And people complained when they used Speedster villains. They just can't win.

They could win by making the Flash's abilities more consistens. In one episode he gets punched in the face by someone who is pretty much as fast as any other human being and in tonight's episode he completely freezes time for half an eternity. (And don't get me started on this whole BS where he can make others as fast as him by touching them...)

The premise was stupid AF because they were already moving at Super speed and disarmed EVERYONE in the compound EXCEPT the fucking CHICK inside a fucking container. To add insult to injury Dumb-ass Barry let her walk out at normal speed and tell her to "GIVE UP" and "IT'S OVER ANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!". AND NOOOOOW he starts constantly moving at superspeed thereby slowing time. Also, considering how many times he ran back to StarLABs and back to the compound WHILE everyone is still pretty much frozen THERE's NO WAY IN FUCKING HELL that CHICK should've gotten anywhere close to the GODDAMN container in the first place. ITS LIKE in order to justify their unbelievable lack of insight on Flash lore the writers BANG themselves on the head after writing each episode in order to give themselves SELF-INDUCED AMNESIA. JAYSUS H. FUCKING CHRIST.

It's like those early episodes when Snart and Rory were shooting their cold and fire guns and Barry made them cross the beams BECAUSE he can't possibly just knock the damn weapons out of their hands. ROFLMAO. THAT EPISODE WAS FULL OF STUPID.

Actually, if I start looking at it for every episode, I realize how dumb the writing has to be in order to CREATE challenge to OP character like Flash. He has that advantage of moving and reacting at superspeed. DONT FUCKING SLOW down to talk to the "Villain of the week", CHECK THE WHOLE AREA, HOUSE, COMPOUND for hidden TRICKS, STOP HIS FUCKING PLAN. KNOCK HIM THE FUCK OUT. KEEP MOVING AT SUPERSPEED to make sure no victim left BEHIND. Wait for the cops to arrive and arrest the perpetrator. Get back to your sweet momma and have a cup of tea. There, EPISODE done RIGHT and over in 5 minutes, NO FUCKING STUPID DRAMA and Barry needing 458 different PEP talks to do what he could in less than 5 minutes. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL.

TL;DR - This show is f*cking stupid and they writers are to blame.

They should've kept his powers more grounded. They made him increasingly stronger to make him cooler but that just isn't working anymore. Right now we have a flash that is almost on a power level to fight intergalactic threats but he mostly just goes against slightly elevated street crime. It's just silly. We have seen multiple times where non-speedsters escaped on foot because he had to push someone away from falling debris or something like that. That's just poor writing considering he can freeze time for hours (from his perspective obviously).

@Giamatti said:

They should've kept his powers more grounded. They made him increasingly stronger to make him cooler but that just isn't working anymore. Right now we have a flash that is almost on a power level to fight intergalactic threats but he mostly just goes against slightly elevated street crime. It's just silly. We have seen multiple times where non-speedsters escaped on foot because he had to push someone away from falling debris or something like that. That's just poor writing considering he can freeze time for hours (from his perspective obviously).

And WHEN is he going to learn to subdue the bad guys before starting a conversation with them? If he hadn't stopped to talk to the women she never would have been able to set off the bomb. He makes the same mistake over and over!!

@Taylorfirst1 said:

I don't care what powers the thinker has. Barry could knock him out cold before he would have time to use any of them. It's just silly how much they have to depower the superheroes to make it an exciting story. Last night's ep was especially silly. Just remember it's a live action cartoon and you can still enjoy it. The only villains that can stand up to the Flash are other speedsters.