I tend to disagree. I always feel that tension based on misunderstanding or something that one character doesn't know always comes off as more annoying than an interesting, because you know the two characters would actually agree with each other if things were out in the open and you know that it'll get to that point anyway. It just feels manufactured. I much prefer tension based on legitimate disagreements or opposing goals.
Hmm. That's actually a very good point. Really, as a rule, I prefer it if people close to the hero are in on the secret, so that they can have a more integral role than just "the person I have to lie to all the time." The best thing that ever happened to Aunt May in
Spider-Man was when J. Michael Straczynski had her discover that Peter was Spidey and prove that she was far stronger and far better at coping with it than he'd ever given her credit for.
But in this case, there are just so many characters that are in on Barry's secret from the word go that it seems excessive to add one more in the very same episode.
If there is going to be tension between Barry and Joe I'd rather it be Joe knowing about Barry's powers and disagreeing with how he's using them in general or maybe a blow up between a particular action that he takes. Something that tells us more about the characters than Joe only feels this way because he doesn't know the whole truth...
Well, I hope so. At this point, though, we don't know what will happen between the characters. I'm just concerned it'll make things too easy for Barry, leave him with too few obstacles to overcome.
Heck, I wouldn't have minded if Barry, Caitlin, and Cisco had been operating without Wells's knowledge. Make it more of a secret club operating under the nose of the authority figures, rather than being guided by the authority figure himself. But I guess that's not feasible given what we learned about Wells in the tag scene. I noted in my second viewing that he kept suddenly showing up out of nowhere at just the right moment, suggesting that he knew exactly when important things were going to happen -- and maybe that he teleported in? Or... arrived at superspeed?
