COnsider that the problem isn't the writers but the people building the sets and such.
. . . . .edit . . . . .We never see a toilet in the Batcave either. There's no Batcommode. Now, we can either figure that the folks making the movies just figure, really, we aren't all that concerned about where and when Wayne uses the toilet, or that the real reason for the voices used for Batman are due to his excessive constipation. Which are you going to go with?
We never see a toilet in the Batcave either. There's no Batcommode. Now, we can either figure that the folks making the movies just figure, really, we aren't all that concerned about where and when Wayne uses the toilet, or that the real reason for the voices used for Batman are due to his excessive constipation. Which are you going to go with?
For superhero fiction, should the writers or set designers *expect* the viewers to consider the implications of lack of fixtures in a jail cell? Are the viewers even expected to *notice* the lack?
In the Comics, it's expected that supercriminals are constrained in special prisons, usually ones specially built for them to contain their powers and abilities. This hasn't had time to appear in any of the shows, so... what else are you going to do with someone who can turn into poisonous gas at will or who has mind-control powers? Unwilling to outright kill them, containment is the only solution. The Flash people happen to have that capability, so they use it. The only other alternative is killing the prisoner, because otherwise you're going to simply turn them over to the cops to escape again in seconds.