It's based on Hermes/Mercury's helmet from Greco-Roman mythology. It's the same reason that Flash always had wings on his boots ... Hermes had winged sandals that allowed him to fly.
I smiled when Jay said he was doing Hard (or Heavy) Water experiments. That's right from his origin story in Flash #1.Also while I love the helmet, I don't get why he wears it, never did. Isn't that bad aerodynamics?
Well, in the show, it's his dad's. And if he can run close to the speed of light, maybe it doesn't matter.
I don't know about the comics; probably not. Besides, it's War of the Americas :p
The only thing I hate about this show is Captain Cold and Heat Wave. I've seen better acting from Power Ranger villains.
Liked tonight's episode, but a couple things struck me...Spoiler for Hidden: At first I thought I heard Jay wrong, but he's also only been the Flash for 2 years. If that's the case, why does he so much more experience with the Speed Force? Is he that much brighter than Barry?And ...Spoiler for Hidden: Is Jay a physicist as well as a chemist? How else could he make that Speed Cannon?
So um, frozen lasers?
Yeah, what was up with that?
There's always a line that can be crossed. Freezing beams of light crossed it for me. And I easily accept a lot of things that cause many people to question. But that moment made me have a WTF double-take the likes of which I haven't had since Superman threw a cellophane S from his chest at someone and wrapped them up.
Ok so a guy can run at super speed, throw lightening by using said speed, a guy merges with another guy and shoots flames and flies, yet frozen lasers bother you?
Except he didn't aim at the emitters, that'd have made too much sense. And the gun's never had an AoE effect before. So I'm still crying foul unless I see that they widened the cone in the patch notes.