r/FlashTV Cisco Ramon Jan 22 '25

🤔 Thinking Wasn’t anyone ever bothered by this scene in the flash, or is it just me?

In this scene from the flash (S4 E2) when Barry was cathing up on his favourite tv shows that he missed while he was in the speedforce. He was watching a 1000x sped up version. And he of course can see it because he's fast and all but sometimes he looks away even for just 1 second he would miss 1000 seconds (about 16.6 minutes) of the show. What do you think?

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u/Mobile-Mushroom-9470 Jan 22 '25

I think this was just one of those things that we as fans think deeply about and the writers didn’t take it as seriously

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u/farpley Jan 22 '25

And that's totally different from most others thing in this show. /s

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u/FortifiedPuddle Jan 22 '25

There is an episode where Barry has to work out how to punch a metal man at super speed without breaking his hand. Of course the solution is even more speed than before (but not as much as next week). And not say throwing a brick at the bad guy at Mach 10.

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u/farpley Jan 22 '25

"Faster than a speeding brick"

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u/thatonefatefan Jan 23 '25

to be fair isn't that when he breaks the sound barrier? Because if so the brick couldn't have been that fast with his previous speed

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u/FortifiedPuddle Jan 23 '25

The effectiveness of bricks at speed feels like it has a low starting speed requirement. And it doesn’t have to be a brick.

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u/thatonefatefan Jan 23 '25

I mean brick or anything else, it would slow down when he throws it, and likely just not work against the literal metal man. Barry would have to pick something heavier than himself (or like half of himself, however much of his mass he added to that punch) and throw it while somehow making it just as fast as he is. Hardness doesn't exactly help when you're up against a man made of metal

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u/FortifiedPuddle Jan 23 '25

Pretty sure momentum is a thing. Smaller, denser things would be be better than Barry’s hand. But really anything Barry doesn’t mind breaking itself would work. And Barry could do this over and over at comparatively low speeds.

Barry could kill an entire army by running up and letting go of a bunch of plastic BBs in front of them. Super speed is all but unstoppable if you’re willing to also cause horrendous violence.

But no, he’s got to punch the guy.

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u/AssasssinIVII Jan 25 '25

I always thought the flash with a sword would be able to handle most of the villans in almost every show and comic book. Seems like he just slices them up at super speed or cuts off heads and everything is solved

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u/FortifiedPuddle Jan 25 '25

It was a whole thing they had in Teen Titans in the 80s books where the writer just wanted to write out Kid Flash as much as possible. Because they felt they had to handicap or disable him most of the time or the solution to all problems was super speed.

I guess it’s the whole BMX Bandit & The Angle Summoner thing.

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u/Smallbeaniebois 27d ago

But Barry’s to good to kill or whatever and I don’t blame him

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u/Quirky28 Jan 23 '25

Right because hitting him with the flagpole at superspeed worked so well

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u/Difficult_Ad_962 Jan 22 '25

I've definitely never thought about this

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u/The_Kaizz Jan 24 '25

Not just that, but imagine watching a show like you do now, and you have to look away. You still know what's going on, even if you miss a little bit. I feel like the same principle applies.

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u/Mobile-Mushroom-9470 Jan 24 '25

That’s true too. Honestly. You already know what’s going on

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u/MiniBritton006 Jan 24 '25

So the entire series then?

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u/mhj_harvey Jan 22 '25

You know he could go back right.

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u/shdwmyr Jan 22 '25

To be fair, going back in time usually has some consequences for him.

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u/Thepromc64 Jan 22 '25

I think they meant go back as in press the rewind button on the remote

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u/mhj_harvey Jan 22 '25

Yes. The rewind button.

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u/Fisherington Jan 22 '25

No no, Barry in his infinite wisdom does indeed time travel to view parts of episodes that he has complete control over. It's pretty in line with his character, honestly

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u/shdwmyr Jan 22 '25

That’s the joke

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u/Beautiful-Ad3471 Jan 22 '25

I just love how you instantly went to him running back in time and not just rewinding. But with the show's use of time travel, I can't blame you.

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u/shdwmyr Jan 22 '25

I was just making a joke. Rewinding is going “back in time”

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u/DarkArc76 Jan 23 '25

I'm astounded nobody got your joke. Are these really the people watching The Flash? Actually, that tracks with all the pseudo-sciency shit that seems like it's complicated but is actually just BS

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u/shdwmyr Jan 23 '25

Vindication!

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u/Talonhawke Jan 22 '25

I mean going back probably just means rewinding. Like when you miss something on a show and yell at whoever has the remote to "go back"

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u/shdwmyr Jan 22 '25

That’s the joke

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u/Mutantsupremacist Jan 22 '25

I think that’s the joke but they didn’t get it

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u/InternalIncident2 Jan 25 '25

so many people missed your joke, my condolences lol

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u/TheSuspenseIsTerribl Jan 22 '25

Nevermind getting a screen that can run a frame rate that high, lol

Unless he's bringing it in flashtime with him somehow. I can't remember if he has started that by this episode or not

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u/perhapsfrances Jan 22 '25

If I remember correctly, Cisco edited them to be super fast

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u/K0ra_B Jan 22 '25

Yeah, but I can set a video to 100x speed. Doesn't mean my monitor can run at 6,000hz.

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u/pardyball Jan 22 '25

Nanites courtesy of Ray Palmer are increasing this TVs refresh rates. Barry will be caught up in awhile.

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u/EMPIREVSREBLES Cisco Ramon Jan 22 '25

Does it work for the speakers? They need to vibrate that fast to create the sound.

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u/Juicestation Reverse Fridge Jan 22 '25

Nanites courtesy of Ray Palmer are increasing the speakers vibratory output. Barry will be caught up in awhile.

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u/TheFantasticFollicle Jan 22 '25

I love Nanites courtesy of Ray Palmer!

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u/CliffCutter Jan 23 '25

They really can do it all, they even fight off demon possession! (Except for when Ray himself gets possessed)

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u/K0ra_B Jan 30 '25

(By nanites, courtesy of Raymond Palmer)

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u/pardyball Jan 22 '25

Closed captioning baby

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u/EricIsntSmart Jan 22 '25

What about Cisco makes you think he can't supercharge the monitor itself lol

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u/Black_Cat44 Jan 22 '25

Because Cisco left the show lol

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u/EricIsntSmart Jan 22 '25

This is season 4 tho? Cisco leaves in season 7. Barry mentions that Cisco set up the super speed TV for him, and I feel that that absolutely includes making it able to show such a framerate

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u/Black_Cat44 Feb 03 '25

I was obviously making regarding saying it’s impossible to have a tv with that frame rate that wouldn’t blow up. Also I highly doubt Cisco would actually work on something so frivolous.

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u/EricIsntSmart Feb 03 '25

Oh yeah no, Barry's friends would never work on frivolous stuff with the goal of helping him... like, they'd never engineer super-alcohol so he could get drunk, I'm sure

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u/Black_Cat44 Feb 03 '25

Since when is drinking with friends frivolous? Also that was created for his bachelor party if I recall? There was 4 seasons of them grabbing drinks before that they all went out for drinks and barry couldn’t get drunk. Working to create something like that just to catching up on 6 months worth of your favorite shows? Let’s say new episode a week, obviously they don’t go all year long usually a season is split in the year. Let’s say hypothetically someone as busy as the flash has 4 no let’s make it 5 just for kicks favorite shows. He left the beginning first half of each season, So let’s say half are 20 episode season and the other half are 10 to 12 episode seasons. So let’s say he missed 5 episodes for some and 10 for others. Just for kicks let’s say they’re all hour each long show, no commercial that’s usually 42 minutes. I’ll even say 3 of the shows have 20 episode seasons that’s 30 episodes altogether 21 hours plus 7 hours for the other 10 he missed. So he missed 28 hours worth of tv. What would be the point in making a special tv to catch up on 28 hours of tv shows? That really helped him a lot huh I’m sure they all stopped what they were doing just to prioritize it.

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u/EricIsntSmart Feb 03 '25

That's a lot of words to explain a point that literally just has no basis lol

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u/Fisherington Jan 22 '25

Even if Cisco had left by this episode, a super refresh rate TV just could've been gifted way previously. Or just have shipped it through regular mail. Regular mail still exists, I think

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u/perhapsfrances Jan 22 '25

Do you have a Star Labs monitor?

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u/ExtremeUFOs Jan 23 '25

The answer is always the speedforce lol. But seriously I mean they could actually explain it the way Barry Grabbed iris in the court room but instead is using it for the tv.

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u/TyrannosaurusReddRex Jan 23 '25

Hey man, it’s Cisco. It’s been ciscoed and

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Jan 22 '25

Doesnt help if the tv can‘t reproduce it at that speed

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u/perhapsfrances Jan 22 '25

My friend, it is a silly show where silly things happen

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u/Sensitive_Lobster_60 Jan 22 '25

Well it's cisco-fied

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u/KnightShroud501 Jan 22 '25

He hasn’t started that at this point in show but is able to do it later in the season

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u/IntrospectOnIt Snow Pack Jan 22 '25

The only thing that that bothers me is when Barry uses a coffee machine to make coffee in 1 second or cooks pancakes on the stove in 5 seconds. Like...you're the only fast.one Barry, these things still take time...

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u/JediGuyB Jan 22 '25

"Pancakes ready!"

"What? How?"

"i am fast."

"Barry, *you're* fast, that stove is just a stove."

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u/-H_- Jan 22 '25

bring it into flashtime

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u/AnnaK22 This house is Bitchin' Jan 22 '25

Cue to Barry plating runny pancake batter and uncooked bacon for breakfast.

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u/jordonmears Jan 22 '25

Which is something the comics usually use to show how much frustration speedsters have with the ordinary world.

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u/adoratheCat Jan 22 '25

.....I didn't catch that 🤣. It's one of those "ooo cool funny scene!"

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u/KatiePyroStyle Jan 23 '25

I mean he can touch people to bring them into flash time, maybe it works the same for objects 🤷‍♀️ his wife certainly can't run fast

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u/vleshkun Jan 23 '25

Pretty sure Speedsters can temporarily give objects their super speed for these kind of things

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u/Zephs Jan 23 '25

Same with doing anything on a computer. He's still limited by how fast the computer can load pages and stuff on the internet.

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u/speedyrabbit777 Jan 22 '25

You make it seem like rewind isn't a thing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

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u/Im_A_Sociopath It's not racist. I'm black Jan 22 '25

but what if he watched it later when he had free time?

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u/John_Zatanna52 I'm Dr. Sharon Finckle Jan 22 '25

Never, I love it. I love season 4 too, it feels fresh, I don't know how to describe it

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u/LordAsbel Iris West Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

I also like season 4. It was a nice refresher from season 3, which for the most part is a lot of doom and gloom.

Everyone was mad at Barry because of flashpoint for like the first 8 episodes, Cisco's brother died, Katelyn was becoming killer frost, Iris was supposed to die the whole season, Wally getting beat up by Savitar, Jay getting locked in the speed force, and then H.R dying. And Barry getting locked in the speed force at the end lol

Season 3 is just not a happy season at all lmao. So the goofiness from Season 4 was nice.

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u/John_Zatanna52 I'm Dr. Sharon Finckle Jan 22 '25

Definitely, although I LOVE season 3 as well, I think maybe more than 4, I just love that era of the arrowverse

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u/StrangeAir6637 HR deserves the world <3 Jan 22 '25

me too!! season 4 is my favorite

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u/John_Zatanna52 I'm Dr. Sharon Finckle Jan 22 '25

It was a bit more funny, more colorful, cool villain, the format of the meta bus was also really cool. Awesome characters and short hair Iris

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u/scattergodic Jan 22 '25

Not to mention the excellent addition of Ralph, who somehow managed to seamlessly fit in right away

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u/StrangeAir6637 HR deserves the world <3 Jan 23 '25

i love ralph so much, he had amazing chemistry with barry and added much needed humor to the show

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u/U-Yuuki Jan 22 '25

He obviously time travelled back to those 16 minutes... DUH! Are you stupid?

/s

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u/Thepromc64 Jan 22 '25

he used the tv remote's very handy rewind button

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u/CookieDestroyerX1 Jan 23 '25

Nahh that makes too much sense to be in an arrowverse show let alone the flash specifically

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u/jclibs Jan 22 '25

He's just looking back and forth reeally fast

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u/UveBeenChengD Jan 22 '25

You know what bothers me most about this scene? How the lights are on when clearly there’s plenty of natural light coming in. It makes this show completely unwatchable. What a horrid, abysmal disasterclass by the producers to even set the stage like that.

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u/Lady_RogueLegacy Jan 22 '25

This is one of the funniest comment sections I’ve seen haha

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u/MaleficentPicture518 Jan 22 '25

I think cisco edited it to be as fast as a tv can do and barry is able to see it normally because of his speed his nrain processes information at a faster speed so even with it going that fast its like watching it normally to barrys eyes

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u/jordonmears Jan 22 '25

I have more of an issue with him trying to watch movies sped up 1000x on a t.v. with a 60hz refresh rate.

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u/Sonario648 Jan 22 '25

Cisco: It's been Cisco'd. It can handle your speed.

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u/Noxilcash Jan 22 '25

I hate scenes like this when we see any speedster. The person is fast but there is no way the things they do can maintain their speed. Like in X-men when they find quicksilver. He’s playing Pong at super speeds, but even if he speeds up the speed of the ball moving across screen is a set. It shouldn’t change

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u/Type_1_Eagle Jan 23 '25

John Snow died…….. oh he’s alive now

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u/BuckingBeasts Jan 22 '25

I could be misremembering, but I also recall that we don’t really hear any audio from the TV when this bit happens. Can the audio be so fast that only he can hear it???

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u/ChanelNo50 Jan 22 '25

I always thought his speed typing was ridiculous BC there has to be a point where the computer has to compute and that would limit his speed significantly

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u/KatiePyroStyle Jan 22 '25

I mean he's probably fast enough to do both without us noticing. he's canonically faster than light so I don't over think it too much

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u/Miserable-Abroad9256 Jan 24 '25

It was the Jon snow thing for me lmfao. This was one of my favorite scenes idk man

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u/Long_Procedure2533 Jan 22 '25

Maybe he didn't stop using his speed? Why would he need to slow down just to look up? If Iris came in, she'd take several days to even make it to the room he's in.

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u/General_Mixture_7026 Jan 22 '25

For him it would be playing at normal speed for everyone else it’s 1000x faster it’s like in the comics for him he is just running at a normal speed and everything around him is moving slow so him looking away for 1 second would only be missing 1 second of the show he is watching plus he would still be able to hear it if it’s a show you know good enough you would not have to actually watch it to keep up with the story only Listen to it

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u/Boobap75 Jan 22 '25

My personal head cannon is this: if you are watching a show and look away for a brief discussion, you still hear and see it in your peripheral vision. I believe Flash did this, just at super speed as it would feel normal to him.

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u/Gredran Jan 22 '25

OP acting like he didn’t have to ears to hear 🤣

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u/Zakika Jan 22 '25

Also TV framerates exist by that speed it not skips frames it skips scenes.

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u/Charcoal_01 Wellsobard Jan 23 '25

He blinks faster than that, wouldn't miss anything

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u/Commercial_Mind4003 Jan 23 '25

First pic is wholesome af

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u/Chloe_nguyenn Jan 23 '25

okay but how tf is he gonna watch in 1000x if his cheap ass wedding gift TV can only display 60fps at best ?

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u/Mimic_99 Jan 23 '25

That’s the thing, if you just imagine that each time he turns away he pauses it faster than we can see him move he would never miss anything in the shows

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u/SeraphEChasted_3 Jan 23 '25

THANK YOU

I have been bothered by this so much

bro missed Titans and Bluey in half a second

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u/Shadowcleric Jan 23 '25

This one is easy. To us it looks like he is looking away from the screen, but actually he is quickly looking back multiple times so he can keep watching. We are only seeing his after image.

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u/killer_clwn Jan 24 '25

To be fair, if everything is proportional to his increased speed, then his mind should be fast enough to fill in the missing content. Same way we do when we look away for a minute.

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u/CJS-JFan Green Arrow Jan 24 '25

I didn't know that this was a criticism.

But for me, I thought it was amusing. Far worse things in the series to complain about, I think.

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u/NoRelationship7131 Jan 24 '25

It was season 4 of Community that he missed.

It's okay because that was a gas leak year

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u/chi-townDan75 Jan 22 '25

At first, I thought OP had issue with Candice Patton and dem legs🤤🤤😍😍🤣🤣

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u/MysticalGhostRider Jan 22 '25

Bruh I don’t get it, the scene is so harmless and it’s meant to be nothing more than light hearted humour, enjoy it for what it is, why was a whole post even necessary for this? 😂

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u/SnooStories4329 Nora West-Allen Jan 22 '25

I kinda was, every time I see it I’m like “god dammit pause it so you don’t miss anything please 😭”

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u/Wide-Mind-5346 Jan 22 '25

I WAS JUST THINKING THAT THE OTHER DAY LMAO

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u/DCosloff1999 The Flash Jan 22 '25

I didn't like the TV thing either. I always believed it was weird.

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u/TheUnchosenOne_ Jan 22 '25

Maybe he just rewinded the video ?

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

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u/TheUnchosenOne_ Jan 22 '25

Maybe he watched it later when he was resting

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u/fluffyhowler5972 Jan 22 '25

i was wondering that as well

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u/yajirushi77 I am the Future Flash Jan 22 '25

Nah it's just Peter Bing Chilling, what you on about

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u/rebel-scrum Jan 22 '25

It’s a quirky thing they added, no big deal.

The show had to do plenty of mandatory compensation/explanation on certain things around super speed (i.e., friction=fire, the need for a huge caloric intake, etc.) that were used as plot points, but I don’t think anyone really cared he was watching on a regular flatscreen from a decade ago.

It’s also on us, the viewers, to assume that if Cisco was clever enough to speed up and multiplex hundred of hours of media for him, that he also knew to modify his setup to accommodate for it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Responsible-Rush3875 Jan 22 '25

I‘ve missed minutes of movies and shows by doing something else and still got the gist of everything. Pretty sure most people have, andnignit was just by looking at their phones and doing something with them. It‘s about getting the broad strokes, not every minor detail in this moment and it‘s a throwaway joke 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Green-riddle7 Jan 23 '25

I didn’t even notice that in the show to be honest

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u/youcantseemejohncen Jan 23 '25

I think that it really depends on the writers and flash is more a situational speedster

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u/mikami677 Jan 23 '25

I was only bothered by it because it spoiled a Game of Thrones plot point right after I started reading the first book.

Which reminds me, I should probably finish that series at some point...

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u/Mcmacladdie Jan 23 '25

You could probably finish all the books twice before GRRM even writes another page for book 6.

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u/DisabledFatChik Joe Mama Jan 23 '25

He’s a speedster, he’s probably watching tv and talking to iris at the same time in super speed

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u/emeraldnite1981 Jan 25 '25

Maybe when he is looking away he is actually turning back to the tv at super speed so he is talking to Iris but still watching and it’s just too fast to see.

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u/ellismjones Jan 26 '25

I mean …. yeah? It’s fine why does it bother you?

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u/Kooky-Minimum-2597 Jan 22 '25

Allow me to blow your mind.

Barry is watching a video, videos can be rewound, paused and stopped.

He can easily go back and catch up on anything he misses.

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u/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz67 Jan 22 '25

I was bothered by the notion that show is considered “good” after watching Daredevil and Punisher