.S.I_Labs]

The glasses on Tom cavanough are a plot point 😂 He dosent actually need glasses, but he took the body of someone who had glasses so he could make Barry the flash, but he dosent need them so him constantly taking them off is a hint to his real identity

[@laurajaynenolan2149]

For some reason that doesn’t entirely take away from the cringe factor 😂

[@adidi7789]

Have the show creators never heard about a marvelous thing called eye contacts? He could have told them he was wearing them while actually not and no one would have suspected a thing. Was that covered sometime and a reason given for not using that idea?

[@G.S.I_Labs]

@@adidi7789 that’s what sucks about some storytelling, you need to avoid logic sometimes to show, and not tell your audience. Thawne is a moron that didn’t use contacts, so that writers could fit in little kernels of mystery, that is almost immediately solved. But if you think this is bad, you should see any single episode from season 7, pick one and your brain dies

[@sakurakiefluvr]

yea but it was overused and cringe asf

[@G.S.I_Labs]

@@sakurakiefluvr yes.

[@psivampire13]

30:00 The actress for Caitlyn/Khionne/Frost was actually playing 3 different personalities. Khionne was the last one that was not human and did not have a strong grasp on emotions. She is more of a personification of the elements, than a human. She was alive for less than a year, so it actually fit to have her not showing much emotions. Edit: Holy shit, I just realized that actress was in Sky High.

[@kyleoates6367]

The writers of this show weren't good enough to undermine the trope of the born yesterday character to do this. That sort of character, new to human life, is WAY more child like. That means volatile emotions and naive. If she's the personification of the elements, and somehow knows about existence for thousands of years or whatever, she should STILL have volatile emotions as the concept of the elements- earth, fire, water, air- are tied to emotions. It's really too bad for Caitlyn's actress. Her opportunity to actually act in the show was hog tied the moment they introduced Killer Frost as her double. And when Killer Frost replaced Caitlyn... that was when I stopped watching. The quality of writing had really slipped by that point, and I couldn't stomach the camp anymore. And this is coming from someone who happily watched ALL of Xena: Warrior Princess.

[@thedeathlyfanta3171]

she was bad at acting since season 1

[@Sk88p]

Yes exactly right. That part of the review bugged me. He has not seen it all, so he does not know.

[@Rated314]

Also, Khionne was like a couple of weeks old lol

[@milliek370]

Poor baby was like four months old. But tbh, I only really watched for Caitlin because at some point I got annoyed by Barry & then ALL the side characters (specifically Allegra & Chester) came in and Cisco left and that was my last straw. But his point about making side characters valuable is so true because at some point the show as a whole became ALL about only focusing on WA (not that it’s a bad thing but it kinda is) so there wasn’t much connection towards the other characters. I came to love Caitlin’s character mostly because how they showed her struggle within the first four seasons,but then KF became her replacement and the writers as a whole stopped caring about her development. Then towards her end in season 8, where she’s actually going through the trauma of Frost, instead of giving her a plot line that didn’t include Ronnie, they kill her off and replace her. She seems like a bad character but tbh the writers did her dirty from the beginning and it seems like they only kept her there for the plot but once her character has a Chance to be valuable they replace her with another version of ‘herself’. It’s understandable why she didn’t finish out season eight (DP was pregnant) but when she died the season was already over so it just made no sense to kill her.

[@rhinoracer]

I watched EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, from season 1 to season 9...the thing that kept me watching: Season 1: The mystery surrounding the man in yellow, then when that was revealed, the "how we gonna stop him" feeling. Season 2: Zoom was just a great villain Season 3: Savitar was an interesting concept, and also I couldn't wait to see Iris die, but then she didn't. Season 4: Devoe (the main villain) was just always like 4 parallel universes ahead of Barry and the gang, and I really enjoyed that. Also Devoe was played by a South African Actor, and being South African myself, it was fun seeing someone I know in such a big role. Season 5: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 6: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 7: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 8: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 9: Grant Gustin's Acting, and them wrapping up loose ends like the episode Barry and Thawne fights the night his mother died, and the episode where Arrow comes back. That's about it... in summary, the best thing from this show, is the memories we made...and Grant Gustin's acting.

[@Magnus_Effect]

Yeah I stopped in the middle of season 3 and came back just to watch all of season 9, just to know how it all wrapped up. Grant carried the show

[@bob031]

fr tho after s4 the show became just sad i watched all the episodes too lmao

[@bob031]

my favorite season was zoom

[@Steph489]

I stopped at like season five I think because I could not take Iris anymore and then his daughter was just as annoying

[@rhinoracer]

@@Steph489 yeah, Barry should have stayed with Patty Spivot. Bet their kid wouldn't have been as annoying as Nora

[@Itsmommytimegamerbro]

The worst part about the last episode was the villains. They were all supposedly given speed boosts from the negative speedforce, but somehow Godspeed was slower than Cecil giving him a headache, Zoom is slower than lightning (He caught a lightning bolt in season 2), Thawne was slower than Allegra's light beams (He's faster than light, and what should've happened is Thawne taking Allegra's heart out of her chest), and Savitar, like goddamn he was nerfed. The worst one of all was Savitar because for starters, he was faster than Barry in season 3, who was faster than Zoom, who is faster than her and how do I know that? It's because this is a new Nora and the old Nora was erased in the timeline so this new Nora didn't learn from Thawne, therefore she is slower than the original Nora, so Savitar without the Speed Boost still should have defeated Nora but no, she kills her own father. Guaranteed the worst writing ever.

[@Ilikestarwars1245]

So I agree with your point where you said he woke up from the coma too fast but let me give you a little bit of context. Berry was first introduced on an episode of Arrow And he was struck by lightning in that episode. The flash TV show aired 9 months later. So for the audience that was coming from Arrow We experienced that 9 months in real time! So it didn't feel quite as rushed watching it in context but watching on its own it definitely does

[@Gavin_A_XCTF]

Its also a pilot episode so its just like a test run that they need to get more stuff in faster

[@aiphen2572]

Cisco already had the suit made. He says when talking to Barry that it was designed to replace firefighter uniforms. He's just using it for Barry.

[@jaydoody1157]

And the first time he wears it, it has a gas mask/whatever firefighters have on their masks then you watch him take it off when he confronts Mardon

[@rjk-h6m]

I think he spent too much time nitpicking that he forgot to listen what was going on in the story.

[@banjokazooie370]

Dylan put more thought into flash’s powers that the entire team of writers.

[@yuvrajsingh2189]

The irony of him calling Savitar Forest Flash and Savitar dies in a forest 💀💀💀

[@penguinhead_]

To answer your last question, what kept me watching throughout the 9 seasons was definitely Grant’s acting. Although there were some people with just as good acting like Carlos as Cisco and Tom as season 1’s Wells/Thawne, Grant for sure carried the show throughout its entirety.

[@catfinity8799]

Except for the episodes where he was just sidelined, or not in it at all.

[@ryancarter8134]

Tom and Grant...

[@SeattleProd]

cisco was kind of my favorite character but then the directors thought you know what ship him of to a new factory or whatever

[@Rambeedoe]

And Ralph imo, they had focus on the correct characters then decided to give the spotlight to people like Cecile, who should never have been allowed in front of a camera past season 4 because she turned into dumb chipmunk cringequeen

[@sarahuchoa4018]

Props for Grant for giving 110% in every dang episode (even the ones we wouldn't blame him for not).

[@shadowbunz4865]

my favorite performance he did was season 4 episode 15 enter flashtime when barry had to disarm the nuke before it blew up the city and the whole episode took place in like 8 minutes. grant looked like he was going through absolute HELL.

[@acarr45]

@@shadowbunz4865that’s probably my favorite episode in the whole show. At least top 5

[@simoneofcourse1867]

My god... I watched this show for 6 seasons... I forgot how good it started... But I'm not surprised how bad it ended. Thank you Dylan for your support for watching the last episode

[@BrokeArtPeopleASMR]

oh my god literally same! and watching this makes me even wonder how i continued watching till even season 6

[@OddSentinel]

Hey, I think I stopped watching around season 6. The Elongated Man was my favorite part and they wrote him off in just the strangest way. I watched for some time after that, but over the course of college I really had gotten too busy to keep up with it, I would only stay up to date with one or two shows a week in real time, and Superman and Lois’s first two seasons were just awesome. I digress. I thought I would stay with this show to the end, but Big Bang Theory really hit the nail on the head with Sheldon predicting the slow painful decline of this show.

[@rachel5399]

I watched until season 3. I really enjoyed the first 2. I binged watched them one summer before freshmen year. I think I watched the 3rd season air, and just wasn't feeling it anymore.

[@camilaarchuleta3245]

SAME! I also watched until then. To me, the first 6 seasons were masterpiece but then the plot started becoming chaotic and boring to follow.

[@HarveyD-sx2kz]

"I'm not a botanist. I don't know all those electrons and neutrons and whatever" 💀

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

5:38 That's why you gotta watch Arrow concurrently with this show. In Arrow we meet Barry and his coworkers and we get to live through those 9 months he was in a coma. They mention how Iris spends a lot of time visiting him so this reunion does feel earned if you've seen Arrow.

[@m0on129]

I just couldn't get through Arrow XD

[@Narra0002]

That makes sense

[@morningvillains]

@@Narra0002yeah the shows on CW while they were running where all congruent, but The Flash became the “Anchor” replacing Arrow after they had their second season, so it kinda became you didn’t have to watch the other shows since most characters (outside of arrow) all came from the flash (literally like legends of tommorow or whatever that show was, like the whole team was from The Flash.)

[@gamerdude4465]

Dylan just complicated the prologue ep. It was straight to the point, nothing confusing to audience. Understood it first time I saw it, its normal. You've to be a special type of idiot to get confused by it or be pedantic about it. But that's how soe youtubers milk content

[@PrinceVoid7]

I think that's a mistake by the CW, it's what got Marvel in it's current trouble. If you don't watch the Disney+ shows you basically have no idea what is going on.

[@harpindie7055]

It’d be fun to see a “best and worst” of a show. The contrast for some shows would be galactic.

[@thenameless9947]

YES I vote Supernatural😂

[@thenameless9947]

Probably Swan Song and Bugs right? But the thing is I don't know if Swan Song is as great as it is without context

[@sarahshepley8985]

do you mean their best rated episodes and worst rated ones, taking the highest and lowest from each season or the entire show overall? because that’s absolutely genius and i’d love to see that

[@lara.z7393]

that would be a good idea, maybe the 100

[@thenameless9947]

@@lara.z7393 yesss

[@imtryingokay01]

I did actually watch the entire show. Every single episode. And I will tell you right now, that the only reason I kept watching, was because I loved Grant Gustin's performance as the Flash. Everything else just got so bad after the first few seasons. You're definitely spot on with pretty much all of the comments that you made during this

[@suzygirl1843]

I watched every episode for Westallen. Otherwise I don't care about The Flash lore. Didn't realize how much they changed from the comics and how characters look nothing like their comics versions

[@Rox7ne]

Grant really deserved better. But for WestAllen?? Nah they were a mess. All that bs with Patty and the other gf that came after bcs of Iris's hypocrital a$$?? & after all the bs she pulled with the "we're like siblings"? And all the mockery ppl did of that "we are the Flash"?? And all the bs she said against him with her daughter?? I don't remember much of that, but that made me drop the show for sure 💀 the writers killed Iris's character so badly she just became annoying

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

WE ARE THE FLASH Man My breaking point was season 7 but Tom Cavanagh and Grant Gustin really carried the show on their backs.

[@suzygirl1843]

@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 Don't tell me you're an incel. Westallen were the greatest Arrowverse couple

[@suzygirl1843]

@@Rox7ne Westallen was the whole point from the beginning, it's nerds who couldn't let it go - hence why the writers were forced to make certain changes. I believe Cecile's S4 arc was supposed to be Iris's but they chickened out due to the backlash from S3 and they don't want a repeat of Phantom Menace with Jake Lloyd. They had to protect child actors.

[@ryanwoodcock310]

im gonna explain the confusing parts-, when the girl was stabbed she vibrated her cells so fast that they could pass through solid objects which they said in the show and they called it phasing, and she was from the future and time traveled back to that timeline so that she could help fight the huge battle so she said "im about to be born on the other side of that wall" because she is from the future and she is being born. The girl from the beginning that didn't smile a lot was not the same as the girl who was at the end that looked the same, so basically she had and alter ego named Frost that Caitlin's dad created as Caitlin's bodyguard and then Caitlin was shot with some gun and it split them into 2 people and then Frost died and then Caitlin tried experimenting to try to get Frost back because she thought if her dad could make Frost then so could she, but what ended up happening was neither Caitlin or Frost came out, but it was Khione and she could control nature but then she ascended to be a goddess she didn't need her human body anymore so Caitlin was ressurected. Also the guy who always took off and put on his glasses was the guy who killed Barry's mother because he time traveled back to try and kill Barry as a kid but then Barry time traveled with him and brought his younger self away but then he couldn't kill Barry so he killed Barry's mother instead and Barry couldn't stop him, but then later on Barry time traveled back in time to save his mother but soon realized that he had to have his mother die because if he didn't it would change the timeline and he would never meet Iris and anyone else so he had to let his mother die, but he created an alternate timeline where only a few things changed but somehow Cisco's brother died (Cisco is the one with the long hair who was there when Barry woke up) and not much else when he did that and he lived in that one for the rest of the show The End

[@KarahKat]

reading this is crazy in hindsight... how did I understand all this so easily when I watched the show

[@makmotion7156]

Man this show was everything to me when it first dropped. I'd tune into CW at 8 every night and season 1 was by far my favorite of all seasons. But after a season or two things started going downhill really fast and I just couldn't anymore. Hurts to see it. The fact that you did this video is everything ahah. I started watching this because of Grant, he's a king

[@quanashiab.9620]

An icon ✨

[@Jimmy_Jones]

I used to think The Flash and Agents of Shield were on par. Agents of Shield just blew it out the water. It was also very consistent in quality right until the end.

[@ẞooßys]

Nah I would say after season four it started going very very very downhill Season 3 started it a bit I would say but the further seasons you got the worse it gets

[@nqvsli]

the best moment was waiting for it to air and then seeing the cliffhanger and having to wait for the next episode

[@ollamamonkey1869]

the funniest part is that a lot of the things he's saying is weird can actually be attributed to the twist later in the season. like Harrison telling Barry not to go be a hero because he needs Barry to send him home. and then Harrison telling Barry to be a hero because he knows he can't change Barry's future

[@sakurakiefluvr]

yea… but this show still sucks

[@SpectacularEdits_]

@@sakurakiefluvr i think you meant, "the later seasons suck"

[@artemis8396]

@@SpectacularEdits_watch Madvocate videos if you want to see a hilarious way of proving you wrong. I still love the show though, best seasons were the first few

[@monkeytae]

Literally zoom and savitar were the best rivals the show's ever seen and i hated how easily they were defeated in the finale. How in the world did Nora kill Savitar in two seconds when it took the entrie team a whole season to defeat him initally? Like i was so hyped seeing all the rival speedsters come back in the last ep but they were too easily defeated for the amount of terror they used to be

[@Helloiamraymond]

And how did Nora's stab kill Savitar? When Barry used phasing to break the blade and Jesse Quick stabbed Savitar he acted like it was nothing. Why is Nora's stab so much stronger than Jesse's?

[@j_bad1032]

Nora go an earfull of the stories her entire life growing up she probably dreampt of the moment

[@jocelyn_theloser2091]

IM SAYINNNNNN YOU ATE THIS FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT 🙌🙌

[@JBDSoulFighter]

It was because Barry got so much faster through like 6 seasons and Bart and Nora got faster as well

[@pizzaparkerhotdogmaguire3225]

God.. this guy always finds nitpicking and flaws which audience doesn't even think of! nor do the writers! NEVER ever thought of all these issues. Because they don't exist it's fictional! and even if it was in the EXACT same way he wanted, he would STILL find different flaws. Some people will shit talk no matter what. Dylan is one of them

[@HolyParsival]

30:17 original caitlen wouldve had more emotion but because you didnt watch the show you cant understand who she is now as a person without context

[@braydonparker5758]

The reason wells constantly takes his glasses off and puts them back on is because he doesn’t need them, foreshadowing the fact that he’s reverse flash who killed barry’s mom trying to play the part of a guy stuck in a wheelchair. He doesn’t need the glasses because he’s a speedster and they all have regeneration causing his eyes to just heal and be good on their own

[@garmen-]

that’s dumb tho

[@melissaharris944]

Nah, it’s just a feddish

[@plurpball]

So then why would he wear them at all in the first place???

[@raphael6467]

@@plurpballhe didn’t explain it all. This guy with the glasses you see is not actually him. Reverse flash from the future took over his body and basically killed him, and that guy wore glasses.

[@Suzukkk]

@@melissaharris944fetish

[@HonestlyApollo]

He doesn't actually need glasses, takes them off cuz they're uncomfortable then remembers the dude he's pretending to be wears glasses

[@noorabuelsoud9434]

i didnt finish the show lol it became a pain at some point but i did find out a little bit about the glasses theory you're asking about. The glasses are part of his disguised character he doesn't actually need them. I think he takes them off sometimes when he forgets his cover like he becomes impatient or whatever. The wheelchair is the same, he doesn't need it. I think its actually smart, who would expect a disabled man with impaired vision to be a villain flash. He clearly had a very elaborate plan, it takes commitment to pretend you're paralyzed. Its also incredibly messed up, which is why he's a good villain. I mean he literally teaches Barry everything, the enemy who killed his parents, in plain site pretending to be innocent. But yea every season became worse because the villains became more surface level and they didnt have enough connection with Barry or his background. With no good plot it became hard to overlook the cringe visuals.

[@Gavin_A_XCTF]

The wheelchair also had something that made him faster in it

[@Righteousbandit]

Ever since I watched this channel I was able to predict scenes in movies cos u teach us about film making so now I feel like a genius💪🏼

[@hunterhades775]

Thawne was more scary in season 1 removing his glasses then season 9 actually as a character

[@redonuflla3985]

i dont know he didnt watch full serie and he didnt know why thawn is in strees

[@Customs25]

@@redonuflla3985what?

[@arianevidding]

I actually love that the cop dad knew from the first episode, it was a nice difference to other hero shows

[@DerkDurski]

And they were still able to do the "Hero hides his secret from a loved one" storyline through Iris for the first season anyways

[@mikey9997]

exactly most shows would have had that as like the season finale reveal

[@incianali]

completely agree!

[@artemis8396]

My favorite relationship in the show was the father son relationship between them. So wholesome

[@Xtrendence]

I like how he immediately points out he doesn't feel the chemistry between Iris and Barry, and goes on to say he feels Caitlin will be the main love interest. Even someone watching it for 1 episode knows and feels that. Snowbarry should've been a thing. None of this lightning rod business.

[@milliek370]

it was definitely forced chemistry between Barry & iris at times. But I will admit, WA in season nine wasn’t that bad and that’s coming from an OG snowbarry fan.

[@emanuelrodriguez9044]

His face got me too when they mentioned they were basically siblings! 😂

[@Xtrendence]

@@milliek370 Yeah it got a bit better, but they should've at least explored Snowbarry. Especially because they played around with it a bit with the shapeshifter kissing her / her kissing back, her saying Barry could "take a peek" when changing her clothes etc. Should've given them a season or two to date, and just naturally showed why it doesn't work between them or something (she's his doctor, already lost her husband, can't handle loving someone who risks their life every day, some shit like that).

[@lailawilliams3007]

I’m glad they never made them a thing it would have been awkward

[@Xtrendence]

@@lailawilliams3007 Honestly I don't think it would be awkward. I imagine if written realistically, they'd have a good relationship to begin with, then she realizes she can't handle it, but he can't stop being a hero, so then there's difficult times, until they break up. Sad and unfortunate, but I don't think awkward. Maybe just me.

[@EVXShadow]

10:21 bro Joe was talking about when Barry ‘s mom died

[@jay_____ber]

Dylan’s commentaries might not always be on Monday but we can always count on him doing the “I’m no Botanist” joke almost everytime

[@jacklyntree7752]

It's the updated "I'm writing a book" joke and I love it

[@Signy8]

Dylan’s pained look at “that’s what I call mind over matter” has me cackling and I’m trying so hard not to wake anyone up

[@realElectroZap]

i like how he barely knows what's going on but can still call cecile defeating those clones a HARD CAP

[@cityofice2720]

I like how you ignore what they say. The suit was built for firefighters

[@socially_inept_drow]

Grant is definitely THE highlight of the show. All the episodes where Barry ends up emotionally wrecked (6.7, 6.17, some of the savitar ones) are a good watch lol

[@Clarrisa123Martin]

wym 6.7 and 6.17?

[@msc0505]

@@Clarrisa123Martinseason 6 episode 7 and 17

[@mr.tinklewinkle]

i think tom cavanagh is also a highlight of the show, both are great

[@miosnikzycia2913]

Dylan doing Jane the Virgin for this series would be HILARIOUS

[@amariebloom]

Facts

[@kritalll217]

It has so much murder, he would love it

[@chibaleclarissa]

So so good

[@tardybloomer]

SUCH. a good show 😭

[@audreyharms5156]

Grant is an amazing actor. Sadly when the show gets towards the later seasons, there's only so much you can do with the writing

[@the_dreadx]

I love how he immediately caught on about the Barry and Caitlin relationship

[@chiguru99]

"he got abs and all of a sudden he's got a spine now too?" made me laugh a lot more than it should have

[@wjquick32]

Lol that was my favorite line from the entire video

[@giddy111]

You're right at 31:54 yeah, taking the glasses off is a plot point! To leave it very vague, it's sort of when he shows his true colors. Also that actor plays about a million different characters on this show at one point lol, he's excellent. Honestly, seasons 1-3 are pretty good, minus a few episodes here and there. They had genuinely intimidating main villains, the side characters got a lot of growth and they got to shine as their own people, and the acting performances for the most part were very good! Then the show changed writers somewhere around season 5 and goddd the dialogues and plotlines really suffered for it. I skipped parts of each season between 7 and 9, but what kept me going was mostly the Reverse Flash. I love a good villain and he's FANTASTIC in the early seasons, enough that even with the downfall of the show I kept coming back whenever he popped back around. The way they handled the villains in the finale was a crime tho omg.

[@Thequietkid9999]

I do like how Caitlin was reused 3 times and Harrison wells was reused an infinite number of times 😅

[@thewonder46]

and eddie thawn 2 times

[@Thequietkid9999]

@@thewonder46 yeah but he was still the same person

[@reynaafigueroa]

what happened to caitlin and why did they call her khione ? i stopped watching the flash after like season 5

[@Thequietkid9999]

@@reynaafigueroa it wasn’t her it was a like god or something that had been created in a lab to bring frost back to life after she died in the session before the final one

[@Thequietkid9999]

@@reynaafigueroa Caitlin sacrificed herself to create frost again but ended up creating khione

[@BumbleBria]

Dylan saying, "yeah, nice and deep" will forever be imprinted in my mind. Thanks Dylan :p ;)

[@louieromano9564]

The fact u called Savitar “forest flash” without knowing he gets defeated and the whole finale ep from his season goes down in a literal forest is so funny lol

[@artemis8396]

He'd be a good botanist

[@rayblake6094]

The way even Dylan saw the chemistry with Caitlin and Barry 😭😭

[@DilettanteThat]

IKRRRRRR

[@Saeiyu]

We were ROBBED

[@rumateez]

they completely changed the main love interest for oliver queen in arrow, i don’t get why they didn’t do it for the flash what with them utterly butchering iris’ character.

[@DilettanteThat]

@@rumateez ikr

[@tabaributler2225]

​@rumateez and I still say they made a mistake, Ollie and Laurel had better chemistry, they should have went back to them and tried that move in the Flash with Barry and Caitlin.

[@DylanIsInTroubleCompilations]

I want Dylan’s botanist joke to continue to the point where he’s just saying it at the most random times 😂

[@luffytaro-jg5ow]

I use it in everyday life now it's just too gd not to

[@BrandonDorsey-zn9go]

It's basically my life is if I was a superhero, and that kind of lets me relate a little bit. Also I was gonna quit like halfway through, but after they did the song running home to you. I uh, I got kind of obsessed.

[@ericcollins6231]

“She’s not his final love interest” God this would have made the show so much better if you were right lol.

[@Pj_animate]

Why

[@-Kaeya9827]

@@Pj_animate Cause very little Chemistry

[@Lewis_M397]

if only felicity didnt have oliver, they had good chemistry@@-Kaeya9827

[@jaytheman]

@@Pj_animate Because it was very forced

[@SuperSpideyCarl]

Literallyyyyyy, everyone said Iris and Barry were goals, but cmonnn the love arc for Barry and Caitlin would have been immaculateeeeeee

[@BarestTruths]

I don’t often give up on shows completely but this was one of them! It actually constantly shocked me that it went as long as it did.

[@passerbytanuki2456]

If Riverdale can have 5+ seasons then Flash can have as many as it wants 😂

[@radhiadeedou8286]

I never give up on shows, even when they become horrible I have to know how it ends, but I had to give up on this one, it was becoming painful. Team Flash of the first seasons has a special place in my heart

[@BaulFoodmanedits]

@@radhiadeedou8286that’s respectable

[@BarestTruths]

@@radhiadeedou8286 same! I even made it through PLL and that was painful.

[@underthegardenwall]

Me and my mother are rather cynical, and we initially scoffed at this show when we started watching it because it seemed so dumb, but we very quickly shut up after watching Grant Gustin's crying performances. Like holy SHIT the dude had us bawling three or four times in the first season alone. Not to mention, the plot twists built up to a mind-blowing finale. Dylan, you really should try finishing the first season in your own time! The show is absolutely cheesy, but it become weirdly endearing after a while due to its strong emotional core, hilarious moments, and a cast that commits. But for your own sanity, please DO NOT go past season 3.

[@chaechae4152]

I SECOND THIS!!

[@cherry_noemi_boiii]

Yesssss I remember watching it as it was airing from day one RELIGIOUSLY, but somewhere after season three I didn’t like it anymore cause of a variety of reasons. So definitely, around season three anyone should just stop watching 😅

[@lilvargyt9964]

Literally my exact thoughts on the show

[@artemis8396]

Joe's crying scenes got me everytime

[@madara5458]

You've made very valid point throughout this analysis. Stuff I never thought of when I was a kid. I just enjoyed the show back then. But that changes in season 5. Its like from season 4 onwards, the show just didn't have a plot. You've mentioned physics and lemme tell you, in season 5, that problem became even more blaringly obvious, so much so that it breaks immersion. Needless to say, if anyone is interested in the show, they should only watch up to season 4.

[@kated7698]

Okay this is going to be confusing but ill try to explain the best I can. To answer your question about wells in the first season with his glasses, it’s revealed that the man you were seeing take off his glasses in every scene wasn’t really Harrison wells. It was Eboard (butchered that spelling sorry) Thawne, who is a speedster like Barry but that isn’t shown until a couple episodes in. Thawne took over the real Harrison wells body, who did wear glasses cause of his fucked up vision, but Thawne did not. So I think he took off his glasses a lot because he got tired of wearing them because someone who doesn’t need glasses and wears them kinda fucks up their vision in itself. But yea to portray the idea to everyone that Thawne is the real wells, he had to wear glasses.

[@alexxander966]

Sooooo... he didn't have the time to take the glasses to a glasses shop and get the glass changed to no prescription instead of dealing with it for however long?

[@param1366]

Just use a 0 point glass ? That's so stupid, they could have shown anything but they added this.

[@baishihua]

Then just wear one with a flat lens, problem solved.

[@alanabanana752]

Since he is in Harrison wells’ body, then he also has his bad eyesight

[@leeregno]

​​@@alexxander966 think the theory here is if someone found out that the glasses were not medicated it will blow his cover.

[@ZombieCookie333]

An A to Z watcher here and I stayed for Grant Gustin’s performances and all the crossover events I loved from the comics with all of the other shows. Echoing so many others, Arrow played a big part in establishing this show and their friendship on screen was dynamic. I loved it!! Grant made it worth it sitting through the rougher seasons.

[@laaa9429]

in Brazil, the guy who voices Flash in portuguese was reading a line only to end with "olha, que dialogo merda", which means "what a shitty dialogue", and they kept it. If the dubbers can't stand it anymore, I'm sure the actors are also sick of it

[@themagnificentorange672]

😭

[@soraia_4383]

onde tá isso??

[@ivanagustinortiz5237]

No way 💀💀💀

[@retgaming6492]

10:30 - the cop, when talking about there being “no lightning”, was referring to Barry claiming he saw lightning swirling around his mother the night she was killed. His father was put in prison, but Barry knows it was this “lightning” that caused it.