Katsullivan

Yep, in the video, he's clearly clocked at 1:31. The lightsaber basically hits the 4th wall which is supposed to be Kylo's viewpoint. It's also flying straight at his head, not into his grip, so there's never a question of it coming to him. To quote Han Solo, "that's not how the Force works". It has nothing to do with Kylo being physical weak or injured. He simply wasn't as strong as Rey*. There are no prevailing factors that made Rey push him out of her mind and invade his own in the interrogation scene - she was the one who was undergoing torture and was weakened and vulnerable. The lightsaber didn't come into Kylo's hand because Rey had a stronger claim. It's that simple*. *Or at least it was before TLJ as @ursula put it plainly, "Draco-in-Leather-Panted" him. ??????

I'm not sure what you're implying here but Shethority was founded by CL & CP. After seasons of being isolated, I'm just glad that CP has the female support that she's always wanted. Yeah, I remember an interview she did mid-season 1 where she pitched Snowbarry in response to the interviewer's question about Caitlin/Ronnie. For all the claims of being professionally ambitious, she seemed to have no concept of her character - Caitlin's priorities, desires, general arc.

We are looking at the same gif, aren't we? The light-saber literally hits him in the face and knocks him off-balance. It's not Kylo ducking because it's coming too fast, it's the light-saber basically telling him the Force equivalent of "get the F**k out of my way".

EBR ghosted DP on social media - unfriending, deleting shared pictures, untagging.

Exactly. Compare Iris's reluctance to talk to Patty to her everything with Linda Park. Night and day. They deleted the scene where Barry visits Iris in the hospital after her accident so no, Iris getting hurt was not a shippy moment. I believe it. I also believe that DP shut it down because Ralph was being considered for a permanent status and it's one thing to have a character played by a temporary guest star validating her desirability, it's another thing to "pair up" Caitlin permanently with a recurring character.

If we're talking purely professional ambition, then DP should have pushed for Killervibe as the Flash's Fitzsimmons, instead of shutting it down every time it's come up in an interview. The show's consistently written that relationship as important to both characters and given them a lot of heart-to-heart moments. It would have been a two-fer by not just securing her position but saving production the cost of bringing in another actress to play Cisco's LI. It certainly would have made more long-term professional sense then demanding for a storyline that was always intended to be temporary, and ended in s1 when Iris discovered Barry's identity and reclaimed her role as his most important confidante. Well by that logic, CP should have been the one shading the other actor and being threatened since until recently (season 3), DP was consistently having more lines than any other female actor on the show, except the occasional guest star like MB. Rather, CP advocated for more interaction between the women, no doubt because of her feminist values but also because she didn't think it necessarily had to be a zero-sum game. And as we can see from Minka Kelly's statement, not every white actress in DC thinks her black co-star is a rival to take down. If DP thinks it is a zero-sum-game and she's willing to use racist sentiment to get rid of her "competition", then she should anticipate the backlash that comes with that behaviour. It might have been acceptable in the past (and when she had the showrunner in her backpocket), but nothing stays the same forever. As can be seen with CP's and EBR's recent social media actions --- that kind of behaviour tends to, as the saying goes, come back to "bite you in the a$$." If anything, I think her blatant statements in SDCC indicate that the chickens have come home to roost, and DP has nothing left to lose on this show. Time will tell.

Not saying something is one thing - actively liking some of that hate content is another. Considering how much of a fanbase DP had before she started the show, I think it's less about building her fanbase and more about her agreeing with those comments.

In a reverse parallel to the DP/CP dynamic: Minka Kelly defends Anna Diop from the racist backlash from her Titans' casting (for perspective Anna Diop is playing an orange alien character) Here's her instagram post:

The closest thing we've got to any of the cast/crew acknowledging Iris's social media attacks was when Grant went on record to defend DP from Iris fans "attacking" her for her liking racist tweets attacking Iris/CP. When the fans pointed out the ridiculous double standard of him defending DP from being called out on her bad behaviour --- while saying nothing about the actual racist hate that CP was getting (wow, why does that feel or sound so familiar...), Grant's reaction was to go off twitter. Does that count?

You're wrong about three things: First, the last photo with DP in it is January 18 2018, with Caity Lotz. Second, that's not the last time she posted a picture of DP, that's the last photo of DP that CP did not delete when she scrubbed her Instagram this year of all their "duo" pictures (as themselves and as their characters). CP had a bunch of CP/DP and Iris/Caitlin pictures that she took down after whatever it was that DP did to make her make such a blatant statement of their relationship. Third, DP's instagram photos of CP look very different now from how they looked in the AJK-era. AJK was a personal friend of DP and gave her the role, which was meant for an older woman, without an audition. I imagine that the power play and politics while he was there and after he was gone, are very different. All that aside, if my co-worker was liking offensive tweets about me, I won't have been following her on social media. If my co-worker was implying that I was invading her "turf" (only girl in Star Labs), I won't have friendly photos of us together to take down in the first place. If my co-worker was giving interviews where her answer to the question was "can we see more of your characters's friendship?" was "errr... I don't understand what she's doing in my territory", then I think CP definitely gave DP too many chances to be less shady.

Er... DP's been shading CP for years. In the AJK era, she consistently "promoted" show episodes by sharing promo photos that don't have Candice in it. She somehow managed to promote an Iris-centric episode "Run, Iris, Run" with a photo that had every member of the cast in it but Candice. She's liked tweets that dissed Iris/Candice/Westallen, and recently gave an interview in SDCC where in answer to a question about how her character's and Iris's friendship will further in season 5, she said that it didn't make sense for Iris to be in Star Labs and she needed her own identity outside the Flash. Which makes sense considering that in season 2, she said she missed being the only girl in Star Labs. Meanwhile, CP has for years been advocating for stronger female friendships and richer female interactions in the show.

It was? I know chemistry is subjective but I clearly remember a scene when they're in bed together and she's straddling him, and his arms were just lying flat by his sides, no attempt whatsoever to touch her on her waist or her arms. It just seemed so weirdly passive like CP was doing all the work. I thought they had serviceable chemistry but nothing to blow my mind away. It also didn't help that about 99% of their kissing/hugging was shown from Barry's viewpoint and he didn't find them sexy or sweet but teeth-grindingly painful. This. Eddie was Westallen's prop. He existed to "confirm" Iris's attractiveness and desirability and give Barry something to fight for. And we didn't see much of Eddie/Iris outside Barry's POV to root for anything. I literally cannot think of any Eddie/Iris scene that was not in Barry's PoV, or was not about Barry in someway. Unless you're counting the scenes where it was about "The Streak". Iris/Westallen was this close to being pushed off the show in 2A. To be a fly on the wall behind the scenes during that time. Whenever you wonder if the writers / showrunners / Danielle Panabacker are being shady about Iris/Westallen/Candice, always, always trust your worst instincts. Because they are never wrong. I can personally confirm that almost all my worst suspicions ended up being confirmed. I say almost because the show is not over yet.

I think that more simply, he was setting up the idea that she was a Skywalker. So she was called by Anakin Skywalker's light-saber, the same saber that his son (her father) wielded and lost (with his hand) in Bespin. It's a poetic counterpoint to Kylo who salvaged Vader's broken helmet from goodness-knows-where. While Rey found his lightsaber like Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone. At the end of the movie, the saber comes to her. That scene in TLJ where Anakin's saber breaks under their pulls was done to retcon what was established in the previous movie - that Rey had a stronger claim to the Skywalker legacy. It was Rian Johnson metaphorically putting Rey in her place as lesser to Kylo.

I don't agree with this - "when" it happened might have effected "if" it happened. It's all very well for them to say "let's do SB first, then endgame WA" and then go "oh lookit how popular SB is, the fans will never accept WA, so if it's not broken...". And there's the Clana vs Clois example above, where Smallville made the "starter" romance the One True Romance of the show, with the "endgame" romance as the "settling" option.

Well that's how it's all worked out now, 3 seasons in --- but we have no idea how it would have worked out if Grant hadn't put his foot down. They very well might have written Caitlin as the "Lana" character, and Iris as the "Lois" where Iris basically ends up with Barry as default. They literally had to fire the original Smallville showrunners for the new showrunners to break up Clana and make Clois. That's how dedicated the original PTB were to endgame Clana. And you're absolutely right that Lois is written as the "love the one you've got because you can't have the one you love" romance. It was deliberate. I always see Smallville as a kind of "learning school" for how fandom treats WOC, especially WOC that dare to be written as the desirable, sought-after, beloved love interest of the Main Hero, and especially WOC that have white women propping them (first Chloe, then Lois). In other words, WOC that dare to be written the way White women traditionally have been written.

Shoehorned? But Poirot was in the novel.

Yeah, boo too. The Wests should be part of this X-world with Wally as one of the good superheroes. I imagine all Wests will be Resistance fighters with Joe on the frontlines and Iris as a spy.

☺️ But come on. ... "Boy!" doesn't have the same ring to it. ? Huh? If anything from Grant's quote, it sounds like the producers/writers were pushing Snowbarry and Grant was solely pushing back. Which fits with the way the staff writers/showrunners edited guest-written episodes to tone down on Westallen content. If Grant hadn't pushed so hard for Westallen, it would have gone the way of Lauriver. (In fact, I wonder if they hadn't deliberately cast Iris as a black girl because they intended to follow Arrow's formula from the start. Yeah, I know it sounds like another one of Kat's wild conspiracy theories but I had a conspiracy theory about planned-Snowbarry and DP and AJK and we've seen how that panned out...) Patty definitely makes more sense than Linda Park, who was Wally's love interest from comics. But it's suspect the way they wrote the 2 relationships with Barry. Linda was a rebound relationship that he ended the moment he got a glimmer of hope from Iris, and we had Iris be visibly affected by Linda/Barry and Linda be visibly unnerved by Westallen's closeness. With Spallen, Iris was all but written out of the show, and when she was allowed to interact with Spallen, she played the role of Barry's sister. Patty even lampshades that when she asks Iris for advice.

What's the story of Barry-X and Iris-X?

That's Chloe, not Mack. We have no idea who Mack is/was.

There is - and technically, Iris has the stronger storyline potential here because she's basically George McFly to Nora's Marty. She's the character that gets to be seen in a different light - like Marty realising that George wrote scifi, Nora will see that her mom used to be cool. There isn't much story to go with Nora/Barry - unless the show wants to write Nora being disillusioned by Barry which I can't see this show doing. The x-factor in this is the almost consistently shitty way that Iris's storylines are dealt with on this show so... I dunno. Plus this news about DP (and I think post-SDCC, we can all stop "speculating" about the nature of her relationship with CP) is directing an episode and has control over how little and how badly Iris/CP is portrayed? Not good.

?Girl! I was basically accused of being an SB-shipper for pointing out that the show was deliberately fanbaiting SB. Thank goodness for Grant being pro-Westallen and standing up for it. Because if Stephen Amnell/Olicity is any indication, these shows do go out of their way to keep their white male leads happy. But let's not pretend any more that Snowbarry wasn't a very legitimate consideration and threat against Westallen, and Iris's eventual longevity on the show. I'm wondering if Patty wasn't a compromise since Grant was so against SB. By giving him a temporary LI with a fixed start/end-time instead of being stuck with Snowbarry and having to deal with the fallout of that post-breakup since DP is clearly not leaving the show soon. And yeah, with the way Iris was written in 2A, I'm quite certain that if Patty had been a smidgen bit more popular, CP would have been out of work.

Actually, AC was quite good at inserting romance and hooking up protagonists* - just about every lead character in a non-Poirot or Marple story has a romantic storyline - the most famous example being Tommy/Tuppence. *Technically speaking, are Poirot and Marple even "protagonists"? They are too... I think the right word would be omniscient, for most of the story. They aren't the "conventional" detectives who follow clues and track down suspects and "detect". 90% of the time, Marple basically stays near the window, knitting and her way of solving crimes is "I know Mr. B killed his wife because he reminded me so much of Mr A who lived here 20 years ago that did the same thing." Calling Poirot the protagonist of say, Links, would be like calling Aslan the protagonist of the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe. Anyway, my point is that Christie didn't have a problem giving romances, or creating romantic sub-plots for her characters. So there must have been a reason why she wrote Poirot as Poirot not Tommy Beresford or even Colonel Race who while single, had an unambiguous romantic subplot in his introduction. The reason why romance doesn't seem shoe-horned into the mysteries is because it's not. Most of the time, the romance is the mystery. Murder of the Links is as much a murder mystery as it is the narration of two generations of the same love triangle. The entire "bedrock" of Death on the Nile is a twisted love story. The Man in the Brown Suit is romance/adventure, not even strictly a mystery. my goodness, I tried to read them after I ran out of Christie books and I was bored. out. of. my. fricking. mind. THIS. This is exactly my point. You know this is good point. When Christie adapted And Then There Were None for the stage, she "fulfilled" the romance that she had written into the novel. She was quite firm that for the play to "work", it had to have a HEA ending.

Christie won't have had the vocabulary to describe him as ace, but without using any of the modern terminology, it's established that - very unlike Hastings - Poirot didn't have any of the usual inclinations towards sex, pretty men or women and was basically "immune" to sexual attraction. (Even his admiration of Vera is like an Irene Adler kind of fascination where he seems more moved by her mind than her physical attractiveness). Some have argued that Poirot's fastidiousness with "order and method" are signs of high functioning savant-level ASD. But I don't completely agree.