Posted by Dustin on 08.26.2007 at 4:11 pm

I finally got myself caught up on “Flash Gordon.” Well I was only a little behind, but it’s one of these shows I’ve been pondering about before I blog about.

Episode 2 surrounded the character of Baylin having to deal with her “bond mate” (ie arranged spouse) coming through the rift to earth to get her back. Meanwhile Aurora began to see Ming as the tyrant he is when he executed an ice smuggler, who was only trying to make money to cure his sick daughter. This episode BORED me to tears.

Episode 3 was about a disease injected into Flash’s friend and partner. Flash and Baylin went to Mongo for the cure, while Dale and Zarkoff had to keep him alive. The key to doing this was making him feel miserable, which Dale did a good job of. They were attending a wedding. This episode was actually a lot better. Actually I think it was probably the best one so far, it was funny yet exciting.

I think overall my issue with the whole show is that it’s not Flash Gordon. At least it’s not the Flash most of us know. I can’t fault them for trying to spruce the story up, but I can fault them for basically completely reinventing it and just keeping the character names. If this show was called anything else, and they changed all the Flash based character’s names, I bet I wouldn’t have such issues with it.