TMC
05-26-2016, 03:58 AM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/24/the-flash-s-candice-patton-on-how-iris-west-broke-the-superhero-girlfriend-curse.html
No figure in a superhero story exasperates impatient audiences quite like the dreaded “love interest”-something Candice Patton, aka The Flash’s Iris West, knows all too well. Unlike the crime-fighting teams of allies or even the world-threatening mega-villains, the traditional love interest starts out completely in the dark about the hero’s vigilante life. She (it’s usually a “she”) is the last to know everything, and the first to unwittingly step into danger. And she’s often upset-she gets shut out and lied to a lot, and her date’s always rushing off without any explanation. None of this endears her much to audiences. And yet it’s a trope that crops up time and again in stories about the Lana
No figure in a superhero story exasperates impatient audiences quite like the dreaded “love interest”-something Candice Patton, aka The Flash’s Iris West, knows all too well. Unlike the crime-fighting teams of allies or even the world-threatening mega-villains, the traditional love interest starts out completely in the dark about the hero’s vigilante life. She (it’s usually a “she”) is the last to know everything, and the first to unwittingly step into danger. And she’s often upset-she gets shut out and lied to a lot, and her date’s always rushing off without any explanation. None of this endears her much to audiences. And yet it’s a trope that crops up time and again in stories about the Lana