Iris Wants to Unmask Barry to Save Him in The Flash Midseaso

A secret ID for this character in this show is so pointless, the idea is you hide who you are to protect your loved ones, but all the big bads and a bunch of the middle bads know who The Flash is anyway, his entire team/family are already fighting crime, 3 of them have superpowers in their own right, Joe's a cop and Iris can also kick some butt so what's the point?

Atleast in Arrow theres the justification that outing himself as GA also means outing himself for multiple killings so theres a reason to still hide who he is, but for Flash hell for Supergirl it makes no sense, all the people they care about are already in on the crime fighting so why bother hiding?

I agree with taylor. If Barry can hold a conversation with Iris in a second then there is no way he couldn't have disposed of the body and cleaned his apartment.

Everybody became an idiot just so this story could play out the way they wanted it. Especially when they let a guy on house arrest live the courthouse.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

I've been second guessing the whole masked identity for certain characters for a long time. I am of the mind that it's tricky to start pulling those kinds of threads in stories, asking if this or that is realistic, everything unravels and you're left just the real world, where this stuff doesn't really work. So I always maintain that if the conceit of story is that x, y or z is real thing, then writers should try to justify through some measure of internal logic to back it up. If it just doesn't work though, if the concept is outdated or too absurd, then maybe it's time to change it towards something that does make sense.

For Batman, I've long been of the opinion that him operating under the cover of being an urban legend is arguably what would make him the most effective; the idea of playing on people's superstition to shake their confidence when facing him. The anonymity also allows him to slip under the radar and effectively beat the criminals at their own game. But I also like an idea put out by the Adam West Batman series, where they say that Batman and Robin aren't vigilantes, but rather deputized law enforcement agents, even though their identities aren't known by authorities.

I never liked that the Green Lantern movie simply ignored the measures taken to hide Hal's identity; sure, the mask may not hide much, but if the conceit is that his identity is meant to be concealed, then they need to make that work. But in that case, I think they've reached a point where they should consider just having Hal's identity known, or at least not concealed; because he operates on a galactic scale, so who's going to know him from Adam outside his hometown, much less on another planet? And considering neither John Stuart or Guy Gardener wear masks, why bother with Hal?

For the Flash, they went down that road in the comics, with Wally West revealing his identity when he took over after Barry's death; because he wanted to pay proper respect to Barry by letting people know that this wasn't the same Flash. This did ultimately result in him being attacked personally; and eventually his identity as the Flash was obscured to most people by Hal Jordan as the Spectre. But considering the number of threats Barry has encountered who have learned his identity, it should mostly be a lateral move going public. A few things might change with the extra scrutiny, but on the whole, probably not that much.

As others have said, this entire story has been beyond forced. From DeVoe and his wife being granted a restraining order after crying harassment after only two innocuous visits - the second occurring in a very public setting - to the fastest freaking man alive being caught on video breaking and entering; it's just been so frustratingly stupid. Like someone else said, why not talk to Singh as the Flash? Why not do so many things that could have avoided all of this?

I actually expected Barry to be forced to reveal himself during the trial, when the crisis with Fallout started. It seemed unlikely he would have his phone on him during the trial, but I thought for sure that he'd have no choice but to zoom away, rather than just be allowed to leave like that.
And crack DA Cecile hardly seems to make...any case for Barry's innocence. She might as well stayed with the prosecution.

DeVoe needs to go. Pronto. His wife and him are ruining the show. He's a lame villain that nobody cares about and I don't see why Barry can't pick his ass up and take him to the North Pole and leave him there.

That is a good idea hun but because it is a good idea I doubt they will use it. 

That's not even original thinking just competent thinking, but as last season showed us they are inept at such things, or even attempting such things, they just go the laziest and lamest ways possible and then wonder why the emotional stakes aren't there anymore.