Bring Iris into the circle of trust, and either she stops blogging altogether – the request to cut it out carries more weight if she knows who's really asking her, and why – or at least goes into it with eyes wide open and a direct line to Barry if things go pear-shaped. Joe doesn't want Barry to tell Iris the truth about his powers in order to keep her safe, but keeping her in the dark only encourages her to maintain this blog about the Streak/Flash, which in turn attracts the attentions of a dirtbag like Girder, and will presumably bring her more trouble in the future from other meta-humans looking for information on the Flash. The second is the secret identity business, which makes even less sense than ever after this week. It just undercuts every attempt to sell Barry and Iris as this great predestined romance, because you understand exactly why Iris has never looked at him that way: he is, for all intents and purposes, her brother. The first is the step-sibling aspect of her relationship with Barry, which is hard to avoid when we get more flashbacks to the two of them as kids being raised under the same roof by Joe. That said, there remain several Iris issues that are less the fault of Patton or the character herself than of the way she's being written. On the other hand, Barry's supersonic punch was every bit as cool as Cisco sold it to us as, and Iris' thrilled reaction to seeing her hero in action up close was played very well by Candice Patton, and those were ultimately the more important parts of the episode. On the one hand, this show (like “Arrow”) can sometimes lay things on really thick. “The Flash Is Born” introduced Barry's famous superhero codename into the world of Central City, and introduced another villain from the comics in Girder, albeit retrofitting him into Barry's grade school bully – then staging their climactic fight in the halls of that school to make sure we got the point. ![]() ![]() A quick review of tonight's “The Flash” coming up just as soon as I calculate the number of bugs you swallow while running…
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