Hi folks
Sorry I've been away so long I had other things brewing.
This sort of discussion is exactly what this sort of thread is made for. There's a Marvel thread that was made for similar purposes when Agents of SHIELD was following up on the events of The Winter Soldier. By the rules of individual series threads, we'd have to discuss the Arrow episode while assuming that people hadn't seen the Supergirl episode and vice versa, which is ridiculously cumbersome.
But what was so wrong with creating a dedicated 'Crisis on Earth X' thread to handle that just as there are dedicated spoilery threads for the latest genre blockbusters as and when they're released?
I didn‘t put a spoiler warning in the thread title, but allowed them in the original post.
Granted, at this stage one might skip the first page, so maybe a mod would be so kind to add one to the title now.
Hi Timelord Victorious, obviously it's your thread and you should be able to do with it as you will. What I would say though is that this thread was created in February 2016 and the crossover didn't debut until almost December 2017 and until then there wasn't a red spoiler warning affixed. Anyway that's my last word on this other than to recommend in future that a rule be laid down that a well-established thread that doesn't have either a spoiler warning in the thread title or a red spoiler tag should suddenly become so.
Anyway enough of that. Onto the crossover itself. I enjoyed it, preferring it to the 'Invasion' crossover last year which I also enjoyed. This time I found that the story was much more cohesive - I thought the 'Arrow' segment of 'Invasion' didn't really do that - and things flowed nicely right down to the common opening credits though it would have been nice if we'd seen more of the 'Legends' in episodes one to three along with the Earth-38 'Supergirl' supporting casts. As for specifics:-
Am I the only one who was concerned about Sara's relationship with Scotch given that both her father and her late sister have/had drink problems?
The Kryptonite arrow, where did Ollie get it from and how did he know about it?
What happened to the bodies of Nazi-Oliver and his troops after the Battle of Central City?
Will we ever know any details of the encounter between Earth-1 Reverse-Flash & Earth-38 Superman? By the way I interpreted what Thawne said to Supergirl about being faster, not that he was able to escape the Man of Steel but that he was able to kill him. Think how that dialogue would have sounded if the show had been a Western and Thawne was a gunfighter.
Kara to Nazi Kara: "General, would you care to step outside?" Loved it.
I would have liked it if it had been Ray rather than Nate that caught Supergirl when she fell to the ground (a scene I felt was taken from 'Superman Returns') and said to her: "Easy miss, I've got you." before going on to extol the statistical virtues of flight as the safest form of travel.
Someone upthread mentioned the business with the unloaded gun trick and Olliver falling for it (which given his familiarity with weapons you'd have thought he'd cottoned onto) and asked had anyone not fallen for it. I can't remember the specific show but I remember a scene where the hero escapes captivity armed with an unloaded gun and when the villain and their henchman catches up to the hero and recaptures him the hero gives the gun to the villain who says something like: "You do know this gun wasn't loaded, don't you?" The hero replies: "After what I just did do you think I'd have given it back to you if it was loaded?" I just wish I could remember where that's from.
