No cops would date their seinor partner's daughter, period. That's the most unrealistic thing on a show that stars a guy who runs at the speed of light.

Yeah, but they still know the Falcon. Shit, they're making jokes about it in the Lego series now.

I bet the poor guy's blocked Returns out of his mind by this point. Although I guess that movie's semi-failure means he might be avoiding the Superman Curse…?

Yet Geoff Johns still thinks people want to read about Barry.

Might not be anything more conspiratorial than the infamously tough-to-wrangle Blue Beetle media rights coming back to bite everyone on the ass again.

I'd say something, but the last time I got into this particular argument I had some nutjob on io9 screaming at me that the Rock wasn't black in spite of his dad being the blackest black man to ever black.

I'd say the upcoming movie means that's unlikely, but some insane person at WB thinks they're going to do a Flash movie while this show will presumably still be on the air.

And then a couple years after that, they'll revise her again to specifically cater to hipster female readers.

And there ya go.

Also, he can always do the the "vibrating face" trick he did last week, so she'd never have a hint what he looks like.

I expanded my horizons quickly.

Yeah, I remember chatting with the late Dwayne McDuffie on his old Delphi forum and he said that he found it almost impossible to write Flash because it was a bit too easy for him to win every time.

My dad still thinks you don't try in the playoffs.

To be fair, that's more Wally than Barry. And ESPECIALLY DCAU Wally.

I thought it was interesting that they gave Cold some of Clock King's quirks.

But he's now basically Waid-era JLA Batman. That's pretty neat.

… given how he wound up dying in the third, that might have been better.

Not that he needs his revenge - without Barry becoming well-known as Flash, Zoom can't copy his powers in the future.

One other obscure reference: Felicity specifically referenced Barry's death in COIE (running so fast that he turned into dust in a red costume). File that line away.

Oh, so they're re-casting her from the reporter that showed up on Arrow?