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> It's simply some kind of odd convention.

There's no waiting time for lightning because lightning, to be understood 
(and impressive) as lightning, is supposed to go "Flash!!! Crack!!!", not 
"Flash!!!, Awkward pause during which nothing remotely interesting happens, 
Crack!!!". FlashCrack is Lightning. FlashPauseCrack is "Eh, who just took a 
picture?, Uh, What's this noise?" Even in real life this is not always 
obvious and that's a luxury movies can't afford.

It's not odd, it's a normal convention for movies. In movies, no time is 
wasted for going to the toilet, saying "thank you", saying "hello" on the 
phone, finding a parking space, healing after being shot at or beaten, 
waiting for hair and clothes to dry, filling a tax return and other 
gazillion things that are part of normal life, unless of course it's part of 
the plot. In movies, night may come instantly after day. Only significant 
events occur and then only on a compressed timeline, in complete disregard 
of the laws of physics, biology, economy, psychology and whatnot. Normal 
moviegoers accept this and do not care, unlike obsessive geeks who compile 
this sort of things on the internet ;D

G.

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