#westallen moments

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Top 5 Westallen Moments

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[irisandtheflash]

BARRY ALLEN AND IRIS WEST-ALLEN | THE FLASH, Season 9, Episode 11, "A New World, Part II"

[danothan]

i love that barry loves to talk abt his loved ones with anyone that’s willing to listen (and maybe not even then), sometimes he even talks abt them to each other when he’s supposed to be spending time with the other person 😭

thinking abt how hal invited barry to a party to get closer to him and barry’s all “great party hal <:] 👍 would’ve been more fun if iris was here…” and the second he goes home to iris, he’s immediately rambling abt hal like “you should’ve seen him, iris, it was like watching a movie star!”

[romancemedia]

WestAllen and SuperMartian Weddings

[barryallenis]

- THE FLASH “A New World, Part Four” (9x13)

[shrinkthisviolet]

Here’s an idea:

Fewer “Savitar should’ve finished the job” comments, more “lol the so-called “god of speed” died from a normal gunshot fired by the amazing Iris West, who he was sooo determined to kill 😂” comments

[eoiris]

as somebody who just gave birth, if someone else had revealed my own pregnancy to me last year before I even knew, I would’ve buried them alive in the desert <3

Iris deserves better x10000

[icedteaandoldlace]

And I'd like to wish Westallen AND Snowbarry shippers a very stop valuing Cisco only as ammunition to use against a ship you hate. 🙃

[frigidlyauthorial]

someone stop me from rewatching the first two seasons of cw the flash it’s getting scary out here

[lecoindecachou]

Someone should do the Barbie meme for Westallen because ‘She’s everything. He’s just Ken.’ is the most accurate representation of my feelings towards that ship.

[msanonships]

WESTALLEN + a few moments

[wildm00re]

haven’t watched the flash in like 100 years but got jumpscared by someone posting westallens “we’re the flash scene” and complaining about it. the post had like thousands of likes and i just sit there for a moment confused (not really, everyone knows why they’re really mad) about what was so outrageous about that scene to begin with???

all iris is literally telling barry is that he doesn’t have to face things alone, that they will always find a way to face whatever problem/enemy that may come. she is comforting and being there for her soulmate and husband-to-be???

but no, you’ll have dumbass #1 and #2 commenting things like “ok iris you go fight the reverse flash then”, completely missing the point of the scene because their own hatred for iris is apparently much stronger than their media literacy ig

[miss-eli-starfleet]

My critique of CW’S The Flash

The Flash is one of my absolute favourite shows, and I think it deserves one of these. Yes my favourite shows deserve critiques because there are changes I would’ve liked to see instead. This is all just my opinion on the show, not exactly hating it. Plus.. I saw someone else doing something similar to here goes.

Imma be clear at the start. I don’t hate WestAllen, just really really disappointed with how they were written in the latter seasons sometimes.

Props to every actor in the Flash who put all their effort into the show whether the script was cringe or not.

Season 1-2 was FIRE. No complaints. Loved the WestAllen.

Season 3 was good,

but I think they could’ve done Savitar better. Still liked him as the big bad being depressed/emo!Barry. I’ll say that I got really attached to Harry in S2 which made me wonder why they have HR there at all? The dude grew on me, and he added humour to the team, but honestly between him and Harry, it could’ve easily been Harry. Though it means he would die at the end.. so I’m glad Season 3 had HR Wells instead sorry not sorry.

The relationship between Julian Albert and Barry was so fun to watch. Which reminds me, LOVED Eobard’s appearance as Matt Letscher in 3x01. I have no idea why they continue to use Wells’ face like bruh. Your pretending as Wells is over so like why. GIMME MORE MATT!EOBARD.

I loved Frost???

Season 4 was also great.

I’d say more quality than season 3 because it was their first time against a big bad that WASN’T a speedster yet posed a more than adequate challenge to the team. The plot was nice and unique (I really loved Hazard!). I’ll say that DEVOE was kinda showing some red flags before becoming the Thinker in his relationship with Marlize, like he seemed kinda overly possessive of her. Glad that she switched to helping Team Flash after seeing what her husband had become. Loved her “Thinker’s first victim” line.

I felt like they started focusing on Cecile too much? Her role was vital to the plot at the end with helping Barry hop into Devoe’s mind to retrieve Ralph. And speaking of Ralph, I was neutral towards the character at first, but he grew on me. Also why fire him for sometning he did like 10yrs ago. That made no sense. I’d rather Ralph than more Cecile or Allegra.

LOVED ALL THE BANTER BETWEEN HARRY AND CISCO. And FROST FROST FROST!!! I liked her S4 outfit. I also think Barry’s supersuit was the best in this season.

One of my favourite episodes was “Flashtime”. Awesome awesome filler episode.

Season 5 was also great.

Barry’s supersuit was trash tho imo. He just looks like a weird deformed strawberry.

Above average but not quite as good as S4. LOVED NORA WORKING WITH THAWNE then Barry finding out and tossing her into the pipeline cell lol. Just the betrayal, and then dumping her in the middle of a random street in the future. Loved all the father-daughter moments she had with Barry. Cool to see the writers creativity in “meta-tech”.

However Iris.. bro in 5x19 she has some issues bringing up the fact Barry NEEDED to go into the Speedforce TWICE. And then her telling Barry to his face that she didn’t care that Nora was working with Thawne. Like bro, he murdered your husband’s mother and caused sm problems. And you don’t care about that?? Good to see that Barry called her out in the end.

Imma complain about freaking Sherloque again. Why not Harry? Even after what happened to him in S4, I think he could’ve figured out that Nora is secretly working with Thawne. Like dude’s still smart af.

Nora getting erased from existence at the very end.. sad :( I miss S5 Nora

Season 6.

I feel like this is when everything started going downhill. I didn’t care for Mirror Monarch. The mirror!Iris storyline was interesting to see. Idk what happened the rest of the season. That’s how much I didn’t care for this season lol. I think the other half was about Ramsey and how he wanted to make everyone zombies. Man I HATED Sue Dearborn or however you spell her name. She just took up too much screentime. This is when it started feeling like “Iris & Friends” instead of “The Flash”.

Liked to see how Barry dealt with slowly losing his speed bc he was killing the speedforce lol. Liked how the Caitlin/Frost duo became separate people. It was cool. At least we got that lol.

I think this is when Allegra comes in. I honestly can’t stand her. Like the whole her and her sister trope? Why.

The one thing I did like was Barry’s artificial speedforce gave him speed thinking. Awesome episode to watch. EXCEPT NASH. WHY. His sacrifice is useless in the end because of the whole “Iris is Barry’s lightning rod” thing. Have nothing about a speedster’s lightning rods in the comics, just didn’t like how that was written into the show. It eventually got really annoying.

Season 7.

Where do I even begin. This is when Barry’s “children” became a thing, and then suddenly speedforce!Nora wanting to kill all of them? Like what??? Where did that come from? Dion’s storyline was interesting. The rest were just.. Meh. And the CGI was so cringe.

I loved Abra Kadabra??? Why they gotta kill him off in one episode.

Does Chillblaine start coming in this season? I dislike him in general.

Season 8.

THIS IS WHEN BARRY’S ACTUAL CHILDREN COME BACK.

Now with Nora getting erased in S5, I really would’ve preferred if they gave us Tornado Twins instead. Like you can even use the same actors, but I honestly don’t really like the new Nora. I did like seeing her interaction between her and her family.

Also. Bart. I. Have. Major. Problems. I LOVE Bart but he is supposed to be Barry’s GRANDSON. Give us Don Allen instead. I did like the episode where they messed up the timeline, went back to 2013 and then accidentally reset Jay into the timeline. Also loved the episode with the whole Barry and the gamma radiation making him age hella fast. Bro was basically a zombie at the end and still overloaded the machine with the speedforce.

The. Stupid. Power Rangers godspeed arc was shit and them being Bart’s Thawne-like arch nemesis. Like boy, don’t compare Thawne with your godspeed problems. Don’t even start. Also what is with the “Negative Forces” and “Positive Forces” Power Rangers thing and then Iris’ time sickness? At this point, The Flash just started to feel like a soap opera.

I liked Chester even though he was a “replacement” for Cisco. He was unique. But the whole Allegra/Chester budding relationship where did that come from?? It just seemed very cringe and didn’t do much for the plot besides drama I guess. Khione was meh. Like just give us Caitlin with Frost in some way. I don’t care about Khione and her arc. Pls give us more Barry and not so much Cecile and Allegra.

Season 9

The show should just be renamed “Power Rangers: Iris & Friends” at this point. They made an entire episode without Barry?? Like if I pick up a Flash comic book, I expect it to be about THE FLASH. Not his random friends. Like yes, his friends can make appearances but don’t give me a whole dang episode without Barry THE MAIN CHARACTER. Also how the hell did Cecile become that OP, where is the character development.

Idk where Chillblaine comes in but I just don’t like him, not to mention that I don’t like the relationship between him and Frost. Like what.

Eddie’s Cobalt Blue arc and Red Death arc could’ve been done WAY better. I didn’t see any plot relevance in any way. It was written so poorly. Red Death was just like evil speedster!Batman or something. Please don’t bring our beloved Eddie back if you gonna write him all just jealous of Barry and him somehow becoming the new avatar of the Negative Speedforce. And what does Batwoman have anything to do with this (I believe she appears in the finale villains arc)l

There is legit only one episode I like in S9. The one that comes “full circle”. The one where Barry gets stuck in 2000, gets to chill with his parents for one day, and then comes full circle with Matt!Eobard killing Nora. SEASON 1 QUALITY. They even use the same bg music which awwww. And the “If I can spend one more day with my parents, then what would I say to them?” Line? Chef’s kiss.

Did not like the finale. His final run speech was okay about sharing his gift. Definitely would’ve preferred if Barry became the lightning bolt that struck him in S1 like in the comics.

Idk which episodes: Loved all the Amunet & Frost storyline, and then Goldface time to time appearances. Especially “Officer Chemist” lol.

[teamwestallen]

Some of my favorite westallen moments in season 1

[cheryls-blossomed]

The scene of Barry and Iris in the hospital room as Iris is going through contractions is such classic Westallen in every sense. Iris is enduring contractions, but she’s just happy, and Barry tenderly says to her how he didn’t expect her to enjoy contractions so much, which epitomizes best friends in love, and she responds that the contractions are terrible, but that she doesn’t care about how awful the contractions are, because he’s here with her now. They then gently talk about Barry returning to the night his mother dies, and Iris wishes she could have been there with him when he was going through it, and he assures her that getting to revisit that night and see his parents brought him peace in reconciling that night. Once again: her concern, even in labor, is for him, and he of course takes this moment to reassure her completely. He then tells her that he is home, emphasizing once again that she is love, she is peace, she is warmth, she is home, emphasizing too the constant through-line of Westallen’s entire love story which has always been that they are each other’s home. Barry Allen, the fastest man alive, is only home when in Iris West-Allen’s arms. He then says, “I love you, Iris.” And she responds (sans too), “I love you,” once again highlighting yet another little Westallen thing (ILY sans too), before he kisses her. 

This scene encapsulates Westallen’s love story beautifully, emphasizing the depth of Barry and Iris’s love for each other. The Flash has always been their love story, and their love story is a legacy for the ages.

[coldflasher]

Character ask: Iris West + 12, 20, 25

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

A headcanon I am very fond of is that in addition to being a terrible gift-giver (canon) and a bad cook (also canon), Iris cannot sing at ALL. I just think it's so funny that like, Joe can sing. Barry can sing. Iris cannot carry a tune to save her life. She has none of Joe's musical talent.I have defo posted about this before but I love to imagine Barry walking in and hearing Iris singing in the kitchen or something, and it's the most awful, tuneless singing you have ever heard, so bad it could burst eardrums, and it's his favourite sound in the world. He loves it. Meanwhile, everyone else's ears are bleeding.

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

So I know allegedly Barry is Iris's best friend BUT to me her best friend will always be Cisco. I absolutely adore their dynamic. I especially love the closeness they develop between s3 and s4 when Barry is missing and they are both relying on each other and joining forces to find a way to bring him back. Also one of my fave moments, I can never remember what ep or season it's on, I wanna say s2? But iirc, Tony Woodward comes back as like a zombie or something and he's after them, and Cisco leaps in front of her all dramatic like "Get behind me!!" and Iris gets so cross and shoves him behind her and goes "YOU get behind ME!" and it cracks me up every time. It just fills me with joy seeing them share a screen in general. I think it's a very layered and supportive relationship between two very kind and loving characters who also aren't afraid to give each other a good telling off when the situation calls for it. I love them, your honour

I also kinda like the idea of Iris being friends with Shawna Baez. I don't know what it is, I'm pretty sure they never interacted, but I think Iris would give her good advice and they'd have a good time hanging out

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

You know, I honestly don't have clear memories of my first impression of most of the characters! My memories of watching the first season for the first time in general are very vague. I do specifically remember not liking Len at ALL which is so funny to me now skshsggss. But I don't remember much about my first impression of Iris. I do remember that I didn't care for Westallen when I first started the show, but I'm not sure if that was anything to do with disliking Iris, or if it was just the ship as a whole (and there are still aspects of their s1 dynamic that are not my favourite, much as I adore that season).That being said by s2 I remember being so on board with her and loving her! I do think she took a little while to grow into herself as a character, whenever I do a rewatch I find it a bit jarring revisiting her, she seems so different to me, especially in the first handful of eps! But yeah on the whole I barely remember my first time watching the early seasons which is so funny to me. My ex actually made me watch it. He was like "oh you'll love it". Anyways we broke up like 8 years ago and it's still my favourite show, so he clearly wasn't wrong lmao

Thank youuuu :D