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Yeah, they need to work on the "power logic" and be consistent. That kind of stuff takes you out of an otherwise enjoyable experience. I chalked it up to his performance anxiety.
The Flash can run at the speed of light? (1200 miles/sec ~= 2e6 m/s, about 0.64% the speed of light (300e6m/s). To make 1200 miles/sec look "standing still" he's doing some appreciable percentage of the speed of light.) I don't know anything about the Flash, besides Smallville and this new show. So I don't know what his superpower capability is supposed to be.RobertR said:The Flash doesn't seem anywhere near as fast in his show as he should be. At one point he boasts that he can run a mile in 3 seconds. That works out to 1200 miles per hour. Sorry, that's not Flash speed. He should be able to make 1200 miles per second seem like standing still.
767 mph is pokey in Flash terms. Yes, he can run much faster than the speed of light. In his more ludicrous comic book incarnation, he's said to be able to outrun Death, and move his arm fast enough that it becomes a black hole.DaveF said:In the show they've commented on him running between 350 mph to 767mph ( faster than the speed of sound)
The Flash can run at the speed of light? (1200 miles/sec ~= 2e6 m/s, about 0.64% the speed of light (300e6m/s). To make 1200 miles/sec look "standing still" he's doing some appreciable percentage of the speed of light.) I don't know anything about the Flash, besides Smallville and this new show. So I don't know what his superpower capability is supposed to be.
In any case, I assume he will get faster as the show progresses. And then he will be arbitrarily as fast as the plot requires
I agree with this, and it's why I sometimes like the live action portrayals to be slightly depowered compared to their comic counterparts. My ideal TV Flash would be much faster than the fastest normal human alive, but not so fast that he can outrun anything. In circumstances where they need him to outrun anything -- ie. going faster than the speed of light to travel back in time -- there should be some special means by which it is achieved.Sean Bryan said:Being a speedster is cool, yet proposes dramatic problems. In terms of writing, how do you put your protagonist in danger and give them challenges when they can almost stop time because they move so fast? I'll say that I think writers certainly CAN do that, but it has to be difficult to write that without forcing arbitrary limitations and more often than not winds up with the "as fast or as slow as the writers need him be be" solution.
I don't think his comment about it feeling like he's waited centuries for the particle accelerator to be initiated was just a throwaway line.spshultz said:Ok, I have to ask but exactly who is Tom Cavanagh's character? Is he a good guy or a bad guy?The secret door tech we keep seeing him use near the end of a couple of the episodes seemsmuch more advanced and futuristic for the time period he's in. It just seems strange to me.
Or, more likely, he planned the explosion because he knew it would result in Barry becoming the Flash.Sean Bryan said:Seems he knew the explosion would occur and actually went to his secret room to watch Barry become the Flash, like he took the opportunity to observe what was (from his perspective) a great historic event.
Yes, great work with John Wesley Shipp.Adam Lenhardt said:The fun of casting the 1990s Flash as the 2014 Flash's father aside, John Wesley Shipp is doing really great work as Hank Allen on this.I don't think his comment about it feeling like he's waited centuries for the particle accelerator to be initiated was just a throwaway line.Or, more likely, he planned the explosion because he knew it would result in Barry becoming the Flash.