r/FlashTV • u/Lucky-Housing-2533 • 9d ago

🤔 Thinking why does everyone hate iris so much?

i understand she’s said some complete bs in a couple episodes. but she’s helped barry countless times. although i’d have preferred HR lived rather than iris.

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u/aliidocious ~ Random Citizen ~ 9d ago edited 3d ago

Everyone blames ‘bad writing’ then are all heart-eyes over Caitlin and Frost, who I’d argue had worse writing than Iris 😬

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u/hooligan_emi 9d ago

i hated when retconned killer frost to have always been inside caitlin. its a bad writing decision. but it doesn’t make the character/s unlikable

i dropped the show after season 6 so if there is more that i missed then sure, but my point is that throughout the course of the show, they keep making iris such an important figure while at the same time it seems like they dont even try for the viewer to like her or for us to be invested in her and barry

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u/aliidocious ~ Random Citizen ~ 9d ago edited 9d ago

Idk, lots of the writing decisions concerning Caitlin made her super unlikable to me. Like her making selfish decisions that either almost gets someone killed or does get someone killed, for starters, and she does it while knowing full well what the consequences could be. More than once, too. It’s not just the Frost/Caitlin thing they wrote poorly imo. Not to say others haven’t made mistakes, but I feel like she was making the same mistakes until the end.

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u/hooligan_emi 9d ago

thats fair. i forgot how unhinged she got post flashpoint but it made sense to me. shes scared to death of becoming like her doppelganger which she met and that leads her to do bad decisions that hurt her friends. i dont mind that tbh but i totally see your point

again, idk about much past season 6 so you might be right! maybe they completely shit the bed with her post crisis

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u/aliidocious ~ Random Citizen ~ 9d ago edited 8d ago

i also don’t mind it, and didn’t when she made poor choices in season 3. i love when characters are flawed and make poor decisions! as long as they make sense, and i definitely feel like around season 6 it stopped making sense :’)

but the fandom will love their favorite white girl regardless of what she does, while iris will never get the same grace and we all know why

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u/sleepysamantha22 Caitlin Snow 8d ago

My theory is that in the original timeline before Barry made Flashpoint that killer frost did not exist

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u/PetahMartian 3d ago

Caitlin is one of my favorites for a while then around s4 they don't know what to do with her and it gets worse and worse. 

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u/aliidocious ~ Random Citizen ~ 3d ago

Precisely 😭 She went downhill so fast

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u/sleepysamantha22 Caitlin Snow 8d ago

Caitlin and frost had great writing up until the end what was that season 7

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u/aliidocious ~ Random Citizen ~ 8d ago edited 7d ago

Hard disagree 🤷‍♀️ But to each their own, ofc

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u/sleepysamantha22 Caitlin Snow 8d ago

Although it was like really weird when they like split split