Doing a “First and Last” with a CW superhero show is so hilarious because these characters have been so much - multiverse battles, clones, future children appearing in present day, super weird bad guys - that not even fans who have been here since day 1 truly understand what’s going on and how we got here

So we all can agree Grant Gustin carried this entire show for 9 seasons and my dude didn't even took credit for it.

The reason wells constantly takes his glasses off and puts them back on is because he doesn’t need them, foreshadowing the fact that he’s reverse flash who killed barry’s mom trying to play the part of a guy stuck in a wheelchair. He doesn’t need the glasses because he’s a speedster and they all have regeneration causing his eyes to just heal and be good on their own

The fact that bro has zero context to the story and Grant Gustin still manages to make him feel the emotion and weight of the scene shows just how much the CW let grant down

Dylan saying "botanist" to describe every single kind of scientist in the world is something so very funny to me😂😂😂😂

We all like Grant Gustin’s performance and we’ve all felt so sad for him being trapped, doing this show for 9 seasons.

Grant is definitely THE highlight of the show. All the episodes where Barry ends up emotionally wrecked (6.7, 6.17, some of the savitar ones) are a good watch lol

4:27 “the timeline of this feels a little weird” my thoughts with the entire arrowverse

The weird thing about the "Schway" scene is that that girl is Barry's daughter from the future, the villain she stabbed is an evil alternate future version of Barry, and "schway" is future slang for "cool". So she just killed a version of her own father and then smiled and said, "Cool."

The coma thing actually lasted nine months in real time. In Arrow they introduced Grant Gustin as the Flash with an unofficial pilot for the Flash spin off. In that episode he explained that he has dedicated his life to forensics to prove that his father didn't kill his mother since no one believed what he saw as a kid. Then after helping the Arrow take on some people with super human strength, he went back home and got hit by the particle accelerator and was put in the coma. Then nine months later, the pilot of the Flash aired and at that point there was a lot of hype built up. I watched both these shows as they aired but it's interesting watching someone without that experience react to it because it totally feels rushed and very confusing.

ive never realized how many times wells takes his glasses off and it's hilarious every time actually

16:54 rewatching this on april 25 2024 is so satisfying

It's actually hilarious how the effects got worst at the season finale than they were at the pilot

The first few seasons of arrow and flash were genuinely some of my favorite shows ever. Sad that it fell off so hard that this how I see the finale 🤦‍♂️

okay so he doesn't understand how amazng it felt to hear the first season intro all over again on the last one 😭 IT WAS NOT THE INTRO FOR ALL THE OTHER SEASONS! so it was really special to see they brought it back for the last episode 😭😭😅😅

deciding to randomly watch this video, for the first time, on April 25, 2024 after not watching Dylan for months is insanity

I didn't notice Harrison taking his glasses off and on frequently until you mentioned it and now I can't stop laughing either

The eye witness sketch looking EXACTLY like the photograph, pose and all, somehow always gets me 😂

The sheer number of times Harrison took of his glasses is astonishing. How did I never notice that?

I’ve going to clear some things up: 1. Ik it was a joke, but Savitar is the future Barry. He’s essentially a god with a robot suit. 2. The girl who said “Schway” is Barry and Iris’s daughter from the future, Nora. She said “Schway” because it’s slang in the future. 3. Khione is not Caitlin. Khione is an alternate personality created after Caitlin died. She also is essentially a goddess. 4. The “believe in the impossible” intro is not used in every episode. They just used it in the finale as a callback.

the fact that Dylan will never know how scary Zoom actually was is a crime lol. Also my dad used to call Eddie 'show tunes' back in season 1 and I think it's hilariously fitting

I remember watching several seasons of this, and that the solution to everything in the series is "you have to run faster that you have ever run before, Barry" and then he does 😅

12:25, the suit wasn't, created in two days, it was created way before Barry woke up, it was created to help firefighters, but ended up becoming the Flashes first suit. (it took five times watching it to realize that)

Actually wheelchair Dr wells (eobard thawne) doesn't need glasses, so it hurts while seeing through it for a long time

I remember LOVING this show when it came out when I was in middle school. Watching it slowly go from my favorite to least favorite show was a long and unfortunate journey lmao.

What made the Reverse Flash so dangerous was his ability to kill someone faster than they could blink. Having any speedster losing to a non speedster in reaction speed makes them feel like a joke.

8:47 if you watch closely, you can see the door shutting after him, so the glass smashes because he’s shut the car door at super speed

seeing you be completely confused about Nora specifically was so fucking funny

Dylan realizing that Nora is their daughter that hasn't been born yet is the most I have felt seen as a flash fan

During the first few seasons of the show, they had Grant Gustin actually run on a treadmill for the speed running, but after that they had him only move his arms and make it seem like he was running because they never really show his legs. That’s why it looks so goofy when he runs in the later seasons.

23:10 stop running like that. Sir this is flash, they run

The worst part about the last episode was the villains. They were all supposedly given speed boosts from the negative speedforce, but somehow Godspeed was slower than Cecil giving him a headache, Zoom is slower than lightning (He caught a lightning bolt in season 2), Thawne was slower than Allegra's light beams (He's faster than light, and what should've happened is Thawne taking Allegra's heart out of her chest), and Savitar, like goddamn he was nerfed. The worst one of all was Savitar because for starters, he was faster than Barry in season 3, who was faster than Zoom, who is faster than her and how do I know that? It's because this is a new Nora and the old Nora was erased in the timeline so this new Nora didn't learn from Thawne, therefore she is slower than the original Nora, so Savitar without the Speed Boost still should have defeated Nora but no, she kills her own father. Guaranteed the worst writing ever.

Literally the only reason why i kept watching the show was because of Grant. His performance in the show was the best compared to the other characters, and Grant just did an overall great job. Especially considering he's in a CW show, he didn't have to go so hard during the emotional scenes, and just he excelled when it came to really selling his character. Either way, Grant is an amazing actor and did really well during his acting in this show.

The concept of the Flash actually just brutally ripping someone apart because he’s moving too fast is literally the opening scene to The Boys, if anyone is ever interested in the concept of superhumans painted as super heroes gone horribly wrong.

Me and my mom watch the entirety of the show and what kept us going was the love and character development through all 9 seasons (and the villain's that you didn't see)

What kept me going is throughout every single season the emotion just got more harsher, and it was just heartfelt. It touched my heart and a lot different ways and it is literally my whole life.

Dylan not having any idea about Nora or that Khionne and Caitlin aren't the same person is hilarious

It's crazy how they all get destroyed so quickly in the last episode, knowing that each of those villains had a whole season

Yall its April 25, 2024. Its the date in the newspaper Wells was reading. That's wild!

Ever since I watched this channel I was able to predict scenes in movies cos u teach us about film making so now I feel like a genius💪🏼

What’s bad about the last episode is that those villains took like a season to be defeated but they just get defeated in 2 minutes

rewatching this hurts even more, especially when you've watched every season and know how good the villains used to be, it hurts so much seeing what happened to them towards the end of the season

12:00 the walking fingers got me😂

Every time a new season would come out I would rewatch the show from the beginning, but in the end what kept me to watch the show all the way through was the story. I wanted to see what the story was going to be like for the show and overall it was good

“She’s not his final love interest” God this would have made the show so much better if you were right lol.

I would love to see Dylan do a first and last to every Arrowverse show 😂 (I say this as someone who loved the whole Arrowverse, through all the good and bad)

Dylan calling Savitar a tree is the funniest shit I’ve ever heard😂

9:20-9:30 - Me watching this in Grayscale when he's changing his lights: "I'm watching in grayscale so nothing looks different to me!" 😂

as many people have mentioned, grant gustin's acting skills is probably the one thing that managed to be consistent throughout the series, the writing they gave him not so much but grant did a great job.

Are we all just ignoring the fact that Dylan confidently stated he was not a botanist when describing the science behind the lightning bolt…

24:50 I love his reaction

the lighting he was talking bout was not from the lab but from his house wen his mother died

The glasses on Tom cavanough are a plot point 😂 He dosent actually need glasses, but he took the body of someone who had glasses so he could make Barry the flash, but he dosent need them so him constantly taking them off is a hint to his real identity

The first season is actually pretty mind-blowing. Once you get past the initial hammy episodes, the heartfelt acting and highly creative plot beats built up to a brilliant finale. Sadly, the writers started losing their minds after season 3 or 4. Only reason I stuck around to season 5 was due to Grant Gustin and the character of Cisco (who's absolutely hilarious).

i was laughing when he talked about the hot mom I was yelling at my computer "THE HOT MOM DIES! THE HOT MOM DIESSSS!!!"

27:05 WHAT DID YOU SAY?!

Props for Grant for giving 110% in every dang episode (even the ones we wouldn't blame him for not).

I honestly didn't even know The Flash had ended, so thanks for putting this up Dylan

loving it when Dylan watch teenage movies/shows because his channel is literally for.. teenagers

i thought the constant removal of the glasses was intentional to foreshadow the fact that Wells is actually Eobard Thawne, therefore he doesn’t actually need glasses, giving that little hint

He doesn't actually need glasses, takes them off cuz they're uncomfortable then remembers the dude he's pretending to be wears glasses

The way even Dylan saw the chemistry with Caitlin and Barry 😭😭

Dylan saying, "yeah, nice and deep" will forever be imprinted in my mind. Thanks Dylan :p ;)

Bro I'm rewatching it its amazing!!!!!

it is tragic dylan will never know how good the first three seasons were… for a CW show. it’s so nostalgic for me and the storyline is genuinely captivating. and the villains were terrifying!

You misunderstood the Joe yelling at Barry scene. He was saying that barry was imagining the lightning storm that was in his childhood living room the night his mother died, not imagining the lightning bolt that (unknowingly to Joe) gave him powers. At this point in the story, it is believable to Barry that he could've just imagined the lightning storm in his living room killing his mom, because it was the reverse flash and an older version of himself traveling back in time.

23:08 just to clarify for you, the girl that said schway (Nora) is barry allen's kid from the future, who found out she had powers, after fighting godspeed (the white and gold speedster) and screwed up the timeline

Only made it up until the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover in season 6, but it was definitely Grant’s performance that kept me coming back. He is a phenomenal actor ☺️

The fact that Dylan will never know the context of nora saying "schway" has brightened my day forever.

In fact, I'm sad that the "first and last" scheme takes away the PURE MADNESS that is present in CW series somewhere in the middle of the plot, when neither the characters, nor the audience, nor the writers understand what is happening and where all these children and plotlines came from.

I need the whole series either this as commentary😂 It would be HILARIOUS and i would gladly spend an extra 40mins/episode

i really apricated it Dylan

This is a show I started as a teen and was obsessed with. It definitely peaked and never recovered but I stuck around for Grant Gustin until the end and can say it was a great part of my teen to young adult years.

I thought they would never end this show, it lasted 5 seasons longer than it should have

im gonna explain the confusing parts-, when the girl was stabbed she vibrated her cells so fast that they could pass through solid objects which they said in the show and they called it phasing, and she was from the future and time traveled back to that timeline so that she could help fight the huge battle so she said "im about to be born on the other side of that wall" because she is from the future and she is being born. The girl from the beginning that didn't smile a lot was not the same as the girl who was at the end that looked the same, so basically she had and alter ego named Frost that Caitlin's dad created as Caitlin's bodyguard and then Caitlin was shot with some gun and it split them into 2 people and then Frost died and then Caitlin tried experimenting to try to get Frost back because she thought if her dad could make Frost then so could she, but what ended up happening was neither Caitlin or Frost came out, but it was Khione and she could control nature but then she ascended to be a goddess she didn't need her human body anymore so Caitlin was ressurected. Also the guy who always took off and put on his glasses was the guy who killed Barry's mother because he time traveled back to try and kill Barry as a kid but then Barry time traveled with him and brought his younger self away but then he couldn't kill Barry so he killed Barry's mother instead and Barry couldn't stop him, but then later on Barry time traveled back in time to save his mother but soon realized that he had to have his mother die because if he didn't it would change the timeline and he would never meet Iris and anyone else so he had to let his mother die, but he created an alternate timeline where only a few things changed but somehow Cisco's brother died (Cisco is the one with the long hair who was there when Barry woke up) and not much else when he did that and he lived in that one for the rest of the show The End

i love how he was so off about Iris being Barrys love interest it was so hilarious his prediction about her moving away sadly that did happen to patty 😢

Cisco already had the suit made. He says when talking to Barry that it was designed to replace firefighter uniforms. He's just using it for Barry.

Grant's performance is the best in the show. However when you dont watch the entire show, you miss Tom Cavanagh's performance. He has had to play 10+ different versions of the same character. He is really good in most seasons when he isnt playing Eobard Thawne. Thawne sorta got bland later on however it could be they were going for the "he has a huge ego" approach

You infuriate me and make me laugh so hard! I don’t know what I am going to do with you 😂😂😂

The first episode gets expanded on as the first season progresses they go back and have a bunch of flashbacks to during the 9 months with how Joe Eobard (Harrison Wells) and Iris handled him being in the coma and at some point in S5 they cut back to it as well

You have to keep in mind, this first episode is a pilot. The pilots are made separately from the rest of the show, and they usually have a more sped up story arc

30:00 The actress for Caitlyn/Khionne/Frost was actually playing 3 different personalities. Khionne was the last one that was not human and did not have a strong grasp on emotions. She is more of a personification of the elements, than a human. She was alive for less than a year, so it actually fit to have her not showing much emotions. Edit: Holy shit, I just realized that actress was in Sky High.

“I got a plane to catch” this line that he mimicked, I almost died. One of the funniest things ive seen in my life

You've made very valid point throughout this analysis. Stuff I never thought of when I was a kid. I just enjoyed the show back then. But that changes in season 5. Its like from season 4 onwards, the show just didn't have a plot. You've mentioned physics and lemme tell you, in season 5, that problem became even more blaringly obvious, so much so that it breaks immersion. Needless to say, if anyone is interested in the show, they should only watch up to season 4.

the cgi for the flash in episode 1 was actually incredible. sadly the vfx got worse every season as they dropped the budget due to decreased viewer count

It’d be fun to see a “best and worst” of a show. The contrast for some shows would be galactic.

I love how he immediately caught on about the Barry and Caitlin relationship

25:20 i need to see dylan watch season 1 episode 15

Honestly, while the show declined later on, I highly recommend watching the first two seasons, or at least just the first season. They really do a good job of creating a story and characters that you're invested in, especially season 1.

5:38 That's why you gotta watch Arrow concurrently with this show. In Arrow we meet Barry and his coworkers and we get to live through those 9 months he was in a coma. They mention how Iris spends a lot of time visiting him so this reunion does feel earned if you've seen Arrow.

Insomnia is kicking my ass, perfect time to binge Dylan. I remember enjoying this show purely for Grant Gustin’s performance, idk why but he reminds me so much of Blake Lively…I think it’s the mouth area; the way they speak. He was such a good Flash imo. 9:30 😂 14:52 ahhh that laugh 🥰😄 so cute 18:15 🤣 22:47 I love when that face morphing effect is used 😅 23:46 27:55

You have to believe in the in possible and whatever got me rolling 😂

the funniest part is that a lot of the things he's saying is weird can actually be attributed to the twist later in the season. like Harrison telling Barry not to go be a hero because he needs Barry to send him home. and then Harrison telling Barry to be a hero because he knows he can't change Barry's future

Dylan put more thought into flash’s powers that the entire team of writers.

I like how every critique you have was actually done in s1. Every character gets their own arcs, the pacing is slowed down, and everything gets explored in way more depth. I think because it was a pilot, they set up all the core parts of the season and then explored them properly throughout all of s1. Even down to the critique of s9 where the villains were ridiculous, all of them except Godspeed were genuinely terrifying threats and sparked fear. Savitar was super hyped every scene he showed up and Zoom and Thawne had you praying for the characters. Like the first time Zoom and Barry meet, Zoom literally catches Barry’s strongest technique and paralyzes him for like 3 or 4 episodes. The dry acting was only dry because none of the actor wanted to be there because the show was ass by s7. 1-5/6 had amazing acting. Prime Flash is my Roman Empire. And yeah, the glasses were a plot point. It foreshadowed Wells’s real identity.

23:00 "schway" was a commonly used word by Nora Barrys first child its just some random word

I watched EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, from season 1 to season 9...the thing that kept me watching: Season 1: The mystery surrounding the man in yellow, then when that was revealed, the "how we gonna stop him" feeling. Season 2: Zoom was just a great villain Season 3: Savitar was an interesting concept, and also I couldn't wait to see Iris die, but then she didn't. Season 4: Devoe (the main villain) was just always like 4 parallel universes ahead of Barry and the gang, and I really enjoyed that. Also Devoe was played by a South African Actor, and being South African myself, it was fun seeing someone I know in such a big role. Season 5: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 6: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 7: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 8: Grant Gustin's Acting Season 9: Grant Gustin's Acting, and them wrapping up loose ends like the episode Barry and Thawne fights the night his mother died, and the episode where Arrow comes back. That's about it... in summary, the best thing from this show, is the memories we made...and Grant Gustin's acting.

Thawne was more scary in season 1 removing his glasses then season 9 actually as a character

Im so happy you mentioned power rangers cuz the way half these villans where giving power rangers villan was hilarious especially after season 1💀 not gonna lie i was obsessed w the show when season 1 came but i couldnt make it past season 4 cuz

i hate how he only saw season 9 reverse flash and zoom and Savitar bc if he saw season 1 reverse flash and season 2 zoom and maybe season 3 Savitar he would like this show a bit more