Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-5441128-20170524174933/@comment-4786757-20170801035447

Stryzzar wrote: I don't think they'll be that dumb. Besides Olicity only happened because Lauliver was polarizing back then due to Laurel's season 2 angst. WestAllen doesn't have such a problem. I don't ship Snowbarry, nor do I feel like the writers are going there at all... but come on for one, the Flash writers did to WestAllen what they did to Laurel/Oliver. They added more angst and drama than they truly needed. Exhibit A.) On Arrow, Oliver was  a serial cheat afraid of settling down. In theory, he could have gotten Laurel back despite the cheating if he had groveled, apologized and shown he had matured since his time back from the island. But then the writers took it up a notch and  had Oliver hooking up with Sara. But oh hoh! That's not all, she was also the last one he had on the boat, which inevitably lead to her "death". It made it hard to ship them because of all this aded baggage that was completely unnessary. With WestAllen, it's not as bad, but still present. Despite not being adopted or being blood related... it's still incest-ty because Barry and Iris call Joe Dad. He raised Barry and Iris under the same roof. I also felt like they could have handled it better, if  Barry's crush hadn't been so one-sided growing up. Why couldn't they have Iris say that at some point she had a crush on Barry while growing up but she "outgrew" it. It also didn't help that until this season was when they were separating themselves from that weird sibling relationship they had.