Well, Iris is not entirely at fault here. It's pretty obvious the writers want us to hate her. The fact that she was lied to for no reason smacks of bad, manipulative writing. This was the same problem Breaking Bad periodically suffered from, vis-à-vis Skyler's relationship with Walter. From a story-based viewpoint,…

Only because Dana Delany made her awesome. On the other hand, just how many times did she need to be rescued by Superman in S:TAS?

'Elsewhere in Central City, Iris may have finally found herself in a viable storyline, as her reporter colleague Mason Bridge enlists her into his investigation of the particle accelerator explosion.'

Well, we were work colleagues, which is not as bad as having a crush on a foster sister but comes with its own set of complications.

'It's extremely frustrating, and I'm sure for Barry it's even more intense because he's known her/nursed these feelings since childhood.'

One more thing: Barry's inability to move on from Iris even though there is almost nothing appealing about her as a character (or about Candice Patton as an actress) is annoying, but it's also depressingly true to life. Just like him, for the longest time, I couldn't move on from this girl with whom I had almost…

Aha, Barry's father does know his secret identity! I totally called this in my comment for the review of Things You Can't Outrun:

I don't know about that. Borderline Personalities really improved for me upon a second viewing. I think the episode works once you keep in mind the fact that it's not an ensemble episode but rather a character sketch. Double Crossers is patently awful though. It's painfully obvious that the episode was conceived after…

They're probably saving them for when the bring out the big guns in February. I expect promotion to amp up hard in the coming weeks.

This episode was really really good. How do I know? The Flash (in costume) was present for all of two minutes at the beginning of the episode, and then he didn't show up until some thirty minutes later for that epic showdown. And I didn't even realise this until after the episode was over.

'That's a really nasty attitude, and I can't think of any other fairly meta show—Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Archer, etc.—that flips the bird at people who once liked it.'

I think he is. He must've been sundowning.

That shot of him flying off was definitely impressive. I'm less enamoured of the shots of his head on fire though. It just screams low-budget CGI.

Sava didn't review this episode.

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I think the film also contained the only instance of Alfred saying 'bloody' (during the infamous 'You think you know me?' 'I changed your diapers' sequence). I don't recall any episode of Batman in which he ever use the word again, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Sure, why not? That's a refreshingly straightforward origin story.

That would be great, but I'm also worried they're going to Stuart Little Grodd's lip movements. One can only suspend disbelief so much.

Wasn't there also some nonsensical explanation about children potentially being confused about the same set of heroes and villains appearing in two shows? I still don't get WTF was up with that. If children can accept Batman appearing on two shows, they certainly can accept the Joker or whoever.

Meta is meta.