Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): Maximum Acceleration . There is very little not to like about THE FLASH.  A super hero, lightning speed, and evil villains.  Best of all, the Flash appears on and off throughout the episode.  This is quite a change from those cheesy super hero television series of the 1970s where we were limited to a glimpse of our hero only twice during the show:  Once during the first 20 minutes and again in the final five minutes.    THE FLASH was a natural extension of Warner Brothers' success with the BATMAN motion picture.  In fact, THE FLASH shared many of Tim Burton film's elements:  A darker superhero, most of the stories taking place at night, and Danny Elfman music.  Comic book loyalists were quick to point out the deviations from print, but given the choice it was better to have THE FLASH for one reason than not at all.    CBS premiered THE FLASH during the 1990 - 1991 television season. As numerous reviewers have reiterated, the show was doomed to fail because of CBS programming mismanagement.  The early 1990s was a time when ABC, CBS, and NBC still held most of the cards as "The Networks."  As Networks they crowded their programming line up with series, sitcoms, mini-series, sporting events, and specials.  THE FLASH was often displaced from its time slot so often that fans could not keep up with it.  At times it also aired at the same time as other popular shows such as THE SIMPSONS and THE COSBY SHOW.  Contributing to the show's demise was that the first Gulf War, DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, was constantly in the news and a regular source for special news reports.    The show should have been awarded a second season, but CBS had zero tolerance for low ratings.  A couple years later THE FLASH probably would have found better success on FOX or CW.  Alas, it was not to be.    Thus it was that I was surprised by the show when it appeared on the British satellite station Sky One in 1992.  At that time Sky One was also beamed to continental Europe and provided an additional, and sorely needed, English language television channel for US military personnel in Germany.  Unfortunately I was not able to catch the whole series.  By the time we added a satellite dish to our German apartment balcony THE FLASH was only a couple episodes away from finishing its run on Sky One.  A couple years later I stumbled on two video cassettes of the series, the pilot episode and a "movie" assembled from two episodes involving The Trickster, and was able to enjoy a little more of the series.    The DVD set is very affordable.  If your remember the series from 1990, now is your time to order the DVDs and enjoy them at your liesur
Output (English): POS