After seeing the movie again, the new Sci-Fi series really pales in comparison. Part of this is because the Flash movie had a great cast and the Sci-Fi show has castoffs from the WB. Part of it is that the movie has a budget and the TV show doesn't. But honestly, the movie's production values weren't that amazing. You could probably shoot it for a lot less today because special effects are so much cheaper.
More importantly though, the movie understood the important part of the Flash Mythos. Flash, Dale, and Zarkov don't belong on Earth. In the movie, they spend about 15 minutes on Earth establishing the three characters. Once they'd shown that Flash is the Earthling Everyhero, Dale is the Plucky Romantic Interest, and Zarkov is the Mad Scientist, everyone is rocketed off to Mungo for the rest of the movie. And they never come back. Seriously. The movie ends with Dale and Flash wondering if they'll ever get back to Earth and not really caring if they do.
Now it is possible that the TV show may be leading to everyone ending up on Mungo for keeps later in the season. They keep mentioning how bad wormhole travel is for the fabric of reality so at some point they will hopefully get stuck on Mungo in order to put a permanent stop to it. Or something like that. The truth is that they probably have to phase in Mungo incrementally over the first season to pay for the new sets. But hopefully they phase it in quickly.
Why? Because Mungo is cool and Earth is boring. I've been to Anytown,
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