Tonight's episode of the Flash was very interesting... it is a crossover episode between Supergirl and the Flash (strange that the Flash and Supergirl exist on alternative Earths).

Anyhow, it Guest stars Darren Criss from Glee as what appears, at first, to
be a villian but becomes something more mysterious at the end that makes you wonder. Anyhow without spoiling it, this is a musical with a good superhero story behind it.

I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but tonight I had an Aunt visiting who
was amazed that a comic book super hero show could hold a comic book style super hero plot together and marry it with a musical that is also very
visually beautiful.

I have to say, the Justice League movie's flash is going to have a hard time competing with the TV Show's flash. I am continually amazed by the quality
of this show... and Supergirl, while it is good, does not hold up to the high standard set in the Flash.

Allen

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Hello, Allen Prunty.
On 3/21/17 11:56 PM you wrote:

Tonight's episode of the Flash was very interesting... it is a
crossover episode between Supergirl and the Flash (strange that
the Flash and Supergirl exist on alternative Earths).

Yeah, I think that was a holdover when supergirl was on CBS or ABC or whatever.

Anyhow, it Guest stars Darren Criss from Glee as what appears, at
first, to be a villian but becomes something more mysterious at
the end that makes you wonder. Anyhow without spoiling it, this
is a musical with a good superhero story behind it. I don't want
to spoil it for anyone, but tonight I had an Aunt visiting who was
amazed that a comic book super hero show could hold a comic book
style super hero plot together and marry it with a musical that is
also very visually beautiful. I have to say, the Justice League
movie's flash is going to have a hard time competing with the TV
Show's flash. I am continually amazed by the quality of this
show... and Supergirl, while it is good, does not hold up to the
high standard set in the Flash.

Grant Gustin is an amazing actor.

The singing was off for me, though.
They recorded the songs as voiceovers, so it gave the singing an unnatural quality. That uncanny valley where it was too perfect, with no background noise or echo. Other than that, the episode was great. It reminded me of the Buffy musical episode, "Once More With Feeling" but wasn't so similar that it felt like a rip-off.

Allen

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On 03/23/17, Mike Miller said the following...

They recorded the songs as voiceovers, so it gave the singing an
unnatural quality. That uncanny valley where it was too perfect, with
no background noise or echo. Other than that, the episode was great. It reminded me of the Buffy musical episode, "Once More With Feeling" but wasn't so similar that it felt like a rip-off.

In the music community it is called "Pitch Perfect" performance. As a
musician myself I have a very trained ear and I did not detect any of the noticeable "digitializations" that Autotune leaves in the voiceovers.

Considering that the Music Master was performed by Darren Criss, one of the main stars of Glee and they brought in some of the sound producers of Glee to help with the production it does not surprise me that they wanted everything pitch perfect. The one thing that urked me about Glee, other than the story lines were bleah, was that everyone constantly sang pitch perfect. Had
perfect accompanyment... had a creepy guy with a beard show up to play
piano... perfectly, of course. It's High school... voices should crack a bit... let it be a bit more natural.

Anyhow, with that said the episode was pretty good. Supergirl was son CBS
not ABC and CBS owns the CW now. It's always been under her umbrella...
which makes me wonder, since there is a "multiverse" if there is a superman
in the Flash's universe and what happened to the Kara and Mon-El of theirs.

I'm also wondering if Mon-El will eventually get the costume he had in the comic books, where the Red and Blue is reversed. The comic book Mon-El had Blue boots, Red Costume, Blue cap etc etc... since they done away with the "erection suppressor" briefs there won't be a blue codpiece. However I don't think he is the crown prince of Daxan in the comic books and eventually he
was poisoned by lead which in the comic books is always fatal and irreversible... (although they did find a way to stop it by putting him in the phantom zone if I remember correctly.) In the comic books he was not
effected by Kryptonite, but I believe in this TV Show they showed him as
being effected by it, I could be recalling it wrong. Who knows... it is getting interesting since now his "true love's kiss" has proven he is
genuine with Kara. Boom-chcika-boom-boom... imagine parenting a
superbaby... the terrible twos could level a city.

BTW... my Girlfriend has had a crush on that actor as he was the same actor that played the Cop in the one season drama series Containment. It's worth
a watch if you have Hulu or Netflix. It also has Claudia Black in it from Farscape and she's still hot!

Allen

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