Board Thread:The Flash episode discussions/@comment-9346948-20150506010926/@comment-1731233-20150506054920

I'm surprised at how many people are supporting Iris here. There was a local TV drama in HK that touched upon a relationship that involves "secrets". The man was working on a confidential law case with his co-worker, who is a woman. Unfortunately, his girlfriend found out and thought he was cheating behind her back. She crashed the meeting place and ruined the whole case despite her boyfriend assuring her that he isn't cheating behind his back. They broke up after they realized they weren't for each other - the woman realized how selfish she was.

Yet here, we have Iris and Barry in a similar situation, but the support goes to Iris instead? Is it because she is the canonical love interest for Barry, so everyone wants Eddie gone? Is it an unconditional support for Iris? It seems irrational to support her just because the comic books have her marry Barry. To be honest, I prefer Eddie marrying her in the TV series. The current implications points to infidelity on Iris's part - which obviously isn't a nice thing. However, many people looks past that because she is supposed to be "main love interest". That isn't fair at all.

If you could understand why Iris would be mad (despite it being irrational), then you would understand why Eddie is arrogant too. He is more defensive than arrogant in actuality due to his feeling inferiority compared to Barry. That is what is highlighted in this episode by Eobard too, slamming the reality onto Eddie and telling him that he is basically useless. It's so much fun for you guys to watch a characer get psychologically assaulted like that isn't it? On the other hand, when it happens to you in real life, you are going to agonize over how horrible your life is.

Maybe I'm the only one sympathetic on this Wiki? Iris has her own flaws as well (which Barry used to shut her down in this episode). When you take out the "destined lovers" layer out of the game, you realized that the story is about a woman deluding herself into liking another man, hurting that man's feelings, then ditching him because she never really loved him in the first place. Kind of sad how people just overlooks this because of the "destiny" crap. She also blamed Barry about how Joe got abducted and that Joe isn't a meta-human like him. It makes it sound like she doesn't even care if Barry gets himself killed. It's like telling Superman to save everyone he can because "it's not like he can die anyway". Do you know what that implies? It implies that people don't care about Superman at all and that they are only using him as a tool. His safety never crosses people's mind because of the resentment and envy they have for him. Why resentment and envy? Because he has the powers that others don't have. That's the implications and this is how Iris sounds like. You can't just cherry pick stuff.

Also, please no more kidnapping. It would be a total party pooper to have Grodd kidnap Iris the next episode so that Barry can save her and "love happens". If that's going to happen, they might as well kill Eddie off instead of making the character suffer. Jeez, it's not like anyone cares about him because everyone just wants Barry and Iris together.