The Flash - DC Comics - TV Series - Season 1 finale

I really liked the first season of "The Flash", and the finale had lots of stuff jammed into it.

Spoilers

I quite liked the "Golden Age Flash" helmet being spun into the TV Flash Universe.  When you start playing with time and dimensional travel, it opens up some interesting possibilities.

I hadn't followed that DC was putting out a series with Hawkgirl in it, and that the character made an appearance in the Flash finale, until I looked up the actress' name which appeared in the credits.  I had assumed the name belonged to the "Barry's Mother" character.  In the big wormhole stealing the city scene, we do see several recurring characters looking up (Captain Cold, the police chief, and a very striking actress I couldn't place, which is Hawkgirl - Clara Renee).



I did choose to ignore some of the inconsistencies that come with dealing with superpowers in a "realistic" setting.  For example, if you can run at superspeed, you can take everyone out of a burning building in seconds - much faster than you can ask your mentor though the radio for help (one of the last few episodes - I watched the last 3 or 4 in a row).  Also, if you spin your arms to create a vacuum, doesn't that affect the breathing of everyone in the room?

The big payoff, with Eddie Thawne killing himself to stop Reverse Flash from killing Barry (and everyone else).  Nice tie-in with the time travel, but it likely wouldn't have worked out so cleanly.  If Eddie kills himself, his descendent line disappears - true, and as he doesn't have any children in the show, that would mean his direct descendent - the Reverse Flash would not be born.  However, if Reverse Flash didn't exist, he wouldn't have gone back to kill Barry as a child, and this entire timeline would be erased, not just the "current" killing of the team - remember, this is an alternate timeline already, caused by the killing of Barry's mother, and thus causing Reverse Flash to orchestrate the creation of the Flash in order to have a speedster to allow him to go back home (to his century).  The "real" timeline would be the one that created the Flash without the intervention (back in time) of the Reverse Flash.  Thus, killing RF would dissolve the entire series, and all events from "That Night" of Barry's mom's murder to the present (and future).

I did like seeing the "other supers" in the last few episodes - Arrow (of course) along with Firestorm.  Not sure if I'm forgetting something, but he seemed to be pretty together - I though he was having difficult controlling his powers - seemed to tie up with a wedding pretty quickly.  It wasn't a bad rendition of the character though (to be fair, I don't know or care much about Firestorm - he looked cool, but I hadn't read much beyond some JLA or something where he appeared).

I'm assuming Flash gets picked up for a second season.  It is going to be difficult to run this character long-term.  The character development, and learning your powers, was a great 1st season, however, if he's able to stop a wormhole on his own, he kinda' enters a new level - might be harder to find villains and situations for a more "up" powered character.