Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-13895380-20151024171607/@comment-807136-20151028182903

AlphaOfAlphas wrote: We all know that The Flash is REALLY fast - so fast that he can do activities without normal people even realizing that he moved. Early in the episode "Family of Rogues", The Flash got hit by Captain Cold with his gun very easily. Though The Flash wasn't expecting it, Captain Cold still had to raise his gun all the way up and point towards The Flash before he shot him. How was The Flash not able to dodge that? Maybe because he wasn't expecting it?

Well, later on in that SAME episode, we see that The Flash not ONLY dodged the sneak shot from Lewis Snart but was ALSO able to act like he got shot -- all seemlessly. This suggests that The Flash DOES have a fast enough reaction time to dodge sneak attacks, as expected by the "fastest man in the world".

So it seems like the show gives him inconsistent reaction times so he wouldn't be over powered. It makes it easy for events to occur plot-wise, but it's very annoying in the grand scheme of things. I just think that the Flash should only get hit by things that reasonably can work against his speed - he's proven time and time again that dodging bullets is relatively easy to him, at least if they're right in plain sight.

What are your thoughts on this? It was driving me batty when I was watching that episode and Barry runs by and allows himself to be shot at when he could have just run in and disarmed his foes at superspeed before they knew what happened. If he can be there in a blink, he could have time to wrestle the weapons from them before they knew what was happening. It's one of the weaker points in the plot on the show.

I know it would be anticlimactic and they wouldn't have a show if Barry just zipped in and took the weapons away right off the bat, but I wish the writers had come up with a plausible explanation for why he didn't do that.