I really feel for Barry
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ziotheabyss — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 01:07 AM)
I feel bad for Barry as I know he's just a dumb kid who seems unable to learn his lessons, but I gotta say the writing for his character seems to try to put a damper on any sympathy. He screws up on cosmic levels so often that eventually he's gotta run out of second chances.
That being said, I'm not fond of this storyline only because I'm not fond of superheroic characters getting dumped on. It's not so much that Barry doesn't deserve it as it is that I don't really want to sit through a dragged out angle where every week is about letting us know how big of a douchebag Barry is for changing the timeline. I can't imagine why the writers would think it makes for good televisions for almost everyone Barry knows to outright despise him on a weekly basis. Superhero angst isn't my thing: it's why Smallville doesn't hold up well for me on rewatch.
As a side note, some of the people giving Barry the business really shouldn't be doing it. If Oliver lectured him, I could buy it. If Stein (who's generally one of the more conscientious Legends) did, sure. But Sara's twice now tried to kill Damien Darhk in order to save Laurel, and Cisco's original angst with Barry this season was about being pissed that he wouldn't run back in time to stop someone from dying. I mean he deserves to be pissed, but it's a little hypocritical all the same. -
Dukeisking2010 — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 04:53 AM)
Get the f#ck outta here man. Barry is the only one who should be pissed because he's the only one who actually got cheated out of his real life when Thawne killed his mom.
They were all for Barry changing the timeline in season one. Cisco gives him his blessing. It's very Hypicritical of him to treat Barry like this. -
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micfranklin — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 07:19 AM)
I feel for him and I agree with Oliver when he said that it's only human to want to go back and fix things like when he watched his parents die. There's also the fact that I don't 100% believe Barry was responsible for Caitlin's powers since the particle accelerator accident did still happen and she might've been affected but it showed later. That could also be kinda tied into Dante's death but we don't know for sure, other then he was there one minute and now he's not. Speaking of which, I specifically remember Cisco and Barry already having this argument in the 2nd episode of this season when he revealed he created Flashpoint.
All that being said, he was specifically warned to not interfere with his mother's death back at the end of season 1, and now we see why and he does too.
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