So I've been watching the old Flash TV show. The one that came out in 1990.
I cannot believe more AU fic does not reference Jay Allen, Barry's older brother, a police officer tragically murdered in the first episode.
These villains are extra. I figured the Trickster would be a wacky outlier. Instead, the pilot shows a pre-Flash Central City dealing with a motorcycle gang called the Dark Riders with a secret lair lead by a dramatically scarred man named Pike who deals with people trying to quit by
* talking about how Genghis Khan handled disloyalty,
* tying them to a motorcycle,
* adding a bomb, and then
* starting up the motorcycle and sending it off to explode.
(I have the sneaking suspicion that tv!Axel Walker is really sad he wasn’t old enough to effectively break the law in the early ‘90s.)
There are passing resemblances between Tina McGee and Caitlin Snow. I mean, there's the style, the restraint, the working for STAR Labs, the medical training, the objection to superheroics, the partner who died in a STAR Labs experiment...
First victim of Barry's super-speed is a coffee cup. I am curious to see if it will be a recurring motif in the original series.