Thinking lately in this moment, it really was amazing and totally indispensable to have it.
Considering that Bart had returned to the universe 2 years before it really was quite fitting that he had a great important reunion moment with Iris, possibly even more than with Max or any of his friends.
Putting the context exaggeratedly long:
Bart was kidnapped by aliens when he was not even 1 year old to study his powers, but he was rescued by the government of his time, however the EarthGov also wanted him to study him and analyze how they could use him. So they lied to her mother, Meloni Thawne, that they had not arrived on time and Bart had been killed sending her away.
Iris being a journalist and investigator soon discovered that Bart was actually alive and dying because he can not control his powers so he would soon die of accelerated aging if he could not control them. For the next almost 2 years that Bart would spend in V.R. Iris would be the first and only real human contact Bart would have.
Yes, Meloni and Don (his father before he died) obviously were the first to love Bart, but he was just a baby, he would never really meet them until years later. During that time Iris would be the only relative and person that he would meet, over time Iris would be the first person that Bart would come to love in his life and the first thing that he would really care about, in this way it was Iris who teached him to have love and compassion for others.
She would teach him to speak English (maybe the Interlac as well), as well as probably many other basic things like interacting with people, or the name of some objects, after all the VR simulations were only to teach him the basics and mainly about his powers so that his mind grow up with his body.
After getting nothing in all that time Iris did the best she could do, rob Bart of authority becoming a criminal in the process along with his parents whose stayed behind so Iris and Bart could escape to the 20th century, saving his life by taking him to his nephew Wally who would manage to fix Bart’s problem.
Once in the present Iris could no longer stay close to his family now that she knew the events of the future, this being a great disappointment for Bart when he considered during that time that Iris was the only person who really loved him.
Despite no longer being present all the time in his life, whenever they saw each other Bart had no problem acting like a little kid and running up to her for a big hug and she obviously never stop worrying about him.
How you all know the years passed until the Flashpoint happened and that thing called New 52 and the DCU was rebooted. But the original version of Bart Allen would finally return from the Speed Force after being trapped for years.
Bart would immediately try to see his grandparents and other family but he could not find them, finally realizing that although he had returned to his world it had changed a lot.
So instead of just quickly searching for Iris and his family more until he found her, Bart actually did nothing.
He was too scared that the first person in his life that he loved simply wouldn’t had idea never more of who he was.
Until he finally meet her again.
So yeah, that was a fantastic moment when Bart and Iris were finally able to reunite after all this time, and why it was important that it was a great moment to Bart when he could finally see his grandmother once more and realize that she has always loving him since she began to remember his old life.
All this to result in this beautiful big moment:
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