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putonmyfavoriteshow · 3 years

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supercorp endgame?

I’m soooooo curious how the Supergirl writers are going to finish Kara & Lena’s story. It’s so obvious that Supercorp is an iconic fan favorite ship, and Kara has no love interest in sight and neither does Lena. They even crushed that short-lived William relationship (if you’d even call it that) after it was so poorly received. I know some people theorize Kenny will show up again, but if anything I felt like Kenny/Kara’s story almost mimicked Lena/Jack’s story which was that they were good guys from their past but their future was in National City (where Kara and Lena met!!). And now that all the drama breakup between Kara & Lena from last season has been resolved, there’s such an interesting air between them.

Even though at the moment, Kara’s adjusting back to her life post Phantom Zone, and Lena is headed back to research her bio mom, there seems to be a new relationship (secrets out, grudges be gone) between them that’s going to have to be explored at some point as the rest of this season progresses. Even though we didn’t get a lot before she left, they did make multiple references that Lena and Kara were keeping touch through the episodes even when they weren’t interacting ( “She’s in the fortress with her dad” “i just got off the phone with Kara” [“Lena’s not back yet from looking into her mom”]). And now that it’s teased that Lena may discover some *magic* powers and Kara is going to need some *magic* to save her, it’s hard not to put my clown nose on and think they’re leading to something here.

Even though, I truly doubt we’ll get anything outright (I imagine something more implied or a read-between-the-lines confession), I feel like they’re going to have to address their relationship at some point and even with all the resistance in keeping these two as “gal pals only”, it’s almost like these two were almost destined to be written together. Even if accidentally, you have the superfriends paired off: Alex and Kelly, Nia and Brainy, J’hon and M’gann (even if she’s in and out of the show) so Lena is by default Kara’s partner. Even with Mon El’s return (along with so many as it’s the series finale), I don’t even find that to be a threat because it would come across so last minute and Kara really seemed to put an end to that so many times and during the 100th I found them to be more chummy exes than hints of a rekindling. I mean, I can’t really trust theCW, but I feel like that would cause so much backlash and honestly anyone who is fan of that ship, I can’t imagine still being that invested in this show since he left. The ones still watching ARE the Supercorp fans, so why would you try to do something for an audience that isn’t even here anymore? Regardless, as a writer, you should care about writing a fitting ending for our hero and Mon El is not the ending this show feels like it’s gearing towards. For one, her dad was all about telling her to be more “human” and so how would be flying off to the future with a Daxamite be embracing being “human”....when having a human gf (with possible magic powers...) who already is someone that you feel human around? I also don’t see how separating Kara from her sister is a necessary thing either. Wouldn’t she want to spend time with her future nieces/nephews?? I just don’t know how they write themselves out of this, without embracing the ending that has been basically written for them.

#supercorp #supergirl #kara danvers #lena luthor #series ending #theorizing #analysis #what we thinking fam????#am i clownin???

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culturejunkies · 4 years

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Crisis on Infinite Earths

By Kenshiro

This review is going to attempt to encompass all of the ups and downs of this years annual CW crossover. However the sheer scope of what Greg Berlanti’s team was able to accomplish is worthy of some of the highest praise possible.

The attempt to re-create the Crisis on Infinite Earths was a goal teased for 7 years, back when The Flash first appeared back in 2013. One could argue that the entire Arrowverse has been leading up to this moment, much like when Tony Stark first built the Iron Man Mk. I in the cave. The Crisis is always referred to as the single greatest crossover in comic book history, for the sheer magnitude of what they managed to do, and the enormous balls it took to wipe their entire publishing slate clean, all of the history that had come before and hit the reset button to it all. Doing so in a television medium would certainly have taken even bigger balls, but doing it in the middle of a season would’ve been impossible. No one should fault them for not wanting to reset storylines in the middle of what had already aired for the past 10 weeks prior to the crossover kickoff.

What we did get however, was a massive love letter to every…and I mean EVERY single fan of DC Comics’ characters, young and old. There was something for everyone within this one. Recounting the amount of cameos and easter eggs found here is absolutely staggering and no matter how big or small they were, you couldn’t help but smile at them all, and seek out the ones your eagle eyes may have missed. I guarantee, you’d need at least 2 viewings and multiple slow downs to catch them all.

The most epic moment of the Arrowverse’s history. Grant Gustin’s Flash meets Ezra Miller’s Flash!

If you were a fan of the films, the Superman from the 1979 Christopher Reeve masterpiece was represented, if you go back to the 66′ Batman show, you got something. If you happen to be a fan of Titans, Swamp Thing and Doom Patrol on DC Universe, yep there was stuff there for you too. How about Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern film? Yep. It’s there. Hell, if you were a fan of the classic Superfriends cartoon? THEY HAD YOU COVERED. Hopefully you can tell how much I have nerded out with all of it because it was AWESOME. They even managed to save the best for last, by getting Ezra Miller to appear as his version of Barry Allen, suit and all, in STAR Labs with Grant Gustin’s Barry, something the internet surely exploded over. To steal an early phrase from Marvel’s playbook, truly “It’s all connected” now.

That doesn’t mean it was without its faults. The actual story for the crossover suffered quite a bit, but I can only attribute much of that had to do with the absolutely herculean effort the writers performed to squeeze every little bit of meaning out of the cameos they got. The Crisis didn’t unfold the way it did in the comics, once again due to narrative issues from trying to piece together 6 different Arrowverse shows, but it has to be said that the first 3 episodes of the Crisis did a lot of setting up, but some of it really didn’t hit home.

The best example of the crossovers to this point, has been Crisis on Earth-X from a few years back. In there, it didn’t matter what show the characters were on, they all appeared in some way or form across ALL of them. It made it seem like a seamless 5 hour movie filled with great action, epic moments, an awesome plot twist (the sudden death of Prof. Martin Stein) and awesome interactions between characters normally not seen together.

The first 3 episodes largely felt like episodes of the shows in which the crossover aired on. Starting with Supergirl, it felt like a somewhat special extended episode of Supergirl, since that was the only episode that the secondary characters Lena, Nia, Brainy, Alex, etc. appeared in. Followed up with Batwoman, it was the only episode that Kevin Conroy’s Batman and Luke Fox appeared in, while the episode of The Flash was the only one prominently featuring Iris, Cisco and Caitlin. While this isn’t a huge deal for most, it didn’t go unnoticed and didn’t make it feel like a true crossover.

Many of the Arrowverse heroes gathered together for the first of many times to come.

The very last episode however, paid all of it off. It was filled with all the great moments and feelings from Crisis on Earth X gave, and probably doubled it. The sheer amount of awesome, epic moments cannot be understated, and gave Oliver Queen the hero send-off he richly deserved. At the same time, the heroes of the Arrowverse now have a new normal to get used to, no more Earth-hopping, no more portals…they are all on one Earth, Earth-Prime, while the rest of the multiverse still rages on.

The Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover set the stage for some truly great stuff moving forward with the Arrowverse now. The Justice League has been formed, round table and all. The Hall of Justice teased back in the Invasion crossover has now been legitimized as well. A truly satisfying finish to an incredibly ambitious crossover. Its safe to say, there shall most likely never be anything like this ever done again, and for that, a standing ovation to Greg Berlanti and his team. A job well done. To Mr. Stephen Amell, thank you for all the memorable years as Oliver Queen. You never failed this fandom.

#Arrow #Supergirl #The Flash #TV

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