S1E2

Fastest Man Alive

The Flash · 2014-10-14 · 41 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 20 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Barry changes into the Flash when six gunmen storm a university event honoring a scientist, but his heroics don't match up to his expectations. Meanwhile, Iris becomes even more intrigued by the "red streak."

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 20 comments — 13 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit23 read

“the special effects in that last fight scene? I would not have expected that from a TV show! It was actually like a comic book scene come to life.”
alhanna92▲ 66about 75–100% inread it ↗
“they made up for it with that final scene between Barry and West”
HalloweenBlues▲ 23about 90–100% inread it ↗
“I wasn't impressed with the first episode”
PhantomMs1▲ 18about 0–10% inread it ↗
“the second one they really stepped up the game in the "speed" effects department. I loved the look when he was on the treadmill!”
PhantomMs1

who made it

directed: David Nutter
written: Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Ronald Patrick Thompson as Samaritan
Seth Whittaker as Security Guard
Suzanne Ristic as Tenant
William Sadler as Simon Stagg
Michasha Armstrong as Java
Evelyn Chew as Woman
Emily Delahunty as Paige

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