The Flash Fixed! Part I

Ever since The Flash TV series first came out, it's been great...except for how they handled Barry's relationship with Iris. Everything else in the series seemed to work out pretty well, although some of the dialogue could have been better, but I didn't like how the romance angle with Iris was handled. My frustration peaked when Iris found out Barry was the Flash, and she starts yelling at him and showing everybody how offended she is that they kept her out of the loop. Frankly, I wanted to slap her. I understand that she would be upset, but she took it way too far. Her dad and her best friend love her, and so they keep Barry's powers a secret to try to keep her safe. What's so hard to understand about that? I guess she was secretly angry at herself for never figuring out that Barry had a crush on her, but still. Eddie gets kidnapped, Joe gets kidnapped, and she just complains. I was sick of it, and I was waiting the whole episode for someone to yell at her for being a jerk and put it in perspective. But no one ever did. So, here's the first scene I rewrote to attempt to fix the Iris thing. It was funny, I was able to fix the scene between Cassim and Aladdin with just a couple extra lines. But with Iris? I realized it'd take multiple scenes to fix that problem. And a LOT more dialogue. I wasn't sure if I could, but I took a stab at it anyway. Here's the original scene:







I apologize for the low quality picture. I did an internal recording on my computer. I didn't need sound blankets to improve the sound this time, but surprisingly, I had better picture resolution with the Aladdin clip.

Here's the new dialogue I added, where Cisco gets his chance to verbally slap Iris:

Rewritten Scene:

Iris

I don’t understand. Every day you guys figure out a way to help people.

All these powers, all this equipment and you can’t save Eddie and my dad?

Cisco walks out from behind the desk to face Iris.

Cisco:

Whoa, hang on. You wanna do this? Have three Phds and instead of breaking atoms or curing cancer you have to figure out how to defeat PSYCHIC Gorillas?! My life is a comic book, Iris. With good guys and bad guys and people dying all over the place and every day we have to figure out a new way to break the laws of physics so that we can win.

Cisco pulls out his chair and offers it to Iris.

Cisco

Take this chair. Be my guest. Tell me how we send in Barry to save your dad   without him dying and everyone along with him. Because that’s what this job is all about. How NOT to kill Barry and save the city. You wanna be in the hot seat and let all the deaths be on YOUR conscience it this doesn’t work out? Cuz that’s what this job is like. And then you get nightmares of your mentor shoving his hand into your chest and destroying your heart because of some weird time warp phenomenon leftovers and I have to live with that for the rest of my life! Of COURSE Barry didn't want to tell you. So quit whining and drown yourself in pity somewhere else.

These speeches were a bit too long, but they were fun to write. What dialogue would you have added to the scene? Feel free to comment below and put in your own version.