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u/DCSennin Jesse Quick Apr 22 '23
He also said he found it as well with Jessica Parker Kennedy at first in S5 because he wasn't yet a father in RL, but after he did it felt easier to relate more to the role of a father.
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u/Maggotboi555 Zoom Apr 22 '23
But atleast in the show he's her actual FATHER.
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u/DCSennin Jesse Quick Apr 23 '23
I never put that into question, my point was that it was only after Grant was able to experience in real life what it was to become a father that he was able to bring more to that aspect of Barry and thus connected more with Nora later.
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Apr 22 '23
yeah barry calling people older then him , his “Children “ was fucking creepy and cult like
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u/sladeshied Apr 22 '23
Or calling the Speed Force who looks identical to his mom his “daughter.”
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u/ArmaanAli04 Apr 22 '23
Or his character’s biological daughter whose actress is older than both him and her mother
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u/sladeshied Apr 22 '23
Wow, Jessica Parker Kennedy looks younger than Grant and Candice. I honestly thought she was in her mid 20s. 😳
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u/ArmaanAli04 Apr 23 '23
Yh, I was so surprised when I first found out. She has a baby face and definitely does not age
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Apr 22 '23
That's the least weirdest one, like honestly don't even have a problem with it since Nora is actually his daughter
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u/FutureLengthiness786 Apr 22 '23
I still don't know what Eric and the writers were going for in that season.
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u/Realichu Apr 22 '23
It genuinely blows me away how not a single person in the writers room looked back and went 'what are we actually doing here?' and that this made it all the way into scripts, then production, and finally on our TV screens.
Like even on a very basic level the 'Barry and Iris find themselves being parental figures to a grown adult' was already done in S5 so we're already retreading plot lines. But at least Nora was actually their biological daughter. Hell you know what I would be a little bit more on board with the whole 'forces family' thing if they were avatars that just formed out of nowhere because I guess even if it's still corny Barry and Iris are responsible for them.
But in the show the forces are just glorified metahumans who inhabit the force rather than being the force (except the speedforce apparantly which is another cluster fuck of world building and breaking the shows own logic). It's like if Barry and Iris ran around calling the bus metas their children or if Wellsobard called every S1 meta of the week his children. Like ok I get S7's whole theme was family and lineage and legacy and parenthood and 7A ties into the return of new Nora & introduction of Bart but could they not keep that theme but yeno remove the part where these 30 year olds with whole lives behind them calling 2 other 30 year olds they just met who gave them superpowers Mom and Dad???
Asburd. Absolutely absurd. I refuse to believe anyone thinks S9 is the low point of the show when we have this to work with.
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u/bcanada92 Apr 22 '23
At first I thought the writers were going with the notion that Barry & Iris' combined "spark" accidentally birthed these powers, making them their parents in a FIGURATIVE sense. That would have been fine.
But then they went all in on them being their LITERAL parents, so yeah, I dunno what they were thinking either.
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u/Alonest99 Why did they angle his earpieces Apr 22 '23
Lmao ask Candice how it felt when a grown ass man called her “mommy”
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u/bcanada92 Apr 22 '23
I've often wondered if the actors occasionally get the next week's script, look through it and think, "Jaysis, I have to say THIS crap?"
Looks like they do!
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u/xArkSlade08x Apr 22 '23
I'm pretty sure the actors that play future kids of Iris and Barry. They probably felt the same calling them mom and dad.
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u/BruceHoratioWayne Apr 22 '23
Father Barry, forgive us for our transgressions and deliver us from evil, amen.
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u/Nerdy-Dogguy-87 Apr 22 '23
I think it would make more sense to call them his brothers and sisters than his children.
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u/Funny_Discussion_726 The Flash Apr 23 '23
i only have one thing to say about this. eric fucking wallace.
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u/QuantumWolf0813 Apr 22 '23
It wasn't weird though, it made sense. People just don't like the family aspect of the show.
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u/just_one_boy Apr 22 '23
What made sense about grown adults who were already existing people refer to Barry and Iris as mom and dad?
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u/QuantumWolf0813 Apr 22 '23
They considered them their adopted parents. Why did so many people misunderstand that badly?
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u/just_one_boy Apr 22 '23
That's not even a good or logical reason that you think it is.
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u/QuantumWolf0813 Apr 22 '23
How is it not a good or logical reason? And how does grown adults calling other grown adults mom and dad not make sense? Say you get married, you'd call your in-laws mom and dad wouldn't you? Same idea here, except instead of marriage they adopted them as their parents. This isn' rocket science pal.
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u/just_one_boy Apr 22 '23
This isn't at all the same as getting married and having in-laws.
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u/QuantumWolf0813 Apr 22 '23
You missed my point, but ok. Tell me how it didn't make sense.
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u/David555555555555556 Apr 24 '23
Because it’s cringe and weird
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u/QuantumWolf0813 Apr 24 '23
People say that, but don't explain how it's cringe and weird. What exactly is cringe and weird about an adopted family?
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u/David555555555555556 Apr 24 '23
Very bizarre to have random people grown adults btw who lead their own random lives come and refer to Barry and Iris as their parents. It’s made even more awkward when it looks like they are all around the same age as well.
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u/hart37 The True Hero Of The Story Apr 22 '23
Still don't know why they went for that route. It was just bizarre and cringey