‘The Flash’ And The Unnecessary Costume Change
The Flash is getting a slightly updated costume for the upcoming season. It will bring his costume closer to the comic books, and closer to the Flash we knew from before this series. But is it necessary?
The Flash, as broadcast on The CW, has carved a unique identity for itself. It’s a much more dramatic Flash than what you might see in any sort of comic book or superhero movie. That’s part of its uniqueness. I doubt The Flash movie, which is scheduled for 2018, will contain this kind of soap opera storyline. It’ll likely be about the action and special effects that superhero movies have come to be identified with.
Keeping a Flash costume unique to the TV show would be a way to differentiate the different actor set to play the Flash in the new DC movies from the Grant Gustin Flash. And it would come to be personified with the more emotional and conflicted Flash that Gustin plays.
The Inquisitr detailed the new costume’s mysterious appearance on The Flash.
“Fans may have caught a glimpse of the white chest symbol, which is reminiscent of the comic book appearance of the character, during Barry Allen’s game-changing fight in the past/future with Reverse-Flash in Season 1. Fans with a keen eye would have noticed the symbol on The Flash’s costume during the fight, one that Barry Allen didn’t wear during Season 1, which hints at more mystery surrounding Allen’s past/future.”
NEW SUIT, NEW SEASON! #TheFlash S2 premieres Tuesday, Oct. 6! pic.twitter.com/i3cOdctzOk
— The Flash (@CW_TheFlash) July 20, 2015
Since they bothered to introduce such a costume change for The Flash TV series in the first place, they may as well keep it. When it debuted it was out of line with the Flash from the comics. But that’s TV for you. So unless the costume update is tied in with some essential and necessary purpose needed for the Flash’s adventures, what’s the point?
Season 2 @CW_TheFlash Posters New Suit and Jay Garrick @teddysears @grantgust @FLASHtvwriters #TheFlash pic.twitter.com/Xy71Fetwje
— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) July 21, 2015
They would simply be changing the color of the logo on his chest to the one we’ve seen the Flash wearing throughout the years. Making the red area within the circle white.
ComicBook.com reported other appearances of the new costume during Season 1.
“In the series premiere, a newspaper from the future showed The Flash wearing a costume closer to the comics, including the white circle. Later in the season, Cisco Ramon — who, of course, designs The Flash’s costume — saw the paper and liked the look…although he did worry for a moment about whether stealing his design from a future version of his design would bend some kind of temporal rule that he should be considering.”
Hopefully, the changing of the Flash’s logo color will be accompanied by an equally compelling story for the change. Cisco should update more than the suit. Maybe give the Flash new powers with it.
[Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for The CW]
