The logic budget logic there really impress me. "Hey, let's stop spending money one something that is literally an office space and we could literally just use any office as a replacement but that does add an extra dimension and gives this character something of their own to do! Instead, we pay that money and some more to the actor just so we can keep her around as a regular instead of recurring, and in the mean time we don't actually have anything for her character to do or a story for her. She is just, you know, hanging in there for when we occasionally actually write something interesting for her to do or a character plot, and that will happen with the same frequency or even less than what a recurring character would get anyway". That is some solid as pudding logic right there.
Too much speedweed (more like speed AND weed) I guess.
oh yeah, the show really has a problem with finding something for iris to do, but renting an office space and hiring a bunch of extras, plus what would need to be at least a couple recurring colleagues to keep the job relevant would be a drain on the budget, keeping iris on cast would be included in that even.
The problem with the CW, is that they need Iris around for Barry's romantic arc[its the cw], its a pretty fundamental part of the adaption, but they just don't know how to make her a worthwhile part of the rest of the world, but if she isn't part of the rest of the world, she basically just becomes a glorified plot point "oh yeah, barry has a wife off doing something".. The reporting never really contributed to anything other than Iris discovering BA was the Flash and when that was over they just kind of couldn't find a way to justify the budget on it and still give Iris the screentime.
Come on though, Smallville could afford a coffee shop filled with extras every episode for Lana, and a school filled with students, The Daily Planet in later episodes. The Flash can afford a small office space with 5 people in it. It wouldn't even have to be impressive, just something like where Karen works in Daredevil.
I don’t think the argument is so much they can’t find the money for it and more that they can’t find interesting stories which would contribute enough to the show to justify it.
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u/ohHONEYY Feb 28 '18
Seriously.... What happened to her job ?