by Alessandra Grace
The main character, Barry Allen, is a forensic assistant for the Central City Police Department. He is a normal guy fascinated by science, but one day he's struck by lightning created by an explosion of an accelerator of particles at S.T.A.R Labs and he goes into a coma for nine months. When he wakes up, he finds that now he can move so fast that it seems that the world around him is standing still; he is now a meta-human. Helped by three scientists of the S.T.A.R. labs, he learns how to control his power and how to use it for good.
Unfortunately, the explosion caused by the accelerator of particles created other meta-humans like Barry who are using their power to hurt other people or just to achieve personal goals, so Barry has to stop them.
The first episode of The Flash was awesome; I really enjoyed it. However, the other two have been less intriguing or exciting, I have to say, since there isn't the same epicness that there was in the first episode, and it might make the episodes boring (and the spectator bored) sometimes.
As passionate of comics (especially of comics by DC) as I am, I like this series and the fact that there are other shows about superheroes is fantastic. Yes, apart from Arrow, based on the DC comics superhero Green Arrow (alter-ego of Oliver Queen) and also a good show, there is another series based on the DC comics universe, Gotham.
If you don't know it, Gotham City is Batman's city, but in this show, the main character isn't Batman, but James Gordon, detective at the Gotham City Police Department who will become one of Batman's helpers in future. And the reason why the series is not about Batman but about Jim Gordon is that Batman does not exist yet! Bruce Wayne (Batman's alter ego) is only a child and he's just lost his parents because of a robbery. Jim is the detective who is given the task of solving the case of the death of the Waynes and finding the killer, and that's how he meets the young Bruce.
While investigating to solve the case, Jim and his partner, Harvey Bullock, meet those who will become Batman's super villains, such as The Penguin, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, The Joker, and The Riddler, but another thing that Jim discovers that will become another great villain of Batman and of Gotham itself: the mob. Jim will find that almost every influential person of Gotham has been corrupted, so he must fight against the Mafia while looking for the Waynes' killer, and he will find a precious ally in Bruce Wayne himself, determined to have justice about his parents.
Gotham started September 22nd, and will have twenty-two episodes; five of them have already aired. Since the main character is a police detective, the series is intriguing because every episode is about a new case that has to be solved, even if the main story isn't forgotten. I like this show also because it's full of references to the world of Batman, and I have fun trying to catch and understand all of them! Plus, I like that Gotham City is represented like a corrupted city, because it's very loyal to the comic, and I really appreciate it.