Central City Underground A Flash Fan Podcast

In Praise of the Lesser Known Villains So this week, in "All Star Team Up", we got our first, brief, and hopefully not last look at a massively-revamped Bug-Eyed Bandit. Compared to Bertram Larvan (shown below), Emily Kinney was a welcome sight, even if she was only there for a few minutes. But I thought I'd take a moment to shout out the praises of Flash, and it's willingness to embrace the C-and-D Listers of the DC villain community. Read more... The post CCU 36 – S1E18 – All Star Team Up appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Trickstered! or Will the Real Eobard Thawne Please Stand Up? Well, Tricksters was everything I'd hoped it would be and more. Mark Hamill's 1/2 Hannibal Lector, 1/2 Jerry Lewis Trickster was a shtick-spewing force of awesome. Watching Barry's animosity toward Wells escalate propelled us ever closer to the showdown. But then, we got hit by the biggest trick of all! Harrison Wells ISN'T Reverse-Flash! Eobard Thawne is! But...wait. Isn't Harrison Wells actually Eobard Thawne? Well, not exactly. Some time-travel, some future tech, and a big ol' reveal as the yellow cowl is removed to reveal...Matthew Letscher?! Brilliant! Read more... The post CCU 35 – S1E17 – Tricksters appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Time Keeps On Slippin': Joe's Thoughts on "Rogue Time" Time travel. The bane of McFlys and writers alike. It's an element that, once introduced, irrevocably changes the nature of whatever it's introduced to. Things get "Timey-wimey." Read more... The post CCU 34 – S1E16 – Rogue Time appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

We come back after a few weeks off to a terrific episode of The Flash! No more "Will they or won't they?", time travel is here and it's going to get messy! Join us as we discuss The Flash Season 1, Episode 15 Out Of Time... even though we call it Episode 14 in the podcast. Whoops! Still, clerical numbering problems or not, what a great episode of The Flash. So many reveals, twists and turns that just led to more questions and more possibilities for our favorite superhero and his team... and his enemies! Will time reset itself? Will Barry prevent some of the disasters we saw unfolding? We'll find out on Tuesday the 24th of March! Read more... The post CCU 33 – S1E15 – Out Of Time appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Flash, Season 1, Episode 14 - Fallout To Spin-Off or not to Spin-Off Hello again, all! Joey Shakespeare here again to throw out some thoughts, make some musings and otherwise blog away. So the last two episodes of The Flash have brought the Firestorm story arc to the forefront. Last week, we got to see the mysterious "Burning Man" in action, and this week we saw the men that made up the "Burning Man." One mushroom cloud and young Ronnie Raymond and the esteemed Dr. Martin Stein were free of each other. But in truth, that was just the beginning of the fun. Read more... The post CCU 32 – S1E14 – Fallout appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

A SOURCE IS A SOURCE One of the things Tony and I discuss in this week's CCU podcast is The Flash's willingness to adhere to the source material...so long as it suits them. It's a tricky road to walk (run?), but the writing team has learned to navigate it masterfully. For several years in the early 2000s, I dove into the Flash comics like they were a refreshing pool and I was on fire. Geoff Johns focused on the men behind the masks. The Flash was ancillary to Wally West, a mechanic w/ Keystone City's police force. He loved hockey, his wife, and his city. Captain Cold would set down his cold gun, remove his parka, and become Leonard Snart...a coffee-drinking weisenheimer with a fierce, if unique, moral code and equally fierce loyalty to his friends. He also loved hockey. Read more... The post CCU 31 – S1E13 – The Nuclear Man appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Welcome, citizens of Central City (and perhaps it's neighbor/twin, Keystone City!) Before we launch into discussion of Peekaboo, and her adventures with Flash, let's do some introductions: Who on earth am I, might you ask? Allow me to introduce myself. My name's Joe Zettelmaier and, along with the talented Tony Caselli (aka The Director), I'm one of your new co-hosts for Central City Underground. The Shadow and Miss Ice may have gone on the run, but Tony and I will guide you through the twisting alleys of the city. Read more... The post CCU 30 – S1E12 – CRAZY FOR YOU appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

The Judge and The Man in the Suit sound off about the Pied Piper. No more "Toni" and "Joe"; we've got real underground names now. We heard about Hartley Rathaway last week, and this week we meet him. And hear him. The Pied Piper is here for payback because Doc Wells wouldn't ... listen to him. Well, can ya' hear me now? Read more... The post CCU 29 – S1E11 – The Pied Piper appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Tony and Joe take over for The Shadow and Miss Ice this episode. After the raid they were the subject of, they might be ... tied up for a bit. Captain Cold teams up with Heatwave this week, as the rogues gallery begins to take shape in "Revenge of the Rogues". Barry has no time for them as he tries to work up his speed to be as fast as Reverse Flash (or perhaps to become Reverse Flash...hmmm). But fire and ice do manage to get his attention. Read more... The post CCU 28 – S1E10 – Rogues Gallery appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Hello to all listeners of the Underground. What you are about to hear is a transmission recorded this morning from the leaders of the underground network called Central City Underground. We're not exactly sure how to describe what happened, but if you've been watching the news you're probably aware of the details. Read more... The post CCU 27 – An Arresting Development appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

In this podcast episode, The Shadow and I, Miss Ice, discuss the winter finale (episode 9) of The Flash entitled "The Man in the Yellow Suit". But I'm asking the question, is there only one yellow suited man? Dr. Wells, if he is a version of Reverse Flash, would have to be pretty dang fast to be both the man in the yellow suit and his wheel-chair bound self, and would have to possess some serious Fight Club talents to beat himself up. Read more... The post CCU 26 – S1E9 – The Yellow Suits appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Hey Underground! This is Miss Ice delivering up this week's Rapid Reactions segment! The mid-season, or "winter", finale is entitled "The Man in the Yellow Suit" and heavily features Barry's pursuit of the man who killed his mother. There were some huge callbacks to episode 1 and even pre-episode 1 (back to the Arrow season 2 prequels). Caitlin also makes a shocking discovery and we get to see another character from the DC universe! Read more... The post CCU 25 – Rapid Reactions “The Man in the Yellow Suit” appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

This week on Central City Underground we are joined by Podcast Overlord of Arrow Squad in our discussion of the first part of the two-night crossover Flash vs Arrow event! And boy was there a lot to discuss! We get some nitpicks out of the way before diving head first into the Prizm storyline and Oliver's contribution to the resolution there. Read more... The post CCU 24 – S1E8 – Whammied appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Word up Underground! This is The Shadow and MAN am I glad to have landed Rapid Reactions for this week. Yeah... I'm lucky... :D Season 1 Episode 8 of The Flash, appropriately called "Flash vs Arrow", was filled with epic crossover GLORIOUSNESS! Read more... The post CCU 23 – Rapid Reactions “Flash vs Arrow” appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

What's better than an episode of The Flash with one villain? Try TWO villains! Two very distinct stories are going on in the seventh episode of The Flash entitled "Power Outage" and as Barry and Wells try to juggle the attack from without by Blackout, Iris, Joe and Eddie must handle the attack from within by The Clock King. The Shadow was pretty disappointed by the use of this villain in the context of this episode, based on the brilliant storyline we got from Arrow's season 2 episode "Time of Death", but there was more to make this story enjoyable. There were a lot of Harrison Wells reveals in this episode and fans (and hosts) are pretty evenly divided over who Wells is in the broader Flash universe. Is he from the future, or can he only see into the future? Did he create The Flash, or is he just eager to take credit? And what theory of time-travel is the show conforming to? We address all of these questions, but probably don't provide concrete answers because every time we think we know more, the showrunner

This is The Wraith, your ally from the Great White North! The Shadow and Miss Ice are busy preparing for their Thanksgiving festivities. But since Thanksgiving here in Canada took place in October I thought I'd step in and do the Rapid Reaction this week. The post CCU 21 – Rapid Reactions “Power Outage” appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

Have you ever punched someone and have them respond by saying: "Hurt your hand?" Yeah, that's definitely where my mind went this week! Barry Allen got his butt handed to him a couple times by his childhood nemesis Tony "Girder" Woodward in The Flash's 7th episode of season 1 entitled "The Flash Is Born". Both The Shadow and I found this episode to be a huge improvement over last week's installment and much more in line with what we're already starting to expect from the show runners at The Flash. We cover a lot in this episode... We talk about Harrison Wells and who he might actually be in comic book lore, or who he might not be. Martin aka The Flash called in with a theory about Eddie Thawne and is sticking to his guns about the man actually being Reverse Flash (which I, Miss Ice, happen to agree with). Did anyone else pick up on the weird vibe Eddie was sending out this week? Read more... The post CCU 20 – S1E6 – Hurt Your Hand? appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podca

Greetings Central City Underground! I am the Podcast Overlord and will be delivering the rapid reactions for The Flash's sixth episode of season 1 entitled "The Flash Is Born". This week is a normal week for your typical Superhero Friday podcasts, but next week is not. Miss Ice and The Shadow will record early next week to account for the Thanksgiving holiday in America, so be sure to keep your ears open on instructions for getting feedback in on time. There will not be a rapid reactions episode next week, due to scheduling conflicts, but we will have a full episode discussion available by Thursday!Read more... The post CCU 19 – Rapid Reactions “The Flash Is Born” appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

KABOOM! Yes, this explosive episode made our heads collectively go BOOM! Kelly Frye's Plastique may have met an abrupt end, but she will be remembered! She is only the first in what is inevitably a long line of subjects General Eiling is seeking out to "make the world a safer place." But whatever his means, he'll have to find a way without Wells because our favorite, mysterious scientist made it absolutely clear that he would have no part in Eiling's games.Read more... The post CCU 18 – S1E5 – Can’t Touch This appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

BOOM! UNDERGROUND - this is The Shadow here with some initial reactions to the fifth EXPLOSIVE of The Flash, which aired on Tuesday November 11, 2014 and was appropriately entitled Plastique. Read more... The post CCU 17 – Rapid Reactions “Plastique” appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.