flash missing vanishes in crisis

like ilya spends his entire life being told (by people objectively shittier than he is) that he’s not good enough, he’s lazy, he’s undisciplined, he lets people down. and then he meets the one person who would actually be in a position to assess whether ilya is any of those things, and shane just earnestly looks into his fucking soul and says no, they were wrong. ‘you’re an awesome player to watch’ ‘i don’t know that side of you at all’ ‘this isn’t what this is. me and you’

I honestly wish they'd dragged the Westallen out a bit more, because Barry's relationship with Iris grows so fractured in S1 because he keeps her out of the loop re: The Flash and because Barry can't seem to...get his endless unrequited thing under control for most of it? It's not until the end of the season that he really seems to get into a headspace where he can be friends with her without making that baggage her problem (or Eddie's problem), and then after Eddie dies that kind of doesn't stick.

And, hey, marriage isn't the end of a relationship. It can very much be a beginning. You can say, this is it, let's get married and we deal with whatever comes up as it arises because I already know I'm committed to this course of action, that's totally fine.