Spoilers The Flash - Season 2
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There's also the logistical issue -- since the shows are on different networks and answerable to different masters, they need to be able to evolve independently of each other and not be tied to each other's developments. What if, say, The CW wanted to do a massive sweeps-month crossover involving a crisis that affected the entire world, but CBS had its own incompatible plans for Supergirl? It's easier for shows on the same network to coordinate like that than shows on different networks. So alternate worlds certainly seems like the right way to go.
(Although what if Earth-SG simply has its own alternate version of Barry Allen/The Flash? They could go that route, though I hope they don't.)
There have to have been a dozen Agents of SHIELD episodes where a simple call to an Avenger would have solved problem X. Hell, there are MCU movies where that should have been done but was not.
They're doing this for fun and to give both shows a ratings bump (subsequent episodes of Flash would get more out of it than Supergirl, I'd imagine) so why not?
There are Supergirl episodes where they should have called Superman but didn't--to say nothing of Arrow or Flash.
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Well yeah, but in her world people actually use Microsoft Surface tablets, so many it is a very different one from ours.
That just confirms it's part of the Arrowverse, because Felicity loves Surface.
Or... They retcon Superman into the Arrowverse by Timetravel shenannigans somehow and Barry returns to Central City as the only one without active memories of Superman.
I'm sure it's an alternate Earth, and Barry will be the one crossing over in-story as well as TV-wise.
Well yeah, but in her world people actually use Microsoft Surface tablets, so maybe it is a very different one from ours.
and maybe their NFL commentators don't call them iPads
Decent episode but I'm really looking forward to next week. I've been wanting to go to Earth 2 all season and it's finally happening. Can't wait. 
As for this one, the metahuman was kind of predictable (and unimportant to the rest of the story) but I did like Wells. This Wells might be much more interesting than last season Wells and I'm so glad Cavenagh is still around. He is the best actor on this show.
As for this one, the metahuman was kind of predictable (and unimportant to the rest of the story) but I did like Wells. This Wells might be much more interesting than last season Wells and I'm so glad Cavenagh is still around. He is the best actor on this show.
The one thing that bothers me is that Barry keeps comparing Harry to the "other Wells." Barry never knew his universe's Wells. He only ever knew Eobard Thawne pretending to be Wells.
Decent episode but I'm really looking forward to next week. I've been wanting to go to Earth 2 all season and it's finally happening. Can't wait.
As for this one, the metahuman was kind of predictable (and unimportant to the rest of the story) but I did like Wells. This Wells might be much more interesting than last season Wells and I'm so glad Cavenagh is still around. He is the best actor on this show.
Yeah, I really felt Cavenaghs absence when the season started and assuming this Wells returns to Earth-Two at the end of this season, then we'll be back to that state at the beginning of next season. Unless he get's trapped on Earth-One.
Also, I hope they don't permanently seal off Earth-Two as it'd be awesome to have an annual team up between Jay and Barry.
None of which is the same. There can always be reasons why someone can't be in a particular place at a particular time, or why someone else might not want to call for help. There is no logical reason why people who deal professionally with superpowers would never notice the existence of global icons like Superman/Supergirl. (Barring changing the past, of course, but I seriously doubt they're interested in doing that, especially since the shows are on different networks)
Just because they didn't mention them on-screen doesn't mean they didn't notice them.
They could have been talking about them off-screen all the time.
Anyways, the crossover episode is called "Worlds Finest" implying multiple worlds, so it's all but confirmed they're in different dimensions.
Yeah, that always bugs me too.
Barry crossing over into another Earth would work perfectly and really set up the DC Multiverse. You have the CW DC Television Universe, you have the Supergirl Universe (where Superman exists) and you have the DCU Cinematic Universe. It actually works.
The official name for the movie universe is apparently the DC Extended Universe. And whether it actually will be included as part of the same multiverse remains to be seen. Whatever may have been hinted in some interviews, I won't count it as official until or unless there's a formal announcement that a crossover is happening. Ditto for other DC screen universes like Gotham, iZombie, and Lucifer.
Although I admit I have a sneaking suspicion that the same multiverse encompassing Earth-1, Earth-2, and Earth-Super might also include the 1990 Flash TV series. After all, both Flash series share the characters of Tina McGee (Amanda Pays), Anthony Bellows (Vito D’Ambrosio), and the Trickster (Mark Hamill), and Earth-1’s Henry Allen looks just like the 1990 series’s Barry Allen. So they could be identical cross-world doppelgangers like the Earth-1/Earth-2 doubles we’ve seen in the current Flash. And that would be interesting, since I consider the 1990 Flash to be set in the DC Animated Universe of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: TAS, Justice League, etc. (Mainly because Hamill’s Trickster also appeared in animated form in Justice League Unlimited‘s “Flash and Substance,” and because both Flash ’90 and B:TAS had a similar retro-future aesthetic.)
The impression that I've gotten from what I've seen and read is that every single live action version of a DC property both large and small screen stretching all the way back to cliffhanger serials made in the '40s, the classic Superman and Batman TV shows from the '50s and '60s up to and including the Christopher Nolan Batman films were part of the DCEU. Theoretically The Flash could find himself in the Batman '66 universe, albeit 50 years on. I'm also wondering if there is some reason beyond shared casting agencies about the numbber of actors turning up in multiple roles in DC films and TV shows. For example the same bloke who played Victor Zsazz on Gotham played the man who could become poison gas on The Flash. And the voice of Eobard Thawn's secret super computer is the same woman who plays Leslie Thompkins on Gotham.
That's only speculative until we get a canonical story confirming it. That is how Marvel seems to treat its various tie-ins, at least in some reference sources, but whether DC follows suit is an open question.
Oh, it's always been possible to find the same actors in multiple TV roles on contemporary series. In particular, actors popular from genre shows tend to get a lot of work in other genre shows. The woman you mention, Morena Baccarin, became famous as part of the cast of Joss Whedon's Firefly, played major villains in Stargate SG-1 and the V remake, and has done a number of DC voice roles in animation, including Black Canary in Justice League Unlimited, Cheetah in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and Talia al Ghul in the DC Universe DVD movie line. She's also the leading lady in the upcoming Deadpool movie set in Fox's X-Men universe.
I seem to recall John Constantine being confirmed for Legends of Tomorrow season two. Won't that put the canceled NBC series in the Arrowverse? How is that any different from putting Supergirl in the Arrowverse?
Constantine is already part of the Arrowverse since he showed up in an episode of Arrow recently and got a name drop again in the latest episode.