'The Flash' Season 3 puts Barry and Iris' love story front and center
On The Flash, we hold these truths to be self-evident: Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is the "Fastest Man Alive," and he and Iris West (Candice Patton) are destined to be together — there's an honest to god newspaper from the future to prove it.*
That k**wledge has somewhat lessened the sting of the will they/won't they dynamic between the pair that might otherwise torture us, but Barry's problem has always been timing. In the Season 2 finale, after Iris finally decided she was ready for a relationship, Barry decided that he wasn't, and subsequently chose to run back in time and save his mother from being murdered by his nemesis, the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher), thus altering the entire course of his life — and the lives of everyone around him — and creating an alternate timeline k**wn as "Flashpoint." Read more...