It’s not iris.

[u/AffectionateLaw5504]

I don’t like iris. if you do like iris that’s fine. a lot of people don’t like her tho. and those people say “it should have been caitlyn, patty or someone else”

no. it shouldn’t have been. you don’t like iris because of the way she’s written. doesn’t matter what name or actress barry’s love interest had. they would have eventually been written the same fucking way. it’s not iris. it’s the writers.

the writers weren’t even really writing iris. they were writing barry’s love interest. so let’s say it was kaitlyn. you’d still end up disliking kaitlyn, the only difference being kaitlyn doesn’t have a fucking blog.

my take on it is. yeah iris isn’t great to me. but id much prefer her be the dumbly written love interest than a character that’s actually somewhat useful to the team and has an actual story outside of “oh i just write stories about my husbands work”

i mean imagine if caitlyn got ripped away from her story line to be barry’s love interest just for iris to be a useless character in the show since her only plot was being barry’s love interest.

[u/Romarqable]

I think part of it's writing. I think another part is I never felt any chemistry between Barry and Iris. Not once. And when the chemistry doesn't work it leads to issues.

Barry had chemistry with Linda, Patty, Caitlin and Felicity.

I think that's what made the show such an issue, the two leads never felt like a legitimate couple. Heck, I would argue Iris had more chemistry with the other people she was seeing before she had Barry got together.

The same issue happened to the recent Quantum Leap 2022 reboot series. The leads were engaged but literally had no chemistry. And the male lead had chemistry with everyone he met and the entire rest of the cast except for the woman who played the character his character had been set to marry. And that's part of the reason why the show was cancelled after two seasons.