Except Harry is not around. The team when we picked up was down to JUST Iris, Wally, Cisco and Joe, and since the latter 3 were all in the field, there was literally nobody else.
It's pretty clear she's absolutely saying the royal "we" as in team Flash.
Harry not being around is something that the writers could have easily changed where he would have stayed around and assume temporary leadership of the crew until Barry returned, as opposed to giving Iris full reigns over the group during Barry's absence.
And even though Harry wasn't around and there was no one left to stay behind STAR Labs to coordinate their crusade, that doesn't mean that Iris should have automatically been given control of the group.
At least with Felicity on "Arrow", she has both several years of experience and the proven intelligence to believably take on such a task. Iris has neither.
Honestly, I actually liked her when she would be a source of comfort and strength that would help Barry get out of his depression at times in the past, but I feel like the show should have focused more in establishing her as someone capable of standing on her own first before they went this route.
And I do hope that Iris meant the entire team because I don't think I could tolerate Iris any more if she really meant just her and Barry regarding that Flash remark.
I actually like it. It gives her something to do that might have some impact on the show. If they're smart, they'll use her lack of qualifications as a story point.
I wasn't interested in seeing her as another faux Lois Lane, or another damsel in distress. Lets see her make a bad call and have to deal with the ramifications. Or have people not listen to her. This seems to open up the most interesting story options. I'm all for a character who doesn't inherently have all the answers trying to figure things out.
As long as they don't get cold feet and have her go back to the sidelines after a couple episodes. That would just put her back into being useless.
Well Iris is a journalist in the comics and I feel like they could have and should have further explored that route for her instead of making her the new team captain.
I mean there are a lot of ways that they could have done that without making her into a faux Lois. Heck, we don't really have a Lois (on-screen) for her to be compared to in the first place.
For the last 4 seasons, the only major things that the writers were concerned about regarding Iris's role is who she was pining after and how to place her in the worst possible danger so that Barry could plagued even more on a emotional scale.
