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The rift between the two Arrow teams seemed pointless because they all ended up banning together any way when Oliver went on trial, so all of that scheming to break them apart turned out to be a waste of time. I've seen Rift stories handled better in other shows.

I assume that with Supergirl they are planning to make Lena Luthor into Kara's own Lex Luthor, as they had a lot of disagreements this season. Maybe Lex himself will put in an appearance to help his little sister. I would also like to see more of Lillian, I actually find the actress who plays her quite terrifying.

And I agree about Guardian - total waste of space on Supergirl. Supergirl doesn't need vigilantes. If we want vigilantes we'll watch Arrow - an entire cast of guys and girls in masks beating up bank robber and drug dealers. Flash doesn't bring in vigilantes it sticks to being about Meta humans fighting each other so let Supergirl stick to aliens and the humans trying to dis-empower/destroy them.
Besides that, why does Jimmy Olsen need to be an action hero? Why can he not just stick to being a photographer and head of Kat-co? Kat Grant was a great character without dressing up in armour and beating the crap out of people, she was just a successful business woman, so why can't Jimmy just stick to being a successful business man?

 

The next crossover event will introduce Batwoman, before she starts her own TV show. I don't think it will include the Legends, which is just as well really, because if the shows are introducing a new major hero, then bringing time travelers and space ships into it will just make it messy and overcrowded, so I'm guessing it will focus on the other three main heroes reacting to Batwoman.

To be honest, I think all the shows are a bit overcrowded, and could benefit from downsizing their cast of characters. I mean they keep on creating new shows any way, they might as well let each individual show focus on the main hero and his/her closest friends and villains. Supergirl didn't need Guardian. Flash didn't need Elongated Man and nine thousand versions of Wells. Arrow could use less Laurel 2. Legends of Tomorrow, on the other hand, can stick to having tons of characters, because that show is intentionally silly and over the top, so it works for the story to be messy and all over the place.

 

Just finished watching season 4 of Gotham, and I must admit, the finale was pretty good. Shame the show has been cancelled.

I don't know if I can be bothered to watch Krypton. Anyone wants to let me know if its worth checking out...

 

So, has anybody watched the latest crossover, Elseworlds?

I'm feeling mostly disappointed with it. I think they brought in too many new things at once (as they tend to do with these crossovers) and didn't give viewers enough time to process what the hell was going on. To me, it feels like they brought in a lot of references that fans of the DC comics will understand, but fans of the TV shows who don't read comics will be left confused.

If you watch the first season of each show, the heroes have time to develop relationships with their supporting cast over many episodes. Here, we had Barry and Oliver meeting Superman for the first time, and they're just running around like crazy trying to stop the bad guys and not being given a chance to get to know each other.

I didn't see the point in switching Oliver and Barry's bodies. That felt like a story line should that have been saved for another one off spinoff (like the musical crossover that happened with Flash and Supergirl)

Kara visiting Clark in Smallville for advice after refusing to reveal her identity to the whole world was a good idea, and it was also nice to meet Lois Lane (I actually like this version of Lois) but Clark and Lois didn't get a lot of screen time. We could have done with some parallels being drawn between Lois, Felicity and Iris as the loves of these super heroes' lives.

I really enjoyed Ruby Rose as Batwoman, but I'm disappointed that Batman does actually exist on Earth 1. I always felt like Batman should have existed on Earth 38, just like Superman, and that the Earth 1 version of Bruce Wayne should be literally just a playboy billionaire living off his inheritance.

We still don't know how Oliver got that Kryptonite arrow that he used to shoot Overgirl in last year's crossover.

What the hell was that magical hammer that Lois used at the end?

 

Oddly enough, I thought Iris was one of the more interesting parts of this crossover. I am one of the people who finds Iris irritating most of the time, but here, we got to see how she reacted to the idea of being in a romance with Oliver Queen.

When Iris first met Oliver Queen in person, she admitted to him being one of her top ten celebrity crushes, which I found quite amusing, because it became an ongoing gag whenever Arrow and Flash had a crossover. And when Oliver was living Barry's life, Iris was like "Babe, he's not my type!"

Then once Iris saw how Barry was becoming like Oliver Queen, it started to scare her because he was taking on this dark personality where he's ready to stick an arrow in someone to bring justice. So it showed that even though Iris found original Oliver Queen very hot, she wouldn't have been compatible with him, because she wouldn't have handled his violent and aggressive side well.

 

I just watched Titans on Netflix, and it's pretty good. The first bunch of episodes weren't very impressive, I didn't like that weird family of assassins, but the last few episodes were great.

Some highlights for me were Hawk and Dove, they had a very nice flashback episode explaining their back story, Beastboy was cool, Wondergirl's scenes were brief but badass, and the finale where Dick Grayson lives out a scenario where he returns to Gotham to fight Batman was awesome. The teaser at the end got me very excited, so I hope it won't be too long til we get season 2!

 

I've been catching up on season 2 of Black Lightning. It's getting very very good. I was gonna give up on it because the first episode wasn't very promising, but the characters, especially the daughters, have been developing nicely.

 

I'm ok with Arrow ending. I will miss Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen and David Ramsey as Diggle, but no TV show needs to drag on forever. And we've still got plenty of shows that have spawned from the Arrowverse, I'm sure a lot of the cast will continue playing their roles in Flash, Legends, Supergirl and the upcoming Batwoman series. We haven't exactly got anything to be sad about.

 

I am excited to see what the Arrow cast will do next, they can't keep playing the same character forever. Let's see them doing different things.

Another thing I think these shows should stop doing is using the same villain all season. Have a different villain each week and the odd two or three parter, like Batman the Animated series did. The best episode of Flash this season has been the King Shark vs Gorilla Grodd episode, and it had nothing to do with fighting Sicada.

Also, all of the main vilains have been male. Supergirl has had Reah and Reign, but I think thats about it. Hopefully Batwoman will give us a female powerful lead villain such as Poison Ivy or something.

 

There are plenty of ways they can get around the "beating up women" thing. Flash does fight female superpowered metahumans quite regularly, they just don't really got to be big episodes when it happens.

There could also be a female criminal mastermind type character, maybe like a female version of Caden James in Arrow who wasn't a fighter at all, he just kind of orchestrated things. I liked him as a villain, but then he got bumped off so we could be bored to death by Diaz. Arrow also had plenty of opportunities with China White, Cupid, Huntress and even Oliver's mother, but they all ended up being lesser villains or on-off baddies.

Then in Legends we get an occasional female baddie, but the big bad guy of the season tends to be some sort of evil presence with a male voice.

Of course, if they did give up on the whole season long villain story and keep it to seperate villains each week, then that would make all of these lesser bad guys stand out a lot more. When you watch Batman the Animated series, each villain stood out in his or her own episode because there wasn't some bigger story going on in the background, it was Batman saving the city from this bad guy, instead of Batman fighting this bad guy while spending the next 20 episodes investigating some other bad guy.

 

Nora has really been dragging down this season of Flash. She's so repetitive. At least when I'm watching the future scenes in Arrow, I don't know what's gonna happen next. It will be interesting if we see an event in the future where Nora meets up with the Team Arrow kids.