As with most TV shows if you’re wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts, then repeat to yourself, “It’s just a show I should really just relax”.
Sounds better with robots of course.
Even more than being a TV show, it’s a comic book. Remember, in the comics, his costume fits into a ring.
But I’m okay with handwaving that stuff, which is fundamentally necessary for the premise to work. Adding a zero and saying “3,000 MPH” or “7,000 MPH” would cause no problems I can see.
All of that said, I would like at least two lines of dialogue about why his super-speed fails whenever someone decides to take a punch at him. It doesn’t have to be brilliant, just something. God knows I can suspend me some disbelief; just look at the Doctor Who threads this season.
He’s still new to this and he isn’t invulnerable… that whole “equal and opposite reaction” thing rears its ugly head. If somebody takes a swing at him and he doesn’t catch it in time to dodge it, he’ll run right into a fist at N(hundred) MPH, and even if it’d tear the other guy’s arm off, it wouldn’t his face much good, either, so he slams on the brakes and lets them punch him at a more reasonable speed.
I did a rough calculation based on the persistence of vision and came up with an approximate speed of 1,700 mph to be invisible, depending on how long he was in your field of vision. Obviously coming straight towards you or going away he’s going to be more perceptible.
Okay, this is odd. the CW web site has Wednesday’s (11/5) episode of Arrow posted, but not Tuesday’s (11/4) episode of The Flash. 
ETA: Okay, according to The Flash’s Facebook page, there was no episode aired on Tuesday. Because elections. Never mind.
Hey, that’s fine. I just wish they’d put in a couple lines of dialogue to that effect. I’m willing to let it slide, in other words, but I’d like them to at least paper over it w/ some in-universe rationale.
Rather disappointed not to have an episode this week–this is getting to be a show I look forward to.
Nice, thanks for doing this. This squares with my gut sense too.
I’ve always wondered exactly this. When Flash is chasing Zum in the JLA issues with the Hyperclan, they run around the Earth multiple times. If his mind is sped up along with his body, then you’re talking months or years of subjective running. But, if his consciousness is somehow divorced from the distances he’s traveling so that his mind is working in real time, how does he react to anything along the way, and not just plow through every obstacle that’s in his path before he even knows it’s there?
Eh, comics.
Fun episode. Good dialogue.
Cool new villain/character!
Should have seen that last scene coming as soon as the doc explained what Eiling originally wanted from him. Instead I didn’t figure it out until ‘he’ was mentioned.:smack:
Fans will definitely go ape when they see the ending to the latest episode.
Heh, playing “I Ran” while Barry tries to convince Iris to stop blogging.
That was a pretty good episode. I think this show has hit its stride.
That fell sort of flat to me. They did the “slow dramatic zoom pan” like it was a surprise when they’d already shown us the cage and nameplate.
That was kinda funny. We saw the nameplate. Zoom in. Hold. Okay we saw it! I’m googling it now!
Of all the pointless nitpicks, I had to fixate on this one.
Watched a new episode last night, with the Incredible Exploding Girl who had Afghani shrapnel embedded in her causing her to make things explode when she became a meta-human. All that was fine with me.
However, Barry Allen complains that his super-fast metabolism means he cannot feel buzzed from normal alcoholic drinks. He chugs five or six shots - nothing. At the end, one of the scientists gives him a shot that she says will buzz him, saying it is 500 proof.
This is impossible. “Proof” is an expression of the percentage of alcohol in a given liquor, corresponding to about half a percent. Thus 40 proof is 20% alcohol, 80 proof is40%, and Everclear is (I believe) 199 proof. 500 proof means it is 250% alcohol. No such thing, and the scientist should know this.
He can accelerate to 650 mph in a few seconds, but I get annoyed when they make a misstatement about booze measurements. Go figure.
Regards,
Shodan
It would have been better if the scientist mixed the alcohol with a “kryptonite” substance that temporarily negates his powers. Then a super villain could get their hands on it.
Perhaps you do not understate superscience as it relates to potent potables: 307 Ale | Tom Smith
Sure, that alcohol was 500 proof. And Captain Cold’s freeze-gun is, like, a thousand degrees below zero.
The original comic-book Plastique was French-Canadian. I was vaguely annoyed that the character was made American and played by a not-good actress.
And do American Army Generals typically walk around in combats without head-dress?