I admit that I might not be remembering this correctly, but I think I watched Arrow episodes featuring Barry after watching The Flash pilot. So for me, The Flash didn't have a two-episode head start. I liked it better on its own merits, as I don't like Arrow and don't watch it regularly. (Also, not long ago, I watched…

So, thanks to @A Shelf of Bossks, I got to watch this pilot. I even watched it twice to make sure my impressions weren't clouded by anything—like my mood, or my blood sugar level, you know, fun stuff like that.

I realize what happened now. I tried to watch a CBS show using the CBS app, not the web site. Turns out the CBS app—unlike the CW app—works like Hulu Plus. You can't watch their stuff on a device like a tablet or a smartphone unless you're willing to pay—and I wasn't. I'm still not. Thanks for giving me a clue,…

Actually, I wish they had done something to have her in law enforcement. The medical field might have worked as well, or the sciences. She talks about making a difference, but if she really wanted to help people (the way Superman does), she'd be stopping crimes or helping out in some other more meaningful way than…

I agree that The Flash is the gold standard. If Supergirl wants to differentiate itself, it's going to have to do a lot better than have this hero be the female version of that hero, but on a more widely-watched network.

I believe you are correct. Numbers, I think, might have done a similar episode when a person on death row was willing to die to protect someone. I can't remember whether it was a child or not, but I think it was.

I'll check it out then. Thanks!

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"Emotional blackmail" is the terminology I have been routing around in my brain for and just plucked out. I get that someone who is dying wants to reconnect with the people she hurt, especially if that someone is a child. It just seems selfish and unfair. "Hi, I know I've ignored you for the past twenty years, but now…

Well, I believe Linda Park (played by a different actress) was in the pilot of The Flash as well, reporting on the accelerator shenanigans. Scratch that, I know she was, since I recently watched the entire first season all over again on Netflix. :)

Didn't say that. Just said she has feelings for him.

As far as I know, he is in the comic books, but they're changing a lot of things up for the show. Barry's growing up in the West household, for example, is something done expressly for the show; and the West family being black, instead of white as they were originally, is because somehow Wally West in the new comics…

Iris: "Hey, Dad. I just found out that Francine has a son. He may or may not be your son, but just so you know. Ttyl. Lol. Smiley face."

Spot on. Meghan Markle (Rachel) and Shantel VanSanten could be sisters. From the moment Patty showed up, I kept thinking, "Now who does she remind me of?"

Again, it's been established (in last season's Grodd episode) that Iris does reciprocate Barry's feelings, at least to some extent.

I thought the Grodd episode last season established that Iris does acknowledge that she has feelings for Barry, but things between them were up in the air because of Eddie.

That is exactly what Oliver tried to warn him about.

Another middling episode for me, and I couldn't figure out why until Scott the reviewer pointed it out: it's another episode setting up Legends of Tomorrow. I understand the whys, but The Flash suffers for it, just as—I suspect—Arrow did and will. Jay Garrick's absence was glaringly felt, even for me; some mention…

That would be nice. But I'd be a season behind everyone else—like I am with Doctor Who. Oh, well. You can't win 'em all.

When I tried to watch something on the CBS web site some time ago, I believe I was told I had to subscribe. Has that changed? (I'm begrudgingly willing to watch ads—that's how I watch The Flash, Jane the Virgin, and now, on a probationary basis, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend using the CW app.)