flash gordon 90 minute pilot represent ok so the story so far be that when flash be 10 year old and his father get suck into a vortex never to be see or hear from again and the cover story be that flash father die in a fire but there be no body find . now and fifteen year later and flash be 25 and there a hint that his father do not die in a fire and that he be lose in one of his experiment go haywire . through a series of event and flash open a portal to mongo and jump head first with dale arden to try to rescue his father from ming the merciless . ok. dale fight with ming daughter and who fight with a bounty hunter chick and who fight with flash . ok. ming daughter want the imex a secret thing that flash father have . ok. the imex be the timex watch that flash father give to him at age 10. it unlock the secret of mongo or the universe . be not quite sure . 1 ) why would flash father give flash the timex watch that contain all the secret of the universe when he be 10. apparently he a pretty responsible youngster and have never lose anything . ever and because 15 year later flash be still wear the timex watch that his father give him . uh . ok. 2 ) why would ming send a fly probe though the portal . this seem rather lame and pointless . it be quickly decimate by a local mexican immigrant wield a double barrel shotgun from his truck cab . i be also fairly certain there be law against weapon and firearm be hide in car and truck . right . i be also fairly certain that if i be ming the merciless and my probe scan fly thing wouldn not be so easily decimate by some idiot wield a double barrel shotgun . ( see robot and later on ) 3 ) why would ming send a single robot through the portal to get the imex instead of launch a full or semi full scale invasion of earth . 4 ) why be the robot carry flash father driver licence and which be discover in the remains of the char explode robot . why would ming the merciless intentionally do this at all . if flash father plant it there ( and from the show final scene and he do not ) how would he have know that flash would be the one to discover it . 5 ) why be there only four eye witness in a packed crowd bowling alley that report see an alien robot blow stuff up . the bowling alley have people at every lane . yet only four eye witness saw the robot . why do the robot blow up a bowling ball . 6 ) flash believe his father die in a fire and but he do not and he be suck through a portal to mongo yet when we finally see a flashback of this fire it only occupy about 5 % of their lab and be quickly extinguish with a fire extinguisher and it clearly not a big enough fire to cause major damage yet this be the cover story that flash father burn to a crisp and no body be ever find . what . 7 ) while dale and flash argue outside his father old lab and which be now zarkov lab and the door suddenly explode outward . why . aside from these gap in logic and and more and it be interest to watch and even more interesting to pick apart the show . the portal and the device that open the portal remind me an awful lot of the fox show slider .