I always get really, really excited about the Arrowverse crossover events. Watching the characters from some of my favorite shows come together is always a lot of fun to watch. As I've said before, I didn't read comics growing up, so some of these stories I have heard of and some (like this years') I had to look up to see what they are.
When I heard that the Monitor was going to be in this year's event, I was excited because he was a major part of a comic crossover that I (and I imagine most people) have heard of: "Crisis on Infinite Earths". So imagine my excitement when he said that there was a "crisis" coming and that someone more powerful than him was on their way. At that point, I knew the crossover had to be coming, so when the title of the 2019 crossover flashed across the tv screen, I was super excited.
But, back to this year's event. I have to say that I was really impressed. I think keeping the Legends out of the crossover was a good idea. While I liked both the Invasion! and the Crisis on Earth-X crossovers, they did feel a little full at times and they had trouble fitting everyone in. I also loved watching Stephen and Grant play the Flash and Green Arrow respectively. Watching Oliver try and figure out the speed thing was tremendously amusing as was the scene where Barry set the crossbows to shoot Oliver in the back. And watching Barry growl the iconic line "You have failed this city!" when shooting the arrow at AMAZO was totally awesome.
My favorite scenes from each episode:
[1] The Flash- Hearing Remy Zero's "Save Me" with the totally iconic opening shot from the credits to Smallville and seeing the farm again. I was waiting for Tom Welling or Annette O'Toole to step out at some point. I literally teared up when I heard the opening notes of the song. And, as mentioned above, the crossbows shooting Oliver were hilarious as was Oliver's reaction to meeting Superman.
[2] Arrow- Watching Barry and Oliver fight each other thinking that they were the Eobard Thawne and Malcolm Merlyn. Just seeing the two original villains in each of their lives was really cool. I also loved Ruby Rose as Kate Kane and the fact that she an Kara recognized each other as Batwoman and Supergirl. And then there was Arkham Asylum. I know I recognized it, but I can't quite place my fingers on what show(s) I have seen it on before. Very annoyed about that. And then having John Wesley Shipp play Barry Allen from Earth-90 along with the theme music from the 90's The Flash was also really cool.
[3] Supergirl- Superman did the coal move he did in Superman III! He may have done it in the comics too, but Superman III was the first place I saw it. I was so excited about that. I also loved that Barry and Kara were willing to sacrifice themselves to save the planet. In "Crisis on Infinite Earths", the Flash and Supergirl both die, so that fit here nicely. Granted, neither would actually die, but it was nice to see and it spurred Oliver to confront the Monitor to save them. And then there was the crossover promo for 2019 (go to the :45 mark for the actual thing, the start is the end of the episode) which had me super pumped.
Hope everyone enjoyed this year's crossover! I know I did.
