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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

It doesn't take place on the same Earth as the other shows, but that's kind of geek hairsplitting. Same actors, same producers, same network, essentially a continuation of the same DC production engine that generated all the other series. Even saying it was on a different Earth was something that didn't come up till the second season finale. Before that, the producers talked about it as part of the Arrowverse, and crossovers were even planned before COVID nixed them.
 
Superman & Lois came along after I'd abandoned every other facet of the Arrowverse, so for me at least it was a fresh start. :)

(And personally, the best show to come out of the whole thing.)
 
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Yeah, that turned me off from even starting. The entire point of crisis was to put them all on one Earth and we'd already been following that Superman for a couple years and now it's a different dude in a different Earth..... Completely defeated the point of having the arrowverse backstory to draw from. Shrug.
 
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And then that weird Batman show.....
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If you mean Gotham Knights, it was entirely separate from the Arrowverse shows, and it actually wasn't half-bad.


Phoenix219 said:
Everything after crisis defeated the point of solidifying everything in crisis.
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That was largely because of the pandemic. Different shows' casts and crews had to stay isolated from one another, so the original plans to do more crossovers post-Crisis had to be scuttled.


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Correct me if I'm wrong but that isn't even part of the arrowverse in any way? Other than using the same actors that the arrowverse version was using....
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While it isn't on Earth-Prime, it is part of the same multiverse and continuity as the other Arrowverse shows. John Henry and Natalie Irons come from an Earth that was destroyed in the Crisis.
 
Christopher said:
If you mean Gotham Knights, it was entirely separate from the Arrowverse shows, and it actually wasn't half-bad.




That was largely because of the pandemic. Different shows' casts and crews had to stay isolated from one another, so the original plans to do more crossovers post-Crisis had to be scuttled.




While it isn't on Earth-Prime, it is part of the same multiverse and continuity as the other Arrowverse shows. John Henry and Natalie Irons come from an Earth that was destroyed in the Crisis.
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So they all should have been on Earth prime then.

It just feels self-defeating and purposeless.

Combine all the earths to make it easier and then start a show that's disconnected and a show on another Earth. Definitely glad I treated crisis as an ending.
 
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It just feels self-defeating and purposeless.

Combine all the earths to make it easier and then start a show that's disconnected and a show on another Earth.
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Again, the lack of post-Crisis continuity was forced on them by the pandemic, so it wasn't the storytellers' fault.

As for Superman and Lois, it was originally intended to be on Earth-Prime, but showrunner Todd Helbing wanted to focus on establishing the show's own identity and style and kept deciding that crossovers with other shows would get in the way of that, so he kept putting it off and we only got one minor crossover in season 1. While making season 2, Helbing realized he'd prefer the show to be its own distinct thing, so they decided to retcon it into a separate Earth and eventually made that explicit near the end of season 2. Which actually made more sense, since they'd done a number of things that were incompatible with Supergirl's worldbuilding, like depicting the Fortress of Solitude very differently and giving Kryptonians the ability to survive and fly in the vacuum of space.
 
I stuck with Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow all the way through and while they had highs and lows, I thought both shows were pretty good by the end.
I ended up fall off of Flash about half way through the final season, and I thought after a few weaker seasons, it had improved the last couple years. The one thing that drove me crazy with The Flash towards the end was how quick they told everyone Flash's secret identity. At one point Cisco told some girl had barely started dating Flash's identity, which seems a bit quick. It really made me wonder why they even bothered with the whole secret identity thing at all.
Not sure where I lost track of Supergirl, but I missed last season of Superman & Lois and wasn't able to get caught up in time to start this season.
 
The Flash, now that one's a tossup for me and seems divisive with fans. I liked it up to the end of season 5 but after that it just started to suck and Cecile was one of the most annoying side characters, then they gave her powers, and a sound effect. Near the end she got a tight costume too... Yeah nup

Fans seem to hate Iris West but I didn't mind her
 
I only stopped watching Supergirl because I missed it's return from a season or mid-season break and by the time I realized it was back it was to late to get watch the last season on the CW app/website.
 
I hope someday to do a complete chronological rewatch of the entire Arrowverse, but that would be a massive undertaking. Plus I'd either have to know where everything was streaming, or I'd have to buy a lot of series sets.

Then again, I've been wanting to do a chronological Hercules/Xena rewatch for a couple of decades and have never gotten around to it, so who knows if I'll ever get around to this?
 
I've only watched the first season of Arrow. Maybe now that the whole thing's about to wrap up, I'll dive back in and watch it all.
 
Christopher said:
I hope someday to do a complete chronological rewatch of the entire Arrowverse, but that would be a massive undertaking. Plus I'd either have to know where everything was streaming, or I'd have to buy a lot of series sets.

Then again, I've been wanting to do a chronological Hercules/Xena rewatch for a couple of decades and have never gotten around to it, so who knows if I'll ever get around to this?
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They're all on either Netflix or Max, but I can't remember where the cut off is. They originally had an exclusive deal for Netflix to stream the Arrowverse series, but once (HBO) Max started all the new shows went there instead while the shows already on Netflix stayed there. I think the cut off might have been Legends, but I don't have Max or Netflix right now to check.
 
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