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Spoilers The Flash - Season 3

The Flash/Supergirl musical crossover is the most exciting news I've heard about the upcoming season of each. I'm not as familiar with the others as singers but I've been pining for them to find an excuse to have Joe West break into song, and his Earth-2 crooner routine just made me want it even more!
 
The Flash/Supergirl musical crossover is the most exciting news I've heard about the upcoming season of each. I'm not as familiar with the others as singers but I've been pining for them to find an excuse to have Joe West break into song, and his Earth-2 crooner routine just made me want it even more!
I've seen enough of the various cast singing in behind-the-scenes videos on Youtube that it seems like it would be a lot of fun.
 
I was just reading about that crossover. Was anyone really looking for a musical crossover?
*Jumps up in the air waving hand* Me, me, me!
If you have two former Glee cast member, Victor Garber, and Jesse L. Martin in your casts, and you don't do at least one musical episode, then you're an idiot.
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Having a non-canon video or two would've been fine for me (like the Fight Club commercial)a whole episode...umm OK.. a 2 parter seems to be pushing it.but we'll see.
 
*Jumps up in the air waving hand* Me, me, me!
If you have two former Glee cast member, Victor Garber, and Jesse L. Martin in your casts, and you don't do at least one musical episode, then you're an idiot.

Or your show is a superhero show, and a musical episode makes no sense. Hopefully these episodes will tank in the ratings and prove that Flash's demographic isn't Glee's demographic, and whatever idiot decided to make a 80 minute musical doesn't get to do garbage like this again. I want this to really hurt both shows pretty badly, just to stop this kind of stupidity from happening again. Greg Berlanti & friends do enough stupid things storywise without making terrible gimmick episodes. I think a shake up of management is needed just as badly for the CW shows as it is for the DCEU.

This is up there with Wonder Woman skateboarding or Bat-Shark Repellent when it comes to stupidest things a live action DC Tproperty has ever done. I didn't think you could out stupid Carter's Wonder Woman or Adam West's Batman, but they managed to do it (and without the charm and entertaining goofiness of Batman). Its like they overcompensated for the DCEU's grim darkness by being really, really stupid in a totally different way.
 
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Could you at least watch a thing before calling it the worst?

I swear it's like a little kid saying he hates a food he's never tried.
 
I still have issues with zucchini and asparagus, so I've been right for 37 years and my mother was dead wrong for 5 hours.
 
I still have issues with zucchini and asparagus, so I've been right for 37 years and my mother was dead wrong for 5 hours.
I'm not a huge fan of Zucchini either but that all changed after I started spiralizing it. I'm still not the biggest fan of Asparagus either and try to avoid it most of the time. I only eat it when the wife buys it.
 
Or your show is a superhero show, and a musical episode makes no sense. Hopefully these episodes will tank in the ratings and prove that Flash's demographic isn't Glee's demographic, and whatever idiot decided to make a 80 minute musical doesn't get to do garbage like this again. I want this to really hurt both shows pretty badly, just to stop this kind of stupidity from happening again.

Calm the heck down, dude.
 
I completely agree with kirk5 on this. I have zero interest in a musical version of these shows. Even bringing in Pied Piper and the Fiddler as the reason for the singing would not be justification enough to have musical episodes. What next a Christmas variety special? Just tell solid super hero stories, that's hard enough without throwing in silly ideas.
 
If they're going to follow the old-school network TV model of 20-ish filler-laden episodes strung out over nine months, they might as well do something novel with some of those episodes.
 
Could you at least watch a thing before calling it the worst?

I swear it's like a little kid saying he hates a food he's never tried.

Its a musical crossover on a fairly serious superhero show (and on one light sitcom starring Superman's cousin). Musical episodes are crap by default (with Buffy and Batman: TB&TB's episodes being the exceptions), and now its crap taking up one of the best shows on television (and Supergirl) for a whole week, with no legitimate way to justify it. So, yeah, this one gets heavily judged ahead of time. Musicals are crap, and have no place in a show like Flash.

I mean, I get why CW is doing it. The teen demographic of Glee is CW's bread and butter (at least with the majority of its non superhero shows), and I'm sure they aren't comfortable having superhero fans liking their network. That makes the decision make sense for them. As someone who is basically the complete opposite of the Glee demographic, this is just terrible. I've sat through horrible musical episodes before, and I never expected Flash to do it. Its a bit depressing to find that one of your favorite TV shows is having one less real episode, all because some idiots thought that High School Musical and Glee were good examples of how to make episodes of superhero shows.

What's next, an Arrow/LoT break dance crossover? Or maybe some other Flashverse actors have done crappy shows in the past that CW will want to rip off. Maybe a Law & Order episode of The Flash, basically a police procedural with the same characters but no superhumans? Or, maybe Slade will come back with a time machine and teleport everyone to ancient Rome? Then again, maybe Detective Lance has secretly been a wizard this whole time, and he'll save everyone with the help of his talking skull.

The rip offs of jobs the main casts have had will be a deep well to work from as the CW/Berlanti start taking the superheroics out of the DC shows and replacing them with terrible gimmicks that don't make any sense. Plus, some people will defend the choices and say they're justified because the actors once had a job on a show with a similar premise. I guess I need to apologize to Zach Snyder, he isn't the worst thing to happen to live action DC properties (just close to it).
 
:shrug: I'm not saying others can't like the idea, but I'd rather see an episode set totally in the dark where its just a black screen and 45 minutes of dialog then have a musical episode. At least you could justify the dark episode, and it would be something besides a terrible rip off of a cancelled teen musical show.

Somewhere, a CW exec is furiously scribbling notes.

Oh god, what have I done...
 
Maybe that breakdance episode isn't such a good idea.
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