While I'm happy that Patty Spivot and Iris West get 'screen' time as female supporting characters, I'm suspicious that they're the only ones who actually interact with Barry; I'm really not interested in them being developed just for their stories to turn out to be furthering a love triangle plot.
That David Singh and James(?) Forrest don't actually interact with Barry just comes off as weird -- they are his co-workers, but he doesn't interact with anyone else as friends either. Does his life just consist of punching people in the face as Flash and nothing else. It's bizarrely isolated and makes Barry seem disconnected from the rest of humanity, like he doesn't actually know how to relate to human beings except as The Flash.
I was really hoping that they'd do something interesting with Turbine, but also very dubious about their ability to do so, since his backstory as a time-displaced Tuskeegee Airman would require research and actual thinking about what someone raised in Jim Crow Missouri (are Keystone and Central even still at the Kansas/Missouri border?) might expect the world to be like...
Oh, it's definitely going to be a love triangle plot, at least according to a dude who's clearly got advance spoilers (the guy has been right about everything he's claimed so far, and I know that Manapul and Buccellato have given advance spoilers to select fans they like because two are friends of mine). So it's certainly dull, I agree. But technically love interest(s) do qualify as supporting cast, even if there really isn't much of one.
I don't know if the lack of life for Barry is due to the creators' mediocre writing skills or due to editorial meddling -- they've eluded on several occasions to writing/editorial changes that were forced on them. It's entirely possible that editors have told them to focus on action at the expense of Barry's personal life, but it's also possible they don't see a point to the personal stuff or want to sacrifice it in favour of action stories.
Yeah, I'm skeptical of their ability to handle Turbine as well, mostly because I think very little of the creators' writing abilities (though they do seem to be getting marginally better with time). They appear to have come up with a cool concept and forgotten that they have to do something with it, and he's not a strong enough character for them to just coast on having a neat concept. And though I'm biased, their handling of him has so far not justified jettisoning the Top for him.
That David Singh and James(?) Forrest don't actually interact with Barry just comes off as weird -- they are his co-workers, but he doesn't interact with anyone else as friends either. Does his life just consist of punching people in the face as Flash and nothing else. It's bizarrely isolated and makes Barry seem disconnected from the rest of humanity, like he doesn't actually know how to relate to human beings except as The Flash.
I was really hoping that they'd do something interesting with Turbine, but also very dubious about their ability to do so, since his backstory as a time-displaced Tuskeegee Airman would require research and actual thinking about what someone raised in Jim Crow Missouri (are Keystone and Central even still at the Kansas/Missouri border?) might expect the world to be like...
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I don't know if the lack of life for Barry is due to the creators' mediocre writing skills or due to editorial meddling -- they've eluded on several occasions to writing/editorial changes that were forced on them. It's entirely possible that editors have told them to focus on action at the expense of Barry's personal life, but it's also possible they don't see a point to the personal stuff or want to sacrifice it in favour of action stories.
Yeah, I'm skeptical of their ability to handle Turbine as well, mostly because I think very little of the creators' writing abilities (though they do seem to be getting marginally better with time). They appear to have come up with a cool concept and forgotten that they have to do something with it, and he's not a strong enough character for them to just coast on having a neat concept. And though I'm biased, their handling of him has so far not justified jettisoning the Top for him.
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