THE FLASH And ARROW Bicker In This International Promo For "Legends Of Today"

I love Flash, but that dialogue was hammy....

@CrappyNappy Meh, I like it. If I want non-hammy dialogue I watch Game of Thrones or Mad Men or something like that. I watch these shows for the fun...and that's what they are..just pure, awesome geeky fun...

@dragons292014: I think it's cool for Flash to have cheesy dialouge! The show embraces so much Silver Age already.

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@dragons292014 maybe it is. Can you compare reading a comic to reading novel?

Good novelists like Robert Ludlum, GRRM, Rowling, James Patterson, etc. can provides us with good dialogue while making the books and content fun because they have paragraphs and pages where they can describe what's happening and create paragraphs of speech.

Comics is slightly different, you have only so many panels that you need to fit in visual story-telling together with narrative-story telling, that results in the narrative to be cut down to create balance between the action and the dialogue and at times it does come out cheesy.

The way I see Flash and Arrow is that it's trying to mimic the comic book format on screen. Yes, it doesn't always work but for most of the time it does. For shows like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad the concept is more "grounded" and the narrative is effectively more important than the action.

Walking dead is a good example of where both can be achieved BUT in the more action heavy episodes the dialogue is sacrificed to fit in more of impact of the action, but in the less-action orientated shows, the narrative is brought to the foreground, it's more meaningful and intense during those episodes.

Even Daredevil vs AoS is a good example of the contrast between wanting to make a show more like the comics vs. a more serious dialogue driven show. Even the MCU movies do the same, hence the one-liner and quips. Where there's no actions they do well , but the moment you have the "comic book" element, the script suffers.

So answer your question, yes , you can have good dialogue and have fun, and not it's not an excuse to overlook crappy dialogue BUT it all depends on the perspective of the show involved and the type of environment they are trying to create. As a comic book show, I'm OK with it. But if they did that with Daredevil or Jessica Jones (as an example), which is meant to be more serious, then I won't like it. Although those shows have their own list of flaws, in my opinion of course.

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@XF14: In all seriousness, the dialouge can sometimes be pure Silver Age, which I appreciate since that's where the Flash originates from.

Yes. Ollie is a mess. As he should be. They've got that part comic book accurate.