Is there a term for this? Quick thinking in a crisis.

[The Grand Nudger]

I have had plenty of opportunity for the "slo mo misery show", but never experienced it.

Our responses to danger or fear, like the outcomes of those events, are inconsistent (I think that we could both share colorful anecdotes to elaborate on that).  Interestingly, the researchers I alluded to early settled on dropping people from buildings because rollercoasters wouldn't uniformly produce the effect.  People did not uniformly report time distortion or feelings of enhanced competency.  Apparently, you really have to scare the shit out of someone.  That suggests that, despite those opportunities for the slo mo misery show....you did not uniformly recognize or respond to them as such for whatever reason...like you probably would if you were pitched off a building with no wires. You provide one explanation for that above, if you enjoyed a good firefight...then at least one example of what you're describing as an opportunity for that particular variant of this shared experience is non-applicable to you.

Another alternative, is that you did have those experiences, plenty of the time.  Think back to running your bike into something as a kid (if you can, lol).  You knew it was coming, you knew you fucked up, and all that was left to do was to watch the handlebars grab that tree.  Perhaps you simply don't remember them as well as you remember positively reinforcing outcomes....success, whipping the bars at the last second, avoiding a collision, going HAM on contact.  

Or maybe you've simply never had such experiences at all..though I find this unlikely. If you've had the one, the machinery clearly works...and that pretty much ensures you've had the other, unless you've led a particularly blessed life.

(there's another contributing factor to the effect of time distortion and being in "the zone" that might interest you. It's our ability to transmit information internally. The larger the ratio of overall transfer is with regard to some specific event or activity, the less we notice or find ourselves able to focus or remember other tasks and details. Musicians are a testbed for this, at present.)