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Should CW's Earth 1 & Earth 38 merge (of DC TV)?

Should Earth 1 and Earth 38 of CW's DCTV merge?

  • Yes, they DEFINITELY should. SOme good possibilities

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • I'd would like it, but am fine if that merger never happens

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • I could care less either way

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • I would NOT like it, but will still watch the shows if it should happen

    Votes: 13 44.8%

  • NO! It would completely ruin my viewing experience of these shows.

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Total voters
    29
Morpheus 02

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Someone in the DC TV Arrow / Flash Crossover thread had asked for a poll regarding a discussion we are having, about the good and bad if

Now, while some people have thought this discussion of merger was about merging all of DC TV Earths (like 2,3, and 19), or even all of DC properties (from Gotham to Wonder Woman whatever else is back there). While the Crisis on Infinite Earths is the precedent for such an event...I don't think anyone discussing it really wants or expecting such an event (rather, it be as low scale as the Invasion! adaption was).

This poll is NOT about that kind of merger. This is about a Crisis on VERY FINITE Earths. only 2. Supergirl's Earth, and the Arrow/Flash Earth. Some think it would ruin everything, and the 2 universes are in no way compatible (at least for a merger). . Some think it wouldn't change much in terms of previous continuity (or at least no worse than Flashpoint).

You can click on the link for the discussion and arguments (especially around pages 22-24 and beyond).
 
I went with "I would not like it to happen, but would still watch the shows".
 
It's a fun TV universe, I can't see anything becoming messy if they did it. Only if you take these things too seriously, and if you watched even a single episode of Legends, you know that these are shows that can do something like a Crisis and not worry too much if the details line up in the end. They can just carry on with business as usual, making it easier to crossover if they want, or to do their own thing for the remainder of the time.
 
I think crossovers would probably be harder if the universes merged. Thanks to the portals they can instantly jump from National City to Central or Star City, but if they ended up in the same universe then the characters would have to actually get on a bus or plane. I guess Supergirl and Flash could take the characters from city to city, but that would be a horrendous pain in the ass.
 
In the comics, no Crisis ever lasts very long (that's why they have to keep writing new Crises to clean up the mess left behind by the previous ones :p ) so I don't see how TV would be any different. So I say leave the Earths alone.
 
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Still haven't seen a remotely compelling reason for a merger. None. While I'd probably still watch the shows, I'd be annoyed with the show runners for making such a poor choice.
 
No

We have all this talk about crossovers and stuff like that, I just want to enjoy the shows and look forward to the occasional once a year special. If it happens all the time it wouldn't be fun anymore.
 
tomalak301 said:
No

We have all this talk about crossovers and stuff like that, I just want to enjoy the shows and look forward to the occasional once a year special. If it happens all the time it wouldn't be fun anymore.
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How would Supergirl being on the same earth significantly increase crossovers. It doesn't happen much between Flash and Arrow, right?
 
Morpheus 02 said:
How would Supergirl being on the same earth significantly increase crossovers. It doesn't happen much between Flash and Arrow, right?
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It wouldn't reduce the crossovers that's for sure. I guess I look at this question of merging earths leading to more crossovers. There's really no reason to do it other than making it easier to do them. Hell I wish they would just show more of national city than they do.
 
kirk55555 said:
I'd still watch the shows, but its a terrible idea which has no reason to ever happen.
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This.

Ovation said:
Still haven't seen a remotely compelling reason for a merger. None. While I'd probably still watch the shows, I'd be annoyed with the show runners for making such a poor choice.
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This.

tomalak301 said:
No

We have all this talk about crossovers and stuff like that, I just want to enjoy the shows and look forward to the occasional once a year special. If it happens all the time it wouldn't be fun anymore.
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And this.
 
They should just merge the Earths on which the shows are primarily set - there are all of two of them, right? - and just do it in a two-minute scene at the beginning or end of one of their increasingly frequent crossovers.

It won't affect the shows going forward one bit, but eliminates a wholly unnecessary and pointless format complication. Does anyone really believe that Supergirl wouldn't have been set on the Flash/Arrow/etc. Earth if it had launched originally on the CW?
 
I voted Switzerland.

I think there's absolutely no reason to do that.

I also think people are overstating how much it would affect the shows if it did happen. And it's not just that the individual shows themselves have already had retcons, from Flash doing the Flashpoint to aliens that are suddenly everywhere in S2 of Supergirl, so this sort of thing ain't exactly new, but if you showed random S1 episodes of Arrow, Flash and Supergirl to people who haven't seen them and said "These all happen in the same universe" I think everyone would just say "Okay" and move on with it, it really wouldn't be a big deal...
 
It would hardly affect any of the shows at all - it'd just save them a couple of minutes of nonsense talk every time they do a crossover, which is reason enough to do it.
 
Serveaux said:
They should just merge the Earths on which the shows are primarily set - there are all of two of them, right? - and just do it in a two-minute scene at the beginning or end of one of their increasingly frequent crossovers.

It won't affect the shows going forward one bit, but eliminates a wholly unnecessary and pointless format complication. Does anyone really believe that Supergirl wouldn't have been set on the Flash/Arrow/etc. Earth if it had launched originally on the CW?
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Actually as has been discussed on the other thread, it's not just down to Supergirl debuting on another network. Its also a legacy of the fact that when Arrow started they were going for a Dark Knight Trilogy grounded vibe and then along came the Flash and Legends and when they started Supergirl they established the presence of Superman and other aliens which far from being acknowledged on Arrow had actually been debunked in the form of a quip by Diggle in season two after the discovery of Mira kuru 'What next, aliens?'.
By the way Morpheus thanks for taking my suggestion and starting this thread :techman:. I naturally voted for the merger and believe it would be better, though I do acknowledge there'd have to be some 'story contortionism', but hey that could be for the next mega-crossover.
 
N-121973 said:
Actually as has been discussed on the other thread, it's not just down to Supergirl debuting on another network. Its also a legacy of the fact that when Arrow started they were going for a Dark Knight Trilogy grounded vibe and then along came the Flash and Legends and when they started Supergirl they established the presence of Superman and other aliens which far from being acknowledged on Arrow had actually been debunked in the form of a quip by Diggle in season two after the discovery of Mira kuru 'What next, aliens?'.
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That would have been a trivial objection - okay, no objection at all. Continuity-obsessed fans hang on lines of dialogue and scenes that contradict one another in passing, but the folks who make tv and movies really don't. The potential synergy of all the characters coexisting is and would have been obvious; it was the fact of the different venues that made the separation seem sensible at the time, since crossovers were initially presumed to be out of the question: "The network [CBS] has said publicly at this point they’re going to keep her to themselves,”
 
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