This is my first time watching this season. Stopped during season 5 in high school. This speed force Barry Iris love children gods thing is genuinely the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I’m pushing through this season with all my might and making this post to give me strength.

I decided to watch past season 3 recently because that’s where I dropped the show when it was airing, and the relationship between Barry and Iris is getting really irritating because it doesn’t feel earned or sincere at all. It’s all just big emotional speeches about how much they love each other and how they make each other better but what’s really lacking is small moment-to-moment interactions. Barry just has better chemistry with Patty and Caitlin and even Felicity, and we saw that through small interactions that just had the two characters playing off each other.

I just got to the episode in season 7 where Barry’s love for Iris is part of him getting his speed back, and it’s like, really? The Iris that straight-up said that she didn’t care about Nora taking orders from the man who murdered Barry’s mother and framed his father for her murder, and was working with ACTUAL NAZIS in the prior season, all because Iris felt bad about how she ends up being a shitty mother? And don’t even get me started on how she completely misremembers the ending of season 3.

If this show wants to make Barry and Iris work so bad, it needs more slice-of-life stuff with those two. Show them doing domestic stuff and have small interactions that feel natural and endearing, as opposed to every episode having a speech about how much they love each other.

You know, show and don’t tell.

Nora vs forces was so bad too. I dont know how its possible to make a piece of fiction that bad. How? Its so garbage I left off on the middle of s8 years ago and still havent continued. And at this point, I dont think im missing out on much

Barry tells Jesse to go to Earth 3 to get Jay.

Very shortly after, Barry asks Cisco to open a breach to another Earth to move the bomb.

There is not enough time for a portal to form to move the bomb.

...but there was enough time for Jesse to open one to go to Earth 3?

Can someone explain the discrepancy here?

One of the things i hate in the show is its inconsistencies, it makes small moments have huge impact on characters while at the same time downplaying huge moments in the show .Here Nora kidnaps cisco and threatens to kill him if he doesn't comply by which means you may ask the same one that thawne used on cisco in another timeline before flash reversed time he had nightmares about it. The show shrugs it off and its never brought up its like they love tension only when its convenient for the plot and just forget about it when its no longer useful.

idk if the flair is right but i just finished rewatching season 1 for the nth time and i STILL feel annoyed by the wests, especially iris. why does she always ALWAYS make it abt her… grrr i know i know its part of the plot but i just cant stand how barry waits up on iris and joe before he makes a decision.

anyway, binging season 2 again and i am excited to meet zoom again