#boycott run iris run

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Boycott Run, Viris Run!

Just a heads up everyone, I personally am not watching The Flash 4x16 “Run, Iris, Run” and I don’t think any of you should either. Here’s why:

The episode is written by the same hack writers who are obsessed with Iris, CP, WA and the weakening of males in the form of propping up females in the most ridiculous way. These writers are “Lauren Certo and Kristen Kim.” Avoid episodes with their names on the writer’s credit at all costs.

Here is why they are not to be trusted… They wrote “Girls Night Out” and several nonsensical things were implanted into the episode that made me furious:

They are responsible for propping up Viris even more, furthering the bullshit “leadership” arc that makes no sense and having her basically order Caitlin around the entire episode, since when does KF listen to anyone?

They forced Caitlin against her will to be submissive when she was clearly uncomfortable going out, none of them even asked her if she was alright

They wrote Caitlin and KF as being extremely weak, allowing a bully like Amunet to beat the shit out of her, Viris being the other bully with her subtle manipulation

They forced Viris and Caitlin to become “friends” out of nowhere, Viris asked her to be her maid of honor despite never having a real conversation with her

Barry doesn’t wear his suit for the entire episode

They wrote all of the male characters, Cisco, Joe and Barry as weak, stupid and disgusting pigs. The entire episode is a SJW’s wet dream including Cecile’s daughter, the stripper doing research for a paper, don’t even get me started on that

The girls turning around acting like immature children when Caitlin as KF changed her clothes

They had Barry not remember who Caitlin or KF was at the end, but made sure even with his hangover that he remembered Viris

They had Caitlin sew her up own wounds, no one but someone who is not even her friend - and out for herself only - came to see her.

They had Felicity be “besties” with Viris out of nowhere

Viris still has no friends outside of the Labs, no black friends either

Nobody grew in this episode, to call it filler doesn’t do it enough justice, absolutely no character development whatsoever, the most hated and worst rated on IMDB too

The blatant disrespect, sexism, and racial bias these writers have against Caitlin, KF, the show and it’s strongest characters is disgusting. I advise everyone not to watch/tweet about the episode or any future episodes that cater to WAs, Viris or any filth related. We can do a movie night instead, I would prefer that.

Do not give them our attention or ratings. The show does not even trend anymore so don’t waste your time. We all called it, Viris is gonna have powers, none of us should care about a show that insults our intelligence.

Hashtag #NoThanks

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"Run, Iris Run" anon here, you guys are right. Looking at other reviews, it was actually received well including a 100% on rottentomatoes. Fanboys are so weird and why are they getting mad when fans say they are not going to watch the 4 episodes Iris would be gone for, when that's what they've done for every Iris-centric episode?🙄🙃

It’s okay when they want to boycott an episode because they can’t stand Iris being too important or being the center of the storyline but when we refuse to watch the show because she’s being screwed over then we’re taking it too far. 🙄

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"You're always saying how touch is your love language." I need this addressed again when Barry is himself again oh my god

Yes! Iris was all over not-Barry-Barry in a way we don’t get to see usually when Barry is Barry. I’m sure it was done to elaborate on Oliver feeling uncomfortably out of place, but it made me jealous! I want to see touchy feely WestAllen!

I was going to boycott the other eps and only watch Flash. But the start was so good I’m gonna give in and watch it all.

I can’t blame you. The Flash episode was a fantastic start to Elseworlds. I can’t wait for tomorrow night.

At least Iris got a big part in The Flash

Yes! I was worried that after Iris told Barry she believed him and let them use the extrapolator, that was going to be the last we saw of Iris. I’m so glad she got more than just that. 

Candice’s face when Grant delivered his line about “sending it straight to hell” was perfect! She did a great job. The WestAllen balcony scene at the end was incredible. I could feel the connection between Barry and Iris but also the hesitation as Barry looked different to Iris and she was fearing he would really become Oliver.

Whats this about Danielle saying they edited the toilets out?

It’s been a running joke since season 1 that the metahuman cells in the pipeline don’t have toilets and the metas who were being kept down there were never shown getting food and water. To fix that plot hole, in season 1, Danielle said that in 1x22 or 1x23 (I forget which) there was going to be a scene that showed the toilet popping out of the cell’s wall, like we just saw in Elseworlds. But, the scene was either edited out or cut out of the script before it was even filmed because it’s nowhere to be found. At Heros and Villains Fest last week, during the panel, Danielle said that we may finally see the elusive toilets in Elseworlds if they didn’t edit it out again.

On the same note, there was a deleted scene from season 1 that was on the DVD and that Grant and Danielle have talked about that showed the team would bring food to the metas they were holding in the pipeline. You can watch it here. 

So, all the plot holes of the pipeline prison have been addressed.

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As Venezuela Crumbles, Opposition Led by Juan Guaidó Sees an Opportunity https://nyti.ms/2Hs1iTw

As Venezuela Crumbles, Opposition Led by Juan Guaidó Sees an Opportunity

By Ana Vanessa Herrero and Nicholas Casey | Jan. 22, 2019 |New York Times |

Posted January 22, 2019 |

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CARACAS, Venezuela — A group of soldiers turned against the government and declared allegiance to the opposition. Foreign officials say the government could soon run out of money to meet bare-bones needs. And countries across the region have called the president an illegitimate dictator.

Conditions in Venezuela have deteriorated to a point where the opposition — gutted by the jailing and exiling of many of its leaders and discredited after several failed efforts to oust President Nicolás Maduro — is seeing an opportunity. Leading them is a virtually unheard-of 35-year-old, Juan Guaidó.

His debut as opposition leader and head of the National Assembly this month has captured the attention of those within the country and outside of it — mainly for his striking claimthat Mr. Maduro is not a legitimate ruler and his willingness to take charge of a transitional government.

“The relationship between Venezuela and its state today is one of terror,” Mr. Guaidó said in an interview. “When this happens, the voices and hopes of the world, their messages, are the encouragement for the daily struggle to resist — to dream of democracy, and for a better country.”

Wednesday marks the biggest gambit yet for the young leader. He has called on Venezuelans to take to the streets to protest the government. If they heed his call, this would be the first mass mobilization in the country since a bloody crackdown against demonstrators in 2017 left more than 100 people dead in clashes with security forces, according to the United Nations.

“He’s breathed new life into the opposition,” said David Smilde, an analyst for the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group. “The opposition has finally put forward a fresh face that has courage, new ideas and leadership skills that has started to revive them.”

Already, some in the military have taken up Mr. Guaidó’s call, staging a brief act of resistance at a military base in Caracas, which was followed by violent protests after it was put down.

Mr. Maduro called the opposition a bunch of “little boys,” saying they were pawns of the Trump administration. María Iris Varela Rangel, a top politician in Maduro’s party, wrote on Twitter: “Guaidó: I have already gotten your jail cell ready with the right uniform, and I hope you name your cabinet quickly to know who will keep you company, you stupid kid.”

Mr. Guaidó’s challenge to Mr. Maduro comes at a time when his presidency faces mounting challenges of legitimacy. On Jan. 10, the president was sworn in for a second six-year term after a disputed election in May that many countries did not recognize.

Mr. Maduro’s leftist government, which faces sanctions from countries including the United States, is now surrounded by right-wing leaders in Colombia and Brazil. At home, hyperinflation led the president to instate a new currency, which in recent months has been losing value as well. More than three million Venezuelans have fled the country for lack of food and medicine.

Yet if Mr. Maduro has been unpopular, the opposition has been almost equally imperiled during the crisis.

Since 2017, the National Assembly has been effectively sidelined by a new legislative body created under Mr. Maduro and packed with his supporters. Last year the opposition was so divided over how to confront the president that two parties broke with a boycott to participate in the elections while the rest sat it out.

“People have been frustrated with the opposition, and tired of the same old faces of the politicians of the old establishment that have failed,” said Margarita López Maya, a retired political scientist in Caracas who taught at the Central University of Venezuela.

Mr. Guaidó’s rise may mark the opposition’s last, best chance to revive itself, many believe.

“He’s a hard worker, he’s humble and he can unite us,” said Lilian Tintori, whose husband, Leopoldo López, is Venezuela’s most well-known political prisoner and Mr. Guaidó’s mentor. “But the risk for him is enormous. They may do the same to Juan as they did to Leopoldo, to put him in jail.”

Mr. Guaidó was already briefly detained by masked members of Venezuela’s intelligence service on Jan. 13, two days after declaring his intent to oust Mr. Maduro from power. Accounts differ on the nature of the arrest: The government said he had been detained by rogue officials who were later disciplined, while Mr. Guaidó maintained the agents who detained him had seemed sympathetic to the opposition.

Foreign officials, particularly in the United States, who want to see a transitional government in Venezuela, say they saw in Mr. Guaidó a fresh-faced leader from humble origins who contrasted with previous opposition leaders, whom Mr. Maduro disparaged as oligarchs and right-wing extremists.

While the United States has not recognized Mr. Guaidó as Venezuela’s leader, in recent days senior American officials have denounced Mr. Maduro as a dictator and made clear their support for Mr. Guaidó’s effort to oust Mr. Maduro and set up a transitional government. Last year, Trump administration officials met in secret��with rebellious members of the military to discuss their plans to overthrow Mr. Maduro.

Vice President Mike Pence spoke directly to the Venezuelan people in a video released on YouTube and Twitter on Tuesday, calling Mr. Maduro a “dictator with no legitimate claim to power.” Mr. Pence said he recognized the National Assembly, led by Mr. Guaidó, as “the last vestige of democracy in your country,” and stated that, “we are with you, we stand with you, and we will stay with you until democracy is restored and you reclaim your birthright of libertad.”

The opposition has used this show of support to urge people to take to the streets on Wednesday.

Ahead of the planned protests, opposition leaders feel buoyed by the large crowds that have already arrived at town hall meetings along with numerous street protests this week. High-profile military defections to their side could mark a point of no return in their bid to oust Mr. Maduro.

But a new crackdown on demonstrations and a wave of arrests targeting opposition leaders — including Mr. Guaidó — are also plausible.

It’s also possible Venezuelans, still soured on opposition leaders or simply fearing a government crackdown, do not rise in large numbers to Mr. Guaidó’s call to protest.

With a tall, wiry frame and a penchant for dancing in public and speaking outdoors, Mr. Guaidó became politically active as a student leader in Caracas. There he headed protests against then-president Hugo Chávez after Venezuela’s oldest broadcaster was closed, part of broader efforts to muzzle the press.

After college, Mr. Guaidó, who had studied engineering, was offered a job in the private sector that would have taken him to Mexico, said Juan Carlos Michinel, a friend. He didn’t accept the position.

“He wanted to start change here,” said Mr. Michinel. “He decided to stay here in Venezuela.”

Voluntad Popular, Mr. Guaidó’s party, is one of the more hard-line of the opposition’s parties, favoring marches against Mr. Maduro in the streets. Mr. López, the jailed mentor of Mr. Guaidó, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison after leading street protests in 2014 to challenge Mr. Maduro.

Mr. Guaidó’s ascendance as the face of the opposition could herald a new, more confrontational stance with the government, where the military will be actively courted as allies, said Ms. Tintori.

“We don’t have arms so we need the military,” she said.

Reached after Mr. Guaidó’s brief detention by the government last week, Norka del Valle Márquez, Mr. Guaidó’s mother, said her son’s entry into politics at such a critical juncture in the country’s history has left her nervous about his well being and that of his opposition colleagues.

“Do you ask me if I’m scared? Of course,” she said. But she added that he has worked hard for this moment.

“It’s been years of struggle for Juan,” she said. “He’s never wanted to leave this country. He is rooted to his land.”

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Candice Patton is really fucking sick. I find this shit so irritating. She actually claimed on IG that Grant bought her a "We Are The Flash" hat and boasted about it. Grant would actually announce something like that if it was true on his own social media. I don't believe for one second that he goes out of his way behind the scenes to kiss Candice's ass. Do you honestly think he is happy that Candice gets more undeserved screen time than he does even though he is the MALE LEAD? They're not close. They have no chemistry. They are not friends. Candice doesn't even get along with his fiance. I'm tired of hearing about the shitty things she does. It seems that the show runners don't care how bad it makes them look to keep her hired this long. Boycott Run Iris Run.

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I’m honestly having a hard time remembering if Iris has ever had an entire episode focused on her or perspective, can you tell me if she has? I ask because I see so many people angry & ready to boycott the run Iris run episode and I’m thinking jeez it’s just one episode like in 4 seasons, these haters need to relax.

I would say 1.21 was primarily focused on her reaction to being lied to and her first foray into joining the team, while 3.21 had focus on “her own little flashpoint,” if you will. What if she could be with a Barry who didn’t have the darkness in his, etc. Finally, to a much lesser extent, 2.12 dealt with her bridging the gap between Wally and Joe and learning to be a big sister.

4.16 will be the first episode named after her, but anyone threatening to boycott because she has “too much focus” simply hates her for daring to be the leading lady and doesn’t care about facts.

Is Curtis ever going to get a love interest? I’m sick of the Arrow writers turning him into a celibate gay man. I wish they stop using that stereotype on him and give him a love interest or have him get back with his ex husband at least. I admit part of me hope they have Rene realized he’s bisexual and get together with Curtis.😍 Their friendship is so cute this season. What’s your thoughts on Curtis’s love life? Are the Arrow writers deliberately writing him as a stereotype? Have a nice day.❤️

I’m annoyed about Curtis and his husband breaking up and then Paul disappearing from the narrative, as well. I don’t think the writers are deliberately turning him into a stereotype, but they clearly don’t care about him and it’s sad. I would be here for Curtis/Rene, though! 

Overall, my thoughts on his love life are that it’s a shame the writers don’t want to flesh him out as more than someone’s sidekick - whether it be Felicity’s or Dinah’s.

Hey :)every season a character that was«important» to the season die,I was wondering if you though it would happen in S4 too?I feel like they have to have an heartbreaking thing happening no matter what and Ralph seems to be the first choice to me cause they think we’re starting to get attached to him (smh) but it’s not an actual main. At the same time I feel like they have no idea what to do with Caitlin anymore and this might be her last few seasons but probably not S4. What are your theories?

They really love to repeat themselves, so yes, there’s a high chance that someone will die at the end of the season. Ralph is the most relevant character who isn’t a series regular right now, so it’s either him or Cecile. And it better not be Cecile.

But they have made a conscious effort to do things differently this season, and they seem to love Ralph more than any other white man they’ve had not named Barry, so…

They haven’t known what to do with Caitlin since Ronnie died, and it hasn’t stopped them yet lol.

I saw Jessica Parker Kennedy was on the real a few years back, I wonder if CP would have fun on a show like that? I don’t think any of our show have really done big appearances like that except for Grant?

Aww, I bet she would! Candice and Danielle did Whose Line, and I feel like the others have done a couple of morning shows. But in general, it’s true that our cast is out of the loop on talk shows and stuff.

Do you think Melissa Benoist is problematic?

I’ve heard some stuff but not enough to speak on it.

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SUCH A GREAT ARTICLE! Some highlights for me:  Before Season 6, the show took a colorblind approach to its depiction of Patton's character, Iris — and by extension, Iris' family — painting her as a journalist, a love interest, and a daughter, but never embracing her identity as a black woman. In fact, Iris and her police detective father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), could have been any race...But then, something changed in Season 6: The Flash hired its first black showrunner...Patton noted that she had great experiences with The Flash's two previous showrunners, but added "it's different having a person of color who's running the show."

"I feel more comfortable bringing up concerns that I have, and I feel like those concerns are received and listened to a little differently," she said. "There's just a level of care and concern on my behalf which you don't always have from other showrunners, not because they don't care but just because I think it's hard for them to relate or understand or see why it's important to me as a black woman."

On the heels of Arrow's success, The CW took a huge swing with The Flash by casting a black actress to portray Iris West. Though most fans were able to get past Gustin's dark-haired Barry Allen (he's blond in the comics), some outliers on Twitter threatened to boycott the series before it even aired. 

Her castmates have remained mostly silent through it all, but some have gradually begun to publicly come to her defense, including Gustin, who posted on Instagram ahead of Season 6, urging fans to accept Iris as Barry's endgame. But those criticisms speak to a minority stake of The Flash's passionate fanbase. Over the years, Patton's Iris has become one of The CW's most recognizable figures, garnering loyal support from fans who've latched on the charismatic and whip-smart journalist.-Keisha Hatchett

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‘I Give and You Give’: Venezuela’s Leader Dangles Food for Votes

CIUDAD GUYANA, Venezuela — Julio Romero emerged from the flag-waving crowd as President Nicolás Maduro stood smiling on a stage, dancing to an election jingle.

Mr. Romero, 42, was in no mood to celebrate. He clutched the colostomy bag he has used since he was shot last September, when armed men stole his taxi and any chance he had of making a living. Though he had managed to attend the rally, Mr. Romero did not consider himself a supporter of the president.

He had come in search of food.

“I came here because I thought they would give me something to eat,” said Mr. Romero, referring to the handouts often seen at government rallies.

Venezuela was once a country whose governing party used elections to speak about transforming society in revolutionary terms. It built homes and clinics and schools for the poor. Its ideas spread throughout the region, influencing leftist leaders throughout Latin America for more than a decade.

But years of mismanagement have scaled back those dreams, if not dismantled them altogether, in an economic collapse that is one of the worst in the Western Hemisphere in modern times.

This election, it seems, is in many ways about food.

Venezuela’s inflation is already the worst in the world and is expected to hit a stunning 13,000 percent this year. Stores are empty and people sift through garbage for scraps. Many people call the country’s malnutrition the “Maduro diet,” laying blame for the gaunt figures that are common sights now on Mr. Maduro.

A large majority of Venezuelans are dependent on the government for subsidized groceries distributed by local councils loyal to the president. Food has even entered the election, potentially controlling the way Venezuelans will vote.

Many people receive their subsidies using a special identity card that is playing a big role in this election. For Sunday’s vote, Venezuelans have been told to present these cards at stations run by Mr. Maduro’s governing party at polling places — so that party organizers can see who has voted and who has not.

“Everyone who has this card must vote,” Mr. Maduro has said at his campaign rallies, directly linking government handouts to voting. “I give and you give.”

Many see his words as wielding food as a tool to buy votes in the campaign — or to intimidate hungry people who might consider voting against him.

“Maduro has put it clearly: It’s an exchange of loyalty,” said Margarita López Maya, a political scientist.

The election is a pivotal moment for Venezuela. The country’s democracy has come under assault since Mr. Maduro won a special election in 2013 after the death of President Hugo Chávez.

The big shift here began in late 2015, when Mr. Maduro’s governing United Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly. But before the new legislature could be seated, pro-Maduro lawmakers stacked the Supreme Court with loyalists, stifling the opposition’s agenda.

Then in 2017, Mr. Maduro sidelined the legislature altogether, pushing through the creation of a new body, the Constituent Assembly, that had the power to rewrite the Constitution and effectively run the country. Mr. Maduro consolidated his power as the new group took over.

Now comes another major test for the country: a presidential vote that many international observers say has been engineered for Mr. Maduro to win a new term.

Many major international election observers have refused to monitor the vote on the grounds that it will not be fair. Most of the main opposition parties have been disqualified from running and their most popular potential candidates have been jailed or barred from holding office.

Those eligible to run have mostly called for a boycott. The date of the election is even a point of contention: The vote was called six months early, in what Mr. Maduro’s rivals say was an effort to give them little time to prepare for it.

The United States and many countries in the region have said they will not recognize the winner of the election.

“They do whatever they want and put themselves above the law and above the interests of the people,” said Héctor Navarro, who served for years as a minister in the government of Mr. Chávez and is now part of a growing list of former top Chávez officials who have become dissidents while still keeping their distance from the traditional opposition.

“In the history of Venezuela, every government has had its weaknesses and problems: murderous governments, thieving governments, incompetent governments, lazy governments, those have always been around,” Mr. Navarro said. “But all at the same time? That has never happened before, a government with all of those traits.”

It is the government’s inability to feed its people that has stunned Venezuelans the most, even some of Mr. Maduro’s fiercest supporters.

Isabela Romero, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, stood in the crowd of the president’s supporters in Ciudad Guyana, once a growing industrial city whose wealth was fueled by iron, steel and aluminum. Many factories are idle, and lines outside of grocery stores have been endlessly long for years.

Two decades ago, Ms. Romero voted for Mr. Chávez and saw the benefits of his reforms: She received a master’s degree that his government paid for and a parcel of land that had been expropriated, she said.

Now her hopes have changed under Mr. Maduro. “He just needs to find a way to make an economic revolution, so we can eat once again,” she said.

At his rally that day, the president sounded nearly contrite, saying he had made mistakes in the past and had “matured” — a play on words using his last name. He promised big changes to get people to work once again, an “economic revolution” that would give people jobs and opportunities again. Mr. Maduro insists that the country’s problems are the result of an “economic war” waged against it by the United States.

At a separate news conference, Mr. Maduro insisted that he was still a democrat. “Do they really think that people here are so stupid and submissive that they would put up with a dictator?” he said.

For some, the lack of food is just part of the desperation that has made many here receptive to the call for a boycott of the vote.

“People are very dispirited and they aren’t prepared to go out and vote,” said Miriam Bravo, a 40-year-old mother of seven with a 3-month-old baby in the sprawling Petare slum of Caracas, the capital. She said that her husband died in January from cancer, the victim of a health system in a free fall, with medicines scarce or nonexistent and adequate treatment often unavailable.

Ms. Bravo, a seamstress, said that before the crisis she and her husband used to take their children to the beach or to a park near the center of Caracas on weekends. Sometimes, they would treat themselves to a meal at McDonald’s. Now she struggles to put food on the table even twice a day.

“I think that by voting I will just be supporting the government,” Ms. Bravo said. “I don’t think that the election should be carried out in these conditions.”

While many opposition figures have called for a boycott of Sunday’s election, the two main candidates who have defied that appeal to challenge Mr. Maduro are Henri Falcón, a former follower of Mr. Chávez who later joined the opposition, and Javier Bertucci, a wealthy evangelical minister.

The question of abstention has weighed on the opposition, tearing apart what had been a unified front against Mr. Maduro in previous elections. His rivals faced a difficult choice: Participate in an election that many believed was rigged against them, or boycott the vote and assure a victory for Mr. Maduro.

On Thursday, those tensions were laid bare in Caracas outside the headquarters of Venezuela’s intelligence agency, which contains a jail holding about 55 political prisoners, including opposition activists and a prominent opposition politician. The night before, many of those prisoners had begun a protest in which they occupied a section of the jail, sending out text messages and videos. The images showed a prisoner they said had been badly beaten on the orders of guards.

Outside the complex, family members of the prisoners and opposition activists gathered. Mr. Bertucci, the evangelical minister running against Mr. Maduro, showed up in what he said was an effort to draw attention to the prisoners’ plight. But many of those present saw it as a campaign event for an illegitimate election.

“Get out!” they screamed, as he tried to speak to reporters. Someone threw water at him. “Bertucci is Maduro! I ask for democracy!” another shouted.

Mr. Bertucci remained calm. “Calling for abstention is not the way to free them,” he said of the prisoners. “We have to do more than protest. I believe the only weapon is the vote.”

Desireé Rodríguez, a volunteer cook at a Caracas soup kitchen, said that she intended to ignore calls for the boycott and would vote for Mr. Falcón.

Ms. Rodríguez, 33, who has a 10-year-old son, said that before the soup kitchen opened in January, her family was short on food and often ate just twice a day. She recalled counting out the small potatoes she could afford to make sure there were enough for more than one meal, or carefully dividing up a ration of pasta to stretch it across two or more days.

“This is like an epidemic,” she said. “Ask any poor person and they will tell you the same thing.”

In a Caracas slum called La Vega, Iris Hidalgo, 50, struggled with the question of whether to vote on Sunday.

She said that she had always voted for Mr. Chávez and then, in 2013, for Mr. Maduro.

“I regret it now,” she said. “He destroyed the country.”

Nicholas Casey reported from Ciudad Guyana, and William Neuman from Caracas, Venezuela.

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Reasons to Boycott 4x16 “Run, Viris, Run”

March 13th is coming up and if you're tired of being disappointed in the show like me, you have an idea of what I'm gonna say. But if you don't know if you should watch the episode, here are reasons why you should skip it and use your time wisely.

1. It's Viris-centric. Haven't we had enough of those? The entire Season 3 was about WA and Viris' death story line, that should have happened. They could have gone with so many other things as they had Flashpoint their disposal, but Viris and WA are the reasons why the show has dropped in quality. Season 4 highlights the worst of Viris as a character. 4x16 is nothing but fan service, how good does that make you feel? Why bother giving them your attention? Next. 2. The show uses us (Snowbarries, non shippers, regular viewers) for ratings, trends and anything else they can publicly brag about. Don't know about you guys but I hate having my intelligence repeatedly insulted. That's how it feels whenever I watch a new TF promo only to be cheated over for more Viris shoehorning and WA garbage. I didn't sign up for that. They’ve recently tried to manipulate us into watching their shitty show by releasing several promo pics of Cisco, Caitlin/KF, Barry, even used E3 Jay and Jesse to try and loop us in to watch. Watch 4x15 and tell me I'm lying. The entire story line was catered to once again, "making Viris the hero" and Barry no longer the main hero of his own show. Barry himself, a scientist, Harry, a scientist, Cisco, a scientist, Caitlin, a scientist, Jesse, a scientist, Jay, a tactical mind of science, how did all of these people not know how to solve this problem? Yet someone who has never studied the field and has mocked science on many occasions knows exactly what to do? I think not. 3. More Caitlin/Killer Frost and Snowbarrisco sidelining. Season 4 is already written in the can and it doesn't look like much is changing in terms of the team dynamic. Viris should have never been team leader but she remains so for some unknown reason. Why exactly are we still watching a show tailor made for a racist hate group? It's no longer the show we loved, accept it, find better things to do with your time next week. 4. Greg Berlanti’s return has changed nothing. It's like AK never left. The fact that people are saying, hoping, wishing for things to be undone, it seems like Greg has no real power over the situation. He's supposed to be "the guy who fixes things," instead he is the guy who continues paying tribute to the disgusting pervert AK abhorrent ideas. Keep that in mind the next time you think of watching it live. 5. The show is forcing Danielle, Grant, Tom and Carlos to promote a show they no longer star in. Let's face it, the show is no longer called "The Flash" anymore. When was the last time Barry held more screen time than his relationshit WA? Viris? Watching Grant on his SM promote something he doesn't even like is just sad. Seeing Danielle almost beg us to watch is equally depressing. Tom rarely if ever promotes the show, we understand that. If the cast is no longer into it, why should we? They are forced by their contracts to make us watch. Shouldn't the good writing speak for itself? Why must the show runners put these guys through the ringer over politics and useless characters like Ralph and Viris? 6. The only people who are happy are the racist Viris stans/WA/Gra*dice bitches. They still remain only 8% of the entire fandom. Try looking through TF tag on twitter during the live airing and just read what people who are non shippers say. Is it positive? Hell no. People hate what is going on. The only ones who praise the show are the ones destroying it. The reason why it “trended” for less than an hour on 3/6 had solely to do with the marketing team manipulating the viewers by promising a great episode with Jay and Jesse. They've done this before, disguised the look of an episode to coax you into watching. Why give them our time and patience if they're just going to lie to us at the end of it? 7. CP is doing something on purpose to stay on this long and it isn't delivering a great performance. She's got dirt on one of the crew members, AK, Berlanti himself, or is just going to shovel out the race card because she can. This is the world we live in. I can't help but think a contact, hers, was being negotiated bts and some drama is going on, now we're all paying the price the longer she is on the show. 8. The racism card is the only reason why WA/Viris/CP have lasted this long. Think about it. Grant is no longer on twitter, why? How many times do you think he was sick of racistallens calling him a racist for defending Danielle or himself? We live in a world where it's apparently OK to brand someone a racist without knowing a thing what it is. The handful of people (about 5) who called CP racist slurs are long gone, who knows if that was actually WAs pretending to send hate? But DP and Grant have gotten racist hate every day. Danielle mutes and Grant has blocked his comment section on IG. CP receives virtually no racist hate no matter what her stans make her believe. Eventually something has to give, Berlanti can't keep this going for long. One person can't have complete say in the direction of the show this popular. He needs to man up. Why support the show of a man with no balls or initiative? 9. Danielle has done a hell of a lot more to influence the DCEU with Caitlin/KF than CP does with Viris. Killer Frost is no longer a villain in the comics. They are casting her in The Flash solo movie. They already cast an Iris, but her scenes were cut because Joss Whedon says, "she adds nothing to the narrative but emotional drama." My sentiments exactly. People are too familiar with the CW version of Viris, the decision no doubt had a lot to do with the final cuts of JL. 10. Grant's acting suffers the more scenes he shares with CP. Watch, really watch the WA scenes (if you can) and watch Grant's receiving end of the performance. In acting "you're only as strong as your sparring partner." Anyone who acts or studies acting knows this to be true. Grant is not a bad actor but he is docile around CP because she is the weak actress. Yeah I said it. And no, it ain't racist. CP has had 4 seasons to give us one, just one good performance she has none to show for it. Grant is a great actor, but not around a terrible actress like CP. Why would we care to watch more of a bad thing in 4x16? Bye Felicia. Conclusion...I'm going to skip it and probably skip future episodes because I just don't care anymore. The show is no longer fun to watch, I have to search for reasons to stick around. It's becoming a chore and I despise what it has turned into. You guys have fair judgements. It's a free country, do what you want, but you guys have been warned. My advice: don't watch, don't talk, tweet/trend the show name, don't @ the writers about how bad their writing is, they just don't care. Politics will always win and it has here. You're best bet is binge watch something unique on Netflix. Make The CW pay for all the shit they've put us through. For all the times they’ve rewarded bad behavior and continue to. Think about all the times you were stalked, bullied and hunted down in your own personal space by WAs and Viris stans before you consider giving this episode a chance. It's not worth it.

[romanogersgirl]

Snowbarry Prompts for the March 13th Boycott of 4x16

This was gonna to be a list for Valentine's Day but I have tons of writing prompts in general so I thought I would combine them in this list of 10 prompts for March 13th. If you are a writer, check these out and feel free to grab one. If you are new and never written before, give these a try.

1. Barry got stood up again and goes back to Jitters to find Caitlin sitting alone, reading a book. 2. Drunk!Caitlin and Drunk!Barry. Karaoke and go! 3. Valentine's day sucks according to Caitlin Snow. She was going to ask Cisco to hang out and vent but he was out with Gypsy. She drives back to the lab and finds Barry there, working on something. She tries to leave quietly but he hears her enter. 4. Caitlin and Felicity share a few shots and girl talk. Caitlin accidentally lets her feelings about Barry slip and Felicity encourages her to tell him. 5. Barry and Caitlin are strangers and meet at a loud party of a mutual friend. Hating that its Valentine's Day they decide to head out and explore the city together. 6. Caitlin visits Barry as he gets some rest to check on his vitals and he suddenly asks her to stay until he falls back asleep. 7. Caitlin finally confronts Barry about Iris' irrational behavior, they fight and it turns into something they never expected to happen. 8. Barry surprises Caitlin on Valentine's Day with funny movies in one hand and junk food in the other. She lets him in and they bond over their failed love lives. 9. Barry comforts Caitlin on the night of Valentine's Day as she finally opens up to him since that day in the pipeline. 10. Set after 1x10 after Caitlin was kidnapped and rescued. Extended deleted scene of Caitlin revealing the only thought that kept her alive was Barry.

[romanogersgirl]

The Alternative to 4x16 "Run, Viris Run"

You know what's great about all this Flash drama? We're still a family and I'm glad to see us sticking together through the sewage of suck that is the show we once loved.

If you're like me and disappointed by everything Flash, I have an alternative: SNOWBARRY MOVIE NIGHT! I mentioned it in my post about boycotting 4x16, it would be the perfect way to have us come together and have fun in the fandom again. I don't know about you but I’m sick and tired of being insulted and let down by the show. I wanna appreciate its good moments for once and not feel like I’m watching it as a choir. So I suggest we watch a movie related to Snowbarry on that day. We can even make a banner and start a trend on twitter, tumblr, instagram to let others know. I'll draw up a poll at google so we can vote on the movie there, click here.

Let me know if you guys are interested in this idea. To come together in our love for our ship, what's better than that? Respond in the notes if you're in. Love you all, -prismdreams

[romanogersgirl]

Snowbarry Movie Night - Round 2

2 weeks left until March 13th everyone for our Snowbarry Movie Night!

The chosen movie from the 1st round of voting is: The Proposal.

The 2nd round of voting has been posted, it will be there for 3 days! Go vote!

https://twitter.com/SnowbarryTalk/status/970005715447201792

[romanogersgirl]

Snowbarry Movie Night - Round 3 Voting!

Here is the last group movies to vote from so we can choose a movie in the final voting stages. I will close the poll in 2 DAYS so get all your votes in!

https://twitter.com/SnowbarryTalk/status/971875247954698240

[theflashcwconfessions]

Boycott Run, Iris, Run when it airs on March 13. Please, I advice everyone who is tired of them using us to not watch the Viris Speedster episode. Don't even talk about it or trend the name. The show runners somehow get off on our negative feedback like the sick bastards they are. Talk is still talk, just avoid 4x16. We need that episode to drop so hard in value that Candice Patton's smug expression finally turns into a frown that she deserves.

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[valeriemperez]

I saw that video of Elliot and Margo speaking in nerd code in the forest and had to check the Magicians out. I am all caught up and I love it! It's such a different show with really interesting characters and storytelling. I noticed that you write reviews. Do you have a favorite character? I think mine is Julia. She's been through so much and I just want her to be happy.

That makes me so happy that you started watching The Magicians from that clip and enjoyed it! And damn, you caught up fast. I truly believe it’s shaping up to be one of the best sci-fi/fantasy shows, at least of the American ones.

My favorite character is Julia too! I just find her struggles really compelling, and I think she’s come out stronger every time. I love Margo, Elliot, Kady and Penny as well, but the character that consistently moves me the most is Julia. The best change the show made from the books was choosing to actually follow her story rather than focusing on Quentin and letting her disappear.

I’m pretty sure Dawn is there for season 5. I think she is there just to observe for now. She’s eventually going to make herself known because of an emergency in the future. Barry and Iris will have to go to the future as the cliffhanger for the finale. Very similar to Back to the Future II.

Yeah, she seems to be chilling right now. If she was already planning to stop something urgent, I feel like she would have come to the team by now. Instead she’s either waiting for a specific point in the future or she just wanted to see what 2017/2018 was like (a school project lol?) and intervenes later on when something happens.

If Devoe’s plan really is to inhabit Ralph’s body in order to shape shift back into his original self, I wonder if he may also use those abilities to shape shift into other people as well. Like for example, maybe he shapeshifts into Barry (or someone) to infiltrate the team, or into Iris to get into Barry’s head.

That would be so creepy, but as long as it doesn’t toe the line of consent (which unfortunately BeckyVoe & Marlize has already massively done) then I’m here for it.

Are people really going to not tune in for the Run Iris Run episode? Crazy! They complain about her not having powers or not being a science nerd. Now that we’re getting just one episode with her having powers, they complain. It’s like a tradition to give the hero’s significant other powers for a day in any story, especially with Clois. We don’t even know all the details. She could be from another Earth. The antis are sucking all the fun out of the show. Didn’t Fe get to dress like an archer?

Eh, the people who are attempting to boycott don’t matter to begin with with. They already stream illegally or watch from another country, and they’re not going to stop tweeting about how much they hate Iris. That’s their only contribution, and it actually helps the show’s buzz so…

We gotta just mute, block and ignore them if they’re sucking the fun out.

[valeriemperez]

Hello! Would you make a gif set please? One I haven’t seen yet: Iris telling Barry Oliver is hot on jitters season 1, Iris telling Barry Oliver is hot during the season 3 crossover and this years crossover when Oliver comes out of the changing room in a tux and Barry says “damn”. As soon as that happened I thought to myself “you finally see what Iris is talking about!” 😂thank you in advance!

Here you go, dear!

Imma just go ahead and say that I don’t want Iris to be pregnant that early in the series, mainly bc I worry she’ll end up being sidelined. But if she’s far enough along in her pregnancy @ the end this season she may end up already having the babies after the usual time jump.

I don’t want it either, and primarily for the same fear as you. But like you said, I imagine they’ll just do their footloose timey-wimey thing and have most of the pregnancy be between seasons no matter which season she gets pregnant. I mean, in the filming pics for 4.11/4.12, Cecile still doesn’t look pregnant lol.

Do you know which episode they are filming now? Should they be done with 12 or 13 before the break? Thank you!

According to my calculations, they should have just finished Day 4 of 4.13, with a week left of filming. So they’ll wrap up 4.13 before break.

The scheduling mess with LOT and SG has me annoyed because everyone keeps blaming Black Lightning. I saw ppl on twitter sayin they’re gonna boycott it now, because they’re screwing over female centered shows for BL. It’s annoying white feminism tbh and they lack any sense of intersectionality. Ppl can’t even recognize how important BL is going to be for black people (as a black woman, SG especially does nothing for me, that’s why I’m more excited for BL than anything else)

Why would anyone blame Black Lightning? And I better not see anyone on my timeline boycotting a show with black leads and two important black female superheroes, one of whom is a lesbian, because of “female centered shows” being … what are they even being? 

Supergirl is coming back in January, then Legends is taking the same timeslot in February so that way no one loses viewers. Relax.

Do you know why A/rrow had higher ratings in S4 than The Flash S4 does now? I know it had something to do with the CW losing something and being played on less TVs or something like that but could you please explain to me what it is they lost?

First, TV ratings in general have been on a steady decline for over a decade. The season high for a show two years ago is not gonna be the same as now. But specifically, CW lost a couple of providers, so there are large areas that don’t get the channel and therefore can’t see the shows live.

i really, really don’t think Neil Sandilands is done forever. I bet he’s resurrected somehow, whether it’s from a clone or whatever. it’s just too little use of such a good actor otherwise, i don’t buy it.

I agree with this Definitely flashbacks, but Marlize might rebel and try to recreate her husband like a creepy Brainiac redo. 

When do you think we’ll see that flash museum or monument?

Probably the final season tbh. Depends on how they end the show, but I imagine it won’t go up until after Barry’s Flash retires or dies.

Barry can leave and re-enter prison whenever he wants, but i’m guessing they’re going to have him consciously choose to stay until his innocence is proven? either that or he does tell everyone he’s the Flash and he’s put in the metahuman prison, right? will they actually reveal his identity, do you think?

I feel like the “Don’t run” was a powerful moment that would be undercut if he did start sneakily running out whenever he feels like it lol. And I think he’ll consider revealing his identity but ultimately not do it.