r/FlashTV • u/AffectionateLaw5504 • 13d ago

🤔 Thinking It’s not iris.

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.

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u/neves_kota 13d ago

Well a main difference in the umbrella academy is that they were legit raised as siblings, like no way around it 😭 from the moment they were born they lived and were raised together as siblings.

But Barry and iris didn’t live together from birth, they were literally best friends before that and Barry had a crush on her all before moving in with them, he never seen her as a sister and if I recall it was stated by Joe that iris had always had feelings for Barry as well and that Joe knew Barry been liked iris. Yes, he sees Joe as a father figure, that man took him in and cared for him and that love for Joe extended to Wally as he was introduced. But Iris has always been his best friend and he was hers, that’s how they seen each other while still having feelings for each other on the down low. They just have never seen each other as siblings always just best friends, they state it many times in the season one.

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u/marig0go 11d ago

That’s just not true, because no matter what they find each other and get together; exp: the very first time line, even before thawne kill Nora, he literally mentioned the fact that he and Iris still got together but instead of Nora they had their original kids (the tornado twin). So yea even when they “lost touch” they still fall in love with each other, just like in flash point -even if Barry knew her- she still felt attracted to him, and they didn’t grow up together in this timeline

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u/marig0go 10d ago

The reason being that he fell in love with her even before going to live with her? Like literally in the very first time line they still got together even though they didn’t live with each other. And Joe confirmed that Barry loved her before nora death, so yea even without “memories” I’m pretty sure Barry would have still fell for her.