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News Next Arrowverse Crossover to Include Batwoman

Superman is leaving? Man, Earth-38 is screwed.
Also, he knocked up Lois before they were married? That’s not a very Superman thing to do.
Seriously! That is a very outdated view of having children. Both by brother and his future wife and my sister and her future husband got pregnant before marriage. In both cases they were living together for years before their first children. Marriage came after the kids. Very common these days.
 
They've been pretty much building up to a version of CoIE for four years, but I really don't want it to end the Multiverse as we know it because I think the Arrowverse as a franchise would lose more than it would gain in doing so.

I do think the wtiters copped out by not having Superman's actual Earth-1 doppelganger show up, but this episode was great nonetheless and I hope we get to see more of E1 Alex somehow.

It's a little sad that we won't get to see Clark and Lois help out Kara and Co. with Lex once he makes his presence felt, but did think it was cute how the writers handled writing them out of the story, especially with the "double whammy" of both a pregnancy AND a marriage proposal.

Even with Part 1 being a bit underwhelming, I'm still going to give Elseworlds an overall positive grade because Parts 2 and 3 evened things out.
 
Seriously! That is a very outdated view of having children. Both by brother and his future wife and my sister and her future husband got pregnant before marriage. In both cases they were living together for years before their first children. Marriage came after the kids. Very common these days.
Man people take what’s written here way too seriously. :)
A few years ago, people got angry that a comic cover had Superman drinking a beer. This news would make their heads explode.
 
Man people take what’s written here way too seriously. :)
A few years ago, people got angry that a comic cover had Superman drinking a beer. This news would make their heads explode.
That is exactly the thing. While you maybe saying it jokingly, there are bound to be those who genuinely make that complaint. How was I supposed to see the difference?

Considering we may never even see the wedding, I would have been fine will them fully married already. Will the wedding be on Argo? Clark mentioned his Mother, so Martha is still alive. Is she going to Argo for the wedding??

It’s very possible we will not wait to see Lois & Clark again as long as he said. Obviously they could show them sooner if needed. Or have Kara visit them in a scene. This covers his absence if needed though.

I mentioned earlier the actress who plays Lois announced her own pregnancy right after casting. She was 23 - 26 weeks along as this was filmed. So a special support system was created for that fall so she did not head to wear a harness.
 
From Elizabeth Tulloch’s Twitter mintues ago -

A lot of people have been asking me about the hammer Lois carries so I texted Robert Rovner co-showrunner/EP of #Supergirl for clarification and he said, “It’s the solar hammer from the cosmic anvil.” Hope that clears up any confusion. #Elseworlds
 
I find that hard that anyone would say that here as a genuine complaint. We’re Trek fans after all.
I think the deal Oliver made with the Monitor has moved up the crisis event for next year. I suppose we will know for sure once we see that newspaper again. If not then that’s implying of A very different crisis. Infinite Crisis perhaps?
 
From Elizabeth Tulloch’s Twitter mintues ago -

A lot of people have been asking me about the hammer Lois carries so I texted Robert Rovner co-showrunner/EP of #Supergirl for clarification and he said, “It’s the solar hammer from the cosmic anvil.” Hope that clears up any confusion. #Elseworlds

The solar hammer? The cosmic anvil? All-Star Superman reference! (Superman has to rebuild the heart of the sun, which will take him millennia. He'll eventually emerge from the sun in the 853rd-century as the golden Superman-Prime and, now effectively a god, he will recreate Lois in DC One Million.)
 
Elizabeth Tulloch has a lot of great on set pictures on Twitter. I found that post when looking for something else!
 
When he said that, I was half-expecting Annette O'Toole to drive up a minute later.




Oh, okay.
I know what that means. But even watching it never would have made that connection. Seemed too random.

I am still annoyed we never learned of the story of the Legion ring in the Fortress. Nor got a reaction from Clark to Kara working with someone named BRAINIAC Five!!! Take away any Legion history and that name should mean something to him. With him away on Argo it will probably never be addressed.
 
Oh, okay.

Wikipedia tells me my memory is slightly off. Superman uses the solar hammer and the cosmic anvil in All-Star Superman to create miniature suns for a baby Sun-Eater to eat. Now that I read that on Wikipedia, I remember the scene in question. I assumed that those were the hammer and anvil he used to rebuild the heart of Earth's sun, because that's (I think) the last visual of Superman in the story, of him, in the heart of the sun, beating a hammer against an anvil.
 
It’s interesting you mention DC One Million. I had hoped for a somewhat similar last image of the Flash of Earth 90 at super speed rebuilding his world for survivors. Even if it took years.
 
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That is not only my favorite part of All Star Superman, but probably my favorite Superman moment ever. It's everything cool about Superman, superheros and superhero comics. It's wondrous and fantastical and splendid to behold. The whole bit is like something out of a modern mythology book or atomic age fairy tale. I really need to pick up another copy of All Star Superman, as I lost mine some years back.
 
This was kind of a disappointing ending to what turned out to be an average event. I get they wanted to go more of a low key approach, but it felt like this was like their first crossover event, where each show featured it's own characters and that was basically it. Here, I'm not sure if the overall story was coherent enough for me. It kind of felt like a lot of the story was written off screen. For example, last night's ending featured a dark Superman. Ok, that was interesting, but then we are told before Supergirl even starts that it's really Deegan who used the book to transform himself. Now, maybe I missed something but the times we saw Deegan he was insane and fooling around with the book. We didn't see that transformation happen, so the surprise of seeing dark Superman was shattered in the first few minutes. For the sake of not wanting to ramble, it felt like three shows having ordinary episodes of their shows trying to connect a larger arc and it could have been handled better. This is no where near as big or conclusive as an event as last year's.

I don't watch Supergirl, so who was that 3-eyed fellow who came in with Jonn. Also, I get this is Supergirl and maybe they finally answered and put to bed many complaints about Superman not being in the series, but I can't imagine a world without Superman. That almost feels sacrilege.

Overall, this event was decent, but I almost feel like they should have included Legends to flesh the story out a lot more, or just made one of the parts a two parter, like say the Sunday Night segment (And then put Charmed on next week).
 
That was a fun three-parter, though not as epic as the other crossovers that were done previously. The upcoming Batwoman series ought to be interesting.

It didn't seem clear to me at first which Earth "criminal" Barry and Oliver were on until Lois, Brainy, and J'Onn materialized in Central City, which became apparent to me was not National City, especially with DEO agents Diggle and Snow. I thought Deegan had simply created an entirely separate reality that was neither Earth 1 nor Earth 38.

Argh, the dreadful winter hiatus is upon us.
 
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