It is a mess to use. Not my fault the writer can't count lol. 😛
Originally posted by Galan007Yea it's a "readers are morons" type of thing that writers do. It is iffy though. Him going lightspeed wouldn't have allowed him to rescue anybody, so it wouldn't have done any good to have him go that fast.
^ Generally speaking, writers don't rely on their readers to do above average math to figure out key plot points of a story they create. That said, if something is explicitly stated by the narrator (especially more than once), then imo it should be considered the most factual evidence, bar none.Now if the writer would have made a blanket comment that Flash was moving 'faster than light', then doing the math to figure out how much faster than light he was traveling would be very logical.... But that wasn't the case.
It's just too iffy, as is.
I guess I'm a "story is first" type of person. We could all compromise and call it the "new" light speed. 🙂