It's the Arrowverse annual crossover week! And this year's crossover event titled 'ElseWorlds' began last night on the episode of the Flash. Here's my quick review, comprisin mainly of what I like the most, and what I hated. I'll be dropping a more complete review at the end of the crossover.
So let's go!
The episode began with the same scene that ended last week's episode of all three shows, showing the destruction of Earth-90. After that, Oliver wakes up as Barry Allen. From here on out, it's mainly comedy throughout the episode, most of which were very good, but something I kind of hated. I understand the writers are throttling back on the intensity of the crossover anyway... this episode was really a Flash episode, unlike last year where all episodes were only titled after the crossover. Maybe that set the tone for it too... The Flash is a pretty jolly show.
The faces of barry and Oliver when they wake up into their new lives are instant classics.
After that they get together, and I really love how each has the other's instincts, else it would be crazily time wasting to to begin training each other on how to use their skill sets.
The Smallville easter eggs are pretty crazy as well. From the opening soundtrack (Save me by Remy Zero) to the Kent Farm itself, to Clark's truck and the Lois Lane character, all are modeled after the old show. For an instant, I thought perhaps the writers wanted to make Kara's earth the same as Smallville's, but that wouldn't make much sense as Smallville had already seen a Green Arrow before Clark became Superman. Which brings me to what I hated about that--so many huge Easter eggs just for easter egg sake can be pretty annoying. Especially when the same Easter eggs could've been used for something bigger.
Lastly, the Amazo robot thing really felt like a filler. While it helped Barry and Oliver learn how to use and coordinate their new abilities, it drew us away from teh main issues of the crossover a bit too much in my perspective. And superman's presence didn't even seem that much needed. Hopefully, the robot isn't totally gone. It has so much potential!
Anyway, I know I wrote more of dislikes than likes, but the episode was really fun. Just don't go into it expecting the kind of stakes and tension we've felt in the last couple of crossover events. This really is way smaller, but yet, way bigger.
Oh, yeah... And the lightning rod line totally worked.
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