Quicksand Fans

On Tuesday, February 2'nd, "The Flash", episode entitled "The Fast Lane", features a metahuman named "Tar Pit", who has the ability to turn into liquid asphalt, and drown people! Here is the episode description and the trailer:

http://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/526408/t ... -fast-lane

It airs on CTV and The CW on Tuesday, February 2'nd, at 8 pm local time for the respective stations (eg. 8 pm Eastern Time on WGN, WPIX and CTV Toronto, 8 pm Pacific Time on KTLA and CTV Vancouver). It also airs on M3 on Thursday, February 4'th at 12 and 4 am Eastern Time. Check your local listings, and set your pvr's!

Looks like it has potential.

OUTRAGEOUS plagiarism! This character is a straight copy of SEVERAL similar characters from rival comic publisher Marvel's strip "X-Men"; Tarbaby, Tarpit, and even "Gorgeous George" (one of Mister Sinister's "Nasty Boyz") all have similar powers. Someone should complain (or maybe Marvel should send Mystique round to have a discreet word....)

Well, the "tarpit" metahuman scenes weren't quite what I had hoped. His initial immersive drop into a vat of hot tar by other bad guys at the beginning was a bit fast, although his foot did take slightly longer to disappear, just when the wave from the dark matter explosion hit, giving him his "abilities". His entrance was interesting, with him rising up from a pool of tar. His tar was extremely hot, burning his male victim, one of the people who had dropped him in, but you only saw the victim's viewpoint of the metahuman's hot tarry hand closing in. He could throw tarballs that melted through metal, and could turn into a tar monster, with red-hot cracks, like lava with a cracked cooler crust.

I guess there nothing scary about a super-villain who traps victims in black goo until they slowly die of thirst or starvation....Kinda slow action...

BogDog wrote:I guess there nothing scary about a super-villain who traps victims in black goo until they slowly die of thirst or starvation....Kinda slow action...

It does get kind of scary once the dire wolves and smilodons show up, but then they inevitably just get stuck too.

BogDog wrote:I guess there nothing scary about a super-villain who traps victims in black goo until they slowly die of thirst or starvation....Kinda slow action...

It is scary when that black goo is at the temperature of a blowtorch, and can melt a hole in metal!

That's my point. They had to give the tar unrealistic properties to make it superhero-interesting. The stuck thing just wasn't enough.