You can spot his old costumes on display in the warehouse, as well as actual stills from the show in his file.īut he also played him on Justice League Unlimited, in the absolutely perfect Flash-centric episode “Flash and Substance.” His Trickster this week was slightly “off” those models, neither as spritely as his original TV appearance nor as maniacally menacing as his time voicing the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series.
– okay, as I’m sure you’re tired of hearing everyone make a big deal about, Mark Hamill has played the Trickster before on the original The Flash TV series.
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Fans of the original Flash series may know him as Officer Tony Bellows, half of a pair of bumbling cops who provided some comic relief on that show. – That was Vito D’Ambrosio as Mayor Anthony Bellows. Okay, so…because of the sheer amount of coolness in this episode, it’s time to just head directly into… Flash Facts! This episode doesn’t deserve to be nitpicked. I’m not totally sure I buy the reasoning behind the unmasking, but whatever…I don’t care. I’ve spent all season assuming that he’s headed for villainy, but then they just keep making him a nice guy. I am now left not knowing what to believe about Eddie. I’m not sure that any show could have done the “pair of evil laughs” the way both Tricksters did in unison this week and not have it come off like some Snidely Whiplash nonsense, yet here we are. Graye, then, did a fine job…and his younger, more brash Trickster was somehow still more restrained than that irritating first Count Vertigo we got on Arrow. But the Trickster, well, that’s how you do it. You’ve probably heard me moan a little when I feel someone takes the notion of playing a supervillain as an excuse to play things too broadly. But I also have to give it up for Devon Graye as the Axel Walker version of the character, too. Now, you didn’t think I’d not talk about the titular Tricksters of this week’s outing, did you? Mark Hamill was great as James Jesse. It’s not just the past in terms of the timeline, it’s actually the past in Harrison/Eobard’s consciousness. I’ve been waiting for the moment when Harrison Wells decides he has to go back in time to kill Nora Allen in an attempt to inspire Barry to be a hero or something like that. Of all the Reverse-Flash surprises, I’m pretty sure that the idea that Eobard got stuck here when he killed Barry’s mother might be the biggest. But this week they played with our entire perception of how the show’s timeline works. For two weeks they quite literally played with time and continuity. I can say with absolute certainty that no superhero show has ever delivered on so many of its early season promises the way that The Flash has over the last few weeks. And we got more insight into the Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne mystery, which remains just mysterious enough to keep everyone, whether they’re hardcore comic book fans or Flash newbies, on their toes. Martin and Grant Gustin have played together.
We got another heart-rendingly beautiful scene between Joe and Barry, possibly the best scene that Jesse L. We just had another week with no mustache-twirling from Harrison Wells, despite the fact that his secret is out (and he suspects that it is). But mostly, it’s just smart writing, and a cast that, top to bottom, just never sleeps on it. Some of this just goes to show how awesome Flash’s core rogues’ gallery is. Aside from the heaps of fan-service this week (which, as usual, I’ll get to), The Flash once again did what occasionally feels impossible during a long network season: it pulled off an episode that was both a perfect “villain of the week” scenario and it absolutely killed it with the season long arc.
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